whoa baby !! – here’s something to take away those rainy day blues . . . fresh out of CHICAGO !! via NORTH CAROLINA !!
IMAGE BY – ELIJAH BURGER
ANAL SWASTIKA vs. GENITAL HOLOCAUST
ELIJAH BURGHER vs. STEVE REINKE
DRAWING vs. NEEDLEPOINT
VIDEO vs. VIDEO
LUMP PRESENTS CHICAGO ARTISTS – ELIJAH BURGHER and STEVE REINKE – IN A ‘BAKE-OFF’ !! – OPENING NEXT FRI FEB 3, 2012
HOT, HOT and MORE HOT.
the opening hrs: 7- 10 PM
the show will run thru FEB 25, 2012
the gallery is open on Saturdays 1-5 PM and by appointment on week days.
LUMP GALLERY – 505 SOUTH BLOUNT STREET, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
ELIJAH BURGHER is an artist and writer currently based in Chicago, Illinois. Elijah Burgher maintains “a hybird studio wall/magick diary blog at ghostvomit.blogspot.com
He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and got his BFA from local NY state campus, Sarah Lawrence College in 2000, in literature.
image: ELIJAH BURGHER – ‘LIAM VOMITING ECTOPLASM’ aka ‘PUKING UP GHOSTS’ aka ‘LIAM WARFIELD’.
this is an image from his current ghost vomit blog – if you catch it now, scroll down, the image is at the bottom, just about to drip, I mean drop (!!) off. apart from the fact that it’s comforting to see that other people see ghosts and other unnamed 4th world entities (!!), our new motto: artloversnewyork short on funds, but never short on paranormal activity . . . !!
it’s interesting to note his recent shift from magic realism (!!) to magic diagramming (!!) – completely in sync with a SATURN BLACK WATER DRAGON kick-ass start-off week. the dragon, a mythical beast – exists in the mind – remember ? plus it’s cool to see his literature background . . . where dragon myths loom large and colorful.
STEVE REINKE is an artist and writer best known for his monologue-based videos. He is associate professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern. A book of his writings, ‘The Shimmering Beast’ (!!) was recently published at myrectumisnotagrave.com – which has a ton of his afore-mentioned videos all lined up, ready to jump to life – with a hit from your mouse – from their digital archive.
He also runs a digital drawing diary, check it out: genitalholocaust.com. (!!)
image by: STEVE REINKE, on genital holocaust.
wow. the first animal sightings we’ve seen in – the New Year 2012, excepting of course the mythical animal in the PETER GERAKARIS Chinese New Year greeting. the local mainstream art world (& media coverage) dominated by huge and hugely redundant “abstract” shows, installations and paintings by older artists, late blooming or not.
case in point: – dot dot dot Damien and his more dots non-event, anybody interested ? I didn’t think so.
case in point: the Gerald Ferguson show at CANADA, yes, interesting. for it’s birthing bragging rights & under-played newness. not to mention the archival computing card – backgrounds !!
while the local NYC branch of the cutting edge set, not covered in the mainstream press, yet (!!) showed some volley and kick-ass life by putting forth some extreme magic ‘realism’ portraits – case in point: ERIC WHITE.
NANCY SMITH, logo/drawing 1979
am I allowed to say, frig it yes !! being that I write this damn thing, and everyone knows from Charlie (Brown) Finch on down, that this (blog) world revolves around nancy !!
yep, a flame-eater/heat-seeker (!!) from way back, with the aggressive* stance & non-stop eyes of the seer . . . just born that way, is what I say. **
. . . is that: no less, or for real . . . I feel a deep bio kinship with these STEVE REINKE almost dorky line drawing animals, right down to the red hearts in the lyrically calligraphed, but wild cat’s marvelous coat . . . it’s actually a “spotted hyena”.
and yeah, as for his face-off with ELIJAH (!!) . . . I see ghosts in the machine . . . about to slay the almighty mythical dragon !!
may the best man – win !!
and yikes, about that spotted hyena !!
