Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
music: Cure Co-Founder Lol Tolhurst's Band Levinhurst Tours Western U.S in October 2007
Hitting Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland & Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA – What Are Records? announce the fall tour dates for Cure co-founder Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst’s band, Levinhurst. Originally planned to coincide with The Cure’s fall tour schedule, Levinhurst will hit 7 western cities between Tuesday, October 2, 2007 and Thursday, October 11, 2007. (Note: The Cure has postponed its 2007 fall tour until spring 2008, save for one engagement: the Download Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, October 6th. Levinhurst’s show at The Knockout is the same night - at midnight.) Levinhurst’s most recent release, House By The Sea, was released this past spring by Boulder, Colorado-based What Are Records? (http://whatarerecords.com/presscenter/levinhurst.html). For more info on the band please visit http://www.levinhurst.com and www myspace.com/levinhurst.
Upcoming tour dates include:
Tue. 10/2 Albuquerque, NM at Launchpad
Wed. 10/3 Denver, CO at The Hi-Dive
Thu. 10/4 Salt Lake City, UT at Urban Lounge
Sat. 10/6 San Francisco, CA at The Knockout
Mon. 10/8 Seattle, WA at The Main Stage
Tue. 10/9 Portland, OR at Someday Lounge
Thu. 10/11 Los Angeles, CA at Good Hurt [see full tour details below]
A more extensive Levinhurst tour is planned for the spring to coincide with The Cure’s and will feature a “surprise” musical guest.
Let the story begin…
Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst was born on the Third of February 1959 - years later he would discover that it was the very day that Buddy Holly passed on... ...five years later two little boys at their first day of school would meet... Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith would start on a journey that would take them to the very pinnacle of musical success.
In adolescence, Lol and Robert discovered that they shared a similar vision to form a band like the ones that so profoundly affected them. This simple inspiration would create one of the most influential, critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups of modern times: The Cure. From 1978 onwards, Tolhurst and The Cure would chart an impressive selection of achievements:
- Well over 27 million units sold worldwide
- Extensive touring covering all the continents
- 40 Platinum and Gold plaques in the US, Europe and Japan
- Co-writing many of the group's big hits including "Let's Go To Bed," "The Walk" and "The Caterpillar"
- Over 20 landmark award-winning music videos
Now, fast forward into the 21st century.
With The Cure's impact on artists growing in greater proportions in recent years, Tolhurst dove headfirst back into the studio in 2002 with his new project: Levinhurst. A suave, exotic collaboration comprised of Tolhurst 's keyboards, beats, and sonic landscaping against the stirring vocals of Cindy Levinson, the group met critical acclaim with their 2004 debut Perfect Life. It covered a much wider musical range than most electro artists attempt to fill and pleased Cure fans and electronic music junkies alike.
The next steps came naturally for Tolhurst. "I started writing initially to continue where we left off with Perfect Life, but found that I really didn't have the same feeling anymore. I felt strangely stuck. One night, a friend suggested I should compose as if I was writing a book and treat the songs as chapters. I cleared the decks, sat down and wrote straight from my experiences allowing whatever would come to come and not consciously editing myself." What came out in the recording session was the new album House By The Sea, a dark brooding collection in every sense of the word that has already been called the electronic version of the classic Cure record, Pornography.
"I was not prepared for the torrent of raw emotions and dark seams that I had not mined for a long time," says Tolhurst. "I felt more like a conduit at times as if the music and words were coming from another place and we were there to channel it into a coherent form."
A much more spiritual element also took over the recording process. Since Perfect Life, Tolhurst began reading and integrating many Eastern spiritual philosophies in all aspects of his life, including the recording sessions. This took on added importance when the record was being mixed at the legendary Village Sound Recorders. "One night, the CEO of the studio, Jeff Greenberg, told me that the ballroom next to our studio had been used when the Beatles had first meet the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in California. They had left the room exactly as it was at that time. You could almost smell the joss sticks and patchouli!" Tolhurst remembers. "I sat there alone thinking about the songs and what to do next. Suddenly, I was aware of an odd, electric, hyperreal atmosphere in the place. It was as if time was standing still for a short while. After this, I felt quite certain that this album was being created in exactly the right place with the right energy."
This spiritual energy is what led Levinhurst and the new album to their new label home in early 2006. Tolhurst recalls, "I was introduced to this gentleman by a mutual friend at a SXSW party. We started a conversation about several strange phenomenon and metaphysical topics and found we had much in common. We talked for an hour before we were really aware of who each other was!" The gentleman turned out to be Rob Gordon, president of What Are Records? and a deal for House By The Sea came soon after.
In anticipation of the April 2007 full-length release, What Are Records? put out a digital release entitled The Grey EP that includes alternate versions of two songs from House By The Sea, along with a new recording of the Cure classic “All Cats Are Grey,” which is featured in Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette. Once again, the timing could not be more perfect for more people to hear Tolhurst’s release. Says Tolhurst, “Our latest music connects me to my past, present, and future in ways that I used to only dream about. There's so much of my spirit in House By The Sea, it's easily the most personal work I've ever created. It's also some of my proudest moments as a musician.”
About What Are Records?
In the midst of corporate mergers, raging debates over the Internet, and a stagnant CD sales market, W.A.R.? - What Are Records? Ltd., founded in 1991, has quietly developed a new business model. Out of Boulder, Colorado, former EMI A&R executive Rob Gordon is doing good business for quality, career-oriented artists such as Maceo Parker, Stephen Lynch, the Innocence Mission, The Ocean Blue, Levinhurst, Lloyd Cole, Sally Taylor, Melissa Ferrick, Glenn Tilbrook, Tim Finn and David Wilcox, among others .
Levinhurst Tour Details:
Tue. Oct. 2
Launchpad
618 Central Ave. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-764-8887; www.launchpadrocks.com
21+ | $7.50 ($5.00 advance) | 8:00 p.m. | with Polaroid Pornography
Wed. Oct. 3
The Hi-Dive
7 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209
720-570-4500; www.hi-dive.com
21+ | $10.00 | 11:00 p.m. | with Forged in Violet
Thu. Oct. 4
Urban Lounge
241 S. 500 E.
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
801-746-0557; www.myspace.com/theurbanlounge
21+ | $10.00 | 10:45 p.m. | with Tragic Black 9:30 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 6
The Knockout
3223 Mission (at Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-550-6994; www.theknockoutsf.com
21+ | $10.00 | 11:55 p.m.
Mon. Oct. 8
The Main Stage
315 1st Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109
206-217-3700; www.mainstagecomedy.com
21+ | $10.00 | 9:30 p.m.
Tue. Oct. 9
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
503-248-1030; www.somedaylounge.com
21+ | $6.00 | 9:30 p.m. | with Rollerball, and LA Femme Rogue
Thu. Oct. 11
Good Hurt
12249 Venice Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90066
213-622-3820; www.goodhurt.net; www.myspace.com/GoodHurt
21+ | $10.00 (Pre-sale $8) | 9:30 p.m.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – What Are Records? announce the fall tour dates for Cure co-founder Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst’s band, Levinhurst. Originally planned to coincide with The Cure’s fall tour schedule, Levinhurst will hit 7 western cities between Tuesday, October 2, 2007 and Thursday, October 11, 2007. (Note: The Cure has postponed its 2007 fall tour until spring 2008, save for one engagement: the Download Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, October 6th. Levinhurst’s show at The Knockout is the same night - at midnight.) Levinhurst’s most recent release, House By The Sea, was released this past spring by Boulder, Colorado-based What Are Records? (http://whatarerecords.com/presscenter/levinhurst.html). For more info on the band please visit http://www.levinhurst.com and www myspace.com/levinhurst.
Upcoming tour dates include:
Tue. 10/2 Albuquerque, NM at Launchpad
Wed. 10/3 Denver, CO at The Hi-Dive
Thu. 10/4 Salt Lake City, UT at Urban Lounge
Sat. 10/6 San Francisco, CA at The Knockout
Mon. 10/8 Seattle, WA at The Main Stage
Tue. 10/9 Portland, OR at Someday Lounge
Thu. 10/11 Los Angeles, CA at Good Hurt [see full tour details below]
A more extensive Levinhurst tour is planned for the spring to coincide with The Cure’s and will feature a “surprise” musical guest.
Let the story begin…
Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst was born on the Third of February 1959 - years later he would discover that it was the very day that Buddy Holly passed on... ...five years later two little boys at their first day of school would meet... Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith would start on a journey that would take them to the very pinnacle of musical success.
In adolescence, Lol and Robert discovered that they shared a similar vision to form a band like the ones that so profoundly affected them. This simple inspiration would create one of the most influential, critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups of modern times: The Cure. From 1978 onwards, Tolhurst and The Cure would chart an impressive selection of achievements:
- Well over 27 million units sold worldwide
- Extensive touring covering all the continents
- 40 Platinum and Gold plaques in the US, Europe and Japan
- Co-writing many of the group's big hits including "Let's Go To Bed," "The Walk" and "The Caterpillar"
- Over 20 landmark award-winning music videos
Now, fast forward into the 21st century.
With The Cure's impact on artists growing in greater proportions in recent years, Tolhurst dove headfirst back into the studio in 2002 with his new project: Levinhurst. A suave, exotic collaboration comprised of Tolhurst 's keyboards, beats, and sonic landscaping against the stirring vocals of Cindy Levinson, the group met critical acclaim with their 2004 debut Perfect Life. It covered a much wider musical range than most electro artists attempt to fill and pleased Cure fans and electronic music junkies alike.
