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Trevor Brown's stolen art for sale : unexpected epilogue!

I will return your works “Trevor Brown 1984-1993″.
Please return your address to my e-mail address
I am still sick but I’ve heard my friend KIKUTI said to me
“Trevor want to return his works”.

read this post first
it’s taken a while (17 years?) but today i got my artwork back! (minus several colour photos but nothing to cry about) - i guess i’m happy, particularly in the knowledge someone can no longer be tempted to impart a stupid amount of money for it - the actual art was mostly printed in “temple of blasphemy”, as i said - tho there are a number of drawings unpublished/unseen for decades (including a self-portrait!) - i’ll celebrate it’s return by posting a few here (before throwing it all in the trash!)

no, not me! - it’s an unused gg allin 7″ cover - i was told i drew him “too nice” (?) - my logo design for the label used instead
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SBTRKT - Wildfire (download)

Download ‘Wildfire’ ft.Yukimi Nagano (Little Dragon) by SBTRKT. Taken from the album ‘SBTRKT’ released June 28, 2011 on Young Turks.
Finally debut Album from our fav.artist SBTRKT
Tracklist
1 Heatwave
2 Hold On
3 Wildfire
4 Sanctuary
5 Trials Of The Past
6 Pharaohs
7 Something Goes Right
8 Right Thing To Do
9 Ready Set Loop
10 Never Never
11 Go Bang

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Mosques, Churches, and Synagogues Made From Bullets and Guns

A menorah welded from handguns; a relic display containing “trigger finger” bones of fictional Catholic Saints; scale replicas of cathedrals, synagogues and mosques sculpted with artillery shells, tank parts and bullets — all of these are part of American artist Al Farrow’s Reliquaries series. There aren’t just weapons here: a piece of the Berlin Wall, a part of an Israeli Army issued Tefilin bag and rusted war antiquities excavated in France intermingle with bone and steel walls of Farrow’s model houses of worship. Whether topped with a crucifix, a six-point star or a crescent, the objects are powerful plays on history of religion and violence.
Al Farrow’s New Reliquaries are currently exhibited at the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, including his most recent and ambitious work Bombed Mosque, a meticulously detailed, 780-pound sculpture composed from 50,000 bullets.
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Real Teabaggers don't choke.

Threads - Nuclear War (1984)

Threads is a 1984 television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesize the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.(Thanx DJ Pigg!)

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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film made for television by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, and Tilda Swinton.
A biography of Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon (Jacobi), it concentrates on his strained relationship with George Dyer (Craig), a small time thief. The film draws heavily on the authorised biography of Bacon, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson, and is dedicated to him.
The film won three awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: Best New British Feature (director John Maybury) and two Best British Performance awards, one for Jacobi and the other for future James Bond actor Craig. The film was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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Breathless : Classic (ABC At The Movies w/ David Stratton & Margaret Pomeranz)

Review by Margaret Pomeranz

This week's classic is BREATHLESS. Michel Poiccard, JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO, a petty criminal, steals a car in a coastal town and finds a gun in the glove compartment. He shoots a policeman who stops him en route. In Paris he tries to get hold of some money while resuming his relationship with Patricia, JEAN SEBERG, an American who sells copies of the Herald Tribune on the Champs Elysses.
Arguably, Jean-Luc Godard's A BOUT DE SOUFFLE, made in 1959, was the most original first feature since CITIZEN KANE or THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. Godard was one of a group of French cinephiles, a group that included Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer, who had all written about film in the magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Godard himself said that with BREATHLESS he referenced scenes from the Hollywood films he admired - from directors like Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Otto Preminger and George Cukor.
Belmondo's amoral crim is patently inspired by Humphrey Bogart, while Jean Seberg was cast in what Godard claimed was a continuation of her role in Preminger's BONJOUR TRISTESSE. Godard threw out the rule book with this film; his characters break the fourth wall and address the camera, there are jump cuts, controlled hand-held camera: the director was taking the familiar story from a Hollywood B movie and filming it as though the cinema had just been invented - he even dedicates the film to Monogram Pictures, the lowest of Hollywood's poverty row studios. Banned in Australia for years because of its alleged immorality, BREATHLESS is an astonishing film - rough, abrasive, seemingly improvised and casual - it still radiates a strange charm thanks to the magnetism of Belmondo and Seberg. Jean-Pierre Melville, who plays Parvelscu, the visiting intellectual interviewed by Patricia, was a French director influenced by Hollywood thrillers and much admired by the New Wave directors.
BREATHLESS took my breath away when I saw it in London in 1961; when I arrived in Australia and found it was banned here I became a rebel with a cause.
DAVID: Margaret?
MARGARET: It's unbelievable. If ever there is an argument against censorship it's this film being banned.
DAVID: Well, it was criminal.
MARGARET: For goodness sake really.
DAVID: It was criminal because this was the film that changed cinema.
MARGARET: Well...
DAVID: And a whole generation of Australian filmgoers couldn't see it.
MARGARET: Yes. Yes. I saw it many, many years later and I revisited it again recently and it's interesting looking at it again and thinking that, in 1959 it was - it took everybody's breath away. It's almost like a feral film in a lot of ways. It's sort of like he's constantly making phone calls to no avail. He's constantly buying newspapers. He's stealing cars. The number of cars in that film is just unbelievable. Usually they're American tanks. It's sort of like it's bizarre. That bedroom scene between the two of them, where they talk about nothing for at least 25 minutes, it's absolutely bizarre and wonderful and you can see...
DAVID: But it's so charismatic.
MARGARET: Yes.
DAVID: Yes.
MARGARET: But the way it's shot too. The way it embraces the streets of Paris and Raoul Coutard, who shot it, said that they never had permission for any of the stuff they shot on the streets of Paris.
DAVID: No.
MARGARET: It was really bushranger filmmaking.
DAVID: Yes, absolutely. Yes.
MARGARET: And obviously low budget but full of some strange joie de vivre. I don't know and anarchy and, oh, it's wonderful. It's wonderful.
DAVID: Yes. Well, it certainly changed my film-going life.
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List of films still banned in Australia