Archive for June, 2010

REFAIT

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Refait from Pied La Biche on Vimeo.

There is nothing you could say to describe the share awesomeness of this video, Im sure its pretty viral but if you have not seen this then you wont be able to contribute to the water cooler conversation on Mon which might start off something like.

You : Well Brian, the conceptual totality of juxtaposing a bannana with the year 1984 speaks of Dadas absurdness in the collective psyche of post post VHS inspired modernisim, which lends to itself, through repeatitive vibrations that tap into the pointlessness of the human condition.

BRIAN : There is something wrong with your personal understanding of post post VHS inspired modernism, its more to do with the glitch of capitalist values which have dropped in the marketplace which has inspired the new DIY generation breaking down nostalgic dreams into geometric patterns. So yeah, you need to check your instinctual mind map and get the hell away from my water. Bitch!

Shannon

CODY COCHRANE

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

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Nice native American inspired paintings by Cody Cochrane from Toronto, via BOOOOOOOM

Shannon

THE REAL FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS

Friday, June 25th, 2010

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‘(Gary McCormick)… the ‘John Travolta’ of New Zealand Poetry’ - The Listener, 1980

FROM NZONSCREEN WEBSITE

Artists Prepare, Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick (click to view)
Short Film, 1980

Surely the precursor to NZ’s hottest export FOTC, the Hunt / McCormick duet live the life even moreso than Jermaine and Bret. Surpassing the PG rating, Artists Prepare takes a joyride with two dashingly charismatic quintessential thespians in full flight…

‘We’ve gotta worry bout the second half…. we’ve shot our load so to speak, well at least I have’ - G. MCCORMICK

The bygone era of poetry, pubs and unbridled flamboyance. When leopard print was not an option, but a necessity. The tight black jeans are back, but wheres the honest alcoholism and womanizing?

Hunt / MCormick icons of extroversion.

Mark

THIS SATURDAY

Friday, June 25th, 2010

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BLACK BONED ANGEL, LIVE 26TH JUNE AT THE FARMERS

Monday, June 21st, 2010

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BLACK BONED ANGEL is CAMPBELL KNEALE and JAMES KIRK

They produce a kind of transcendence as if time stopped and all the pylons in outer suburbia gathered together all the heaviest metal band albums from under every Iron Maiden t shirt wearing long hairs nose, flew them to Scandinavia and feed them to Agorogoths brain while he was in a mental hospital that he came out shitting his pants to thought of having to milk one of his own goats again.

What Im trying to say is that im not as bad ass as I guy called Agorogoth from some mountainous Scando village but i reckon he would be impressed with this amount of  impending Doom.

I have seen these guys live a couple of times and i always feel like im a leaf, being blown across an ocean, not sure were im gonna land or if ill ever even find land again.

If you have the stamina and like the word experience, you my friend are in for a treat because

BLACK BONED ANGEL are playing on the 26th June at THE RUSSIAN FROST FARMERS #2 Eva St, Wellington, 6pm, as part of PALIMPSEST a JAMES ROBINSON EXHIBITION.

shannon

Haydarpa(sh)a…FACE-LIFT

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

‘YEKPARE’ (monolithic) from nerdworking on Vimeo.


ISTANBUL - Haydarpaşa Train Station, on the side Anatolian of the Bosphorus, gets a virtual facelift thanks to video artist Deniz Kader. The German built Haydarpaşa Garı (1908) served as a link in the Berlin to Baghdad line that the Empire was so keen to complete. Here it gets a technicolour makeover and symbolic demolition akin to the current goings on at the respective ends of that now forgotten line.


Mark

Don’t like that poster ay.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

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think itisin Vancouver. a wall of images to check. every click though you could be planting….

http://picasaweb.google.com/sean.martindale/PosterPocketPlants#

~c~

Stephane Prigent

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Draws in the mee goring style of the ancient paper pad hand and lighting brian boltz fist. Good.

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