SPOTTED HYENA . . . in AMBOSEI PARK, KENYA. image: WIKIPEDIA
it’s got an LC designation, as in of LEAST CONCERN in the conservation stats – because: it’s a KILL-AH, baby !!
some interesting facts:
1. of why it might be esp of interest to the in-your-face-gay tribe – it’s the only animal in our mammalian species to lack an external vaginal opening. no joke. instead there is the “presence of a pseudo-penis in the female”. maybe better make that: that’s male and (fem) male, dude !! the fem urinates, copulates and gives birth from ‘her’ one and only “urogenital canal”. for more info, look it up yourself. WIKIPEDIA/SPOTTED HYENA/FEMALE GENITALIA
2. the social system of the spotted hyena is openly competitive. sound familiar. I know we’re supposed to be a co-operative culture, but who believes that ole myth – anymore ?
the (new) science of competitive genes anybody. Yes !!
3. surprise, surprise, not. the spotted hyena is a highly successful animal because it rules both poles of the evolutionary ladder. due to its adaptability and opportunism !! i.e. it is both an efficient hunter and scavenger. an animal with a dual position survival strategy not to be scorned – for our new stressed-out bio age, or what ?
*aggression
so, it’s a harsh universe or what ? no wonder man seeks magic diagrams.
and that’s a warp, I mean wrap. hope they send us some pix -!! – from the opening, LUMP ?
~ANAL SWASTIKA vs. GENITAL HOLOCAUST !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 27th, 2012, 11:45am
VETERAN WRITER/ DIRECTOR BEN LEWIN and his first ever film at Sundance, ‘THE SURROGATE’ . . are making huge huge web waves . . . the film is just taking off on every plane imaginable . . . including apparently way gifted performances by (indie fave) JOHN HAWKES, along with big screen vets: HELEN HUNT and WILLIAM H. MACY.
this is as close to a clip as I can find you . . .
watch: AN INTERVIEW with ‘THE SURROGATE’ – DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER: BEN LEWIN
it’s very charming.
JOHN HAWKES stars in ‘THE SURROGATE’ as the true life poet journalist MARK O’BRIEN. image: Movieline
read: a great great interview with JOHN HAWKES on . . . ‘THE SURROGATE’ – from Movieline
~’THE SURROGATE’ SWEEPING SUNDANCE – BIG TIME !! |
Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 26th, 2012, 1:03pm
tell me about it, oops – he did !!
exhibit card/invite signed to NANCY . . . FROM R. CRUMB, Nov., 2000
above: front
below: reverse
R. Crumb Restaurant Placemat Drawings
November 2nd – December 9th, 2000
Opening Thursday, November 2nd, 6-8 P.M.
Paul Morris Gallery, 465 West 23rd Street, New York City 10011.
It’s A Harsh Universe, 10 by 11-5/8 inches, copyright R. Crumb
p.s. and yeah, despite the initial euphoria of the new Saturn cycle, the moment is harsh, if you realize, just like all the countless generations of ancestors before you did . . . that: well, if you’ve lived to see two Saturn 30 year cycles – good luck on seeing your 3rd, because nobody lives to be 120. that’s harsh . . . heading into the inevitability of death, no matter how you cut it. and that’s what gave Saturn his fearsome rep. Father Time . . . you see the endgame coming round, when he shows up.
it’s the old yin yang dance. takes 2 rounds of Saturn to achieve wisdom, but you see your endgame in the process. ha. I guess that is a kind of wisdom – all on it’s own.
ok. thanks for the dark thoughts – nancy !!
ok. here’s a tweak, positive.
anybody else notice a lot of “late bloomers” making the scene, lately ? I mean, besides BILL CUNNINGHAM ?
both at the Sundance Film Festival, usually the hot seat of the young and beginning – and, on the current NYC art scene. you can blame it all on Saturn, but it’s a good thing, no doubt about it – when talent – trumps the odds.
you go, eternal hipsters of the heart.
don’t believe me ? just back flip though all your mainstream arts coverage of the past month !!
while at SUNDANCE 2012, New York Post film critic – LOU LUMENICK reports that: ‘The hottest new writer-director at this years’ Sundance Film Festival is also the oldest person to have a film in the US dramatic competition here” . . . the 65 year-old BEN LEWIN who made his non-stop acclaim feature, ‘The Surrogate’ for around $1 million. The true story of a severely disabled poet/journalist who hires a surrogate so he can taste sex before he departs this world – must have a lot going for it – to topple that dreary storyline, is all I can say.
and yeah, it is a harsh universe, isn’t it. apparently Ben Lewin himself is a polio survivor who wears a leg brace and walks with crutches. (!!)
anyway to make a long story short, his film was a hit at Sundance, “The film was acquired by Fox Searchlight for a reported $6 million, hours after it premiered Monday to a standing ovation and rave reviews”.
