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Wednesday! Apr 30 2003 // 3:24 pm // permalink

jiminy cricket

in response to a query in the comments section the other day about an umbrella-toting insect:

little known western film sidekick, Cliff Edwards, a.k.a. Ukelele Ike from Hannibal, MO, was the voice of Jiminy Cricket - the conscience of a little wooden boy in Disney’s 1940 film Pinocchio (originally a serial for italian children by Carlo Collodi) - making famous the song When You Wish Upon A Star.

semi-related: John F. Borowski’s criticism of Disney’s Jiminy Cricket’s Environmentality Challenge at mindfully.org, and eatthestate.org, (and at utne webwatch on 11.26.02)

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Wednesday! Apr 30 2003 // 1:17 pm // permalink

Trance: A site-specific multimedia art installation

from the article at absolutearts.com:

“…Trance, a site-specific art installation by filmmaker Pearl Gluck and musician Basya Schechter. Using fragments of lived experience from the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue and its surrounding historic neighborhood, Trance is a sound and video installation that breaks boundaries and sparks cross cultural dialogue between the Asian and Jewish communities on the Lower East Side.

Through oral history interviews, video footage from the neighborhood, and spiritual and secular sound fragments, Trance will take the viewer on a conceptual journey through this historic house of worship, pausing along the way to pay tribute to the many people who have moved through and around this landmark site. Revealing itself gradually via hidden sound and video-scapes, the installation will utilize single-channel film monitors, speakers and individual head-sets so that each journey is uniquely experienced. Breaking boundaries between inside and out, past and present, their new work will seek to redefine the topography of memory and community, blending the architectural space with the worlds it inhabits.”

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Wednesday! Apr 30 2003 // 11:13 am // permalink

’…nothing other than the measurement of space’

take a look at tokihiro sato’s breathtaking photo respirations at photoarts.com - if you can’t make it to cleveland before July 2. but if you can, the cleveland museum of art is showing Points of Light: Sato Tokihiro Photographs. i doubt you’ll be sorry.
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check out the new layout at log.tenseforms.com now you can see the last hundred comments (okay…eight, but still, it’s exciting) and the latest update from all the tense logs. yay robotspacer!

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and somebody bought me the latest issue of things magazine, just because.

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Wednesday! Apr 30 2003 // 10:48 am // permalink

mommy, the dog is sharp again

we watched my favorite episode of mystery science theater 3000 last night - “Manos” The Hands Of Fate. for some reason the blockbuster by my house was selling it for three bucks.

lots of people have lots to say about it. i gave up picking one. so i decided to let you choose

and, Torgo has his own website.

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Wednesday! Apr 30 2003 // 10:42 am // permalink

kids + art

yay for the artwork by little folk on the “fridges” at KinderArt.

“…KinderArt offers visitors several opportunities to join in and be a part of a global educational community. A truly interactive experience, KinderArt provides an opportunity for parents, educators, artists, students and kids (of course) to have fun while exchanging ideas, finding information, conducting research and learning new things … all in one place.

The goal of KinderArt has been and always will be, to make art lessons and educational information accessible to people around the world. In addition to the hundreds of free art lesson plans, we offer printable activity pages, an interactive bulletin board, art trivia the art kitchen, educational links and articles, early childhood education resources, and much more.”

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Tuesday! Apr 29 2003 // 1:10 pm // permalink

tolstoy and turbot

hey, nobody answered my question from yesterday…where does tolstoy talk about turbot?

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Tuesday! Apr 29 2003 // 12:13 pm // permalink

‘it’s all about fantasies and hair’

some quotations from an article about the global toy market on page one of today’s Wall Street Journal Online, called Why Industry Loves the Global Kid, by By Lisa Bannon and Carlta Vitzthum. unfortunately, you have to have a subscription to read the article online.

“…Two recent developments are changing kids’ tastes. One is the rapid world-wide expansion of cable and satellite TV channels, which along with movies and the Internet expose millions of kids to the same popular icons. For example, Walt Disney Co. now operates 24 Disney-branded cable and satellite channels in 67 countries outside the U.S. — up from zero eight years ago.

The other development is the widening international reach of retailing giants such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Toys `R’ Us Inc. and Carrefour SA, which between them have opened 2,300 stores outside their home markets. Increasingly, the mass retailers enter into exclusive deals with toy and consumer-products companies, allowing them to stage huge, coordinated promotional campaigns….

