Rockin' Brunswick - 1983 from Joe Machos on Vimeo.
Miss High Times, 2009
The best way out is through (No. 18), 2006
by Michael Phelan
http://www.michaelphelanart.com
Pom Growth , 2007, pom poms on felt, 36" x 36"
Field, 2007, googly eyes on felt, 48" diameter
The above works are by Evie Falci. I like her stuff a lot.
http://www.eviefalci.net
Atherton Lin for Kitsuné Noir.
http://kitsunenoir.com/2010/02/24/the-desktop-wallpaper-project-by-atherton-lin
Masahi Kawamura made this flip book which in turn creates a rainbow in your hands.http://www.masa-ka.com/html/rainbow.html
The first scene of Easy Rider was supposed to be Dennis Hopper blowing himself up, or not blowing himself up, as an act to raise the money they use to buy the cocaine in the film. It was decided that since it was so dangerous it would be better to film it last, but when the time came to film the scene, the production money had run out and the scene was scrapped.
In 1983, Dennis Hopper did the stunt on his own because he wanted to.
Anyone out in London right now should go to the Tate Modern and venture through Miroslaw Balka's sculpture How It Is, which is a huge chamber submerged in almost complete darkness and has been used for talks about black holes.http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/black-hole-tour-group.php?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
I went to embed this website in the blog, but I wasn't able to. . . properly enjoy it while typing up the link. I highly recommend turning up the speakers a notch, throwing your browser in to full screen and kicking back for a second to enjoy the wonderful sites and sounds of RGB by Rafaël Rozendaal.
http://www.newrafael.com/sites/rgb
For more amazing HTML-based art, check out HTML Color Codes, an exhibition of online works.
http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/html_color_codes
On January 16, 2004, at the Barbican in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave the UK's first orchestral performance of John Cage's 4:33. The performance was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and one of the main challenges was that the station's emergency backup systems are designed to switch on whenever apparent silence (dead air) is detected. They had to be switched off for the sole purpose of this performance.
When hippies first became a cultural concern, they were usually, if not always, portrayed as dirty, drug-addled maniacs in movies and on TV. In the midst of all this, there was a film called Something's Happening/The Hippie Revolt that aimed to capture hippies as they were, using voiceovers done by the real deals over straightforward footage of their lives, their parties, and yes, their freak-outs. The whole thing is available for download over at Something Weird Video.http://www.somethingweird.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=37837
Mods turn square Cube into a fashion plate. Read the whole comic at Magic Carpet Burn.http://magiccarpetburn.blogspot.com/2010/01/modniks-1-cube-goes-mod.html
EMI has put Abbey Road Studios up for sale. Dig into that Xmas money! Full story at the Financial Times.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/02/16/emi.abbey.road.ft/index.html
Corridor, Corridor (detail) & untitled(rolling stones)
by Michael Gumhold
If for some reason you are in the Netherlands this week, check out this sculpture show by Michael Gumhold. It's all tapes and records and drums and things that make sound that aren't making sound.
http://www.galeriewest.nl
Columbia has organized a show of original films inspired by the extensive footnote in Infinite Jest which details the full filmography of James O. Incandenza, one, if not the, novel's central character. It's up til February 19th. You probably won't be able to finish the 1,000+ page monster of a novel before the show comes down, but the footnote comes in pretty early in, so you can at least get to that part. Go! Go!
The clothing in Ryan McGinley's photographs from the previous post was done by the designers Rodarte. For the past couple weeks they have been setting up an installation of their work at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. I filmed the entire installation and the whole thing is definitely worth checking out. The set pieces look like they have been burnt or torn down, a great contrast to the museum, which is Andrew Carnegie's old house. Here is a photo take from Jezebel who has a good article on it. As she states in her article, the exhibit is definitely worth checking out in person.
Greg Rutter strikes again. Here's his second list of 99 Things You Should Have Already Seen.
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