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note: RUMANIUM BUCK is the side project of Giraffes frontman – AARON LAZAR
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‘LOVERS PLAY DEAD’ – DRINK UP BUTTERCUP – on YouTube !!
the 5th promo video off of – DRINK UP BUTTERCUP’S – ‘BORN AND THROWN ON HOOK’ – CD – which drops on 3/23.
~LOVERS PLAY DEAD/DRINK UP BUTTERCUP !!/Whatever !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 17th, 2010, 10:38am
BILL BRADY invites you come and see a young new artist he recently came across when he was speaking at the KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE last fall.
Bill says:
“They asked me to do a few studio visits while I was there and by chance Chris happened to be one of those artists. He showed me this little painting, it must have been 6 x 8 in. and the attention to detail was over the top. Some might call it pointillism, I call it attention to realism but either way the painting was rich in color and detail. Upon further inspection I realized the painting had the most amazing abstract moments. I was blown away completely !! . . .
Long story short he contacted me after graduating and told me he was working on a group of watercolors, his first ever, and he would like to show them to me. Here is a young artist who has such a clear vision that it is inspiring.”
CHRIS BIDDY – ‘NEW MESSAGE’ – OPENS FEB 11, 2010 – BILL BRADY – ATM
542 WEST 24th St – THE BACK ANNEX GALLERY SPACE
p.s. CHIS BIDDY wrote a pretty amusing, and insightful, Artist statement to accompany his small but exquisite show !!
“In my work, I chase the psychological dramas and conceited behaviors of adolescents. The girls I portray are often in bloom, teetering between innocence and self-awareness.
The first step in my work involves logging onto Myspace or Facebook to obtain my imagery, which is often derived from a cell phone. Rather than photographing my models myself I leave the responsibility of how they will represent themselves to them. This allows the models’ own personalities to come through and gives the viewer a chance to either see a silly child-like moment or one of vanity.
The focus of the subject is one of self-rejection and identity development. I find myself jealous of girlhood and the paintings are a way of projecting myself into the situation. I am interested in gender roles and what it means to be a girl or become a woman. Culturally I wonder about where I exist as the other, or how I got about constructing my own identity, there are struggles both formal and conceptual in my work .?”
p.s. he told me the opening – that girls just send him pix – sometimes – it’s their first ever time crossing paths with him personally – and ask him to point their portraits. you can see why !!
it’s funny – I saw the moments he caught in a very different light – as a new viewer – than as what one might infer from his artist statement above. I found the portraits to be both kind and intelligent. and, girl fierce – in good way. the immediacy of the self-portraits, all in this show originate as cell phone pix !! – and the moments from their own lives – that the girls choose to offer up to him – were super compelling, as well. all played out on this super small scale, that relates so well to new message mediums !!
CHRIS BIDDY at the opening of his first ever showing in NYC.
ATM’S BILL BRADY presents CHRIS BIDDY – ‘NEW MESSAGES’, in his new space on WEST 24th St.
Feb 11, 2010.
‘COURTNEY’, 2009. oil on canvas, 8 x 10 in. ($6,000)
a small oil painting by CHRIS BIDDY. Mr. Biddy previously worked in oil – but now he is really into watercolors, and the rest of the show is all new work – done since this past summer. it’s fun to see the journey from oil to watercolor in the works !!
‘Sydney and Haleigh’, 2009. watercolor, 10 x 8 in. ($3,600).
it’s a nice range of expression – and, the portraits have a definite cell phone – edge !!
its also amazing to see – what this young artist could do with watercolor – such a tempermental medium – in his first time delving into – its infinite possibilities and sensitive terrains.
CHRIS BIDDY, ‘Ciara’, 2009. watercolor. on archival paper.
the paintings are all 8 x 6 in.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~CHRIS BIDDY/NEW MESSAGE/ATM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 13th, 2010, 12:46pm
LIO MALCA – the anti-JOSH !! – in the news !!
you gotta love it !! life, as in – real-world – truth – is always way better than fiction !!
you couldn’t make this stuff up – in your wildest dreams. so, yes – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, or what !!
some background: LIO MALCA is the guy who bought Josh’s Spring St. loft when Josh’s web bubble burst and he went belly-up – and Malca still lives there. LIO MALCA is also famous – as a footnote character – in the WE LIVE IN PUBLIC annals – as he is the collector who dropped the dime on the ALFREDO MARTINEZ phony BASDQUIAT CAPER – after a brief trial – the feds sent Alfredo away to the big house for 2 years !! on interstate wire fraud charges.
much thanks to CHARLIE FINCH for the heads-up !!
