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George Condo is a prolific painter whose career spans almost three decades, creating characters who inhabit a grotesque, comic, baroque and sinister world. His work presents surrealist-style figure paintings, where humor abates tragedy and our inner demons are realized on a canvas. Condo’s work has been described as the visual embodiment of our mental states, and the first major American survey of his work has just opened at New York City’s New Museum, aptly entitled “George Condo: Mental States.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and the documentary short film, “Condo Painting.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/george-condo-a-mind-where-picasso-meets-grotesque-looney-tunes/George Condo is a prolific painter whose career spans almost three decades, creating... more
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I'm With Stupid should be the new Tea Party slogan.
Don’t you love people who shoot themselves in the foot? I sure do. It makes me very happy and few things make me very happy. Like a Percocet and a cup of coffee first thing in the morning. Or watching the snow fall from my bedroom window, which overlooks downtown Manhattan. Red Carpet arrivals always make me happy, too. But in the case of Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, their perfunctory need to yattle off at the mouth–spewing Tea Party nonsense–well, it makes me very happy. Sure, my work is cut out for me, in my zeal and commitment to render them useless. But thankfully, they help me along the way because every time they say something, it is as though they shoot themselves in the foot.
Michele Bachmann’s rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday proved how desperate she is to be the key voice of the Republican Party. And Sarah Palin is by no means willing to give up her place in the spotlight for Bachmann, who doesn’t have as good a head of hair. My suggestion is that we do a special episode of MTV’s Celebrity Death Match with these two broads and “May the best woman win”, as per Ru Paul. Oh and ny the way Michele, next time you make a grand weeping statement to the United States, talk into the camera. You looked retarded. And Sarah, figures you would have a comment about Sputnik, since you can see Russia from your backyard. To quote Bugs Bunny, “What a bunch of maroons.”
Read more: http://imeanwhat.com/youcallthisfashion/sarah-palin-and-michele-bachmann-as-in-turner-overdrive#ixzz1CLsC6MPmI'm With Stupid should be the new Tea Party slogan.
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“Andy and Zach” is a deeply touching narrative short film directed by the young New York filmmaker Nick Paley, which was named an Official Selection for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In the film, two young men are faced with a fairly clear understanding that the ending of their time together as roommates is something that needs to happen. When Zach decides to move out, his roommate Andy awkwardly begins trying to set up a new life without his best friend.
Although each in his own way tries to mask painful feelings about the impending loss of their close friendship, in the face of their sometimes mutually contentious stances a real tenderness shines through, especially as the suave, socially competent Zach begins to worry about Andy, his socially misfit roommate. In dealing with Andy’s dual feelings of abandonment and annoyance at the infantilizing worrying of Zach, as well as with Zach’s recognition of his need to move out, while still caring for Andy, the film beautifully and subtly depicts the ending of a particularly empathic kind of relationship.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the very emotionally touching short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/andy-and-zach-a-heartfelt-film-about-friendship/“Andy and Zach” is a deeply touching narrative short film directed by the... more
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January 12, 2011, will mark one year to the day that the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, resulting in what is arguably the worst natural disaster in modern history. Of the 1.5 million Haitian people who lost their homes in the earthquake, the majority are still living in makeshift tent cities, and the promised billions of dollars in foreign aid have yet to materialize. While financial donors and peacekeepers have resources that vastly overshadow those of the Haitian government, a lack of coordination in their endeavors has hampered the country’s efforts to recover.
“Tent Life: Haiti” is a very timely collection of stunning portraits of dignity, hope and joy by New York photographer Wyatt Gallery, inspirational photographs that show the reality of Haitian lives a year after the earthquake’s destruction and its aftermath. Gallery’s photographs present an artful and unselfconscious study of the resilience of an irrepressible people. They are beautiful narrative illustrations of the lives of a people experiencing a painfully arduous process of recovery, but they don’t romanticize the tent cities or the desperate living conditions of the Haitians who were rendered homeless by the earthquake.
Rather than using the medium of photography mainly as an attempt to understand what has happened in Haiti, Gallery’s portraits reveal a sense of intimacy and closeness with the Haitian survivors, as well as a genuine wish to be helpful. His work stands as a tender expression of the unexpected and unlikely sense of hope that he discovered in the residents of the Haitian tent cities.
This piece presents a number of inspiring, deeply engaging high-resolution color photographs, a memorable photo-gallery of additional images, a documentary short film and an HD-version of the official music video, “We Are The World 25 For Haiti.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/tent-life-in-haiti-portraits-of-profound-dignity-in-the-wake-of-devastation/January 12, 2011, will mark one year to the day that the devastating 7.9 magnitude... more
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“The Empty Restaurants of New York” is an emotionally moving collection of photographs by the Dutch photographer Wijnanda Deroo. Deroo’s work depicts the hushed melancholy of vacant interiors found in the cafes and restaurants from four of New York City’s five boroughs. Instead of actual people, there is the presence of people who have been there before and who might be there again. Despite the lack of people present in Deroo’s work, there exists a tangible presence of human experience and activity, manifested in the subtle clues left behind from a once vibrant history. Her alluring use of color and composition invites the viewer into these hauntingly empty spaces with emotive power, reinforcing the perspective that beauty can be found in the least likely of places.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs, a memorable slide show and the hauntingly beautiful music video, “Alone in New York.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/the-hushed-melancholy-of-new-yorks-empty-restaurants/“The Empty Restaurants of New York” is an emotionally moving collection of... more
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The actor badly hurt after plunging more than 30 feet in front of a shocked audience watching the Broadway musical 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' says hes itching to heal and slip back into the web-slingers costume....
