Sonst: Grrrrr!

Sonst: Grrrrr!

(Montags bis Freitags)
(News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Grenzenloses Rauchen

Geträumt: Von einem gut belüfteten Keller in dem grenzenlos geraucht werden darf.

(News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Rabbits – David Lynch

Rabbits – David Lynch
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski - Part Two

Rabbits, directed by David Lynch, released 2002. It consists of an 8-episode series of short videos. Both the set and some footage of the rabbits are reused in Lynch's Inland Empire. Each episode takes place in a single dark room, with no camera cuts except for one lonely cut in episode six, at a ringing telephone. There's a rain track constantly playing, and the camera loses focus whenever thunder cracks. The three rabbits - Jack, Jane and Suzie - enter, walk, sit, stand up and exit the room. Whenever one of the rabbits enters the room, an applause track is played. A laugh track is played apparently randomly, since there are no jokes, and the laugh seems pointless despite the film having a sitcom format. Action is scant, with the rabbits uttering their lines between pauses in disorder, so that there is no coherent flow of dialogue. When the lines are rearranged, there is still no explanation for the laugh track, and the overall meaning of the dialogue remains cryptic, with several allusions to "it". The rabbits take turns in reciting incoherent lines of poetry, starting with Jane and ending with Suzie, interrupted by sudden lapses of awareness that are quickly drowned by a burning match in the background. To a similar effect, a diabolical mouth is shown twice in the show, reciting gibberish. In the very last episode, the steps that have been haunting the rabbits finally come to a stop, the door opens, and a hellish scream is heard. The rabbits cower in fear on the sofa, and Jane says "I wonder who I will be." (Text Source: Wikipedia) As David Lynch's films are: weird and weirder. Unlike the other films of Lynch which I usually find interesting and entangling, I didn't liked this one. It leaves me with the thought: "...hm – so what...!"

Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's Artblog

Found: Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's Artblog

Dingens*******

Heute gelesen: Die Dings* hat manchmal Probleme beim Dingsen** der richtigen Dinger***. Dann kommt es vor, dass Dings* statt dessen einfach "Dings" dingst**** oder so Zeug. So sind schon mal fünf, sechs "Dinger" von ihr in einem Dings*****. Im nächsten Dings***** dann natürlich wieder. Ist meist sehr dingens****** so ein Dingsbums******* mit der Dings*. (Sehr witzig!) Link: Nur So Zeug Halt

Weird And Weirder Costumes – Valley of Dawn

Weird Costumes. Image: Marilda Batista.
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Tia Neiva (Neiva Chavez Zelaya) was a Brazilian medium and founder of the mystical community called Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn) located near Brasília, Brazil. She was born in Propiá, in the state of Sergipe in 1926 and died in Brasília in 1985. Until 1959, when she was 33, Neiva Chavez Zelaya was a common woman and had not manifested any public mediunic tendencies. The only trait that set her apart was the fact the she had become a truck driver after her husband died and left her four children to raise. Neiva went to Brasília, where she rented one of her two trucks to Novacap, the company that built the new capital. According to her memoirs the first mediunic manifestations bothered her a lot, since she was Catholic and did not feel comfortable with the paranormal powers. She sought out explanations in Spiritualism but could not adapt. Immersed in what the spirits told her she gave up her professional life and worked to implant the system that today is known as the Vale do Amanhecer.

According to her own writings, as soon as she was able to dominate the technique of projecting her body, she began to vistit other spiritual plains, where she received instructions that she applied among her community of mediums. Among the teachers of Tia Neiva was a Tibetan monk called Umahã, who she allegedly visited daily between 1959 and 1964 and who supposedly died in 1981. In 1963 she caught a respiratory disease and was interned in a tuberculosis sanitarium in Belo Horizonte. She got better but began to breathe with only a small area of her lungs until her death in 1985. The first community founded by Tia Neiva was near the city of Alexânia, Goiás, and was called "União Espiritualista Seta Branca". Seta Branca was the alleged spirit of an Incan who appeared to her and was her mentor. Today he is the center of the cult, which includes elements from Christianity, Candomblé, Spiritism, Extraterrestrials, and Egyptology. From there she moved to Taguatinga, near Brasília, and in 1969 to the place known today as Vale do Amanhecer, in the rural zone of Planalatina, a satellite city of Brasília.

