Month: September 2019 (Page 4 of 13)

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The Pig Meister $678.00
Watch Out the Pigmeister will get you..this animatronic prop goes for a brutal attack if you mess with his meal. Squealing and trying to hack you up. Works off 100 psi..sound , controller and 6 ft dead body all included.

 

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BANGING CLOWN SHUTTERS $850.00
Clown Shutters start to bang open and close slow then faster making a starling sound. Comes with Shutters, Pneumatics, controller and motion sensor.

 

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Cagey the Clown $299.99
Cagey the Clown is an animated Halloween prop released in 2019. He is a towering clown with a white and red outfit, a head that appears to have cracks on his forehead and fiery orange hair in the shape of a star. He also holds a cage that, depending on the version, has either a small clown or little girl inside. When activated, Cagey’s torso and head move side to side as his eyes blow and mouth moves while speaking scary phrases, and the caged character moves back and forth in the cage while laughing/screaming.

 

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Hellevator $699.95
A ride on my Halloween Hellevator! It got upgrades this year with the button and floor displays, and it is automated, so I didn’t have to run the thing all night!

 

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Morgue Body Storage $3,993.70
Detailed Morgue foot locker is filled with 8 pairs of frozen bodies, then 4 pairs of feet start to kick and twitch while the top one slides out 12″ while kicking. Comes with fully detailed foot locker, 8 pairs of feet, Pneumatics, Programmed controller and Motion sensor. Audio package includes: Digital audio player, Powered speaker and Audio scream effect.

 

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Animated Ghostly Tricycle $101.97
An old timeworn tricycle rolls back and forth all by itself! Sounds emanate from the prop like kids laughing on a playground, wheels squeaking, and wind blowing in the background. Creepy! Measures 16 in high x 26 in wide x 11 in deep.

 

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Frankenstein’s Awakening $7,625.00
This is the full Frankenstein experience. Frankenstein lays on table then Dr. throws the switch. Sparks fly, then table falls forward and Frankenstein comes to life, reaching and grabbing at the patrons. Comes with Frankenstein and Dr., Table, Overhead light bar with stands, knife switch, Pneumatics, Programmed controller, motion sensor, sound clip and powered speakers. PLUG & PLAY! REQUIREMENTS: AC power and Air 100 psi. Rig footprint: 120″w x 96″d x 100 h.

 

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Bloody Boat Kid $399.99
New accurate scarey boat kid, height is 49 ” tall he’s bigger and badder upgraded. He shakes, screams, tries to pick up his severed arm.

 

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Moving Bridge Air-Powered $2,995.00
This incredible air-powered prop moves back and forth, up and down, and side to side as guests stumble from one side of the bridge to the other. A great additional to any haunted attraction!

 

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Kiddyland Kombo $1,688.99
The Kiddyland Kombo includes our Kiddyland Swing, Maypole, and Teeter-Totter animated props and is part of our Kreepy Kids series. Amazing for your own Kreepy Kid scene! This all electric animatronic props are high quality and durable, as you have come to expect from Distortions. Perfect for Home haunter yard scenes, creepy dark attractions, and Halloween decorating. Requires AC Power. Comes with link for Kreepy Kids audio download.

 

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Spine Extraction $3,214.00
Tortured soul is restrained to a wooden chair while head is enclosed in metal box. Suddenly the chain above lifts the box up ripping the head and the spine with it. Spine is lifted 12″ out of the body! Comes with character, pneumatics, programmed controller, motion sensor. (Plug & Play). Custom Sound, MP3 Player & Powered Speakers.

 

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Interactive Fortune Teller $5400
This amazing animatronic works automatically or with a voice actor behind the scenes. Speech Sync matches her mouth motion to the operator’s voice or a pre-recorded soundtrack, while realistic head and arm movements create a totally convincing experience. The interactive video screen can offer custom visual clues and comes standard with mystical video imagery. A miniature video camera with microphone allows the operator to see & hear the guest.

 

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Undeath from Above $3,281
Zombie waits above standing, then leans over, arms grabbing before rail breaks away and falls 32″. Arms and torso move and grab. A Great element of surprise.

