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In Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 silent film, The Ten Commandments, Jell-O was used to create the parting of the sea effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bompas & Parr have teamed up with Selfridges to create a crazy 9-hole golf course with hazards made of jello.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My friend and I turned our faces into edible Jello sculptures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is called Raindrop Cake, otherwise known as Mizu Shingen Mochi in Japan, its country of origin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! I loved Prater. I loved how out of date and handmade it seemed. Plus it has so many dark rides, which are my favorite rides. I only wish it had actually fully opened so I could’ve ridden them all, but its opening was very slow and lazy/sleepy, and I had to leave to do my event at a certain point. It doesn’t have the dazzle and potential to amaze of newer, larger parks, but it was very charming. What did you think? Sometimes festivals invite you and put you up, but it’s pretty rare. Anita’s theory makes a lot of sense. Did love get an answer to his question? Or should I say a satisfying answer? Love making jello and discovering too late that it’s evil, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Ryan Trecartin is such a genius. I’ve heard such mixed things about ‘Weapons’ that I think I’ll wait for your review before I plop down the 15 euros. ** Steeqhen, Well, yes, the past is full of extraordinary things that deserve better than being seen as examples of the good old days. Turloughs, huh, very interesting. I’ll see what I can see. ** Alice, Life has been tolerant of me and vice versa. So great that you’re in an inspired phase and that you’re dedicated to mining it. That’s the best. Of anything really. I think. Thanks for watching some of the films. ‘Genesis’ is beautiful, yeah. Luck galore the employment hunt. Few things are more nagging and disruptive. A successful week on the art and financial fronts. That would be quite a hat trick. ** Carsten, Pat O’Neill is great. Very underrated artist/filmmaker, and ‘Water and Power’ is kind of his biggie. Lyon, right, I always forget that Spain is southwest of Paris. My geography is not stellar. 6-7 hours of driving is solid. Great about Duende Day! Whenever you’re ready and like. Thanks! A lot of Parisians leave in August. However, the area I live in is pretty touristy, so the city doesn’t seem to empty out around me just change its population and maybe even increase its population if anything. I like it. The August vibe is very curious and wide eyed. Like me really. The cool weather has arrived, and please dear god, let it stick. ** Hugo, Enjoy England. The weather should be decent there, I think. Thanks about the films. Oh, thank you about ‘Like Cattle Towards Glow’. Zac is the one who placed Adam Lanza’s pic in the first scene. I don’t think he had some big obvious reason other than it making a weird sense that enhanced the scene somehow, but I’ll ask him again. Also that Lanza pic is an artwork by John Waters, and maybe that had to do with it. You have a good or hopefully gooder one too. ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff, old buddy! Thanks re: the films. Full-time teaching, whoa. Very good subjects there. I’ll check the new EPs, cool. Sure, a Zoom sounds good. Monday, September 1 should work for me, yes. Give me a plan. Ideally talk soon! xo. ** HaRpEr //, The trilogy is amazing, but I’ve seen some of the newer works that are almost impossible to see because their financier/owners are insisting on keeping them under wraps, and they’re amazing — set in and kind of about the construction of Ryan/Lizzie’s theme park in progress. Owen Land’s work is wonderful, but, of course, hard to see. Maybe physically constructing the ‘RT’ haunt was instructive, but the ‘RT’ haunt is deliberately kind of shitty and of course we want to make a dazzling haunt. But, yeah, the building aspect taught us some stuff. I kind of love London Dungeon, but I haven’t been since they moved it. I suppose it’s probably kind of the same. ** Nicholas., Ouch. Healing vibes, you’ve got them. I’ve gotten bronchitis twice, and I think that’s the only tenable bad smoking consequence, but of course my bod could be full of cancer, who knows. I never feel sexy, but I think if I did I would feel sexier when bundled up in winter clothes for some reason. ** Uday, Hi. I saw that that ‘Destroy … ‘ book exists, but not what’s in it. I don’t think I’ll order it, that would be too embarrassing. You iron? I’ve never ironed in my life. Oh, except I did try to iron my hair as youth when I had long hair because I thought it was too curly, but it didn’t work. ** Right. Super easy restored post for you to do something with today. See you tomorrow.

