john fahey - Hamburg 1978

ming wong - making chinatown exhibition

For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of videos and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown. Shot on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Wong’s reinterpretation, Making Chinatown, transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity. With the artist cast in the roles originally played by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston and Belinda Palmer, key scenes are reenacted in front of printed backdrops that are digitally rendered from film stills and kept intact within the video installation. The wall flats adhere to the conventions of theatrical and filmic staging while taking on qualities of large-scale painting and sculpture.

Wong has been recognized internationally for his ambitious performance and video works that engage with the history of world cinema and popular forms of entertainment. Working through the visual styles and tropes of such iconic film directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai and Ingmar Bergman, Wong’s practice considers the means through which subjectivity and geographic location are constructed by motion pictures. Making Chinatown is Wong’s first project focused on the American context of filmmaking and draws upon Polanski’s iconic film for its use of Los Angeles as a versatile and malleable character. Wong treats the film as a text through which he is able to inhabit and impersonate the qualities that are particular to the place it represents. Making Chinatown mimics and reduces the techniques of mainstream cinema in order to emphasize the theatrical qualities that underlie cinematic artifice.

-redcat.org

the strokes - i'll try anything once / fan videos

this is a fan video from youtube about somewhere, a movie about sofia coppola that i can only talk about in extremely esoteric ways.

sean paul - like glue

runway - prada men's fall 2012

this is THE fashion show, this is the fashion show about POWER

'epicureanism'

several years ago i 'authored' the idea of a delicious diet - a diet where you can only eat delicious things. years ago when i tried it, i wound up eating delicious things and also things that weren't delicious, then i wound up simply eating everything and being kind of unhappy about it. after a really stimulating talk about creative lifestyle frameworks/lifestyle frameworks, and after hearing a story about my goddaughter who corrected the way her father was helping her put stickers in her sticker book - "they're too...close together, they're not dispersed enough" and seeing her relish in her extensive aesthetic points of view, i began the diet again, with no real goals but maybe to feel happier, and feel better about eating (i feel pretty good about it usually but a lot of time i take what i eat for granted). i will try to flesh out the delicious diet more here, because it's helpful to write about, soon. for now i will just say in theory it's supposed to make me more connected to my own subjective taste as something to have fun with and not feel very seriously about. it's also a very experience based approach to eating in that things can't be delicious when you're not in the right mood or place.

i've found things are often delicious when:
i eat them off of a cutting board while standing at the kitchen counter, especially alone.
the people you eat with are eating something they taste as delicious, some people are really talented at expressing that, and those are great people to eat with.
you're active
vegetables are so delicious
fat is delicious
hot tea is extremely delicious
ice water is delicious
regular water just feels good

i've also laid out this triangulation of deliciousness, in terms of the food itself:

texture temperature freshness

things are no longer as delicious when you eat them too often, or eat too much of them. 'too often' is up to you, though, and if you never get sick of something it's always delicious. like me and pizza,or my dad and peanut butter on toast. i've tried not to fall into discovering something is delicious to me and making that a lot. variety is key, and it's also apparently part of a healthy diet.

this sounds like the italy chapter of eat pray love, and it sounds like a lot of effort, and honestly it is. but it's no more effort than how feeding yourself and your family normally is. i'm just trying to make that old routine feel like less of an effort and more of a desire driven thing, more spontaneous. it actually feels like a very normal and natural way to think about eating. food has always been all about feelings for me anyway, so why not focus on pleasure? i'm not afraid of epicureanism, and it may just be that my bedroom is really cold but yes i have started wearing a bathrobe since this began last week.

so far the delicious diet makes me less critical of food (it's less that i look at an scone and am like 'not delicious enough' and more like i'm like, no, not now...what else? am i hungry? then a day later i really want a cup of tea and the old scone with sweet jam, and it's great, it's so great)

i'm gonna try to keep track of how this goes. today was a very delicious day:
water
advil cold and sinus
small dark roast coffee on the upper west side which happily cost less than a million dollars
at home, an egg sandwich around eleven on 6 day old foccacia bread - grilled two small pieces of foccacia in frying pan of olive oil w finlandia swiss cheese, fried egg in pan beside, added it to sandwich. fresh cracked pepper
ice water & twinings lemon and ginger clear tea

barry's gold tea w milk


a coconut donut from the brilliant sunshine donut, a "true" donut shop

some ricotta salata cheese while i was cooking dinner of fresh shrimp roasted in the oven with juice and zest of two lemons, 1/4 c olive oil, pepper, diced shallots
and a salad of baby spinach, thinly sliced zucchini i sautéed in balsamic and vermouth wine vinegar, a little olive oil, kosher salt - also roasted tomatoes, then with the ricotta salata and a dressing i made with honey, smooth dijon mustard, garlic, canola oil and a little olive oil and a little of that vermouth vinegar again
a hunk of a bread loaf w some irish butter

super small dish of chocolate hazelnut ice cream with crumbled milk chocolate with almonds in it on top
water

italian blood orange soda

portlandia - house sitter

i don't think i've ever received mail here

portlandia - coffee land

it surprises me, but this whole show has really kept me going in the dark but relatively easy/privileged days of doing little but applying to graduate school, and watching portlandia. from a media perspective it's really interesting - generally there's a correlation between this and how much fun you can imagine the crew working on this has

lis rhodes - light reading

lis rhodes - dresden dynamo

archana hande - textiles

Scroll 1, Girangaon (detail), 2009
from iniva.org - social fabric exhibition

textiles - arandu

michelle williams on some red carpet, early 2008. from ny times.

it's saturday here, very chilly but a nice time of day for a sorta cloudy sunset and a very cold christmas ale that's been chilling on the patio for a month

pet shop boys - go west

extended version from PopArt DVD

elton john - sad songs

unplugged

trailer - flashdance deutsch

"It's like...you go out, the music starts. you feel it, and your body moves automatically. it's stupid, but in this moment something happens."

appreciation of flashdance courtesy jane h

the onbashira festival - 1998 nagano cont

olympics opening ceremony - nagano, 1998

today i'm so happy because i figured out that these twin ceremonies are the media, design and performance event i most internalized in childhood. it...explains a lot.

at the time, my great aunt loretta, who had seen many olympics in her day, said it was the most beautiful of all the ceremonies. she collected little statues, and she loved children also.

it's probably why i'm making a scale model of my parent's country club's ladies locker room circa 1995 right now, and probably also why i bought the phaidon book "japan style" instead of the stephen shore or jorge pardo ones. the olympics also coincided with my third grade class's unit on the history of the us and japan, when i first learned about the atomic bomb, though long after i learned of world war two. "the nagano theme song ... "when children rule the world." when i was seven or eight, i realized i was a child. this was shortly followed by the realization that i was an american child. god i'm a terrible memoirist. don't you love the costumes?

black dice - kokomo

#oldiebutgoodie
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"Pinky's Rule" video by Charles Bernstein and Amy Sillman

follow below link to view video on BOMB magazine:

http://bombsite.com/articles/6343

feist - how come you never go there

uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives

movie posters - l'amour fou

movie posters - the trip x8

via mubi.com

marry the night

stephen shore