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Preview: ‘Trash Humpers’ Film Screening @ GFT, 14/15 Jul
There’s not a lot about Harmony Korine’s film Trash Humpers which hasn’t already been said. It’s an absurd, and frequently disturbing (in the best way possible mind you) docu-style flick, which follows a gang of bat-crazy, trash-humping, vandalising, old age pensioners, as they terrorise middle America. The film is shot in a rustic VHS style, [...]
Act now to save Glasgow’s Otago Lane
Photo: dolly mixtures
Thanks to the Subcity forumers for bringing to my attention this petition to save Otago Lane in Glasgow’s west end, that appears to be under threat from a planning proposal for “four flats of up to 8 storeys and 6 commercial units” which would “irrevocably change the look and feel of the area.” [...]
ART: Taxonomy of Parisian Graffiti
Discovered this great project which analysed hundreds of graffiti letters written around Paris and produced the results into some wicked interactive visual stuff on the web, as well as an exhibition, Born In The Streets, which is on display at Fondation Cartier in the city until November. I’m not sure exactly who the people behind [...]
Thanks to Robert at cowsarejustfood (an excellent music/ranting blog) for letting us know about the sadly departed, no-nonsense journalist and cultural critic, Steven Wells who died last week. Wells’ pieces were known for being lively, humorous and against the grain. A Philly.com obituary has described him as an “irascible commentator” with an “in your face [...]
Books: Kode 9’s “Sonic Warfare”
Dubstep producer and Hyperdub label manager Steve Goodman, a.k.a Kode 9, has a new book being published by MIT Press as part of their Technologies of Lived Abstractations series.
The book, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, is available now. Here is a detailed abstract from MIT Press:
Sound can be deployed to produce [...]
Music: Panama! Vol. 2 / Soundway Records
Soundway Records is a label based in UK that releases fantastic compilations of obscure and would-be-lost music from around the world. Records they’ve released in the past include “Nigeria Special, Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6″, and “Ghana Soundz, Afro-Beat, Funk & Fusion in 70’s Ghana.” It’s a great kind of anthropological approach to [...]
Video: Reggie Watts @ The Sound of Young America
In April I profiled the boundary-pushing Normative Music Company from New York, who have on their roster the incredible vocal artist Reggie Watts. I since happened on this video of Watts performing at The Sound of Young America, where he does a set that combines acting, performance art, stand-up comedy and vocal music to incredible [...]
As one of the most prominent victims of last year’s world economic collapse, the people of Iceland are being simulatenously spooked by tales of unemployment and financial stagnation, and regaled with promises of salvation by heavy industry, and the building of massive aluminium smelting plants and power stations to drive them. But as Snær Magnason’s [...]
Scottish artists’ challenge to Culture Minister
A group including the Scottish Artists Union and Variant Magazine have composed an open letter aimed at Mike Russell MSP (Minster for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution) illustrating their concerns about Creative Scotland, a proposed merger between two public bodies The Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen. Their concerns include the overly-capitalistic aims of [...]
Pirate Bay Op-Ed: The Times They Are A-Sharin’
As the folks from Swedish bittorrent site The Pirate Bay go to trial accused of assisting copyright infringement, it’s not without a sense of humour on their part. The group have posted an Op-Ed on file-sharing and how the internet has changed the world of copyright licensing, and are encouraging people to send it to [...]
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