FILE THIS UNDER: what goes around – comes around.
as per: COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE – MONDAY FEB 8, 2010 – LIO MALCA SUES KATZUHITO YOSHII for $500,000+ OVER A ‘BORROWED’ BASQUIAT !!
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT – ‘Untitled (Football Helmet)’ – the piece in dispute.
PHOTO COURTESY/COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE – ‘COLLECTOR SUES GALLERY OVER BASQUIAT’ – by SARAH HULL 02/08/2010 Manhattan (CN)
“An art collector claims a Manhattan gallery owner said he wanted to [borrow] a Basquiat painting to show it “to his family,” then sold it for $300,000 without permission. Lio Malca sued Katzuhito Yoshii and his Yoshii Gallery in New York County Court.
Malca claims the gallery at 980 Madison Ave. [uptown] sold his Jean Michel Basquiat artwork known as ‘Untitled (Football Helmet) which Yoshii had in bailment. Malca says he did not consign the work to the gallery, and it was ‘not offered as collateral against any debts,’ but was merely on loan to defendant Yoshii as a favor.
Malca claims that while Yoshii had the piece he offered to sell it to the gallery but Yoshii refused to pay the asking price of $300,000.
A few days later, Malca says, he asked for the art back, but the gallery told him it had been sold “without title”. Malca says he demanded that the gallery ‘return the artwork immediately,’ without success.
He demands damages for breach of duty as bailee, conversion, and fraud, and wants the art back or $500,000 (the “actual value of the piece”). Malca is represented by Larry Kramer with Kramer & Pollack of Mineola.
LIO MALCA – attends the opening of ‘Furniture & Architecture by Jean Prouve’ at SONNABEND GALLERY, NYC.
Feb 22, 2003.
PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
KATZUHITO YOSHII – attends the PHILIPS CONTEMPORARY ART PREVIEW, NYC. Oct 22, 2002.
PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
that’s so – NYC vs. LA in a nutshell – circa WINTER 2010 – 2 collectors, former partners, when I first encountered them – at each other’s throats over overpriced – decades old blue chip art now – Basquiats – and, neither of them known for their patronage. these guys are really ‘art’ bankers in the truest and saddest sense – are in the news here – while colorful and celebrated collector ELI BROAD is headlining the news out of LA !! at least Mr. BROAD is a known as a very far-reaching, influential trend-setting collector – a very generous patron of the contemporary arts, as well as a major philanthropist – albeit one with an “an iron checkbook” !! hey, from where I sit in NYC – a control freak patron is still better than a bunch of uninspired, one might even say, shifty couple of art bankers.
see: ELI BROAD – IRON CHECKBOOK SHAPES CULTURAL LOS ANGELES – JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Feb 7, 2010 – ART & DESIGN/NEW YORK TIMES !!
the thing is just how much the $$ bubble burst for the downtown art scene rebels when the bubble burst for JOSH. the sudden dead-end impact – couldn’t be more illuminated than the contrast between JOSH HARRIS and the man who bought his loft on Spring St – and, at a fire sale price I am sure – LIO MALCA. that’s why we called Lio – the anti-Josh !! (as in anti-Christ, get it ?)
