Carolee Schneemann :: Fuses (1967) film/video, 22 min.
Artist Carolee Schneeman began work on her film Fuses in 1964, eventually finishing it 1967. Her performance piece, Meat Joy had been performed in Paris and NYC at the Judson Church the same year, along with her constructions Native Beauties (1962–64), Music Box Music (1964), Pharaoh’s Daughter (1966) and Her Letter to Lou Andreas Salome (1965). Continue reading Carolee Schneemann :: Fuses (1967) film/video, 22 min.
Inspirator: Daido Moriyama
Until a few years ago, I was able to stave off an awareness that there is not an ounce of beauty in the world, and that humanity is a thing of extreme hideousness. So I could shoot and believe in something. (1972) 
– Daido Moriyama
Kathy Acker :: I Was Walking Down The Street
from the album: Sugar, Alcohol & Meat, The Dial-A-Poem Poets, 1980
Lorser Feitelson, West Coast Hard-Edge Abstraction, Pt4
Lorser Feitelson, along with his wife Helen Lundeberg, were pioneers of what was to become known as Hard-Edge abstraction in the late 1940s into the 50’s. Lorser, along with his peers and fellow artists, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin were featured in the landmark exhibition, Four Abstract Classicists at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1959. Jules Langsner, critic, psychiatrist and organizer of the exhibition coined the term “hard-edge” in his essay for the exhibition’s catalogue:
“Abstract Classicist painting is hard-edged painting. Forms are finite, flat, rimmed by a hard clean edge. These forms are not intended to evoke in the spectator any recollections of specific shapes he may have encountered in some other connection. They are autonomous shapes, sufficient unto themselves as shapes.” Continue reading Lorser Feitelson, West Coast Hard-Edge Abstraction, Pt4
Jack Chick, American Christian Fundamentalist Crusader & Arguably A Folk Artist, Dead at 92
One of Chick Publications best selling tracts: “This Was Your Life”:
Jack Chick has died. The christian fundamentalist author, cartoonist and founder of Chick Publications passed away on October 23, 2016.
For many Americans, Jack Chick’s small, rectangular, illustrated booklets depicting the fiery struggles of good over evil in contemporary life are reminders of the fundamentalist evangelical christian tradition in the United States. “Chick Tracts”, as they are commonly referred to, are “tiny comic books printed on cheap paper that are ubiquitous in subway stations, rest stop bathrooms, inside the dresser drawers of hotel rooms, and littered around other public places nationwide. “(via rationalwiki.org) Chick Publications has been printing it’s their three by five inch comic booklets since the mid -60s from their southern california publishing company.
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Digestif
New Release-Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions :: Until The Hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGtDIEvg0Ag&list=RDHGtDIEvg0Ag#t=45
Last week, we were treated to a new album release from Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions, Until The Hunter. The new album breaks a seven-year silence from Hope’s last recording with the Warm Inventions. Joining her on vocals this time around is Warm Inventions member, Colm O Ciosoig of My Bloody Valentine. Continue reading New Release-Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions :: Until The Hunter
New Release: The Homie :: Too Late
An arresting debut release from The Homie (Cole MGN & JNadya) which evokes a past that comes directly to mind, even if it actually never happened. Premiered on GorillavsBear.net in October. This one hits the nail on the head. Hard.
“Too Late also possesses a haunting, eerily classic vibe, like Sade getting raw over the illest underground sound clash ride you’ve ever heard.” – gorillavsbear
Laure Briard :: Sur La Piste De Danse
Here’s some very fine pop, of the euro persuasion. And I can’t help but notice the parallels between her plaintive voix and that of Laetitia Sadier/Stereolab. France’s Laure Briard released this song this past July.
And fyi- a new single and video, “Dreams” dropped today.
The Incubator 