Ragg It: October 2008

Crossroads

(Tom Waits/William Burroughs)

Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with, but there was bad blood
In him; someway he got into the magic bullets and that leads straight to
Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin; you think you can take
Them bullets or leave 'em, do you?
Just save a few for your bad days

Well, now, we all have those bad days when you can't shoot for shit.

The more of them magics you use, the more bad days you have without them
So it comes down finally to all your days being bad without the bullets
It's magics or nothing
Time to stop chippying around and kidding yourself,
Kid, you're hooked, heavy as lead

And that's where old George found himself
Out there at the crossroads
Molding the Devil's bullets
Now a man figures it's his bullets, so it will
Hit what he wants to hit
But it don't always work that way

You see, some bullets is special for a single aim
A certain stag, or a certain person
And no matter where you are, that's where the bullet will end up
And in the moment of aiming, the gun turns into a dowser's wand
And point where the bullet wants to go

(George Schmid was moving in a series of convulsive spasms, like someone
with an epileptic fit, with his face distorted and his eyes wild like a
lassoed horse bracing his legs. But something kept pulling him on. And now
he is picking up the skulls and making the circle.)

I guess old George didn't rightly know what he's getting himself into
The fit was on him and it carried him right to the crossroads

http://www.geocities.com/soho/7587/black.html

Jesper Carlsen

Marcus Kaiser

Forgetting Elvis:
http://www.opernfraktal.de/_videos/forg-elvisvideo.html

mykorrhiza/cobra:
http://www.opernfraktal.de/_videos/myk-video.html

http://www.opernfraktal.de/videos.html

http://www.opernfraktal.de

Travis Hallenbeck

Thumbnails:
http://anotherunknowntime.com/compressed.html

Favorites:
http://anotherunknowntime.com/favorites.PNG

Favorites 2:
http://anotherunknowntime.com/favorites2.PNG

General Midi:
http://anotherunknowntime.com/GM/GM.html

http://anotherunknowntime.com/

Guthrie Lonergan

Mall march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ftpWz2hQU

Hotel Fantasy:
http://theageofmammals.com/research/?p=33

Artist Looking at Camera:
http://www.vimeo.com/908317

Bricks:
http://www.theageofmammals.com/bricks/bricks.mov

Domain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdD07UH1ZvI

Marathon:
http://www.theageofmammals.com/marathon/

Internet groupshot:
http://www.theageofmammals.com/groupshot/

Wipeouts:
http://nastynets.com/pages/wipeouts.html

http://theageofmammals.com

Martha Rosler

http://www.martharosler.net/

Iman Issa

Making Places (c-prints), 2007-2008:
http://www.cairobus.com/imanissa/making-places-c-prints

Images of a Center, 2005:
http://www.cairobus.com/imanissa/images-of-a-center

Meeting Point, 2004:
http://www.cairobus.com/imanissa/meeting-point

http://www.cairobus.com/imanissa/

Ed Van Der Elsken

http://www.edvanderelsken.nl/index.php?page=imgarch&subject=&count=11

http://www.edvanderelsken.nl/index.php?page=fotos

Charles Broskoski

Infinity x 10 (2006) by Charles Broskoski:
http://www.vimeo.com/898702

http://charlesbroskoski.com/

Kristof Kintera

boeing_b-47b_rocket-assisted_take_off.jpg

http://contrailscience.com/wp-content/uploads/boeing_b-47b_rocket-assisted_take_off.jpg

Nino Rota - 8½ Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqC6kRCLjI

Jonas Dahlberg

Chris M. Clark

http://web.mac.com/triggerc/Gallery2007/Collages_%26_Paintings.html

http://www.chrismclark.com/

Batman vs. The Penguin: The Debate

http://claytoncubitt.tumblr.com/post/54753606

Nadav Kander

http://www.nadavkander.com

Irma (Scream):
http://claytoncubitt.tumblr.com/post/54748919

Adam Parker Smith

Sunset Now:
http://adamparkersmith.com/?p=70

He Delivers Me From Deep Water:
http://adamparkersmith.com/?paged=5

Collectif Fact

William Lamson

Timeline:
http://www.williamlamson.com/#/selected_work/timeline/works/9

Work and Trade:
http://www.williamlamson.com/#/selected_work/work_and_trade/installation/6

Automatic:
http://www.williamlamson.com/#/selected_work/automatic/sea_drawings/1

Tundra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHG51K1uPsw

Emerge:
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/07/02/emerge-by-william-lamson/

Yard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6j93U87_U

Vital Capacity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebhm7DHMjfM

Hunt and Gather:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGLFs2C7Z0Y

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/10/17/william-lamson/

http://www.williamlamson.com

Nue Propriété

She falls in love with a local chef who lives next door. Maybe more accurately, she falls in love with the world the chef creates with her when they are in each other’s company. When we stay in a love relationship with someone, the love is not simply about how we interact and are drawn to the other person. Over time, the love thrives because we fall in love with the environments we create in each other’s homes, activities, and social circles. We don’t just fall in love with the person, we fall in love with the world they’ve created around them in the company of their familiars.
(...)
The movie suggests how we treat our “enemies,” the people with whom we have strong conflicts of interest, probably says as much or more about us as how we treat the people we care about and with whom we are not in conflict. If you want to know someone more fully, investigate how they have treated their enemies and the people from their previous relationships.

http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/private-property-a-film-review-a-long-days-journey-into-the-next-day/

The Secret Museum of Mankind

http://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/thumbs.html

Beate Gütschow

http://www.wallpaper.com/newgallery/17050186/1

http://www.wallpaper.com/art/beate-gutschow-monograph/1930

http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2007/10/beate_guetschow.php

Rocket Debris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL1xUWgBlFw

10 top music videos made by artists

http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/10/13/10-top-music-videos-made-by-artists-contemporary-edition/

The second video "Michael Jackson - Leave me alone" is missing but available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbH04pY7alA

Beck/Jeremy Blake, Round the Bend (2002) is not available on Europe apparently due to lack of intelligence.

