Hekje (Fence) (2006, 4.2MB, 1:52 min)
If Maurice Bogaert tried this in my local Sainsbury’s
he would be dead meat, so points for a twisted kind of courage.
Amusing, if frothy, item found at BasementArtProject.
Category Archives: community
Treehouse Kit – Guy Ben-Ner
Treehouse Kit (excerpt) (2005, 2.3MB, 1 min.)
Excerpt from a single channel video installation and sculpture by Guy Ben-Ner.
“Treehouse Kit” consists of a large wooden tree created from recombined, generic furniture.
The sculpture is presented along with an instructional style video in which Ben-Ner
(in swim trunks and a huge beard, a cross between Robinson Crusoe and an archetypical Israeli settler) converts the pre-fab tree back into a rudimentary home.
Originally commissioned for the Israeli Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005.
Eyebeam: open city
Open City (2007, 26.2 MB, 4:27 min)
Open City: Tools for Public Action was an exhibition and series of public programs
at Eyebeam that focus on the ingenuity of graffiti writers, artists, protesters,
pranksters & hackers attempting to reclaim the public realm.
Here’s work from 11 of the artists featured in the exhibition.
From the Graffiti Research Lab.
KDM 100 – A Dispatch from the Front Line
Hey Joe [M.River] (2007, 17.9MB, 3:35 min)
Hey Joe [T.Whid] (2007, 17.5MB, 3:31 min)
Previously:
…bastard…Duchamp…Marx…splendid & singular….
Karaoke Death Match 100…brutal…alcohol…blood…sing-along…
fury…pee breaks…Carpenters…heavy…teleprompter …clearly…
50 days…sneak… ahem…er… moving…
T.Whid…shambling…M River…weird…dynamics…
falling over…human…wonderful…
Just over half way through: – vote early, vote often!
Rocketboom – what do you represent?
Apple – Hello 2007
Hello 2007 (2007, 3.6MB, 30 sec.)
The new iPhone commercial from Apple.
Self Preservation in an Atomic Attack
Self Preservation in an Atomic Attack (1950, 44.2MB, 17.41 min)
A real winner from the Prelinger Archives, this film is
seventeen funny and frightening minutes of useless
disinformation from the American government.
Gordon Parks
What I Can Say About Gordon Parks (2006, 2.9MB, 2:28 min.)
Gordon Parks passed away last year on March 7 2006.
He was a gifted and versatile artist & his work will continue
to provide inspiration for generations to come.
By Mica Scalin.
Karaoke Death Match 100 – MTAA
We Gotta Get Out of This Place [M.River] (2007, 15.8MB, 3:15 min)
Hashpipe [T.Whid] (2007, 17MB, 3:23 min)
From the bastard progeny of Marcel Duchamp & the Marx Brothers,
the splendid & singular MTAA, comes Karaoke Death Match 100.
Here’s the thing:
Artist collaborative M.River & T.Whid face off in the most brutal performance art smack down of the new millennium.. Karaoke Deathmatch 100! This alcohol-fueled blood feud features 50 rounds of sing-along fury (taped live over an 8-hour period with hardly any pee breaks). No Carpenters hit too cheesy, no heavy metal lyric too trite for these teleprompter warriors to hurl in a battle to the end. Who will emerge victorious? Only YOU can decide.
It’s great stuff & clearly one to follow closely -we’ll be returning to them here ‘ere
close of play in 50 days. Just want to sneak in, though, that actually I found this
quite ahem..er.. moving: – the sheer effort invoked in the
act of singing; T.Whid’s strange shambling captive bear dance & M River’s weird
but somehow totally appropriate sudden & violent changes of dynamics.
A bit like Bas Jan Ader falling over, there’s something more here than originally
meets the eye & ear, & it’s a lot human & a bit wonderful.
syzygy
syzygy (2001, 18.6MB, 3:51 min)
This tiny film gem was made by my brother, artist and graphic designer,
Noah Scalin. It was made as part of a Super 8 challenge.
Watch to the end and see rules of this game.
And then, I dare you to try this at home.
By Mica Scalin.