Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Failure to Communicate with Cats?

I've been somewhat busy with work these days and therefore choose to remain offline unless I have to be, but I just logged in and read an RIP Paul Newman email Wagga sent. This "failure to communicate" scene from Cool Hand Luke will always remain a classic:



Newman has done some great films, but my favorite is Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. He took some serious risks playing that role in that era and stage in his career, but he did an incredible job anyway.



Question:
What was your favorite Newman film?

UPDATE: Well, I was seeking a particular vintage Stereolab video on YouTube, but only found this:

Sunday, May 25, 2008

À la recherche du temps perdu

memorial day by ~herekittykittay



memorial day by ~annalavigne

While you're enjoying your BBQ and day off, please take a moment to think about the more than 4000 troops in Iraq who died for...For what exactly?
Think of how many others are seriously crippled, brain-dead, committing suicide and ask yourself FOR WHAT EXACTLY?
FOR WHAT EXACTLY?????!!!!!!!!
For fucking what exactly?!!!!!!!
FOR FUCKING WHAT EXACTLY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When you find an answer that makes any ethical sense, please feel free to let me know what it might be.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

RIP Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg
Monogram
1955-59
mixed mediums with taxidermy goat, rubber tire and tennis ball, ca. 42 x 63 x 65 in., Moderna Museet, Stockholm

I particularly love his collage and found object Neo-Dada work from the 1950's.
Robert Rauschenberg
Untitled (Man with White Shoes)
ca. 1954
mixed mediums with taxidermy hen and a pair of painted leather shoes, ca. 87 x 237 x 26 in.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Robert Rauschenberg
Bed
1955
mixed mediums, ca. 75 x 32 x 8 in.
Museum of Modern Art

“Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell, he helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.”