Category Archives: Art

Cirque de Calder

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Alexander Calder, circus master. What’s particularly amusing about this is that he sounds so drunk I’m having an easier time understanding his French than his English. Perhaps it’s cognac?

Alexander Calder’s Paper Circus, via BoingBoing. Endure the slow lead-in, because the circus itself is worth waiting for.

Carlos Vilardebo‘s 1961 film of Alexander Calder’s “circus,” an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals. These figures, crafted from a collection of “cork, wire, wood, yarn, paper, string, and cloth,” were each assigned a series of movements and manipulated by the artist to perform specific circus acts. With performances held at various locations in Paris and New York through the mid 1930s, Calder’s circus helped to establish him in avante-garde circles. Jean Cocteau, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, Thomas Wolfe, and André Kertész were among those who saw the celebrated Cirque Calder over the years.

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the H word!

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The H Word

by Ted Rall. Via Cryptome

for the necrophiliac in your life

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Men of Mortuaries

Get your ghoul on and help fight cancer by buying this Men of Mortuaries hawt undertaker calendar. Cuz really, aren’t we all over our fireman fetish by now?

The 2007 Men of Mortuaries™ Calendar is scheduled to be available in October of 2006. You may reserve your copy by giving us your e-mail address at the bottom of this page. When the calendars become available we will inform you.

Monies raised from the calendar will directly benefit KAMM foundation dedicated to the caring and assistance of people who are going through the treatment of breast cancer. Proceeds will provide these people assistance with such necessities as child care costs and groceries, to name just two. The primary goal of KAMM is to provide people going through cancer with more opportunities to make their lives better.

bombing Bouchard: Talking to Americans 2.0

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But again I ask, why bother?

song o’ the month: Zombie, by the Cranberries

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If you don’t know why this is the song of the month, I suggest you just play it in a continuous loop until you get it. Shouldn’t take long…maybe one more airstrike.

It’s funny, in a Beckettian way; before the War on Lebanon broke out, I happened to notice that every time I ticked the tag for “Politics” and the tag for “Religion” I would tick the tag for “War” as well.

Funny, that.

Zombie
by the Cranberries

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it’s not me, it’s not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying…

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What’s in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou…

Another mother’s breakin’,
Heart is taking over.
When the vi’lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It’s the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they’re still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying…

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What’s in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a…