The next steps came naturally for Tolhurst. "I started writing initially to continue where we left off with Perfect Life, but found that I really didn't have the same feeling anymore. I felt strangely stuck. One night, a friend suggested I should compose as if I was writing a book and treat the songs as chapters. I cleared the decks, sat down and wrote straight from my experiences allowing whatever would come to come and not consciously editing myself." What came out in the recording session was the new album House By The Sea, a dark brooding collection in every sense of the word that has already been called the electronic version of the classic Cure record, Pornography.
"I was not prepared for the torrent of raw emotions and dark seams that I had not mined for a long time," says Tolhurst. "I felt more like a conduit at times as if the music and words were coming from another place and we were there to channel it into a coherent form."
A much more spiritual element also took over the recording process. Since Perfect Life, Tolhurst began reading and integrating many Eastern spiritual philosophies in all aspects of his life, including the recording sessions. This took on added importance when the record was being mixed at the legendary Village Sound Recorders. "One night, the CEO of the studio, Jeff Greenberg, told me that the ballroom next to our studio had been used when the Beatles had first meet the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in California. They had left the room exactly as it was at that time. You could almost smell the joss sticks and patchouli!" Tolhurst remembers. "I sat there alone thinking about the songs and what to do next. Suddenly, I was aware of an odd, electric, hyperreal atmosphere in the place. It was as if time was standing still for a short while. After this, I felt quite certain that this album was being created in exactly the right place with the right energy."
This spiritual energy is what led Levinhurst and the new album to their new label home in early 2006. Tolhurst recalls, "I was introduced to this gentleman by a mutual friend at a SXSW party. We started a conversation about several strange phenomenon and metaphysical topics and found we had much in common. We talked for an hour before we were really aware of who each other was!" The gentleman turned out to be Rob Gordon, president of What Are Records? and a deal for House By The Sea came soon after.
In anticipation of the April 2007 full-length release, What Are Records? put out a digital release entitled The Grey EP that includes alternate versions of two songs from House By The Sea, along with a new recording of the Cure classic “All Cats Are Grey,” which is featured in Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette. Once again, the timing could not be more perfect for more people to hear Tolhurst’s release. Says Tolhurst, “Our latest music connects me to my past, present, and future in ways that I used to only dream about. There's so much of my spirit in House By The Sea, it's easily the most personal work I've ever created. It's also some of my proudest moments as a musician.”
About What Are Records?
In the midst of corporate mergers, raging debates over the Internet, and a stagnant CD sales market, W.A.R.? - What Are Records? Ltd., founded in 1991, has quietly developed a new business model. Out of Boulder, Colorado, former EMI A&R executive Rob Gordon is doing good business for quality, career-oriented artists such as Maceo Parker, Stephen Lynch, the Innocence Mission, The Ocean Blue, Levinhurst, Lloyd Cole, Sally Taylor, Melissa Ferrick, Glenn Tilbrook, Tim Finn and David Wilcox, among others .
Levinhurst Tour Details:
Tue. Oct. 2
Launchpad
618 Central Ave. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-764-8887; www.launchpadrocks.com
21+ | $7.50 ($5.00 advance) | 8:00 p.m. | with Polaroid Pornography
Wed. Oct. 3
The Hi-Dive
7 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209
720-570-4500; www.hi-dive.com
21+ | $10.00 | 11:00 p.m. | with Forged in Violet
Thu. Oct. 4
Urban Lounge
241 S. 500 E.
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
801-746-0557; www.myspace.com/theurbanlounge
21+ | $10.00 | 10:45 p.m. | with Tragic Black 9:30 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 6
The Knockout
3223 Mission (at Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-550-6994; www.theknockoutsf.com
21+ | $10.00 | 11:55 p.m.
Mon. Oct. 8
The Main Stage
315 1st Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109
206-217-3700; www.mainstagecomedy.com
21+ | $10.00 | 9:30 p.m.
Tue. Oct. 9
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
503-248-1030; www.somedaylounge.com
21+ | $6.00 | 9:30 p.m. | with Rollerball, and LA Femme Rogue
Thu. Oct. 11
Good Hurt
12249 Venice Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90066
213-622-3820; www.goodhurt.net; www.myspace.com/GoodHurt
21+ | $10.00 (Pre-sale $8) | 9:30 p.m.
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mondomedeusah recommends: Kyotofu
When we were putting together our tofu video, Tim mentioned Kyotofu, the Manhattan tofu restaurant opened in October 2006 that's reinventing tofu for the American palate with their delicious assortment of desserts and savory dishes. We contacted owners Nicole Bermensolo and Michael Berl, longtime friends from college, and recently found ourselves in their minimalist jewel box of a dining room, enjoying treats like chicken-tofu sliders with shiso and cucumber, sparkling sake and tofu cheesecake.
Bermensolo and Berl both quit their jobs at JP Morgan after many visits to Japan, including time logged at a friend's family-run tofu factory in the city of Kyoto. As a result, their restaurant really flaunts the versatility of their chosen medium (which they make daily on site), offering a range of textures from delicate and creamy to cakey and rich. Both Tim and I were fans of the mousse-like consistency and smoky flavor of the black sesame tofu served with hoji-cha roasted green tea syrup. The dense, moist chocolate cupcake also won us over (and New York Magazine as well) for its intense chocolate flavor and for the fact that we totally didn't miss the frosting.
For simplicity, nothing beats nibbling on the smooth, light signature tofu's silkiness, an experience not unlike sampling a more refined panna cotta. A similar savory dish, features authentic, rare soy sauces that we couldn't get enough of.
Even after countless desserts, the low sugar content and minimal use of dairy (some of the treats are vegan) left us feeling surprisingly healthier. The soothing interior's Japanese aesthetics also contributed to an overall sense of well-being. Here's to tofu.
Kyotofu
705 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10019 map
tel. +1 212 974 6012
by Ami Kealoha
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mondomedeusah recommends: Angie Stone - The Art Of Love & War
The Art Of Love & War
Angie Stone
CD
Release Date: Oct 16, 2007
Released By Stax Records
BUY NOW on iTunes - Angie Stone - Baby - Single
The Art Of Love & War is how Angie is meant to be seen and heard, and the sentiment is all hers. Stone wrote over 90% of the album, and the fourteen tracks on The Art Of Love & War showcase every nuance of her vocal range. She is powerful, playful, and coy, and her voice permeates every corner of every note.
"Baby," the first song to radio, produced by Co-T, features R&B/soul/gospel great Betty Wright, who has an irresistible groove. And that's just the beginning. The album is rife with singles, so this track should definitely whet your appetite for what follows. "Reasons," produced by DOA, is the only song that Angie did not have a hand in writing. But when she first heard it, it "filled my heart and made me remember not to take things for granted." Of "My People," produced by Idris Elba and Mike McClain, which features the one and only James Ingram, Angie confides, "I hope it makes everyone aware of what we've been through and that the struggle continues." Listen to "Here We Go," or "Sometimes," two of the six tracks produced by Jonathan Richmond. "I think 'Happy Being Me' might be my favorite track on the record," comments Angie. "I wrote this song because it describes right where I am and what I'm feeling right now, mentally and spiritually. This is the first thing I wrote after getting out of the hospital last year. It's my anthem. I would like to think that everyone can be happy being in their own skin."
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myspace.com/angistonemusic
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music: mondomedeusah recommends: Heavy funk outfit, playing LIVE
Jelly Jazz proudly presents
Heavy funk outfit, playing LIVE!
(Freestyle Records)
plus DJs
Pete Isaac & Griff
(Jelly Jazz)
Friday 5th October. The Stannary. Falmouth University. 9pm - 2am
Jelly Jazz return to Falmouth University's Stannary venue for a right royal funk party. Featuring The Grits, one of the new breed of UK funk bands that have taken the genre into the 21st century whilst keeping the authentic feel well and truly in place. Playing LIVE you can expect a no nonsense aural assult of hard funk designed to make you lose it on the dancefloor. With Pete and Griff supplying the unique Jelly Jazz dancefloor music in support, a truly funk laden night is assured!
review of their 45 for Freestyle Records.
The Grits
'Boom Boom'
(Freestyle)
Boombastic funk bomb alert! The Grits chose a name that definitely describes their sound and crank out a joyous uptempo funk groover that sits alongside any classic funk you'd care to mention. They have the production down to a tee, huge drums, muddy organ, upfront guitar and heavy bass and with a dynamic arrangement to boot. It's a great track, musical and raw at the same time, I hope they're damn proud of themselves.
thegrits.co.uk
myspace.com/thegritsrfunk
myspace.com/mondomedeusah
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Heavy funk outfit, playing LIVE!
(Freestyle Records)
plus DJs
Pete Isaac & Griff
(Jelly Jazz)
Friday 5th October. The Stannary. Falmouth University. 9pm - 2am
Jelly Jazz return to Falmouth University's Stannary venue for a right royal funk party. Featuring The Grits, one of the new breed of UK funk bands that have taken the genre into the 21st century whilst keeping the authentic feel well and truly in place. Playing LIVE you can expect a no nonsense aural assult of hard funk designed to make you lose it on the dancefloor. With Pete and Griff supplying the unique Jelly Jazz dancefloor music in support, a truly funk laden night is assured!
review of their 45 for Freestyle Records.
