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Impossible and Polaroid films! Feels like Christmas. (Taken with instagram)

Hey guys!

I’m sure many of you have seen my “I AM” project (If not, it’s here).  Well I have some good news! The project has been selected to be a part of an upcoming art event called 2nd Floor Rear, put together by It’s a Pony Projects here in Chicago.  It’s going to be a wonderful art event with works installed and exhibited in nontraditional spaces for 24 hours (February 4-5, beginning at noon).  There will also be activities, dances, drinks, etc. and everyone is welcome to attend.   

It’s a Pony Projects is raising funds (up till February 1) to help cover the costs of the festival.  If you can find it in your hearts, pockets, purses, Paypals, and wallets, please donate at least $1 (just $1! Only 4 quarters! You can find that in your sofa!), it would really help to bring this event to fruition.

Here’s more info on the festival:

2^nd Floor Rear is a 24-hour festival of alternative spaces, apartment galleries, and ephemeral and migrant projects celebrating Chicago’s vibrant community of alternative and DIY art spaces.

In 1980, the Neoists, a little-known avant-garde subculture descended from Fluxus, held their first annual “International Neoist Apartment Festival” or APT, a four-day long event complete with concerts, performances, film screenings, and installations, in the apartment of one of the members of the Neoist group. Poorly documented and marginally historicized, it is thought[1] that APT carried on annually, in various iterations, until 1988.

Drawing on the 24-hour block party model (think Chattanooga, Tennessee’s Mainx24 festival), 2^ndFloor Rear adapts the spirit of APT to a condensed, 24-hour timeline. From noon on February 4^th to noon on February 5^th, festival participants such as Pop-up Art Loop, Carousel Space Projects, Milk Gallery, the Happy Collaborationists, and individual artists such as Chiara Galimberti and Karen Faith will host pop-up exhibitions, dream yoga sleepovers, site-specific installations, and New Wave synth-pop art extravaganzas.

Here, also, is the official site, where you can see my name in the Collaborators list! :D

Thank you all, and I hope you can help pitch a buck or two! 

- Kiam

WOOOOOOW.

Outside my door (Taken with instagram)

Yellow carrots and blue potatoes- I never knew such things existed! (Taken with instagram)

About to brave the Chicago winter snow to go see this film right now. 

Pina - Trailer (by HopscotchFilmsEnt)

Everything is derivative.

Here’s more proof. Almost every hit pop song of the past 25 years use the same 4 chords.

Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles) (by random804)

With Elizabeth and Stephen. I love these people so much. Yes, including myself. (Taken with instagram)

Hey guys, have you met The Purity Bear? He’s a plush toy who appears to tempted teens and warns them without moving his mouth that going inside a girl’s house will inevitably lead to sex having, and sex having before marriage is literally the worst decision you could possibly make. In spite of…

morninghabit:

map by Bill Rankin, 2005-06

I love Metro systems. Absolutely love them; so much, I could marry them.

On display now at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute museum in Manhattan is the show “Joaquin Sorolla and the Glory of Spanish Dress,” which was conceived by designer Oscar de la Renta and curated by Vogue’s André Leon Talley.

oatmeal:

I made an animated GIF about Sopa

http://theoatmeal.com/sopa

Moroccan Mint tea. One of the pure pleasures in life. (Taken with instagram)

I really enjoy this article and I’m sure you’ll be able to relate as well. 

If you’re not feeling happy, take a look at this list and see what you can remedy. 

Some samples:

You need to make plans to see someone on a Tuesday because having a guaranteed fun activity in the middle of the week will keep you sane and give you something to look forward to. And let’s face it, we all need something to look forward to during the work week…

You need music you can fall in love with…

You need someone in your life who excites you, makes you nervous, and forces you to question what you think you already know… someone who’s challenging, who we can’t figure out, and can tell us that we’re full of crap.

And of course, as Donna and Tom from Parks & Rec have promoted… a day or two to TREAT YO’ SELF!

We need to treat ourselves to stupid stuff. We spend a great deal of our time saying “NO” to things just so one day we can be like “Screw it. I’m doing me today.” If you did “you” every day, you’d either be broke or ridden with STDS.

Literally the best sandwich I’ve ever had: blackened tuna with avocado, lettuce, tomato, and Jamaican mayo (Taken with instagram)

homo-online:

An Open Closet

When John Waters recently quipped that he wished some gays would “go back in the closet”, he touched upon the idea of “an open closet”, one we encourage. With all respect to Waters, we’d turn his idea (and the closet) inside out: why don’tthose …

Hmm. Interesting idea…

Think on These Things, J. Krishnamurti (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

olena:

{ Dukno Yoon }: beautiful, kinetic, flying rings.