In her last years Tia Neiva was always accompanied by her companion Mário Sassi who was known as Trino Tumuchy. Her children continued her work and are part of the hierarchy of the sect. The most important, Gilberto Zelaya, or Trino Ajarâ in the spirit world, is the First Doctrinator of the Dawn and Coordinator of the Temples of the Dawn. A large sect has been built around this woman, who had incredible powers of organization and ability to convince the authorities to get land and funds for her schemes. According to the official website today there are 589 temples in Brazil and in foreign countries like Germany, United States, Japan, and Portugal.

Valley of Dawn – Cults of Brasilia

Weird Costumes – Valley of Dawn – Brazil
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Today's Reading: "O Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn) was founded by a medium called Tia Neiva, and is located in the city of Planaltina, about 42 km from Brasilia. This is considered the most impressive case of religious syncretism in Brazil. The valley integrates beliefs and entities of several religions, such as Afro-Brazilian, indian, egyptian, gypsy, incas, aztecas, maias and even extra-terrestrial. The scenery of the valley, with symbols and images mixed with the typical costumes of the mediums make it an unforgetable place."

"Thirty miles north of Brasília – the sleek, space-age capital of Brazil – lies a rough-hewn little town called the Valley of the Dawn. And high above the Valley of the Dawn, untold miles high, hovers a fleet of vessels from a far-off planet known to its inhabitants as Capela. The fleet's existence is common knowledge in the town below, but not easily confirmed by standard scientific methods. You could look for the ships all day – the sky is vast and beautiful over these flat, desolate highlands – but you wouldn't see them. Nor would radar pick them up, or radio, or satellite reconnaissance. Contact, in short, must be made through means other than those provided by the material world. And here in the Valley it is made at least twice a day, 365 days a year. The secret behind such regular contact lies not so much in technology as in a steady supply of technicians: out of the Valley's roughly 5000 residents, all but a handful are active psychic mediums. A demographic like that would not be easy to come by in most places in the world, but Brasília and its immediate environs are not very much like most places in the world. Brasília sprouted fully-formed in the middle of Brazil's otherwise empty Central Plateau just over three decades ago. Planning the city down to its minutest details, Brasília's architects intended it to stand as a monument to technocracy and rational design. But the Brazilian people have turned it into something much more interesting: they have made it a beacon of the irrational, investing the city with a millennial significance that approaches that of Jerusalem, or Mecca, and draws the mystically inclined from all over Brazil. 

The Valley of the Dawn is only one out of hundreds of local sects, communities, and other visionary gatherings, but as the best-known of them it can count on a continuous influx of enthusiastic believers. So that when the calls go out for the Ceremony of the Burning Star each afternoon at 12:30 and 2:30 (with a 6:30 session added on weekdays), there is always at least a dozen or so mediums available to participate, and often as many as a hundred. They gather at the edge of town in an area that, with its elaborate artificial waterworks and brightly painted abstract monuments, takes monumental modernism on a long detour through the aesthetic of the miniature golf course. Likewise, the vestments of the group can't seem to decide between the solemnity of the Roman Catholic Church and that of a Dungeons-and-Dragons players' convention. Men (or jaguars, as they are known in the often bewildering mythology of the Valley) come wrapped in a floor-length cape that rises up into an ear-high, Barnabas Collins-issue collar. Women (nymphs) get colorful costume dresses that vary according to storybook notions of historical reference, a toga hinted at here, a medieval wimple there. Accessories abound – ceremonial swords and lances, badges and medallions stamped with obscure symbols. 

