Wednesday, February 27, 2008

NEW

All the applicable Oranges photography is now up and available for viewing at...
myspace.com/fluxlifeinc

The photos are in the folder called (wait for it) Making "Oranges"

Friday, February 22, 2008

Save the Date




april 18, a friday, is the uic art + design bfa thesis show. i may or may not have work in it. i was under the impression that if you aren't graduating this semester (that's about 8 students out of 40) then you don't show anything, but then yesterday i was told that i do show work, followed by "well, let me ask the other professors." so, whether i show work or not, you should all try to stop by. i'm sure there's a reception or something before it opens up. free food is nice, even if you're not a college student.

also at uic: jackie has her job interview at the jane addams hull house museum in a few hours, so wish her luck!!!

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

WE ALL KNEW IT WOULD COME TO THIS


Iraq war vet accused of baby rape
1 hour, 57 minutes ago
JACKSON, Mich. - A former Army paratrooper who served two tours of duty in Iraq has been ordered tried on charges of raping and critically injuring a 3-month-old girl.

Kirk Coleman is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree child abuse, charges that carry up to life in prison.

Authorities say the then-27-year-old Coleman attacked the baby Sept. 14 in Jackson. The girl sustained brain damage and 17 broken bones and is undergoing therapy. District Judge R. Darryl Mazur ruled Tuesday there's enough evidence to warrant a trial.

Coleman allegedly told investigators he blacked out after drinking heavily and taking pain killers and awoke to find the injured baby in her crib, The Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. WILX-TV says he remains free on $100,000 bond.

The Associated Press left messages after business hours Tuesday seeking comment from defense lawyer Dennis Hurst.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

THE CINEMA

Deal Near on a Lost Welles
By HOWARD SWAINS
Special to the Sun
April 2, 2007

One of American cinema's lost masterpieces could finally reach theaters next year after a deal nears completion to edit and release Orson Welles's final, uncompleted film, "The Other Side of the Wind," according to the director and actor Peter Bogdanovich.

"The deal is 99.9% finished," Mr. Bogdanovich, a friend and biographer of Welles, said in an interview last month. Mr. Bogdanovich repeated his claims at an appearance at the Florida Film Festival in Orlando on Friday, according to a report on a Web site dedicated to Welles's work.

The unedited negatives of the film have sat in a Paris vault for more than 30 years, unseen by anyone other than Welles, who died in 1985.

Mr. Bogdanovich, who also acted in "The Other Side of the Wind," said negotiations with a "well-known cable network," which have lasted seven years, have ended with an agreement to complete the film. While Mr. Bogdanovich refused to name the channel, Showtime has long been associated with the project. A spokesman for Showtime said it was "still in negotiations" over the movie.

Welles spent at least five years during the 1970s working on "The Other Side of the Wind," which stars John Huston as an aging filmmaker directing what turns out to be his final movie. Huston's character dies in a car crash before he finishes his film, and Welles's story unfolds in flashback after the death of the central character, a device Welles previously employed in "Citizen Kane," considered by many to be the greatest film ever made.

Before he died, Welles claimed that the shooting of "The Other Side of the Wind" was almost complete, and the filmmaker is known to have edited between 40 minutes and 50 minutes of the work, excerpts of which have occasionally been screened at Welles retrospectives.

But the negatives were entombed in France against Welles's wishes after he accepted funding for the movie from an Iranian financier, Mehdi Bousheri, the brother-in-law of the former Shah. Bousheri invested a reported $1 million in the film during its drawn-out production, but the negatives became trapped in the vault of his Paris-based film company in the legal fallout of the Iranian revolution of 1979. Rumors of embezzlement of funding by a Spanish producer also surround the movie.

Welles managed to smuggle a working copy of his film out of Paris, but was denied access to the original negatives for the last 10 years of his life.

Subsequent attempts to edit and release "The Other Side of the Wind" have been scuppered at various junctures either by the Welles estate, managed by Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles, or Bousheri, who was keen to guarantee a return on his investment. Bousheri died last year, essentially releasing the negatives, but Ms. Welles has previously issued legal threats to block the movie's completion.

Mr. Bogdanovich said that the new deal, which will be completed within the next two months, satisfies all parties.

"We've been trying to get it done for 22 years," he said, referring to the length of time since Welles died of a heart attack.

"The Other Side of the Wind" was expected to be Welles's most ambitious movie, utilizing innovative shooting and editing techniques new to filmmaking in the early 1970s. Although he denied any autobiographical resonance, it also appears to be Welles's most personal film, with commentators who have read the screenplay suggesting that it contains a series of thinly-veiled caricatures of people who angered the director during his career.

Huston's character — the swaggering, white-bearded filmmaker named Jake Hannaford — bears a distinct resemblance to Ernest Hemingway, while Pauline Kael, the film critic, is the probable inspiration for a supercilious character named Juliette Rich, according to Chuck Berg, writing in the 2003 "Encyclopedia of Orson Welles."

