Toshio Matsumoto is a Genius

Toshio Matsumoto | For The Damaged Right Eye



Bara no sôretsu / Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969 (Ending)

By giving out free books google collects banking info

I tried to download free books from books.google and got this msg:

Do you even need to have credit or debit card to read free books? Obviously you do.

Another thing: I tried to install iBooks on my iPad and was prompted to verify my billing info. When I clicked "yes" I got a popup with all info about my credit card such as my name, address, card # and security code that I have never ever used on this iPad or any apple devise before -- how did they collect these data???

The only thing that I did was to pay my credit card bill from my iPad -- was it enough to collect all my credit card info?? is it even legal?

Films that I watched in July 2012

1. Cobra Woman (1944)
2. It's not a Dream (2011)
3. Wonder Woman
4. Sindbad the Sailor
5. It Came from Kuchar
6. Solaris by A. Tarkovsky
7. Aftermath by Nacho Cerda
8. Genesis by Nach Cerda
9. Poultrygeist by Troma
10. Plan 9 from Outer Space
11. Udon (Japan)
12. Do snuff movies really exist? (doc)
13. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
14. The Toxic Avenger by Troma
15. Little Girls Lost (1983)
16. Тени забытых предков Параджанов
17. Dementia 13
18. Papilio Buddha (2012) by Jayan Cherian
19. Записки Велосипедиста (Japan, 2004)
20. Под сенью цветущих вишен (Japan, )
21. Под стук трамвайных колес / Dô desu ka den (Japan, 1970)

My Dirty Looks, July 2012

Dirty Looks is celebrating queer culture by hosting free screening all over the city every day in July - Dirty Looks | ON LOCATION. I was lucky to visit some of them:

Cobra Woman by Robert Siodmak and
Jungle Island by Jack Smith at Abrons Art Center
and
This Is Not A Dream by Gavin Butt & Ben Walters at The Kitchen (A new documentary, highlighting artists use of video as a platform for broadcast and world creation. Featuring Dickie Beau, Dara Birnbaum, Nao Bustamante, Vaginal Davis, and the Divine David.)

Totaly enjoyed the screenings (and the one that i saw before) and feel sorry i havent visited more of them.

Just found my pix on their FB page:

from the last screening

Footage + animation + collage

Lately I grew fascinated with a new (to me) technique of combining video and graphics and creating a collage with scanned cutouts, documentary footage, internet images and drawn animation. Yesterday i spent two hours working on a super cool animation done with Adobe After Effects. The computer crashed just on time, and of course i failed to click the "save" button before the crash. However, I learned lots of functions and tricks of this new AE version -- i havent used it for 5 years.

Here is a few inspiring videos:

Media in Motion

Fish Soup from cuccumberass on Vimeo.

Angel Rose

THE GREEN CARNATION from Angel Rose on Vimeo.

I am also inspired by the Control Master by Veer and Run Wrake featuring CSA images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOatK0FAqQ

License To Pimp, documentary by Hima B.

Sex and Judgment, article from Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/license-to-pimp-san-francisco_n_1669874.html?utm_hp_ref=san-francisco

License To Pimp on Kickstarter -- 5 days left!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/himab/license-to-pimp-documentary

Toshio Matsumoto

http://www.yidff.jp/docbox/9/box9-2-e.html
http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Matsumoto
http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=13101
http://www.ubu.com/film/matsumoto.html

Went to Chelsea galleries...

From Yayoi Kusama's Orgy at Susan Inglett gallery:

and Screw by Al Goldstein

...and more fun staff from Carolina Nitsch and Meulensteen galleries

Awesome: Distant portraits by Amy Adams

Distant portraits by Amy Adams are the photographs of people waiting on the subway platform taken at night from artist's bedroom window!!!!

http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/artists/20474

So much in common...

Funeral Procession of Roses/薔薇の葬列 Bara no Sōretsu (1969) by Toshio Matsumoto



Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky)(1966) by Věra Chytilová
Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave by Michael Koresky
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2269-eclipse-series-32-pearls-of-the-czech-new-wave



House (ハウス Hausu) (1977) by Nobuhiko Obayashi

E.S.P. LAB + FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY = ONE NIGHT OF SYNTHESIS

One very noisy night @ Vaudeville Park, 07/08/2012
https://www.facebook.com/events/435027609852214/

The Art of the Sink

Yayoi Kusama's re-invention of the dots and x-mas lights

Yayoi Kusama's exhibit will open at the Witney museum on July 12, 2012.

Yayoi Kusama reinvented the very basic forms and concepts -- the dots, the colors, sticking out objects, potato, daikon, infinite space, nudeness and christmas lights. How many performances and videos can be created using the Fireflies room!

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/YayoiKusama/
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/FirefliesOnTheWater/

Infinite space with fireflies/xmas lights reflected in the mirrors and water:

Fireworks on July 4 2012 as seen from Hoboken

I was not sure if going to Hoboken to see fireworks on July 4 was a good idea.
Now I know it was: the crowd was ok, the view was perfect, i saw 3.5 fireworks out of 4.
Next time i will come earlier with lots of food, drinks and a blanket. And may be with a better camera...

At the end it got wild

Rampo Noir - Ranpo Jigoku (2005)

My favorite part from Rampo Noir - Ranpo Jigoku. Early morning meadow. Silence. Nude and tortured with memories Tadanobu Asano. Nudity goes well with silence and early morning fog.

Rivers of the Red Planet

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