Beneath the watchful eyes of a two-story-tall cutout image of Mother Yara, Amerindian water-goddess and patron-spirit of this ceremony, the celebrants slowly march to their positions along the edge of the "Burning Star" – a 100-foot-wide pool of water shaped like a Star of David. An elliptical, antennalike sculpture juts up from the center of the pool, and at the points of the star loudspeakers blare out jaunty prerecorded hymns followed by a droning, Indo-Afro-Assyrian-inflected liturgy that the congregation echoes in hardy unison: "Oh Simiromba of the Great East of Oxalá, in the Enchanted World of the Himalayas, prepare my way, illuminate my spirit, so that I may go forth fearless in the final advance of a new age..."  Contact has commenced. A psychic uplink to the interplanetary fleet has been established, and some of the worshippers now show signs of possession, convulsing and moaning softly. They are absorbing Earth's negative spirits, the ones that converge on world capitals like Brasília, the ones that spur the leaders of nations on to strife and corruption, and they are transmitting them to the ships, where they will be converted into positive energy and beamed back in a well-defined current that flows down through the antenna in the middle of the Burning Star and on to the sect's temple in the center of town. From there the energy will be transported back to the city by the nightly stream of Brasilia's broken souls that passes through the temple in search of succor. 

The Valley is a kind of cosmic power plant, in other words – the administrative center of a vast, technometaphysical circulatory system, with the capital's great reservoir of bad vibes at one end and the space fleet's transforming purity at the other. Where the cycle starts and where it terminates, however, is hard to judge. A safe guess, ventured at a safe remove from Brasilia's mythic atmosphere, would say the ships are the end-product, conjured by the seething mass of hopes and disappointments Brasilia represents. But from the shores of the Burning Star no guess looks safe, and it's just as easy to believe Brasilia itself is the conjured object, reinvented daily by the aliens." (The Cult and Cults of Brasília by Julian Dibbell)

Mäuseentsorgung dann Morgendumm Herumschauen

Tote Maus
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski - Part Two

Samstag "To Do" Liste: Tote Mäuse entsorgen, Morgendumm herumschauen, Leere Fruchtzwergebecher aufheben für Sossenreste vom Vorabend, Nachdenken über sogenannte Erwachsene und/oder grenzdebile Schlümpfe. Es sind gerade Wochen, an denen man weiss, dass der “Anteil von Unvernunft im Leben” eindeutig zu klein ist. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

The Day In Pictures – Theme: Hallucinations

Les Reines Prochaines
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

The day in pictures – or about friday's sensitivities...

The image shows Les Raines Prochaines a Swiss performance / music group. Foto: Claudia Naef Binz. Link to Les Raines Prochaines' Website (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Narziss der Schöne Sohn des Flussgottes

Narziss – Nicolas Poussin, Dresden Gemäldegalerie
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Heute gelesen: "Narziss ist in der griechischen Mythologie der schöne Sohn des Flussgottes Kephisos und der Leiriope (Hyginus fab. 271 und Ovid met.3,343). Der Sage nach wies der vielfach Umworbene auch die Liebe der Nymphe Echo zurück. Dafür wurde er von Nemesis, nach anderen Quellen durch Aphrodite, dergestalt bestraft, dass er in unstillbare Liebe zu seinem eigenen im Wasser widergespiegelten Abbild verfiel. Damit erfüllte sich das Dictum des Sehers Teiresias, wonach er ein langes Leben nur dann haben werde, wenn er sich nicht selbst kennen lerne. Eines Tages setzte er sich an den See, um sich seines Spiegelbildes zu erfreuen, woraufhin durch göttliche Fügung ein Blatt ins Wasser fiel und so durch die erzeugten Wellen sein Spiegelbild trübte - geschockt von der vermeintlichen Erkenntnis, er sei hässlich starb er und verwandelte sich in eine Narzisse (Pausanias 9.31,7)." Bild: Echo und Narziss, Nicolas Poussin, Öl auf Leinwand, 72 × 96,5 cm, 2. Drittel 17.Jh., Dresden Gemäldegalerie. (...so das war mal wieder genug Wiederbelebung meiner Kunstgeschichte Kenntnisse... )

