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DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains (Insomniac, 120 pages, $17), by Toronto's Natalie Zina Walschots ... poem manages to succinctly capture modern corporate villainy/vanity. Ian Williams, who divides his time between Ontario and Massachusetts, plays ...  

Mission to Mongo Was Avant-Garde Needle In Haystack" />Mission to Mongo Was Avant-Garde Needle In Haystack" /> Back in 1979, former Village Voice film critic and filmmaker J. Hoberman made an avant-garde film called Mission to Mongo, but it was lost to the ages until a curator at the Anthology Film Archives requested a copy from the Queens Museum of Art, which screened it in 1982. Clean up your clutter, people: there may be a culturally...  

Avant Browser 2012 updated recently to build 171. It does not integrate new features, but brings to the table plenty of fixes. The new revision also updates the Chrome and Firefox rendering engines. The set of repairs available in this revision eliminated ...  

will discuss her book, "Avant-Garde Art and Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner’s Journals of the Roaring Twenties," at the Mexican Cultural Institute and The Library of Congress next week. These events are free and open to the public. Books will be ...  

Genesis P-Orridge — of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV fame — will headline SKIF (the Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival), St. Petersburg’s leading experimental and avant-garde music event that will be held this week for the 16th time.  

There's Something Happening Here by Edd Hurt Making effective political art can be tricky — an artist confronted by the larger issues of economics and class is likely to lose his touch,… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Here's a collection of new (or new-ish) pieces of sonic loveliness excerpted from albums now out for you to spend money on, most of it fairly low-key abstract ambient/hypno/drone instrumentals by composers of...what? "Avant garde"? That implies that they are at the forefront and everyone will follow them. Maybe that will happen. Or maybe they're off in their own little universe, too singular and odd to ever to influence anyone. "New Music...  

A recent NYTimes article on Nathanial Dorsky has whet my appetite for some avant-garde cinema. Help point me in the right direction."He makes short, silent experimental films that feature brightly colored flowers, bursts of sunlight and shifting pools of shadow instead of characters, plots and stories." "Explores the disconnection between humanity and the natural world" "A gesture towards a cinema of pure being" Yeah, that sounds nice...  

Avant-garde film filter: Looking for some direct influences of experimental film on mainstream/commercial movies (or ads, music videos, etc.)This is a bit obscure, but I'm creating a list of examples of mainstream and/or commercial work that adopt techniques from classic experimental film - surrealist, structuralist, lyrical, handpainted, collage, etc. I have surrealism (and modern dream sequences) and collage (contemporary mashups) pretty...  

The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital interview magazine that documents personal views on the avant-garde by Mercedes-Benz. In their latest video, the team catches up with Zombie Boy for a personal profile video they call “Embrace Everything That Is Different.” In the series Zombie Boy talks about life before his debut show with MUGLER, where he’s heading now and plenty...  

Famed avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama unveiled her latest works, made of huge balloons, before they are displayed this weekend at an art festival in Tokyo's Roppongi district. "Yayoi-chan," a 10-meter-tall balloon girl, and "Ring-Ring," a 4-meter-tall balloon dog, both decorated with her signature polka dots motif, will be shown at the Roppongi Hills complex during Roppongi Art Night on Saturday and Sunday.  

On April 2, thousands of 16 and Pregnant loyals will emit a collective "WTF?" — that is, unless they were also watching MTV 27 years ago, in which case they might say, "Oh, good, this arty thing is back!" That's because the network recently announced that they would be reviving its "Art Breaks" series in line with a slew of similarly retro decisions...  

Compact Discs: Released: Mar 1987 Genre: Avant-Garde, Hardcore, Psychedelia Label: Touch And Go Number Of Tracks: 11 This is an Avant-Garde masterpiece. It's a truly fearless record, that just doesn't give a f--k about what anybody will think.  

