To make a vision of Clint Eastwood and Rena Easton together in a movie, may be the height of American Sexyism. Rena was complimented when her son said she was “bad ass”. Indeed, this is her middle name. At the University of Nebraska she unveiled the life-size statue her boyfriend did of himself that would be made into a bronze. The clay was still wet. In the gallery she poses as Diana, drawing a bow.
This morning I discovered Stuckism. For ten days I have been working on my next chapter about Rosefish. There is a montage. For three years I have been trying to find a way to make my muse come alive and do works of art. I may have found the answer in the work of Allison Jackson. This technology could soon evolve into motion picture making. Everyone wants to see a young Eastwood in another Spaghetti Western, and a Dirty Hairy movie.
I would love to see a young Rena walking down a dirt road in a small town with a six-shooter slung low. Tattoo Mike is next to her, and next to Mike, is Eastwood. They are going to the train station. Randolph McReagan is coming to town with his gang, and Bonzo, a mean five hundred pound chimpanzee that stands six feet tall.
My friends sent me a video of the clock that started working just after Amy and I got off the phone. It’s on! There’s going to be a major cultural shift. The winged muses are gathering their poets like they haven’t done since the Fall of Troy! Persian poets are already on their way!
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the infamous Doomsday Clock ahead two minutes, leaving it three minutes from midnight.
Citing global warming and increasingly dangerous weapons caches around the world, BAS leaders claimed in a Thursday press conference that the “probability of global catastrophe is very high.”
“In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity,” the group said in a statement.
“World leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth.”
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/quentin-tarantino-sued-infringement-django-unchained-1201669974/
http://www.alison-jackson.co.uk/mental-images/2015/12/3/royal-selfie
Quentin Tarantino, The Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures have been accused of copyright infringement through their 2012 movie “Django Unchained.”
The filmmaker and the distributors were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on Dec. 24 in federal court in Washington, D.C., by Oscar Colvin, Jr. and his son Torrrance J. Colvin. The Colvins assert that the defendants have infringed on the copyright of their screenplay “Freedom,” citing what they allege are extensive similarities to Tarantino’s Oscar-winning script for “Django Unchained.”
The movie was directed by Tarantino and starred Jamie Foxx as the titular Django Freeman along with Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. “Django Unchained,” set in the late 1850s in the Old West and antebellum South, has elements of spaghetti Westerns and serves as a tribute to Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 film “Django.”
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/quentin-tarantino-sued-infringement-django-unchained-1201669974/
Blood and violence motifs[edit]
His work often involves images of violence and splattered blood.[8] He collected blood from 20 celebrities to make a piece of art for his Life Is Not a Fairytale exhibit in Los Angeles[9] and also photographed Lindsay Lohan as a vampire for that exhibit.[10
Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (born 3 July 1963)[2] is an English artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the ‘enfant terrible’ of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts.[3] Known for their confrontational subject matter and portrayal of taboo subjects, critics accused the Young British Artists of relying on ‘shock tactics’ rather than artistic talent.[4]
In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with the names of everyone the artist had ever shared a bed with, was shown at Charles Saatchi‘s Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore multiple times in an apparent state of drunkenness on a live discussion programme on British television.
In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery,entitled Every Part of Me’s Bleeding. Later that year, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed – a readymade installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed, in which she had spent several weeks drinking, smoking, eating, sleeping and having sexual intercourse whilst undergoing a period of severe emotional flux. The artwork featured used condoms and blood-stained underwear.
“By now the underlying competition between Christine and her
oldest daughter was also out in the open. Some have commented that by
age ten, the girl had fallen into womanhood by default. To whatever
perpous she managed her life from then on. In many ways, it was simply
an extension of the mother-daughter competition between Rosemary and Christine,”
Tom Snyder
Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art.[1][2] By July 2012 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 233 groups in 52 countries.[3]
Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The first one was The Stuckists, consisting of 20 points starting with “Stuckism is a quest for authenticity“.[4] Remodernism, the other well-known manifesto of the movement, is a criticism of postmodernism; it aims to get back to the true spirit of modernism, to produce art with spiritual value regardless of style, subject matter or medium.[5] In another manifesto they define themselves as anti-anti-art[6] which is against anti-art and for art.[7]
After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch, London, the Stuckists’ first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery, as part of the Liverpool Biennial. The group has demonstrated annually at Tate Britain against the Turner Prize since 2000, sometimes dressed in clown costumes. They have also come out in opposition to the Charles Saatchi-patronised Young British Artists.[8][9]
Although painting is the dominant artistic form of Stuckism, artists using other media such as photography, sculpture, film and collage have also joined, and share the Stuckist opposition to conceptualism and ego-art.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuckism
The name “Stuckism” was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish. In it, Childish recites that his former girlfriend, Tracey Emin had said he was “stuck! stuck! stuck!” with his art, poetry and music.[11] Later that month, Thomson approached Childish with a view to co-founding an art group called Stuckism, which Childish agreed to, on the basis that Thomson would do the work for the group, as Childish already had a full schedule.[11]
There were eleven other founding members: Philip Absolon, Frances Castle, Sheila Clark, Eamon Everall, Ella Guru, Wolf Howard, Bill Lewis, Sanchia Lewis, Joe Machine, Sexton Ming, and Charles Williams.[11] The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations:[12] the group was originally promoted as working in paint, but members have since worked in various other media, including poetry, fiction, performance, photography, film and music.[11]
In 1979, Thomson, Childish, Bill Lewis and Ming were members of The Medway Poets performance group, to which Absolon and Sanchia Lewis had earlier contributed.[11] Peter Waite’s Rochester Pottery staged a series of solo painting shows.[11] In 1982, TVS broadcast a documentary on the poets.[11] That year, Emin, then a fashion student, and Childish started a relationship; her writing was edited by Bill Lewis, printed by Thomson and published by Childish.[11] Group members published dozens of works.[11] The poetry group dispersed after two years, reconvening in 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP.[11] Clark, Howard and Machine became involved over the following years.[11] Thomson got to know Williams, who was a local art student and whose girlfriend was a friend of Emin; Thomson also met Everall.[11] During the foundation of the group, Ming brought in his girlfriend, Guru, who in turn invited Castle.[11]
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