Spielwitz und Klarheit – Ausstellungskatalog

Spielwitz und Klarheit
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Finally picked up the book Playfully Rigid, a publication that was accompanied by an exhibition at the Kornhausforum in Bern, where we worked for last summer. Playfully Rigid / Spielwitz und Klarheit, Edited by Claude Lichtenstein and Published by Lars Müller Publishers. 16.5 x 24 cm, ca. 280 pages, ca. 250 illustrations, hardcover. ISBN 978-3-03778-090-9 english; ISBN 978-3-03778-089-3 german. Lars Müller Publishers

Pflegeleichter und Portabler Einweg-Kommunikationsdevice

Bernd das Brot
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

(Rubrik: Tolle Sachen) Einsätze bei Krisis und Katharsis! Ein absolut idealer Seelentröster für's Alltägliche! Praktischer, pflegeleichter und portabler Einweg-Kommunikationsdevice. Bernd das deprimiertes Kastenbrot. Bernd ist ihr Leidensgenosse dem Sie ihre fiesesten Wünsche anvertrauen können. Ein echtes Alternativprogramm! (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Bezaubernde Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten

Bernd's Puzzle
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Donnerstag – Was nach dem 8-Stunden-Wahnsinn folgte: Langeweile kennt bekanntlich keine Grenzen – Zum Glück gibt es Weblogs die einem auf bezaubernde Beschäftigungsmöglichkeit aufmerksam machen. Bernd's Rauhfaser Puzzle (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Tote Protagonisten

Notebook / Copy of Matt Mullican's work
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

In einem alten Notizbuch habe ich ein paar Kopien von Matt Mullican's Arbeit - den toten Protagonisten (in Comics) - gefunden, dabei war auch ein Ausschnitt von einem Text der folgendermassen lautet: "... Es sind Ausschnitte einer Welt. in der es Sonne und Regen, Luft und Wasser, Steine und Sand, Himmel und Schwerkraft gibt, in der Menschen leben und sterben - fiktive Wesen mit unterschiedlichen Charakteren und Biographien. Sie wurden geboren, sind aufgewachsen, hatten eine Kindheit und Schulzeit usw., das heisst, hatten ein Leben vor ihrem Eintritt in die Geschichte, das durch Ereignisse, Handlungen und Entscheidungen auf den Punkt zuführt, an dem wir sie kennengelernt haben und ihren Tod miterleben. Die Ausschnitte eines "imaginären Universums", repräsentieren also einen fiktiven Raum-/Zeitzusammenhang, der real nicht existiert, sondern nur in der Vorstellung realisiert werden kann. Es sind Versatzstücke einer Wirklichkeit, die über den Rahmen des Sichtbaren hinausweisende Fragen nach der im Bild anwesenden Lebenswelt stellen. Ausgehend von der Überzeugung, dass Objektivität eine Illusion ist, hebt Mullican die Distanz bzw. Grenze zwischen dem Sehenden und dem Sichtbaren auf und damit die Trennung der objektiven Realität des Sichtbaren und ihrer subjektiven Wahrnehmung, die die Wirklichkeit bestimmt. Er begreift im Gegenteil die Oberfläche des Sichtbaren als einen Spiegel, den er an einem bestimmten Punkt durchschreitet, und somit als Reflexion der eigenen Vorstellung von der Wirklichkeit..."

