You're My Playground Love.

Opening reception for The Playground is on January 17th, 6-9pm at The Puffin Room (435 Broome Street).

Rock the Casbah

Above is the trailer for The Battle of Algiers. It was banned in France in 1965 and torture scenes were cut from the UK and US versions. The Pentagon screened the film in 2003, drawing comparisons with American involvement in Iraq. A flyer for the screening read, "How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film."

"Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets."

If you like this film, I highly suggest reading Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

Olafur Eliasson Haters Can Keep Hating.

A lot of people were not very fond of Eliasson's Waterfalls. They were slightly underwhelming, but after his incredible exhibit, Take Your Time, at MoMA last year, a bloodclot I gave NOT.




Olafur Eliasson has created this incredible book called Your House, commissioned by MoMA. I need to find out more on this, and see if/when the museum plans on showing it.

Via Kremo (in German). The English translation is here.

I'm resolute.

I know I lied and said I wasn't going to have a New Year's Resolution but I have two good ones:

1. Take more vacations.

2. Get fatter and be okay with it.

2009 is my year of being realistic. I'm also going to try to take more photos when I'm out. And maybe I'll employ my lomography camera more! This year holds big things for me.

Ambitious, I know!

Happy New Year!

The new year's party I went to was shut down by the po po about 20 minutes before midnight, which was MAYBE five minutes after we finally made our way up the stairs of a shady warehouse and paid cover. There was no champagne and there is no photographic evidence of my new year's eve getup (punk meets horseback rider), but the night was still fun and ended with a slice of broccoli pizza.

Hopefully 2009 involves more vacations, I think I'll make that my resolution. Always aiming high.

Happy New Year!

Jane Fonda

JANE FONDA PROTESTING THE VIETNAM WAR

JANE IN TOUT VA BIEN BY GODARD (1972)

TOUT VA BIEN, AUTRE FOIS

MUG SHOT

Before she made aerobics videos, Jane Fonda was badass.

My Blog is Not Dead.

The powers that be have blocked me from blogging and blogs at work.


While my work ethic may be dead, my blog isn't.

The Dog Ate My Homework!

Shoplifters of the World, Unite and Takeover!

Please, please, please... ignore the Spanish. Or not if you speak it.

I have been watching Smiths videos on youtube.com all. morning. long. It's like an addiction, I know I shouldn't but I can't stop.

You know what would be fun? A Smiths/Moz karaoke night. I really want to make this happen.

Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)

7354 cubic meters of Pipilotti Rist is one of the most exciting things in my life right now (that and the couch that my roommate and I are getting today for our place, finally!). It's coming up so soon and I literally have a countdown for it. Twenty-five foot high moving images that Pipilotti created especially for the space at MoMA should be entirely captivating. Supposedly she's been running around the museum setting everything up and I hope that I get the opportunity to run into her and so I can go fan-girl on her.

STILL FROM POUR YOUR BODY OUT
Pour Your Body Out opens on November 19th. Get to MoMA on the 17th to share an evening with her. I will try and make everything happen so that I can be there, smiling ear-to-ear the entire time like a creep.