The brokers with hands on their faces blog

http://brokershandsontheirfacesblog.tumblr.com/

Carlos Cruz-Díez - Chromointerference Mécanique

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/10/14/chromointerference-mecanique/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Cruz-D%C3%ADez

gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com

Mark Jenkins

Street:
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html

Nature:
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/nature.html

Storker Project:
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/storker.html

Tape Sculpture:
http://www.tapesculpture.org/

http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/

We thought people would like them.

About Laurie Anderson - The End of the Moon:
Near the beginning of her show, she described a conversation with the NASA official who chose the pink-and-blue color scheme for the Hubble photographs of the universe. (Some of the tints picked up by instruments could not be seen by the human eye.)
When she asked him how he had chosen those colors, he innocently said, "We thought people would like them."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/arts/design/11moon.html

ARQuake

http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/arquake/pictures/img_7872-hf.jpg

http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/arquake/

Marcus Wittmers

Ceasefire:
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/10/13/ceasefire/

http://www.gitteweisegallery.com/wittmers/index.html

Xavier Barrade

http://www.dotgif.net

http://www.playingfieldswithwind.com

http://www.redgreenblue.biz/

http://www.xavierbarrade.com

Las Sergas de Esplandian y Santi

http://www.perpetualmotionjellyjam.com/zlog2.html

Jonathan Schipper

http://www.oppositionart.com/main3.htm

Ramsay Stirling

Enduring Freedom:
http://ramsaystirling.com/Work/EnduringFreedom

The Slim Possibility of Thought in the Mind of Someone Specific:
http://ramsaystirling.com/Work/SlimPossibility

How Soon Is..
http://ramsaystirling.com/Work/HowSoonIs

http://ramsaystirling.com/Root/Work

Saul Chernick

http://www.saulchernick.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=8

http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/07/21/img-mgmt-the-undead/

http://www.saulchernick.com/pages.php?content=nestGall.php&navGallID=10000

http://www.saulchernick.com

Damon Zucconi

Pole Shift:
http://www.damonzucconi.com/index.php/Work/PoleShift

Edge Transfer:
http://www.damonzucconi.com/index.php/Work/EdgeTransfer

Slow Rave (last moments of Trance Energy 2006):
http://damonzucconi.com/Work/SlowRave

http://www.damonzucconi.com/

Bathing Machines

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

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/09/coastal-retreat.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elfike/104875384/

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/09/other-bathing-machines.html

Kelly Mark

Horroridor:
http://www.ireallyshould.com/Horroridor1.html

A Man & Woman:
http://www.ireallyshould.com/AManAndAWoman1.html

The Kiss:
http://www.ireallyshould.com/TheKiss.html

Demonstration:
http://www.ireallyshould.com/Demonstration1.html

Music Video Series:
http://www.ireallyshould.com/MusicVideoSeries1.html

Sniff:
http://www.ireallyshould.com/Sniff1.html

Those without beards

Wearily, he proffers a letter sent by the Taliban: "Those without beards, those who drive on the left like the British, those who sell shaving kits, make-up or bras will be killed."

The Economist, Sep 18th 2008: Pakistan’s tribal areas - A wild frontier

Keith Loutit

Bathtub IV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us6kDalkqgM

Metal Heart:
http://vimeo.com/2317118

Bathtub II:
http://vimeo.com/1789964

Beached:
http://vimeo.com/1785993

Bathtub III:
http://vimeo.com/1831024

The North Wind Blew South:
http://vimeo.com/1953467

http://vimeo.com/keithloutit

http://keithloutit.com/2008/11/23/metal-skin/

Jérôme Bel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v69hrtufDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJWxNkGJfUU

That's it. Enough of Civilization

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

Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even

http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Duch.html

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/duchamp.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_Stripped_Bare_by_Her_Bachelors%2C_Even

Novelty theory

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

Robert Anton Wilson

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1422743250837892881

http://www.deepleafproductions.com/wilsonlibrary/authors/RobertAntonWilsoninterviews.htm

Robby Müller

The problem is, there are many films made today where the colour is not really necessary, but you don't have a choice because the distributor wants colour so he can sell it. But I always have a kind of "thinking exercise" with the director, "Why not in B&W?" or "Why not in colour?" So if we explain it to ourselves we know where we have to pay attention because if you make the kind of films I generally make colour could give you too much information.
http://moviexpress.tripod.com/id9.htm

http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/2007/03/robby-mller-cinematographer.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDLd2rULl3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jEfuqAMCa4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_M%C3%BCller

dayswithmyfather.com

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com

Daniel Eatock

http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/10/daniel-eatock-contrarian-designer.html

http://www.danieleatock.com/

Samuel Szealey

http://en.artists.de/szealey.html

http://www.vvork.com/?p=9777

I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela?'

In a speech defending his administration's Iraq policy, Mr Bush said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's brutality had made it impossible to find a leader who could unite the country.

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela?'," he said.

"Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."

The bizarre gaffe was made in a press conference in Washington yesterday.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22461883-2,00.html