The Grits
'Boom Boom'
(Freestyle)
Boombastic funk bomb alert! The Grits chose a name that definitely describes their sound and crank out a joyous uptempo funk groover that sits alongside any classic funk you'd care to mention. They have the production down to a tee, huge drums, muddy organ, upfront guitar and heavy bass and with a dynamic arrangement to boot. It's a great track, musical and raw at the same time, I hope they're damn proud of themselves.
thegrits.co.uk
myspace.com/thegritsrfunk
myspace.com/mondomedeusah
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music: mondomedeusah recommends - Hammond Funk & Soul
James Taylor Quartet
BUY NOW on iTunes - James Taylor Quartet
Special guest Stoned Soul Picnic
featuring Corrina Greyson
Club Academy
Manchester University
Oxford Road
Manchester
tel. (0161) 2752930
Saturday October 20th, 2007
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thegigcartel.com
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Friday, September 21, 2007
art: Francis Alys: Fabiola
2007-09-20 until 2007-04-06
Hispanic Society of America
New York, NY, USA
Over the last two decades, Francis Alys has assembled a significant collection of nearly identical paintings and other reproductions of fourth-century Saint Fabiola, all based on a now-lost original painted in the nineteenth century by the French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. This obscure work has been assiduously copied by amateurs and professionals alike and has become a popular icon, a phenomenon that, as the artist stated, “indicated a different criterion of what a masterwork could be.” Alys’s collection, gathered from flea markets, antique shops, and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas, offers a window onto aesthetic, sociological, and theological values over the past century and more.
The exhibition of these images at the Hispanic Society will for the first time comprise Alÿs’s complete group of almost three hundred Fabiola portraits, mostly paintings, as well as several versions in needlepoint and wood relief, among other materials. These images will hang in the Society’s nineteenth-century painting galleries, ornate and decorative rooms paneled in dark mahogany. Engaging curatorial and institutional protocols and methodologies, their unlikely presence may relate to other objects in the Society’s collection, particularly the vast holdings of religious imagery and portraiture, while shedding new light on contemporary strategies.
Francis Alÿs’s distinguished career includes significant projects and exhibitions at major international venues. Born in Belgium in 1959 and originally trained as an architect, Alÿs turned to the visual arts as a more direct way of exploring issues related to urbanization and socio-political conditions. As in his previous professional practice, the artist often works collaboratively within the public sphere, and he has developed an approach to art that is based on the observations of, and engagements with, daily life. Many of Alÿs’s projects are solitary, peripatetic journeys which take the form of urban walks conditioned by particular circumstances. In The Collector (1991–92), for example, the artist pulled a magnetic toy behind him while traversing Mexico City. As metal scraps from across the capital accumulated on the toy, a provisional cartography was inscribed into the metropolitan landscape. At other times, Alÿs works within a community to create a social allegory. One such collaboration, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), was created for the Third Ibero-American Biennale in Lima, Peru. It involved 500 volunteers who worked together to shift a 500-meter sand dune a few inches from its original site adjacent to an impoverished shanty town in Lima. Also in 2002, Mr. Alÿs created Modern Procession (2002), which marked the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary move to Queens, New York. Additionally, Alÿs’s work is the subject of Francis Alÿs: Politics of Rehearsal, on view at the UCLA Hammer Museum from September 30, 2007 through February 10, 2008.
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art: Call far Artists: Artist-in-Residence and Researcher-in-Residence Programs
2007-09-20 until 2007-10-31
Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, NY, USA
The Corning Museum of Glass is dedicated to supporting and encouraging artists who use glass as an artistic medium. Following are opportunities for artists at the Museum: Artist-in-Residence and Researcher-in-Residence Programs. The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass has an Artist-in-Residence and Researcher-in-Residence program, offering artists the opportunity to spend a month in Corning trying new techniques in glass, enhancing their current work, or exploring the techniques of past glassmakers while using the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum. Transportation, as well as room and board, will be arranged and basic supplies provided.
For more information call The Studio at (607) 974-6467 or visit www.cmog.org.
The deadline to apply for all 2008 residencies is October 31, 2007. Interested artists must send a CD with 10 digital images of their work, two letters of recommendation, a written proposal detailing what the artist would like to do during their month-long residency, the best month to participate (March, April, May, September, October, and November), and a résumé to:
Residency Programs
The Studio
of The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830-2253
NEW Joint Artist-in-Residence Program with Kohler Arts Center
The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass is partnering with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for a joint Artist-in-Residence program. Artists will spend one month at The Studio in Corning and two to six months in Kohler Co.'s foundry (casting iron or brass) or pottery (slip casting clay) in Sheboygan, WI. Travel, accommodations, supplies, equipment, technical assistance, and a food stipend are all provided. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2008, for 2009 residencies. For more information call The Studio at (607) 974-6467 or visit www.cmog.org.
Interested artists must send 20 digital images of their work, two letters of recommendation, a brief (200-word) proposal for a unified project incorporating the resources available from both organizations, an application, and a résumé to:
Residency Programs
The Studio of
The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way,
Corning, NY 14830-2253
-or-
Arts/Industry Coordinator
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Avenue
Sheboygan, WI 53081-4507
New Glass Review Submissions
Artists, craftspeople, designers, and architects may submit slide images of new works using glass for the Museum’s annual journal, New Glass Review. Each year the Corning Museum publishes a survey of glass in contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design created in the previous year by emerging and established artists.
Artists must submit a total of three clearly labeled slides, with each illustrating one work or design series in glass created between October 1, 2006, and September 15, 2007. The application deadline for entries to the journal is October 1, 2007.
All entries must be accompanied by a completed application and a $15.00 U.S. entry fee. See www.cmog.org for details or contact Violet Wilson at (607) 974-8451.
The Corning Museum of Glass (www.cmog.org) is home to the world’s most comprehensive and celebrated collection of glass, with more than 45,000 objects reflecting 3,500 years of glassmaking history. An independent, non-profit, educational institution, the Museum is dedicated to the art, history, science, research and exhibition of glass. The Museum is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day and 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Children 17 and under receive free admission.
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Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, NY, USA
The Corning Museum of Glass is dedicated to supporting and encouraging artists who use glass as an artistic medium. Following are opportunities for artists at the Museum: Artist-in-Residence and Researcher-in-Residence Programs. The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass has an Artist-in-Residence and Researcher-in-Residence program, offering artists the opportunity to spend a month in Corning trying new techniques in glass, enhancing their current work, or exploring the techniques of past glassmakers while using the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum. Transportation, as well as room and board, will be arranged and basic supplies provided.
For more information call The Studio at (607) 974-6467 or visit www.cmog.org.
The deadline to apply for all 2008 residencies is October 31, 2007. Interested artists must send a CD with 10 digital images of their work, two letters of recommendation, a written proposal detailing what the artist would like to do during their month-long residency, the best month to participate (March, April, May, September, October, and November), and a résumé to:
Residency Programs
The Studio
of The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830-2253
NEW Joint Artist-in-Residence Program with Kohler Arts Center
The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass is partnering with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for a joint Artist-in-Residence program. Artists will spend one month at The Studio in Corning and two to six months in Kohler Co.'s foundry (casting iron or brass) or pottery (slip casting clay) in Sheboygan, WI. Travel, accommodations, supplies, equipment, technical assistance, and a food stipend are all provided. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2008, for 2009 residencies. For more information call The Studio at (607) 974-6467 or visit www.cmog.org.
Interested artists must send 20 digital images of their work, two letters of recommendation, a brief (200-word) proposal for a unified project incorporating the resources available from both organizations, an application, and a résumé to:
Residency Programs
The Studio of
The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way,
Corning, NY 14830-2253
-or-
Arts/Industry Coordinator
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Avenue
Sheboygan, WI 53081-4507
New Glass Review Submissions
Artists, craftspeople, designers, and architects may submit slide images of new works using glass for the Museum’s annual journal, New Glass Review. Each year the Corning Museum publishes a survey of glass in contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design created in the previous year by emerging and established artists.
Artists must submit a total of three clearly labeled slides, with each illustrating one work or design series in glass created between October 1, 2006, and September 15, 2007. The application deadline for entries to the journal is October 1, 2007.
All entries must be accompanied by a completed application and a $15.00 U.S. entry fee. See www.cmog.org for details or contact Violet Wilson at (607) 974-8451.
The Corning Museum of Glass (www.cmog.org) is home to the world’s most comprehensive and celebrated collection of glass, with more than 45,000 objects reflecting 3,500 years of glassmaking history. An independent, non-profit, educational institution, the Museum is dedicated to the art, history, science, research and exhibition of glass. The Museum is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day and 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Children 17 and under receive free admission.
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art: Joan Jonas - Timelines: transparencies in a dark room
2007-09-19 until 2008-01-07
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
The works created by Joan Jonas between the late '60s and the early '70s at the crossroads of dance, performance and video played a central role in formulating new artistic genres such as installations or experimental theatre. Joan Jonas is considered a pioneer in these areas, especially in video-art and performance. Born in New York in 1936, Jonas studied art in Boston, Massachusetts and New York. She became involved very early in the world of dance, following the teachings of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. Breaking away from the formulations of 1970's sculpture, her first works explored the notions of space and phenomena of perception. Elements from different areas flow together; the influences of Kabuki theatre or the Japanese Noh on one hand, and the act of drawing on the other. Collaborations with composers such as Alvin Lucier and performances with the Wooster Group have also been crucial in Joan Jonas' career.
Jonas has developed an emblematic vocabulary in her performances, synthesising ritual gestures and symbolic objects, including masks, costumes and mirrors; playing with archaic methods for creating optical illusions and different narrative effects. Jonas began using video in her performances in Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972) – which forms part of the MACBA's collection – by using live cameras and monitors to transform and superimpose images, space and time. In fact, the reciprocal alimentation between installations, video sequences and live performances has developed in her work in a cumulative way, which would become one aspect of Jonas' modus operandi regarding the narrative forms which are characteristic of her work.
