(mwhahaha) tis the season for scary shit and jiang shi (chinese vampires) films are by far my favorite type o scary (and funny) movie.
a lil background: (jiang shi are more like zombies than western vampires. due to rigor mortis, they hop or fly around in order to move. they usually appear dressed in qing dynasty garb, and are combated by a taoist priest (generally played by yam ching-ying) who puts them to sleep by placing spells written on pieces of yellow paper on their foreheads. other things used to fight them include: male virgins, sticky rice, chicken eggs, dog blood, and lots of sammo hung action.)
*full versions of most of these (yes, subtitled) are available on youtube...
1. the dead and the deadly (1983)
2. encounters of the spooky kind (1980)
3. ultimate vampire (1991)
4. exorcist master (1993)
5. mr. vampire (1985)
(mwhahaha)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
pepsi summer - 1990
pepsi released this edition of cans in 1990. i was 10 years old.
that was a totally rad summer, with lots of skateboarding, nintendo, pizza, swimming, and staying out all night.
teenage mutant ninja turtles were huge, and we would run around and fuck shit up pretending to be ninja turtles. i was always raphael cuz i actually had a real pair of sai(s). i also punched somebody for the first time. we drank a lot of pepsi from these cans becuz there was a machine at our apartment complex.
if you stacked 2 of these cans on top of one another in a certain way, it kinda spelled "sex". very taser.
that was a totally rad summer, with lots of skateboarding, nintendo, pizza, swimming, and staying out all night.
teenage mutant ninja turtles were huge, and we would run around and fuck shit up pretending to be ninja turtles. i was always raphael cuz i actually had a real pair of sai(s). i also punched somebody for the first time. we drank a lot of pepsi from these cans becuz there was a machine at our apartment complex.
if you stacked 2 of these cans on top of one another in a certain way, it kinda spelled "sex". very taser.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
giant fail statue
adel abdessemed's new giant "headbutt" statue is pretty taser factory for sure...
it captures one of french soccer star zidane's most memorable, but not necessarily shining moments. the scene chosen by abdessemed is from the 2006 world cup final between france and italy, where zidane, in the last outing of his career, headbutted an italian player.
he was red carded, which subsequently led to a win for the italian team.
love it, but after reading abdessemed's comments on the piece, it left me wishing for a different direction. initially, i thought it was celebration of failure. a reversal of statues celebrating great moments and good things and success.
i really like that idea and can imagine all the great fails in sports history that could be immortalized in similar manner...but that's not what the artist had in mind.
fuck it. it's still totally taser.
so is a bunch his other stuff:
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/adel-abdessemed/
it captures one of french soccer star zidane's most memorable, but not necessarily shining moments. the scene chosen by abdessemed is from the 2006 world cup final between france and italy, where zidane, in the last outing of his career, headbutted an italian player.
he was red carded, which subsequently led to a win for the italian team.
love it, but after reading abdessemed's comments on the piece, it left me wishing for a different direction. initially, i thought it was celebration of failure. a reversal of statues celebrating great moments and good things and success.
i really like that idea and can imagine all the great fails in sports history that could be immortalized in similar manner...but that's not what the artist had in mind.
fuck it. it's still totally taser.
so is a bunch his other stuff:
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/adel-abdessemed/
Monday, September 24, 2012
shangrila, joshua tree, ca 2012
rad excuse for a desert weekend with my friend diane. this little compound out in joshua tree hosted a fine show and party. saw some good work and met some good folks.
the trip out there from la is ass, unless you love low-rise, throw-up hot, bleak towns.
stayed in pioneertown. very well worth it. especially after witnessing a lesbian fronted country/folk/klezmer band ripppp up a high velocity cover of purple rain, crossing over to hava nagila as a breakdown, aimed directly at the ladies attending a bachelorette party.
the desert seems like a great place to do things. 2013? would love to.
the trip out there from la is ass, unless you love low-rise, throw-up hot, bleak towns.
stayed in pioneertown. very well worth it. especially after witnessing a lesbian fronted country/folk/klezmer band ripppp up a high velocity cover of purple rain, crossing over to hava nagila as a breakdown, aimed directly at the ladies attending a bachelorette party.
the desert seems like a great place to do things. 2013? would love to.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
aurora dorey alice...
aurora dorey alice. aurora, colorado. the first one makes makes me really happy, the other doesn't.
i prefer to be happy, and stay that way.
dorey is rad, and her approach to sound-making is very quite taser.
she performed at an art event i was a part of in bloomington, indiana. it was terrific to see this action again.
we also share a birthday every year.
i prefer to be happy, and stay that way.
she performed at an art event i was a part of in bloomington, indiana. it was terrific to see this action again.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
masters degree in profanity
crab jackson had a tape of this back in the day. he scored it from a crazy older dude he worked with. it was lost on tour, presumably in joplin, mo...which may explain that whole tornado devastation thing.
this is required listening for anyone interested in using profanity gracefully.
this is required listening for anyone interested in using profanity gracefully.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
the descriptive camera!
instead of bitching about how i can never seem to make it to any screening of christian marclay's "the clock", or migraine headaches (as originally intended), i thought i'd come through with something positive...
so smile, and say gorgonzola for the descriptive camera, from matt richardson.
this is absolutely taser factory. with a capital T. instead of an image, this beautiful device produces a description of what ever it is that one is shooting! it cleverly explores a very interesting, and possibly burgeoning concept...like maybe a camera that automatically "tags" people, places, and things via whatever technology from whatever huge tech firm that nails it first and puts it our device-hungry hands for around $300. i don't think this exists yet. does it?
here's the rundown of it from the matt richardson website:
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Cameraonly outputs the metadata about the content.
As we amass an incredible amount of photos, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage our collections. Imagine if descriptive metadata about each photo could be appended to the image on the fly—information about who is in each photo, what they're doing, and their environment could become incredibly useful in being able to search, filter, and cross-reference our photo collections. Of course, we don't yet have the technology that makes this a practical proposition, but the Descriptive Camera explores these possibilities.
some of the descriptions are hilarious and beautiful.
this is fun.
so smile, and say gorgonzola for the descriptive camera, from matt richardson.
here's the rundown of it from the matt richardson website:
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Cameraonly outputs the metadata about the content.
As we amass an incredible amount of photos, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage our collections. Imagine if descriptive metadata about each photo could be appended to the image on the fly—information about who is in each photo, what they're doing, and their environment could become incredibly useful in being able to search, filter, and cross-reference our photo collections. Of course, we don't yet have the technology that makes this a practical proposition, but the Descriptive Camera explores these possibilities.
some of the descriptions are hilarious and beautiful.
surely check out the official word from matt richardson here:
Saturday, March 31, 2012
this exhibition by franklin evans...
seems absolutely taser factory, and tops my recent list of action that i'd love to experience in person.
however, seeing as how i will not be in new york anytime during the run of eyesontheedge, that won't be happenin'.
oh well. but. this is exactly what i go crazy for in a gallery setting. overwhelming mixed media installations that present a full environment that combines process, past, present, and future with material in raw and refined forms...so much.
aside from the mass of work here, i really appreciate the organization with it's blocks, frames, and screens.
i have to plan carefully to take in such exhibitions. if something is off with me, the experience will make my head hurt really bad.
i would really like to go to this.
http://www.suescottgallery.com/exhibitions/view/Franklin-Evans_7
however, seeing as how i will not be in new york anytime during the run of eyesontheedge, that won't be happenin'.
aside from the mass of work here, i really appreciate the organization with it's blocks, frames, and screens.
i would really like to go to this.
http://www.suescottgallery.com/exhibitions/view/Franklin-Evans_7
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