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JG Thirlwell has contributed four pages of exclusive new graphics for the new edition of Pioneer Zine. This issue was curated by Bob Bert (Pussy Galore, Sonic Youth, Chrome Cranks etc) and features contributions by JG Thirlwell as well as Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Lydia Lunch , Jasmine Hirst, Reuben Radding and Mark C. You can pick it up here

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Liz Lamere on Alan Vega and Her Solo Career: Whatever Happens, Happens

Liz Lamere; photo by Jasmine Hirst

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Liz Lamere's got a story to tell, and one that won't end any time soon. The former Wall Street lawyer and boxer and current singer-songwriter is also the widow and former creative partner of the late, great Alan Vega, the visual artist and vocalist of landmark proto-punk duo Suicide. Since Vega's death in 2016, Lamere has, in conjunction with Jared Artaud of post-punk act The Vacant Lots, worked to bring to light a wealth of unreleased material from Vega's vault.

After the release of 2017's It, the final album Vega recorded before he died, Lamere and Artaud discovered the material that would constitute the 2021 release Mutator. In 2022, they unearthed the songs that would be released this past May as Insurrection (In The Red). It hasn't been until now, however, where there's been a simultaneous awakening of all things Vega. In addition to Insurrection, Artaud co-curated "Cesspool Saints", an exhibition of Vega's fine art works, which opened two months ago at Laurent Godin's Gallery in Paris. Lamere, meanwhile, co-wrote Vega's biography with Laura Davis-Chanin, entitled Infamous Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega (Backbeat Books). (The foreword? By none other than Bruce Springsteen.) With a rich collection of songs waiting for ears--material that Lamere and Vega recorded and Vega meticulously documented between actually released Vega solo albums throughout the 90s and 2000s--it's become clear that Vega's backlog rivals of those like Prince and Arthur Russell, full of albums that are contextualized by what was recorded before and after them but that stand alone as cohesive statements.

Lamere; photo by Jasmine Hirst

At the same time as everything Vega-related, Lamere has finally found not just the time but the will to release her own solo records, an artistic career that Vega always encouraged but never was able to witness. Her songs are certainly different than Vega's in terms of subject matter and aesthetic, but Lamere credits Vega's approach to music-making--be spontaneous and fearless and realize that nothing is a mistake--for informing her artistic process. She started working on her debut, Keep It Alive, during COVID lockdown, and finished the album in mere weeks. Her follow-up, One Never Knows (In The Red), released last month, took a little bit longer to make, understandably when Lamere was working on Vega's biography and Insurrection all at the same time. Thankfully, Lamere was able to separate the entities, another thing she took from Vega. "It wasn't too difficult to compartmentalize because I wore so many different hats and did so many different things, like Alan," Lamere said over the phone last month. "Alan could be hyper-focused on visual art, and then hyper-focused on music and sound. They might be different sides of the same coin, but whatever he was focused on, he was so in the moment and heavily focused on that creation."

To really understand Vega's perspective on art and life, you have to go far back into the oft-ignored details that inspired Lamere to start writing his biography. Vega was, infamously, 10 years older than everyone thought; various articles incorrectly referred to 1948 as his birth year rather than 1938, confirmed when the 70th birthday release of his recordings was announced in 2008. The parents of the man born Alan Bermowitz were Jewish immigrants. His first wife, Mariette Bermowitz (née Birencwajg), is a Holocaust survivor from Belgium; they met attending Brooklyn College. Lamere credits such a close familial proximity to persecution as a reason for the trauma Vega felt, and also why he chose to not use his birth name as his stage name. But such closeness was also why Vega chose to sing about difficult topics in his music. "Alan was always hypersensitive to any type of oppression or challenging situations," Lamere said. "He had tremendous empathy. He wasn't doom and gloom but more readily shining a light." Out of college, Vega worked for the Welfare Department, eventually quitting because he felt the menial work he was tasked with doing didn't allow him to make a true difference in the lives of the poor. But the experience helped him understand how to secure funding when working with the Art Workers' Coalition, and from the New York State Council on the Arts to help found 24-hour artist-run multimedia gallery MUSEUM: A Project of Living Artists.

