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Sunday, February 21st, 2010Ping Pong party
Saturday, March 29th, 2008You guys are a lot of fun, and good neighbors.
Anyone who throws a huge ping pong competition party is a-okay.
I don’t know who won this crazee tournament.
No need to further comment.
LEAP DAY PARTY
Friday, February 29th, 2008Mardi-Gras, Leap-Day & Birth-Day(s) hell raising throw down.
OK… wow… Major party, thanks to all who came.
Lunar New Year = Chinese New Year party at my place..
Saturday, February 9th, 2008every year
Barrack Obama speaks in Boston, Super Tuesday 2008
Monday, February 4th, 2008Mr. Obama is introduced by Massachusetts super-star political team..
We had to wait a while, but the political luminaries were in force tonight to support a candidate for President..
Governor Deval Partick introduces
Senator John Kerry, who introduces
Senator Ted Kennedy, Who i joined by Caroline Kennedy, and then he introduces…
Senator Barrack Obama.!
Obama lost the Super Tuesday contest in Mass to Hillary Clinton, but… the story wasn’t over…
Here’s a clip of Obama “We will pay Teachers what they deserve!”
more to come..
“Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership”
Monday, January 14th, 2008Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership
by Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright speaks about her new sober book and takes questions during a sold out evening event. Got a fuzzy picture of Madeleine Albright, and a blurry good shot of the restaurant…
Time to eat
Harvard Book Store.
Artists against the War
Friday, January 11th, 2008Found this cool sticker in a friendly neon sign shop in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan.
“This was the worst war ever” : Ken Burns, transcript quote
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Ken Burns in conversation with Christopher Lydon
I’m very grateful that Christopher Lydon, was able to finally post the audio from his interview with Ken Burns in October.
I’m not particularly sentimental person, but Ken Burns does have a point about getting in touch with a moments and meanings and being sincere force in life. I really like the idea of lingering on something, in a disposable culture we don’t stop often enough to do deep thinking. I feel that many of the kids who grew up in the George Bush era
many are pausing on the gentle aspects of life as well. This year will see a new president arrive on the scene, but the cultural impacts of an ironic presidency and an cynically ironic war in Iraq, will continue to be felt. I have faith that our society can continue to gently purge out the people who don’t really care, and can replace them with individuals will to do actual hard work.
So, here is the transcripted portion from that interview. It could probably be better argued if Burns wrote it out, but I hope his idea is represented here. the full audio link is below…
Chris Lydon: You are trying to work this balance in this movie…. (between a past war and a present war)
Ken Burns:
“It is so simple to be revisionist, to say this was all all bad in the face of our current situation and our own revulsion with the myth of (American) exceptionalism…It is possible to go back and understand gutlessness.
It’s possible, not to react– in an ironic age– with irony.What I am, and unabashedly so, is unironic. Knowing full well that within an “unironic stance”, it is possible to appreciate irony. But an “ironic stance” does not know itself, or the opposite. It is only hip and edgy and ironic. It is a mobius strip, that goes nowhere.
And so, if you wish to risk “the blessing”, you also have to risk sentimentality and nostaglia. You have to risk the dissatisfaction of not being able to have things neatly resolved. Because what irony does is say, “nothing is going to be resolved, so let me resolve it by being disinterested in what it is all about anyway”.
“HUH…” is the war-cry of Irony.
I cannot be that. And yet within an unironic life… or our posture within a particular film, it is possible to parse excoriating irony, as this film does through out. “
More thoughts on the way sarcasm helps us survive a fast paced post modern life, in another post. But for now, let’s take a moment and ponder the rejection irony and detached living.
You can listen to the entire interview at:
“This was the worst war ever” Radio Open Source
Mentor-Disciple after all.
At first, my iconoclastic Alaskan male mind rejected this concept.
But you know what, I am the mentor. I am the disciple. All is good.
Happy new year
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008NOTE: It has been seven months after the fact….. but hey may, I’ve been busy, lots of backed up blogging ideas… but I’m ante-dating this post, because I want put it into the proper place. I’m a database guy after all, and linearity is important to me.
So, we went to a fun Moulin Rouge New Years Eve party last night, We dressed in character. Busted out some red leather Fluevogs, something appropriate for the French bohemian theme. I won’t call what I did “dancing”, but some might.
oh yeah and a new suspension UPGRADE to start the year off right! My snowmobile not only gets good gas mileage, but is the best ever now.
niiice…
Cliff Evans – EMPEREAN; Boston Bazaar Bizarre 2007
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Cliff Evans
EMPYREAN
(Nov 9, 2007 – Jan 13, 08)
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
I’ve been trying to find more video screenings, with out attending mini film festivals. I think I have some good leads, this came up and I saw it. This temporary video-art by Cliff Evans, might be the ONLY contemporary piece of art in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum– which is more known for its fantastic internal courtyard (now decked out in red poinsettias), leather bound books, doilies, old correspondence, and cool old furniture. The video piece was constructed of five screen projectors mounted the ceiling and projecting upon five widescreens (mounted lengthwise), three screens in the middle and two as the outer wings.
It started off with soothing electronic music playing and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie riding a camel into the desert and drawing the attention of locals, and paparazzi. As they brought their “celebrity” to the wasteland, many commercial trucks followed them, FedEx, etc, then the military drove in and many men parachuted into the desert. The place was then over-run by tourists, hospitality services, security contractors, military and commercial operations. Spas, tanks, religious preachers, pious people and thrill seekers. And then there was a weird/cool image of a multi-headed flying Cheetah with bird wings and human breasts, roaring and swooping down from the sky. Basically humanity is presented as lost among its animal pursuits. Does this human-system have a stopping point? How long can it sustain its own raging celebrity-party and self-satisfaction? The projection canvas is large but the video is short enough you can watch a few times to see all of the items.
All of the images that Cliff Evans used are found-photos cropped. segmented and animated in a MTV/documentary style. They soothing pan and zoom to tell the story of empire drunk on itself.
The rest of the Gardner Museum is much as it has been for the last several hundred-thousand-millenniums…. “Boston-beautiful” and quirky.
You can get an idea of Cliff Evans’s spacey detached multi-panel videos on YouTube:
15 Reasons to Go to War (part 1)
15 Reasons to Go to War (part 2)
Boston Bazaar Bizarre 2007!
Boston Bazaar Bizarre
I like going to this every year. It only lasts 6 hours, and I blew more money on funny craft-bling than I was expecting. But I do have to shop for the relatives in Alaska. I also bought a perfect bold graphic tote-bag and a handmade black and white comic for today’s secret Santa. The little ‘zine reminded me of my homer junior high school days, when my posse and I drew hilariously dumb black-and-white comic books….
