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This youtubes clip catches gallery visitors interacting with sculpture. From the site: "Documentation of performance/installation by David Cross, 2006 at Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand. It explores the relationship between danger, pleasure and the uncanny."
Lars Larsen is a friend of mine I met studying art in college. Here's his nascent blog: larsloungeofthelost.blogspot.com
This is one that i'm fleshing out - oil with mostly knife work.
My friend Sarah Beckstrom is in town & we went to the first three bands of the Brooklyn vegan show today - we agreed on one thing about the first two act: testicular. Simple thrusting metronomic sound that increased, much like a boring lay, until the same BOOM BOOM BOOM resolved into a loudness crash petering out quickly with a tissue, a sigh and a cigarette. Snore. Although you got to admire a guy from LA who's got a bigger rack than mine trying to make a keyboard look rockin'. He even tipped the keyboard a few times, I guess, um, to rock out. It's a keyboard.
Then Oppenheimer came on. The geeked out keyboard transfer on the singer/non-drum/everything else-player's t-shirt won my heart, especially after wondering if the previous band leader had been aware of the irony I took from his rock-out the keyboard moves. It took a bit of time for the stars to align for the techie two person band: a lot of false starts & looping hurdles proved time inhibiting at first, but the sound they made, when they could get to making it, blew the two acts prior away. Nerd keyboard shirt guy sings into a highly tron-esque sound filtration that anyone familiar with the Oregon Trail or, for that matter, Tron, would get a kick out of. Dark pop with robot edge. Lotta fun. They play tonight in Brooklyn at Michelin.
Oppenheimer - tonight at 7p
October, 19 2007 at Michelene’s ALL AGES Show
1124 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
11211
Greenpoint -
Oppenheimer
FREE FREE FREE! I went on Wed for the first part of this "brooklyn vegan - return to the lower east side" - three dollar bloody mary happy hour special (the upstairs well vodka was Svedka - not wolfschmidt or some other toxin,) really nice bar staff and a dearth of hipster rockers.
Here's the line up with links to myspaces to sample the offerings::
Friday Oct 19th at Pianos on 158 Ludlow:
12:15 - i LIKETRAINS
1p - Fatal Flying Guiloteens
1:45p - Other Passengers
2:30 - Health
3:15 - Mika Miko
4p - Yeasayer
4:45 - Black Kids
5:30 - Saturday looks good to me
6:15 - Islands
7:15 - Yo Majesty
SAT Oct 20
Downstairs stage
12 - The King Left
12:45 - Tiny Masters of Today
1:30 - Georgia James
2:15 - Drug Rug
3 - Turbo Fruits
3:45 - Foals
4:30 - The Maccabees
Upstairs stage, concurrent:::
12:15 - Dave Godowsky
1p - Orba Squara
1:45 - Marla Hansen
2:30 - Scott Matthew - not sure if it's the UK Scott Matthew or the Brooklyn link to Maiden Names - or both - I kinda doubt it's the UK guy as his schedule indictates he's in England this week....
3:15 - Julia Kent
4 - Doveman
4:45 - Erik Friedlander
5:30 - Craig Wedren
6:15 - Tim Bracy - found links here and here
Local writer/performer Sarah Fisch hinked me to the brooklyn-vegan blog for the best news about music performance in the city. This was a free show at Pianos including the Meat Puppets, who were so much fun to watch play - haven't seen them since I was in Lawrence, Kansas.
Here's the a shot of the last act, Celebration. (that's a link to the myspaces)
Lead singer Katrina was asking for more vocals half way through the set - I wish it'd happened. She's got a real voice when she wants to use the diaphragm and can scream on pitch. The charged up performance added an incredibly talented sax performance (only in NYC) and a powerful drum presence with a full formal drum kit, a bongo player, and Katrina wailing away on a mini-timpani type drum with a mallet or maracas while singing.
Thank you, Brooklyn Vegan, for the free shows!! Thank you, Pianos! Hoorays!
Meat puppets
Sticker i like - going in 2 c meat puppetS now