 

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Russian Mob Coffin Ride $3,495.00
Newly updated, this sturdy steel coffin ride is incredible. As you lay in the coffin, you hear, smell, taste, move and feel all of the horrible things the two Russian mobsters do on the way to dispose of your body. Pays for itself many times over if you charge $5 per 3-minute ride. Plug and Play.

 

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Tiny Terror – Dead Eye $949.00
This hillbilly is small of stature, with a big temper! He sits in a rocking chair with his air blaster shotgun at the ready. If someone gets too close to his property, he blasts away then rocks back and forth. Includes tank, hoses, timer and trigger. Requires 120VAC and 90psi air source.

 

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Fiendish Doctor $3,039.00
The doctor is in! Doctor stands over his prey needle in hand. Just when you think you are safe he turns and lunges 5 feet at you shaking the needle side to side. Comes with character, pneumatics, programmed controller and motion sensor.

 

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Fresh Meat $459.95
Realistic and gory, bloody guts hanging out. Definitely not for the faint of heart. Wiggles and swings! 48″ tall. Fully programmable. Requires 90 PSI air and 110 VAC.

 

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ALL ELECTRIC NIGHT FRIGHT  $468.99
Nightfright is a creepy zombie girl Frightronic prop . All electric animatronic prop moves and shakes. Clothing may vary. Comes with audio download.

 

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Impaled Iggy $1,595.00
Life size Impaled Iggy thrashes around on his own section of wrought iron grave yard fence (included). Operates on 110VAC and 90psi. Exclusive Haunted Enterprises Creation.

 

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The All Scare Asylum $15,000
These individual scares are designed to work with the standard plywood wall system that most haunts already use. Only a small rectangular hole cut is required. Since each unit has a very shallow depth, they fit almost anywhere! Each scare is unique and unexpected. Optional motion activation is available on all products and multiplies the effect. We’ve chosen an insane asylum theme for presentation, but as is true of all of our creations, all masks, costumes and deco are changeable and customizable to any haunt theme.

 

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Lunging Wheelchair Maniac $3,598.70
Man is sitting in wheelchair with legs cut off, then chair rolls forward 48″, man springs up from chair while head moves in multiple directions. Comes with Wheelchair, Character, Pneumatics, Programmed controller and motion sensor. PLUG & PLAY! Audio package included: Digital audio player, Powered speaker and Audio scream effect.

 

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Dura Gunshot Male Putrefying Body $2,795.00
Lifecast Gunshot male body features a gunshot entry wound on one side and a large exit wound on the other side of his head, closed eyes and a muscular build. 5’9″ tall. Emits realistic, nauseating rotting flesh aroma. Cast in high-strength, high-detail urethane rubber skin with smooth seams. Great for projects that need the strength to withstand regular rough treatment.

 

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Bombed To Bits Male With Beard $1,895.00
Lifecast polyfoam male body blown to bits by a powerful blast. Emits realistic, nauseating aroma of rotting flesh and gunpowder. All pieces included. Great for haunt explosion scenes.

 

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Animated DJ Skeleton $99
Whether you’re a DJ or not, you can appreciate the Animated DJ Skeleton Decorative Halloween Prop . When music is life — or maybe death — you can’t pass up a skeleton with light-up eyes and the ability to mix music.

 

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Animated Bug Blender $64.99
Not quite the same kind of protein smoothie you make at home. Guests will get a surprise when they activate this blender. Dimensions: 6.30 x 7.09 x 14.37. Requires 3 AA batteries not included. Features strobing lights and terrifying sounds! Shocking surprise inside.

 

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Runaway Patient & Dr. Shock $5160
Where does this nut think he’s going? Dr. Shock tries desperately to get Runaway Patient to come down for his therapy appointment. The results are electrifying! Realistic movements in each character complete the illusion. Additionally, an optional output is provided to activate flashing lights, which coordinate with the soundtrack to simulate electrical shocks. Sound system included.