Alan Vega; photo by Walter Robinson

Vega possessed the ability to apply what he learned from one effort to another, and his mind was well-rounded. He actually enrolled in Brooklyn College not for art, but for astrophysics, having received a scholarship as a result of his building his own telescope(!) But one day, the head of the Art Department witnessed Vega sketching portrait drawings in the cafeteria and immediately recognized Vega's artistic brilliance and convinced him to study art. (Vega's portrait drawings appear in the video for Lamere's "King City Ghost".) Vega ended up studying with legendary artists like Kurt Seligmann and Ad Reinhardt. When substitute teaching a class for Reinhardt during his senior year, Vega assigned students a self-portrait to be turned in the next class, but instead of collecting them, he told the students to rip them up. "When he was telling me the story," said Lamere, "He said, 'You should have seen the look on these kids' faces!'" But Vega viewed art as, in the words of Lamere, "coming from a pure place of expression," not of preciousness, and one worthy of consuming your life. Vega met Martin Rev and formed Suicide in 1970, garnering notice for their wild live shows throughout the New York punk scene. After they released their self-titled debut in 1977, they toured with The Clash, an infamous time during which the crowd, unable to understand the Suicide's artistic vision, would throw switchblades at the band. "Alan was willing to be...out there front and center and put his life on the line, literally," Lamere said. "He believed so strongly that what [Suicide was] doing was breaking new ground and important in its own right."

Vega had been releasing solo albums for a decade before Lamere came in the picture; he met her while making 1990's Deuce Avenue, the record that returned to the beloved electronic minimalism of Suicide. Though the actual release of solo albums was sporadic, he and Lamere never stopped making music. "When we were in the studio together all those years, I was very much the type of person thinking about releasing albums, whereas Alan wasn't structured in that way," Lamere said. "His thought was, 'We're going into the studio to create sound, and whatever happens, happens...' Part of his process was he would just keep moving forward. Unless I said, 'Hit stop,' so we could put out an album of what we'd been working on right at [that] moment in time, he would keep evolving and moving forward on new material." Vega constantly wrote poetry in his notebooks, often using what he wrote for ad-libbed song lyrics; Lamere was actively involved in mixing their recordings. At the same time, Vega was a staunch documenter. He would burn a CD of what he and Lamere had worked on in the studio and note down changes he thought they needed to make to each song. Even the titles of the songs from Mutator and Insurrection came from his notebooks.

Insurrection artwork design by Michael Handis

The extent to which, upon being done with a song or an album, Vega moved on, proved to be extreme, and would have ripple effects on Lamere's solo career. The two, along with French director Marc Hurtado, would tour Europe after recording a solo album and perform the unreleased songs they'd recorded. ("The Europeans have heard a lot of this stuff before," joked Lamere about Mutator and Insurrection.) For the songs that had been released, Vega would rely on Lamere to feed him lines so that he could give the audience at least something recognizable. "I would be chanting little phrases, he would hear that, and he would riff on it, and the audience would be happy even though the lyrics [were] mostly completely different," Lamere said. "I learned to 'sing' because Alan never wanted to rehearse anything...I kind of learned a little bit how to project my voice." Meanwhile, upon hearing it for the first time, Vega didn't even remember "Nike Soldier", a track long-time engineer Perkin Barnes had digitized and Lamere chose for a split single with The Vacant Lots in 2014. Lamere's the opposite. "When we first started mixing [Insurrection], I could literally remember and envision the days in the studio I was laying down [those riffs]." But the ultimate story comes from when Springsteen, touring Devils & Dust, invited Vega to one of his shows, as he had been covering Suicide classic "Dream Baby Dream" during the encore. "[Vega] literally was sitting with Jesse [Malin], they're waiting for the show to start, and on the PA comes the song 'Dujang Prang' that he and I had done in 1995," Lamere said. "Alan turns to Jesse and says, 'This is really good, do you know who this is?' Jesse said, 'Alan, that's your song.' That's classic Alan: been there, done that, don't wanna hear it."