Among the other halls of the Museum, Joan Jonas' exposition will be presented in the MACBA Chapel, a space that transforms into a great open, polyphonic theatre, and where works central to her career will be displayed alongside more recent ones. The sample will include 4 large installations created by the artist from the early '70s until the present day in an attempt to trace the constant narratives and forms in a career full of elements strongly rooted in oral traditions. A selection of films will complete what will be one of the most ambitious retrospectives dedicated to Joan Jonas.
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Baby in hand
These tiny new arrivals, small enough to cuddle in the palm of a hand, are proving a real scream around the world. Perfect in every detail, it seems as if they have been moulded by the hand of God but instead they were made by an artist – who has no formal training.
Camille Allen made her first sculpture as a hobby and put it on the eBay website with a starting price of a penny. She said: 'By the end of the auction there had been a lot of bidding and it sold for £65. I realised then that I might be on to something.'
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Call for Artists: November Workshop in the Wild West
2007-09-17 until 2007-11-01
Sundance Photographic Workshop
Sundance, UT, USA
It's 7am, the temperature is a crisp 57F and steadily warming. The sun is rising over the mountains and the mist still hangs in the air as the dawn turns into day. In this early morning "magic hour" of natural light, a group of photographers from The Sundance Photographic Workshop have trekked through winding trails and woodlands to reach their first location shoot. Alongside is the group instructor, outdoor and nature master photographer Brenda Tharp.
Camera gear in hand, they are greeted by local "Cowboy Poet" Lannie Scopes, who introduces the area while fellow wrangler JP Carson prepares a hearty, old west-style breakfast. After chow, Lannie will mount his horse and gallop through the streams and fields as the photographers follow with their lenses. For now, they're content to take in the breathtaking view of the mountains at sunrise. As they eat, Lannie regales his guests by pointing out remnants of the "ole West" that dot the nearby landscape. It quickly dawns on the group as they begin to shoot that they are witnessing and capturing a unique and magical moment. They are reliving the West as it was in the glory days.
This is the third day of the Workshop, a session in which each experience has introduced new and amazing opportunities for creating images. Workshop General Manager Hilary Cole produced today's excursion. "Here we are, removed from our typical day to day lives and venturing into a large, glorious land brimming with glowing early light, bird song, trickling streams and immense mountain ranges," says Hilary. "Lannie and JP are true legends of the West who have welcomed us to their world, and shared with us their colorful stores and the history of the area."
How many people can say they were served breakfast by an authentic Western wrangler on a Utah mountainside, and have the photographs to prove it? This is one of many experiences exclusive to the Sundance Photographic Workshop–the chance to learn from internationally recognized master photographers while soaking in the stunning beauty of a once in a lifetime photo fieldtrip.
About Brenda Tharp
In order to get her photographs, Ms. Tharp has llama-trekked, sea-kayaked, flown in helicopters and hot-air balloons, cycled, and hiked. Her images have appeared on the pages of Adventure West, Alaska Airlines, Audubon, Discovery, Forbes, Navigator, Sierra, Sunset and Travel Holiday magazines, along with many others. Chronicle, Michelin, National Geographic, Sierra Club, and others have published her images in numerous books.
Ms. Tharp photographed the award-winning books, "Muir Woods: Redwood Refuge" and "Marin Headlands: Portals of Time" (GGNPA). She wrote and photographed the book "Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography" (Amphoto 2003). Her work is represented by Jupiter Images and Photo Researchers.
About the Sundance Photographic Workshop
The Sundance Photographic Workshops are conducted at the Sundance Resort, the artistic, cultural and recreational community founded in 1969 by actor Robert Redford. The resort was recently voted #6 among U.S. resorts by Condé Nast Traveler – and #1 among mountain resorts. It also served as the original home for the renowned Sundance Film Festival before its growing fame dictated its relocation to nearby Park City.
Nestled discreetly in the foothills of Mt. Timpanogos, the Sundance Resort is crafted to preserve the area‚s breathtaking, rich environment, while providing world-class accommodations for workshop participants.
The resort's relaxing, picturesque setting offers the ideal–as well as inspirational–backdrop for the Sundance Photographic Workshops. Classes are held in Sundance‚s spacious function suites, as well as in field excursions to capture outdoor, nature and wildlife photographs. Small class sizes enable numerous opportunities for one-on-one instruction and daily courses are complemented with after-dinner presentations of instructor and student photo portfolios.
The all-inclusive fee includes comfortable lodging in private mountainside cottages, as well as a complete meal plan that includes gourmet dining in The Tree Room, recipient of the prestigious AAA Four-Diamond award and the Wine Spectator award.
Complete course descriptions and registration information for the November 8 x 12 workshops are available at www.sundanceworkshop.com. For more information, contact Hilary Cole at 978-468-1141, 800-287-1977, or hilary@sundanceworkshop.com
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Sundance Photographic Workshop
Sundance, UT, USA
It's 7am, the temperature is a crisp 57F and steadily warming. The sun is rising over the mountains and the mist still hangs in the air as the dawn turns into day. In this early morning "magic hour" of natural light, a group of photographers from The Sundance Photographic Workshop have trekked through winding trails and woodlands to reach their first location shoot. Alongside is the group instructor, outdoor and nature master photographer Brenda Tharp.
Camera gear in hand, they are greeted by local "Cowboy Poet" Lannie Scopes, who introduces the area while fellow wrangler JP Carson prepares a hearty, old west-style breakfast. After chow, Lannie will mount his horse and gallop through the streams and fields as the photographers follow with their lenses. For now, they're content to take in the breathtaking view of the mountains at sunrise. As they eat, Lannie regales his guests by pointing out remnants of the "ole West" that dot the nearby landscape. It quickly dawns on the group as they begin to shoot that they are witnessing and capturing a unique and magical moment. They are reliving the West as it was in the glory days.
This is the third day of the Workshop, a session in which each experience has introduced new and amazing opportunities for creating images. Workshop General Manager Hilary Cole produced today's excursion. "Here we are, removed from our typical day to day lives and venturing into a large, glorious land brimming with glowing early light, bird song, trickling streams and immense mountain ranges," says Hilary. "Lannie and JP are true legends of the West who have welcomed us to their world, and shared with us their colorful stores and the history of the area."
How many people can say they were served breakfast by an authentic Western wrangler on a Utah mountainside, and have the photographs to prove it? This is one of many experiences exclusive to the Sundance Photographic Workshop–the chance to learn from internationally recognized master photographers while soaking in the stunning beauty of a once in a lifetime photo fieldtrip.
About Brenda Tharp
In order to get her photographs, Ms. Tharp has llama-trekked, sea-kayaked, flown in helicopters and hot-air balloons, cycled, and hiked. Her images have appeared on the pages of Adventure West, Alaska Airlines, Audubon, Discovery, Forbes, Navigator, Sierra, Sunset and Travel Holiday magazines, along with many others. Chronicle, Michelin, National Geographic, Sierra Club, and others have published her images in numerous books.
Ms. Tharp photographed the award-winning books, "Muir Woods: Redwood Refuge" and "Marin Headlands: Portals of Time" (GGNPA). She wrote and photographed the book "Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography" (Amphoto 2003). Her work is represented by Jupiter Images and Photo Researchers.
About the Sundance Photographic Workshop
The Sundance Photographic Workshops are conducted at the Sundance Resort, the artistic, cultural and recreational community founded in 1969 by actor Robert Redford. The resort was recently voted #6 among U.S. resorts by Condé Nast Traveler – and #1 among mountain resorts. It also served as the original home for the renowned Sundance Film Festival before its growing fame dictated its relocation to nearby Park City.
Nestled discreetly in the foothills of Mt. Timpanogos, the Sundance Resort is crafted to preserve the area‚s breathtaking, rich environment, while providing world-class accommodations for workshop participants.
The resort's relaxing, picturesque setting offers the ideal–as well as inspirational–backdrop for the Sundance Photographic Workshops. Classes are held in Sundance‚s spacious function suites, as well as in field excursions to capture outdoor, nature and wildlife photographs. Small class sizes enable numerous opportunities for one-on-one instruction and daily courses are complemented with after-dinner presentations of instructor and student photo portfolios.
The all-inclusive fee includes comfortable lodging in private mountainside cottages, as well as a complete meal plan that includes gourmet dining in The Tree Room, recipient of the prestigious AAA Four-Diamond award and the Wine Spectator award.
Complete course descriptions and registration information for the November 8 x 12 workshops are available at www.sundanceworkshop.com. For more information, contact Hilary Cole at 978-468-1141, 800-287-1977, or hilary@sundanceworkshop.com
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
music: mondomedeusah recommends: The BDI’s - The BDI’s
BDI Recordings
This is London based trio The BDI’s debut album and a refreshing album it is too. With live instrumentation throughout including acoustic guitar, congas and horns, it’s firmly rooted in the sound of 70s Soul and Rhythm & Blues and in places reminds me of Traffic. Tracks such as ‘Crying Wolf’, ‘Still Get The Same Old Kick’ and ‘Marathon’ really hit the spot but this album is a pleasure to listen to from start to finish.
Andy Allen - ukvibe.org
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music reviews - mondomedeusah recommends: Domu presents Pete Simpson - Look A Little Further
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In my recent review of the Elektrons album, on which Pete Simpson is featured, I commented that he is a talented but under recorded vocalist. Well to my welcome relief here is a full length set from the man with the added bonus of Domu on production duties. It comprises of ten beautifully crafted, largely mid-tempo soul/boogie cuts which are all nothing short of brilliant, so there absolutely no point in me trying to select highlights. Just do yourself a favour and buy what will be a heavy weight contender for album of the year!
