Archive for November, 2006

Renewed Power, Cat Power

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

“Taking with Cat Power“, Produced by Erik Olsen; photography and interview by Winter Miller.
Brighter days ahead for Chan Marshal of Cat Power! She is now clean and sober, and can deliver a whole concert without breaking-down and getting emotional on th audience. I know, many of you are gonna miss that side of her. [...]

Al-Jazeera English TV Goes Live

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Launching last Wednesday, Al-Jazeera launched it’s international english TV channel, but it is having trouble finding a company who will carry the channel in the US. I wonder why? Many say that it’s more of a financial issue than anything else. It’ll take sometime for Al-Jezeera to be accepted by the American public [...]

Updates to Editors’ Picks November 2006

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

We’ve updated our Editors’ picks for November 2006 post to reflect the NEW DATE for White Magic’s record release party, now this Friday November 10th at The Syrup Room (100 Ingraham St at Knickerbocker, Brooklyn) Also added to White Magic’s bill is Entrance. (read: In the Valley of Fire with Paz Lenchatin)
New to this months [...]

Word Paintings and Word Painter

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

As per a phone conversation I had. Nothing deep, images of art work with words, and one famous word painter’s newest stuff.
Jules de Balincourt Ruscha-esque Word painting.

Jules de Balincourt, United We Stood, 2005, Oil and Acrylic on Panel, 41 x 51cm, Saatchi Gallery
Josh Smith, a.k.a the miserable signature paintings.

Josh Smith, Untitled #11, 2005, Oil [...]