In reply to Letraset Dry-Transfer Lettering: How about the Avant Garde sheets with only a few straight A, and lots and lots of left- and right-leaning ones? I had stacks of depleted sheets, with all the most common characters used up.  

it's that first breath of ice cold air outside in the winter.... CABARET INCOGNITO: ASSUMED PERSONALITIES An exploration of the Notions of Identity and Deviance Saturday, March 24, 2012 SAW Gallery | Club SAW 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, ON.  

(TrendHunter.com) Food may fill your cravings and keep you alive, but it is also an exquisite art form; there is no one who recognizes this more than Andrew Stellitano. A food designer with a background in...  

His mother had noticed he always "wanted to touch watches and clocks." Finally working with his hands, Halter sailed through the trade school's watch-works curriculum, and at age 17 he began as an apprentice in Paris repairing antique clocks ...  

(TrendHunter.com) Gothic yet far from sinister, this Batwing Chair by designer Yu Haotian draws inspiration from the nocturnal flyers and incorporates it into a fashion savvy chair. The chair comes in either a black...  

JAMAICAN Crystal Powell wowed the judges with an avant garde, couture garment made from alternative material — old newspapers and material from a hardware store — in yesterday;s Mission Catwalk series. This is the second win for the 25-year-old who had ...  

(TrendHunter.com) Dark, spellbinding and dramatic, the Numero China April 2012 editorial stars the enchanting model Nimue Smit. The sorceress-like photo shoot was lensed by Txema Yeste. Based in Barcelona, Spain,...  

(TrendHunter.com) The Thomas Scherer Audio ‘Evince' Loudspeakers will confuse people at first, prompting them to ponder whether or not the piece is an extra-terrestrial object or just something belonging...  

(TrendHunter.com) Videographer BRDG has put together a music video—of sorts—titled ‘DUB Russell x Daihei' that will leave many heads spinning. The video focuses on human figures clothed in...  

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In reply to Main Logo Font ID? Please: This thing is a real trainwreck... E = Avant Garde Gothic N = Custom Z = Avant Garde Gothic O = Avant Garde Gothic ' = Comma from Helvetica or Akzidenz-Grotesk S = FF Din  

Avant-Garde Jewelry Co., manufacturer of handcrafted titanium and tungsten jewelry, is now offering an expanded line of women's titanium jewelry through its online retail site titaniumstyle.com. MAINEVILLE, OH, May 05, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/-- Ohio-based ...  

Avant-Garde Jewelry Co., manufacturer of handcrafted titanium and tungsten jewelry, is now offering an expanded line of women’s titanium jewelry through its online retail site titaniumstyle.com in reaction to growing interest in the metal by women for ...  

Years latter, he signed Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. In 1765 Thomas Jefferson became a student at The House of Burgesses, noteworthy because it was there that he witnessed Patrick Henry's insubordinate stand against the Stamp Act.  

"Because titanium is lightweight, durable and inexpensive, more and more women are willing to look at it as an alternative to gold for wedding bands and even platinum for engagement rings and other pieces. Traditionally titanium and tungsten was reserved ...  

TORONTO, ON.-The Art Gallery of Ontario brings the magic and wonder of modern painter Marc Chagall to Toronto next month with a major exhibition organized by the world-renowned contemporary art museum, Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde ...  

The wackiest wedding in Britain was celebrated on Saturday as a pair of avant garde artists – Gavin Turk, 44, and his long time girlfriend Deborah Curtis – tied the knot as the centrepiece of their own art installation. Six years ago, the couple ...  

Review: Last love is celebrated poignantly in the avant-garde 'In Paris ...San Jose Mercury NewsThe way he holds his head, pulls out a chair, stands when he knows the love of his life is watching -- each movement's subtext seems to flow from the subconscious. These are some of the most poignant aspects of Dmitry Krymov's stark, ...and more »  

Weber said cars in the G-Class series are unlike any others ... fans in China can enjoy a better life with smart starting with the Year of the Dragon," said Annette Winkler, global head of smart. "So smart fans had better act fast because we foresee ...  

Only 100 works of art were selected from over 1500 entries for this venue as curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver of The Contemporary Arts Museum ... ARTCENTER/South Florida on Lincoln Road. Byron Keith Byrd served as curator of this particular exhibit ...  

