The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality." The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to "spread anarchy and live communism
Since the Revolution in 1979, Iranians have coped with an increasingly repressive regime. Attempts for greater social and political freedoms have resulted in brutal crackdowns by the hardline government. The ensuing apathy and significant boycott of the 2005 presidential elections led to the election of the ultraconservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Four years later Iran has become increasingly alienated and its people more polarized than ever before. The campaign of former Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi galvanized voters hoping for change, especially among the youth – two thirds of Iran’s population is younger than 32. On June 12th 85% of eligible voters cast their ballots and what happened next changed Iran forever…
Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.
June 26, 2009 : Lumpen magazine turns !8
We recently released our 112th issue of Lumpen. Download a web pdf.
Oldmar forgot that the magazine is officially 18 years old and decided there should be a party.
So this next friday a ton of one (wo)man bands will perform,you can dine on some Korean Polish Bar B Q, and decide whether the surprise guests and performances were worth the mystery. Come around 8 for the food.
Friday June 26, 2009, 8pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
Performances by:
Lord of the Yum Yum http://www.lordoftheyumyum.com
Station http://www.myspace.com/purricane
Disposable Thumbs http://www.disposablethumbs.com
Henry Glover
Vessy Mink
Michael Fucking Perkins
Brian Clopton
The BIg Man
and
Reuben Kincaid doing Geighties Karoake
Nick Bahr on the mic
the aforementioned surprise performances.
And lastly: For years people say they have no idea how to get printed in the magazine. It's really easy. Bring some texts, scribbles, comics, illustrations or pitches and put them in the I WANNA BE IN LUMPEN BOX that will be sitting there waiting for you on a table. You can help us create the next issue as our new Managing Editor James Ewert Jr will be assigned the task of discovering your genius.
And no we don't pay anyone anything.
And yes there will be a $5 cover .
FROM THE NERDS:
In the words of Morgan Fitzpatrick of Puppetuprising.org,
"TRUTHEATERTHEATER are an elusive troupe of actors, silkscreeners,
puppeteers, noisemakers, musicians, videographers and illusionists from
Providence, Rhode Island whose performances are akin to mystical rites of
passage that is the digestive process of transforming truth into theater."
TrutheaterTheater Company Members (Spring 2009) :
Peter Glantz is a theater and film maker known for video collaborations with bands Lightning Bolt, Lavender Diamond, and The USA is a Monster as well as his frequent theatricks with trutheatertheater, Killing My Lobster, and Califunya – The Most Beautiful Show That Ever Lived.
Erin Rosenthal is a creator of shadows, costumes, toys, screenprints, and sounds. Her artwork has recently been published in The Ganzfeld and in Flowing Well, a collaborative self-published newsletter with Leif Goldberg.
Roby Newton is a puppeteer, projectionist, musician, and builder, working frequently with light and kinetic objects. She has travelled extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan with various bands and puppet shows.
Leif Goldberg is a graphic artist and performance collaborator whose work follows a deliberate intuitive improvisational process. His drawings and prints have been published in the recent notable anthologies Hopital Brut and Kramer's Ergot.
The event is called "The Version Festival User-Directed Super Raffle and V-Bay Buy-it-Now Art Auction!"
We are holding an event this Friday to raise funds to pay for Version festival. http://www.versionfest.org.
The awesome must-have works and services are available due to the generosity of Version festival friends and participants. You can win something pretty amazing for just a few bucks. Or buy the work right off the wall. The raffle begins at 10pm!
VIEW WORK AT THE FLICKR SITE
Featuring work by:
Cody Hudson
Juan Chavez
Michael T. Rea
Tyson Reeder
Aron Gent
John Duda
Rod Hunting
JJ Stratford
Rand Sevilla
Logan Bay
Adrianne Goodrich
Conrad Freiburg
Mathew Hoffman
Benjamin June
James Jankowiak
Albert Stabler
Emily Clayton
Chris Robertson
Stephanie Burke
Peter Skavara
Chad Kouri
Dave the Lightbulb Man
Seripop
and many others
The deal: Donate at the door and get raffle tickets ($5 for 2 tickets/ $10 for 5 tickets)
Put tickets in the envelopes underneath the items you want (art - objects.)
At 10:00pm or so, WE WILL START picking winning raffle tickets from each cup. You must be present when your ticket is drawn, or another winner will be chosen.
Or, if you really must have it, pull the ticket with the "BUY IT NOW" price, bring it to the Reception desk and pay cash (or check) on the spot.
Baratunde’s Posterous posted this unwonderful video produced by The National Organization for Marriage, describing it as "Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage."
I don't know if the people are fake or not [UPDATE: They are actors], but they are assholes. One woman whines plaintively, "My freedom will be taken away," if gays are allowed to marry. What -- her freedom to be intolerant?
UPDATE: Here are the audition tapes that show these people are actors.
Storefront for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt invited 6 bloggers to curate Postopolis! LA, a live five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, and design that washeld in Los Angeles from 31 March to 4 April 2009.
The 6 bloggers are David Basulto of ArchDaily/Plataforma Arquitectura, Geoff Manaugh from BLDGBLOG , Dan Hill of City of Sound, Bryan Finoki of Subtopia , Jace Clayton from Mudd Up!, and our favorite blog of the moment : we-make-money-not-art.
The coverage at We Make... and at Good magazine made us feel like it was ok not to be there even though we wish we were. Bloggers as curators makes a lot of damn sense.
