2014/02/06
Benjamin Hirte. Winter
17. January - 1. March
Christian Andersen
Copenhagen
Pop is a serious business and winter is comprehensive. End of March last year, children were still sitting on window sills counting countless snowflakes, lacking vitamin B.
It was a long grim time of year at its finale, when a friend came up with the productive worry: what if it never ends?
In diagrams winter predominantly forms the graphical valley or long tail, sparing some factors linked to the need for warmth and food - emotionally and physically.
Love, Career, Creativity, Economy, Vibrancy can all fall below zero and result in burnout, melancholia, lack of innovation and neatness,
in psychograms of sparse landscapes with trunks, leafless trees, spots of brown soil in a white semigloss blanket - garnished with some greenish leftovers in a vegetative state.
„Her own dance moves, though tricky, mostly consist of flicking her extremities (the dozen or so dancers, meanwhile, do quintuple backflips and jog upside down in DayGlo hamster wheels, the latter exercise occasioned by the self-referential song “Scream & Shout,” which is presided over by a house-sized hologram of will. i. am chanelling the Wizard of Oz). There are no live-cast close-ups of the performer’s face, probably a huge relief for someone who has to muster the energy to do this one hundred times.“
Baby one more time, Kevin McGarry, artforum.com, 01.08.14
Granted pleasure, unrestrained sorrow
Messingkauf Dialogues, Bertold Brecht
2013/05/30
During high school, gangs began to intensify in the Los Angeles school system. Students who belonged to the Bloods and Crips gangs attended Crenshaw, and fought in the school's halls.[6] Tracy aligned with the Crips,[6] and began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim, which he memorized and recited to his friends, who enjoyed hearing the excerpts and told him, "Yo, kick some more of that by Ice, T " and the handle stuck.
2013/05/09
Labels: Roger McGuinn, The Byrds, USA Pop
When he originally started with The Byrds, he used the name Jim, which he thought to be too plain. During 1965 McGuinn briefly explored the Subud spiritual association and began to practice the latihan, an exercise in quieting the mind. McGuinn changed his name in 1967 after Subud's founder Bapak told him it would better "vibrate with the universe." Bapak sent Jim the letter "R" and asked him to send back ten names starting with that letter. Owing to a fascination with airplanes, gadgets and science fiction, he sent names like "Rocket", "Retro", "Ramjet", and "Roger", the latter a term used in signalling protocol over two-way radios, military and civil aviation. Roger was the only "real" name in the bunch and Bapak chose it. While using the name Roger professionally from that time on, McGuinn only officially changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger.
