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Saturday, 02 December 2006 |
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
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Happy Valentines Day
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 |
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Let's get a couple things out of the way. The members of U2 are quite
talented. Talented marketers, businessmen, team members. The also
posess a fair amount of musical talent. They know how to hire the best,
produce shimmering collections of songs, and market them as the last true band, the last band that matters.
The fact is that their sound is largely the creation of Brian Eno and
Daniel Lanois. Their greatest songs are mostly Eno songs, Daniel Lanois
songs. No matter. Poetic pop constructs ... perfectly mixed mastered
and printed ... puffery pings the Zeitgeist ... but that's not enough for Bono.
Poor
Bono wants a Nobel, or a Pulitzer. He won't say it out loud. But this
hustler recognizes that world-class hustler's game, and if I didn't
find him such an ass, I would tip my hat.
He and Oprah have come up with Project(RED),
whereby consumers consume and a portion of the profits (not the gross)
are donated to African AIDS charities. Approximately $100 Million has
been spent by huge corporations for advertising, plastering Bono's face
all over the world, at their expense. As the British say,"Brilliant!"

So
far they've raised perhaps $25 million for charity from sales generated
by that $100 Million marketing campaign. Makes perfect sense, doesn't
it?
Okay, after the jump. The story that demonstrates to me that U2 are the most self-important ... uh ... dickwads on earth, and, as such, sit at the
same table with Sting and his god-awful horse-faced wife.
But
before you go, please note this picture of Bono with Dr. Gupta,
the man the Bush administration has sent out to trash Michael Moore and
his movie Sicko. Bono cavorts with Bush. What else do you need to know?
{okay, now click on read more}
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Sunday, 19 November 2006 |

A retro kanga look this season.
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
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"Britney, Lindsay and Paris: The Three Disgraces" by 14.
14, as she is known, is the creative force of one of my favorite sites, Gallery of the Absurd. Simply amazing, hilarious ... a treasure on the internets.
14 writes:
"La
Primavera is one of Sandro Botticelli's best known paintings. The
angelic figures shown in this ethereal work of art all represent
mythological characters. While viewing this painting at the Uffizi, my
eyes were drawn to the fluid movement and delicate beauty of the Three
Graces. According to Greek mythology, the Three Graces represent
beauty, charm and joy. Contemporary mythological characters such as
Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are the antithesis of
grace. This makes them the Three Disgraces. They represent sleaze,
trash, and desperate cry for attention. What makes these women think we
want to see high resolution photos of their bald, flabby, and in
Britney's case, Kevin Federline-infected genitalia?"
now what you've all been waiting for:
The Ten Things You Don't Know About Britney Spears' Vagina:
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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
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I have a bunch of pieces in the works. Final installment of the Coming of the Great Darkness series. Modular synth stuff. More on Flapping limited release with the "lost" songs of the original Flight of the Atom Bee cd, including a new music video ... all kinds of stuff. The Ultimate Disposable Pop Music For Sale On eBay. A piece on Jorma Kaukonen's solo acoustic guitar piece on the Jefferson Airplane's album Surrealistic Pillow embodied, in two-and-a-half minutes, with no lyrics, all the optimism and hope of the West Coast for the future of America, before drugs, war, riots, and, as always, the assassins, took their toll on our dreams.
But nothing ready to post tonight. So, to keep the home fires burning ... here is a video I uncovered ... it seems like people, regular people, everyday people, not tongue-in-cheek people, not ironic people, in India pay to sit in a tiny theater and watch the Boney M Lip-Sync Revue.
This is not a drag revue, nor is it a joke.
This is serious family entertainment. You can tell because the choir members lipsyncing the humming parts with their lips closed are really concentrating hard.
This is the kind of video in which one can immerse oneself, gleefully absorbing the subtle touches that emerge on repeated viewings. The girl doing the Swim. The guy lip-syncing "She was crazy like a fool. {But what about Daddy Cool?}" All of it.
It's happy time!
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Friday, 02 February 2007 |
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Freddie chilling on the Serge
Be sure to watch the movie Sleep, starring Freddie in an homage to Andy Warhol. The video features the song Serenity Applicator from the Flight of the Atom Bee cd ... chock full of Serge bulbous and flapping bleeps, squiggles, and the carefully chosen and artfully placed intermittent Funky Worm, as declared essential by George Clinton.
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Sunday, 14 January 2007 |
"Each night I sit at home
Hoping that he will phone
But I know Bobby has someone else
(You're not a kid anymore)
Still in my heart I pray
There soon will come the day
When I will have him all to myself...
I want to be Bobby's girl
I want to be Bobby's girl
That's the most important thing to me..."
Marcie Blaine, Bobby's Girl, 1962
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
Am taking a break from music and The Most Beautiful Day In The History Of The World ... concentrating on a series of prints. The series is entitled "a thousand colors made from tears" and will be available on line as individual pieces in different sizes, as well as on different papers and canvas, and will also be available as a whole set, limited run boxed se, giclee print on archival paper, signed and numbered. Info to follow. I have to finish the series. Not sure how long it will take. 
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
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I first found Hiltron on myspace, due to the fact we share a passion for the wacky world of 14's Gallery of the Absurd.
I was immediately attracted to Hiltron's darkly humorous, satirical
photographic manipulations.
The subject matter: the vacuity of
modern-day celebrity worship in our culture, of which Paris Hilton,
mafia daughter, porn tramp, of the freakish bone structure, lazy eye,
and bizarre body-part proportions, is the alpha and omega.
We are in the middle of five constitutional crises—there is only one reason the citizenry has not stormed Washington D.C. and the White House to run the homosexual Republican crime syndicate out of town—but the networks are all Anna Nicole, all Paris, all the time. (Hint: that's the reason.)
And now Hiltron has launched Hiltron's own site, Planet Hiltron.
This one killed me. Anyone who has read any part of this site will know I am often lost in the music and culture of my youth. I mean, look at that collection of losers. P-Diddy? I must say I respect the man for making a fortune recycling rock songs from the seventies and eighties, laying some lame-ass nursery-rhyme chorus over the beat. Go Diddy. The Olsen Freaks? The vagina travelogue girls ... Britney, Lindsey, and Paris?
Fools rush in ...
(Be sure to click on the pop-up so you can study Hiltron's fine work.)

