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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
planetary alignment this weekend. Hold on tight
A Chinese artist who grafted the head of a human fetus onto the body of a bird has defended his work as art after a Swiss museum withdrew the piece from an exhibit. "It's precisely because I respect all life that I did this," artist Xiao Yu said Tuesday. He said the bird and fetus "died because there was something wrong with them. ... I thought putting them together like this was a way for them to have another life."
The controversial artwork named "Ruan," featuring a fetus head grafted onto the body of a bird, was created by Chinese avant-garde artist Xiao Yu. Swiss museum visitor Adrien de Riedmatten, 29, filed a complaint on Monday with the district attorney of Bern, Switzerland, calling for an investigation into the piece, which was on display at the Bern Art Museum. Xiao said he bought the head in 1999 for a few dollars from a man who was cleaning out a scientific exhibition hall. The glass bottle in which it came had a handwritten sticker identifying it as a female specimen from the 1960s. According to Xiao, it had no name or cause of death. He said he thought it was a miscarriage and not an aborted fetus, because it predated China's "one child" birth control policy -- launched in the late 1970s to limit most urban couples to one child in order to slow the growth of its population, which officially hit 1.3 billion this year. Rural couples and some in cities are allowed two children. The name of the piece, "Ruan," is a word Xiao invented that combines the Chinese characters for different kinds of animals. Xiao said he added the eyes of a rabbit to the head. Xiao is known for shocking material. He once paid an assistant $1,200 to sew pairs of living lab mice together at the hip and displayed them in glass bowls.
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One time I fought love for seven years! –
and that was a beating, but I came out alright.
After that one
I thought it’d never be the same.
Like I had vanquished some rabid animal
with seven heads
that grew back seven times each,
and that was the fight of my life – over.
But, it turned out that the REAL love
is a seven headed animal that never gives up –
no matter how many times you kill it!
Until finally,
you have no choice
but to sleep with that beast,
to mate with it
and make it your own.
So you keep killing it,
and loving it,
over and over again
and only getting deeper inside
until you’re right where you always wanted to be.
and that was a beating, but I came out alright.
After that one
I thought it’d never be the same.
Like I had vanquished some rabid animal
with seven heads
that grew back seven times each,
and that was the fight of my life – over.
But, it turned out that the REAL love
is a seven headed animal that never gives up –
no matter how many times you kill it!
Until finally,
you have no choice
but to sleep with that beast,
to mate with it
and make it your own.
So you keep killing it,
and loving it,
over and over again
and only getting deeper inside
until you’re right where you always wanted to be.
Twisty Mick
If I could twist up like Mick Jagger
I bet I’d get all of the girls!
Lester Bangs was wrong,
there’re just some moves that transcend everything.
I bet I’d get all of the girls!
Lester Bangs was wrong,
there’re just some moves that transcend everything.
Green-line losers
Saturday night I caught a subway car full of drunk and lonely men.
Every seat was occupied
by a loser.
Defeated and sizing up the other losers,
hoping to collectively learn from each others failure.
Their eyes red and sore from too much hopeful-gawking,
dissecting each others choice of scent, clothing and swagger,
wondering how it all went wrong?
Meanwhile on the surface, in the streets, the women of Montreal run free.
Wild, and feeding – gorging on the endless stream of losers,
sending their defeated corpses below to ride home together on the green line.
Every seat was occupied
by a loser.
Defeated and sizing up the other losers,
hoping to collectively learn from each others failure.
Their eyes red and sore from too much hopeful-gawking,
dissecting each others choice of scent, clothing and swagger,
wondering how it all went wrong?
Meanwhile on the surface, in the streets, the women of Montreal run free.
Wild, and feeding – gorging on the endless stream of losers,
sending their defeated corpses below to ride home together on the green line.
Behemoth
That particular stretch of highway,
rolls over,
exposing its belly
for a jackhammer-caesarean,
tearing up root and structure
and rebar.
An architect’s vision of speed,
in a succession of motorists -
once loved, once agonized over,
now split open and crumbling.
Tired and falling down to rest with the bums.
rolls over,
exposing its belly
for a jackhammer-caesarean,
tearing up root and structure
and rebar.
An architect’s vision of speed,
in a succession of motorists -
once loved, once agonized over,
now split open and crumbling.
Tired and falling down to rest with the bums.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Watching Paint Dry: The Regrowth Malformeth
I.
Disparate colour
and violent application
II.
The line
is broken
connecting
the wavering
hinge
Filling in
space
grasping
real
textual
ideal
Ranging
reciprocal
melodies
on a variation
of the magic
gut essence
III.
Climbing
and itching
living and
crying
pressed
boiled
insist
in
the loving
and
the dying
Disparate colour
and violent application
II.
The line
is broken
connecting
the wavering
hinge
Filling in
space
grasping
real
textual
ideal
Ranging
reciprocal
melodies
on a variation
of the magic
gut essence
III.
Climbing
and itching
living and
crying
pressed
boiled
insist
in
the loving
and
the dying
Monday, August 29, 2005
Another Elliot Smith
#2 in my brief Elliot Smith series. This one's called "Needle in the Hay" and it's also from an image by Wendy Lynch. Don't know who she is, but she's a great photographer. Note the Gaugin painting in the background. Love it.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
LessonsInWar-Peace:kickingWhenTheirDown
Here the right honorable Josephiahs Krahnaberry and I are demonstrating the kicking-when-theyre-down manouvre-remover.
