disappointment mitigated by fun with lasers

Friends,
We have let nearly 3 months go by without a post on here. Now, I'm assuming that I am not the only person out there who is always looking for a good reason to procrastinate. And considering that everyone is assiduously working on "dissertation writing," by my calculations it is high time for some more activity on this space. In the spirit of taking it back to the days when style was WAY more important than what was going on in the classroom (and I realize that for some these days have never ceased) I'm passing on this site, recently sent by a friend with rad 80s style. My challenge to you (so as to continue procrastination) is do you have lasers??? My youngest sister did, but none of the rest of us -- hence many years and just another reason for our completely justified older sibling torment of her. Also this raises the question of whether the laser/school portrait thing was a purely American trend ... anyone?
Enjoy,
Kx

Can We All Please Move to Detroit Now???

Please?

start a farm

buy a house

make some art

take a tour:

Detroit Wildlife from florent tillon on Vimeo.

fantasy film couples

a mock-up of how Badiou will look









Hot from the pages of the Nouvel Observateur:
" Jean-Luc Godard démarre en Grèce le tournage de son prochain film, «Socialisme», dans lequel apparaîtra le philosophe Alain Badiou dans le rôle d'un conférencier. "
Trans: Filming has just begun in Greece on JLG's forthcoming "Socialism" in which Alain Badiou will appear in the role of a lecturer.

I don't know why JLG is in bold, presumably he is seen to be more immanent than Badiou.

Having recently seen in person the authenticity with which Badiou plays a lecturer, I am sure that some of us will be wildly excited by the potential of a production which promises to marry the scope and scape of Le Mépris with a radical Pauline reworking of the trope of (etc.)

To avoid voiding what has preceded, I have now decided to restore just emphasis to Badiou by rouging him. For the camera...

insonmnia

insomniacs may want to check out this week's Jazz on 3, an insomnia-inspired jazz/poetry spectacular ...

Tuesday, 7:30 pm at Cafe OTO

Hey! xpost from OPEN Dalston....Ian Sinclair and Patrick Wright will be talking about Hackney and Dalston, promoting their books. I saw them tag-team at the LSE and it was good fun. Show up early!

Library fail.

An indication of the quality of our library services...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life...

What's New Pussycat?

Thanks Lina for posting up Barry's board. I was rather wondering if anybody else had found themselves intrigued by the mysterious and ever-present axis of evil that stretches, inverted, across our whiteboard? I have feared it to be a classified directive in the misty background of all our teachings; a silent insister bent on our kowtowing to its twisted sensibility. However, having taken this opportunity for a closer inspection of the offending diagram, I am relieved to reveal it as the innocent result of an eighteenth-century talent contest, with persuasive Welsh cruiser Tom Jones trumpeting his way into the top spot, inches ahead of girl-next-door Pamela, and leaving poor old Robinson Crusoe ‘coming up the rear’ as a distant third.

S'alright, Lina. I bring you Potemkin Kitty.

I know the cat thread was a while ago, but couldn't resist...

a publishing deal that will launch you to(wards) immortality

In very, very, small increments.

yes. If anyone wants to post a version of one of their course essays, or perhaps something completely new or random, please contact me. I'm looking for content for an online culture journal that I sometimes work on. It is run by a friend of mine, HaoyanofAmerica, graphic designer to the stars. Anyhow, we are working on a hardcover anthology to be printed in limited edition, so if you have something really special, maybe we can "do lunch" as they say in the industry (not the book publishing industry, actually, the other more lucrative one).

http://www.facsimilemagazine.com/

Baroque Board

Paul (Saint), Outside Corinth.

Down at Bragg's Baroque

God of the Airwaves, Melvyn Bragg, has recently devoted an hour of In Our Time to the baroque. You can listen to it here

left behind

welcome to the world of christian apocalypse fiction, ie fundamentalist pop culture.
Watch the video on YouTube >
my favorite recommended selection in the youtube sidebar: 'Barack Obama... we almost stopped him'

It's not too late to change your essay topic!

http://www.lolsaints.com/story/2009-02-15/lessee-milk-eggz-cheezeburgerz

Better than "St Paul and knife crime", right?

workspace

what's your workspace? Post it here.

Messianic Space

"To be sure, the term drawing is a misnomer, because the Shakers did not use it themselves when they were referring to these works. In the few Shaker documents in which the gift drawings are mentioned, they are typically referred to as sheets, rolls, signs, notices, tokens of love, presents, rewards, hearts — sometimes prefaced by the adjective sacred. This definition focuses on the function of the works as gifts from heavenly spirits, rather than on the form in which the gifts were materialized. In fact, the gift drawings often include titles, captions, inscriptions, and extended texts, in English as well as in scripts written in indecipherable tongues, that place them on an uninterrupted continuum with other manifestations of belief, such as inspired writing, ecstatic movement, and spontaneous speech, especially in the form of song." (France Morin, in Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, The Drawing Center, New York, and UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001)

Christian Zionism

Disambiguation: (mostly) North American, Fundamentalist, (Tele)Evangelical Christians.

Although this probably does nothing to improve the image of America's religious believers, it does seem necessary to make connection explicit. When the rapture comes, you can blame it on John Hagee...









http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/new_christian_zionism

http://www.christianzionism.org/

http://christianactionforisrael.org/czionism.html

Love Thy Neighbor (P.L.U.R.)

Circa 1989, the study of St. Paul was revived in Chicago. All documents were published by Trax Records (sorry, no Stanford University).

Just in case...

The Guardian's Apocalypse Survival Guide.

Biblical...

Steve Bishop, Suspension of Disbelief, Taxidermied fox, fluorescent
tubes, electronic ballasts in wood and perspex housing, wires 170 x
170 x 160cm, 2007 , In the collection of J. Helgesen, Oslo

I heart Mark Dion

Mark Dion has recently emulated the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram, and traveled through the South to collect stuff. Spiel:

Once on the road, Dion will collect specimens and man-made artifacts found in the landscape, which has clearly changed a great deal since the Bartrams’ travels 200 years ago. In keeping with Dion’s longstanding interest in “mail art,” he will send his findings back to Bartram’s Garden. The artifacts and specimens will be installed in souvenir cabinets that Dion will be designed and built for the exhibit in John Bartram’s historic house.

The website that catalogues the project is great.