- Boy In Barahona Case 'Very Close to Dying' A Few Times: CaretakerNearly a year after the body of 10-year-old Nubia Barahona was discovered inside her adoptive father's truck next to her badly injured brother, prosecutors released new evidence Monday that sheds light on what the siblings endured.Read More... […]
- Obama Seeks More Alzheimer's Disease Research MoneyWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.Not all the spending must wait for approval from Congress: Under the plan being announced Tuesday, the National Institutes of Heal […]
- Imagine A World Without Oil (INFOGRAPHIC)Thanks to our oil addiction, such a world would include rolling blackouts, minimal transportation, dwindling food supplies and possibly war.Read More... More on Energy […]
- ABB Company: Electric Vehicle Chargers Have A Bright FutureBy Caroline Copley ZURICH, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Chargers for electric cars may become a "billion dollar business" by 2017, said an executive at Swiss engineering firm ABB, which is teaming up with governments and companies such as RWE to roll out a network. Building up a network of charging stations is vital to help fuel demand for electric cars, expe […]
- MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Goes ZenHe has been dubbed "cable TV's angriest anchorman," but Dylan Ratigan says that was then, and this is now.At a fete held by The Week and MSNBC last week for his new book, Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry, Ratigan was introduced as the "angriest man in America." Yet Ratigan c […]
- Christina Aguilera Opens Up About Her Hispanic Heritage And Estranged FatherChristina Aguilera says she's been criticized for not being Latina enough. "I've dealt with that [criticism] my whole life," she said in an interview with Latina Magazine. "I don't speak the language fluently. And I'm split right down the middle, half Irish and half Ecuadorean. I should not have to prove my ethnicity to any […]
- Standoff continues amid Brazil police strikeState governor says issue can be resolved through negotiations after state legislature is taken over in Salvador city. […]
- Dozens trapped in Pakistan building collapseAt least 19 dead and dozens trapped after factory collapses following a suspected gas explosion in Lahore city. […]
- Explosion rocks military base in NigeriaBlast in Kaduna comes just hours after reported killing of eight suspected Boko Haram members in another northern city. […]
- Italy plans emergency talks as cold snap hitsTalks aimed at maximising gas supplies come as freezing weather and snowy conditions continue to wreak havoc on region. […]
- Russia's Lavrov holds talks with AssadForeign minister says Syrian president committed to ending violence but his military continues bombardment of Homs. […]
- Malian refugees in Niger await food and waterConcerns over access to basic essentials after more than 22,000 people flee continued fighting in Mali. […]
- HYPOCRISY: Romney Maintained Massachusetts Contraception Requirement That Mirrors Obama’s RuleMitt Romney has launched a petition accusing the Obama administration of “using Obamacare to impose a secular vision on Americans who believe that they should not have their religious freedom taken away.” The move is the latest in a consorted campaign effort to rally the conservative base around a supposed “war against religion” and misrepresent […]
- California Occupiers Camp Outside Former Marine’s Home To Prevent ForeclosureAbout 20 California activists surrounded a local home this weekend to prevent Freddie Mac and Chase Bank from foreclosing on the property, even amid rumors that sheriff’s deputies were coming to seize it. The Riverside, California home belongs to Arturo de los Santos, a former Marine who told Riverside’s City News Service that he fell […]
- Assad Promises Peace As Syrian Military Shells HomsRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reportedly told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad today that Moscow wants to see democratic reforms in Syria. Russia’s foreign ministry called for “the swiftest stabilization of the situation in Syria on the basis of the swiftest implementation of democratic reforms whose time has come.” After the meeting, Lavrov said As […]
- Spider-Man v. The CopsNo matter how much I think the Spider-Man reboot is utterly unnecessary, I have to admit it looks like a lot of fun: A couple of thoughts: I’m relieved that the movie is acknowledging that someone other than the scientific community, riders of random subway cars, and J. Jonah Jameson notice that a dude in […]
- Birtherism Makes A Comeback Among RepublicansA new poll from YouGov’s Adam Berinsky shows that the number of people who believe President Obama was born in the United States has dipped to levels below even the weeks leading up to President Obama’s release of his birth certificate last April. The movement appears attributable to Republicans, 37 percent of whom now say […]
- BP Made $3 Million An Hour In 2011, While Spill Victims Continued To SufferBP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill is still affecting the lives of many Americans, particularly the tens of thousands that have not settled lawsuits with the company. Yet the company has bounced back from the billions it lost in the wake of the spill. BP announced today that its 2011 profit totaled $26 billion, a […]
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My brother just saw the documentary about Arthur Russell and…
My brother just saw the documentary about Arthur Russell and said it was great. Go see Wild Combination.
