My goodness, these fellas sure have some filthy mouths.

You are invited to attend:

CONTRA MUNDUM III
Sunday, July 5, 2009
7PM

Animalize
Elad Lassry, artist, will discuss animal subjectivity
and the animal as subject in film and photography.

The talk will be followed by a DJ set by Wendy Yao of related music.

Mandrake
2692 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)

www.mandrakebar.com
www.osloeditions.com

If you are raped, you HAVE to kill the attacker immediately (or as soon as possibly) afterwards. This will prevent it from ever happening again. No piece of ass is worth dying over, and predators will move on to easier and more complacent victims if they feel like you have the will and fortitude to kill them if it happens. Often, if you show a willingness to fight, other inmates will help you out. This may come in the form of them telling someone not to fuck with you, to providing you with shanks/other weapons to kill the individual, etc.

Momus video interview.

The United States’ 2–0 victory over European champions Spain in the Confederations Cup semi-finals on Wednesday in South Africa, earns a place on the list of great international upsets.

and again

Just completed a rebuild of a ‘65 Moulton Standard.
Reyner Banham would be proud.
Thanks to Sara De Bondt for bringing it over to LA.

Flickr

Have a great weekend, you guys.

An interview, and some background on his Boy’s Own label.

“Dub is one of them musics,” he muses. “You have flirtations with other things but you get bored and you always go back to it. It works on a really basic level. It borders on the religious to me, sometimes, when I listen to it.”

Francis Alÿs (b. 1959, Antwerp, Belgium) is an artist who works across media and lives and works in Mexico City. In his most famous work, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), Alÿs recruited 500 volunteers outside of Lima, Peru. Each person moved a shovel full of sand one step at a time from one side of a dune to the other, and together they moved the entire geographical location of the dune by a few inches.

The video above is my personal favourite. Taken from the video description: Collaborating with the National Portrait Gallery, Alÿs released a fox, called Bandit, into the deserted gallery at night. Seen from the high viewpoint of the security cameras, the fox looks a little puzzled among all the paintings of the great and the good.

Thanks to Irene Van de Broek for the tip-off (my mom)

Have a great weekend, from the Tagbanger crew.

“A list of printers recommended by artist book publishers.”

Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band

Another Border:
A Selection of Films and Videos from the Cinémathèque de Tanger Archives
@ LACMA

Tuesdays: June 9, 16, 23 & 30 | 7 pm | Bing Theater
Tickets required: $7 general admission, $5 museum members,

TONIGHT, June 9

PROGRAM 1: (HI)STORY Tellers
 
An American in Tangier
Dir. Mohamed Ulad | 1993 | 27 min
The American writer and composer, Paul Bowles, reflects on his life in Morocco, his adopted home for over fifty years.
 
Vues du Grand Socco at du Petit Socco (View of the Main Square and the Small Square)
Dir. Gabriel Veyre | 1935 | 7 min
Photographer and filmmaker Gabriel Veyre was 25 years old when engaged by the Lumière brothers as a cinematograph operator. In 1901 he became the photographer and cinematographer to the Sultan of Morocco, and in 1935 he traveled around the country to build an archive of daily life in Morocco.

Intermission

Ouarzazate Movie (The Door of the Desert)
Dir. Ali Essafi | 2001 | 57 min
The people of Ourzazate, a small Moroccan town, make a living from international cinema productions. The whole population works as extras in films they will most likely never see. In the cloakrooms and casting sets, Essafi follows the people of the town in both their humiliations and Hollywood dreams.
 
This program will be accompanied by a special introduction by Bidoun Magazine (www.bidoun.com) and a reading by author Gary Dauphin. During the intermission attendees are invited to a reception sponsored by Bidoun Magazine.

The Cinémathèque de Tanger (www.cinemathequedetanger.com) is a nonprofit organization based in Tangiers, Morocco devoted to the preservation and promotion of Moroccan cinema. Curated by Bouchra Khalili and Yto Barrada, Another Border showcases the vitality of contemporary Moroccan film and video alongside the richness of historic archival footage from the region. This selection of Moroccan short movies, documentaries, experimental films, and videos follows the fault lines between representation and reality, in both daily life and extraordinary circumstances. The intersection between tradition, globalization, and shifting notions of ‘modernity’ creates not a clash, but a fertile space for reflection. Addressing both the complex space between the West and Morocco, the program provides a platform for further dialogue on the ideas of hope and hospitality.

Union Football League Playoff Final this Sunday, June 14th.
Schedule and Map and on league website:

You are invited to attend:

CONTRA MUNDUM II
Sunday, June 7, 2009
7PM

Private Issue New Age (PINA)
Anthony Pearson, artist, discusses Private Issue New Age recordings
(PINA), the final unexamined genre of rare records.

The talk will be followed by a DJ set of related music.

Mandrake
2692 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)

www.mandrakebar.com
www.osloeditions.com

Union Football League Playoff Semi Finals this Sunday, June 7th.
Schedule and Map and on league website:

make sure sound is on

Way Shape Form is Matthew Boyd and River Jukes-Hudson in Toronto.

Union Football League Playoff Quarter Finals start this Sunday, May 31st.
Schedule and Map below, and on league website:

Book launch & reception

Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Director’s Roundtable Garden | LACMA

Please join the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department to celebrate the release of the WORDS WITHOUT PICTURES publication, meet some of the authors, and start your own discussions.

Books will be available for purchase at the special discount price of $25 (plus tax).

www.wordswithoutpictures.org

Second Floor is a private exhibition space started by curator Sarvia Jasso and artist Kathryn Garcia. In part fueled by the economic crisis, Second-Floor was developed as a way to challenge the “white cube” mentality of the market driven NY art-world by providing artists a platform outside of the normal exhibiting structure.