 

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Suicide Scenario $694.95
This is not for young children or the weak of heart! Actor puts gun in mouth or under the chin and “blows out the back of their head” splashing it on the wall or window behind them. Very realistic! Recycles the fluid back for minimal refilling and maintenance. Used as an entire room scene, the shock of your guests will create a lasting effect. When used as gorilla marketing for your haunted attraction, party, corporate event, or just to scare the folks down the block, it will never let you down.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. The young Scottish writer Chris Kelso interviewed me about PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT for 3:AM Magazine if you’re interested. If so, it’s here. ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you. Yeah, it holds up. Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein’s FaBlog has a new goodie at its top called ‘The “Seventeen” Excuse’. What does that title hint at? Find out. Also, if you’ve been curious about what exactly David has for sale in his long running and, by now, probably legendary house/garage sale, he listed the items in this weekend’s commenting arena if you missed it/them and want to go back and check. ** KK, Hi, Kyle. Cool. How was ‘Desolation Center’? It’s among my most-want-to-see films right now. Man, you’re reading some unimpeachably great books there, in my humble opinion. Leve is great. Even here in France, his books were largely overlooked until he died, whereupon they were declared great, unluckily too late for him. Lentil soup rules, totally agree. Borscht too. I’ll also put in a good word for Gazpacho. Hope your weekend did the trick maximally. ** Bill, Thanks. Yeah, I didn’t check all the links to see if they were dead, oops. Swezey is a really lovely guy. He co-ran the great Amok Press, as you probably know. Can’t wait to see the film. Grr. ** Sypha, I actually knew that you like Louis Wain to the point that I wondered if your love was the original impetus for putting him in there. And, yes, your excellent essay on him … Everyone, If you scoured the Varioso, you know that Louis Wain, cat lover and depicter, was one of the topics. Well, none other than James ‘Sypha’ Champagne wrote an essay about Wain for none other than Yuck ‘n’ Yum Magazine a few years ago, and may I suggest you supplement your knowledge of Mr. Wain by adding James’s input? Here goes. ** Kyler, Oh, me too, trust me, re: your grandma’s soup. ** James, Gosh, well, thank you, man. Same back to you. ** Keatouac, That’s a good one. I’d wear silver pants if I was in my mid-20s or under. Thanks about the weekend’s big V. ** Misanthrope, Thanks, G. Yeah I’m going to bring the Variosos back. I don’t know what took me so long. A bunch of them are full of long dead things, of course, so I’ll have to be selective. Good, good, all good, about the novel’s far along and tightening work. You’re gonna have the best immediate future of all of us, I predict. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Yeah? I just don’t think I could figure out any reason that I would ever go see ‘Hustlers’. But, hey, using Scott Walker is a nice surprise. ** Dominik, Hi, big D! Thanks a lot. Yeah, I’m very happy with the novel, and my trusted reader was enthusiastic. My trusted reader also confirmed my instinct the it’s a tough and intense book, so … Now it’s at its first big hurdle, i.e. my agent is reading it. So, she has to like it enough to agree to handle and sell it to publishers, and, like I said, I think its a toughy, so I’m on pins and needles waiting for her response. Yes, best SCAB yet, I totally agree. Super exciting! And what’s next is equally exciting. You’re coming to Paris next summer! And with Anita! I’m already really, really looking forward to that. How cool! I hope the interview leads to a big yes. Fingers ultra-crossed. My weekend was pretty lowkey, it turned out. I had a bunch of plans for Saturday, but we had a huge protest/riot here as the Yellow Vests returned to action, and the metro was kaput, so I was stuck in my hood. Bunches of love to you, and I hope your week starts with all kinds of fireworks. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Kopel’s awesome, so glad you liked the poem. Yes, I’ll restore more Variosos, thanks! ** Natty, Hi, Natty! Yeah, it was really great to get to finally meet you and have such a fantastic visit! RAIDD, huh, never heard of it. Nice name. And I’m happy you both experienced Berlin’s darkness and dug being dipped in it. That sounds fun. Thank you a lot for the links. I had stupidly forgotten the name of the filmmaker and was going to write to you and ask again. And the ‘in’ with Women is a big help too. How is it being back in Pittsburgh? Are you a new man? Take care, pal, and I hope to see you again soon! Love, me. ** Paul Curran, Thanks a lot, Paul. I sort of can’t believe I actually finished it. For a long time, I thought it might be a permanent half-dead duck. Use my completion skills as impetus for yours, if that works and helps. Oh, it looks like Tokyo/Japan in the second half of January. Gisele is supervising a Japanese version of one our pieces that’ll play in Kyoto then, and I think that timing is the cementer. Take care, bud. ** alan, Him, Alan! How very nice to see you, sir! No, I still haven’t seen the Tarantino, stupidly. No one I know here has much of any interest in seeing it, so I’ll have to go alone, and seeing movies alone is not my favorite thing for some bizarre reason. I hope I haven’t missed it. I am especially intrigued by the period LA setting, you bet. I’m glad to hear it’s a good one. I’m expecting to really enjoy it. How are you? Thanks so much for coming in. ** Armando, Hi. Both of those plans got killed off by the big protests/riots on Saturday and their metro-shutting powers. I think the Serra stops playing on Wednesday, so I’m going to try to see it today or tomorrow, if I can. You weekend sounds like it resembled my weekend pretty much. Later, man. ** Okay. I am very happy to announce via today’s post the beginning of the Halloween season here on the blog. If you know this place, you know that a Halloween thematic will gradually be heavily encroaching on the goings-on here, and I strongly encourage you to get in the mood and join the celebration. See you tomorrow.