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music: mondomedeusah recommends: The Basic Soul Show with Simon Harrison
Week Commencing 17/09/07
Max Grunhard Quintet - Sea Shanty [Impossible Ark]
Eddie Harris - Time To Do Your Thing [Atlantic]
Build An Ark - Dawn [Kindred Spirits]
Eugene Blacknell - For The Sake Of Love [Luv N’ Haight]
Ramp - The Old One, Two [Luv N’ Haight]
Ralfi Pagan - Didn't Want To Have To Do It (4Hero Bossa Reprise) [Fania]
Road feat. Valerie Etienne - Toda Menina Baihana [Stereo Deluxe]
4Hero - Morning Child (L.A.O.S. Remix) [Raw Canvas]
Somatik - Bring The Night [GoldHill]
Greymatter feat. Lyric L - Everybody [Unique Uncut]
Nubian Mindz - Black Soul (Small Arms Fiya Remix feat. JB) [Bag Pak White]
Scott - La Rentree (Aroop Roy Remix) [Doppelschall]
Nude Continuum - Together (Harry Coade Remix) [White]
Andre Zimma feat. Jane Hamilton - Take It 'N' Make It [Swedish Brandy]
Aroop Roy - Too Long [Freestyle]
Tone Control - Sweetest Thing (Mark E Remix) [Tone Control Music]
Deela - Ghost Song (Bobby Hughes Combination Remix) [Switchstance]
Milez Benjiman - All The People [Ubiquity]
Dabrye (feat. Jay Dee & Phat Kat) - Game Over (Flying Lotus Moody Mix) [White]
Flying Lotus feat. Ahu & Byron The Aquarius - Roberta Flack [White]
Stray feat. Braintax - Never Free [Little League]
NSM - Mumbo Jum [Jazzy Sport]
Quantic Soul Orchestra feat. J-Live - She Said What? [Tru Thoughts]
Analog Jones - EDI [White]
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Build An Ark - Love, Sweet Like Sugar Cane [Kindred Spirits]
Randolph Matthews - Dazed & Confused [Documented]
Cibelle - Green Grass [Crammed Discs]
Fink - Trouble's What You're In [Ninja Tune]
Kira Neris - Open Doors [Futuristica Music]
Clara Hill’s Folkwaves - Everything [Sonar Kollektiv]
The Dragons - Food For My Soul [Ninja Tune]
Seawind - What Cha Doin' [A&M]
The Black Seeds - The Way The World [Sonar Kollektiv]
Alice Russell - Hurry On Now (Boub Remix) [Tru Thoughts]
Tribesman Assault - Open The Gates [Wackies Music]
Lewis McCallum - Fly Or Die [Antipodean]
Flying Lotus feat. Ahu & Byron The Aquarius - Roberta Flack [White]
Robert Mitchell feat. Bembe Segue - A Promise Is (Richard Spaven Remix) [White]
Domu presents Pete Simpson - Don't Hide [Papa]
Lady Alma - Running For Nothing [Antipodean]
Afrosychopathz feat. Joshua Mitchell - A New Way [Sunshine Enterprises]
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Max Grunhard Quintet - Sea Shanty [Impossible Ark]
Eddie Harris - Time To Do Your Thing [Atlantic]
Build An Ark - Dawn [Kindred Spirits]
Eugene Blacknell - For The Sake Of Love [Luv N’ Haight]
Ramp - The Old One, Two [Luv N’ Haight]
Ralfi Pagan - Didn't Want To Have To Do It (4Hero Bossa Reprise) [Fania]
Road feat. Valerie Etienne - Toda Menina Baihana [Stereo Deluxe]
4Hero - Morning Child (L.A.O.S. Remix) [Raw Canvas]
Somatik - Bring The Night [GoldHill]
Greymatter feat. Lyric L - Everybody [Unique Uncut]
Nubian Mindz - Black Soul (Small Arms Fiya Remix feat. JB) [Bag Pak White]
Scott - La Rentree (Aroop Roy Remix) [Doppelschall]
Nude Continuum - Together (Harry Coade Remix) [White]
Andre Zimma feat. Jane Hamilton - Take It 'N' Make It [Swedish Brandy]
Aroop Roy - Too Long [Freestyle]
Tone Control - Sweetest Thing (Mark E Remix) [Tone Control Music]
Deela - Ghost Song (Bobby Hughes Combination Remix) [Switchstance]
Milez Benjiman - All The People [Ubiquity]
Dabrye (feat. Jay Dee & Phat Kat) - Game Over (Flying Lotus Moody Mix) [White]
Flying Lotus feat. Ahu & Byron The Aquarius - Roberta Flack [White]
Stray feat. Braintax - Never Free [Little League]
NSM - Mumbo Jum [Jazzy Sport]
Quantic Soul Orchestra feat. J-Live - She Said What? [Tru Thoughts]
Analog Jones - EDI [White]
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Nu-World Mix no. 40
tune in
Build An Ark - Love, Sweet Like Sugar Cane [Kindred Spirits]
Randolph Matthews - Dazed & Confused [Documented]
Cibelle - Green Grass [Crammed Discs]
Fink - Trouble's What You're In [Ninja Tune]
Kira Neris - Open Doors [Futuristica Music]
Clara Hill’s Folkwaves - Everything [Sonar Kollektiv]
The Dragons - Food For My Soul [Ninja Tune]
Seawind - What Cha Doin' [A&M]
The Black Seeds - The Way The World [Sonar Kollektiv]
Alice Russell - Hurry On Now (Boub Remix) [Tru Thoughts]
Tribesman Assault - Open The Gates [Wackies Music]
Lewis McCallum - Fly Or Die [Antipodean]
Flying Lotus feat. Ahu & Byron The Aquarius - Roberta Flack [White]
Robert Mitchell feat. Bembe Segue - A Promise Is (Richard Spaven Remix) [White]
Domu presents Pete Simpson - Don't Hide [Papa]
Lady Alma - Running For Nothing [Antipodean]
Afrosychopathz feat. Joshua Mitchell - A New Way [Sunshine Enterprises]
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art: mondomedeusah recommends - Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country
2007-09-16 until 2008-02-03
Jewish Museum
New York, NY, USA
A founding member of the Impressionists and a master of depicting urban life and rural settings, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only artist to show his paintings in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, and the only Impressionist who was Jewish. Pissarro is celebrated for his Impressionist landscapes painted in and around the villages of the French countryside surrounding Paris. He also painted more cityscapes than any other Impressionist artist. Pissarro’s continual artistic experimentation revolutionized late-19th-century art. The artist espoused an anti-bourgeois, anarchist ideology and was passionate about the plight of the working classes. The Jewish Museum will present Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country from September 16, 2007 through February 3, 2008. This exhibition includes nearly 50 paintings and works on paper – drawn primarily from New York City-area private collections – many of which have rarely been on public view. Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country examines how the painter’s artistic theories and social convictions influenced his Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist work.
Throughout his long career, Pissarro lived and worked in various villages in the French countryside, spent much time in Paris, and traveled to England, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Pissarro’s travels and his constant artistic experimentation reflect his ceaseless desire to seek out new motifs and explore new ideas in paint. Although he himself never voyaged to the United States, Pissarro’s works were exhibited in New York City as early as 1883, and American collectors began buying his works during the artist’s lifetime. Today, some of the greatest Pissarro paintings are in American collections, with a large number in public and private collections in the New York City area.
Visitors to the exhibition will be able to see works spanning Pissarro’s career from his arrival in Paris in 1855 with subjects from his Caribbean homeland, to scenes of peasants working in the French countryside, and later works depicting Parisian bridges and boulevards. The Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist landscapes and cityscapes presented in Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country, reveal the artist’s innovative techniques, his determined individualism, and the links between his artistic and political ideas.
Born in 1830 on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, then part of the Danish Virgin Islands, Pissarro was raised in a Sephardic Jewish family from Bordeaux, France. He grew up in a bourgeois household and was sent to Paris at the age of twelve for a formal education and artistic training. Upon his return to St. Thomas six years later, he was expected to work in the family mercantile business but, in an act of defiance, left to paint, first in Venezuela, and then to the center of the nineteenth century art world, Paris.
After his arrival in Paris in 1855, Pissarro studied with the renowned Barbizon landscapist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and became influenced by the gritty realism of Gustave Courbet. He soon sought to escape the social and political pressures of Parisian life, including the art establishment embodied by the official Salon. By the 1860s, Pissarro and other modern painters became to explore the regions around Paris made newly accessible by railway. Artists including Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley retreated to the rural villages and farms to paint outdoors, finding motifs in modern everyday life rather than in the historical and mythological subject matter favored by their predecessors and the judges of the official Salon, the annual juried exhibition that defined which artists gained recognition and became successful. Their early experimentations in light and color would eventually be associated with Impressionism. Pissarro was also interested in the utopian ideal of living and working in accord with nature. For Pissarro, the country was a means to commune with the rural working class, at least on canvas, and to escape the conventions of city living.
In the early 1870s, a group of artists and writers met frequently at the Café Guerbois in Paris to discuss painting and politics. Tired of having their work judged and often rejected, Pissarro and Monet, joined by Renoir, Sisley, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, among others, decided to form a group of artists completely independent of the Salon. On April 15, 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition, as it came to be known, opened.
Pissarro and the other Impressionists took an avant-garde approach, using visible strokes of paint applied with brush and palette knife, foregoing detail, and leaving paint unmixed so as to create an optical blending of colors. At the time, the unconventional techniques they pursued were considered revolutionary, and provoked the harsh rebuke of the public and critics.
Pissarro’s artistic methodology is linked to his ideological outlook. This centered around a retreat from the authority of government and the artistic establishment, as well as a belief in an egalitarian society, influenced by anarchist literature. He based his approach to art on two concepts mentioned frequently in his correspondence: “nature” and “sensation.” While stressing the importance of studying nature and faithfully representing the visual world, his concept of nature in art is mediated by sensations – those feelings, perceptions, and memories that are personal, subjective and continuously shifting.
