Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Lou Reed Berlin

Here's Antony with Lou Reed singing "Candy Says" in the new concert film Berlin by Julian Schnabel.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Banksy

There's been a whole lot of Banksy lately. I like this new pet store he's set up in New York full of animatronic chicken mcnuggets and hot dogs. And poor Tweety Bird, stressed and plucked, his feathers littering the bottom of his cage.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Mike Kelley


Day Is Done is a project by the artist Mike Kelley where he finds photographs from high school yearbooks that depict extracurricular activities like mixers and plays (left photo), then reconstructs the photo using actors (right) and projects an imagined scenario onto it, complete with music that is a pastiche of the high school musical form. In one interview, Kelley cited Robert Altman's Nashville as an influence:
“I’m not a fan of Altman,” Kelley says, “but what I like about that film is that you can tell quite clearly, throughout the entire film, that he absolutely hates country music. So that was an inspiration in terms of being completely negational.”