“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”*

*-Jean-Luc Godard

above: "Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?" (1956) by Richard Hamilton

INFO:
http://vimeo.com/11749071
http://storychasers.org/2011/02/02/creation-requires-influence-understanding-remix-power-in-star-wars/

Music Is My Mistress (new blog)

INFO:
http://music-is-my-mistress.blogspot.com/

Jack Smith

INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(film_director)

http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2010/07/jack-smiths-orientalism-warning-photos.html

"Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant."*

*-J.G. Ballard

(above: paintings by Thomas Downing, Kenneth Nolan)

The Whole Twentieth Century Was A Mistake

"I am expensive. I am subsidized by all the poor people in the world. I dress as though I were a gift to unwrap. I am a rich American heiress looking for a husband"
-program notes from a 2007 Vivienne Westwood fashion show(!)

INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Westwood
http://www.paulgormanis.com/?p=624

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."*

*-Eleanor Roosevelt