Favorite Android Model

T-1000 – Terminator 2: Judment Day
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

On some days (as of today) I wished it would be possible to (be)come an android. It would be so damnd practical. Favorite Model / Characteristics: The T-1000 is a fictional android assassin featured as the main antagonist in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In the Terminator 2 story, the T-1000's major innovation is its "mimetic poly-alloy" construction – an intelligent liquid metal. This gives the T-1000 the ability to change its appearance, and emulate virtually anything. It is capable of perfectly copying the shape, color, and texture of anything that it touches that is of similar size. When physically damaged, the T-1000 is capable of reforming itself in seconds, closing up bullet holes and reattaching limbs. The Model 101 Terminator remarks that it is "unknown" if it can ever be destroyed. In the Special Edition, the freezing causes the T-1000 to glitch repeatedly, melding with anything it touches such as the ground and hand rails. Though the T-1000 is a formidable killer, it often attempts to accomplish its goals by deception instead of brute force. For example, in Terminator 2, it disguises itself as a police officer to gain trust, access, information, and a benign appearance. It also imitates family members of its human target, to gain that person's confidence. Screenstill from Terminator 2: Judgment Day; directed by James Cameron, Tri Star Pictures, 1991. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Today's Sensitivities

Treehouse Of Horror – Simpsons
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

About today's sensitivities – in pictures...

Screenstill from The Simpson's "Treehouse of Horror"; 20th Century Fox; 1989. The Simpsons Archive is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons and other fans around the world. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Zustandsbericht

Roman Signer
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Über die letzten zwei, drei Wochen oder so... Zustandsbericht einfach in Bildern ausgedrückt. Abbildung: Arbeit / Skulptur von Roman Signer, Künstler, St.Gallen, Schweiz. Zurzeit: Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwartskunst – zeigt Werke von Signer aus der Sammlung des Kunstfreunds, ergänzt um Leihgaben aus dem Besitz des Künstlers. 30. September - 27. Januar 2008. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

An Dinge Denken

Manchmal mag ich es einfach auf dem Sofa sitzend an Dinge zu denken.

(Was ich jetzt gerade mache)

FJK - Female Jedi Knight

To improve the general quality of work a new "sign-system" has been introduced. (It does make sense theoretically - yes ...) Personel that is newly assigned to a "job" has to be "trained" by the last one working on the job. Both have to sign a protocol. More than often there is simply no one around to show you how it's done (or personel is tied up elsewhere) so you simply have to figure it out yourself. (... but in pracice ...) By making the descision to keep going the work and "not sign" you are automatically accept the role of the rabbit doing nothing, just waiting for the snake to bite. For this particular problem I have culled together new acronyms, say signatures. So from now I face this problem I'll sign with my initials and one of the options listed. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

The Options:
FJK – Female Jedi Knight
KLU – Key and Lamp Unit
SKO – Soft Kill Option
FJB – Fluoro-Jade B

Imaginäre Freunde

Ich habe heute beschlossen ein paar neue imaginäre Freunde zuzulegen, da die alten nicht mehr mit mir reden. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Roisin Murphy – Irresistible Disco Queen

Roisin Murphy – Irresistible Disco Queen
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Roisin Murphy – New Album Released

Roisin Murphy – Irresistible Disco Queen
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Have to have it! Roisin Murphy's newest album Overpowered. Released on Monday, 15 October 2007.

01. Overpowered

02. You Know Me Better

03. Checkin' On Me

04. Let Me Know

05. Movie Star

06. Primitive

07. Footprints

08. Dear Miami

09. Cry Baby

10. Tell Everybody

11. Scarlet Ribbons

12. Body Language

13. Parallel Lives


Overpowered is the second album from Roisin Murphy, formerly of Moloko. A heady mix of electronic dance anthems, soul-stirring pop songs, deep, dark funk and quirky lyrical genius, 'Overpowered' is a thrilling and contemporary marriage of edgy pop and irresistible disco. Roisin co-wrote and co-produced the entire album, bringing her own vision and focus to these songs whilst working with a variety of producers, writers and mixers to create what is without doubt her finest record; unpredictable, creative, inventive, exciting and hugely accessible. Image: Courtesy of Roisin Murphy. Text from: Roisin Murphy's Website

Thrash, Thrash, Thrash: Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

The result of today's youtubing: Crystal Castles is a Toronto based band, described by Loud & Quiet as "the most exciting and original band in the world right now" and described by Pitchfork as "8-bit terror" consisting of multi-instrumentalist Ethan Fawn and vocalist Alice Glass. The group's music has been described as "innovative". Crystal Castles are known not only for their own efforts as a band, but also because Fawn has remixed songs by a number of other groups, including "Leni" by GoodBooks, "Hunting for Witches" by Bloc Party, and "Atlantis to Interzone" by fellow friends and label mates, Klaxons.

