Challenge 01: September 2007 Archives
My dear friend Upsi beams messagerial for you:
Little Elephant Gets Upsi Representation from little elephant on Vimeo.
Writing a profile to disclose personal information is necessarally challenging for me, whose identity is unrooted in person.
The circumstances binding me to earth are stillfresh and traumatic, and therefore still alienologically repressed.
Here is a bit of the back story for Upsi and me. As we build mutual trust, I will start to divulge. Though if you are keen, you will have known before and without.
Check out our photos!
Cosmically yours, L.E.
Untitled from Paige's Interns on Vimeo.
Thanks to the interns for all their hard work and effort. We expect good things from them in the future and wish them all the best. If it wasn't for them, I don't how we'd ever make photocopies or keep files in the right place!
An Introductory PowerPoint Presentation:
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Notes:
You can find G-RAD online at http://www.g-rad.org, and each of the core group specifically:
Cory - http://www.g-rad.org/waterpark
Kevin T - http://www.g-rad.org/hommedeterre
Sally - http://www.g-rad.org/cosmo
Kevin B - http://www.g-rad.org/porcupine
Splinters - http://www.g-rad.org/vegan
George - http://www.g-rad.org/mf
The hand image can be purchased in T-Shirt form from Premier Skateboarding, our neighborhood skate shop. It is the "where we are from" design.
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We are very pleased to meet you!
♥ G-RAD
Existential Media Profile from existentialmedia on Vimeo.
Who the...?
There has been a lot of questions and speculation about what this place is. It all began not too long ago...
Mr. Matthew Spencer was looking for a way to share his artistic vision. He had a vision of an experimental utopian community called Existential Media. The foundation was laid. The populace gathered. The word got out. Every once in a while, other anointed were found and added to the ranks. This respectful bunch has continued to publish their ideas.
So...what?
Existential Media is a place for existential media. Extreme artistry. Transcendent folks focused on the creation of new ideals. That's our main focus. Each post, each blog, each author strives to follow this model.
Why?...how!?
It's an obvious answer here. Why the internets? The immediacy. We are cutting edge. Switch blades. Air planes. The medium is the message. How? Collaboration. Down here, we are powered by collaboration (and Movable Type).
This post has been removed pending investigation by the site administrator. For more information please email interminable.duration@unspecified.name reference: "Matthew Stadler, post #2."
bodycity profile from bodycity on Vimeo.
Hello interweb community, we are bodycity. Hi!
We are a dance troupe based in LA. Our little video here is a compilation of stills from several of our dances over the last 2 years. It also features a sneak peak of the first rehearsal of a dance we are building for a Halloween performance. So you get to see all of the members past and present of bodycity as well as some sweet new moves. Right now, bodycity has 10 members, but we also work, tour, travel, and sometimes get a little sick...so not everyone could make it to last nights rehearsal, but if we stick around, you'll get to meet all of us!
Our mission statement says a little something about us too:
bodycity is a dance democracy. we are completely ensemble based, each of us with varying levels of training. we are all creative directors. our dances challenge the notion of dance and choreography as a traditional/singular vocabulary performed by specific dance "types." we are dedicated to the site specific. we are interested in the humorous, perplexing, delightful, weird, pensive, beautiful, exciting and lively.
And, of course, we have a blog and more photos to look at, and some really great videos!
Yip! Yip! Yip! bodycity is ready to dance 4.0!
Don't let the earnest picture fool you as I fill in the blanks. I live in a lil 'treehouse' on Marquam Hill, a quiet lil' cul de sac that plays host to Portland's new tram in the sky, where I also manage to obtain free, yet often extremely intermittent wi-fi. My work is a range of things that often come from documenting the fringes (trolling) the back alleys of the industrial Northwest, combined with a splash of conceptual modernism and the peripheral theories of Emmanuel Levinas. Think of a hybrid of photography and sculpture, add it together with a dash of writing, curation, installation and collaboration and it starts to make me out to be a beat poetry slammer, or a mad chef concocting a fragile souffle recipe (though I can hardly fold t-shirts, let alone some fancy egg mixture). I have been a cultural journalist, mostly focusing on experimental electronic music, since around Y2K, giving lectures and moderating panels at a handful of international music festivals. That's my 'other' life. I've shown my work in a handful of galleries and museums across the North American continent, and in Europe as well. I'm newly represented by the red hot atelier of things all-brow, the New American Art Union (watch for their brand-new site this Friday), an exciting small stable of talented and challenging artists. Some may say 'Homo Universalis', others say 'I pity the fool'. Anyway you slice it, I am here on my own accord, and up for the challenge. My sense of the truth (or what's left of it) seems to be ever emerging. Unfolding the intangible elements I choose such as gravity/suspension, tension and distance. My studio practice has often been collaborative, so it will be interesting to see how I might actually "compete" here, as an empath of all things. My main interests are: blogging, karaoke, critique/wordplay/dialogue, videography, podcasting, electronic/experimental music, independent film/video, criticism/discourse, museums, public transportation, YouTube, bodies of water, existentialism and Fluxus/Dada (and obviously the use of the almighty slash, parenthesis and quote). Let's see, I listen to disco and rock, is that so wrong? Anyway, there's plenty more about ME on the web so I am gonna cut to the chase rather than bore you with statistics.
*** ROLL CREDITS: Very Special Thanks to good sport Los Angeles filmmaker and documentarian Sopia Balme of CurrentTV for having cameraphone on the go and for uploading on a tight deadline! We just met today. Also to my background folks Gabe Flores and Abi Spring, you two are root-tootin' good sports. And of course to the Foghat-lovin' guys of Sincerely John Head for putting up with our on-the-fly antics in front of their weird and wonderful "Box Set Sessions" set up (you gotta try it). Peas.