Josh could also be an asshole – don’t get me wrong – I am the one who introduced the buyer Lio Malca to Josh – and they both stiffed me on the finder’s fee or any form of minimal commission – for the hook-up on a 2 million+ sale, and in very hard economic conditions – for Josh. but Josh was a patron, a true inspired independent-minded art patron – and the most amazing one that I know of so far. ok so he blew out on his tech side – but whiel the money flowed Josh fueld an art scene that was so wild – and far reaching – it became the subject of a documentary that stormed SUNDANCE – you know – that little SUNDANCE 2009 GRAND JURY PRIZE winner – WE LIVE In PUBLIC !! not only did Josh not to want to buy dead art, or even blue-chip art – he didn’t even want ya – if you were in a gallery or written up by the low-ceiling mainstream art press – Josh wanted pure juice – 100% alive and kicking. He did buy art for investment – he bought art – as part his own ‘art project ‘ – if you can follow that – a concept that went and still goes over many people’s heads !! for the artists on the scene at that time, and probably for all time going forward – this was the absolute ideal situation. a totally freak-ed inspired patron – a web visionary and internet guru no less – who paid you – and, big $$ well – to create on a huge scale – and you still !! got to keep most of the product – the product – to sell to someone else. (He did buy a few choice pieces from most of the artists – that he promptly put into storagae – he bought 2 watercolors from me, apart from shooting me his credit card for some pretty worthy antique American quilt purchases !!) but he was not into buying art for investment – his fever was all about the creative mode – in real time !! – and that was worth the $$ underwriting – and in fact – he was was kind of skeptical of it ever turning a return big bucks – at least back then, in his heart of hearts.
ok. click to the present. contrast that to ELI BROAD – one: his collecting is stale. I mean compared to Josh who – was of the absolute moment. two: his collecting begins with gallery and so-called critical ‘authentication’. three: his buying power speaks to institutions – note any similar rants, like mine to Josh – in his favor – bubbling up from the contemporary artists in LA & as a further indicator of his staleness on this level – he has to import JEFFREY DEITCH from NYC – to spark things up – he has fallen so far behind the curve – on that front, and lastly, four: just how much his headset is old school investment – he renegened on giving his collection away to the institutions he supported and now is creating a ‘lending library’. LOL.
but the contrast between JOSH HARRIS and LIO MALCA was brutal. I’m not the only one who used to pass by that former Broadway & SPRING ST loft – home of many parties and cry. unlike Josh who turned the tap on – LIO turned it off. and his kind of M.O. is pretty much indicative of the NYC collector head-set that has the downtown art scene is so bone dry and lonely – ever since. LIO was not a patron. I don’t even think you could really call him a collector. He is really an pencil pusher. an art investment banker for super rich people who want to create a diverse portfolio – one that aside from being more portable than the equivalent in gold bars – is , or was !! easily converted to liquid cash in a low profile way – and – that hopefully gains in value as well. the deal is Malca is supposed to buy them guaranteed no-lose positions. Kind of like the Mugrabis – except that family aspires to a higher profile as ‘cutting edge’ collectors – but, who really only buy a few proven (and for all accounts and purposes – art wise – dead) formulas. such as BASQUIAT, HARING, WARHOL, DAMIEN HIRST. Malca only bought WARHOLS and BASQUIATS – and, apparently – as this little legal matter – between Lio and Yoshii attests to – the whole game became way-over-wrought and over-priced. their little corner of the art market has declined at least 30% in market value to boot, obviously adding to the public tension – and they probably have some very heavy-duty people calling in with big time gripes !! YIKES !!
but who’s crying for those guys, and their shadowy clients !! not I. their M.O is much worse than lousy advice and greed – it corrupts the art scene absolutely.
what they don’t get – is it that their lack of patronage, insight – and inspiration – eats at the very roots of their sand castles. you’ve got to trickle down some of that play dough – to the truly kickin’ artists, and their grassroots gallerists – on the scene in the moment – in real time – to keep up the interest in the value of their predecessors. period. art 101.
so it was a big big hurt for the Josh Harris crew – to see this kind of art ‘banker’ installed in Josh’s loft – formerly filled with the stuff of the moment – now home to rotting and over-priced HARINGS and BASQUIATS. and if you worked for him, which I did as a representative of Josh’s in turning over the loft in working order to Lio’s liking – he paid you under $10 a hr and made you feel like a dog – while doing so. I guit. and never looked back. Alfredo tried to rip him. end of story.
summation: JOSH vs LIO. round one. JOSH bankrolled you and made you feel like a king. like being an artist – was the ultimate extreme sport. LIO bankrolled dead but certified artists and made you feel like a dog. JOSH vs LIO round two. WE LIVE IN PUBLIC sweeps SUNDANCE with the breath and vitality of his insight and vision – LIO ends up suing his former partner YOSHHII in a sleazy case of theft over an over-priced art object by a long dead artist – that has lost significant market value. (Lio and Yoshii were partners – in buying art – when I first crossed paths with them.
