Still Life in LA

Here's a sampling of press and reactions etc. from the recent tour dates:

LA Times Review

LA Downtown Express Preview Article

Downtown LA Scene Interview with Cynthia

Adrienne-from-the-old-Nest's Blog

Philly City Paper Review

Philly Fringe's own blog

In other news, which I wouldn't mention out of my vast humility but since no one is reading this thing anyway, Jeff and I are stocking up on the fall awards, winning a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) and getting a nomination for a Henry Hewes Award (American Theatre Wing). I was even more excited when I saw Bob Flanagan was shockingly nominated but alas it's not that Bob Flanagan... sigh. Jeff actually got 2 nominations for the Hewes, getting a nod with our co-Sound Designer Jamie McElhenney for Thaddeus Phillips' "El Conquistador" at NYTW.

Joey Truman, get to work!

They killed at the Giraffe benefit.
Imagine what they'll do to the Hole....


This Saturday, June 30 at the Collapsable Hole
146 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg, BKLYN
9pm until
$10 admission - free beer and lots of it
Yes, there is A/C

Stags
Mercy Killers
Dishwashers

listen

And furthermore circle next Saturday, July 7, while you are at it.
Cynthia is doing a little performing at Catch24 in Bushwick.
More on this later...

We're on a bridge to nowhere/ Come on inside

Ah.

Cool stuffs

Daniel Rozin makes mirrors out of all kinds of cool stuff. Video. It's an oldie but a goodie.

Wooden Mirror, Rozin's latest creation (on view at program headquarters at 721 Broadway), reflects this tension. The 6-foot-tall video display consists of 830 pieces of gold-toned pine, each wired to its own tiny servomotor. Stand before it and a hidden camera feeds your image, in real time, to a souped-up Macintosh, which parses you into an 830-byte video signal. The Mac then tells each motor to position its pinewood pixel to reflect a specific intensity of light. The result: the world's first live animated woodcut.

from Wired, Dec. '99 (weirdly enough written by Steve Bodow)

Radiohole at Knitting Factory Saturday

Weird but yummy I am sure.

post Mermaid of course (it'll be Aleta's first--Mermaid parade, not Radiohole)

Dream Machine v.2

Now, *that's* a margarita maker..., originally uploaded by SCA Scot.

This puts Bernt's Whip Um mixer action to shame. That's a 4 cylinder car engine which is attached via drive train to the Margarita mixing vat.

Makes me nostalgic for the old car-camping days of my youth. If I'da had that when I was young I'd probably have a kid in their 20s right now.

More detail pics.

Human interest note: Jim and Kristin both have birthdays this week + Aleta and Jameson had their Dad's in East River park last Sunday for some Joshua Stern/Federman hosted Father's Day hoopla. No one got arrested. Phew.

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UPDATE! Video!

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Stelarc

The form of whatever species we evolve into after we humans cease to exist is something that's been floating around for the 3rd part of the trilogy. Stelarc thinks we are already there:

Bodies are both Zombies and Cyborgs. We have never had a mind of our own and we often perform involuntarily—conditioned and externally prompted. Ever since we evolved as hominids and developed bipedal locomotion, two limbs became manipulators and we constructed artifacts, instruments and machines. In other words, we have always been coupled with technology. We have always been prosthetic bodies. We fear the involuntary and we are becoming increasingly automated and extended. But we fear what we have always been and what we have already become—Zombies and Cyborgs.

Here is his latest self-mod:

He's Australian which begs the question: what is with Australia and end of the human species themes -- Nevil Shute's novel (and a Gregory Peck movie), On the Beach; Herzog's film, Where the Green Ants Dream; Wender's mixed Until the End of the World (with the plane scene lifted straight from Herzog in an insane act of creative jealousy or kind of lame homage) and of course the movie that's been remade and ripped off 100s of times, Mad Max.

Road Trip?

Linsey Bostwick joins the Circus!

The big news at Team Success™ HQ is that Linsey Bostwick is now our Managing Director.
She comes to us from Big Art Group where she spent a million years touring, making deranged [in a good way] media pieces, wearing lots of hats and taking lots of great pictures.
We're pretty excited.

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