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situationists

 

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The utopian project New Babylon was developed out of the situationist movement in the late 50ies; it clearly stands in a line with situationism and it has to bee seen embedded both in the artistic avantgarde and in the social struggles of that time – so maybe we should first sketch out some basic ideas of situationism. The Situationist International was a follow-up to the Paris-based Lettrist International. Both organisations share both their understanding as being revolutionary art movements andtheir fascination with urban space as the stage of a daily struggle against functionalist capitalism. Guy Debord is often acknowledged as the central figure of situationism. When he is often described as activist, artist, writer, we can see the arena in which he and the other situationist acted in.

In his famous piece "The Naked City" from 1959 some main ideas are represented. "The Naked City" is cut-up and re-configured map of Paris, putting new connections between certain areas. It is more a mind-map, actually.

 

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One of the techniques the situationists invented was the "derive". It means a kind of aimless wandering, a drifting through the city (here we can see the lines back to surrealism as well). The derive was meant as an act of resistance to the hegemonic functionialism, upon which capitalist (as well as socialist) society was based. Situationism clearly detected functionalism as one of the keys through which capitalism worked. Here in Sweden we can see extremely well, how such an over-all functionalist approach forms a society. Every detail of such a model is exactly planned, capitalism organizes every small aspect of social life. Sweden is actually in many aspects the role-model of the 20th century welfare state, Fordism, the capitalist compromise between workers and owners of production, is somehow the doctrine on which the whole social-democtraic swedish model is based on... and that we can see in the architecture, if we look at the suburbs as an outcome of functionalist city planning.

Anyway, the situationists said:

You have to tear apart the grid of the city and find your own ways and not fall into the everyday capitalist life.

The overall organization of social life was also described by Michel Foucault with the theory of the disciplinary society. He states that within such a society you move from one closed milieu to another: you start in the family, then go to school, maybe to military, afterwards into factory and if things do not work out to the hospital or maybe to the prison. Life is organized through this institutions, and they are all somehow structured in the same way, their functions are analogous.

The situationists, along with the upcoming revolutionary ideas of that time, were opposed to this kind of disciplinary regime. They wanted to break up the divisions between the separated fields. especially in the realm of the city. Their main programm, the unitary urbanism, was to abolish all seperations between work and leisure time, between public and private space.

 

 

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In Japan gay people often use toilet at a station. It is usual that many such scribble is on toilet wall.

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This says " I want to play SUMO with man aged sixty.

But shortcut construction worker only. I'm waiting your call.

Call me and say SUMO"

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And this is "SUMO" for man who scribble this.

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someone is going to need to pick up the slack on posting images and babble "stuff" here.

 

unfortunately youll be seeing less and less of me on this site. so please whoever feels like stepping up to bat on my hiatus. please feel free to do so..

 

 

-bobby

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a few more, cuz he so damn good.

 

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Brian Froud discusses the making of the Jim Henson film "Labyrinth":

"In the very early stages, Jim and I were discussing what it might be about and we decided 'goblins.' From there, I started to create pictures and drawings. I filled sketchbook after sketchbook, doodling in corners, creating hundreds of creatures."

Brian Froud produced hundreds of drawings of different types of goblin which gave inspiration to screenwriter Terry Jones:

"Every time I was stuck and needed something to happen, I'd look through Brian's drawings, and there would be a new character, speaking to me."

the man with a few of his drawings come to life.

 

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the Queen of burlesque

 

Famous for her act of bathing on stage, Lili St. Cyr attracted crowds of men and women alike. She wore very lavish gowns (frequently Dior) and costumes with jewelry to match. Her acts often included international influences where she portrayed women of different countries, including Cleopatra. In another act, she did a reverse strip tease where she came out on stage in a g-string and had a maid help her get dressed. It is also rumored that she had a lesbian affair with Marilyn Monroe. She was always considered to have an incredible amount of grace and class. She died in 1999.

 

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Originally posted by Al Green

socks

 

 

i was lucky enough to stumbline into the American Folk Art museum in NYC when they were having a show about.. "Outsider art and Art Brute"

 

luckily i got to see Darger and a slew of other incredible artist who although they were pretty damn nuts.. were also pretty damn brilliant and created some of the most involved and fucking incredible art ive seen. They recently released a book of Dargers work and i must say once i have some disposable income id pick it up in a heartbeat..

 

stuff like that is really inspiring..

 

babble on.!

 

oh and since you put the link im going to drop a few images to hopefully lure some people to actually read and check it out

 

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the caption on this reads "they attempt to get away by rolling themselves in floor rugs."

 

 

 

ahhhh

 

i saw this exhibit. little girls with penises? creepy but cool stuff.

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