slight factual adjustment: ok. so Lio also sometimes, and very stingily as in, not too often – used to take baby steps and actually did buy new art. case in point. He bought some early TAYLOR McKIMENS from the CLEMINTINE GIRLS – way back when Taylor was doing those awful DONALD BAECHLER hamburgers !! when when Taylor came out with the first of the DRIPS !! family – Lio stopped in his baby step new art tracks. The amazin’ ‘DRIPS! – went right straight over his ledger markin’ head.
oh the beauty of lost opportunity . . . and woefully miscast characters.
full circle: Josh’s old loft on BROADWAY – corner of SPRING in Soho. Lio Malca bought it, fire sale – when Josh’s empire went belly-up.
that’s it – the floor-thru loft – on the 2nd floor over the store. you can just see – the head of one of Lio’s (dead) art trophies in the window. but the space is surely full of ghosts – in Ondi’s documentary – the inner WE LIVE IN PUBLIC section – where Josh records his time with TANYA – with over 60 motion sensitive hard wired interactive web cameras – even in the bathroom, and on the cat litter – !! – takes place in this exact space. it was home to many many parties – some gracious – Josh loved Grapa !! some totally over-the-top and wild – too wild to even speak of !! ask Leo Koenig !!
oh that black day, when Josh’s name came down – and Lio’s went up – on the intercom !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~LIO MALCA (the anti-Josh) SUES YOSHII !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 9th, 2010, 3:05pm
spurred on by the success of ONDI TIMONER – who seems to have BILL GATES – aka “the richest man in the world” – as her new BFF !! – beat that – all you losers !! – I recently happened to pass by the old stomping grounds on downtown Broadway – deep in the heart of Tribeca.
this was the site of QUIET – the million dollar+ millennium party – that JOSH HARRIS and PSEUDO.COM threw – to celebrate the turn of the century – and which fueled the core of ONDI TIMONER’S SUNDANCE winning documentary – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC.
The four story warehouse building housed the Japanese style pod or bunker hotel for the 99+ live-in artists, and in the basement – was the ALFREDO MARTINEZ shooting gallery. this building was in constant flux on the other floors – with free-flowing ‘disco’ bars, art installations, and dance floors – not to mention light shows, live sex shows, chess tournaments, interactive games, and even a Toxic room – popping up and going down – just as fast. Josh’s will put it up and Josh’s will took it down. . it was breathtaking to watch the transitions and differing visions. not to mention the competing artistic egos. it was a huge futuristic shock. open to the public 24/7. all wired by omnipresent motion-sensitive cameras for 24/7 surveillance and digitally delivered and projected onto the multi-present screens, also placed everywhere – in real time, and uncensored. you could be eating in the ‘bubble’ dining room and watch Josh, or some pretty uninhibited others – prance fully naked – and wet – in the transparent shower that dominated the last half of the floor-thru pod hotel. you could be in your pod, and according to your temperament elect to catch a close-up of someone else having live sex in their pod – or watch an artist installation take shape a few floors above !! it was sheer creative chaos – with no boundaries – that roamed the absolute !! full specter of human being-ness !! – with blazing futuristic insight and defining predelection. it was at a once perfect insight, blatant imagination meets bankrolled construction – everything was possible – no holds barred – both elegant and raunchy – in sum: the total human experience. circa DEC 1999 – JAN 2000. downtown artworld rebels meet internet geek with a million bucks to blow – who likes to par-tay hearty !! and all take off. it was like the buildings were a self-contained space ship.
the smaller 2 story building to its right – housed the ‘bubble’ communal dining room – for the resident artists and the in-house production crew – complete with an asian 4 star chef – masterminded by OWEN BUSH. serving 3 meals a day. upstairs was the administration, make that Josh’s – offices.
this little storefront schmatta shop – with its many rolls of remnants was what the whole 4 story warehouse building was like – when we first got there, that’s where we got all the fab black fabric, reams of festive red velvet, and everybody’s fave: camo, that draped various stages of the ever-changing and very much put-up on the spot with what ya got – installation . . . that’s where I got the white fleece segments that became the Quiet banners, next to Alfredo’s shooting gallery, and Cal’s Vampire headquarters and video games. not to mention – the ‘interrogation’ room.