It was during the release of The Vacant Lots split single where Vega gave Artaud and Lamere his blessing to unearth songs from the vault. The single happened when Artaud reached out to Vega, sharing The Vacant Lots' cover of Vega's "No More Christmas Blues". The two men became fast friends, as Artaud, living in Brooklyn Heights a subway stop away from Vega and Lamere in Lower Manhattan, often visited. "Jared would come over here and sit and talk to Alan for hours about everything," Lamere said. "He had listened to every piece of music that Alan had pretty much ever done. He understood Alan's philosophy of creation and the minimalism and the existential philosophers that Alan had studied." As for Lamere, Vega knew that her approach to producing his music was intuitive. "After Alan heard 'Nike Soldier', I said, 'Alan, you have no idea how much material is in the computer in the studio of what we've done over the years,'" Lamere said. "He said, 'I know. Once I'm gone, you should feel free to put it out because I trust your judgement. You've worked with me for so long, you're my co-producer.' I could go in and make these tracks sound completely different. But I make what Alan would want. He's still so present with us because he had such a strong influence on us. It's part of our DNA. That's the reality."

Lamere; photo by Jasmine Hirst

Insurrection was recorded in the late 90s, and you can hear its influence on the material that would make up 1999's 2007. The album is a snapshot of an era for Vega, New York City, and the world at large. Dante, Vega and Lamere's child, was about to be born, so Vega's mind was occupied with the post-Gulf War, pre-9/11 state of a city and country rife with racism and capitalistic rot. (The mention of 9/11 is not teleological; Vega literally had premonitions of a terror attack in New York City.) Songs like "Sewer" and "Invasion" sport thumping, propulsive beats and clattering, machine-like percussion, the most messed-up club songs you've ever heard, Vega chanting like a street urchin. The presciently titled "Murder One" and "Genocide" are circular, droning, and forward-lurching. The instrumentation is perfect for Vega's mantras and pleas to "Make a new reality!' Lamere's One Never Knows, though a personal album whose singles' videos feature Lamere sort of half-boxing, half-dancing, a callback to her earlier career, echoes Vega's idealistic spirit. "Don't destroy the dream tonight," she sings on the dystopian "If Only", an almost 50-year-later spiritual sibling to Suicide's best known song.

One Never Knows, like Keep It Alive, was engineered by Dante at their Dujang Prang home studio, where Alan held his sculptures. Before the pandemic, Dante had been working with hip-hop artists, but as they weren't coming in during lockdown, Lamere asked him to help her with her solo debut. Dante sang in The Choir of Trinity Wall Street for 10 years and purportedly has perfect pitch, whereas Lamere is not formally trained. "He wants to help other people with their vision," Lamere said of her son. "I do say to him once in a while, because I run a lot of sounds through the keyboard, 'What key is this?'...He knows I like dissonance, so he says, 'If you like it, it works.'" Lamere's taking a key from Vega and not wanting to get technical any time soon. "I'm sure Miles Davis had his pick of brilliant musicians to work with, but Alan used to say, 'Miles Davis liked working with people who weren't necessarily formally trained.' They didn't say, 'You're not supposed to do that,' or, 'This is what you're supposed to do here, this chord progression.' No! It's none of that. There are no rules," Lamere said.

Lamere; photo by Jasmine Hirst

Lamere's planning on taking the same approach to her recording as playing live, but with a little bit of her boxing knowledge thrown in. "When I was performing with Alan, I was always playing effects machines in the background. It's a whole different animal carrying the show front and center," she said. "For me, it's like getting in the ring sparring. You have to be hyper-focused. The adrenaline kicks in. It's a great feeling...It scares the shit out of me ahead of time. In the moment, I absolutely love it. Alan was the same way. He wouldn't even be thinking about getting on stage, but as soon as he did, he kind of embraced it."

As always, her musical endeavors will constitute at least some work with the Vega vault. For one, according to Lamere, there are about 4 or 5 albums worth of material from the 8 years between the release of 2007 and Station alone, from when they were first raising Dante, as well as even more from after Station, despite Vega suffering a stroke in 2012. "I love the opportunity for people to hear what I'm doing and discover what Alan did and is continuing to do," Lamere said. "I love the fact that he's still influencing people from beyond."