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cool theme song i had stuck in my head, so i decided to try it out.

 

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Whatever I wrote was surrounded by rays of light. I used to close the curtains, for I was afraid that the shining rays emanating from my pen might escape into the outside world through even the smallest chink; I wanted suddenly to throw back the screen and light up the world.

 

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Julia Peirone

 

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‘This was painted by a person with a rare and severe mental disorder. He was constantly seeing his own fantasies all around him. He also had a certain phobia (undisclosed).

‘A psychiatry professor showed this painting in a lecture, and said there was one tell-tale sign in it that showed the painter’s insanity.

‘The professor didn’t say what that sign was, leaving the students to do the guesswork. The only clues he gave was, “don’t look for small details, look at the whole; if you figure out what the phobia was, you’ve got the answer; ask yourself what could have preceded this scene; think of what the place would look like with all the objects removed“.

‘The professor said that during the 15 years of his teaching, only one student had figured it out.’ — sightless, 2 + 2

 

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‘Noise may not be to everyone’s taste (in fact by definition noise is classed as “unwanted” sounds) but to the hardcore few it’s a way of life. People Who Do Noise follows some of those artists and shows them performing live, often on homemade or radically modified kit, and talking about the philosophy and influences behind their work.

‘The film takes a very personal approach, capturing the musicians working alone with no interference from a live audience. What often took place in crowded basements or dark smoky venues was stripped bare for the cameras, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the many different instruments and methods used.

‘Covering a wide range of artists and styles, the film features everything from the absurdist free-improvisations of genre-pioneers Smegma, to the harsh-noise assaults of Oscillating Innards and everything in between. Many of the artists in the film, such as Yellow Swans and Daniel Menche, have performed and sold records all over the world. In spite of such successes, noise music remains one of the least understood and most inaccessible of genres.’ — Dangerous Minds

 

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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.

Andrei Tarkovsky

 

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Toby Regbo

 

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‘A new study in Nature Neuroscience by MIT postdoctoral fellow Jason Fischer and his University of California-Berkeley colleague David Whitney suggests that humans are equipped with “serially dependent” visual perception, a process that uses prior stimuli and current information to construct the scene in front of us.

‘The researchers tested the idea with experiments that asked subjects to look at flashes of “randomly oriented gratings presented several seconds apart in time” and then report “the perceived orientation of each grating” by marking it on a computer screen. “We found that perceived orientation was strongly and systematically attracted toward orientations seen over the last several seconds,” the scientists write. “This perceptual serial dependence was modulated by attention and was spatially tuned, occurring more strongly for successive stimuli that appeared nearby in space.”

‘The researchers term the space in which the phenomenon occurs a “continuity field,” and conducted other experiments to ensure that it wasn’t simply the result of consistency in “motor responses or decision processes.”

‘But isn’t spotting subtle change important? Why are our eyes deceiving us with this stale field of croissants?

‘Without a visual mechanism to adjust the current scene for recent prior stimuli, daily life would be more akin to a jarring acid trip, according to the authors. “The continuity field smoothes what would otherwise be a jittery perception of object features over time,” David Whitney, senior author and associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, told the university’s news center. Accounting for an aggregate of small recent changes in the environment—due to “head and eye movements,” shadows, and lighting—allows us to walk around without feeling like we’ve stepped into a field of melting clocks.’ — Ryan Jacobs, Pacific Standard

 

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‘The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.

