Frankenstein vs. the World

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Tags: neil young, new year.

Announcing the tremendous release of the second title from Scary Topiary press: Amazing Weapons by Marie Buck. Silkscreened covers and hand-stitched binding. Cover art by Anne Muntges of Super Giant printers. Edition of 123. $10.

“I anticipate complete and utter destruction”; “I charge an overdraft fee to each person I meet.”

Sneak-preview poem & Paypal link: here.

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Adam Davis and Kate Schaefer have really lifted the bar with their furtive artists’ zine, Division Leap. These images are from issue #2, which came out around this time last year and includes a poem I wrote on New Year’s Day 2007, tucked in alongside the much more esteemed company of Thurston Moore, Ray DiPalma, Stephen Lapthisophon, Jim Clinefelter, Sue Tintinger, Clea Davis, Jinn Bronwen Lee, and Schaefer and Davis themselves. The runs are limited to 50 or 100 numbered copies, each one assembled by hand & grangerized into used-book curiosities. Issue #3, based on the wonderful notion of “a portable exhibition,” is recently out: go here.

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“Ben Masterton-Smith visited North Korea for a period of architectural and spatial research. One of the many outcomes of that trip was Ben’s diploma project, part of which proposed a farcical realization of a 7-mile rainbow reportedly seen on the occasion of Kim Jong-il’s birth.

“In many ways, this spatial realization of the state’s own ridiculous mythology serves as a sadly necessary—because totally delirious—over-compensation for the otherwise monumentally vacuous cityscapes of North Korean urbanism, as if the grotesque political spectacle of a pink rainbow soaring seven miles over the city might retroactively justify that city’s empty stagecraft.”

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My meditation on Dorothea Lasky’s work (”review” has never felt right for the piece), composed for ON: Contemporary Practice while I was living in the wildflower-filled high desert of Nevada a couple summers ago, has just gone online at Jacket2. Lasky remains a luminous source of inspiration for me, and I’m happy the piece now has another life in this form.

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“No one lives in the present except amnesiacs”
– Lynn Tillman

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I am not one to reblog sales material (minus that for the occasional small-press item) but I like this a lot.

Designer Laura Väinölä invited her friends Kaarle Hurtig and Linda Bergroth to challenge the traditions of an advent calendar for this holiday season. The outcome is a space with three walls, a fireplace and a floor. But throughout December this rather bland, nice looking room surprises you, makes you laugh and takes you with it on a magical journey. With artists such as Santtu Mustonen, Antti Uotila and Marika Mäkelä, the designers have made a joyful world of animals, Christmas lights and surprises . . .

( . . . via Project 8 . . . )

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