Pissarro’s painting process was closely tied to his leftist leanings, which were embodied in the radicalism of the Impressionist technique. His anarchism and painting technique became even more radical in the mid-1880s when he became associated with the Neo-Impressionists – Georges Seurat and Paul Signac – and their pointillist style. As with Impressionism a decade earlier, Neo-Impressionism provoked the disdain of critics and dealers, and Pissarro’s Neo-Impressionist works did not sell well during his lifetime.
After several years of working in the Neo-Impressionist style, Pissarro felt that the labor-intensive process of the pointillist technique took him away from the sensations that had previously animated his work. While he returned to his Impressionist style, his subject matter took a turn towards urban themes. In his later years, Pissarro spent a great deal of time in Paris, as well as in London and Rouen, and devoted himself mostly to city scenes. Pissarro painted more than three hundred such subjects, often in series, becoming the foremost Impressionist painter of cityscapes.
Pissarro was deeply affected by the growing unrest and anti-Semitism that had gripped Paris at the end of the nineteenth century during the time of the Dreyfus Affair. Although the French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus had been convicted of espionage several years earlier, it was not until the late 1890s that the public became aware that the evidence used to convict him was false and based on anti-Semitic assumptions. Public opinion was fiercely divided, as were the attitudes of the Impressionist artists. While Pissarro, Claude Monet, and Mary Cassatt aligned themselves with the Dreyfusards, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas supported the French government and even made anti-Semitic comments against Pissarro, their former friend and colleague. However, as was characteristic of his work, Pissarro’s paintings from this volatile time avoid references to current events while exploring the relationship between humanity and its environment, whether social, political, or natural.
Camille Pissarro followed his own path, never giving way to convention and always moving toward an individualistic aesthetic. Throughout his life, he remained an artist sustained by, as he wrote, the “satisfaction of living by my ideas.”
The exhibition has been organized by Karen Levitov, Associate Curator at The Jewish Museum. In conjunction with the exhibition, The Jewish Museum is publishing a 96-page catalogue by Karen Levitov and Richard Shiff, which is being distributed by Yale University Press. Dr. Shiff holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas in Austin. The paperback book features 76 color illustrations and sells for $19.95 at The Jewish Museum’s Cooper Shop and bookstores everywhere.
Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country is sponsored, in part, by Toll Brothers, Inc., and The Grand Marnier Foundation. Important support was also provided by The Mailman Foundation, Inc. and other generous donors.
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art: mondomedeusah recommends - Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure
2007-09-16 until 2008-01-07
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure,” a full-scale retrospective of one of the key figures to emerge in the generation of artists that followed minimalism. The son of surrealist painter Roberto Matta Echaurren, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–78) produced an oeuvre of remarkable breadth, incorporating spatial, social, and psychological experiences. The exhibition celebrates Matta-Clark’s brilliance and the radical nature of his work in a number of different media: drawings, films, photographs, notebooks, and sculptures assembled from his acclaimed building cuts. A wealth of documentary material related to his interactions with architecture and space, community events, and collective activity is also included.
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, the exhibition was on view at the Whitney Museum from February 22, 2007– June 3, 2007 and will be on view at MOCA Grand Avenue September 16, 2007–January 7, 2008. MOCA’s presentation is organized by MOCA Curator of Architecture and Design Brooke Hodge.
“MOCA is delighted to present this exceptional exhibition of work by Matta-Clark, a radical artist whose transformative vision has created a body of work that is a compelling and enigmatic composition of art, architecture, and performance,” confirms MOCA Director, Jeremy Strick. Matta-Clark’s most well-known works were his “building cuts,” wherein he excised variously shaped voids from the walls or floors of abandoned or soon-to-be demolished buildings to create spatial conditions that would radically alter the perception of the building and its surrounding environment, resulting in the shift of everyday experience into extraordinary visual and kinetic confrontations. The exhibition includes the notable work—and part of MOCA’s substantial permanent collection— Office Baroque, a building fragment made of parquet wood flooring, drywall, and wood, with a cibachrome print on Masonite.
“Gordon Matta-Clark’s work, especially his building cuts, has exerted a profound influence on generations of architects. His ability to create extraordinary and confrontational experiences has challenged architects to think about space in new and creative ways,” comments MOCA Curator of Architecture and Design Brooke Hodge. Gordon Matta-Clark studied architecture at Cornell University but never practiced conventionally as a professional. Instead, he married the idea of art and architecture to develop his artistic process.
In the early 1970s, Matta-Clark was interested in the idea of entropy, metamorphic gaps, and leftover/ambiguous space, what he called “Anarchitecture.” He had come to see buildings, rooms, urban spaces, neighborhoods, and places where people gather as situations in which his planned “interventions” could create something new. As exhibition curator Elisabeth Sussman describes in the accompanying exhibition catalogue, “‘You Are the Measure,’ plays on the ancient Greek formula ‘Man is the measure,’ substituting a 1970s subjectivity for a time-honored universal...Matta-Clark’s ad hoc anarchitectural ideas were funny, poetic, and the artist hoped, radically different from then-current social and architectural realities. He believed that, in any architectural program, plan for life, plan for community, or plan for art, what must come first and foremost is the ‘you’—the individual.”
Publication
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 256-page catalogue, incorporating new information from the Matta-Clark archive, and containing essays by Elisabeth Sussman, Briony Fer, Tina Kukielski, Gwendolyn Owens, Spyros Papapetros, Christian Scheidemann, and Joan Simon as well as a comprehensive chronology.
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art: Alkistis Wechsler: Mirrors of Psychical States and Movements
2007-09-07 until 2007-10-07
Marziart Internationale Galerie
Hamburg, Germany
At the Gallery Maziart in Hamburg, in a group exhibition from September 7 to October 3, 2007, the work of Alkistis Wechsler is displayed from two separate series: one referring to the Sicilian town of Ragusa-Ibla, and the other to the city of London, UK, where the artist currently lives. Austrian by nationality, Wechsler was born in Greece and spent her childhood mainly living on the musical island of Corfu. She has also lived in Italy and Austria. Alkistis Wechsler has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since May 2007.
For Part One:
A far distant place and time where feelings of nostalgia, sensuality and the sadness of a beauty that is no more untouched are experienced. The scratched surface, the interrupted lines of perfection, open spaces where the covered subterran of the soul escapes from conformity.
The Other Part:
The physical process of creating these works paralleled another process, that of exploration and recognition of a new territory, a new natural landscape and architectural environment, and also a new human landscape to recognize, to dialogue and to mingle with.
And, with that time starts a new personal mythology for the artist - the interpretation and the transformation of external impressions to a new interior world that begins to exist in the colours, proportions and compositions that are those own of their creator, Alkistis Wechsler.
Now is the time to let go of the escapism to a distant Utopia, the artwork of recreated Ragusa-Ibla. Now comes the moment for a process, still on going, of paintings, stories, and collages of London and Londoners. An ongoing process of experience, love and personalization of a new Utopia, with the brush touch of Alkistis Wechsler.
To view more of Alkistis Wechsler's work visit her Portfolio
IMAGE
Alkistis Wechsler
Title: Summer Solstice page 11 Facade of St George
Year Created: 2000
Medium: Collage
Width: 36 inches
Height: 50 inches
Price: US$ 600
Purchase this work
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tech: Winamp Beta 5.5 release
Winamp, that staple of media players, will soon turn 10! And its not letting it pass without a bang. On the 10th of October at 10:10am, Winamp 5.5 (PC-only) will be released sporting two new and potentially controversial features: support for mp3 blogs and the ability to stream your music collection over the Internet (a Beta version is available here).
Cashing in on the growing popularity of mp3 blogs, and the lack of tools to take advantage of them, Winamp’s Media Monitor can be used in conjunction with the software’s built-in browser to access any mp3s linked to on a blog page, presented as a playlist or even downloaded to your library. Winamp also includes handy links to a dozen or so music blogs to get you started.
The second major new feature is the Winamp Remote. This acts like a local media server, cataloging your tracks and videos and then enabling you to access them from another device, including other PCs running Winamp or via a web browser, various mobile devices, and game consoles (Playstation 3, XBox 360 or Nintendo Wii).
However, unlike iTunes, sharing isn’t restricted to devices on the local network, and instead you can also share your music over the Internet. To make this relatively simple, Winamp prompts you to send an email (or SMS text message) to a friend to let them access your playlists from their computer (they’ll need to create a free account to verify their identity, but only once). In this regard, Winamp Remote makes iTunes’ network sharing features seem rather puny and inflexible.
Also new to version 5.5 is the “Bento” skin. This is a move away from Winamp’s traditional multi-windowed interface (the default skin), which can be confusing and cluttered at times. Instead, the new skin only has one window which is more in keeping with other media management software.
Reports on the web suggest that Apple’s latest iPods (the Nano Video, Classic and Touch) break the ability to manage the device’s music library using software other than iTunes, including Winamp. Update: hackers have unlocked the DB, so it may be just a matter of time.
by Ryan Jarrett
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Smile and Receive - Swayzak - !K7
Berlin is not only the city where Swayzak's label !K7 is located. This single taken from 'Some Other Country', the fifth studio album by the two Brits James Taylor and David 'Brun' Brown, also clearly bears the stamp of Berlin. The 12' with remixes of 'Smile and Receive' not only features the voice of Cassy, a Berliner by choice, but work by major Berlin artists Apparat and Richard Davis as well.
