Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008

Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops…

"Pockets will be substantially lighter at this year's Miami
Basel, but there will be no shortage of eye candy for those of us just
coming to look. As usual, Artkrush provides a tidy honor roll of our
personal favorites, with special attention paid to Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as Scope and Photo Miami contributor Julia Fullerton-Batten, a London photographer whose studies of adolescence picture girls looming larger than life, suspended in midair, and lost
in the uniform masses. Meanwhile, Artkrush editor Paul Laster connects with the Campana Brothers in Brazil to discuss the latest installment in their sci-fi furniture design series TransPlastic, included this year in Design Miami/. Across the bay from ABMB, we highlight the stylish counter-culture publications of
PictureBox — exhibiting at Nada Art Fair Miami — before leaving the Sunshine State altogether to review Sze Tsung Leong's photographs of Chinese suburbia in Los Angeles, and Roman Signer's slapstick videos in the Netherlands."

read the rest here…

Magic pen writes in Helvetica

Ahhhh… technology. The geniuses at Plexifilm have spent the past two
years developing a Sharpie pen that actually writes in Helvetica! This
pen is so experimental that it’s priceless… literally. You can’t buy
one, but you can get one free with any Helvetica-related purchase
(DVD, T-shirt, etc.). Get your free pen while they last. It’s a great
gift for that person in your life with sloppy handwriting…

* Warning: if you are John Downer or Marian Bantjes then the pen will
actually write in Helvetica. Otherwise, your results may vary. Do not
swallow. Keep away from open flame and co-workers. May cause
drowsiness.

more here: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/

Live bands, DJs, unique drinks…free haircuts!

 

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW
$5/NWFF members, $7/general

Please join CoCA as we play host to Pecha Kucha Night. This month’s theme is "Trouble". You’ve got some, we got some – let’s share. We’ve
assembled an incredible roster of writers, visual artists, race car
drivers, actors and other creative luminaries. Share ideas, see great
work – we’d love to see you there!

EVENT DETAILS
Thursday, September 25^th
Doors Open 6:00 PM
Presentations Begin at 7:00
CoCA Ballard: Inside the Shilshole Bay Beach Club
6413 Seaview Ave NW  Seattle, WA 98107

Free entry and parking
Dinner Service & Cash Bar Available 

PRESENTERS:
Dave Clapper, Writer
Heather Budd, Performing Artist
Joe Whinney, Theo Chocolates
Jamie Drzayich, Stock Car Racing
Thomas Wurst, Illustrator
Jonathan Zegars, Architect
Adina Gillet & Andrew McMasters, Experts

get the deets here…

As soon as I get done typing, I’m clicking over to Amazon to pre-order my copy.

See y’all tomorrow night!

Here are some highlights via Thrillist:

Primal Source: Surreal
images projected on this beach-based 40-foot wall of mist’ll move based
on the sounds of voices around the installation, allowing you to see
what "Dude, that’s totally a 40-foot wall of mist!" looks like.

The Amazing Mental Scope: Get hooked up with an EEG, then climb on the ferris wheel, and your brainwaves will be displayed
via flashing lights on a cylindrical LED display. Onlookers will enjoy
the soft glow of your Pleasure Center as you enjoy top-of-the-wheel
"special alone time".

Poetry Boat: Use
the provided phone to call the three poets on this off-shore boat, and
they’ll compose and read back to you on-the-spot custom poetry. Why are
they out on a boat? Because that’s where they put people with leprosy.

All
the while, there’ll be a kickin’ soundtrack from Djs like KCRW’s Garth
Trinidad and Postal Service member Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel –
himself so accustomed to late-night shenanigans he once took his own E.

Check out all the craziness at GLOW

Erector Set Skyscraper at Rockefeller Center Is Adult Fantasy: …a sweet, old-fashioned tribute to boyhood optimism…Chris Burden’s "What My Dad Gave Me"… [images]- Bloomberg News

Dymaxion Man: The visions of Buckminster Fuller: By staging the retrospective, the Whitney raises—or, really, one should say, re-raises—the question of Fuller’s relevance. Was he an important cultural figure because he produced inventions of practical value or because he didn’t?- New Yorker

and of course…

[David] Byrne’s new installation produced by Creative Time, “Playing The Building,” is located downtown in the Battery Maritime Building, which was built in 1909, closed in 1938 and hasn’t been open to the public for 50 years.

“Lately when I retired to my home, determined so far as
possible to bother about nothing except spending the little life I have
left in rest and seclusion, it seemed to me I could do my mind no
greater favor than to let it entertain itself in full idleness and stay
and settle in itself, which I hoped it might do more easily now, having
become weightier and riper with time. But I find-

Ever idle hours breed wandering thoughts
–Lucan

“–that, on the contrary, like a runaway horse, it gives itself a
hundred times more trouble than it took for others, and gives birth to
so many chimeras and fantastic monsters, one after another, without
order or purpose, that in order to contemplate their ineptitude and
strangeness at my pleasure, I have begun to put them in writing, hoping
in time to make my mind ashamed of itself.”

And the moment for me took on the aspect of revelation. I shit you not. The experience of,
‘seeing as in a mirror, dimly’ my own reflection, reminded me of one of
the things that first attracted me to art and literature; a process of
discovery, of learning to be human.

Montaigne wrote this passage in the
late 16th Century
and it is just as relevant today as ever. Not in the term ‘idleness’ per se,
but more specifically, in the false industry of instant information availability.  For example, do
something like Google your name–’chimeras
and fantastic monsters’ indeed!

This is not the idleness artists need. What we need, what I need, is
to be still; to listen to the wind in the trees. Godard said we need
more films with wind in the trees. I trust Godard. I’ve got to go back
into my DVDs and find the scene. Was it “Helas Pour Moi” or something
much earlier?

Here’s one from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrLmtlo1e0