Punishment Park is a 1971 film written and directed by Peter Watkins. Conceived as a pseudo-documentary, it is hands down one of the most intense works ever in political cinema. To set the stage for the film… the Vietnam War escalates with Richard Nixion’s “secret” bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing […]

New site in the works.

Two words… Led Zeppelin. You use the technology we’ll have in four years to resurrect the band circa 1972. That, or you get a UFO to come make crop circles and erect another Stonehedge in real time.
What I’m saying is, it’s an uphill battle.

Ms. Smith has a striking new release out. It’s called The Coral Sea and stands as audio documentation of two separate live performances she did in collaboration with My Bloody Valentine guitarist Kevin Shields. Named and inspired from Smith’s 1996 book The Coral Sea, the performances served as tributes to the late artist […]

I know the posts have been scarce here recently. Part due to traveling, part due to the summer, part due to work on the new bonzer5 site, but I came across something this morning and wanted to pass it on…
In what my be the one of the more interesting performance art pieces I’ve seen, […]

Another year, another blurred weekend of loud music, sunburns, and undulating seas of humanity. Highlights included:
- Access to showers.
- Randomly meeting this guy, then later seeing his band (Les Savy Fav) play.
- Watching Prince on the jumbo screen from afar, just heroically exorcising his guitar Hendrix style. Like, wow.
- Witnessing a freak dust devil […]

Clipped this from Boingboing…

Now as far as I can tell, this video does not look doctored in any way. That elephant is really holding that brush and making those marks on the canvas.
*Notice the little air strokes Stampy makes just before committing the brush to the surface, that’s a classic mannerism a lot […]

From the artist:
In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation.
I won’t argue this isn’t a striking image, nor that an insane amount of time and effort was […]

Passive aggressive warfare.
Link (via BoingBoing)

Happy to see the brothers get their due. I loved how uncomfortable they looked accepting their awards. There won’t be an odder, trippier, or bleaker film to win best picture for a looong time.
The best part of the entire show was when they let the Once girl come back on stage to […]