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1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Provide a participatory, collaborative news creation and publication platform.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Although citizen news journalism projects exist, they do not provide a…
(Source: newschallenge1)
On Comedy That May Be Comedy
There is nothing more contemptuous than a dirty old man. And yet, their poetry & literature is so, so good.
The Top 10 Dirty Old (Literary) Men
(originally published on February 15, 2011 @ http://alyssekathleen.com)
On Comedy That Isn’t Comedy: Part 3
Grant Wood’s American Gothic. The models are Grant Woods sister and dentist…
She laid in elegant repose, an angel hovered above her
Oh how he glowed, she didn’t see the fluorescent and hemp ropes
He wore that plastic crown of thorns, unlocked her chastity
He plucked each petal, lost in rapturous agony
The walls hear her pleasuring torturous pants but have no eyes
The angels on the headboard see her ecstasy but they can’t testify
The crickets tried to warn her with all their cries
And Love and Pain held hands wearing masks of drama and comedy over-sized
“I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradiction will disappear like a pitiful mirage, a vile concoction of man’s Euclidean mind, feeble and puny as an atom, and that ultimately, at the world’s finale, in the moment of eternal harmony, there will occur and be revealed something so precious that it will suffice for all hearts, to allay all indignation, to redeem all human villainy, all bloodshed; it will suffice not only to make forgiveness possible, but also to justify everything that has happened with men….”— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear/Volokhonsky translation)
“When I read, I accommodate: not only the crystalline humor of my eyes, but also that of my intellect, in order to reach the right level of signification (the one which suits me). A responsible linguistics must no longer be concerned with ‘messages’ (to hell with ‘messages’!) but with these accommodations, which doubtless proceed by levels and thresholds, each of us curbs his mind, or curves it, like an eye, in order to grasp in the mass of the text that certain intelligibility he needs in order to know, to take pleasure, etc. In this, reading is a kind of work, a labor; there is a muscle which curves it.”— Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 1975, trans. Richard Howard (via proustitute)
““Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven’t Read - Books You Needn’t Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written - Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered - Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First - Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered - Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback - Books You Can Borrow from Somebody - Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too - Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages - Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success - Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment - Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case - Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer - Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves - Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified - Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read - Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them””— Italo Calvino from If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
(Source: goodreads.com)
“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
—Willa Cather
(via nthword)
Hello, this is my current project. Death Poem is a new media and video collage poem which runs on a video screen, but behind it, actually runs on a program called Max/MSP/Jitter. The poem consists of four streaming films that are systematically arranged into a box, which create a larger poem when words are juxtaposed next to each other in the larger box. The video will stream for over two days without looping. The video poem, despite the name, reflects how life continues on after death with tombstones broken and underneath overgrown plant life and creatures amid it.
“[Brambilla] appropriated existing media materials into a visually original, conceptually solid series of works. Lady Gaga’s visual team made a watered down, purely theatrical version of the visuals, appropriating them for the general “plot” of her video.”
- Marina Galperina (from comments on Lady Gaga’s Most Blatant Contemporary Art Rip-Offs)
“Born This Way”
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Queer Porn Star Accused of Pedophilia for Breastfeeding Baby
By Diane Anderson-Minshall
Weeks after queer porn star Madison Young had her baby, she created an art exhibit titled “Becoming MILF.” The concept, according to Jezebel.com, was to explore how Young now embodies a contradiction, the dichotomy to end all dichotomies — that of the Madonna and the whore. At the show’s opening, she served up self-made breast-milk shakes and displayed a baby quilt made of burp cloths and porn star panties. Turns out not every feminist porn star agrees. According to Salon.com, a series of sex worker Twitter wars ensued, the controversy tapping into “culture-wide mommy issues.”
Porn star Furry Girl (who is known for her, um, stage name–like features) criticized Young for publicly breast-feeding, tweeting that only “creeps and pedophiles” are interested in seeing a porn star breast-feed and insinuated that exposing her child to such an audience was abusive. Girl called Young a “a revolting person” and dubbed her defenders “baby fetishists” and “pedos.”
Of course Young (née Tina Butcher) is already a well-known feminist porn star, director, author, and the founder of Femina Potens, an ever-evolving, queer and trans nonprofit gallery and performance space in California that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “the most happening art space in the city; a revolution in art and sex.” She’s curated the gallery for years, mixing envelope-pushing women’s sexuality exhibitions and spoken word shows from lesbians like Annie Sprinkle with less kinky feminist projects from literati like Michelle Tea. Young’s shown up on such outlets as IFC and the History Channel and in MSNBC’s Brian Alexander’s book America Unzipped, which has a whole chapter on her art and work.
So what was this controversial display of pedophilia that Furry Girl imagines? According to Salon, Young posed for a black-and-white photograph dressed up like Marilyn Monroe while clutching her daughter to her bare breast, nonchalantly breast-fed on a video, and then announced that she would nurse live and in person at an upcoming event meant to promote “health awareness for our queer, kinky, and sex positive communities.”
At the event itself, Young discussed breast health, while other presenters talked about breast cancer, antiretroviral drugs, and safe sex. “It wasn’t a sex party; it was an adult sex-ed class hosted by sex workers,” writes Salon’s Tracy Clark-Florey.
Furry Girl, an actress in vegan porn, tweeted that context is at the root of her argument, though she no longer wants to comment on the debacle. Meanwhile, Young returned to social media in hopes of ending the Twitter mommy sex wars: “The only one sexualizing this image of me breastfeeding is you. Which makes me feel truly disgusted and violated.”
(via sexgenderbody)