One Never Knows artwork: Jasmine Hirst

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Upcoming documentary by Lydia Lunch and Jasmine Hirst. I’m the third one down on the far left and will be appearing alongside many other talented artists.

[gotankgo]

«New York premiere at the Roxy Cinema of Artists: Depression, Anxiety & Rage directed by Lydia Lunch and Jasmine Hirst at 5 PM. with Q&A with Lydia Lunch.

Tickets: www.roxycinemanewyork.com»

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New Video: Liz Lamere Says Punchy and Defiant "Vibration"

New Video: Liz Lamere Says Punchy and Defiant "Vibration" @zilamere

Liz Lamere is a New York-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, who has had a lengthy career playing drums in several local punk bands — and famously for collaborating with her late partner, the legendary Alan Vega on his solo work for the better part of three decades.  Back in 2022, Lamere finally stepped out into the spotlight as a solo artist with her full-length debut, Keep It…

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The Badun Detective Agency Proteges (Part 2);

Sebastien Marulanda as Zaahir Bint Aladdin Bin Cassim Al Hamed of Agrabah, son of Jasmine and Aladdin.

Leonardo Nam as Maddox Hatter, son of the Mad Hatter.

Malia Baker as Chloe Charming, daughter of Cinderella and Prince Christopher Charming.

Kylie Cantrall as Roisin 'Red' Hearts, daughter of the Queen of Hearts.

Steven-Adam Agdeppa as Paro Imp-Athanasiou, son of Pain and Hedone.

Tyler Nelson as Panos Imp-Coachmen, son of Fern Coachmen and Panic.

HXRO (?) as Khalil Hunterson, son of Buldeo.

Dre Ronayne as Avalon Mim-Knightley, daughter of sir Rothbart and Madam Mim.

Cheyenne Hirst as Lada Hag, daughter of Bridget the hag and Lawrence.

Lacey Beegun as Everlee D'Aquire, daughter of Monsieur D'Aquire.

Alekz Samone as Lazarus Stromboli, son of Mangiafuoco Stromboli and Zecora the Zebra centaur.

[bones39]

Apprezzo il disegno realista, davvero, quei disegni che sembrano fotografie sono incredibili, frutto di molta pazienza, cura al dettaglio, impegno e molto altro. Ma non fa per me. Più mi sento dire "sei migliorata" da chi definiva i miei disegni "infantili e stilizzati" più mi sembra di perdere qualcosa.. qualcosa di mio, di unico, uno stile che creavo sacrificato per un immagine che già c'è, per una copia invece di un idea. Più so copiare da un immagine visiva meno so fare uscire quello che sta nella mia testa.

Qui un elenco di persone che fortunatamente non hanno ascoltato certe critiche, o non ci avrebbero regalato certi scenari:

Lora Zombie,

Chiara Bautista,

Zoe Lacchei,

Robin Eisenberg

Phazed

1. Jasmine Becket-Griffith: Jasmine Becket-Griffith è un'artista statunitense con uno stile unico e distintivo. Le sue opere spesso raffigurano figure eteree e mistiche, con dettagli intricati e colori vivaci.

2. Chet Zar: Chet Zar è un artista americano noto per le sue opere che fondono horror e fantastico. Le sue raffigurazioni spesso presentano figure bizzarre, mostruose e oscure, in una miscela unica di dettagli realistici e immaginazione distorta.

3. Nicoletta Ceccoli: Nicoletta Ceccoli è un'artista italiana con uno stile fiabesco, ma al tempo stesso inquietante. Le sue opere spesso raffigurano bambine dalle espressioni malinconiche e sognanti, immerse in scenari surreali e simbolici.

4. Camille Rose Garcia: Camille Rose Garcia è un'artista americana le cui opere sono ispirate dal mondo delle fiabe, ma con un tocco oscuro. Le sue raffigurazioni sono caratterizzate da colori vibranti, figure distorte e dettagli intricati.