Ditto my JFK obsession.

And I like Hiltron's politics, too.
Planet Hiltron.
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
From Mx.* 14 of the incomparable Gallery of the Absurd
comes another masterpiece. And she writes, "Diaper Man might not be a well-known Hollywood celebrity, but in our
eyes he's an international star. This jewel of a photo has been
circulating the internet for years and we think it's time for him to
make his appearance on Gallery of the Absurd. We blended Diaper
Man's disturbing pinkness with elements of Engrish nonsense for this
monstrosity of a Valentine's card."
I wrote her and informed her that I had a picture to trump DiaperMan.
There
was a time, if one entered "idiot" into google images one of the first
three pictures would be be a most amazing visage ... as John Lennon
said in I Am The Walrus,
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
You will want to click on read more to see the photo that tells us the sun never sets on the british empire.
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
I was working on a series of photograms with an artist friend. The idea
was to make images (photograms) with everyday household items that
get used
as spanking implements. Then I made some rose photograms
and
was fooling around and found the bottom image and put
the two together. My friend flipped out and
wouldn't
work on the project anymore.
Oh well, I like the picture.
Think I'll do a limited edition of erotic art prints.
And if she ever gets rid of her deeply-closeted boyfriend,
I'll give her the spanking I know she so desperately craves.
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Thursday, 09 November 2006 |
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This footage was originally a
short film that appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1963, I
believe. I digitized it, re-edited, applied some effects and added my
own composition "Redhead Tells The Sun."
"Redhead Tells The Sun"
was inspired by a psychic named Blair--our lives briefly,
passionately intersected a couple of years back while I was on the lam
in LA. Although skeptical of her powers at first, I came to
believe very quickly that I was dealing with someone who had a foot in
another dimension at all times.
She
often mused why I had "pulled" her into my existence. She believed I
had been close to some edge and she came to pull me back from it. I
think it
was the other way around.
I'll tell you this: if Blair told the Sun something, he'd listen.
In
any case, the music complements the other-worldliness of the
wild horses, the erotic power of the images, the flight from the abyss
and the engine of creation as represented by the fire.
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 |
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Limited Edition Handset 2-color Monographs
Bulboscity: (1) The state of being bulbous, or (2) being enmeshed in a matrix of bulbaceousness.
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Bulboscity in Stasis
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How it will affect YOU |
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Relative Weights: |
| ⇒Blimp-like, luminescent bulbs at the edge of the tone. |
⇒Technological Bulbosicty
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⇒Globular sonorities in the back rooms of the brillig zone.
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⇒Indicators two and three culminate in
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⇒Increasing bulboscity in random parallel nodes.
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⇒cunning displays of bombast and catnaps.
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⇒Bulbous, flapping bundles of joy plop down on matterman abodes.
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⇒Local transit systems, and tenets of faith, are strained in the hubbub. |
⇒ A profusion of pop-off spanning our bright, bulbaceous cores.
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⇒Bumperstickers abound, proclaiming I♥MY CONFUSION.
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⇒Battalions of bozos playing grown-up, now, on rolling, silent shores.
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⇒Policy decisions reflect attitudes inimical to bubbles bursting.
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Only thirty of these hand-set, hand-printed 8"x10" pieces still exist. {Click on Read More for more information.} Bulboscity in Stasis, along with the original Straight Facts About Flapping postcard are the precursors to the opus, Flapping, now available in limited edition as well.
And for more state-of-the-art poetry, be sure to visit the [tasteless] Haiku Tree at instrumentality.com.
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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Arsole Molecule from Wikipedia.
Arsole is a chemical compound of the formula C4H5As. The structure is
like pyrrole except that an arsenic atom is substituted for the
nitrogen atom and that arsole is only mildly aromatic. Arsole itself
does exist but is rarely found in its pure form. Several substituted
analogs called arsoles also exist.
When arsole is fused to a benzene ring, this molecule is called benzarsole.
Furthermore, we can observe its profound effects on human beings when detected. Scientists believe there may even be a cure in the future for those afflicted..
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Sunday, 04 February 2007 |
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The almost all-analogue synth studio, with cat (mars kitty, in bubble at lower right) circa 2002. Click on picture to enlarge.
Phat props to M.C. Escher as well.
Here is a video of Mars:
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
From one of my favorite sites Astronomy Picture of the Day
This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs)
emerging from pillars of molecular
hydrogen gas and
dust.
The giant pillars are
light years in length
and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars.
At each pillars' end,
the intense radiation of bright young stars
causes low density material to boil away, leaving
stellar nurseries of dense
EGGs exposed.
The Eagle Nebula, associated with the
open star cluster
M16, lies about 7000
light years away.
The pillars of creation were
imaged recently by the orbiting
Chandra X-ray Observatory, and it was found that most EGGS are not strong emitters of
X-rays.
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