Paper Rad - P-Unit Mixtape 2005

ubuweb:

“WARNING: This tape is illegal. We’ve stolen everything. Don’t worry about it. Just don’t think we made it or tell people we made it. G.O.D. made it. Take a number. The line starts here.”

> Download: P-Unit Mixtape 2005 (2005) [avi]

This delirious montage of appropriated and computer-generated elements merges perennial Paper Rad themes such as Gumby and the 8-bit computer aesthetic with a keen, critical take on contemporary culture. This self-described “mix tape” - a term that refers here both to the group’s montage strategy and to popular compilations of bootlegged hit music - takes on the war in Iraq, the art market, and the images of ostentatious wealth and glamour flaunted by pop stars today.

Paper Rad is Jessica Ciocci, her brother Jacob, and their friend Ben Jones. Synthesizing and reprogramming popular material from television, video games, and advertising, Paper Rad works in an exuberant, neo-primitivist idiom of their own invention.

Paper Rad on UbuWeb:

http://ubu.com/film/paperrad.html

I think this might be the third time I’m saying this, but, I love you Ubu. Thanks for joining the Tumblr.

JFK Memorial, Dallas, TX
April 11, 1995

Wikipedia: “This monument stands 30 feet (9 m) high, 50 feet (15.2 m) long and 50 feet (15.2 m) wide. Crafted of pre-fabricated white concrete, it is reinforced with steel beams within its walls. The four walls form a room open to the sky. Its architecture is described as minimalist, as the creation was downgraded from marble to concrete in 1970. The open-air structure resembles an empty tomb, or cenotaph.”

anas a.: “One interesting thing to note, this open air monument is located in a noisy area of downtown, the walls are not just some cubic design. When we step inside the walls, we won’t hear any sound … giving us moments of silence and to reflect what had happened. Pretty profound to me, as it’s much better than erecting a statue there, it may have not expressed what the nation has felt.”

The monument seems to have been cleaned since then. I liked this visitor’s experience of the monument and I think the industrial dirt on the outside adds another layer to think about.

Grace Jones: I deliberately challenged men’s roles. In fact, I survived by taking on both roles. By the way, I also think that all men need to be penetrated.
Jean-Paul Goude: I beg your pardon?
Grace Jones: At least once in their lifetime.
Jean-Paul Goude: Why?
Grace Jones: Because then they would understand what it is like to receive. It’s my own theory, which I think could help take some of the aggression out of the world.

Oh, Grace. I love you.

On Your Knees! It’s Miss Grace Jones « Sublimefemme Unbound

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Akimbo: “Articles from India, Mali, Spain, the UK and the US, illustrated with beautiful photographs by Mathilde Bouvard, discuss pleasure and sex work, the failures of raids to help trafficked persons, violence against sex workers and more. The journal has just released its 11th issue in English and French, which you can download as a PDF by visiting the website, or you can request a paper copy by emailing editor [at] r4sw.org.”

Research for Sex Work 11

Yinka Shonibare - Scramble for Africa, 2003

Shonibare is best known for the satires of colonialism and other power structures that he carries out by making headless figures dressed in 18th or 19th-century costumes. Those costumes are always made of “African” cloth that actually originated with the Dutch, who lifted it from the Batik cloth of their Indonesian colony, then marketed it to Africa.

God I love clever art. Also check his piece The Swing (after Fragonard).

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"what is Indian art? Is it any art made by an American Indian? Or does it only count if it fits in with non-Indians’ preferences for what Indian art should look like? What if a White person, say, masters the “traditional” style–is it Indian art then?"

What Counts as “Indian Art?” at Racialicious

I will never tire of Wonder Woman’s love of rope play.

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"You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work."

William Gibson

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“This project in downtown Phoenix was supposed to include nearly two dozen luxury homes, priced from $2.8 million to $4.5 million. But by early 2007, the city’s high-end condominium market — which was among the country’s hottest — had become oversaturated. Prices started to fall, and Chateaux on Central’s developer, Central PHX Partners, declared bankruptcy. A local commercial lender, Mortgages Ltd., stepped in that year with an offer to provide nearly $50 million in loans to help Central PHX complete construction. But the deal turned sour, and in March 2008, the developer sued Mortgages Ltd., claiming the lender had not made promised payments. On June 2, 2008, the C.E.O. of Mortgages Ltd., Scott Coles, committed suicide. At the time, one-third of his company’s loans were in default. More than a year later, Chateaux on Central remains unoccupied and unfinished.”

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age - The New York Times Magazine

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Balint Zsako - Untitled (Couple), no date

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Louise Lawler - Pollock and Tureen, 1984
Silver dye bleach print; 28 x 39 in. (71.1 x 99.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000 (2000.434)

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Roxy Paine - Maelstrom, 2009
130’ x 45’, stainless steel
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
April 28 - October 25, 2009

Lots of Thoughts About Superheroes Kissing | Funnybook Babylon

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Yes, please.

Milan: D&G Men’s Spring 2010 | Coutorture