and dig this, a little further on in Lou’s post: “A Hollywood Reporter reviewer compared LEWIN to DAVID SEIDLER, the veteran writer of last year’s Oscar winner, ‘The King’s Speech’. “He called himself a late bloomer”, says Lewin of Seidler, stunned by the reception he and ‘The Surrogate’ received on his first trip to Sundance. “Personally I’m really enjoying this late blooming.”
them be fighting words, dude. right on.
read: LOU LUMENICK: To ‘Surrogate’ with love – and laughs !!
p.s. note to JOSH HARRIS, rumored to be holed up in RED HOOK !! remember when you swept SUNDANCE 2009 – with the Ondi Timoner helmed ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ ? talk about Father Time – my, how time flies !! only 3 short years ago, and it was you they were crowing about !! feels like forever.
say what – about a harsh universe ?
p.s.s. $10 + artlovers write-up (!!) . . . for the first confirmed JOSH HARRIS – back in Brooklyn !! pic. yo, and try to get a Brooklyn landmark – in the background and we’ll double the cash award – to $20 !!
for real. go ahead – try me !!
gonna try to hook u up with a ‘Surrogate’ trailer, try back in 5 mins !! sorry no can do, not one up yet. not a wisp of a clip anywhere.
~Oh, Pooey! IT’S A HARSH UNIVERSE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 26th, 2012, 10:55am
or: another Blast !! from the past !!
ARCHIE’S DOUBLE DIGEST MAGAZINE – No. 94 / STAN GOLDBERG + HENRY SCARPELLI – AUGUST 1997
Archie Comic Publications, Mamaroneck, New York.
ARCHIE characters created by JOHN L. GOLDWATER.
~ARCHIE’S DOUBLE DIGEST – HOROSCOPE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 25th, 2012, 7:49pm
FILE UNDER: a timely note from your art world resident ‘sign’ reader !! and accidental star gazer !!
just for the record: there was a huge huge sun storm yesterday, JAN 24, 2012.
no joke – it made national headlines. hot, hot and more hot !!
maybe that’s why flame-yellow winter jackets – are all the rage.
“An immense blast of plasma (?) spewing from the sun is set to bombard Earth today (TUES JAN 24, 2012) with the strongest radiation storm since 2005, prompting a rare warning from US weather officials and even a plan to re-direct certain high-flying planes.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency issued a watch for a geomagnetic storm . . . expected to reach Earth . . . (yesterday).
As a precaution, polar flights are expected to be rerouted . . . according to space.com.
The storm could also affect the power grid.” – NEW YORK POST, pg 2. Tues Jan 24, 2012
YIKES !! we’re under sizzle attack – from our own sun !! . . . . holy Batman !!
needless to say all that white snow that arrived this past weekend – is long gone. just a figment of the imagination ?
talk about auspicious celestial and “mythical” powers at play !!
you can watch the resultant light show – over SWEDEN !! – via state-of-the art digital camera !!
and, WOW . . . dig that cabin – in the sun !!
watch: powerful solar storm sets off amazing Northern lights show . . . “Lights over Lapland” photographer CHAD BLAKLEY – caught the footage !!
talk about , . . fire breathing dragons – in the sky.
p.s. while you are there – you can also watch: ancient galaxies caught on camera, too. next video down, right hand side.
p.s. I also stand corrected re: the use of the term ‘imagination’ in the 2nd previous post – below !!
with reference to dragon myths. ‘imagination’ is formally defined as “the formation of a mental image of something NOT real or present.” though it also means . . . “CREATIVE POWER” and “RESOURCEFULNESS”, huh ? go figure. (THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY).
wherein lies the English language dilemma. if you can imagine it – it doesn’t rule out the possibility of it having happened !! dudes. I mean if you can intuit – you might have been informed. and let’s leave it at that.
ok. like how ?
by dreams, old folk wisdom, celestial night sky activity. etc. etc. small everyday signs. tea leaves ? patterns. visions. magic mushrooms. i.e. the stuff of our civilization, just saying.
I mean who I am to say – dragons did not exist ?
if gods existed, as in Greek myths, or angels, as in the Bible – let me tell you, dragons did breathed fire in the skies. . . and not just in paintings and literature.
case in point : below !! VINTAGE PRESCIENT – from the 70s !! of JAN 23, 2012 – OR – WHAT !!!!!!!!
and yeah I picked it up a few weeks ago – at a JERSEY CITY thrift shop !!