5. Ray Caesar: Ray Caesar è un artista canadese noto per le sue rappresentazioni di un mondo fantastico e sognante. Le sue opere spesso presentano figure femminili sofisticate e misteriose, ambientate in scenari intricati e dettagliati.

1. Ai Weiwei: Artista cinese e attivista politico, il suo lavoro affronta temi come la censura, i diritti umani, la critica al governo cinese e l'immigrazione.

2. Banksy: L'identità di Banksy è ancora sconosciuta, ma il suo lavoro di street art politica e provocatoria ha attirato l'attenzione a livello internazionale. I suoi murales spesso affrontano questioni sociali, politiche e ambientali.

3. Kara Walker: L'arte di Kara Walker indaga il razzismo, l'identità e la storia dell'oppressione degli afroamericani negli Stati Uniti con raffigurazioni provocatorie e spesso violente.

4. Marina Abramović: Conosciuta per le sue performance estreme, Abramović esplora i confini del corpo, del tempo e dell'interazione umana. Le sue performance sono spesso cariche di simbolismo e suscitano reazioni emotive intense.

5. Yayoi Kusama: Kusama è famosa per le sue installazioni immersive e ad alto impatto visivo che spesso utilizzano il concetto dell'infinito e della sovrapercezione. L'artista giapponese ha affrontato temi come la salute mentale, il consumismo e la sessualità.

6. Jenny Holzer: Holzer utilizza la parola scritta come mezzo d'espressione principale, proiettando messaggi provocatori e contestanti su facciate di edifici, installazioni lumino- testuali e scritte su supporti vari. I suoi lavori si concentrano sul potere delle parole e affrontano temi come l'oppressione delle donne, la guerra e la politica.

7. Olafur Eliasson: Eliasson creane installazioni interattive che coinvolgono il pubblico attraverso l'utilizzo di luce, specchi e elementi naturali. Le sue opere esplorano temi come il cambiamento climatico, la percezione umana e l'interazione con l'ambiente.

8. Shirin Neshat: L'arte di Neshat esplora le dinamiche culturali, le divisioni di genere e la politica nel contesto del Medio Oriente. Attraverso fotografie, video e film, l'artista iraniana-america affronta temi come l'identità, l'oppressione e il conflitto.

9. Damien Hirst: Hirst è noto per i suoi lavori che coinvolgono animali morti o parti di animali. Le sue opere sollevano questioni etiche sulla vita e la morte, il consumo e la bellezza.

10. Cindy Sherman: Sherman è famosa per le sue fotografie in cui lei stessa si trasforma in personaggi diversi, spesso stereotipi femminili. Il suo lavoro affronta la cultura dei media, l'identità e il concetto di autorappresentazione.

Questi artisti spingono i limiti dell'arte e affrontano questioni cruciali che suscitano discussioni e riflessioni sulla società, la politica, l'identità e molto altro ancora.

9. Roger Ballen: Roger Ballen è un fotografo sudafricano noto per le sue immagini disturbanti e surreali, spesso ambientate in ambienti claustrofobici e con protagonisti animali o persone marginalizzate.

10. Jock Sturges: Jock Sturges è un fotografo americano famoso per i suoi ritratti di adolescenti nudi in ambientazioni naturali, creando immagini intime e sensuali che esplorano la transizione dalla giovinezza all'età adulta

11. Elinor Carucci: Elinor Carucci è una fotografa israeliana-americana che si concentra sulla sua famiglia e sulla sua vita quotidiana, creando immagini intime e personali che rivelano emozioni complesse e universali.

12. David LaChapelle: David LaChapelle è un fotografo e regista americano noto per le sue immagini audaci ed eccentriche, spesso con icone pop, celebrità e riferimenti culturali, creando immagini che catturano l'attenzione estraendo la bellezza e l'assurdità del mondo moderno.

13. Antoine D'Agata: Antoine D'Agata è un fotografo francese noto per il suo lavoro provocatorio e crudo, spesso mostrando la vita nei margini della società, con immagini sessuali esplicite, droga e violenza.

