5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.
10.14.2011
swirl, human, swirl
seen @ MyModernMet
Angelo Musco's website
This video documents the installation of Tehom, the first solo show of artist Angelo Musco. It took five days to install 191 pieces in the Carrie Secrist gallery in Chicago.. The goal of this video document was to capture the momentous effort of installing an exhibit that was the culmination of two years of work from concept to completion.
10.13.2011
seXto ) ( sentido
NOTA ESCRITA ANTES DEL SECUESTRO:
...quiero agradecer hoy a todos los que leen sobre Cuba y también quiero agradecer a los que escribieron en otros blog una forma de escaparme,, pero pensé mejor voy a seguir haciéndole la vida un yogurt a esta gente que al final son unos lame botas del opresor y les diré más: si algo me pasara entonces habrá otros como yo. Queridos viejos Fidel, Raúl y toda esa banda conocidísima que no puede caminar gracias a todos ustedes señores del gobiernos por hacer lo que hicieron en su momento de verdad era necesario pero ahora nos toca a nosotros hacer cosas con el carácter rebelde que nos caracteriza al cubano nos toca seguir la lucha de Martí de Bolívar como cito el mismo Bolívar en el discurso de Angostura las repetidas elecciones son de vital importancia pues el gobernante que este mucho tiempo en el poder se acostumbra a mandar y el pueblo se acostumbra a obedecer, de verdad creen que me iré alguna parte so bájense de esa nube y de los Mercedes y vengan detrás de mi que esto es solo el principio ,vieron mi ultimo flayer, “esto es miooo…” descárguenle y si me pasa algo recuerden bien niñitas de la seguridad van a venir muchos jóvenes más y será mejor para el pueblo pues será inevitable que se caigan de la silla abajo la dictaduraa,,, arriba la libertad y las artes el amor y la vida,,,,viva Cuba libre,,
Y tengo algo que planee, echen las latas en el piso no les den mas dólares al estado las latas de cerveza y de refresco la recoge un viejito viejita o alguien sin empleo mientras si esta en el cesto esos dólares van a su familión a gastarlo en Varadero no, en el mundo entero,,el Sexto en cuba.. Riega esto y llénate de valor que para obtener grandes cosas hay que sacrificar grandes cosas, no mendigues libertad si tu no la coges de verdad crees que alguien te la dará si ese es su negocio que tu tengas miedo para vivir de ti pero con un pueblo nadie puede y menos aun con la juventud, vinimos de ultimo y no creemos en historia vinimos a ser nuestra propia historia ,,,ok
aquí, El blog de EL SEXTO, joven graffitero cubano secuestrado por las "autoridades" cubanas desde hace varios días, sin haber cometido delito alguno... o lo que se consideraría "delito" merecedor de un secuestro en plena calle y una semana en la cárcel en un país normal...
update 10-14: ya fue "liberado"
10.11.2011
10.08.2011
keep the children free
America (1985) Prince
Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Making money, losing time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It'll be the only word that's heard
America, America
God shed his grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
Little sister making minimum wage
Living in a 1-room jungle-monkey cage
Can't get over, she's almost dead
She may not be in the black
But she's happy she ain't in the red...
Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Making money, losing time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It'll be the only word that's heard
America, America
God shed his grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
Little sister making minimum wage
Living in a 1-room jungle-monkey cage
Can't get over, she's almost dead
She may not be in the black
But she's happy she ain't in the red...
occupyMANhattan
text from PulpInternational
On September 18, 1960 Fidel Castro and his delegation arrived in New York City and, after sleeping at the Shelburne Hotel for one night, were asked for a $10,000 deposit for their twenty rooms after allegedly causing extensive damage. The Cubans either didn’t have it or were insulted by the demand (reports vary), and Castro pointedly expressed his annoyance at a press conference, which is where the above photo was shot forty-one years ago today. Castro said that if the situation wasn't resolved he and his delegation would sleep in Central Park. They were poor mountain people, he reminded everyone, and spending a few days outdoors wouldn't be a big deal. But Harlem’s stately Hotel Theresa, intervened with an offer of lodging and Castro moved uptown, where he was greeted by cheering crowds of Harlem residents. Some cheered because they supported Castro, or because they saw the move as a rebuke against Manhattan’s white establishment, or both. During his stay at the Theresa, Castro received visits from Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and activist Malcolm X. The event prompted President Dwight D. Eisenhower to call the Cubans “troublemakers.”
