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Another discovery today,

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Critical Pixels

discovered today while searching, again, for a communication class i could take.

This time i was looking at concordia communication undergraduate program and i think i should really give it a try. But again, march 1st deadline is already gone by.
What should spontaneous people like me, unable to have a life planning over 3 month, do?

Anyway, i have foud this blog on my way, u should give it a try:

* Critical Pixels

Oooops, I did it again

no, i haven’t spent my lunchtime shopping. no, i haven’t stopped at zara. no, i haven’t bought something there. no, i didn’t use my credit card. (no, my credit card limit is not reached.. yet). no, i haven’t bought another shirt. no, it’s not a pink one, again.

Alexander McQueen

My fall wardrobe is ready, there’s only the budget missing… :/

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Weekly obsession: Arthur Russell’s fragile art-disco genius

My obsession with arthur russell is still going on.

Ok, no worry. all obsessions i have last for not more than 2 to 3 weeks. This is second week (out of 3 i hope).

Getting to the point here.
It does feel wonderful to discover a new artist who’s work make us feel happier, see more alive (as it is for me when i discover a new artist’s who’s work can awake me somehow). The saddest is, when this genius has already passed by.

Arthur Russell is one of these genius who was here for a short but-so-fu***-creative and busy period. His work in dance music is still really actual, even dating from the 90′s, and i wouldn’t mind guessing about who tried to repeat or got highly influenced by his work (this is actually the fun part for me..).

from village voice:
Arthur Russell was the most maddening kind of genius: the kind who produces mountains of extraordinary work, and can barely ever actually finish it. A cellist, singer, songwriter, composer, and disco producer, he wanted to be a pop star, but he also wanted to be a hermetic avant-gardist. (…)

The deliberate imperfections of Russell’s art are its deepest hooks. He loved to use instruments (like his cello or Peter Zummo’s trombone) that aimed for notes and barely missed; his songs drift off course, or wander from one idea to another. Russell’s lyrics are about emotional awkwardness and overwhelmedness, human bodies being human in motion and in water and in beds. (“Show me what the girl does to the boy,” he sings shyly on Calling Out of Context, “if you can get around to it.”) The pleasures of these affectionate, blurry songs are physical pleasures, triggered by small motions—like a hand reaching around to touch the far side of the beloved’s face, or a tap on a cowbell—and triggering heartaches and sweat, in turn. The voices on his records can’t necessarily sing, but they can’t keep from singing.

from stylus mag:
(…) When Arthur Russell died, he left approximately 1000 tapes of music and 1000 pages of lyrics, in varying states of completion behind. Many of these tapes contained the same songs, completed in a variety of ways, allowing for the possibility of different endings.

Six ain’t better than one

In my numerous attempts of getting into an healthier lifestyle, i took the habit of buying a salad at the corner store every time i pass by.

Cleaning up the mess that is my flat this morning, i opened the fridge to find out more than 6 unopened salads.

Remembers me that good intention must be followed by action.

Could be that i have to eat the salad.

Manitoba: Up in flames // en feu

2 drummers, a keyboard, 2 guitars, a melodica, and pre recorded voices.

Something like my bloody valentine and the beach boys.

Add some rock.

Weird visuals, and weird masks.

Manitoba played for about an hour, and then we’ve got some house tracks.

I bet getting up at 8h will be quite difficult,

but under 30 everything is still possible.

Racing for a quiet life

Having a hard time getting up this morning, I promised myself i would stay home tonight with grozamour et tinamour to recover from last nights out. So many good intentions: taking it easy, eating something healthy, watching a movie (something nice, nothing too stressy), and most of all, being in bed as early as possible.

But then.
My brother called to say he would stop by for dinner, then a friend invited me for some kind of weird game where people are running to catch a frezbee (?), another wanted to go to an exhibit, and finally, antoine invited me for a drink with friends.

* all attempts to be a good girl where broken, again *

I finally went see phil spinning records to this small happening outside la place des arts, and later joined antoine and friends for another drink.

I am now home, with hm, 2 upset cats ignoring me, i guess because i wasn’t home the whole week.

Well, some things just never happen as we wish they would. Being a good girl is boring anyway.

transmediale04

Check out for transmediale04 call for entries.

The website is done by friends at Fork. did i already made a post about that? hm.. can’t remember.

Transmediale, international media art festival berlin, invites submissions for its Award Competition. The competition highlights outstanding contemporary artistic positions in digital media art. (…)

Up in flames // en feu

// Friend mel and her band are playing at the jazz festival.

// tonight, manitoba is playing at club soda with fred everything as second part. Show is a 12h.

// friend dan is gonna do a live performance on july 31th at the missy bar. I will be doing the artwork for the cd sampler + flyers, sometimes between 3 and 4 am i guess…

what u get for $2

Turn any website into an RSS feed for $2.
Bootleg RSS, a service for scraping websites and turning them into RSS, is taking requests. If there’s a site you’d like RSS-ified, ping Carlo and he’ll make it into a feed for $2.

Now, I’ve thought about the how. Hosting feeds costs money, scraping feeds is taking time, and maintaining a feed can take some time as well. So, I’m offering you the following service. First read the list of things you get, then see whether you’d be willing to shell out a small one-time fee of $2.

Found on Loic Le Meur Blog.

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By the way, i am still giving away gmail accounts, if some of you would like to have one.

Nerds meeting

So yeah guys, up for another bluuuugs meeting tomorrow evening. At 20h at la cabane on st-laurent.

Not that i really like the place.. we have to talk about moving it to the Laika bar, a couple of blocks away, where they have a wi-fi access and hm, its cozy and nicer then la cabane i think…

Gang bang

“Everything is interrelated,
interconnected.

Everything is interrelated,
interconnected.
sumptuously taken care of.”

After going back in time last week showing my first website dating from 99, someone today remembered me a piece i did for paperjam and Mr. Edgar along with other people.

The piece was done using a picture taken from the top of the reichstag in berlin, just before a huge thuderstorm hitted the city. These picts are beautiful, and the feeling i had up there was incredible.

Well, here’s the result.