THE HOW AND WHY Wonder Book of STARS – (!!) and, note the price: 69 cents !!
written by NORMAN HOSS – Illustrated by JAMES PONTER.
Edited under the supervision of Dr. PAUL E. BLACKWOOD, Washington, D.C.
text and illustrations approved by OAKES A. WHITE, BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
yep, its from the hood – though overseen by Washington D.C. !! resident.
published by GROSSET & DUNLAP, NEW YORK – this is the 1972 printing.
the book was originally copyrighted in 1960 !!
the green light must be from night vision camera ?
and yes !! – that’s our modern-day hero – SATURN !! forefront and center – the only known planet with rings !!
and does that sun flare (!!) – not look like two fighting red Chinese dragons, going head-to-head , or what ?
and, didn’t that just happen – yesterday ?
just saying.
and yeah do the web research: the quest begin begins . . . why is the color red so important in Chinese culture !!
and, good luck !!
so . . . someone wanna tell me – they didn’t see ‘dragons’ – huge solar flares – in ancient China. ha. for sure.
and oh yeah. about the the constellations moving . . . picture the pin points of the constellation map as if on a thin mylar sheet over the map of the earth’s sky. it can move, like a third level transparent navigation bar – but the original ‘birth’ impulses remain stationary.
and that is why astrology and tarot cards, too – go figure – are still in synch.
though of course as the pin point star, as in ancient constellation navigation diagram is moving – come on, where’s the surprise – we all know – the stars do travel – it must mean something.
and of course future generations – of astrologers – need a wake-up call on the new alignment.
this movement of the celestial zodiac symbols must mean something. maybe that’s the new world – !! – the Mayans were talking about.
maybe a big celestial time lock – as in a top-notch combination lock – just opened up ? beats me !!
who am I. I’m just a 21st century artist. watercolor at that !!
BUT yes, the stars and the planets, and whatever the hell else is out there – moons, comets. you name it, solar flares affect us. directly, and by extension . . . our destinies. not to mention our moods and struggles. aggressive war times vs. peaceful agrarian times. dark ages and renaissances.
it’s kinda funny what they say. the more things change, the more they stay the same.
from the solar storm of yesterday – it’s pretty obvious in tangible terms (as opposed to magic or astrological terms) -that the heavenly bodies, exert forces on earth and its denizens. and so yes, just like in the old days – we try to make sense of our lives and chart (safe) paths with our observed knowledge of the skies. just as our most ancient collective global ancestor did. with their zodiac charts and ‘myths’.
once greatly debunked . . . as ‘magic’ these ancient wisdoms – have been made more real in our lifetimes – by the actual tangible effect, such as the solar flare had yesterday – our modern wireless power grids, etc. (!!)
that’s a great irony, think about it.
and yes, these wisdoms were debunked in this book. so, if you are still with me, star fanatics – hooray for the collective unconscious of the internet web – and the New York City art world !! – to right things !!
the wireless world web – the new star gazers: ‘bowl’ of choice !!
if you read the science pages, as well as the art reviews, you’ll know what I mean.
we’ll give the vintage ‘STARS’ book above – the parting words . . .
“SATURN, [one of the 4 giant planets along with with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune] is the most spectacular planet of all . . . to see through a telescope. This is because of its remarkable rings. These are bright, thin bands around the equator of the planet. The entire ring system is 171,000 miles across from the outer to the inner edge, but probably no more than ten miles thick.” (!!)
(I’m thinking optical computer drives . . . dispensing knowledge – if not celestial LSD. but hey, that’s just my imagination.)
“It has been determined that the rings are made up of separate tiny particles, each moving in its own orbit. ” . . . seriously, try to get your head around that.
“They are probably ice particles averaging a tenth (!!) of an inch in diameter. In addition to its rings, Saturn has ten known satellites.”
all I know is – from time immemorial – SATURN was seen as the universal, or really, earthly – “re-boot” – when it passed by closest to our earth, on it’s 30 year orbit.
