Nobody's Diary

02/07/2009

woot!

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t-minus 5 hours!!~!

(picture via the nha’s flickr, obvi.)

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“if i’m not home at the stroke of six, my pussy goes mad!”

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Mrs. Slocombe is dead.

This is all too much. I grew up on PBS rebroadcasts of British sitcoms and Mrs. Slocombe was always my favorite. Are You Being Served? is still funny to this day and I always knew Mollie Sugden could kick the crap out of Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket on Keeping Up Appearances). So, she was 87, which is old, I suppose. But this week of death is just getting worse and worse. The only thing worse than this is if Bea Arthur came back to life and then DIED AGAIN. AND THAT IS BAD!

Also: Nantucket tomorrow! That makes it a little better, I guess.

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29/06/2009

» NYT: City Hall Art Project Sets Off a Rolling of the Eyes

Oh, art..what will you come up with next?

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» Nantucket Historical Association's Flickr Stream

It’s pretty incredible if you like nautical things and maritime history and new england and stuff. check it out!

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Also: Three Days until Nantucket!

1904, photo Alanson S. Barney. Lightships were "floating lighthouses." Between 1820 and 1983, 116 lightships were established by the U.S. Government. Image number: P14137

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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

I have been reading The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall. I had been interested in Crowhurst as a subject mostly because of my interest in Bas Jan Ader, an artist who dissapeared while crossing the Atlantic as part of an art performance titled In Search of the Miraculous (first image below) and Tacita Dean, another artist who made a series of works - called Disappearance at Sea - of which Crowhurst was a subject (see the last image below). I have gotten through about half the book and the subject is still absolutely fascinating - deception and madness and isolation in the middle of the cold, gray seas. I plan on writing a review of sorts when I have finished reading. For now, I leave you with a photo essay to enjoy while I finish the book.

Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous.

Donald Crowhurst’s Teignmouth Electron after its discovery, abandoned.

Teignmouth Electron as it exists today.

Donald Crowhurst.

Tacita Dean, The Sea, with a Ship, Afterwards an Island, 1999 (detail).

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Above video still from White Glove Tracking, 2007, by Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth

Rhizome.org posted this awesome link on their Facebook page this morning. There is an incredible amount of Michael Jackson related art out there, just check out VVORK’s last dozen or so posts (I already posted a link to a Candice Breitz work below). Rhizome commissioned this work in 2007 and you can see the webpage and video here. So far, this is the coolest Michael Jackson art I have seen, but the search shall continue.

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“ If the country needs any Defense of Marriage Act at this point, it would be to defend heterosexual marriage from the right-wing “family values” trinity of Sanford, Ensign and Vitter. „

Frank Rich - 40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans - NYTimes.com (via rickr) (via asprettyasasong)

Right on! “Family Values”…

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