Ragg It: September 2008

Custom Rim Job

Custom Rim Job, 2007 by Olav Westphalen:
http://www.vvork.com/?p=8341

Nathan Baker

Rupture:
http://www.nathanbaker.org/rupture

Occupation:
http://www.nathanbaker.org/occupation

We'll make great pets

Children are innocent
A teenager's fucked up in the head
Adults are even more fucked up
And elderlies are like children
(...)

http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/P/pornoforpyroslyrics/pornoforpyrospetslyrics.htm

Machines That Almost Fall Over

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/09/26/machines-that-almost-fall-over/

Jordan Wolfson

http://www.jordanwolfson.org/chaplin.html

http://www.jordanwolfson.org

Gil Scott-Heron: We Almost Lost Detroit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDC_ZM48S0Y

L'Ouvroir (2008):
http://www.gamescenes.org/2010/11/game-art-chris-markers-louvroir-2008.html

Pictures at an exhibition:
http://www.gamescenes.org/2010/11/event-chris-markers-pictures-at-an-exhibition-2010.html

Les Astronautes: Chris Marker/Walerian Borowczyk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6eSg1R5UM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdrP-4x4Czs

Three Cheers for a Whale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojBek_-DTA

"At war and loving it!!!", a clip from a 1977 documentary by Chris Marker, "Le fond de l'air est rouge":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIXa-PXGYI

Les Statues Meurent Aussi, Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1950-1953:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Pb9nykjQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWU09XM5Hl8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUiV0Xou9FE

"Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the inseparable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man... Perhaps because he is the most perfect graphic metaphor of man's fate, he puts into true perspective the balance of power between theindividual and the environment. And he tells us soberly that though there may be honour in carrying out the greatestnumber of victorious attacks, it always comes a cropper." - Chris Marker, Sans Soleil

He became internationally known for the short film La Jetée (1962). It tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying pace with limited narration and sound effects.

In the 2007 Criterion Collection release of La Jetée and Sans Soleil, marker included a short essay entitiled "Working on a shoestring budget". He confessed to shooting all of Sans Soleil with a silent film camera and recording all the audio on a primitive audio cassette recorder. Marker also reminds the reader that only one short scene in La Jette is of a moving image, only being able to borrow a movie camera for one afternoon while working on the film.

Chris Marker lives in Paris and does not grant interviews. When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offers a photograph of a cat instead. His cat is named Guillaume-en-egypte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Marker

Susan Burnstine

http://www.finearttv.tv/en/fine-art/uncovered/susan-burnstine-the-dream-passenger

http://www.finearttv.tv/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,156/?g2_itemId=14941

Zoë Keating

http://www.zoekeating.com/

http://www.myspace.com/zoecello

http://www.youtube.com/user/zoekeating

Miroslav Tichý

http://tichyocean.com/work/work.html

http://tichyocean.com/

http://www.tichyfotograf.cz/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdgwvYuubu8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg9rTIGtENs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HZ9T0-VcXg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD

Abelardo Morell

http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2008/09/abelardo-morell.html

http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/recent_01/recent_01.html

http://www.edelmangallery.com/morell.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuJ_Jd6Qgyo

Socialism - Capitalism

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/midtowng/socialism.jpg

Fernando Sanchez

Eroon Kang

The System: Mapped Out:
http://www.eroonkang.com/#7011

Alcatraz: a poem by Sharon Olds:
http://www.eroonkang.com/#7051

Justification:
http://www.eroonkang.com/#8051

Study: Indiscriminateness:
http://www.eroonkang.com/#8111

If I Were You: 1st yr Exhibit:
http://www.eroonkang.com/#8011

http://www.eroonkang.com

spiritsurfers.net

http://www.spiritsurfers.net

Artists are not engineers of the soul

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. And as Mr. MacLeish once remarked of poets, there is nothing worse for our trade than to be in style. In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society--in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."
- John F. Kennedy, in remarks given at Amherst College, October 26, 1963

http://claytoncubitt.tumblr.com/post/50750864

Mauro Cerqueira

"Everything around us can break but both of us shall be safe for our love":
http://galeriareflexus.blogspot.com/2008/09/mauro-cerqueira.html

Harm van den Dorpel

Highway:
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/highway.htm

Forest/Lines: (click twice or more)
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/forestlines.htm

Ping Pong:
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/pingpong.htm

Bison:
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/bison.htm

Horse:
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/horse.htm

Club Internet:
http://www.clubinternet.org/

http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/

Haris Epaminonda

http://www.harisepaminonda.com/works_01.htm

http://www.harisepaminonda.com

Vladimir Nikolic

Auto Portraits:
http://www.vladimir-nikolic.com/autoportraits.html

How to Become a Great Artist:
http://www.vladimir-nikolic.com/how_to_become_a_great_artist.html

Rhythm:
http://www.vladimir-nikolic.com/rhythm.html

http://www.vladimir-nikolic.com/

Chen Wei

Marble and Blood, 2007 by Chen Wei:
http://www.vvork.com/?p=7739

Happy Mondays - Lazyitis

Now that one got lazyitis
and that one going alone,
and this one go wowowowaowaowaowaowao
all the way home.