SATURN is also know as FATHER TIME, as well as the super god of agriculture and justice – key moments and concepts in our pre-history . . . because of the planet’s ‘enlightening’ effect when it passed closest – and resultant decline as it moved away. that 30 year cycle was understood in ancient days – through the (ground) rules of agriculture.
i.e. you sow seeds. you cultivate. they grow, you harvest, you eat. the end, an annual repeat on earth.
these truths be self-evident to our ancestors who almost all – worked the land.
probably as well, in olden times to live to see Saturn, at any point, but esp to be 30 – if you were born in a Saturn phase – was quite a milestone. because most likely most earthly primate human inhabitants – did not. live so long. thus Saturn came to be feared – and symbolized as the old man with the scythe out to get ya. tarot cards, anybody.
where’s Jung when we really need him. . . . trapped in a dirty old man’s movie circa 2012 – yes . . . ‘A DANGEROUS METHOD’. whatever. Keira Knightley, seriously I really wish you well.
multiply that by the agriculture-based rule of: you reap what you sow, if you had been bad – judgement was coming. some peoples call that: karma. and I sure hope it exists. cause if you’ve ever been wronged – it’s a very comforting thought re your enemies.
just enough comfort to get you through – another earthly day !!
~vintage . . . SATURN !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 25th, 2012, 11:50am
WISHING EVERYONE AN EXTREMELY AUSPICIOUS YEAR of the WATER DRAGON – CHINESE NEW YEAR 2012 !!
. . . PETER D. GERAKARIS
see: PETER D. GERAKARIS
see: PETER D. GERAKARIS – WORKS ON PAPER
PETER D. GERAKARIS, ‘AQUARIUM III – WATER DRAGON MONTAGE’, 2012. Pen, ink, watercolor and gouache on paper with digital montage.
~HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR – FROM PETER GERAKARIS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 23rd, 2012, 1:23pm
MAURIZIO CATTELAN, Photo: PIERPAOLO FERRARI, c/o GUGGENHEIM
presented in conjunction with the closing weekend of ‘Maurizio Cattelan: ALL’ . . . yes, the show is coming down – this weekend.
the GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS ‘THE LAST WORD’ – a MAURIZIO CATTELAN FINALE – TO-NITE !!
a SEVEN-HOUR FINALE
starting SATURDAY JAN 21, at 6 PM & running thru the night, which would be SUNDAY JAN 22 . . . closing at 1 AM !!
Peter B. Lewis Theatre, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
5th Ave at 89th St
ADMISSION IS PAY WHAT YOU WISH. CASH BAR after 8 PM. the ‘ALL’ exhibit will remain on view for program attendees.
CO-ORGANIZED BY: SIMON CRITCHLEY, Hans Jonas Professor, the New School for Social research – & – NANCY SPECTOR, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the curator of ‘Maurizio Cattelan: ALL’.
read more: ‘The Last Word’ – Maurizio Cattelan Finale.
YOU !! – CAN WATCH A LIVE STREAM – OF THE EVENT – !! – To-NITE beginning at 6 PM EST at: ustream.tv/guggenheim
~’THE LAST WORD’, MAURIZIO CATTELAN, ‘ALL’ Finale, to-nite !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 21st, 2012, 7:56am
‘MIE’ – by ERIC WHITE, 2012. oil on panel, 10 x 8 in. part of the big portrait show opening to-nite at FREIGHT+VOLUME.
‘MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists’ – OPENS To-NITE – SAT – JAN 21, 2012 / 6-8 PM
CURATED BY NICK LAWRENCE and MIE IWATSUKI
the show runs JAN 21 – Feb 25, 2012
FREIGHT +VOLUME – 542 W.24th ST – CHELSEA
p.s. wow. the first snow – you know, the real white stuff – in the city today !! it was looking more like Spring in winter, otherwise. no big storm – just a steady but gentle snowfall – but thick, thick enough to hold shape on the ground. nice. it’s still falling white, as of this morning. maybe we’ll get 5 or 6 ins. by noon !!
all good. all magic realism . . . including Eric’s painting. all earthly vibes in sync. at least in NYC.
Eric White’s surreal, eerie and ‘crystalline’ portrait . . . the perfect blow-out refractory image for an extremely auspicious weekend – bookended as it is, by the return of planetary wanderer the hi-octane Saturn this past Friday, and the start of the Chinese New Year, the all-powerful Year of the Dragon, this Monday !!
if the year of the dragon wasn’t already the most imperial of the 12 signs in the Chinese zodiac, imagine the kick start it gets – from this celestial alignment.
all the other Chines zodiac signs are earth-bound bio, in fact farm animals . . . except the sign of the dragon – which is mythic, and all-powerful, larger than life, the stuff of emperors – springing as it does from the arts, or better put: the visual and poetic realm of the imagination !!
i.e. the mind of man. the creative impulse.
in Western culture – think flying fire-breathing dragon x 1,000 – as in the myths, not to forget the flowering of Western literature – of King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, the cult of Camelot, the magic of Merlin and the questing knights of the round table.
in the visual realm: medieval tapestries and rock crystal vessels – anyone ?
as they are saying. . . The Year of the Dragon will breathe fire into the human spirit. and the return of Saturn initiates a new cycle of re-boot, ‘nourishment’ and justice. put them both together – and that’s not a bad way to go forward – no matter how you cut it.