‘After the shutter button is pressed, the photo is sent to Mechanical Turk for processing and the camera waits for the results. A yellow LED indicates that the results are still “developing” in a nod to film-based photo technology. With a HIT price of $1.25, results are returned typically within 6 minutes and sometimes as fast as 3 minutes. The thermal printer outputs the resulting text in the style of a polaroid print.’ — Matt Richardson

 

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Alexei Korzukhin

 

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To make things “perfectly clear” is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

For pleasure to be what it is, it has to exceed a limit of what is altogether wholesome and healthy. Our idioms reflect this: when we like something we tend to say we were “blown away” or “It killed me,” and other deadly utterances. To the extent that pleasure is something that one seeks, it also has to make us confront the limits of our being. Otherwise it’s something like contentedness, which can be shown to be in fact an abandonment of pleasure.

So. Sometimes you have to scream to be heard.

Avital Ronell

 

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‘It’s one of those harsh truths that no one really wants to accept: vintage porn was kind of terrible. Films had the herky-jerk motion of old Charlie Chaplin movies, soundtracks all sounded like they were pulled straight out of failed sitcoms, and grooming was non-existent. I like a nice set of pubes as much as the next guy, but there’s a fine line between a manly bush and, “Holy shit, why does your cock look like Cat Stevens’ face?”’ — Jeremy Feist

 

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‘The story of Cuba’s National Art Schools is at the same time the story of the Cuban revolution, of its saddest failures and its most ebullient hopes. Born and educated in Venice, Roberto Gottardi was working in Caracas when Fidel Castro’s victory march arrived in Havana in January 1959. Like many European leftists, he was enthralled by Cuba’s revolution. In Caracas he had met a Cuban architect named Ricardo Porro, a young radical who had fled Fulgencio Batista’s government. Porro returned to Havana and invited Gottardi and another Italian architect, Vittorio Garatti, to join him. Their talents were sorely needed, as half of the island’s architects had left. A new nation was to be built, and not only that. Cuba intended to construct, in Che Guevara’s words, a ‘new man’.

‘In 1961, as legend has it, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara played a round of golf on what had until recently been the manicured greens of the Havana Country Club, a few miles west of the capital. The society they envisioned had no place for country clubs, so the two revolutionaries agreed to build an art school. Culture would be no longer a commodity hoarded by the wealthy but the birthright of the people. It would begin here, where the rich had played, created by the children of the poor. Castro assigned the project to Porro, who brought on Gottardi and Garatti. None of the architects had any experience with such scale, but then, Gottardi pointed out with eyebrows raised, ‘the revolution meant that anything was possible’.

‘The schools would be located on five campuses, and Gottardi would design the School of Dramatic Arts. Aside from a few basic directives, the architects were given complete creative licence. ‘The euphoria of that time’, he told me, ‘is difficult to describe’. The project was not merely inspired by revolutionary ideals – it embodied them. The buildings themselves were extraordinary, departing equally from the chilly Modernism that had dominated the architecture of the time and from the colonial Neo-Classicism that had preceded it. Porro designed the School of Modern Dance as an explosive complex of interconnected, fragmentary vaults. His School of Plastic Arts turned to Cuba’s African roots – a surreally erotic sub-Saharan village recast in brick among the palms. The cupolas of Garatti’s School of Ballet curved through a ravine and his School of Music wound like a lizard’s tail tracing the banks of the river that limned the old club.

‘Gottardi’s School of Drama, a complex of airy classrooms surrounding a central amphitheatre, strived to recreate the intimacy and spontaneity of urban space. Brick-walled corridors curved like alleys in a North African medina. Sight lines were intentionally obscured, ‘so that you wouldn’t know what’s coming’, Gottardi said. ‘Like life.’ On 26 July 1965, though they were far from complete, the National Art Schools were officially declared open. But their inauguration was also a death sentence; construction would never resume.