 

Peter Rose
Keita Kurosaka
Ernie Gehr
Ryan Trecartin
Jenni Olson
Owen Land
Pat O’Neill

 

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Peter Rose Genesis (1991)
‘Genesis recounts a story about embodiment “told” using voice synthesis and animation display on a MacIntosh computer. It was installed at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 1991. A computer is swaddled in blankets in a small baby carriage. A text appears on the screen that tells the (true) story of a woman who miscarries and keeps the fetus in her refrigerator. The narration is artificial, generated by a speech synthesis program. This voice becomes more human as the story evolves and as our understanding of the power of naming sharpens.’ — Letterboxd

 

 

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Keita Kurosaka Worm Story (1989)
‘The story begins with a parody of a familiar folklore about a rabbit and an earthworm chasing after each other, but the warm atmosphere changes completely to a succession of surreal images, and the story dismantles.’ — MUBI

 

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Ernie Gehr Eureka (1974)
‘Ernie Gehr takes a 1903 film that shows San Francisco’s Market Street, as photographed from a trolley, and multiplies each frame of the original film eight times, changing its length from 5 to about 38 minutes, while simultaneously, playing with the contrast and light fluctuations within each frame.’ — IMDb

 

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Ryan Trecartin P.OPULAR S.KY (section ish) (2009)
‘In P.opular S.ky (section ish), a character played by Trecartin informs us that she wants ‘to live in a world where narration is the devil’. The ability to script oneself is an inalienable right, and anything that opposes that right must be rejected.’ — Letterboxd

 

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Jenni Olson 575 Castro St. (2008)
‘A set from the then upcoming Milk (from Gus Van Sant) is used as an inspired backdrop to hearing Harvey Milk’s words. It is a tape, to be read if he was assassinated, where he goes through his wishes. The words themselves are open to critique at points, vis-à-vis his beliefs on how best to achieve a better world. However, this feels ancillary to the film. This film uses emptiness brilliantly, it projects and auditory presence on a physical absence. Our eyes pan across an empty place and only a ghost resides here. It is a very smart way of making loss feel concrete.’ — Stephen Gillespie

 

 

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Owen Land Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1965)
‘The richest frame I have seen in any film when you take into consideration all movements lines the beautiful whites, and reds and blacks… The kinetic and visual experienced produced by Landow’s film is even more difficult to describe… There is humour in it (the blink); there is clear Mozart -(Mondrian)- like sense of form.’ — Jonas Mekas

 

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Pat O’Neill Water and Power (1989)
‘Water and Power explores the complex relationship between water and urban development in Los Angeles. Through techniques such as time-lapse photography, superimposition, and motion-controlled tracking shots, this experimental film visually depicts the transformation of natural landscapes into industrialized environments.’ –– Salt