UP-DATE: MONDAY 12:14 AM
ERIK WHITE has a very interesting portfolio of work up on his website, see: ERIC WHITE: images
including a big gray piece with large surface floating yellow disks, titled ‘FOYER’ – with its obvious reference/homage to DAVID SALLE.
they range from the classic ‘two tone’ gray ‘Hollywood’ realist painting – ‘THE DRIFTER’ . . . to the almost, basically ‘two tone’ – blue ‘crystal’ psychedelic ‘HEAVEN CAN WAIT’ – which seems to be the painterly source or starting point for the ultra-recent (!!) 2012 portrait of ‘MIE’.
ERIC WHITE, ‘THE DRIFTER’, 2009. oil on canvas, 40 x 60 ins. image c/o ERIC WHITE: images
ERIC WHITE, ‘HEAVEN CAN WAIT’, 2008. oil on canvas, 24 x 24 ins. image c/o ERIC WHITE: images
note for hyper realism super fanatics:
I even noticed a reference/homage to the hyper realist 303 Gallery painter, TIM GARDNER – and his family childhood ‘photo’ portraits, albeit with ‘spores’ – on another site.
array of small paintings by ERIC WHITE from his 2004 solo show, ‘Who Are Parents’ – at EARL McGRATH GALLERY, NYC.
it would be the small ‘family photo’ portrait of the young boy in the striped shirt . . . . . no ?
just saying. it’s interesting to see the dialogs develop in his work, and then take off.
UP-DATE: WED JAN 25, 2012 – CORRECTION !!
WOW. I STAND CORRECTED – TALK ABOUT HYPER REALISM !!
NO, that’s NOT an array of small paintings on a wall – that’s a PAINTING of a small array of canvases on a wall !! ha. you done got me.
ERIC WHITE, ‘Collusion: Angst’ 2003. oil on canvas, 24 x 24 ins.
nice job.
ERIC WHITE was raised in Michigan, and got his BFA (1990) from the RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL Of DESIGN. After a decade-long stint in California, he made his way to New York City, where he currently lives and works. according his CV he has been teaching at SVA since 2006.
~ERIC WHITE does MIE !! . . and up-date !! . . . and correction !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 21st, 2012, 7:39am
getting back to the young, with-it, and truly happy crazy creative !!
of course the best and most funniest !! move clips to surface – this year – are the Portlandia series – no offense, DIYers and gender benders !! if you hear your roommate falling over with laughter, at their laptop – it’s because they’ve tuned into the truly hysterical Portlandia universe, which manages to be witty, outrageous, and yet not really that mean-spirited, and goes down easy. way easy. it’s a rainy day – mood breaker. visual popcorn for the creative pros, that’s for sure . . . super fun, for everybody else. the laughs just keep on coming.
this spoof of America’s fave alternative lifestyle city, and mecca to the new age hordes – Portland, Orgeon – was brought to life, wouldn’t you know it – by three super wicked funny SNL, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, as in NEW YORK CITY !! – alumnae: FRED ARMISEN, CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, and JONATHAN KRISEL. Krisel is the man behind the scenes. Fred and Carrie, also co-creators and co-writers – just waltz off this planet – with their various Portlandia caricatures.
Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz . . . can finally rest in peace, and . . . move over.
Portlandia plays current shows on the IFC channel, which also spools past episodes !! – and the whole back series has also just come out on Netflix instants, too.
just, don’t ever call me NANCE !!