the first thing that was done – was a crew painted the walls white, or black !! and then attacked the designated space – with all those fabric rolls – with relish. one of the first areas to go up – the ultra-cheesy live sex shows ‘competition’ – area – 70’s style swanky bordello-era beds – in rolls and rolls of red velvet and M.C. LUVVY – aka JOSH HARRIS – overseeing the action. ONDI’S final version, skewed mightly towards the internet guru aspect – was sooo censored – as to be almost a joke to those who were there for – all the fun and games. there was so much going on at all times – you could pick and choose your niche of comfort – from hauling off in Alfredo’s modernist, make that futurist plexiglas and metal-domed shooting range with real life assault rifles to ALEX ARCADIA’s half-nazi half-meditation temple with its piped-in trance-inducing music to its tiny copper goldfish swimming in a moat on its perimeter. it was violent, it was sweet, it was archival, it was mad max – above all, it was what you could personally stomach.
and there was no rock left unturned. I was supposed to put up a quilting bee – but got run around so much as Josh’s personal right-hand production assistant – that the banners and some make-shift paper lanterns – were the most I had time to devise as my own contribution to this hard-wired time capsule of Americana gone wild.
a field day of red velvet, ‘camo’ and ‘flowery fields’ meet head-on nonstop with the cameras, computers, and plexiglas !!
antique pieced quilts met red velvet live sex shows in the storefront display windows.
yeah the neighbors complained – the live sex in the in display windows – that was the first gig – to get censored.
photographer DONNA FERRATO. she lived, and still does, just around the corner on Leonard St. she heard about the QUIET party – it made huge headlines in all the press, and local mags – except the mainstream art press !! LOL. as if we could be surprised by that. but hey, JEFFREY DEITCH was there almost daily. as was ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST, and ALANA HEISS.
she was in there like a dirty shirt and she’s the one who took most of the hard copy documentary pix !!
PHOTO: DONNA FERRATO/COURTESY: WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
it was DONNA FERRATO who took this photo of me and my kid Theo, back in the early days of QUIET – when JEFF GOMPEERTZ had just finished building the pod hotel. you know there had to be a kid – it was all about the future. you can see the wiring for the ‘reality’ surveillance cameras and the mini-format multi-channel play-back screens. this was before the pod-hotel, devolved into a wild no-holds barred, and some say professionally-stocked – full-on orgy.
computer nerd that he was – Josh was fascinated by animalistic behavior (body) as much as he was fascinated and inspired by the ‘fine’ arts (mind) . . . it was all about skills … and lust !! sometimes Josh walked around as Josh the founder/CEO of Pseudo, overseeing the various stages of construction and deconstruction, handing out his credit card so freely – it was impossible to keep track of – sometimes he M.C.’d as his over-the-top alter ego – LUVVY. but often I think, he also went incognito in a strange kind of hunter’s headpiece – that completely obscured his true identity, esp in the pod hotel’s very raunchy sex free for all ending. just a good guess.
how raunchy did things get, you ask ? DONNA FERRATO’S got the pix !!
and she’s about the only with the goods, too. you go girl.
following 2 images from the pod hotel at QUIET, NYC.
DEC 1999 – JAN 2000 – subject archival photographs by DONNA FERRATO.
and you didn’t see them in WE LIVE IN PUBLIC the film – or at least the version that Ondi put out at SUNDANCE !!
this is performance artist MANGINA, aka PATRICK BUCKLEW, and yes – he really does have a peg leg – though the mangina – LOL – is fabricated. a couple of us got the first over-the-top and very raw – absolutely uncensored version – of WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – as gifts from Josh – -including moi !! maybe one day, I’ll screen it for ya !!
stocked with professionals – I think the consensus would be …
yes !!
leaving Donna’s Tribeca loft, I make a mental note to get her to show me the pix she has of the NYPD and NYFD / NEW YORK POLICE and NEW YORK FIRE DEPT – finally – shutting the place down – and, can’t help but note the footprint of silkscreen artist to the internet guru – MARK ENGER – aka – EXPLODING SKY – another key creative force in the JOSH HARRIS inner circle – on the exit door. MARK made the custom luvvy-logoed WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – jacket – that Josh is seen proudly sporting in many of the taped media interviews – that followed the big win at SUNDANCE 2009.
a bit further north on Broadway, corner of SPRING St. in Soho – was Josh’s personal 2nd floor-thru luxury loft – where he was to within a year of QUIET – turn the 24/7 motion-sensitive cams on himself and girlfriend TANYA – in the initially first-titled – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – a project that was live-streamed in an interactive format – that was obviously – way ahead of its time. It inadvertently caught both the loss of his dot com millions, and his girlfriend, or his attempt to make a fake girlfriend look like the real thing (??) – and essentially – the loss of his mind. some said at the time – – that’s what happens when a tech visionary and futuristic guru spends too much time with them wild outlaw artists !! maybe it was just an inevitable end of what is now referred to as – the bubble decade – but whatever it was, no one can deny – what a way to blow-out. no one has bested it yet.