And at home I don't come top of the class,
got a brown tongue licking ass,
can't do what he's asked,
won't do what he's asked.

I think I did the right thing in slipping away yeah,
and the ache that's making me ache has gone for the day,
now I'm the man who shot the boss,
I pinned him down and blew his face off,
I'm doing time with weirdo kind,
hustling-rustling-watching from behind.

See that's the man who shot the boss,
he pinned him down and blew his face off,
he's doing time with weirdo kind,
hustling-rustling-watching from behind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-F5KTy2ak

grrrr.net

http://grrrr.net

André Sier

Corrida Espacial #1:
http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/proj/corrida-espacial-1/

Planeta:
http://www.s373.net/full_circle.html
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k.:
http://netarte.dgartes.pt/kandresier2007/

Thomas Wrede

Settlement with a Road, 2005:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2849104310/sizes/o/

flood.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q223/Juliads_photos/old%20photos/flood.jpg

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed... A few people cried... Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form, and says, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53FvOUdnxLc

Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5739282975440441779

Elvis - My Way 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYrAja7lZ-k

The BPA - Toe Jam

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67o02_the-bpa-toe-jam-featuring-david-byr_music

Um, would it be possible to drop me off

"Um, would it be possible to drop me off near there, I live right near there, my roommate just dropped me off"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ep7m_PhK1A

Martian Dust Devils

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050819a/dd_enhanced_525b-B558R1.gif

Samuel Beckett: Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5keZfirB8gE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u2DAp6fceQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HacrO6-Z4g

Napalm Death - You Suffer

You Suffer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dws87NR6DpM

You Suffer (with lyrics):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOB-vE6wqks

You Suffer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ansBui-_w80

So you want to write a fugue?

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ain4qftoM

Glenn Gould: Art Of Fugue - Contrapunctus14

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EQmQUXXIc

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NE0FMAJ0RKY

Remarkable for the score and interpretation but also for the video compression artifacts exposing the profound inside Gould.

Ovid

Lente lente currite noctis equi

"Slowly, slowly run, horses of night."
Ovid's Amores I:13

http://www.david-drake.com/ovid.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid

Bill Viola - The Reflecting Pool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_urrt8X0l8

Jackson Pollock 51

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ

David Lynch Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOe3uEj9rY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYXaA8y2jv4

William Burroughs - Words of Advice For Young People

People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people.
Well here are a few simple admonitions for young and old.
Never interfere in a boy-and-girl fight.
Beware of whores who say they don't want money.
The hell they don't.
What they mean is they want more money. Much more.
If you're doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch,
Get it in writing.
His word isn't worth shit.
Not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

Avoid fuck-ups.
We all know the type.
Anything they have anything to do with,
No matter how good it sounds,
Turns into a disaster.
Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill.
Tell them firmly:
I am not paid to listen to this drivel.
You are a terminal boob.

Now some of you may encounter the Devil's Bargain,
If you get that far.
Any old soul is worth saving,
At least to a priest,
But not every soul is worth buying.
So you can take the offer as a compliment.
He tries the easy ones first.
You know like money,
All the money there is.
But who wants to be the richest guy in some cemetery?
Money won't buy.
Not much left to spend it on, eh gramps?
Getting too old to cut the mustard.

Well time hits the hardest blows.
Especially below the belt.
How's a young body grab you?
Like three card monte, like pea under the shell,
Now you see it, now you don't.
Haven't you forgotten something, gramps?
In order to feel something,
You've got to be there.
You have to be eighteen.
You're not eighteen.
You are seventy-eight.
Old fool sold his soul for a strap-on.

Well they always try the easiest ones first.
How about an honorable bargain?
You always wanted to be a doctor,
Well now's your chance.
Why don't you become a great healer
And benefit humanity?
What's wrong with that?
Just about everything.
Just about everything.
There are no honorable bargains
Involving exchange
Of qualitative merchandise
Like souls
For quantitative merchandise
Like time and money.
So piss off Satan
And don't take me for dumber than I look.

An old junk pusher told me -
Watch whose money you pick up.

Watch 1, 2007:
http://www.alicjakwade.com/Watch.html

Daily Planet, 2006:
http://www.alicjakwade.com/daily.html

Beeing Alice, beeing Any Ondra, 2007:
http://www.alicjakwade.com/being

Junge Sterne rauchen, 2007:
http://www.alicjakwade.com/JSR.html

Maryon Park, 2006:
http://www.alicjakwade.com/maryon.html

No Strings Attached:
http://pascualsisto.com/index.php?/projects/no-strings-attached/

No Not Nothing Never:
http://pascualsisto.com/index.php?/projects/no-not-nothing-never/

Elevator:
http://pascualsisto.com/index.php?/projects/elevator/

28 Years in the Implicate Order:
http://pascualsisto.com/index.php?/project/28-years-in-the-implicate-order/

Under the Paving Stones, the Beach:
http://pascualsisto.com/index.php?/projects/under-the-paving-stones-the-beach/

Flight Patterns:
http://pascualsisto.com/index.php?/projects/flight-patterns/