The fiends need me, I ain’t around it, bones ache
{ Nietzsche’s ‘last days’ in Weimar in the summer of 1899. Whether these clips are authentic has been debated. }
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New York City… You are now rockin w/
NY man’s kidney transplant gave him woman’s cancer.
Long Island couple staged their own kidnapping to get money from one of their parents.
Tobacco companies contest NY anti-smoking signs.
Map shows how to avoid tourists in New York.
Inside New York’s Art World: Interview with James Rosenquist and Leo Castelli, 1976.
The Andy Warhol Film Project began in the 1980s when the Whitney Museum and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) agreed to collaborate on the largest archival research project in the history of American avant-garde cinema: to catalogue Warhol’s massive film collection, investigate its history, and preserve and re-release all of the films in conjunction with a program of scholarly research and publication.
video disclosure { Imp Kerr & Associates, NYC is involved in the co-production of Spacer:One. | Related: DJ Cash Money (USA), DMC World DJ Champion 1988 | Calla me a sucka boy you’re pushin a broom starts at 3:15 minute mark. }
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{ Design by Jeff Baxter adapted from a photograph by David Heald | Guggenheim and YouTube Launch Search for the World’s Most Creative Video }
To push a fuckin’ RAV4?
{ Agency: Buzzman, France }
A wise tabby, a blinking sphinx, watched from her warm sill
“The step after ubiquity is invisibility,” my old friend from Apple Al Mandel explained to me years ago. And it’s true. Telephone service was once rare but is now universal and anything truly universal eventually become a commodity. No wonder phone companies no longer make money from long-distance calling nor — as Verizon’s sale of its New England landlines business confirms — even make enough money from local phone service. Now it is all about mobile and thank God for texting and ringtones, the telco execs say… for awhile. Well I think the same thing is about to happen to Facebook — privacy issues or no.
Facebook is huge with 350 million members but that’s not the problem. The problem is that my Facebook friends list is too long and so is yours. I have 809 Facebook friends. My wife has friend envy because she thinks my friends are generally more interesting than her friends. I wouldn’t know because I’m only on Facebook once or twice a week for a few minutes. But even that’s enough to know my friend list is too long. (…)
Facebook is being really stupid lately about making money from its traffic by violating user privacy. (…) If Facebook really wants to get profitable it needs to get smaller by kicking-off users who don’t make it money. (…)
Facebook is useless to me. We’re all too connected to really connect.
video { Thanks Tim }
I ain’t goin’ nowhere so you can get to know me
{ 50 Cent, Hate It Or Love It, G-Unit remix}
{ Nightcommunication EP | Andrea Gemolotto, Leo Mas, Sergio Portaluri }
{ The Smiths, This Night Has Opened My Eyes }
{ Martha Argerich plays Ravel, Jeux d’eau }
Queer the number of pins they always have. No roses without thorns.
To those who know his name at all in America, Jean Eustache may be a one-hit wonder. But in France he’s far and away the most important filmmaker of the post–New Wave era. Eustache left an indelible mark on French cinema and exercised a profound influence on such directors as Olivier Assayas, Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Philippe Garrel, and Benoit Jacquot. His 1973 The Mother and the Whore is the kind of movie that few filmmakers even allow themselves to conindex, let alone make: brutally honest as self-portraiture, as frank about human relationships (sexual and otherwise) as movies have ever gotten, and the last word on post-’68 bohemian Paris. Eustache died before his time (by his own hand) in 1981. Often likened to John Cassavetes, he stands alone as a unique and visionary practitioner of the art.
Une sale histoire (A Dirty Story), directed by Jean Eustache, 1977
In A Dirty Story Jean Eustache presents the same story of storytelling twice: once in documentary fashion, filmed his friend Jean-Noël Picq in 16mm black and white, and a second time in 35mm color with the actor Michael Lonsdale reciting the same lines. Eustache invited his Jean-Noël Picq to sit down with a group of people to recount in detail how once, in the men’s room of a Parisian restaurant, he found a hole in the wall and peered through to a perfect view of the ladies’ room. In order to test his contention that the actor would prove more convincing than the real-life storyteller, Eustache placed the fictional version first. While the film never shows anything more shocking than a man talking, French censors gave the film an X rating, proving Eustache’s claim that “sex has nothing to do with morals, not even with aesthetics; sex is a metaphysical affair.”
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If you’re going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go
{ Thanks Douglas }
Hard as hell, battle anybody I don’t care who you tell
{ Australian art critic Robert Hughes chats with an art collector }
‘Stop arguing Liz Lemon, we have more important things to worry about, like where are those french fries I didn’t ask for.’ –Tracy Jordan
{ Iamamiwhoami is the latest in intriguing mystery viral video phenomenon. … nine video music releases … Speculation has focused on artists such as Jonna Lee of Sweden, Trent Reznor , Little Boots , The Knife , *especially Karin Dreijer Andersson , Goldfrapp, Lykke Li , Gwen Stefani , Madonna , Lady Gaga , & Immi. | Fierth | full story + videos }
‘History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’ —James Joyce
{ Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization | more | Thanks Doug! }
A heavy tramcar honking its gong slewed between. Lost it.
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{ Death In Vegas, Dirt | Directed by Andrea Giacobbe | via Colleen Nika } |
{ Aphex Twin - Come to daddy | Directed by Chris Cunningham } |
Although humans usually prefer mates that resemble themselves, mating preferences can vary with context. Stress has been shown to alter mating preferences in animals, but the effects of stress on human mating preferences are unknown. Here, we investigated whether stress alters men’s preference for self-resembling mates. (…) Our findings show that stress affects human mating preferences: unstressed individuals showed the expected preference for similar mates, but stressed individuals seem to prefer dissimilar mates.