Collector Lio Malca bought the place – was it the summer of 2002 ? Josh retreated full-time to his Apple Orchard up-state – and, where the opening footage in the film – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – takes place.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH – unless otherwise noted.
~QUIET/WE LIVE IN PUBLIC UP-DATE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 9th, 2010, 12:21pm
MINI BOONE !! old school artlovers – gotta love that name !! – play GLASSLANDS – WED FEB 5 3/2010/8PM/$8 – it’s their ‘BIG CHANGES’ record release par-tay !!
check out: MINI BOONE – on MySpace !!
check out: MINI BOONE on YouTube !!
check out: Pet Ghost Project !!
check out: I’m Turning Into !!
check out: Shark?
~Mini Boone, Pet Ghost Project, I’m Turning Into !!, Shark? |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews | By Nancy Smith | February 9th, 2010, 11:37am
BILL GATES of MICROSOFT & BING – WITH ONDI TIMONER – the first ever – 2 time winner – of BEST DOCUMENTARY – GRAND JURY PRIZE/SUNDANCE – for
DIG! (2004) and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (2009) !! – at PARK CITY, UTAH for SUNDANCE 2010.
ONDI WRITES:
we are thrilled to announce the imminent Video-on-Demand and DVD release of WE LIVE In PUBLIC – on MARCH 1st and MARCH 2nd respectively !!
we are planning a ‘honking’ multi-city event on MONDAY MARCH 1st – to kick it off in which all of the various gatherings are connected via internet video streaming !!
The film will play simultaneously in each location and end at the same time so that the post-screening Q+A session with Ondi & Josh, and all the parties nationwide can be linked via a live interactive webcast on our site, weliveinpublic.com. That’s right !! you will be on live video in public – connecting with cities across America – to discuss living in public !!
in LA or VANCOUVER ? Report to the screening at 6PM. Denver ? You’re at 7PM. Chicago, that puts you at 8 PM and New York, we’re starting you at the still-reasonable 9 PM. Milwaukee and Atlanta are making noise about joining in on the fun as well. We’ll send out another announcement with screening/party details for each city as soon as the plans firm up – if you want to help organize a simulcast screening in YOUR town on March 1 – contact us at: coordinator@interloperfilms.com or call the office: 1-626-296-0068.
As it stands, we have fire dancers and preternaturally flexible performers – as well as pods ready to be lived !! in for that night – all to help us festoon the whole affair in Chicago, the hub city of our March 1st festivities !! Our partners-in-crime GRAVITAS VENTURES – who are putting WE LIVE In PUBLIC – out through WARNER BROS. and INDIEPIX – published a l’il press release about the whole thing … check it out: GRAVITAS VENTURES & INDIE PIX PRESENT !!
as well: you can pre-order the WE LIVE IN PUBLIC DVD on our website, and also buy some cool swag – in the form of your very own WLIP t-shirt or an official poster for a mere 20 bucks !! We are offering a LIMITED TIME ONLY 15% PRE-ORDER DISCOUNT on the DVD – so go get ’em while you can !!
We will also be releasing more crazy hot (some just crazy and some just hot) scenes from the archives in advance of our 3.1.10 launch, so do check in to the site. Digital downloads of the film itself !! and extra scenes will be on tap for you with a click of your mouse that night too, all right there on: weliveinpublicthemovie.com
SCREENINGS – We’ve almost rounded out an awesome US theatrical run, but if you live in ROCHESTER (NY?), you can still catch WE LIVE IN PUBLIC on the big screen on FEB 6. We are expecting to add MADISON, WISCONSIN, and others. If you’re an: I’m globally-connected and have-friends-in-exotic-locales – type !!, tell said friends to come out and see us !!