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! You have been to Prater! I went when it was closed and gradually opening too. The perfect atmosphere for it. It’s still a little unfriendly here, sky-wise, but that’s supposed to end dramatically tonight. Zac and I will attend a number of the screenings, but not all. If it’s a situation where we would have to pay for all of our travel and lodging expenses, we need to be very judicious since we’re not, you know, loaded. They’re always rearranging my little pop-in market down the street for no seeming reason other than to give the employees something to do. Annoying, yes. Love agreeing to do karaoke only because they have ‘Baby’s Got Back’ on the playlist, G. ** Uday, Hey there! Other than the sickness your away time sounds pretty swell. Really? ‘Destroy Dennis Cooper’? Wow, I’ll go see if I can see what that is. God knows I need to be destroyed. Thanks for the alert. Shit, sorry you’ll miss the Chicago screening. There’ll be a way for you to see it even if it takes a while longer. Good to see you! ** jay, Cool, happy to be responsible for a jay/blog crossover. I had no input into the Japanese covers, but, yes, they’re nice. Yes, yes, do the whole trilogy. I really don’t think you’ll regret it. I wish you cloudy skies and a bon fete. ** scunnard, My only pleasure, my friend. ** _Black_Acrylic, Has that novel been on here before? It’s certainly possible. I neglected to check. The more the merrier? ** Tosh Berman, Yeah, he’s great and strangely under-read at least in the States. He needs a better US publisher me thinks. ** Carsten, Wow, so soon: the move. No problem, everything comes back to amusement parks for me. That Day you propose would be wonderful, of course. Please do if you continue to want to do. Nope, didn’t visit the swimmers yet. I think I’d better head over there today because it’s supposed to turn into fall outside tomorrow. ** Adem Berbic, Yeah, let me know and let’s hope we can sort it. It’s a very good novel, that ‘Bartleby’. Hugs back for every reason under the sun? ** Mari, My guess is you’ll end up finding one poem or one poet that gets to you, and then the whole genre will open up. Poetry is a very beautiful form once you get used to its shapes. Driving sounds good. No, I don’t drive here, or I haven’t. I always seem to travel by car with Zac who loves driving. I don’t miss LA freeways, but I do miss LA streets. There are so many of them, and you can always discover a new way to drive to somewhere you drive to a lot. Have you driven in LA? Yes, I’m allergic to all fabrics, or perhaps to whatever chemicals fabrics are made with. Wool is one of the worst for some reason. But, like I said, I can do an organic underlay which works ok except in the summer, of course. I hope your week is proceeding magically even. ** Nicholas., Okay, I think I understand. I feel like I’m a seriously non-complex person, and I feel like I’ve been the same person since I was a kid, so I drift forward and accumulate input, and it never seems to alter me very much, it’s strange. Me, I’m the opposite. I’m tired of being forced to ‘rest’ because of the heat, but the good part is that I’m really raring to go. ** Steeqhen, Nostalgia will adds years to your age if you’re not careful, so be careful. Okay, I know nothing about those PC emulators and related games, so that was like reading concrete poetry. I like concrete poetry, btw. ** Steve, Ugh. Well, I hope the final result is as easy as it sounds. Poor things: the pigeons. ** HaRpEr //, It’s very good. He’s a smarty. He’s done a number of collaborations with one of France’s brainiest artists, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster. Halloween is coming! I can feel it, can’t you? It’s going to make everything better. That’s my prediction. Yeah, I’ll go to LA for at least second half of October and do lots of home haunts. And probably do a Halloween screening of RT there. Plus, Zac and I want to do a home haunt there next year, so we’ll be talking with artists about collaborating with us on that and sussing out possible locations and so on. ** Dan Carroll, Hi, Dan! Yay about you coming to the Chicago screening. Say hi and stuff. It’ll be really nice to meet you! ** tomk, Hi, Tom! He’s well worth reading. We definitely will show RT in London, but we haven’t found any opportunities there yet. We’re strategising and looking, and I’m sure we’ll find something. And it’ll end up streaming at some point, yes. And I hope you’re writing a novel secretly or not. I’m not, but one of these months, I hope. ** Tyler Ookami, Thumbs up on ‘Weapons’? Okay, good. I’ll agenda-size it. Have you seen ‘Bring Her Back’? That’s been on my to-see list for a couple of weeks now. ‘Grafted’: I’ll look it up. Thanks! Everything generally good in and around you? ** Corey, Hi, Corey! The heat is supposedly on its last legs today, but we’ll see. It’s been ugh but not nightmarish. Heavy employment of fans. You translated Paul Cunningham! How cool. I assume he knows. Nice! And excellent about the proceeding, very healthy lit mag/readings. Your first comment did register. So weird when comments register but ghost the commenter. This blog is wack. ** Right. Today you get the … what, 6th? … in my series of short film programs, so watch what you feel like watching or don’t or whatever floats your boats. See you tomorrow.