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I have to admit envy of the “I wish I made it” sort.

sophiegk:

Wow.

un-buco:

my bitchism in Berlin

bengiles:

FOR SALE

http://www.etsy.com/listing/91016026/crying

michellegeoga:

Via Colossal. The Girl with Seven Horses, by Ulrika Kestere.

“Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its fiercefull winds grabbed a hold of all her clothes and all seven horses (authors note: since they are invisible they obviously didn’t weigh much). The girl was devestated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.” (Ulrika Kestere)

jennilee:

ed ruscha

yama-bato:

London

Gianni Galassi

via

(via papertissue)

thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:

Bye, darling.

I’m off to war.

I just came back from watching Pina, the new dance film/documentary/tribute to the late choreographer Pina Bausch.  It was an absorbing experience I did not want to end.

The film consists of performances of some of Bausch’s most famous works, and interviews with her dance troupe, some of whom have been with her for over 20 years.  Also cut within these are personal dance tributes for the late master. 

The dances were not only beautiful and engaging, but also deeply imbued with human emotion.  I even cried at one point during the performance of Cafe Muller, to which I was introduced in Pedro Almodovar’s film, Talk to Her.

The staging of these dances were so deliberately smart. Not clever, or tongue in cheek, but intelligent.  Dirt, water, and other natural elements are brought into the stage, and in other sequences, the dances are brought into nature and the urban jungle.  

I do have a qualm, however with the use of 3D. I found the 3D to mostly work in favor of the storytelling, though I did find it distracting in some instances, especially when there were objects in the foreground.  Something about the appearance of floating pieces of poles disrupted the immersion for me.  Nevertheless, it did add a sense of intimacy and immediacy to the dances. 

From Chicago Reader:

German choreographer Pina Bausch died suddenly in 2009, days before she was to codirect this documentary with longtime friend Wim Wenders. The movie he went on to make with her Tanztheater Wuppertal is more than an elegy; his meticulous use of 3D endows the performances with a corporeality and intimacy hitherto unseen in a dance film. Crane and steadycam allow Wenders to get so close to the action that in the minimalist Café Müller, one’s illusion of being on stage is uncanny. Bausch’s expressive humanism, the multinational makeup of her troupe, and, in Kontakthof, the added participation of amateurs who range from teens to seniors, uphold the value of dance as a universal language.

annotatedimages:

Nick Playing Your Uncertain Future.  2012.

AMAZING. I gasped.

Best of the series so far.

Can someone tell me who shot this? I must see more.

simplymetaphysical:

Visit: Esquire Vintage Apparel

homographias:

by Felix Krueger

serbrunetto:

Doug Ischar’s “Tag” at Golden Gallery

cruiseorbecruised:

inventaire:

Made in Germany: Received a box from Berlin with t-shirts galore hand-printed by the beautiful and amazingly-talented Dean Sameshima, tumblr’s finest advocate for conceptual photography, cruising tactics and unknown pleasures. His very affordable t-shirts and editions are available here.

thank you!!  i’m speechless, totally speechless.

visual-poetry:

“i got sunshine” by farhad moshiri

iceblack:

subodh gupta

356/365 
May 29, 2011

Chris, Emily, Thomás
Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid SX-70 Time Zero

355/365 
May 28, 2011

The Night I Lost My iPhone
Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid SX-70 Time Zero

354/365 
May 27, 2011

View from the Outhouse
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid SX-70 Time Zero

353/365 
May 26, 2011

El Mural
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-70 Color Push

352/365 
May 25, 2011

Bye Bye Bieber
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-70 Color Push

351/365 
May 24, 2011

Sundown
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-70 Color Push

350/365 
May 23, 2011

Making Shitmix
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-70 Color Push

349/365 
May 22, 2011

Walking to Town
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-70 Color Push

348/365 
May 21, 2011

Volunteers at Villas
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-70 Color Push

347/365 
May 20, 2011

Morning at Mastatal
Mastatal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

346/365 
May 19, 2011

Chicharones, Mariscos, Hermana
Puriscal, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

345/365 
May 18, 2011

Pupusas
San Jose, Costa Rica
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

344/365 
May 17, 2011

Leaving Los Angeles
LAX, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

343/365 
May 16, 2011

The Fire Next Door
Anaheim, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

342/365 
May 15, 2011

The Human Hamster Ball
Orange, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

341/365 
May 14, 2011

Kelsey and Nataly
Corona, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Polaroid 600

340/365 
May 13, 2011

Silver Bullet
Anaheim, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-680 Beta

339/365 
May 12, 2011

A House Compressed
Anaheim, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-680 Beta

338/365 
May 11, 2011

Goodbye, US Navy. Goodbye.
San Diego, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-680 Beta

337/365 
May 10, 2011

North Park
San Diego, CA, USA
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
Film: Impossible PX-680 Beta