On September 18, 1960 Fidel Castro and his delegation arrived in New York City and, after sleeping at the Shelburne Hotel for one night, were asked for a $10,000 deposit for their twenty rooms after allegedly causing extensive damage. The Cubans either didn’t have it or were insulted by the demand (reports vary), and Castro pointedly expressed his annoyance at a press conference, which is where the above photo was shot forty-one years ago today. Castro said that if the situation wasn't resolved he and his delegation would sleep in Central Park. They were poor mountain people, he reminded everyone, and spending a few days outdoors wouldn't be a big deal. But Harlem’s stately Hotel Theresa, intervened with an offer of lodging and Castro moved uptown, where he was greeted by cheering crowds of Harlem residents. Some cheered because they supported Castro, or because they saw the move as a rebuke against Manhattan’s white establishment, or both. During his stay at the Theresa, Castro received visits from Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and activist Malcolm X. The event prompted President Dwight D. Eisenhower to call the Cubans “troublemakers.”
10.06.2011
agriomercado
el agromercado from lydia s. rodman on Vimeo.
psst, mami, tu agriomercado aquí...there you go, a Cuban organic Whole Foods for tourists10.05.2011
10.04.2011
10.03.2011
10.02.2011
9.29.2011
sovietPOPme
this, I think, led to...this, which inspired ... all these:
which no doubt, ended up like this...
9.28.2011
the tiny island sags down stream
After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street.
Footsteps dressed in red
And the wind whispers mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
cause the life that lived is,
Is dead
And the wind screams maryUh-will the wind ever remember
The names it has blow in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
It whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries mary
9.27.2011
la constancia del no
¿quieres…?
no
disculpa, no pude… terminar…
no
pero, por favor, déjame…
no
voy a empezar de nuevo…
no
te repito …
no
¿quieres terminar?
no
por favor, déjame.
no
voy a empezar de nuevo, repito.
no
9.22.2011
9.21.2011
postart
more on Soy CubaTRILCE EDICIONES: Soy Cuba: Cuban Cinema Posters From After the Revolution Introduction by Stephen Heller. Text by Carole Goodman, Claudio Sotolongo.
Soy Cuba presents a selection of the finest film posters produced in Cuba from the 1950s until the early 1970s. Famous around the world for their brash originality and bright, clear graphic sensibility, Cuban cinema posters of the Revolutionary era are held in as high esteem as the moodier and more abstract Polish film posters of the same era. Susan Sontag devoted a good part of her noted 1970 essay, "Posters: Advertisement, Art, Political Artifact, Commodity" to the particularly satisfying paradox they present. "The Cubans make posters to advertise culture in a society that seeks to treat culture as an ensemble of commodities-events and objects designed, whether consciously or not, for commercial exploitation. Then the very project of cultural advertising becomes somewhat paradoxical, if not gratuitous. And indeed, many of these posters do not really fill any practical need. A beautiful poster made for the showing in Havana of, say, a minor movie by Alain Jessura, every performance of which will be sold out anyway (because movies are one of the few entertainments available) is a luxury item, something done in the end for its own sake. More often than not, a poster for ICAIC [Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts] by Tony Reboiro or Eduardo Bachs amounts to the creation of a new work of art, supplementary to the film, rather than to a cultural advertisement in the familiar sense." Collected by designer Carole Goodman in collaboration with the ICAC and other Cuban specialists, this substantial compendium is a visual and intellectual treat.
9.20.2011
9.19.2011
el circo en cuba
El circo en Cuba from Memoria de Cuba on Vimeo.
"...abogados por los ingredientes más puros de la fantasía, el circo es el espectáculo de los niños que divierten a los grandes... es como un perfume que nos hace recordar... los payasos de rostros harinados y la misma murga de siempre entretienen a los muchachos que aparecen en estas escenas, filmadas hace más de 30 años con las mismas gracias que hoy les vemos en las carpas y la televisión..."
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