I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are so many people in the world; there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true, I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.
- Frida Kahlo
01. Gredit - Ben E Slow
02. Lou Teti - Shake (Drop Out Orchestra Reload)
03. Honom - Bedcat
04. Rambla Boys - Cocomero
05. Lou Teti - Love It (Dublin Aunts Rework)
06. Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You) Drop Out Orchestra Rework
07. Drop Out Orchestra - Ego (Black Strobe Remix)
08. Tronik Youth - Toke-Yo
09. Katzuma - Life In The City
10. Dub On Film (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)
11. Ajello ft Hard Ton - Chocolate Black Leather (Tempelhof Remix)
12. Fabmayday - Disco Verme (Drop Out Orchestra Remix)
13. 3io - Born Slippy
“In late August, a King County woman with a history of ‘black tar’ heroin injection arrived at a hospital with slurred speech, double vision and drooping eyelids, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Seattle & King County Public Health. About a week later, a man with a similar history of injection drug use was admitted with similar symptoms.
“Both saw their conditions worsen and were admitted to an intensive care unit. Botulism – a life-threatening but rare illness caused by a toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria – is strongly suspected in both cases, and testing to confirm the diagnosis is pending at a state laboratory.”
When Daniel P. Jones got out of jail, he never envisaged where he would end up - at the Venice Film Festival as the star of Amiel Courtin-Wilson's movie Hail, a rare Australian entry into the Venice program.
Courtin-Wilson, a young Melbourne filmmaker, who has won accolades with the documentaries Chasing Buddha and Bastardy, met Jones while working with Plan B, a Melbourne theatre group founded to help rehabilitate former prisoners through performance.
Hail tells the story of a prisoner who is released from a Melbourne jail and tries to return to a normal domestic and working life. It is based on the experiences of former prisoners like Jones, who allowed a film crew into the flat he shares with his girlfriend Leanne to film his family and former criminal associates.
Jones explained in Venice that he had already been in Cannes with Courtin-Wilson's short film, Cicada. Strangely enough he had dreamt he was coming to Venice this year - just like with Cannes in 2009.
Jones said he planned to marry his girlfriend soon "so the festival is like a honeymoon in advance".
Jones explained his first crime was being born. "After my mother and father separated, my mother became seriously ill and I was raised in a boys' home," he said. "So at the age of 12, I was exposed to all the things that happen in the criminal world."
Empire magazine film critic Damon Wise described Jones' performance as "brilliant in the moments when you really got inside his mind and he was articulating his rage. When his eyes glazed over and he was in the zone it was really frightening". Helen Barlow @'The West Australian' Venice Press Conference
The Responsive Eye, MoMA Catalogue (1965) [PDF, 80mb]
In 1965, an exhibition called The Responsive Eye, created by William C. Seitz was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The works shown were wide ranging, encompassing the minimalism of Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly, the smooth plasticity of Alexander Liberman, the collaborative efforts of the Anonima group, alongside the well-known Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Bridget Riley. The exhibition focused on the perceptual aspects of art, which result both from the illusion of movement and the interaction of color relationships. The exhibition was enormously popular with the general public, though less so with the critics. Critics dismissed op art as portraying nothing more than trompe l'oeil, or tricks that fool the eye. Regardless, op art's popularity with the public increased, and op art images were used in a number of commercial contexts. Bridget Riley tried to sue an American company, without success, for using one of her paintings as the basis of a fabric design.
The Op Art movement got a new lease of life in the first decade of the twenty-first century as new forms started once again emerging. In 2005, Indian artist, Devajyoti Ray started a new genre of art called Pseudorealism. Though the concept and the name of the movement was brought from the film-world, much of Pseudorealism depends on the intuitive use of colours and understanding the relationships between them. -- Wiki