14. Daido Moriyama: Daido Moriyama è un famoso fotografo giapponese noto per le sue immagini in bianco e nero che catturano la vita urbana di Tokyo, con un occhio brutale e decisamente moderno.

15. Francesca Woodman: Francesca Woodman è stata una fotografa statunitense che ha creato immagini intime e poetiche di sé stessa e del suo corpo, spesso intrecciati con l'architettura delle case e degli ambienti in cui si trovava.

16. Vivian Maier: Vivian Maier è stata una fotografa statunitense-americana scoperta in modo postumo, nota per le sue immagini di strada catturate principalmente a Chicago, offrendo uno sguardo unico sulla vita urbana degli anni '50 e '60.

1. Jan Saudek: Jan Saudek è un famoso fotografo ceco noto per le sue immagini poetiche e surreali. Le sue fotografie spesso raffigurano soggetti nudi o seminudi in pose suggestive, creando immagini che evocano emozioni profonde e complesse.

2. Sally Mann: Sally Mann è una rinomata fotografa statunitense con uno stile molto intimo e personale. Le sue fotografie spesso raffigurano la sua famiglia e la vita nella Virginia rurale, esplorando concetti di memoria, tempo e degrado.

3. Duane Michals: Duane Michals è un fotografo americano noto per il suo approccio narrativo e sperimentale. Le sue fotografie sono spesso una sequenza di immagini che raccontano una storia o esplorano temi come l'amore, la morte e l'identità.

4. Sarah Moon: Sarah Moon è una fotografa francese con uno stile onirico e poetico. Le sue immagini spesso sfocano i confini tra realtà e fantasia, creando atmosfere surreali e misteriose.

5. Joel-Peter Witkin: Joel-Peter Witkin è un fotografo americano noto per le sue fotografie provocatorie e inquietanti. Le sue immagini spesso includono soggetti "diversi" come deformità, corpi mutilati o oggetti macabri, creando immagini che sfidano le norme sociali e provocano riflessioni sulle nostre paure e perversioni.

6. Nan Goldin: Nan Goldin è una fotografa americana con uno stile documentaristico e intimo. Le sue fotografie spesso raffigurano la sua cerchia di amici e conoscenti, documentando la vita notturna, l'amore, la dipendenza e le relazioni umane con un occhio sincero e senza filtri.

7. Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Arno Rafael Minkkinen è un fotografo finlandese-americano noto per i suoi autoritratti in natura. Le sue immagini spesso esplorano la connessione e l'interazione tra il corpo umano e l'ambiente, creando composizioni suggestive e poetiche.

Ricorda che ognuno di questi fotografi ha uno stile unico e distintivo, quindi ti consiglio di esplorare il loro lavoro per trovare quello che più ti ispira.

46. Ray Troll

47. Daniel Merriam

48. Jasmine Worth

49. Sonya Fu

50. Michael Page

51. Chie Yoshii

52. Yoko D'Holbachie

53. Sarah Louise Davey

54. Kit King

55. Femmepop

56. Travis Lampe

57. Sheri DeBow

58. Mab Graves

59. Popovy Sisters

60. Amy Brown

61. Laurie Lipton

62. Mark Bryan

63. Ray Caesar

64. Joel Rea

65. Simona Candini

66. Tom Bagshaw

67. Marion Bolognesi

68. Lora Zombie

69. Heather Watts

70. Paul Rumsey

71. Brian M. Viveros

72. Nom Kinnear King

73. Brendan Monroe

74. Jeremy Geddes

75. Lesley Oldaker

76. Kim Simonsson

77. Jana Brike

78. Jeff Soto

79. Hikari Shimoda

80. Yoskay Yamamoto

81. Olek

82. Yayoi Kusama

83. Atsushi Suwa

84. Fem Jasper-King

85. Tina Lugo

86. Zoe Keller

87. Erik Jones

88. Moki

89. Justin Mortimer

90. Gustavo Rimada

91. Michael Shapcott

92. Sachin Teng

93. Laura Colors

94. Erwin Olaf

95. Fairy Teller

96. Michelle Mia Araujo

97. Martin Eder

98. Lin Fengmian

99. Marissa Oosterlee

100. Andrew Hem

Ognuno di questi artisti ha una prospettiva unica e un modo particolare di rappresentare concetti e emozioni nella loro arte. Potresti scoprire nuove ispirazioni e dimensioni artistiche esplorando il loro lavoro.