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/ap/Entertainment/75528The actor badly hurt after plunging more than 30 feet in front of a shocked audience... more
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“The Sad Ghosts of Christmas Just Past” is a collection of photographs of our Christmas just past by the photographer J. Geoffrey Badner. The tinsel, twinkling lights and Santas have come and gone in the city, but still we are haunted by Christmas: the tossed-out trees that just never seem to go away.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs and a slide show of some of those sad, abandoned coniferous Christmas trees.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/photos-of-the-day-the-sad-ghosts-of-christmas-just-past/“The Sad Ghosts of Christmas Just Past” is a collection of photographs of... more
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“Miracle on 22nd Street” is a heart-warming seven-minute documentary short film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason at Redglass Pictures. The film tells the story of a couple living in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, who mysteriously started receiving hundreds of letters from children that were addressed to Santa Claus. Everything about this film, from the couple’s struggle with making good on an unexpected obligation to hundreds of children, to their generosity of spirit, to their festively decorated brownstone, could not have been better cast as an inspirational, only-in–New York modern-day Christmas miracle.
This piece includes high-resolution color photographs, as well as the very touching documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/miracle-on-22nd-street-a-new-york-modern-day-christmas-miracle/“Miracle on 22nd Street” is a heart-warming seven-minute documentary short... more
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“Christmas in New York City” is a beautiful three-minute holiday short film by the young Seattle filmmaker Matthew Brown. The film presents amazing imagery of the city and really captures some of the best moments of New York City during the Christmas season.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs, as well as the enchanting short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/christmas-in-new-york-city/“Christmas in New York City” is a beautiful three-minute holiday short... more
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has just pranced into New York City for its holiday show, the superb all-male ballet troupe that specializes in twists on the classics, instilled with equal measures of glorious goofiness and technical aptitude. They are presenting a program of repertory works, which includes the standout performance of “The Dying Swan” from “Swan Lake.” Every tragic bourrée leaves behind a trail of white feathers; in a last-ditch effort to ward off the inevitable, the ancient ballerina grabs handfuls and tries, unsuccessfully, to reapply them to her body. Although this piece has been performed for years, you just never want that swan to die.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the comedic video, “The Dying Swan.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/glorious-holiday-buffoonery-les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has just pranced into New York City for its... more
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Some people feel that The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” is the best Christmas song ever, and not just one of the best, but a gorgeous song no matter why or how you observe Christmas. “Fairytale of New York” isn’t exactly the epitome of restraint, with Shane MacGowan and the sadly departed Kirsty MacColl singing all over each other, slurring words and tossing all kinds of insults at each other.
The song starts out tenderly, with MacGowan recounting Christmas Eve spent in a Bowery drunk tank, but also his recent gambling win and dreams for the future. MacColl lets us know, as the tempo picks up, that they met on a Christmas Eve, and after some light banter they really get into it, blaming each other for anything they can get their hands on, MacColl ending with “Happy Christmas your arse / I pray God it’s our last.”
But then they sing the chorus again, and a string section that actually sounds like it belongs in a Christmas song begins to take over. And it all feels, in spite of itself, grand and sweeping and even a little touching. They squabble a little more, the same as every Christmas, but they’re losing steam; finally MacColl accuses MacGowan of stealing her dreams when they met. This is a terribly poetic way to depict the deadening of expectations in terrible lives. But MacGowan’s voice turns gentle, even though it’s still rough, and he responds: “I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own, Can’t make it all alone, I’ve built my dreams around you.”
It’s a tough old life, and “Fairytale of New York” practically oozes with the gritty spirit of urban decay, poverty, alcoholism and general dysfunction. But as the sounds of those strings float off and out of sight, it doesn’t seem to matter. Not to them and not to us, because it’s the day to sigh and give in to our better inclinations and hold each other and admit there’s still something there. Christmas is the arbitrary day of the year that purely through willpower and tradition we’ve turned into the day where we all try just a little bit harder at being better than we thought we could be.
This piece includes high-resolution vintage photographs, a slide show and an HD version of the very touching music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/on-the-bowery-a-fairytale-of-new-york/Some people feel that The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” is the... more
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In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their message against war as a peace anthem, a song that has also become a Christmas standard: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” According to the John Lennon Museum, Lennon wrote the song as an attempt to get people to see war at a grassroots level and for them to take responsibility for the world around them.
