I'd been looking at the Gates Memory article in Time Out and wondering if my orange you glad? is still available for downloading and suddenly the little boy is running in blue ice box shrub labirynth with that wild (first time seen by me) steadycam shot... which to my young eyes looked lika an impossible dolly to rival the opening of Touch of Evil. I was thinking how The Shining is a kind of anti gates... a color contratst: terror to joy - private to public, fantasy to new realism... etc...
So I start working on redrum and suddenly a raft of three thirty illustrations from Mingus III comes over the e-mail. So here's Mingus jamming on the boink boink which was a three eyed smiley face that I used as my toilet tag on condom machines etc. in Paris: BOINK 2K - for fuck the year 2000. Our way of saying that the 2K was being over hyped by greedy high tech con men. Ooops, right again. So here goes MINGUS III solo:
Fiddle Sticks, Charles Mingus III (with ITIN'S copy of Mingus' origonal and samo street tag crown background) 'O5I was looking at this picture and was overcome with a wave of nausea so intense that salt water poured into my mouth and I nearly puked. Was it the Mingus, or the Kubrick?
Pink Pepto saves the day and the sweetie rubbing the buddha belly don't hurt neither.

Laurie Anderson
And I fell asleep to the words of Luarie Anderson and The Nerve Bible throbbing of her electric voice and fiddle. She is just so clever that it is a little like listening to your own thoughts.
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TheCurseofSudderBnnannaHOMLESuS 1. We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.-- Archibald MacLeish, "Now Let Us Address the Main Question: Bicentennial of What?," in The New York Times (3 July 1976; repr. in Riders on Earth, as "The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson," 1978), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations 2. It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever tha opposite may be.-- Archibald MacLeish, Rockefeller University Forum, "Heaven and Earth and the Cage of Form" (Jan.-Feb. 1968; repr. in Riders on Earth, "Return from the Excursion," 1978), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations 3. To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers-- Archibald MacLeish, commenting on the first pictures of the earth from the moon, "Riders on Earth Together, Brothers in Eternal Cold," in The New York Times (25 December 1968; repr. in Riders on Earth, as "Bubble of Blue Air," 1978), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
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Alex Itin is using new media technology to create truly original hybrid work. Part book, part performance, part painting. Using low-tech animated gifs and audio mash-ups to create online collages, Alex Itin posts his eclectic works on the Institute for the Future of the Book blog, where visitors can create their own combinations of image and sound by selecting one or more audio tracks to accompany his hand-painted images. Itin represents a new breed of artist who, through the electronic medium, is questioning and redefining traditional genres and forms.
Here's a link to today's blog which deals with the Jews in Switzerland, my dad and the Krammer scandal not in that order. Curious your take on it.
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