Sidekicks

I have a couple of friends in this one, if you’re in the LA area:

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Laurenn’s new art project, a massive thing:

In February, I’ll be presenting a gallery show that I’m calling Speaking to Las Vegas in the Language of Las Vegas. This is going to be an art installation that combines sculptural elements, performance, audio, video, photo documentation, and illustrated portraits of Las Vegas sex workers. The purpose of this show is to investigate the connections between the Las Vegas economy & the legal & illegal sex work that happens there….

Laurenn McCubbin

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• Archaeologists find a 10,000-year-old weapon at site of new Ontario arena
  "She said the artifact comes from Paleoindian hunters often called the ?first people of Ontario.?"
  (tags:history )
• World around us: Prohibition of death – There are really some places where death is illegal
  "Prohibition of death is a political social phenomenon and taboo in which a law is passed stating that it is illegal to die, usually specifically in a certain political division or in a specific building."
  (tags:history culture )
• Rainbow trapped for the first time – physics-math – 26 November 2009 – New Scientist
  "Oh, to catch a rainbow. Well, it's been done for the first time ever ? and with just a simple lens and a plate of glass at that. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications."
  (tags:sci )

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Do projects. Books and art and things. Available as paid print object or free digital object.

Do is Nurri Kim and Adam Greenfield, "accompanied by a loose network of friends and collaborators", and I love their statement of purpose:

Some of our ambitions are to:

- develop words and images that make the people who encounter them re-see themselves and the world around them;

- find the most appropriate containers for our ideas;

- craft the kind of books that please their readers in the details of their conception, design and construction as much as in the things they say;

- and figure out what “do-it-yourself” might mean in an age when new production technologies, informational and logistical networks give the independent amateur producer unprecedented power to reach out and make things happen.

First up is Nurri’s TOKYO BLUES:

Now available for purchase or free download, Tokyo Blues is a photographic record of Nurri Kim’s 2002-2003 investigation into this humble industrial material and the very wide variety of uses to which it’s put in the everyday life of Japan.

From construction sites and homeless settlements to cherry-blossom viewing parties in the park, the ubiquitous blue tarp is a constant of Japanese life and a bearer of multiple registers of meaning. In sixty-four images from the boulevards, alleys, sidestreets and interstitial spaces, Tokyo Blues explores these dramatically different contexts, returning something “we see too often, and then forget to see” to full, vivid visibility.

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(thanks to Andrew Ducker for making me look at this, you fucking bastard)

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Well, a bunch of people asked for SHIVERING SANDS as a download edition. So we’ve turned it into a PDF and put it on sale for USD $7, a little less than half the price of the print edition. And you can find it here at the IEU/Lulu storefront.

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Discovered Xela just the other day. If you come across an EP by Xela called THE DIVINE, grab it. This is from the album THE DEAD SEA:

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i am so harping on all of this but this is me excited!! Very
and getting paid to do!!! Full of win!!

But thats Trinity and she let me attack her hair and face. Full of the Hawt she is.

Out from this Wednesday, several pages up for your inspection at this link.

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Third in a possibly infinite list of music wot I liked this year:

"Love Is A Wave," Crystal Stilts: I don’t care what it’s derivative of, I don’t care what you think, I loved this and I consider it one of the great pop records of the year. You can disagree with me, but at the end of the argument I will be Right and you will be Severely Bruised. There is a Narrative Purity to this record. It says: what if the Libertines, that great music-press delusion of the 00s, that band that only made one great single and it was their last one, that band who became invited into the Rock Canon because they had a great story… what if they had, one time, tried to get the rush they gave people down onto a bloody record. Then it would have been this one. But ultimately they were a bit shit at being a band, so the Crystal Stilts did it instead.