Crystal Castles – Air War
Crystal Castles – Love & Caring
Crystal Castles vs The Little Ones – Lovers Who Undercover
GoodBooks – Leni (Crystal Castles Remix)
Crystal Castles – Trash Hologram

Your Private Sky – R. Buckminster Fuller

Your Private Sky – R. Buckminster Fuller
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Reading in September – an update: Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller by Joachim Krausse (Editor) and Claude Lichtenstein (Editor). An exuberant portrait of R. Buckminster Fuller, the visionary who exhorted us to "think global, act local" and devised the geodesic dome and the concept of Spaceship Earth. Hardcover: 528 pages; Lars Müller Publishers; 1. Aufl. 1999. Language: English; ISBN: 3907044886

Umbau / Modification Ausstelllungs-Katalog

Umbau / Modification Ausstelllungs-Katalog
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Gestern Gelesen: Umbau / Modification, ein Katalog der anlässlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung mit Jeroen Jongeleen, Felix Schramm, Clemens von Wedemeyer, und Andrea Winkler in der Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, 24.Februar – 8. April 2007, erschienen ist.

Texte: "Im spurlosen Raum" / "In Unmarked Spaces" von Sabine von Fischer, "Umbau. Ein Orientierungsversuch" / "Modifications. An Attempt at Orientation" von Burkhard Meltzer, Stefan Wagner und Jeroen Jongeleen. Kurator: Burkhard Meltzer. Gestaltung Katalog: Flag, Aubry / Broquard. Redaktion: Burkhard Meltzer, Stefan Wagner. ISBN: 978-3-86588-390-2.

Manchmal Sogar Albern

"Es liegt in meiner Natur – ich bin ein unterhaltungsliebender, manchmal sogar alberner Mensch. Ein Bestandteil meiner Persönlichkeit, den ich nicht ausblenden darf ..." (Gelesen, – auf irgendeiner Webseite)

Persepolis Comic by Marjane Sarapi

Persepolis Comic – Marjane Sarapi
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

"Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerfull black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Teheran from age six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgetable portrait of daily life in Iran: the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life and the toll repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit. Marjane's child's-eye-view of dethroned emperors, sate-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity." Text from the Book's Front Flap.

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; English: Pubished by Pantheon; 2003. ISBN: 0375422307 Persepolis Eine Kindheit im Iran von Marjane Satrapi; Deutsch: Verlag: Edition Moderne; Auflage: 1 ; 2004. ISBN: 3907055748

Persepolis

Persepolis
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Ein Film den ich mir unbedingt ansehen will: Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi hat aus den lakonischen Comics über ihre Kindheit und Jugend im Iran einen bewegenden Zeichentrickfilm geschaffen. Sie erzählt wie sie die islamische Revolution im Iran, den nachfolgenden Krieg mit dem Irak und ihre Emigration nach Westeuropa erlebte. Regie: Marjane Satrapi und Vincent Paronnaud; F 2007; 95 min. Zurzeit im Kino: Riffraff 1, Zürich.

Röhrenflötenchöre

Heute Gelesen: Röhrenflötenchöre

(News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Fragen des modernen Lebens

Zu den Fragen des modernen Lebens. Heute gelesen:

"Darf man an der Express- Kasse im Supermarkt "bis 7 Artikel" auch mit 8 Artikeln anstehen - wenn zwei davon identisch sind?"