Riot police in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, have regained control of the parliament building that had earlier been stormed by protesters.
This followed the re-election of the Communist Party in Sunday's elections.
Thousands of anti-communist demonstrators stormed parliament, smashing furniture, throwing computers through windows and lighting fires.
More protests, which President Vladimir Voronin said amounted to an attempted coup, are expected on Wednesday. "
- BBC
LONDON (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed the windows of a bank in London's financial center on Wednesday in protest against a system they said had robbed the poor to benefit the rich.
Hundreds of protesters converged on a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, shattering windows.
Rescued by the government in October, RBS has become a lightning rod for public anger in Britain over banker excess blamed for the crisis. The protests were timed to coincide with a G20 meeting of the world's leading and emerging economies.
Colonel Sanders look-alike Bob Thompson helps a repair crew in Louisville "re-fresh" one of the estimated 350 million potholes nationwide. (KFC Corporation photo / March 24, 2009)
Our friends Ray Noland and our buds at the The Post Family are co-curating, “Officially Unofficial”, an exhibition of prints, posters, photographs, and videos that emerged in 2008 as icons of the art movement in support of Barack Obama for President. The exhibition will include official campaign materials as well as independent work by artists and designers from Chicago and across the country. It opens March 31st!
The Post Family is curating the show with Nathon Mason, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs • Chicago artist Ray Noland of CRO • in collaboration with Hal Wert of the Kansas City Art Institute.
The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s plan to wipe up to US$1 trillion in bad debt off banks’ balance sheets, unveiled on Monday, offered “perverse incentives”, Stiglitz said.
The U.S. government is basically using the taxpayer to guarantee against downside risk on the value of these assets, while giving the upside, or potential profits, to private investors, he said. “Quite frankly, this amounts to robbery of the American people. I don’t think it’s going to work because I think there’ll be a lot of anger about putting the losses so much on the shoulder of the American taxpayer.”
Good news on the Olympic front, at least for Chicago: the upper house of the Japanese parliament signed on to a plan to fund the 2016 Olympics if the International Olympic Committee awards them to Tokyo.
My condolences to the Japanese taxpayers.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S. of A., neither the city or the federal government has yet agreed to back the games. According to a recent Tribune article by Laurie Cohen and Kathy Bergen, this is supposed to be a bone of contention between Chicago's Olympic planners and the IOC, which wants the government (federal, local--any will do) to pony up. My suggestion to the IOC is to forget about Chicago and just give the games to Japan.
In addition, the local Olympic opposition movement is gearing up. You probably already know about the April 2 rally--it starts at 5 PM at Federal Plaza (that's 50 W. Adams). But now they're going to have a march after the rally, moving north on LaSalle to City Hall and then east to the Aon Center, home of Chicago's 2016 Olympic committee.
"I'm going to pick up the permit for the march tomorrow," says Bob Quellos, a member of No Games Chicago.
Android application developer Alex Holmes is creating a simple and powerful new way to get your pirated videos: an application that uses your cellphone's built in camera to scan a DVD bar code, then starts the movie downloading onto your home computer.
Called "Torrent Droid," the program means consumers who spot a DVD they like at the local Walmart will no longer have to choose between the instant gratification of buying it on the spot, and the frugal -- albeit illegal -- alternative of grabbing it from BitTorrent.
"I could feel bad about creating a tool that could be used for piracy," says the 23-year-old Holmes, a Bournemouth University software systems student. "However if I didn't create the tool, someone else would have."
After scanning the UPC on the DVD's packaging, the program looks up the number in a database to get the title. Then it automatically runs a search on your favorite torrent site.
Select the torrent of your choice, and Torrent Droid sends it to your home computer, assuming your PC is running uTorrent with a web interface. If your broadband connection is fast and the checkout line slow, your movie will be waiting for you when you get home.
Holmes says the program will be for sale on his website, Zerofate, in about a month.
The idea for the application came from the website Android and Me, which offered a cash reward to the first developer who could create a working version for Google's Android. Holmes won the $90 award with his "very private alpha" version of the software, shown in the video.
NPR.org, March 22, 2009 · The Obama administration's latest attempt to tackle the banking crisis and get loans flowing to families and businesses will create a new government entity, the Public-Private Investment Program, to help purchase as much as $1 trillion in toxic assets on banks' books.
The new effort, to be unveiled Monday, will be followed the next day with release of the administration's broad framework for overhauling the financial system to ensure that the current crisis — the worst in seven decades — is not repeated.
This could lead to some bad times... and bad choices. like printing money to pay for this garbage.
Paul Craig Roberts says "If the US government is forced to print money to cover the high costs of its wars and bailouts, things could fall apart very quickly."
We are launching two new publications: Matériel and Pr.
They are awesome. And HUGE! Download this link for a sneak peak at Matériel:
http://lumpen.com/materielmag/
We are also raising funds for Version>09 Immodest Proposals our annual international art freak out. This is our only fundraiser that will pay for 10 days and nights of projects by over 350 people from around the world.
Bobby Conn is playing along with Casual Encounter, and a super secret internet famous band.
Matériel is an oversized broadside newsprint publication that’s a collection of the best/brightest designers/illustrators/
Pr is Proximty’s in-between issues poster letter featuring reviews, interview, a calendar and a sweet recipe for a healthy art ecology.
Both of these oversized publications are beautiful. Come and get one, and fund our soon to be epic festival.
issues are complementary with a $10 Suggested donation.
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