Monday, December 28, 2015
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Awww Yeah vol. 44 / Negation Aspiration vol. 10
He left a note on the door: “I’m killing myself, the key is with Claude Fonsale, the lawyer.” Beside his corpse was a second note, railing against “all the bastards who have been a pain in the arse all my bloody life”. Molinier staged his death, just as he staged so much of his life. He found it amusing, he once wrote, that those who would come to dissect his corpse (which he had donated to science) would discover his toenails immaculately painted red. Molinier, who also had a thing about guns, shot himself in the mouth in front of a mirror. He wanted to watch. Throughout his work there is a quest for obliteration, losing himself in sex and in the merger with a fantasised feminine alter ego.
Pioneer of perversity: Pierre Molinier's extreme exposures
High-heeled, corseted, impaled, auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window on a forbidden world – and have made him a cult figure. Do not try this at home
High-heeled, corseted, impaled, auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window on a forbidden world – and have made him a cult figure. Do not try this at home
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Negation Aspiration vol. 9
Disturbing, not pleasing, should be art’s role
Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen challenged Australian artists and arts organisations to be bold, and to challenge an increasingly ossified status quo in her closing keynote address at the 2015 Australian Theatre Forum(ATF).
‘We created a culture of “pleasing” that is now hijacking us,’ she said. ‘We want to please everybody: the audiences, the subscribers, the sponsors, the press, the colleagues… a big mistake!
‘Art should not please. On the contrary. Art has to show where it hurts in our societies, in our world. We urgently need the courage back to pick up this role of disturbers again.’
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Thank You For This Friendly World vol. 19
Busted ex-police chief blocked FBI probe of Gilgo Beach murders
"That’s because he learned he was in the FBI’s cross hairs for assaulting Christopher Loeb, who allegedly stole his sex toys, "
Long Island is the Florida of New York.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Thank You For This Friendly World vol. 18
FBI Joining 'Long Island Serial Killer' Investigation
Sini's announcement of the FBI involvement comes one day after the department's former chief, James Burke, was indicted on federal charges that he beat a man suspected of stealing items from the officer's SUV, and then conspired with other officers to cover it up. Burke, who resigned as chief in October amid the federal investigation, has pleaded not guilty.
The confessed larcenist’s illicit haul included a duffel bag containing some of Burke’s property, including handguns, ammunition, mace, and what Loeb described as a stash of “nasty porn” and “sex toys.”
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Awwww Yeah vol. 42
"I have never claimed to be a feminist or a nice guy, or the boy next door or anything like that.I am a pornographer.It’s all I ever wanted to be."
- James Deen
- James Deen
James Deen Breaks His Silence: ‘I Am Completely Baffled’ by Rape Allegations
Monday, December 7, 2015
We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 225: Top DVDs of 2015
nightmarishly reappraises the mock-snuff genre with an atmosphere of humid putridity and ritualistic quietude.
an artfully startling yet surprisingly humane look at rape culture and all its tangential effects.
the duo behind You're Next offers up and synth ladden neon blasted action horror that plays like a brainstorming session between William Friedkin and John Carpenter being interpreted by Buddy Giovinazzo going off tapes he secretly recorded through a wall. and also Maika Monroe needs to call me.
if Crimson Peak left you cold (as it did for me), then this surrealistic modern gothic tale with no small nods to Mario Bava, Antonio Margheriti, and the like should cure what ales ya.
murder competition between internet BFFs from the minds behind The Raid.
another entry in the burgeoning "What Could Have Been" Comedy Docu-Drama genre. doesn't quiet reach the heights of Jodorowsky's DUNE, but still packed with enough insight into the frequently terrible process of big game film making.
David Cronenberg's most genuinely subversive film since 97's Crash and his funniest film ever. incredible performances from all involved.
somewhere between Possession, Thantomorphose, and a little Videodrome for structure lurks this brilliant blend of occult conspiracy, allegorical body horror, and coal-raking Hollywood satire.
An American ghost story's rustic surface with an Italian ghost story irrational beat.
Sion Sono inimitable love letter to the blissfully batshit genre cinema of his homeland.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Awww Yeah vol. 41
Art Basel visitor randomly follows woman around show, then stabs her in the NECK - and witnesses who think it's art do nothing
- A woman was stabbed with an X-Acto knife during a fight at Art Basel Miami Beach Friday in the Miami Beach Convention Center
- Police said the victim confronted the suspect, Siyuan Zhao, about purposely following her around the art show and bumping into her several times
- Zhao pulled out an X-Acto knife and stabbed the victim in the right side of the neck and left shoulder without warning or provocation
- The victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and is expected to survive
- Zhao was arrested, admitted to stabbing the victim and she has been charged with felony attempted murder
- Some patrons thought they were watching performance art during the stabbing
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