"Solange Sie hinter mir anstehen, ist die Frage nach der Anzahl marginal. Laden Sie doch siebzehn Palett Carpe-Diem aufs Band, lassen Sie sich dabei alle Zeit der Welt, und wir freuen uns gemeinsam über das Leben, die Liebe und die 40-Prozent-auf alle-Lidschatten-Aktion. Personen, die sich vor mich stellen, sollten allerdings schon fähig sein, bis sieben zu zählen. Halten Sie des Weiteren alle Frischprodukte richtig abgewogen und Ihre Münz abgezählt bereit oder ihre EC-Karte im Anschlag und tippen Sie deren Code mit Fünfffingersystem und unter fünf Sekunden ins Eingabegerät. Es versteht sich, dass niemand der Kassiererin dumme Fragen stellt oder sie durch anderweitige Kommentare vom Arbeiten abhält. Die Express-Kasse ist schliesslich eine ernsthafte Angelegenheit, wo einzig die Anzahl der Produkte Recht von Unrecht trennt." Quelle: Weltwoche Nr. 41 11. Oktober 07 Autorin: Dominique Faust.

(News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Woche 36 bis 42 – Wörter

Verbindlichkeiten
Ausfälle
Choleriker
Gattin Silvia beschränkt sich nicht mehr nur auf Damenprogramme...
Sternstunden
Allfällige Kreditprobleme
Stildebatten
Nachfolgeeinrichtungen
Rückführflüge
Autohyptnotische Projekte
Liebhaber übersehbarer Verhältnisse
Vorzugskonditionen
Südföhntäler
Schwabelscheiben
Sturzbesoffen
Extrusionsschreckblasen
Quartalsverluste
Grenzdebilität
Kampf- und Kaufverhalten
Laufschriften
Operative Ausgangslage
Erregter Buchhalter
Beflockte Zylindertemperatur
Elektroschockpistolen (Tasers)
Konsterniertes Publikum
Rückwärtsströmung
Grober Unfug in wirren Grafiken
Detailvorschläge
Abbruch-, Deponie- und Sprengfirmen
Niederdruckwickelkerne

(News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Hot Love - Swiss Punk & Wave 1976-1980

Hot Love - Swiss Punk and Wave 1976-1980
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Heute gelesen: Hot Love - Swiss Punk & Wave 1976-1980 "Eine umfang- und variantenreiche Geschichte der Schweizer Punk-Szene von 1976 bis 1980, erstmals zusammengetragen und chronologisch erzählt von Lurker Grand. Die Musik, die Szenen, die Protagonisten, die Städte, die Ereignisse: Hot Love – Swiss Punk & Wave 1976-1980 ist ein fesselndes Buch zu einem Stück Schweizer Kulturgeschichte. Hot Love ist das Resultat mehrjähriger Recherchen und dient als Narrativ für die oft verblüffenden Pionierwerke aus dieser "verlorengegangen" Schweizer Inszenierungs-, Gestaltungs-, und Szenen-Kultur. Anhand von Plakaten und Covers (z.B. Peter Fischli für Kleenex und Hertz), Comics und Fanzines (z.B. Paul Ott oder Bob Fischer), Musik (u.a. von Dieter Meier, Yello, Rudolph Dietrich, Nasal Boys, Kurt Maloo, Troppo, The Bucks, Crazy, Grauzone, TNT, Sperma, Fresh Color), Fotografien (z.B. Livio Piatti oder Pietro Mattioli), Filmen (z.B. René Uhlmann), sowie selbstentworfenen Kleidungsstücken (z.B. Stefi Talman’s ZIP-Schuh), wird die Originalität und Qualität dieser frühen Swisspunk-Kultur aufgezeigt. Die Buchgestaltung von Hot Love knüpft an die Punk-Ästhetik an und wurde von Tania Prill und Alberto Vieceli, beide mehrfach für ihre Buchdesigns ausgezeichnet, liebevoll umgesetzt." Hot Love - Swiss Punk & Wave 1976-1980. Lurker Grand (Hg.) 1.Auflage mit 2 A0 Plakaten, 324 Seiten, 250 s/w und Farbabbildungen; deutsch/französisch; Format: 25x35cm. Edition Patrick Frey; Zürich 2006;
ISBN 3905509628. Text von: Klang und Kleid