As surreal as the night was, it paled in comparison to the architectural wonderland I'd landed in: Rural Studio, then about 40 modern structures spread, as if dropped by tornado, across an unlikely part of the country. Among shotgun shacks and lacy ...  

Researchers have for the first time come up with an avant-garde approach to repair damaged hearts by converting injured cells into healthy beating muscle cells using microRNA. Researchers have for the first time come up with an avant-garde approach to ...  

It is now in their hands to help me get a foot in the fashion industry door with a 2-week internship with one of my most admired Australian designers, Akira Isogawa. Is there a message you’re trying to convey with Apocalyptic Warrior, or is it open to interpretation?  

Over the last decade individuality has — ironically — been standardized thanks to the likes of indie superstore, Urban Outfitters, H and (sorry Jenna Lyons) J. Crew. The fashion equivalent of the soap opera, retail giants are by definition formulaic ...  

The exhibition is organized around the various venues and organizations that galvanized the period: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery ... Grady and propelled by resident professors and filmmakers James Blue, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Steina ...  

"It's a circus... Breedlove's our ringleader and we are all his freaks," said a 21 year old shivering in a sequined jacket outside Tammany Hall last Monday. He exhaled, "Where should I put this button?" He pulled the large American flag-inspired circle ...  

A musician based in Greece will be hosted this November in a reception and performance at Le Poisson Rouge, a venue serving art and alcohol in New York City's Greenwich Village night club district. Aggelos Bousburas , 29, of Athens, will meet and perform ...  

Among the most notable novelties introduced in build 169 of the web browser is the availability of Chrome rendering engine. On the same note, the development team added the possibility to open links with other rendering engines. This can be done from the ...  

BERLIN (Reuters) - British photographer Richard Pare is on a mission to capture Soviet avant-garde buildings before they turn to ruins in the hope of raising awareness about this little-known period of experimentation in modern architecture. The exhibition ...  

Scepticism is an ancient philosophical doctrine, and much of the theory of knowledge, epistemology, still vainly, or heroically depending upon your point of view, try's to slay this most perennial of demons. Scepticism has come in two broad types ...  

Superman Body inflationIt gets special around 2:00, and goes totally off the rails around 3:45. You're welcome.Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.Mirrored from jwz.org.  

Other niche brands do the same, and also thrive. Designers Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett of Romance Was Born, for example, collaborate with artists such as 2008 Archibald winner Del Kathryn Barton. This week, they announced that their opening collection at ...  

The love story in Penelope Spheeris' "I Don't Know" is more than boy-meets-girl. The 18-minute black-and-white short shot in 1972 starts in an elevator where a lesbian meets a transgender man and the two become lovers (then exes) while French ...  

Now it's an amazing outpost of the avant-garde. Wanting to escape his pretentious patrons, Judd left the New York art scene and found his sanctuary on an old military base. He bought more than 300 acres of former Fort D.A. Russell, which was named for a ...  

One hall in the exhibit explores the romantic and creative relationship between Natalia Goncharova and her lifelong companion Mikhail Larionov, who were both inspired by French masters Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne. "This is the creme de la creme of the ...  

Atlanta fashionistas, the Chinese fashion label OudiFu presented its very avant-garde designs on the China Fashion Week catwalk for Autumn/Winter 2012-2013 at the Beijing Hotel on March 27, 2012 in Beijing, China. If you like pairing cobalt blue with ...  

Although chords based on tonic notes that lie outside the traditional tempered system are inaccessible to a normally tuned piano and very difficult to play accurately by an orchestra, "six precisely tuned pianos can produce these chords at a whim ...  

the fashion weeks start and it's love at first sight. after the very first glimpses at the runways, the overload of livestreams, pictures, videos and all the style.com, Vogue, WWD first rows and dinner parties, and events and fabulosity all around is overwhelming.  