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die but only retire a little from…”
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Winnipeg
I saw My Winnipeg this evening, directed by the beloved Guy Maddin. Tales from the Gimli Hospital is one of my favorite films, and I’m pretty much a fan of everything he’s made. I’ve seen My Winnipeg touted as a documentary, but I think Maddin’s description of it as a “docu-fantasia” is much more appropriate. I don’t want to give away anything but there are some stunning moments in this film (the horses being one of my favorite parts). Maddin skillfully and inventively blurs childhood/personal myth and metaphor with surrealist imagery, using his signature black and white style. The use of Maddin’s childhood video and photographs make this tale even more emotional and convincing. This is one of the best films I have seen in a while. Go. Now. Yes dammit.
Tags: Vachagan Narazyan
Vachagan Narazyan calls Ukraine home but hails from Russia and began his career when many artists risked imprisonment for not painting in the Socialist Realism style. There are hidden symbols that recall the struggle of his homeland in most of the work. I love the fact that Narazyan improvises his images and starts each piece directly on the canvas. There are fleeting moments and passages in the work that is indicative of this process. The figures reflect a certain fragility, frozen in time. Upon closer inspection the symbolic elements surrounding them appear slightly more sinister. There are wires and cage-like structures connecting and immobilizing them to center stage. Figures (often doll-like or masked) are stacked high in steeple-like arrangements, wavering across a still landscape. Narazyan was influenced by a traveling circus when he was a child and uses the characters he recalls from this time in his work. There is a kind of absurdist element in the work.
You can view some of his work here.
- Graphic novel on stage in Los AngelesNo Good Deed is a new multimedia play in Los Angeles that melds a graphic novel with live theater. Created by the edgy, experimental Furious Theatre Company -- including my brother Robert Pescovitz -- No Good Deed is a classic, dark superhero story of good and evil injected with the cultural criticism that is Furious's […]
- EFF's PlayStation 3 PSA: jailbreaking shouldn't be a crimeThe Electronic Frontier Foundation is petitioning the US Copyright Office for a DMCA exemption legalizing "jailbreaking" -- modifying the devices you own so that they can run software of your choosing. The Copyright Office holds hearings every three years on DMCA exemptions and these need to be renewed at each hearing. To highlight the need […]
- Maggie in a silent auction to support Phillips Neighborhood Medical ClinicThis Thursday, I'll be donating my time to support The Phillips Clinic, a free healthcare provider that serves more than 1000 patients in Minneapolis. Come to the Clinic's annual silent auction where you'll be able to bid on awesome items like gift cards, a hot air balloon ride, and a presentation by me! If you […]
- "I've robbed the rainbow to make you gay"If Rick Santorum can apprehend the rainbow robber, all his problems will be solved. […]
- MAKE founder Dale Dougherty on CNNHere's a peek of a 30-minute profile of MAKE founder Dale Dougherty that will air on CNN this Sunday night. Dale says, it’s time to get back to making. It doesn’t matter what it is: cheese, wine, sculptures, robots, rockets, 3D printers - even electric muffins! As simple or as bizarre as a person wants […]
- Journalist arrested covering Occupy Miami eviction recovers arrest-video deleted by policeCarlos Miller, an accredited photojournalist covering the Occupy Miami eviction, was arrested by Miami-Dade police, who deleted several videos from his camera before they returned it to him. Miller recovered some of the deleted files and has posted them to YouTube. They support his version of the events of that night, in which he was […]
- A Boot Fit for a KingAmong King Leopold II's legacies in central Africa is the Congo Pedicle, an odd stick of land that nearly divides Zambia in half. […]
- Damn the TorpedoesThe Confederates' embrace of land and water mines was hugely successful. But it also raised serious ethical issues. […]
- Politics in the Academy: The Same Old SongIn academia, questions are left unanswered and nothing gets done. That is how it should be. […]
- Spinoza's Vision of Freedom, and OursMore than three centuries ago, Spinoza recognized that the unfettered freedom of expression is in the state's own best interest. Have we forgotten? […]
- A Thief in the HouseWhat went missing, and what was lost. A family fiction by the radio artist Joe Frank. […]
- Why We Love ZoosWhy are people drawn to zoos? Among other reasons, it may be the special kind of innocence they hope to find there. […]