Rockers Hi-Fi

Rockers Hi-Fi
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski - Part Two

Enjoying the weekend. It is still warm enough to sit outside and listening to music. Today's tunes: Rockers Hi-Fi. "Drawing deep from the roots of the scene, Rockers HiFi are a true sound system of eclectic thought and taste, mixing the finest dub, hip hop and deep house in the most innovative of ways and gaining widespread respect from those in the know all over the world. Rockers Hi-Fi are Richard Whittingham (Birmingham's old school DJ Dick) and Glyn Bush who are joined by MC Farda P and Tweed providing the vocals to the Rockers live sets. Both Richard and Glyn are past masters in the art of making people dance. The duo first turned to making records in the wake of their involvement with the dance explosion of the late eighties. DJ Dick was a promoter of huge successes in the Midlands, including the infamous "What A Life" parties. Rockers were at the forefront of the most cutting edge music scene in the country and it was inevitable that they found themselves drawn toward making music, combining the rush and adrenaline of modern dance music with the roots and culture of their beloved bass heavy dub style." Source: Different Drummer

Sonatine – Continued

Kamishibai - Mr. Nagata storyteller from Tokyo
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Kitano has compared himself to the kamishibai man, the street performer who narrates stories for children by flipping through illustrated cards, and Kitano’s paintings are more sophisticated, often planimetric versions of those drawings. Kamishibai, sometimes spelled as kami shibai, means "paper" (kami) "theater" (shibai), and is named for the picture cards the storyteller uses to present a story to an audience. Parts of the story were printed on the backs of the cards to help the teller remember the story and to make sure the story matched the pictures. The stories were of the classic "to be continued" type - which kept the children coming back time after time to hear the rest of the story. Researchers suggest that the kamishibai form was related to early manga (printed Japanese comics), and was, in some ways, a predecessor of anime (animated Japanese cartoons).

Source: PingMag Magazine 6 November 07 The Origin of Manga: Kamishibai

Authentisches Programm

Thayngen - Switzerland
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September - In lockerer Folge: Altweibersommer; Kunststoffteile bis zum Abwinken; Sitzungsprotokolle, Stunden- und Stückzähler; Herdenreflexe; Himmelarschnochmal...; Geistig aus dem letzten Loch pfeifen. (News from Schaffhausen / Factory Time)

Sonatine by Takeshi Kitano

Screenstill from Sonatine by Takeshi Kitano
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Sonatine - a great film by Takeshi Kitano.

"Murakawa (played by Kitano's alter-ego "Beat") has become too successful running the streets in his designated area of underworld Tokyo. His boss decides to get rid of him by sending him to Okinawa on a sleeveless errand. He and a small selection of his henchmen are to mediate between two warring factions of Okinawa's yakuza clans. The feud between the two clans turns out to be insignificant, and while Murakawa dawdles, wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his headquarters is bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar. Fleeing to the seaside, they hole up in a remote beach house to wait for the storm to pass and perhaps get a few explanations from higher up. It is here, when the action comes to a complete halt, that Sonatine proves to have far less to do with violence than with the lulls between violent acts, the doldrums in which violent men engage in child's play that reduces violence to harmless fun." (Excerpt by Dan Harper) Three of his first four films Violent Cop, Boiling Point, and Sonatine established Kitano's international career. They share an unusual combination of contrasting genre elements - the laconic loner tough guy (cop or criminal) and slapstick humor, comedy plus massacre - and an austere aesthetic. Sontatine directed by Takeshi Kitano, Japan, Miramax Films, 1993. (Update / Notes / Filmsessions, August 07)

Europe's Heart Of Darkness

Today's reading: Has Switzerland become Europe's heart of darkness?