At any rate, the Blair School of Music's Vortex Percussion Ensemble stages a Cage retrospective concert this weekend to celebrate both the composer's centenary and his 50-year partnership with modern dance legend Merce Cunningham. And in a terrific coup ...  

To enter, students or recent graduates should complete an entry form (available on the website here) and submit images of their amazing design via post or email. The top 15 entrants from each category will then be selected and put up on the QueensPlaza ...  

Those rock fans hoping to hear another album by Jimmy Page that features head-banging tunes with his electric guitar, might be in for a real shock today. "Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks" comes out today, a six-song album recorded in the early ...  

In celebration of Criterion’s Blu-ray set compiling the movies of iconic American avant ... cinema — and they’re all available to watch online right now. See our picks past the break, and feel free to drop your own links in the comments section.  

Nobody in the history of culture has known more about the art of persuasion than the avant-garde painters, sculptors, writers, composers, choreographers, and impresarios who transformed European art from the end of the nineteenth century to the ...  

It was, no doubt, the preceding Buffalo Sabres 40th-anniversary exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery that poisoned the waters. Its incontrovertible “civic boosterism” may have looked playful to some eyes, but to many others, it was ...  

The annual tribute to our nation’s flag will step off at 1 p.m., rain or shine. The Avant Garde Drum and Bugle Corps was a national touring organization that competed in Drum Corps International ... Julius Klinkbeil, World War II veteran.  

In London, at the Victoria and Albert Museum ... In retrospect Aestheticism seems like pretty nonthreatening stuff: peacock feathers and flowers everywhere, pretty women wearing comfy clothes and dozing off in armchairs, some arresting wallpapers.  

"The Image and Internal Time-Space Continuum" will be shown at 7:30 and 8 p.m. today at Aperture Cinema, 311 W. Fourth St. The collection of short films is from the "Avant Garde" students at UNC School of the Arts School of Filmmaking.  

Participants get help in writing their stories and then get to see them performed by professional actors. “What’s Important Is the Story,” written by those living with mental illness or caring for an ill family member, is the result of a ...  

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is part of Face the Music’s repertory. “You don’t want to throw it behind them, or too far in front, but so they can reach it. But here was this group working on a piece with a clarinet part written for Evan Ziporyn and a guitar part for ...  

SARATOGA SPRINGS — “Keeping Company with Cage,” a program of sound, dance and music, celebrates the centennial of the birth of composer John Cage, begins with a sound installation at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at the Arthur Zankel Music ...  

I attended the “Avant Garde” opening night event and it was a feast of entertainment with some of the most unique acts from all over the world!Contributor: Sandy ZimmermanPublished: Mar 23, 2012  

NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 21: Audemars Piguet’s CEO Philippe Merk, Tom Brady and Swizz Beatz attend Royal Oak 40 Years: From Avant-Garde to Icon at Park Avenue Armory on March 21, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)  

Thursday, April 5, 2012 | 2:12 p.m. One could argue that the last thing Las Vegas needs is another magic act, and that's exactly what producer Jon Fondy thought when magician Juliana Chen ...  

WESTLAKE — The Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show will feature handmade items from 135 artists and crafters on April 29 at Wagner’s Country Inn, corner of Center Ridge and Bradley roads, Westlake.  

“Avant Garde” is “THE SHOW TO SEE”! Each act was different, skilled in their crafts, the most original magic and variety acts.Contributor: Sandy ZimmermanPublished: Apr 09, 2012  

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The B.C.-born talent is creating a new vocabulary of movement  

The Fader, a magazine that usually covers up-and-coming or firmly non-commercial artists, honors the 75-year-old composer, who is neither.  

Brisbane-based designer Scott Sutcliffe's wonderous 'Apocalyptic Warrior' is a finalist in the 2012 QueensPlaza Avant Garde Competition.  

In reply to Body text used in Graphic magazine (Korea): I think it is Avant Garde with O’s instead of 0’s.  

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The capital’s enduring indie music festival is back with a new venue and a stripped-down format  

Under the big skies of West Texas, minimalist art is at home in Marfa.