The film also includes graphic sex scenes, some featuring Welles's long-term partner Oja Kodar, who also co-wrote the movie.

The centerpiece of Welles's film is a lavish 70th birthday party thrown in honor of Hannaford, during which the fictional director screens excerpts from his movie, also called "The Other Side of the Wind." Among the guests at the party are television documentary crews, journalists, and film students, who pick up the camera and shoot behind-the-scenes footage of the celebrations, creating multiple layers of narrative and at least one movie within a movie.

"The word didn't exist at the time, but it's what we now call a ‘mockumentary,'" Mr. Bogdanovich said. Mr. Bogdanovich's Los Angeles home was borrowed by Welles to shoot the party sequences.

Welles's footage is believed to be purposefully rough, representing these multiple "directors." He also recorded a number of overlapping strands of conversation, and, according to Mr Bogdanovich, had intended a number of trick shots that would have stretched available technology to the limit.

"It would have been difficult in Orson's day," Mr. Bogdanovich said of one scene in which Hannaford's film was to be seen on a drive-in screen as the sun sets behind it. "But we can probably do it on computers now."

Mr. Bogdanovich said he will work in a supervisory capacity on the editing of the film and is considering adding a further framing device to the story, depicting the lengthy struggle to get "The Other Side of the Wind" to the screen. The credits will, however, read "Directed by Orson Welles," according to Mr. Bogdanovich.

Frank Marshall, a line producer on the original production, could also be involved in the new release, according to Mr. Bogdanovich.

Welles's production, which began shooting in 1970, was consistently dogged by financial problems, often causing the director to suspend work on the movie while he took on lucrative acting or voice-over work. The struggle for finances eventually led to Bousheri and the resulting impasse.

Complicated legal disputes over ownership of the film have surrounded its production. Ms. Welles, Bousheri, and Kodar have all made claims to part or all of the copyright. The latter two reportedly agreed to a deal with Showtime in the late 1990s, but Ms. Welles subsequently issued a legal challenge.

The original Showtime deal fell through as a result of the legal wrangling, but Kodar, Bogdanovich, and Gary Graver, the cinematographer on "The Other Side of the Wind," all continued their attempts to finish the film. Graver died in November 2006, but had previously been to Paris to inspect the negatives, and confirmed they were intact.

In 2002, Graver told the Express of London that Welles had completed the shooting and sound recording of the movie, and all that remained was the editing. The movie "could be considered one of Welles's great films," Graver told the newspaper. "Its release could make people re-evaluate Welles's legacy."

Lawrence French, a journalist who has written extensively on Welles and has read the screenplay, agreed that the film is a masterpiece. But he also cautioned that editing such a complex picture will present unique challenges to Mr. Bogdanovich's team.

"No one has ever managed to duplicate Orson's unique editing style," Mr. French said. "It defies description. He does things you don't realize he's doing. Sometimes it isn't even logical."

Provided the deal is finalized, Mr. Bogdanovich expects editing to take at least a year, meaning the movie would not reach theaters until late 2008, at the earliest.

If it finally does reach the screen, Mr. Bogdanovich will have fulfilled a personal request made to him by Welles during a break in the shooting of "The Other Side of the Wind."

"Orson said to me, ‘If anything happens to me, you will make sure you finish it, won't you?'" Mr. Bogdanovich recalled. "It was, of course, a compliment and also a terrible moment. He pressed me to give some assurance, and it's been hanging over us for 22 years now."


---ALSO---
Anyone know anything about the following Godard films?

Le Gai savoir (Happy Knowledge)- this is being released on DVD in May
Ciné-tracts
Un Film comme les autres (A Film Like the Others)
British Sounds a.k.a. See You at Mao
Pravda
Le Vent d'est (Wind from the East)
Luttes en Italie (Struggles in Italy)
Vladimir et Rosa (Vladimir and Rosa)

The following two are out on Criteria right now and as soon as I getthe bank credit, I'm buying them.
Tout va bien (Everything's Going Fine)
Letter to Jane

Thanks!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS



Happy Birthday, Timothy Lawrence Szostak

I believe I remember you recently saying that 30 was the new 21.

So does that make 31 the new fountain of youth?

Race ya to the horizon!

Peace and blessings and healthy and happiness and security in 2008 and forever.

Love

Rich

Thursday, February 07, 2008

SERIOUSLY

The intersection Artesia & Avation- Los Angeles, CA

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS/SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT/LOOKING BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE STREET/NOT RUNNING WITH SCISSORS


Theres a change in pace
Of fantasy and taste
Do you like good music?
Do you like to dance? oh yeah.
Hangin out for a body shop at night
Aint it strange what we do to feel alright? oh yeah.
So when will you call?
Im experienced oh yeah

Face to face
And back to back
You see and feel
My sex attack
Sing it
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy

Its after midnight
Are you feelin alright oh yeah
Turn on the light, babe
Are you someone else tonight?
Neighbour to neighbour, door to door
Dont ask questions, theres time for it all oh yeah.