Note the general attitude of hilarity
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Professional Meeting
It hurts
really
deep
inside my
ankles
professional
meeting
turned
into
political
spectacle
scurrying
to connections
from networking
the things
in between
deep inside
it hurts
my ankles
really
deep
inside my
ankles
professional
meeting
turned
into
political
spectacle
scurrying
to connections
from networking
the things
in between
deep inside
it hurts
my ankles
Drooping Jowls
it is
a moment
divine
the ache
within
your ankles
the tired
end of day
dripping
like a pulled
jowl
it is
a moment
divine
the sting
in stretched
out toes
the sap
knows
your
tonne
of day
a moment
divine
the ache
within
your ankles
the tired
end of day
dripping
like a pulled
jowl
it is
a moment
divine
the sting
in stretched
out toes
the sap
knows
your
tonne
of day
Carrying Water Long Distances
Love
goes on
feeding
down the
road
Love
goes on
feeding
down the
road
white
crates
are leading
us in
tow
white
crates
are leading
us in
tow
goes on
feeding
down the
road
Love
goes on
feeding
down the
road
white
crates
are leading
us in
tow
white
crates
are leading
us in
tow
Sexy Itch
itsy
itch
who do
you turn
too
sexy
lick
flex
if this
turns
too
breathe
if you
need
too
itsy
licks
and
sexy
itch
itch
who do
you turn
too
sexy
lick
flex
if this
turns
too
breathe
if you
need
too
itsy
licks
and
sexy
itch
More Pat Robertson
So, in the continuing "I am embarassed to be associated with all things having to do with Christianity, Western culture, and North America" files...
Pat Robertson backed off on his comments about assasinating Venezuelan presidente Hugo Chavez, saying he was "misunderstood". (As one newspaper writer pointed out, misundersood only by people who didn't speak English, perhaps.) And then, the next day, after Donald Rumsfeld called Robertson's comments "illegal" (how's THAT for irony???), Robertson retracted them entirely.
Still no retraction of the "feminism encourages women to eat their babies" comment, though.
Pat Robertson backed off on his comments about assasinating Venezuelan presidente Hugo Chavez, saying he was "misunderstood". (As one newspaper writer pointed out, misundersood only by people who didn't speak English, perhaps.) And then, the next day, after Donald Rumsfeld called Robertson's comments "illegal" (how's THAT for irony???), Robertson retracted them entirely.
Still no retraction of the "feminism encourages women to eat their babies" comment, though.
The Mural is Done
The first of several details of our brand new finished graffiti mural, done by Winnipeg's top young graffit boyz... Pat Lazo, Mike Johnson, Brad something or other (can't remember his name, but he rocks), and a few others.
These lads, and some of the 26'ers and others are in Graffiti Gallery's 7th anniversary show right now. I went to the opening b/c Steve told me there would be a Jose Cuervo tequila dancing girls team giving out free shots all night. Boy, was I ever disappointed...
Next, we do the front of the building-- Dan is in the process of working on some grants. When you ALfA out-of-towners come back, you'll hardly recognize the place.
this says: BLXZZTNNN, yo!
note the cool subway train effect w/ the windows, the top of the cars, the city visible over the top, etc. wicked stuff...
mad taggin' skillz
a detail of the inner sanctum, complete with giant tiger shopping cart for urban, gritty, effect.
bigger, faster, more canadian
this, of course, is the back wall. next to it is the polite, tasteful decor of stella's bridal galleria. i think Pat Lazo did most of this wall.
LessonsInArtWarPeace:mid-air-trip
Here myself and Mr. Daniel Robin demonstrate the mid-air trip manouevre (extremely advanced).
note the attitudes of hilarious debauchery
LessonsInPeace-War:lowblowposture
Here I am set to receive any oncoming low blows.
note the attitude of hillarity
Friday, August 26, 2005
lessons in the art of war-peace:receivingposture
Here I am receiving art-life-reinforcment-unification via the channel of frisbee Jah.
Prophecy:treeplanting season 06
Last night I had a strange vision of treeplanting 2006. In this piece I try to encapsulate the essence of that vision.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Just when you thought you'd heard it all...
hi everyone... sorry about the long post, but you gotta read this. Just when you thought you'd heard the craziest right-wing nut of all time, Pat Robertson steps up to take their place.
This is from yahoo.ca
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club."
"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Robertson, 75, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.
Electronic pages and a message to a Robertson spokeswoman were not immediately returned Monday evening.
Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of oil to the United States. The
estimates that U.S. markets absorb almost 59 percent of Venezuela's total exports.
Venezuela's government has demanded in the past that the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" in Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez.
Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
This is from yahoo.ca
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club."
"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Robertson, 75, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.
Electronic pages and a message to a Robertson spokeswoman were not immediately returned Monday evening.
Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of oil to the United States. The
estimates that U.S. markets absorb almost 59 percent of Venezuela's total exports.
Venezuela's government has demanded in the past that the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" in Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez.
Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
LetterOfAShadowSpeakingFromWithinAShadow
hello strange artist dudes and also wandering internet random peoples,
amidst karmic laser beams:
el salamandersoso and myself are inseperably joined through undefinable Karma
since the salamanders retraction I have myself felt loathe to post on ye bloggermerog. But as Ive said before, ye bloodletting is good. Same as ye fasting. Death makes us stronger. Only leading to rebirth etc. yadda yadda mumbo jumbo Jah
I painted a big painting and its really good and new. Soon Ill post it.
Maybe if we re lucky Proffessor D will post his latest works which are sure to scorch our metaphysical socks off with spiritual ether ablaze with smoky blue fire.
Sincerely,
ye Goldstar
Monday, August 22, 2005
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