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN and FRED ARMISEN – classic !! in Portlandia – forever !!
image: IFC
I think that about . . . . says it all !!
image: IFC
so here’s a great web cruise for a so-cold, let’s stay inside day, start with: PORTLANDIA, IFC
so, don’t miss the great cast bios !! watch the clips and get background info – it’s big fun fan site !!
and while you are there. . . root around a bit, and sign up to have your site – pickled, too: we can pickle that !!
and yes !! that is local Lower East Side hero from way back in the hood – 80s: and now big Empire Broadway honcho – STEVE BUSCHEMI – on the ‘PORTLANDIA: Customers Only’ episode.
though . . . . . if pressed.
yes, if pressed, if I had to pick out one all time fave – I’d have to go with: PORTLANDIA: Put a Bird on It !!
but really every episode is ace. . . from ‘Dumpster Diving’ to bring ‘Your Own (shopping) Bag’ !! Portlandia – it just keeps on giving. Portlandia – rules.
in fact, I say Fred Armisen, (who plays Obama on SNL), and Carrie Brownstein – should take over for Barack and Michelle, for real . . . for a day or two, at the very least. get things back on track.
and when the Oscars get boring – you know where to turn.
PORTLANDIA – BOOM BOX !!
designed by DKNG Studios – on: IFC – PORTLANDIA website/POSTERS !!
MATT BUA – are you diggin’ it ?
p.s. the planet SATURN squares up with Earth – tomorrow – the 20th of January, 2012. no doubt about it. god of agriculture and all. ha.
in a new age nutshell: you reap – what you sow !!
and, yeah. I’m waiting big time on that – but maybe I shouldn’t be holding . . . my breath.
and oh, yeah . . .
the HSMG – Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild (!!) is holding their 15th annual conference in Portland, Oregon – this May 9-11, 2012.
just saying . . .
it’s a long story, let’s just say the DIY web query began with: dropped bar of soap down the toilet, how to fix ?
~PORTLANDIA !! |
Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 19th, 2012, 9:38am
from VANITY FAIR – JUNE 2011
photo: VANITY FAIR, June 2011
Yves Saint Laurent in his living room, Rue de Babylon, 1974. inset: Saint Laurent fitting a model, 1961.
below: Saint Laurent and his longtime companion and business partenr, Pierre Berger in 1983.
see: VANITYFAIR.COM
in an interesting little ‘HOT REELS’ article – published last JUNE 2011 – VANITY FAIR scribe A. M. HOLMES writes that not only is this film, ‘L’AMOUR FOU’ , “Pierre Thoretton’s directorial and documentary debut” but, more dramatically . . . “the two Pierres (filmmaker Pierre Thoretton and YSL partner PIERRE BERGE) were introduced by Thoretton’s former mother-in-law, actress CATHERINE DENEUVE, (!!) in the 90s.”
he goes on:
“Sometime later they began meeting for lunch every Thursday to talk about life. The portrait that emerged from their conversations is an intimate, elegiac celebration of the two lives intertwined”.
elegaic, as in sorrowful, yes. celebration ? no.
“The film begins with Yves Saint Laurent’s announcement, amid popping flashbulbs, of his retirement, in 2002; from there it cuts to Berge’s eloquent observations six years later at Saint Laurent’s funeral . . . and follows Berge through the sale of hundreds of art objects the two men collected over the years.
Berge, who was always behind the scenes, comes across as almost regal in his stoicism, his philosophical determination to separate the objects from the man. ‘I show that — but I don’t believe a word of it,’ Thoretton says. ‘Despite what he says, it’s just not the way he is. Selling everything was part of the grieving process. The memories were too large to live with . . .’
In 2009, Christie’s oversaw the ‘Sale of the Century’ at the Grand Palais, in Paris — the auction of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge Collection, which netted in excess of $450 million.
Berge’s reaction to the film, Thoretton says, was profound. ‘He cried. He said Thank you. And he said he’d learned things about himself that he didn’t want to talk about — because they were things he didn’t like.'”
yeah, like maybe he should have let Yves smoke a little medicinal weed ?? !! or bike ride ?
or, give it all away – in Saint Laurent’s lifetime – and run a school for under-privileged kids ?
beats me. but, about that house in Morocco . . . .
and yeah, it was kind of obscene to see him so unhappy, surrounded by so much wealth. I mean some people are happy just with one plant blooming in their kitchen window. I think after awhile the essence maybe gets lost in the numbers.
maybe he should have come to New York and rocked the contemporary scene. what they were collecting was so fusty and staid, anyways. this seemed to be a collection entirely devoid of life. L’amour fou, crazy love ? looking more like suffocating love, to me.
~more on: L’AMOUR FOU . . . |
Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 18th, 2012, 12:22pm
