Readings / Discussions for Thursday the 4th

Okay, so for this next Thursday, let's have a little discussion about some of the readings we've been looking at thus far, assigned early on were the John Baldessari, Chris Burden and Bruce Conner pages of the text, then a couple weeks later the Werner Herzog bit, lets also look at Gary Hill and Pipilotti Rist, we should have plenty to talk about and maybe even need another session to get through all the texts.

24 hours to paint ourselves madddddddddd!

sunday october 7th from 12:01am to 12:01 am monday october 8th katie howell and robert peterson going to engage in a painting. that's right we will be painting continuously for 24 hours. we want all our friends to come and be with us. most importantly we want all of our friends to come and document via still photo and video/film the experience for as long as they can be with us. documentation of this event is crucial.


details:

where:grad painting studios on cedar street in athens ga.
when: 12:01am sunday october 7th to 12:01 am monday october 8th.
who: you me and everyone we know

again documentation is crucial. please come and be a part of this transcendance.

kate and i love you so much.

Laurie Anderson

Nice interview/podcast with Laurie Anderson

Questionairre

1. What do you think about the act of compartmentalization?
2. What do you think about The Jesus and Mary Chain?

read a book

bill daniel

Airport security looses their shit and goes totally bonkers over MIT student's blinking hoodie

Here's what not to do for your project. Star Simpson, MIT student and free spirited inventor, wore her battery powered, blinking, LED hoodie to pick a friend up from the airport and was met with machine guns. Well, at least they didn't shoot her. I honestly wouldn't feel safe stepping into an airport, I know I have at least a couple pairs of pants that could be considered explosive devices. But seriously, the state of paranoia our nation is in right now is very disturbing.

Things the British do in Public

Here are two skits from the show Monty Python's Flying Circus that have them going about in public doing strange things.

submit a slide to marisa's performance

http://nastynets.com/?p=949

Werner.

on the henry rollins show


werner herzog shot during an interview, "it was not a significant bullet" !

mini doc on christian marclay

some stuff i was thinking about

I wanted to throw out some filmmakers and titles that I am looking at right now. If you are not familiar with them I would strongly encourage you all to give them a glance. Some of this stuff is attractive topically some stylistically some I don't know why but I like it.

Sam Green- The Weather Underground
Jim Finn and Arthur Jones-Monster Loteria and others AJs animation work for need new body is pretty great even if the band i not.
Greg Brunkalla-www.brunx.com-check out his work for the Saul Williams video for Reparations. Most brill.
Jem Cohen-little flags
Bill Daniel-Bum Adept, Who is Bozo Texino, Texas Punk Pioneers
OWOTO county-owoto.com

i want to encourage all y'all to post up what you are looking at and what is tops on your lists.

love at all times.

hey everyone

Tomorrow and Saturday at the Chateau Noir in Stone Mountain GA. is freedumb fest. If you are into total free sound experimentation and no-fi anarchy noise and sweetness and sweating come on out. soundsfromthepocket.com

Also I started posting video to youtube. check it: http://www.youtube.com/noexit318

Hope you are all great.

Readings

Thanks Jocelyn for setting this up!

You should all be getting / have gotten your copy of Broken Screen. We'll jump around a bit as we go through the book, so let's start with the John Baldessari, Chris Burden and Bruce Conner pages first. We'll shoot to have an in class discussion and look at some work by these guys next week.