…Some toys, games and animated characters don’t cross national boundaries. German children, for example, rarely play with action figures. According to the NPD Group, which tracks toy sales, action figures last year made up just 1% of the German toy market, compared with 5% of the U.S. and 6% of the U.K. toy markets. American kids want Nascar toy cars, while European kids want Formula One models. Cheerleader-themed anything is irrelevant outside the U.S. And few American companies sell toys in the Islamic world. Mattel, the world’s largest toy company, has no plans to do so….

…Through this research, with focus-groups conducted with kids in dozens of countries, Mattel learned world-wide demand existed for many of the same toys. ‘The general, overriding belief was that kids are different’ around the world, [Matt Bousquette, president of the Mattel Brands unit] says. ‘But we discovered that wasn’t the case. Kids are more alike than they are different.’”

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Tuesday! Apr 29 2003 // 11:41 am // permalink

things magazine

oh my, i’ve just fallen in love again. for regular readers, this should be no surprise. if you’ve been keeping a tally of things i *love*, i’ve probably racked up thousands since the dawn of sans sheriff. anyway, this time it’s with things magazine. if anyone wants to be nice to me in some sort of “i want to be nice to ray, and buy her things like cookies, or shoes, or maybe a nice magazine” way, you could buy me one, or several of these, or just buy me a subscription or something.

[via jpb, who deserves thanks and many smiles for the heads-up]

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Monday! Apr 28 2003 // 5:18 pm // permalink

sermon on the mount quiz

True or False: When lighting a candle, it is best to place it under a bushel.

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last night we watched Blood Simple and ate popcorn and drank red wine. can anyone tell me why i am so easily disturbed and grossed out by the gore? several times i had my hands over my face and i didn’t even realize it until i heard the person next to me say “it’s just a movie, renee”

yeah, i know it’s just a movie. but it’s a movie of a guy whose hand is pinned to a windowsill with a knife. dude, that’s disturbing.

call me squeamish, i don’t care. just don’t call me late for dinner.

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Tuesday! Apr 22 2003 // 4:30 pm // permalink

another suburban detroit ex-pat celebrates easter

a missive penned by yours-truly outlining the events of my easter holiday spurred the response what follows. please excuse the non sequitur qualities of the first paragraph. i wanted you to share in the hilarity, and i don’t think it requires the currently proprietary backstory. and, fair warning, there are some weakly edited expletives. just so y’all know, if you write to me, some stories or limericks or something, i may be compelled to post your words. with your permission, of course. anyway, enjoy:

“…it made me think of some of the spray painted graffiti we left on the walls of our parents’ garage. Statements like, “DIE PIG”, “Friday the 13th, XVI”, and my favorite, “Pan Galactic Garggle Blasters RULE!!!” What? You’re like, 11 and you’ve got a can of spray paint. what else you gonna do?

me and C. and his better half, K., went down to LA this weekend for the Degree Project. this involves a bunch of C.‘s friends from high school who love the noise. yearly they make a group recording pulling in disparate and familiar folks to make some good old white to pink to salt and pepper noise. K. actually had nothing to do with it. We dropped her off in Culver City on the way into the metropolis and then picked her up on the way out (but not after I had eaten most of the sushi tray at their Easter spread and wowed her grandma and great aunt with my cache of old-timey phrases. They nearly blew a gasket when I said “there’s a fin in it for ya, a sawbuck if you’re speedy”).

I’ll tell you about the recording some other time when I’m not still so steeped in the anticlimax of it. Until then let me say this: I love going to the suburbs/cities where my California friends grew up. Listen, it doesn’t compute. You would understand this. It just doesn’t reconcile when you try to imagine spending your lowest days of adolescent f***all torpor in the bucket of this gorgeous valley with about 220 degrees of mountains in your line of sight at any given moment. factor in the dried creek beds, the grottos and canyons that border backyards, and the stones throw distance from the Manson caves and the Spahn Ranch and it is impossible to believe you could get bored there. and this is not a particularly rich area.

on Sunday morning before we went to get K., me and C. drove down to South Central Ave. into Watts to see the Watts Towers C. had never seen them before. When I asked K. if she had, she scoffed “they used to take us on cheap field trips there.”

Well excuuuuuuuuuuse me.

Simon Rodia is one of my favorite Southern Cal Sicilian folk artists of the early 20th century. One of, you say? yes. the other is Baldasare Forestiere and his underground gardens in Fresno (which I still haven’t got into - its really difficult to get a reservation). If i’ve never told you about this, prepare for mind blow.

I’ve really gotta get to the gardens because there is a threat of bulldozing in the name of condos. f***ing Fresno. Alright. I have to do some layout right now so let me sign off with one last link, this one is sans sheriff worthy, an illustrated database of all Pavlov’s dogs.”

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