Another Blog!

In the mess that is the Lumpenuniverse, we have decided to shut down the old Lumpen.com website for eternity. See it while you still can. In the meantime we created a new website to park our shit to:
http://lumpenmagazine.wordpress.com. That is where the updating begins.

The Portrait Show: Transparent Refect @ C-PS

Transparent Reflect examines portraits and self-portraits relationship in art. The show takes the traditional approach of making a portrait from an observational standpoint and mixes it with the more reflective side of a self-portrait. The artists in the show use photography, drawing, painting and installation works to portray their ideas though a range of formal and abstract approaches. They use religion, sexuality, popular culture and the present economic times to create a response to the current state of the nation. Transparent Reflect questions the notion of identity, and brings forth reflection that is required and lately ignored in today’s society.

Artists: Zach Abubeker
Matt Austin
Kristen Flemington
Adam Golfer
Goons
Maureen Peabody
Anna Shteynshleyger
Swoon
Nick Wylie

Where and When: Co-prosperity Sphere, 3219 s Morgan st, Friday the 21st, 6-11PM

Umbrellas of Pyongyang

An undated photograph released by North Korea’s official news agency shows a woman directing traffic in Pyongyang on one of the new covered podiums found in intersections across the city, which has no traffic lights.

Updated | 12:00 p.m. Trying to discern what life is like in North Korea by following the country’s relentlessly cheerful official news agency is a jarring experience for anyone inclined to think of the reclusive communist nation as a grim, unhappy place. According to the Korean Central News Agency, things in Pyongyang are eternally looking up.
Read more >> NYT

Easy Listener

Easy Listener, a strange publication that we put out in the late 90s, is returning from its almost decade long exile to Germany. The magazine celebrated architecture, design, music and lifestyles from the 60s + 70s. It bled through popular conceptions of these mythical times and remixed them through homage. It included photos of naked people.

We are relaunching it and are working towards creating the Return Flight issue.

Are you obsessed with groovy cha cha bands, psychedelic pop music, radical philosophers, cocaine, swinging, tragic celebrities, utopian architects, revolutionary groups, visionary designers, Love airline, or a space age plastic fantastic machine? Do you still listen to your lounge and easy listening muzak? Is it a bit too retro in your Living Room? Still go to Tiki Bars?

Then this is your day.

We are seeking writers and photographic projects that are suited for the Get Easy! set.

if you are interested: you know what to do. We are accepting pitches for editorial now!



Here is a blast from the past.

Lumpen relaunching rumor

Word on the street is that we are re-doing, re-designing and re-distributing the Lumpen magazine. It will be available nationally again. for free in selected shops.
If you want it distributed in your town. contact us.
edmarlumpen at gmail dot com.

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geighties Nite

July 22, 2009 9pm
Sonotheque
1444 W Chicago

Geighties Night
A misdirected fantasy begins presented by Lumpen.

Featuring New Wave Romantic music from back to the future and in between days.

Live sets by:
Members Only (Edmar, Ken Zawacki and Michael Fucking Perkins)
Bobby Conn and Monica Bou Bou

DJ Le Deuce
VJ Boy With a Thorn in His Side aka Brünerd

Free if you are wearing eye make up
$ 3 cover if you do not wear eye makeup.

totally wrong comedy open mic nite

Lumpen is hosting a comedy Open mic put together by Nick Bahr and the Big Man.
It takes place at Kaplan's Liquors (960 w 31st st) Monday, July 13 at 10:30pm to midnightish. Bring some.

In other comedy news.. our buddy Douggpound appeared in a recent Showtime tv show..

Chris Smith @ Eastern Expansion

July 10, 2009
Chris Smith Installation
@ Eastern Expansion
244 W 31st Street

Opening reception July 10, 7-10pm

Philosophical Husband-Tetsuo
Christopher Smith
A sculptural adaptation of two Japanese films made in the early 1990’s level the ecology of its images with that of post consumer waste. A dystopic landscape of obsolete electronics, various polymer based products and the few remainders of something once organic will [...]

Hitler finds out Sarah Palin resigns

Mr Hairy Freedom on July 4th

Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died (Der Untergang remix)

"Adolf Hitler is pretty pissed off to learn that Michael Jackson has died and won't be able to perform at his birthday party. Evidences the true marks of a great internet meme: infinite expandability, extremely bad taste in multiple respects, and an unfairly long lifespan." - boing boing reblog

re: Independence: Spinning the Honduran Coup

Latin America Media Battle Continues

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF

Read or listen to the mainstream media these days and you get the impression that Sunday’s coup in Honduras was all about a simple disagreement over the constitutionality of presidential term limits. But as the coup unfolds it’s becoming clear that the authorities want something more: the restoration of Honduras’s conservative political order and an end to President Manuel Zelaya’s independent foreign policy which had reached out to leftist countries like Cuba and Venezuela.
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jerry vs jerry

by our lovely TV Sheriff
all of his genius here

Das Racist - Chicken And Meat

The Coming Insurrection

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

Just picked up the book version printed in English by Semiotext.
A link was sent to us by a poster on the Conversation.>

Palin Resigns

Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate who electrified her party's campaign last year, has resigned as Alaska's governor in a dramatic decision that has fuelled speculation she is positioning herself to run for president.

The video of her resignation speech is bizzare. Just wait it out a few minutes. A horrible reminder that this person will not go away. And may one day be our President. Makes me kin dof like Obama again.

Iran's post election fears Persepolis style

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…

read the comic here

Hyping Iran, Ignoring Mexico

I was just thinking about the fact no one gave a crap about the stolen elections in Mexico a while back and here is the man, John Ross, reminding me all about it:

Hyping Iran, Ignoring Mexico
The New York Times and Stolen Elections

By JOHN ROSS

Mexico City.

A stolen election by an entrenched regime? Opposition charges that more votes were cast than ballots distributed to the polling places? That independent electoral observers were barred from witnessing the vote count? Demands for a recount to which election officials respond by offering to recount just 10% of the vote? A regime-controlled media that exalts the incumbent's victory and demonizes the loser? The use of alternative media by the opposition to get their side of the story out? Massive street protests by millions of peaceful demonstrators waving homemade signs and wearing bracelets displaying the color of their movement? At least 20 protestors gunned down by authorities and paramilitaries? Worldwide moral indignation stirred up by the international media?

Iran 2009? Yes!

Mexico 2006? Yes and no.

Read more on Counterpunch

Civilization

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Civilization is a video installation we created with artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. It's comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down. Pictures of the installation and Q&A with Brambilla and Crush is posted here glossyinc.com/civilization.html

Lumpen Party Friday June 26

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 .
sheesh.