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Have you seen any raccoons lately? We’ve had reports of sightings from all over Brooklyn. A reader in Clinton Hill sent in these photos of a family of five in the backyard. “The raccoons are getting out of hand,” the tipster wrote. “Tried calling city for help, but was told its my problem.” They have invaded people’s ho... More

Tomorrow the Museum of the Moving Image is opening their latest installation, DVD Dead Drop. The simple, almost invisible piece consists of a slot-loading DVD burner in a brick wall on the outside of the museum, which will be available 24/7. If you track it down, load in a blank DVD-R and it will burn a digital art exhibit onto it for you. It's almost like the Blockbuster of the art world! [ more › ]

more exciting than finding the God Particle

Can't trust a clam farther than you can throw it, especially when salt is concerned, apparently.

Actually, I'm not sure if this video proves anything (what would happen if there was sugar on the table, or brownie crumbs, or cinnamon?) but it is pretty awesome. (via ★asimone)

Update: Just in case there's any confusion, the clam is not eating the salt as the video title claims. That's the clam's foot, out to survey its surroundings.

Tags: clams   video

This is a five-minute video of Andy Warhol eating a Burger King hamburger accompanied by Heinz ketchup.

The scene is part of a film done by Jorgen Leth called 66 scenes from america.

Leth had his assistant buy some burgers and directly advised him to buy some in halfway neutral packaging as Leth was afraid that Warhol might reject some brands (Warhol always had an obsession with some of his favorite brands).

So Andy Warhol finally did arrive at the studio, of course along with his bodyguards, and when he saw the selection of burgers the assistant had brought he asked "Where is the McDonald's?" and Leth -- slightly in panic -- was immediately like "I thought you would maybe not like to identify..." and Warhol answered "no that is the most beautiful". Leth offered to let his assistant quickly run to McDonald's but Warhol refused like "No, never mind, I will take the Burger King."

(via bon appetit)

Tags: Andy Warhol   art   Burger King   food   hamburgers   Heinz   Jorgen Leth   video

Hey, art student! Want to learn The Abramović Method from the diva of performance art herself? Why not apply for the Summer School at PS1, a series of lectures, workshops, and discussions including Marina teaching you “a technique which trains students in achieving a clear state of mind in order to develop ideas for their own work.” If you’ve seen The Artist Is Present film, that may or may not include fasting, meditating, swimming naked and making soup. Yeah, you won’t be that lucky. I know. I know. It will be ok.

Calling all current students with art-related majors for August–art, drama, writing, etc.–and hustle, applications are due July 20th.

Guess what? The arty transgressive genderfuck Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, will also be teaching so you can “explore the emotional journeys of their life to date in the creation of an intimate, personal, magical language.” That sounds tame until you remember that Genesis surgically and spiritually turned himself into 1/2 of a single pandrogynous entity with the late Lady Jaye.

You can even learn and re-perform postmodern Steve Paxton pieces, Satisfying Lover (1967) and State (1968) come October at the MoMA. If that’s your thing. So legit.

Yesterday was World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, an occasion to try "to explain the true meaning of the symbol,” according to Thomas Kaenzig, a member of the International Raelian Movement and the organizer of the event. Oh, did you not know this was happening? Then you must not have looked up, since a plane flew across Manhattan, across the Jersey Shore and across Long Beach Island with a banner displaying the word "Swastika" along with the group's insignia (a swastika intertwined with a Star of David). As you can imagine, people were confused and less than enthusiastic. [ more › ]

Dancing about Architecture

A German experimental theater recently put on a production of Infinite Jest. They turned the 1079-page book into a 24-hour play that took place all over Berlin.

The play is Infinite Jest. Yes, the 1,079-page David Foster Wallace novel. Germany's leading experimental theater, Hebbel am Ufer, had the gall not only to stage the world theatrical premiere of an Infinite Jest adaptation, but to play it on the grandest stage possible: the city of Berlin itself. Over the course of 24 hours, the shell-shocked and increasingly substance-dependent audience is transported to eight of the city's iconic settings, which serve as analogs for the venues to which the discursive novel continually returns.

But so we're at this AA meeting in a Boston school cafeteria, which in this case is the cultural center of a city quarter that was drawn up from scratch in the 1960s in the far, far north of Berlin, like practically halfway to the Baltic, this sticks-of-the-sticks-type section of town. And the actor sharing his history of teen addiction to Quaaludes and Hefenreffer-brand beer is droning on far too long and starting to give me the howling fantods.

Every internet article about Wallace is required by law to include footnotes and this one is no exception. (thx, paul)

Tags: books   David Foster Wallace   Infinite Jest   plays