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Last Life In The Universe เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล

 

To make up somewhat for that last post which had Henry Rollins running around naked painted red like a Really Angry Guy, I would like to draw your attention to "Last Life In The Universe", a movie by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and starring Tadanobu Asano (of Survive Style 5+ "fame").  I'd also like to point y'all to Filmbrain, a blog that looks like it could become required reading on a regular basis.

Anyway I'm going to be naughty and lift the whole review so you can read it here.  But you have to promise to then go directly to Filmbrain and tell them I sent you...

"Last Life In The Universe" is set in Bangkok and centers on a Japanese librarian named Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) who is obsessed with committing suicide. Though living in a foreign country, he has done nothing to integrate into the culture, and his entire life is spent between his job at a Japanese library and his rather sterile apartment, which one character actually mistakes for a library, given the mass amount of categorized books stacked throughout. The lizard shown walking up his wall in the opening shot is the only indicator of the locale.

Buy the DVD (coincidentally it's another Palm Pictures release)  Link to Filmbrain

Liar

It's not that I'm a Rollins fan, but I just broke up with someone yesterday* and then tonight I was watching the Anton Corbijn Director's label dvd and it had this clip on it. I never really got Rollins at the time, and I'm sure a lot of other people don't either, but somehow when you are really angry it all makes sense in a kind of early nineties way.

Granted it's not a great Anton Corbijn vid but some of the lyrics were just way too appropriate. And all the shouting.  And I can post whatever I want, right?

Buy the Anton Corbijn Director's label DVD

* In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the Cancerous Relationship Foundation.

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8.12.06

GARDEN OF GIRAFFES

Jardín de jirafas, en el Castillejo de Murcia, otro de los murales del proyecto 12 Sombras para Alter-arte.

Garden of giraffes, in Castillejo of Murcia, other one of the big murals of 12 Shades project for Alter-arte Festival.

 

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Ataullah Gabriel Von Roda

Peter Kennard

Also bought this work of Peter Kennard whose photo montages are seen around the UK - especially on anti Nuke and War demos.  He is currently a lecturer at the Royal College of Art and part of a current exhibition at the TATE Modern.

FAILE & BÄST

In the course of buying a Bast print today  (it's not exactly the one on the above left - but somewhat along the lines of this "Golfpunk" series) at Santa's Ghetto, I realized that he's part of the Faile crew. Plastering the world with posters they managed to paste and cover around 8/9 of Williamsburg NYC already and are continuing to do so around the globe. Can't believe that I did not try Fail's website before... amazing!!! Besides that Bast seems to be laying low and only rarely. exhibits  in galleries ... I was told this is due to the prosecution record he and the people from Faile have piled up along the way.

Check out faile vids on their website... to give you a taste watch "La phaze - Final Assault":  Download SM_laphaze.mov 

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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES

 

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal 

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.

The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.

Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.

 TRAILER - Man_Land.mov 

mademoiselleloulou

Exquisite images by mademoiselleloulou at her blog.  Exactly the kind of pictures that make me happy.  I have taken thousands of these kind of pictures, but not one as good as hers...  Maybe it's just because I've never been to Paris?

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Tomokazu Matsuyama 松山智

Tomokazu Matsuyama
松山智一
1976年 東京生まれ
1996年 暁星国際学園 高等部卒業
2000年 上智大学経済学部経営学科卒業
2004年 Pratt Institute美術大学院  Communications Design科修士課程終了
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画家/アーティスト。東京生まれ、現在ニューヨーク在住。NYトップランクであるPratt Institute美術大学
院修士課程修了し、首席で卒業。現在までにニューヨーク、サンフランシスコ、ロスアンゼルスなど、全米の多
くのコンテンポラリーギャラリーをはじめ、日本、カナダ、ヨーロッパと国際的な活動を精力的に行っており、
2005年度だけでも6つのもの展覧会を開催している。彼の表現は、実に多様であり、巨大絵画に代表され
る作品群は、ストリート、グラフィティ、モダンアートといったカテゴライズを超えて評価されており、 アメリ
カ随一の美術評論家であるホーランド・コッター氏がニューヨークタイムズ紙で紹介するなど、国際的なア
ーティストとして著しい頭角を現している。AM New York News, Art Asia Pacific, Royal Magazine,
Lodown, Untitled,  Theme, Trace, Arkitip, Dazed and Confused, Relax magazine, +81, Eye
On Fine Art Magazineなど各国のアート/デザインカルチャー誌で紹介されている。
  リーバイスギャラリーとのコラボレーション企画としてNYのソーホーで3ヶ月の長期個展の開催、Nikeアジ
アのアジアン広告キャンペーンアーティストとしての抜擢とコラボレーション、自身がNYでキュレートした自
転車をカスタムするShift展は初日に数千人を呼び大きな人気を博す。その他にも、阪急百貨店うめだ本店
での個展、NYの東洋芸術の権威でもあるアジアン・アメリカン・アートセンターにおいて03年度のレクチャ
ー作家として招待され展覧会を開催、アメリカ東海岸で最大級の芸術祭ブルックリンDUMBOアートフェス
ティバルにおいてライブペインティング作家として選ばれるなど、多彩な活動を行う。
また、07年/春、ハードカバー100ページの画集を全米リリース予定。

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