So this is now the beginning of the Christmas season. And what have you done? The opening lines of the song, sung so nonchalantly by Lennon, serve as a call-to-action for us all. The holidays become critical moments in the year for personal assessments, to review our choices. And to make things better. If you want it.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, as well as the classic Christmas music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/john-lennon-happy-xmas-war-is-over/In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their... more
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“Hurricane” is the new thirteen-minute short film directed by Bartholomew Cubbins, a music video produced for Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars. Initially a 20-minute promo video, censors demanded that certain parts portraying sex and violence, which they deemed too explicit for air play, be cut from the film. While frontman and movie actor Jared Leto admits that the film portrays both sex and violence, he describes it as an artistic statement, “a meditation on the violence of sex and the sex of violence.” He continues, “It’s a surrealistic dream, nightmare and fantasy in the streets of New York at night. People and places normally reserved for the darker recesses of town are brought into the light and celebrated.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the controversial, mind-bending short film/music video (uncensored version).
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/the-30-seconds-to-mars-short-film-hurricane/“Hurricane” is the new thirteen-minute short film directed by Bartholomew... more
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Long before strippers started twirling on shiny brass poles in G-strings, men would get goofy watching women twirl their pasties at the old-timey burlesque shows. America’s big cities often had dozens of burlesque theaters that featured bodacious babes in barely-there costumes, at least until prudish city officials started banning the shows. But with the neo-burlesque movement coming back into vogue, and with Christina Aguilera and Cher co-starring in the new movie, “Burlesque”, here’s a fond look back at the heyday of burlesque.
This piece includes a number of high resolution vintage black-and-white photographs, a slide show and two musical documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/classic-bump-n-grind-the-old-time-burlesque/Long before strippers started twirling on shiny brass poles in G-strings, men would... more
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“WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)” is a documentary short film created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. As 1969 came to a close, Lennon and Ono’s ideas about their protests against the Vietnam War grew beyond printing a few posters. As Ono notes in the documentary, Lennon was the one who dreamed big. “I said let’s have T-shirts,” Ono remembers, “and John said, ‘Let’s buy billboards.’” The posters were displayed as billboards in twelve major cities across the world. And the message appeared not only in mass-produced posters and postcards, but also in large newspaper ads, as well as on the radio and television. It was the first major multimedia campaign for peace.
In 1971, Lennon and Ono, with the Harlem Community Choir, recorded their message as a peace anthem, a song that has also become a Christmas standard: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” According to the John Lennon Museum, Lennon wrote the song as an attempt to get people to see war at a grassroots level and for them to take responsibility for the world around them.
So this is now the beginning of the Christmas season. And what have you done? The opening lines of the song, sung so nonchalantly by Lennon, serve as a call-to-action for us all. The holidays become critical moments in the year for personal assessment, to review our choices. And to make things better. If you want it.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a memorable slide show and the documentary short film. In addition, access is provided to the full version of the new feature-length documentary film, “LENNONYC.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/happy-christmas-war-is-over-if-you-want-it/“WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)” is a documentary short film created by... more
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Welcome to the Global Crest Art + Jazz Showcase, where music, art, and style blends and mixes it up to create the viewer entertainment experience. In this showcase, viewers will experience amazing music and art of Brazil.Welcome to the Global Crest Art + Jazz Showcase, where music, art, and style blends... more
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“Just What I See” is a remarkable collection of iPhone photographs of New York City street life by Greg Schmigel. The series of black-and-white photographs offers a candid look at everyday moments in the lives of people and strangers on the streets and public places of the city. The images reveal a deeply personal sense of beauty evoked by the more simple aspects of life: the facial features of a stranger, a man’s gait, the shadows or reflections of a woman, the quiet smile on the face of a passing child. The photographs capture the beautiful, dreary, mundane, sad and sometimes outrageous features of daily life in the big city in a very intimately touching way.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as a fascinating slide show and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/just-what-i-see-photographs-of-new-york-city-street-life/“Just What I See” is a remarkable collection of iPhone photographs of New... more
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“The Harlem Album: A Century in Images” is a remarkable collection of photographs curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Home to writers and revolutionaries, artists and musicians, Harlem has also long been a source of inspiration for countless photographers. The selection of images provided here includes photography by James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Dawoud Bey and Kenneth Nelson, with photographs that reveal a broad and beautiful new visual survey of the neighborhood.
“The choices in this collection were all about offering a wide variety of ways of looking and seeing and thinking,” says Studio Museum Curator Golden. Even when it comes to some of Harlem’s legendary icons, the variety of photographs is telling. There are the pictures of Malcolm X addressing a crowd, but also intimate scenes in which Diana Ross and James Brown shed their public masks. Joe Louis, surrounded by cheering locals, peers coolly at the camera. And Langston Hughes stands, appropriately, on his own stoop, an architectural feature that serves as a “site of memory” in many Harlem photographs. In a neighborhood that has symbolized so much, to people all around the world, the stoop was also a kind of threshold: between home and the larger world.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a memorable slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/the-harlem-album-a-century-in-images/“The Harlem Album: A Century in Images” is a remarkable collection of... more
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