Photo: Jodi Cobb
Episode 11:
Shotguns, peacocks, golf, acid. Editor Terry McDonell recounts his 1984 visit, along with George Plimpton, to Hunter S. Thompson’s home in Colorado, including never-before-heard archival tape; a poem by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid and read by Antonio Gueudinot; and actor Paul Heesang Miller reads “William Wei,” a short story by Amie Barrodale.
Angel Valodia Matos, of Cuba, kicks referee Chakir Chelbat after being disqualified from his +80kg quarterfinal against Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan. 2008. Photo: Issei Kato.
“He got injured in the bout. To me it was obvious he was unable to continue. His toe on his left foot was broken,” said Arman Chilmanov, who went on to win the bronze medal.
Ah Man, Chill Man.
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
Tokyo Idols 2017
A new documentary by Kyoko Miyake, now on Netflix. Her follow up to My Atomic Aunt.
Recently, I was deeply disappointed to see the male “locker room mentality” gain a renewed validation. And yet it ignited something in me. I want “Tokyo Idols” to serve as a mirror — an uncomfortable mirror to look at. And if it becomes part of the ongoing discussion and fight, that would make me incredibly happy.
John Bryson
Ernest Hemingway kicking a can of beer 1959
The original captions from LIFE magazine reads:
At 60 and still full of the Old Nick, Papa Hemingway booted a beer can high in the air along a Idaho road. This was, he said, “the best picture I ever had taken.”
I was just listening to the Paul Thomas Anderson interview on the Adam Buxton podcast and they discuss a letter that 21 year old Gregory sent to his father Ernest in 1952.
“When it’s all added up, papa, it will be: he wrote a few good stories, had a novel and fresh approach to reality and he destroyed five persons — Hadley, Pauline, Marty [Martha Gelhorn, Hemingway’s third wife], Patrick and possibly myself. Which do you think is the most important, your self-centered shit, the stories or the people?”
Cold blooded.
Tom Sachs
Chabako (Tea Utensils) 2015
Sachs:
I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it’s done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it.
Here’s a clip of him showing how his new exhibition works.
Tom Sachs’ art is so much fun.
I love this video, and there’s many more.
The reference to The Shining is ingenious.
How is the assistant director dodging Jack’s axe right here? he he.
Timothy McNealy
Easy, Easy, Easy from Funky Movement
Here the Spotify link.
This is the song to go with today’s surrealist The Bus strip by Paul Kirchner.
Have a look through here for some more.
Long distance runner Cliff Young jogging near Beech Forest, Victoria.
Photo: Newspix
Today I learned of Cliff Young. A potato farmer from Beech Forest Victoria, who at 61 ran from Sydney to Melbourne in five days, 15 hours and four minutes. His trick was to not sleep like the other runners.
Before running the race, he told the press that he had previously run for two to three days straight rounding up sheep in gumboots. He claimed afterwards that during the race, he imagined that he was running after sheep and trying to outrun a storm.
There are some more photos over here.
Here’s Cliff having a sleep after the race.
I don’t think i’d bother having a shower either.
Machines 2017
As soon as you enter this environment, there are many conflicting feelings, but the first primary one is of extreme wretchedness. The factory smelled like an absolute vat of ammonia, the chemical. I’m serious. It was my sincere desire, in many ways, to bring ammonia to the screen, so that people can really feel the stench while they’re watching this. Of course, that’s not possible. But there’s just this extreme sensory overwhelming nature of the way things are done there.
File this away for viewing next time you’re complaining about your day at work.
Christo
One Million Stacked Oil Drums
(Project for Houston-Galveston Area Texas)
Collage 1970
In other husband and wife team news, Christo, now working on his lonesome, is going ahead with a titchy floating version of their Mastaba in Hyde Park London. Is it worth building a Mastaba if it’s not going to be 150m high and make the Pyramid of Giza look like a three bedroom West Heidelberg townhouse with no aircon?
Probably. Nice colours.
In case you missed it, the Floating Piers videos from 2016 are amazing.
Laissez Bronzer les Cadavres! (Let the Corpses Tan)
Written and directed by husband and wife team Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. Their follow up to The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears.
If you’re going to reference Tarantino so hard, is putting a song from one of his films in right the trailer step too far?
Probably not. Anyway, it looks fantastic. I love the careful composition.
I read that they didn’t record any sound as they were filming which seems nuts to me but I guess it is true to the tradition of Spaghetti Westerns and Giallo films.
Don’t expect this at a cinema near you.