Swayzak's original version of 'Smile and Receive' combines all elements for which James and Brun are so well known: driving, precisely honed drums that have resounding surfaces over them and a slightly melancholic, androgynous voice dark and luminous, but at the same time clear and direct.
Sascha Ring moved from the Harz to Berlin and shortly thereafter became known under the name Apparat. For Swayzak, the co-founder of Shitkatapult created a spherical, blurry reminder of the original of 'Smile and Receive', which from its transfiguring depths continues to open onto flickering high points.
The second reworking comes from an old friend of Swayzak, London´s Richard Davis who lives in Berlin. He adorns Cassy's vocals with his typical sleek house sound in which an appropriate dash of pop song can be heard, slightly recalling the electro pop of the 80's.
Lastly, singer Cassy also personally worked on 'Smile and Receive'. In her Beatmix, the Berlin sound can definitely be heard. After stops in Vienna and London, the Brit made it to Berlin where she can now be found regularly behind the decks of the Panoramabar Sunday mornings. Those familiar with her clear, straightforward sets will be reminded of many an afterhour at the bar. Recurring fragments of samples of her voice merge with 808 drum sounds, creating a hypnotizing mix.
TRACKINFOS:
TRACK 1: Smile And Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
REMIXER: Apparat Remix
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
TRACK 2: Smile and Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
TRACK 3: Smile and Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
REMIXER: Richard Davis Rework
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
TRACK 4: Smile And Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
REMIXER: Cassy Beatmix
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
k7.com
Swayzak's original version of 'Smile and Receive' combines all elements for which James and Brun are so well known: driving, precisely honed drums that have resounding surfaces over them and a slightly melancholic, androgynous voice dark and luminous, but at the same time clear and direct.
Sascha Ring moved from the Harz to Berlin and shortly thereafter became known under the name Apparat. For Swayzak, the co-founder of Shitkatapult created a spherical, blurry reminder of the original of 'Smile and Receive', which from its transfiguring depths continues to open onto flickering high points.
The second reworking comes from an old friend of Swayzak, London´s Richard Davis who lives in Berlin. He adorns Cassy's vocals with his typical sleek house sound in which an appropriate dash of pop song can be heard, slightly recalling the electro pop of the 80's.
Lastly, singer Cassy also personally worked on 'Smile and Receive'. In her Beatmix, the Berlin sound can definitely be heard. After stops in Vienna and London, the Brit made it to Berlin where she can now be found regularly behind the decks of the Panoramabar Sunday mornings. Those familiar with her clear, straightforward sets will be reminded of many an afterhour at the bar. Recurring fragments of samples of her voice merge with 808 drum sounds, creating a hypnotizing mix.
TRACKINFOS:
TRACK 1: Smile And Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
REMIXER: Apparat Remix
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
TRACK 2: Smile and Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
TRACK 3: Smile and Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
REMIXER: Richard Davis Rework
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
TRACK 4: Smile And Receive
ARTIST: Swayzak
REMIXER: Cassy Beatmix
AUTHOR: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
COMPOSER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
PRODUCER: David Brown, James Taylor, Cassy Britton
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music: Simon Harrison - Playlist: 10/09/07
tune in
Domu presents Pete Simpson - Play This Song [Papa]
Lewis McCallum - Fly Or Die [Antipodean]
Antonio Adolfo, Brazil & Brazuka - Sonho Estelar [Far Out]
Color Climax - Pa Coco Solo [Breakin'bread]
Steve Spacek - Cyborg [Exit]
Bullion - Long Promised [White]
Frank 'N' Dank - Clap Hands (Morgan Spacek Remix) [Dopeness Galore]
Shape Of Broad Minds – Electric Blue [Lex]
Banda Utopia feat. Sabrina Malheiros - The Wave (Science Jazz and Politics Remix feat. John Robinson) [Far Out]
The Hot 8 Brass Band - It's Real [Tru Thoughts]
Luna & Bazis - You & Me [Wah Wah 45s]
Randolph feat. Amp Fiddler - Claim [Still Music]
Daniel Wang - Crystal-Plastique (NYTK-1978 Mix) [Balihu]
Dazz Band - Let It Whip (Opolopo Remix) [White]
Art Bleek - Between Yesterday & Tomorrow (Lil’ Bo Tweek) [Loungin’]
Democustico - Rejoycing (Mr Beatnick Dub) [Far Out]
Marbert Rocel - Beats like Birds [Compost]
Atjazz feat. Robert Owens - Love Someone (Slope's 90's Remix) [Mantis]
Markus Enochson - Cpt Beard [Raw Fusion]
Jamie Finlay - Temperature (PTH Projects Oyster Women Remix) [Wah Wah 45s]
Colonel Red & C.o.n.e. - Victim [Crazybreed]
Enzyme Black - Deadline 2012 (Back 2 Deep Mix) [Enzyme Black]
Christian Prommer's Drum Lesson – Can You Feel It [Sonar Kollektiv]
Sygaire - The Barracuda [Raw Fusion]
tech: Google to launch new high-resolution satellite for Google Earth
DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Inc's interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday.
Together with the company's existing Quickbird satellite, it will offer half-meter resolution and will be able to collect over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day, up from the current collection of that amount each week, Chief Executive Jill Smith told Reuters in a telephone interview.
She said Tuesday's launch -- to be broadcast live on the Internet at http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/worldview-1/ -- and the planned launch of a second Worldview II satellite in late 2008, were critical milestones for the company.
Privately held DigitalGlobe is still working toward an initial public offering in the next few years, Smith said. She declined to say whether that could come before the launch of the second WorldView satellite.
"The business is as strong as we had hoped," Smith said, adding, "The key is to continue to hit the milestones that we've set."
Once its third satellite is launched, DigitalGlobe said it will be collecting more than 1 million square kilometers per day of high-resolution imagery.
Smith said WorldView I should allow far faster collection of imagery and add more quickly to the company's archive, which is already the world's largest commercial archive of satellite images. The library contains more than 300 million square kilometers of satellite and aerial imagery.
courtesy Andrea Shalal-Esa
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art: Call for Artists: The Seven Deadly Sins - The Seven Holy Virtues
2007-09-13 until 2007-10-07
Fulton Street Gallery
Troy, NY, USA United States of America
Call for Entries - The Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Holy Virtue. Exhibition Dates: November 6 - December 15, 2007. Submission Deadline: October 7 Artists will be notified on October 12. Eligibility: Artwork in all media including film and video, proposals for readings, performances And installation art related to one or more of any of the sins and/or virtues - lust / chastity, gluttony / abstinence, greed / liberality, sloth / diligence, wrath / patience, envy / kindness, pride / humility. Open to local, regional, national, and international artists over the age of eighteen, professional and non-professional alike.
Fee: $25 for up to 5 slides, JPEG-format images, video clips, or proposals, $5 for each additional entry. Awards: Cash awards and solo exhibition.
Entry Procedure:
Slides: On the side from which the art itself would be viewed, write the artist's name, title of the piece, dimensions, and the number corresponding to the entry number listed on t he submission form. The top of each slide should be labeled with the word "TOP". No glass-mounted slides will be viewed. Two slides will be accepted for works when it is necessary to show additional detail or views.
CD / DVD: On each disc, write the artist's name, title of the piece(s), length, and the number corresponding to the entry listed on the entry form. Videos must be sent as separate files, in QuickTime format, playable on a Macintosh. Name each file with the name of the piece and the number corresponding to the entry number on the submission form.
Online Submission: JPEG images may be sent to info@fultonstreetgallery.org. Attach up to 5 images of either 72 or 96 dpi in one email, with all attached entries not to exceed one megabyte total. Additional entries must be sent in a separate email. Name each image with the name of the piece and the number corresponding to the entry number on the submission form. A completed submission form must still be mailed in with your payment.
For more information and an entry form go to: www.fultonstreetgallery.org.
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Fulton Street Gallery
Troy, NY, USA United States of America
Call for Entries - The Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Holy Virtue. Exhibition Dates: November 6 - December 15, 2007. Submission Deadline: October 7 Artists will be notified on October 12. Eligibility: Artwork in all media including film and video, proposals for readings, performances And installation art related to one or more of any of the sins and/or virtues - lust / chastity, gluttony / abstinence, greed / liberality, sloth / diligence, wrath / patience, envy / kindness, pride / humility. Open to local, regional, national, and international artists over the age of eighteen, professional and non-professional alike.
Fee: $25 for up to 5 slides, JPEG-format images, video clips, or proposals, $5 for each additional entry. Awards: Cash awards and solo exhibition.
Entry Procedure:
Slides: On the side from which the art itself would be viewed, write the artist's name, title of the piece, dimensions, and the number corresponding to the entry number listed on t he submission form. The top of each slide should be labeled with the word "TOP". No glass-mounted slides will be viewed. Two slides will be accepted for works when it is necessary to show additional detail or views.
CD / DVD: On each disc, write the artist's name, title of the piece(s), length, and the number corresponding to the entry listed on the entry form. Videos must be sent as separate files, in QuickTime format, playable on a Macintosh. Name each file with the name of the piece and the number corresponding to the entry number on the submission form.
Online Submission: JPEG images may be sent to info@fultonstreetgallery.org. Attach up to 5 images of either 72 or 96 dpi in one email, with all attached entries not to exceed one megabyte total. Additional entries must be sent in a separate email. Name each image with the name of the piece and the number corresponding to the entry number on the submission form. A completed submission form must still be mailed in with your payment.
For more information and an entry form go to: www.fultonstreetgallery.org.