‘A lot had changed in four years. “Architecture must add a poetic dimension to everyday life”, no longer fitted the prevailing ideology. Castro began to lean towards a Soviet model. The art schools’ ecstatic organicism suddenly reeked of heresy. Their design, possessed as it was by revolution, was accused of being ‘insufficiently revolutionary’. In the end only Porro’s buildings were substantially completed; Garatti’s music school was not even half done. Although most of the classrooms were finished, the theatre at the centre of Gottardi’s drama school would never be built. Its winding corridors converged on empty space. The metaphors are impossible to resist: as the years passed, Castro’s revolution grew more stultified, and the art schools languished. Roots and vines ate at the mortar and cracked the terracotta tiles. Looters took what they could. The revolution’s bright dream was pilfered and abandoned.’ –– Ben Ehrenreich, Frieze

ruins

reconstruction

 

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BLACK METAL BOY GOES TO THE GROCERY STORE WITH FRIEND

BLACK METAL BOY’S NEW YEARS EVE

 

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‘Louis Wain was a man of some artistic talent, and he adored cats. While his young wife was gradually succumbing to illness over a period of several years, Wain often used the household cat, Peter, to amuse her, dressing him up in glasses and making it seem as if he were reading the paper, just for chuckles. He began to draw Peter, of whom he would later say “To him properly belongs the foundation of my career, the developments of my initial efforts, and the establishing of my work” — and indeed, many of his early published drawings and paintings are of the family cat. In the beginning, his work was more or less naturalistic, like the above.

‘After his wife passed away, he became more and more obsessed by cats. His furry subjects were often anthropomorphized in cutesy ways — in fact, he seemed almost incapable of drawing human beings. He wrote, “I take a sketch-book to a restaurant, or other public place, and draw the people in their different positions as cats, getting as near to their human characteristics as possible.” His cats-doing-people-stuff work got him a lot of attention, and he became something of a national sensation, with his drawings reproduced on cards and posters.

‘In the 1910s and 20s, things took a turn for the worse. His behavior became increasingly erratic. In 1924, his sisters committed him to the pauper’s ward of a mental asylum. He languished there for a year until a newspaper article was written about the deplorable conditions he was forced to endure, and when big-name fans came out of the woodwork — H.G. Wells said “English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves” — he was moved to a much more pleasant asylum, where he lived for another ten years or so before passing away. In that time, he began to paint and draw again, and though his subject was the same as ever, his increasingly bizarre style seemed evidence of some mental disorder, possibly schizophrenia.’ — mental floss

 

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Yöshi Sodeöka

 

 

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Bijijo ‘Saturday Evening with Justin Bieber’

‘If used properly, the Faces of Justin Timberlake may be employed as a fortune-telling device. Each Face is assigned a specific meaning which may be viewed by hovering over or clicking on the Face. Study the Faces of Justin Timberlake, then choose either the Man Face or the Woman Face as a Significator from which to read a spread of the Faces. Once the choice is submitted, a spread will be generated and guidance provided.’ — Bijijo

 

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Weatherwax

 

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Two boys, wearing track jackets,
with shaved heads and smooth hands,
are breathing Pine-Sol out of
a plastic bag and breaking
into a car with coat hangers.
Sad, thin-skinned kids with flammable
names and feathers for lungs.
Who tape their regrets to the top of the Atari.
Who write out their girlfriends’ names in gasoline.
Who take a match to the front yard
before cutting a path through police tape
to get to a tall, cool, catholic school gym.
From the bleachers they stand as if to say
I sing for the canary gassed beyond belief
in the basement of the biology building.
I scream City of Love! City by the River!
Don’t disown your skinny fisted sons
locked inside the locker room.
They too are the father of you.
They too are made mostly of noise.

Ben Kopel

 

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Elizabeth Leister

 

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Puppet Heap

 

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An Argentinian town has re-emerged after being underwater for 25 years

