Friday, 28 September 2012

♪♫ Hank Dogs - 18 Dogs/Whole Way

FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 - Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London (October 27th, 2012)

This event honours The Final Academy which took place in London 30 years ago this October, and which featured William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, 23 Skidoo, and Psychic TV.
Organised by Joe Ambrose, FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 will feature :
-The movie Words of Advice; On the Road with William Burroughs
-Language Virus by Raymond Salvatore Harmon with music by Philipe Petite,
-William Burroughs, 1914-1997 by Gerard Malanga
- Spoken word performance by Scanner and others.
FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 will be marked by the pubication of Academy 23, an anthology edited by Matthew Levi Stevens featuring Jack Sargeant, Joe Ambrose, Gerard Malanga, Emma Doeve, Paul Green, and John Balance (Coil).
Soundtrack for the event provided by Testing Vault, Plague Doctors featuring DJ Mix by DJ Raoul, Islamic Digger No1. One Way, Alma featuring Joe Ambrose.
INFO
Words of Advice ( Dir. Lars Movin, Steen Møller Rasmussen) features previously unseen footage of Burroughs on tour in the late 80s, plus rare home movies of Burroughs in Kansas towards the end of his life. Contributors include Patti Smith John Giorno, Islamic Diggers, and Bill Laswell.
Scanner is one of the leading electronic musicians of his generation. In 2004 he was commissioned by Tate Modern to create thir first sonic art work. He is a contributing editor to kultureflash.net
Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a distinguished American graffiti atist, painter, and filmmaker. Utilizing new media, urban art, and interactive architecture in coordination with public performance, graffiti style ad bombing, and web based social engineering Harmon's work has carved out an over arching form of contemporary media insurgency.
Gerard Malanga was, according to the New York Times "Warhol's most important associate." A poet and photographer, Malanga's best known photographs feature his friends Iggy Pop, William Burroughs, and Bob Dylan.
Joe Ambrose directed the movie Destroy All Rational Thought featuring William Burroughs and co-prodced the album 10% featuring Marianne Faithfull, John Cale, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Scanner.

Images: Matthew Levi Stevens

The Origin of the Psychic Cross

The psychic cross was designed roughly by me. Dan Landin helped today up the ruff edges. (aka Stan Bingo). The proportions are supposed to be 2 to 3.i.e. Say the vertical is 3 inches long. Then the two larger crossing lines at top and bottom are 2 inches long and the centre smaller crossing line is two thirds of 2 inches. (too tired to work that out). It contains the Christian cross, the so-called inverted “satanic cross” by being superimposed they symbolize the nullification of that whole judeo-xtian totalitarian disaster that has left millions dead over 2000 years and still counting. The logo for Zyklon B gas used in death camps during Hitler’s maniacal decade of irrational mass tyranny was three horizontal lines through a vertical line BUT the centre line was longer than the other two. By reducing the large centre line to a short one it symbolizes the reverse of POISON and mutates it to PURITY, There is a pattern you can create, a grid of crosses that reveals the negative spaces between all the solid P. crosses becomes swastikas. My lifelong connection with Tibet and its Buddhism has reminded me that Asia, and in fact most cultures have used the “sun wheel” motif in design and spiritual belief systems for literally thousands of years. The empty space represents that swastika as the symbol forever associated with Hitler’s insanity, a dark shadow, its potential for harm held back by the communal positivity of the Psychic Cross. The One True TOPI TRibe and all those who use it as a symbol of their personal quest for wisdom and positive, compassionate change are able to recognize like-minded individuals in a non-verbal reaction that bypassing imposed, suppressive cultural filters and block of conditioning allows more readily for positive contact with their ad hoc “tribe”. Burroughs and Gysin did a lot of research into heiroglyphics and concluded the collect and process information directly in the entire nervous system. There is no translation into formal, linear language. Magic is believed to “work” by passing a clear focused desire directly into a deep consciousness that enables our mind to be re-programmed for behavioral change. And until root redundant negative behavior, knee jerk fears, prejudices, self sabotage and other issues exploited by those who would maintain power and control over us, the human species will continue its ever more destructive loops and EVOLUTION will be left on hold. The Psychic cross, and this part is rickety due to our unfamiliarity with Japanese and Chinese (Gysin studied Japanese, Burroughs Mayan codices and Egyptian Hieroglyphs). We have been told by people with these 2 oriental languages as their first language that, if you remove the bottom horizontal it means honorable warrior in Japanese, in another variation it means connection to nature. We registered the Psychic Cross as our international trademark to have the option to prevent dishonorable or destructive, or meaningless profiteering. Once a group put a big P Cross on a CD release without asking permission knowing they would sell extra copies to the TOPI Tribe as they’d assume it WAS part of their gradually growing and precious TOPI cultural experiment
- Geneis Breyer P'Orridge

Psychic TV: First Transmission (1982)

(NSFW)

Shock and Bore

Language Virus

The Partner

Why I burned my 'Proof of Aboriginality'

Legalize Heroin. Ban Hippies

Raymond Pettibon
Expo/book
Info

♪♫ PIL - Reggie Song (Later with Jools Holland)

Truth

Via

Glasgow

Ross Kemp has reported from Afghanistan and confronted bloodthirsty gangs in all the far-flung corners of the world.
Yet the toughest place he's ever been is a lot closer to home - Glasgow.
There'll be a reason why I left back in the seventies!

Speed Camera Shy - Blindspot by the Lighthouse (Hashashan remix)

Raymond Antrobus dropping some poetry
(Thanx Fritz!)

'100' (from 0 to 100 years 150 seconds)

In October 2011 I started documenting people in the city of Amsterdam, approaching them in the street and asking them to say their age in front of the camera. My aim was to 'collect' a group of 100 people, from age 0 to 100. At first my collection grew fast but slowed down when it got down to the very young and very old. The young because of sensivity around filming or photographing children and the very old because they don't get out of the house much. I found my very old 'models' in care homes and it was a privilege to document these -often vulnerable- people for this project.
I had particular problems finding a 99 year-old. (Apparently 100 year-olds enjoy notoriety, but a 99 year-old is a rare species...) And when I finally did find one, she refused to state her age. She simply denied being 99 years old! But finally, some 4 months after I recorded my first 'age', I was able to capture the 'missing link' and conclude this project. Enjoy.
(By the way: together these people have lived 5050 years...)
Shot on a Panasonic GH2
Lenses used: mainly a Cosmicar TV lens 25mm 1.4, Panasonic 20mm 1.7
imaginevideo.nl
filmersblog.com
Via
(Thanx Sander!)

Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (1984 / Full Album)

1. "Something I Learned Today" 00:00
2. "Broken Home, Broken Heart" 02:01
3. "Never Talking to You Again" 04:06
4. "Chartered Trips" 05:48
5. "Dreams Reoccurring" 09:27
6. "Indecision Time" 11:09
7. "Hare Krsna" 13:22
8. "Beyond the Threshold" 16:57
9. "Pride" 18:34
10. "I'll Never Forget You" 20:22
11. "The Biggest Lie" 22:42
12. "What's Going On" 24:45
13. "Masochism World" 29:10
14. "Standing by the Sea" 31:56
15. "Somewhere" 33:19
16. "One Step at a Time" 37:44
17. "Pink Turns to Blue" 38:34
18. "Newest Industry" 41:17
19. "Monday Will Never Be the Same" 44:23
20. "Whatever" 45:15
21. "The Tooth Fairy and the Princess" 49:11
22. "Turn on the News" 51:54
23. "Reoccurring Dreams" 56:21