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Oops...Internal emails go public at MediaDefender
When TorrentFreak reported that Media Defender (MD) was behind the video site MiiVi, they cast doubt on us. Now, in what is surely the biggest BitTorrent leak ever, nearly 700mb of MD’s emails have gone public. When MD’s Randy Saaf found out we rumbled MiiVi he said, “This is really fucked.” This is too, but much more so.
When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources. We said, with some confidence:
Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.
However, in comments made to Ars technica, Media Defender’s Randy Saaf chose to rubbish our claims, calling it an ‘accidentally un-secured internal project’.
From the emails we cannot be sure that it’s an entrapment site or that it is related to the MPAA (perhaps it’s a legit a P2P video client?), but it does look suspicious.
Unfortunately for Media Defender - a company dedicated to mitigating the effects of internet leaks - they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest BitTorrent leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back over 6 months have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company. Many are very recent, having September 2007 dates and the majority involve the most senior people in the company. Apparently this is not the first time that a MediaDefender email leaked onto the Internet.
According to the .nfo file posted with the Mbox file the emails were obtained by a group called “MediaDefender-Defenders”. It states: “By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails contains information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p services,” and “A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account”
Note: The mbox formatted file is circulating publicly on BitTorrent, completely unedited. However, for publication here we have removed the username and password logins for Media Defender’s servers, and replaced them with asterisks and avoided publishing emails of a personal nature, e.g pay negotiations etc. We believe that the emails are the real deal and all the info posted here serves the public interest.
At first we couldn’t believe that it was real, but after we scanned through the e-mails it became clear that it was indeed the real deal. Hundreds of IPs and logins to their servers, lists of their decoy/entrapment trackers, decoy strategies, the effectiveness of their fake torrents (in many cases with a breakdown of success, title specific), high and low priority sites, .torrent watchlists, information on their monitoring of competitors, pictures of their weekend trips and even the anti-piracy strategy for dealing with The Simpsons Movie leak:
# REMINDER: “The Simpson’s Movie” premieres this Friday (to Torrents).
* Decoy files are available in torrents MDfile server.
* Use Public Trackers for pre-Leak releases.
* Create two new trackers for this project.
o Ebert to inform Torrents of these new machines.
* Send a list of 5 release names from each torrent team member to Ebert.
* REMEMBER to input torrent file into interdiction if a real Leak is available this weekend.
It’s impossible to sum up all the juicy details in one post as the amount of information is staggering, so as much as we’d like to tell you about the custom Media Defender software (called ProxyMaster) included in the leak, we’ll focus mainly on the MiiVi case.
Let’s start off with their response to our story about MiiVi.com
rom: Ben Grodsky
Sent: Tue 03-Jul-07 20:19
To: MIIVI; Randy Saaf; Octavio Herrera; Steve Lyons
Subject: MiiVi got Dugg
Looks like the domain transfer has screwed us over:
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-gang-launches-their-own
-video-download-site-to-trap-people/
http://digg.com/users/AcePup/news/dugg
-Ben
And the response from Randy Saaf himself.
Apparently our reports about MiiVi made them really paranoid. They are worried that reporters will apply for jobs just to find out more about their secret project.
From Ben Grodsky, Media Defender
Subject: care in interviewing
Given all the recent Digg, SlashDot and derivative online articles about MD, be careful what you say in job interviews. Specifically, I’m concerned about giving any information BEYOND what’s already on the mediadefender.com website. I’m worried about someone interviewing for a position just for the purpose of getting more info to post online. For example, if anyone asks anything about MiiVi, just reiterate what Randy has said online (it was an internal video project that we probably should have password protected; we were in no way directed to, or working with, the MPAA on that project; NO part of the project was a honeypot designed to trap downloaders).
courtesy Enigmax & Ernesto
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When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources. We said, with some confidence:
Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.
However, in comments made to Ars technica, Media Defender’s Randy Saaf chose to rubbish our claims, calling it an ‘accidentally un-secured internal project’.
From the emails we cannot be sure that it’s an entrapment site or that it is related to the MPAA (perhaps it’s a legit a P2P video client?), but it does look suspicious.
Unfortunately for Media Defender - a company dedicated to mitigating the effects of internet leaks - they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest BitTorrent leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back over 6 months have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company. Many are very recent, having September 2007 dates and the majority involve the most senior people in the company. Apparently this is not the first time that a MediaDefender email leaked onto the Internet.
According to the .nfo file posted with the Mbox file the emails were obtained by a group called “MediaDefender-Defenders”. It states: “By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails contains information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p services,” and “A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account”
Note: The mbox formatted file is circulating publicly on BitTorrent, completely unedited. However, for publication here we have removed the username and password logins for Media Defender’s servers, and replaced them with asterisks and avoided publishing emails of a personal nature, e.g pay negotiations etc. We believe that the emails are the real deal and all the info posted here serves the public interest.
At first we couldn’t believe that it was real, but after we scanned through the e-mails it became clear that it was indeed the real deal. Hundreds of IPs and logins to their servers, lists of their decoy/entrapment trackers, decoy strategies, the effectiveness of their fake torrents (in many cases with a breakdown of success, title specific), high and low priority sites, .torrent watchlists, information on their monitoring of competitors, pictures of their weekend trips and even the anti-piracy strategy for dealing with The Simpsons Movie leak:
# REMINDER: “The Simpson’s Movie” premieres this Friday (to Torrents).
* Decoy files are available in torrents MDfile server.
* Use Public Trackers for pre-Leak releases.
* Create two new trackers for this project.
o Ebert to inform Torrents of these new machines.
* Send a list of 5 release names from each torrent team member to Ebert.
* REMEMBER to input torrent file into interdiction if a real Leak is available this weekend.
It’s impossible to sum up all the juicy details in one post as the amount of information is staggering, so as much as we’d like to tell you about the custom Media Defender software (called ProxyMaster) included in the leak, we’ll focus mainly on the MiiVi case.
Let’s start off with their response to our story about MiiVi.com
rom: Ben Grodsky
Sent: Tue 03-Jul-07 20:19
To: MIIVI; Randy Saaf; Octavio Herrera; Steve Lyons
Subject: MiiVi got Dugg
Looks like the domain transfer has screwed us over:
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-gang-launches-their-own
-video-download-site-to-trap-people/
http://digg.com/users/AcePup/news/dugg
-Ben
And the response from Randy Saaf himself.
This is really fucked.
Let’s pull miivi offline.
Apparently our reports about MiiVi made them really paranoid. They are worried that reporters will apply for jobs just to find out more about their secret project.
From Ben Grodsky, Media Defender
Subject: care in interviewing
Given all the recent Digg, SlashDot and derivative online articles about MD, be careful what you say in job interviews. Specifically, I’m concerned about giving any information BEYOND what’s already on the mediadefender.com website. I’m worried about someone interviewing for a position just for the purpose of getting more info to post online. For example, if anyone asks anything about MiiVi, just reiterate what Randy has said online (it was an internal video project that we probably should have password protected; we were in no way directed to, or working with, the MPAA on that project; NO part of the project was a honeypot designed to trap downloaders).
courtesy Enigmax & Ernesto
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art: mondomedeusah creative - Judith Supine
Taking street art beyond the street, Judith Supine took to the waters of the East River in New York recently with a guerilla floating installation. His colorful, awkward and—at times—political collage works can be found around lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, but this is the first time (that we know of) that he's created a floating piece.
Did you catch his hanging banner on the Manhattan Bridge a few weeks back? Expect more wild but carefully thought-out work from him in the near future.
Go here for another video of Supine from a few years back, this time putting up a politically-charged piece on the Army Recruitment Center in Times Square. His reason for putting it up: "to quote E.E Cummings 'there is some shit I will not eat.'" See more images of his wheat-paste work here.
Special thanks Tim Yu
Supertouch
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Saturday, September 08, 2007
mondomedeusah recommends: Sonar Kollektiv 10th Anniversary - Berlin
music //
september 21st 2007 Sonar Kollektiv celebrates it's 10th anniversary @ The Tape Club, Berlin.
Friday, September 07, 2007
music: mondomedeusah recommends: jojo flores - Last Days of Summer & New Podcast
Looks like summer is almost gone. How time flies!
Here are some hot events, and new music to extend your summer.
Tonight Sept. 7th the infamous jojo flores (Gotsoul Recordings - Montréal) will be making a special appearance at Globe’s, "Re-defining Fabulous" (3455 St. Laurent, Montreal).
Sun. Sept. 9th jojo flores make his way to NYC for "The Last Days of Summer" at the Spiegalworld Tent (Pier 17).
Thu. Sept. 13th a double header:
Gotsoul Session's Happy Hour/Ladies Night at Segafredo, and then Navia’s www.navia.ca , "Dirty Hollywood.' Fri. Sept. 14th Therapy Montreal at the new Cherry Club in Old Montreal (417 St. Pierre).
Pencil this into your adgenda, post it to your blogs and tell all your friends about the following dates:
Fri. Oct. 26th Montreal and Sat. Oct 27th Toronto .
Those are the dates for Therapy's 8year anniversary. More info TBA.
For all New Yorker's, Therapy NYC will be back at Cielo Fri. Sept. 21st. See flyers below for more info or just click on www.jojoflores.com
I always wondered if it was possible to crack to Top 100 DJ Mag poll… seems like it would be easier if I played Trance or Progressive music. ;) I figured this year why not give it a shot. So here goes, please click on >>Vote<< and type in "jojo flores".
The other names I recommend are my 3 Degrees brothers; Julius The Mad Thinker, FLX, Mona, and Mark Grant.
New Podcast. Click on New Mix
- dj jojo flores
You will receive a free mix from jojo himself just for voting. So what are you waiting for?
Tell all your friends and enoy!
jojoflores.com
gotsoulrecords.com
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