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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I’m happy you’re a fan of Breer’s films, of course. I’ll … Everyone, If you’re in LA, here’s an awesome opportunity from Mr. E in his own words: ‘For those living in the L.A. area, I have a press screening of Coppola’s recut “The Cotton Club” on the 25the at 4:30 at the Lionsgate screening room. Let me know if you’d like to come by dropping me a line at cllrdr@ehrensteinland.com.’ And, also, speaking of golden opportunities in LA, and this one for a very good cause, here’s David again: ‘My seemingly endless sale of CDs, DVDs and books has reached a crisis point. I am badly in need of funds. Please write me, drop by and BUY.’ ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Thank you. Well, I sent it to my agent. She’ll read it, and, assuming she doesn’t hate it and drop me, I guess she’ll have publishing ideas, and she and I will talk about that. Everyone, Here’s Mr. Erickson: ‘David Ehrenstein posted a link to his review of WHERE’S MY ROY COHN? yesterday. Here’s my interview with its director Matt Tyrnauer.’ My email is finally back, thank you. Blut Aus Nord! I haven’t heard the new thing, and of course I’ll check it out. Thanks for that too. Everyone, One more goodie from Steve E., in his language: ‘Also, here’s my New York Film Festival overview for Gay City News, with my thoughts on YOUNG AHMED, ZOMBI CHILD & BORN TO BE.’ Look forward to reading that. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Cool, very glad he/it caught your fancy. His big moving sculptures are really great if some art venue near you ever curates them. Awesome about The Call getting there. And, yes, very large demo here too yesterday. I would love to think it’ll matter. ** Brendan, B-ster. Oh, cool, great. Very happy you connected with it. Very sweet about the camera, especially the 4×5 option. So love those. ** Misanthrope, I’m of the belief that if a writer is true to and uncompromising in getting at their exact personal interest in what they’re writing about, the work will be different and unique. Thanks about the novel. Now the real test begins as it comes up against what the world wants and thinks. I liked Justin. We literally just said hi and talked for maybe 30 seconds, but he seemed very nice and very cool. Be chill. ** rewritedept, Hi, Chris. Nice to see you, man. You have a blog! You’ve bought into this dying or at least fading format. High five. I’ll bookmark it. Everyone, rewritedept has started a blog! And, knowing him, it will be a must-check kind of situation. The first post is up, so please start your inevitable addiction (in the good sense) by clicking this. I’m good. I’m glad you found some cozy meds. I did just have the great pleasure of hanging with Mark and Erin here in the city of lights, yes. Oh, my email: denniscooper72@outlook.com. Take it easy, man. ** MyNeighbourJohnTurturro, Hey, bud! Always a super pleasure to get to see you! Mm, no, I don’t think I’ve devoted a post to that medium at large but I’ve made posts about a number of filmmakers who work therein. I’ll look into it. Awesome that you liked a lot of what I liked in the gig, you of the impeccable tastes. Totally, the new JPEGMAFIA is amazing. It’s my go-to addiction right now. Halloween officially starts eating most of the blog as it does annually starting on Monday! I quite like Rob Zombie’s music. I really liked his first two films. I was disappointed by his more compromised ones, although I liked things in them. I hear really good things about the new one. I’m way into seeing that. Have a great weekend, sir. ** Kyler, Hi, K. Thank you, man. I sent it to my agent yesterday, so that seems to be the moment of it officially being finished. It’s been basically finished for a few weeks, but I was waiting on some feedback to make sure I wasn’t deluded about it. And hopefully the great feedback means I’m not, but we’ll see. It’s a strange one. Very nice to hear that about you and your sister. That’s very heartening. And then there are the brownies! ** IfICouldKeatonBackTime, Ouch. The escalator motor kick. That scared me. What does that say about me and escalators. The obvious them over us thing, I guess. Hope you snared some great throw backs. Great weekend to you! ** Armando, Hi. Glad you liked it. My email is back so I’ll get to you. Think I’m going to see the new Serra film today. Maybe try out this new vegan burger place. And the usual. You? ** Shane Christmass, Thank you, Shane. Ha, yes, I had seen the original news thing about that Daniel Johns kerfuffle. Seemed a bit dodgy at the time, not that I know DJ, obviously. I did sort of meet him once years ago at a vegan restaurant in LA where we shared our worship of The Melvins while King Buzzo ate in our vicinity. Man, he looks different now, but I guess he would. Well, I’m on his side. Why not? Happy weekend. ** Bill, His stuff’s very good. I want to see ‘Desolation Center’ very badly. Friends of mine organised it, and a bunch of my friends went, but I couldn’t go for reasons I don’t remember. I can’t imagine it will open in France, but it seems like an obvious streaming thing, so I figure I can see it when I’m in LA for Halloween if nothing else. Cool you got the chance. ** Right. So, on my old, murdered blog, I used to do this series of posts called ‘Varioso’ that consisted of things I was interested by but which didn’t have the heft to warrant entire posts to themselves. This, the 30th one, is the first of them that I’ve restored. Enjoy the array. See you on Monday.