Face to face
And back to back
You see and feel
My sex attack
Sing it
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We cry
Flesh, flesh for fantasy

I sing for culture...

Father loves his son,
Mothers, daughters, too.
Its an old old story,
Cries the new world too.

Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh, flesh for fantasy
You cry
Flesh, flesh for fantasy




MUMBAI (Reuters) - A third undersea cable was cut on Friday, just two days after two breaks near Egypt disrupted Web access in parts of the Middle East and Asia, Indian-owned cable network operator FLAG Telecom said.

Egypt lost more than half its Internet capacity because of Wednesday's breaks and intends to seek compensation, its ministry of communications said in a news release.

India's booming outsourcing industry, which provides a range of back-office services, like insurance claims processing and customer support to overseas clients over the Internet, played down Wednesday's disruption, saying they had used back-up plans.

FLAG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of India's number two mobile operator Reliance Communications, said on its Web site on Friday its FALCON cable had been reported cut at 0559 GMT, 56 kms (35 miles) from Dubai, between the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

Egyptian telecom authorities said about 55 percent of the country's Internet capacity had been restored by Friday, thanks to rerouting of traffic.

Egypt is to ask FLAG and SEA-ME-WE to compensate its Internet and call centre companies.

The communications minister, Tarek Kamel, has also decided to make Egypt's Internet Service Providers and Telecom Egypt compensate all their Internet subscribers by providing them with a month's subscription free of charge.

The International Cable Protection Committee, an association of 86 submarine cable operators dedicated to safeguarding undersea cables, has declined to speculate on the cause of the breaches, saying investigations were underway

It said more than 95 percent of transoceanic telecoms and data traffic are carried by undersea, the rest by satellite.

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

So Many To Choose From!

Candy Dulfer | Discography Go to Artist's Main Page » Saxuality



Buy Saxuality Now »

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Saxuality
UPC: 078221867429
Label: Arista
Released: 5/20/1991
Rating: 0
Disc: 1
Genre: JAZZ
Discs » 1
Title Time Preview
1 Lily Was Here 6:59
2 Pee Wee 5:45
3 Saxuality 6:51
4 So What 7:34
5 Jazzid 7:01
6 Heavenly City 6:47
7 Donja 8:37
8 There Goes The Neighbourhood 5:55
9 Mr.Lee 7:32
10 Get The Funk 6:56
11 Home Is Not A House 6:50
12 Lily Was Here (DNA Remix) 7:07

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And That's A Fact!

2 little monkeys jumpin on the bed

1 fell down and broke his head

Mom came in and then she said...



THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR JUMPIN ON THE BED!

---the moral is, during crazy weather like this, drive carefully everyone and dont think you can beat the yellow light!

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

SUPER STUPID TUESDAY

Hey Everybody...

It's important to vote, fuck off. You should know why. Or dont vote. Freedom is free from the need to be free.

Anyway, I just want to announce Im voting for my man Mitt Romney. Why?

1) He's Mormon. So right off the bat, he's mad and has no qualms about announcing it. I'll take 100 Mormons over 1 Huckabee style Intelligent Design christian lunatic. Whats the difference between the two? Perception!

2) McCain is an old fucking war pig. Romney has never fought for anything, including and especially his own beliefs, more on that below.

3) In the beginning, there was Reagan. Then Bush which was Reagan II: Pride & Prejudice. Clinton was little more than Reagan with half the fat and 1/4 the salt. Then we had Bush II: Reagen to the X-Treme!!! McCain's been there for all of it. He's an old war pig. Romney is an entirely different breed of pig. We need new blood! Romney as Ive noted is not a war pig. He voted for withdrawing at least some troops.

4) Romney is as close to pro-choice as a Republican can get these days.

5) Romney is/was like an investment bankers or some shit. He's not a war pig. He's a corporate pig. In other words, if you can convince him its financially viable, he'll go for it...which leads me to...

6) This motherfucker has no beliefs or values. In '94 he was the Pro-Choice republican. He has no backbone, and more importantly NO discernable moral or religious agenda. He is created by money and for money. In other words, he's a snake and we all know what we're dealing with.

7) Unlike McCain or Huckabee, he doesnt play the Daddy role. He is utterly unable to, I find that to be a great strength in any candidate.

8) If elected, Romney wants to "enforce" obscenity laws! A paragraph down he defends free speech. I admire anyone that insane and absurd. He wants to provoke a culture showdown? I say, bring it on.

9) McCain's people started a smear campaign cuz Romney talked shti about Reagan 10 years ago. The line was "if we cant trust him on Reagan, what can we trust him on?" I shouldnbt even have to explain why I think this is fucking brilliant. The Republicans are superb at keeping up appearances. Romney could be the man to fracture that for decades to come. Anything to create hatred and infighting and wedge them apart. Did you see Mitt & McCain argue about who's more conservative? Best TV comedy in years!

10) How can you resist this super solid head of teflon hair???


11) He's just so gross, totally unlovable. I love it.

12) He actually said this: "There is little risk of STD infection from playing with pee.”