ONDI WILL BE ATTENDING – the GAEL GARCIA BERNAL – prestigious (and apparently incredibly FUN !!) AMBULANTE FILM FESTIVAL in OAXACA, MEXICO – APRIL 1-4, 2010 !!
but, even before that – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC will be at:
DOC LOUNGE FILM FESTIVAL – throughout SWEDEN !! – 1/18 thru 2/18 !!
ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL !! – 2/11 – 2/22 !!
3rd INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST OF NICOSIA – in CYPRUS !! – 3/23-3/28 !!
VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL FILM – LITHUANIA !! – 3/18-4/2 !!
AMBULANTE FESTIVAL – OAXACA, MEXICO !! – 4/1-4/5 !!
BACK TO SUNDANCE 2010 !! – While we’ve been preparing for the release of the film, Ondi (miraculously) created time in her packed schedule to go back to PARK CITY, UTAH for SUNDANCE 2010 !! – to pass the GRAND JURY AWARD torch onto a new ‘doc’. She actually in fact – returned, not just as a guest, but as a member of this year’s U.S. Documentary Jury, alongside such badass directors as: MORGAN SPURLOCK (SUPERSIZE ME) and GREG BARKER (SERGIO) !!
ONDI TIMONER with RUSSELL BANKS, US DRAMATIC JURY, SUNDANCE 2010.
ONDI TIMONER with GREG BARKER (SERGIO), US DOCUMENTARY JURY, SUNDANCE 2010.
ONDI TIMONER and ADRIAN GRENIER !!
Adrian, who had a documentary in competition this year – asked that Ondi present him with the CREATIVE COALITION’S – SPOTLIGHT AWARD – SUNDANCE 2010 !!
ONDI TIMONER and PARKER POSEY – a fellow SUNDANCE JUROR.
ONDI TIMONER and a blinged-out !! JOAN RIVERS !!
Ondi and the jury gang did award her film with Best Editing !!
ONDI TIMONER and LYNN SHELTON the director of HUMPDAY !!
THE SUNDANCE 2010 US DOCUMENTARY JURY – ONDI TIMONER, front row – right !!
(. . . and looking more beautiful than ever.)
Directors ONDI TIMONER (DIG! & WE LIVE In PUBLIC) and MORGAN SPURLOCK (SUPERSIZE ME) “furiously” debate who should win the Grand Jury prize.
. . . “it looks like Ondi and Morgan – are back to being buddies, again !!”
ONDI TIMONER and SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR JOHN COOPER – at the JURY DINNER, SUNDANCE 2010.
watch ONDI TIMONER present the GRAND JURY PRIZE for US DOCUMENTARY, SUNDANCE 2910 to – RESTREPO – SEBASTIAN JUNGER & TIM HETHERINGTON’S – “visceral documentary” about the war in AFGHANISTAN.
while you are at: watch ONDI on BING/SUNDANCE 2010 !!
finally, COOL IT !! – While she was in SUNDANCE to help pick the successor to her 2009 Grand Jury award for, of course – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – !! – Ondi racked up some attention in the NEW YORK TIMES – for her newest venture – currently in production – ‘COOL IT’ – which addresses solutions to climate change that have been overlooked or underutilized to date.
. . . “The documentary world, rife with impassioned advocacy, may now be poised for some genuine debate … ‘COOL IT’, Ms. Timoner said, was intended not so much to correct ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, which raises the specter of devastation caused by climate change, as to – temper its message with an appeal for practical solutions.” – NEW YORK TMES
read more: NEW YORK TIMES – ‘COOL IT’ !!
ONDI TIMONER and DAVIS GUGGENHEIM (AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) “rose above their press – to bond over fine filmmaking !!”
Ondi told us – “she loved his film – ‘WAITING FOR SUPERMAN’ – !!”
you go – girl !!
you can follow ONDI on TWITTER !! – twitter.com/onditimoner
become a fan of: WE LIVE IN PUBLIC on FACEBOOK !!
or, otherwise follow the trail of goodies on: WELIVEINPUBLICTHEMOVIE.COM !!
ALL PHOTOS: COURTESY WE LIVE IN PUBLIC & INTERLOPER FILMS
~ONDI TIMONER & WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – UP-DATE FROM SUNDANCE 2010 !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 4th, 2010, 12:33pm