If you read my post about this past week being free at MOCA and The Geffen then you know how excited I was to see Chris Burden’s, The Big Wheel. Well the God’s were on my side when I notice a crowd around this woman struggling to start an old blue Triumph that powers….THE BIG WHEEL. It is a display of power and fluidity that most be felt in person. You become the moth to the flame forgetting all about the power it wields. Until the security guard reminds you that it’s a bad idea to be two feet from a 3 tons of kinetic energy.
I was told that twice a day someone starts the motorcycle up, I was around 3:30, F.Y.I.
I was actually considering seeing the movie before I saw the trailer. By far the most schizophrenic cast I’ve ever seen. It would only be worth seeing it for Marion Cotillard and Penélope Cruz. What a shock that it was made by the same people who made Chicago. I think I take more offense to this movie than the people that take out their pitchforks for the Twilight movies.
Full cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson (Fergie), Kate Hudson
Found this photo set online of pictures of S.T.R.E.E.T.S. (an acronym spelled out in the title of this post). The now defunct vancouver shredders made a lasting impression on us a few years back by skating over the top of Steve’s rental car, and dropping in off of the back. You should find their music, it sounds how it looks. Below is a link to pictures of some of the best dudes ever, with the best band name ever, enjoying what looks like the best summer ever.
Sports titans “captured at the height of their youthfulness and fame” by Andy Warhol on Polaroid.
“…Straightforward portraits shot with the Big Shot camera — gives the tiny images a purity and sincerity that belies the radiance and aura of greatness coming from the sitters”. -NY Times
This small collection commissioned by a collector in the late 70s and 80s will be showing at Danziger Projects.
A few days before Halloween, I was driving on a freeway when I see a bizarre looking car, looked like it was from the 50’s, and resembled the batmobile. But what caught my eye more was what appeared to be hanging from the rear-view mirror, a shrunken head. Ever since then that’s been on my mind, and as if to appease me, National Geographic just did a special on head shrinking.
“The practice of ‘head-shrinking’ ; has been the proper domain not of Africa but rather of the denizens of South America. Specifically, in the post-Columbian period, it has been most famously the practice of a tribe of indigenous people commonly called the Jivaro or Jivaro-Shuar. The evidence suggests that the Jivaro-Shuar are merely the last group to retain a custom widespread in northwestern South America. In both ceramic and textile art of the pre-Columbian residents of Peru, the motif of trophy heads smaller than normal life-size heads commonly recurs; the motif is seen even in surviving carvings in stone and shell. Moreover, although not true shrunken heads, trophy heads found in late pre-Columbian and even post-Columbian graves of the region demonstrate techniques of display very similar to those used by the Jivaro-Shuar, at least some of which are best understood in the context of head-shrinking. Regardless, the Jivaro-Shuar and their practices provide an illustrative counterexample to popular myth regarding the culture and science of the shrinking of human heads.”
(Scribd – Neurosurgery)
I stopped in Iceland once flying back to LA from London. On our arrival we flew low to the ground skimming the coastline past deep green grasses and solitary stacks of boulders. Once we landed I was quick to exit the plane then stopped and starred through the glass walled jet bridge.
Alexander Binder has two new photo series compiled from his recent trip to Iceland.
I’ve been in a Romo mood as of late and have been rediscovering a few things, such as the amazing movie Șatra Șatra. Svetlana Toma was so beautiful in it too, absolutely ridiculous. I wish I could say more information about the film but there’s pretty much nothing out there on it, which is disappointing.
I just discovered that the Mrs. Parker post I did last week is from an entire series by Josef Hoflehner called Jet Airliner. More arriving and departing, beach skimming bikini photos after the jump. (That’s the condensed description.)