1. Audrey Kawasaki

2. Marion Peck

3. Mark Ryden

4. James Jean

5. Tara McPherson

6. Jenny Frison

7. Brandi Milne

8. Kukula

9. Amy Sol

10. Peter Gric

11. Femke Hiemstra

12. Josh Keyes

13. Brian Despain

14. Kris Kuksi

15. Nicoletta Stamatelatos

16. Gary Baseman

17. Scott Musgrove

18. Sarah Joncas

19. Natalie Shau

20. Shag (Josh Agle)

21. Greg "Craola" Simkins

22. Luke Chueh

23. Caitlin Hackett

24. Soey Milk

25. Audrey Pongracz

26. Alex Pardee

27. Travis Louie

28. Natalia Fabia

29. Chris Mars

30. Casey Weldon

31. Brandi Read

32. Jeanie Tomanek

33. Jessica Joslin

34. Scott Radke

35. Camilla d'Errico

36. Lori Earley

37. Michael Hussar

38. Benjamin Lacombe

39. Miho Hirano

40. Kindra Nikole

41. James Gurney

42. Kris Lewis

43. Martin Wittfooth

44. Timothy Robert Smith

45. Colin Christian

Questi sono solo alcuni dei tanti artisti che potrebbero piacerti.

[jasminedunham]

Hi everyone! My name is Jasmine and this is my second year here at SCF. Though, I spent my first year as a dual enrollment student. 

Damien Hirst 1992 The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution; 213 cm × 518 cm (213 in × 213 in)

- My first reaction to this piece is fear and panic. 

1. Artist Damien Hirst hired an Australian fisherman to catch him a real tiger shark. 

2. Hirst decided to use a real shark to make it more frightening and real. 

3. When the original specimen began to decompose, it was replaced with a new specimen in 2006.

4. Hirst acknowledged that there was a logical question as to whether replacing the shark meant that the result could still be considered the same artwork. He explained that although it is not the original piece, it is still his original intention. 

5. Hirst has made other works which also feature a preserved shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine such as The Immortal (a great white shark, 2005).

My first reaction to this piece was frightened and also panicked. It is extremely nerve wracking to think that I have swam in the home of these beautiful, yet powerful creatures. After careful research, I think I am even more afraid of the shark and intrigued by the artist that created this. The original shark used for this piece was captured in 1992, however, it was replaced in 2006 after the original decayed. After researching, I find the art to be a bit brutal, but necessary. To truly evoke human fear, or any human emotion, you need something real.

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Lydia Lunch by Jasmine Hirst

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Vice to Meet Ya

Vice to Meet Ya: Eating Animals May Be Coming to a Boil

Eating Animals May Be Coming To a Boil

The short-comings of public campaigns about bad health habits are well known.  One the best selling foods ever is not even food – cheerios. But despite knowing that full well, those who eat it, eat it. Period. That may illustrate without explaining why chastising people only makes them double down on their ways. Rightly so. After all, healthy eaters don’t…

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Song on Sunday: a live song from the band´s very first concert in New York:

"Eliminator" by Princess goes to the Butterfly Museum. Shot live in New York City, September 2018. Video by Jasmine Hirst (with a guest appearance - by edit - from Lydia Lunch)

[jblareink]

My interview with Lydia Lunch & Jasmine Hirst for their documentary about rage and depression and its effect on artists.