THE TRANSACTIONAL DHARMA OF ROJ, Roj: you really need the CD of this, not least because of the gorgeous booklet written by Ken Hollings and designed by Julian House. This is a Ghost Box record, and as such has its roots in the cosmic hauntological weird. DHARMA, however, is a lot more about rhythm than most Ghost Box records. And it’s frequently absolutely gorgeous. It’s still coming out of that box of strangeness, don’t get me wrong. But it’s less concerned with building a sonic friction and weirding you out than it is with conjuring an interplanetary drum seance. And an interplanetary drum seance should first be beautiful.

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On my internet shithole today:

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Mysta Of The Moon – return of the artist game thread, all are welcome

* Changing SF Magazines’ Business Theory – I didn’t start this, I swear

* 2009 Music Retrospective – your favourites, this year?

* HAPPY()SAD

* Johnston & Mitten’s WASTELAND: #1 Free Online

* The Starry Wisdom Of Warren 30nov09

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TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.

So, every Monday, I’ll post the new shirt here, and you can peer at it more at http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic.

Anyway. I present to you T-Shirt Of The Week #006: STAB&STAB:

(remember those band "anti-tshirts" of a while back? Well, I had a shit week, and this is the only music I was interested in hearing.)

We also offer a couple of perennial items. Mostly because I wanted one of these for myself:

(And also a MAN COOK MEAT WITH FIRE "splatter-shield", because Ariana’s crazy)

Thank you for your kind attention.

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www.variety.com/article/VR1118008063.html

"Warner Bros. has locked Guy Ritchie to direct "Lobo," the live-action adaptation of the DC Comics drama about an alien bounty hunter."

Teehee they are calling it a drama clearly they have no concept of the comic!

Love that Bastich!!!

I have a Model Mayhem site up for my makeup portfolio.www.modelmayhem.com/GreenBunny Nothing too stunning quite yet. I have something lined up for this friday for a model Michelle and Evan. I have something spacific in mind so more than likely i'm going to be screwing with the lighting.... Is ok tho.

I did the seminar last week and was contacted by one of the male models to do his makeup for a shoot :-) He is working with one of the photographers i love Adam (EA photographics) who does stunning work and knows what the hell he is doing. Its a paid gig. :-) woot! only thing is its on a Thursday... i'm praying to the photo gods that it is around 2 or 3 so i can manage to get there after work.

I am also working on a fantasticly elaborate latex project for another model I'm likely going to get adam to shoot it for me. It will be a serious undertaking for it and Nori gets paid for her work but I had talked to her before about trade- she gets to keep the serious dress in exchage for modeling in it. I know the life of a model is so rigorous. ;-) My hope is after that i may get to do more costume commisions. This is not a normal wear latex kind of a deal or even something that you could wear to a ball. Well i suppose you could but for what i'd charge for the damn thing you wouldn't want to. I'm baising the it after one of my favorate artists. I'm aware i'm being aloof about it- thing is i do not want to get too excited about it until i hear back from her. I have to get the latex, feathers, plastic, buckels, and i think i may need a plaster mold for part of it..... see i told you fantasticly elaborate. heh

...or do whatever else you want to it really. The best way to get CHOKER is to ask your nice local comic store type person to "Please put me down for a copy of CHOKER #1 from Image Comics. I have heard this comic actually cures cancer, turns water into wine & can beat a chess grandmaster in 3 moves while toilet training a small effeminate dog. The order code is:

DEC090342

This is what your friendly, most awesome retailer type person will need to know to note down which book to actually order for this month. You order it this month, when it's available, then magically, pixies deliver it to you sometime in February. It's weird how it works, but the pixies apparently run a fairly tight ship.

So, anyway, to make it easier, print this out, give it to them. Hell, maybe print a few out if you like. This all might make it a little easier to get a copy when it hits, into your hot little hands. You see, unless they know people want one, many places may not order a copy, or order enough, since I'm not exactly the same as "huge superhero icon comic X" which is guaranteed to be ordered at least a bit. So if you want it, speak up!

Print, fill out and deliver to your local comics shop:

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