[jhonfalco]

Client: Nike Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Executive Creative Directors: Jason Bagley, Eric Baldwin Creative Directors: Alberto Ponte, Ryan O’Rourke Copywriter: Dylan Lee Art Director: Naoki Ga Director of Production: Matt Hunnicutt Executive Producers: Jake Grand, Krystle Mortimore Senior Producers: Katie McCain, Byron T. Oshiro Associate Producers: Samson Selam, Shani Storey Global Brand Director: André Gustavo Brand Director: Kate Rutkowski Brand Manager: Paanii Annan Creative Operations Managers: Saba Spencer, David Ramirez Global Group Strategy Director: Andy Lindblade, Paula Bloodworth Media Team: Danny Sheniak, Reme Debisschop, Emily Dalton, Vivian Zhang, Graham Wallace, Claudia Iraheta Brand Strategy Directors: Nathan Goldberg, AJ Blumenthal Business Affairs: Karen Crossley, Edith Ortiz, Emily Kahn Broadcast Traffic: Sabrina Reddy, Billy Mucha Design Ops Manager/Design Producer: Alicia Kuna, Michael Rosenau, Michael Frediani Studio Designers: Joan Comellas, Jamon Sin, Mitch Wilson ____________________________________________________________________________ LIVE ACTION Production Company: Pulse Films Director: Oscar Hudson Director of Photography: Logan Triplett Live Action Producer: Dennis Beier Executive Producers: Darren Foldes Key Costumer: Chris Araujo Production Designer: Adam Wilson Managing Director: Hillary Rogers President - Commercial & Branded: Davud Karbassioun ____________________________________________________________________________ Post Production Design Design Studio: Elastic Art Director: Jeff Han Producers: Paul Makowski, Adam Goins Animators: Nader Husseini, Julia Wright, Chad Danieley, Aziz Dosmetov, Trix Taylor, Lucy Kim, Alex Silver Deputy Head of Production: Zach Wakefield Executive Producer: Luke Colson Head of Production: Kate Berry Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall ------- VFX VFX Studio: a52 VFX Supervisor: Patrick Murphy CG Supervisor: Andy Wilkoff Lead Flame Artist: Patrick Murphy Flame Artists: Steve Wolff, Urs Furrer, Matt Sousa, Stefan Gaillot, Andy Rafael Barrios, Hugh Seville, Richard Hirst, Adam Flynn, Dan Ellis, Kevin Stokes, Chris Riley, Rod Basham, Michael Vaglienty, Enid Dalkoff, Susanne Scharping 3D Artists: Dustin Mellum Tracking: Joe Chiechi, Mike Bettinardi, Michael Cardenas Online Editors: Kevin Stokes, Chris Riley, Sam Kolber Producers: Andrew Rosenberger, Everett Cross, Jillian Lynes Executive Producers: Patrick Nugent & Kim Christensen Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall ____________________________________________________________________________ COLOR Color Studio: a52 Color Colorist: Daniel De Vue Color Producer: Jenny Bright Executive Producer: Thatcher Peterson _________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL Editorial Company: JOINT Editor: Peter Wiedensmith, Jessica Baclesse Assistant Editor: Jasmine McCullough, JC Nuñez Footage Researcher: Izzie Raitt Producer: Kathleen Russell Production Coordinator: Aubree VanDercar Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy ____________________________________________________________________________ SOUND DESIGN Sound Design Company: JOINT Sound Designer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy MIX Mix Compay: JOINT Audio Mixer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy

[donnerpartyofone]

REMINDER that this awesome event is coming to the beautiful Subversive Tattoo Parlor in Greenpoint this Friday!!! 15 $mackers gets you access to this rare screening of Jasmine Hirst's interview with her friend Aileen Wuornos, plus a bonus interview with Lydia Lunch--PLUS special rated on flash, tarot readings, and palm readings by ME! What's not to like? Reposted from @subversivetattooparlor - Premiering this Friday 5/17 at 7:00 pm ”A matter of life and death” an interview with Aileen Wournos on death row by filmmaker @artbyjasminehirst. DM to RSVP. Admission is $15 Venmo/PayPal or pay cash at the door. There will be 15min pay what u wish tarot card readings after the film by @clairegieringer @donnerpartyof1 #film #aileenwuornos #deathrow #nyc #nyctattooshop #queerspace #womanowned - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BxfV23FB6Np/?igshid=osxrn9gq47ti