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Telepathic Robot Monkeys
podcast: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49297148,00.htm
The greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters
Link: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49296926,00.htm

Ho Chi Minh City Young Artists Exhibition

City of Melbourne: The Gallery, City Library, Level 1, 253 Flinders Lane
Exhibition dates 6-28 Jun gallery hours 8-7.30pm Mon-Thur, 8am-5.30pm Fri 10-12.30pm Sat.
Closed Sunday

Green Anarchism

Find out what green anarchism is all about, read: THE ECOANARCHIST MANIFESTO

Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/eam.html

The eco-anarchist movement must not be mixed up with neo-luddist, primitivist, anti-civilization and similar groups and policies, i.e. authoritarian and eccentric ideas and practice and far from anarchist, although sometimes posing as ‘libertarian green’ to provoke. The eco-anarchist movement has a rational, libertarian socialist basis for its policy, and rejects principally marxian and other dialectical type ideology, “new-age” and/or “Skippy&Disney” utopian based “animal liberation”, vegetarian fanatism, irrational environmentalism, and similar authoritarian tendencies. The eco-anarchist movement is clearly opposed to and in general denounces the sometimes fanatical and irrational tendencies and guru-hierarchies we have seen within the ecology and green movement in general, as well as terrorism and ochlarchy tendencies, sometimes wrongly called “anarchist” in the media.

Mu-meson Archives screenings May – June

For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives web site http://www.mumeson.org

Friday 30th May
TV Party
The revolutionary cable access show TV PARTY emerged in the late 1970s as a showcase for the punk rock bands that were emerging at the time. Directed by the legendary Amos Poe the show was hosted by Glenn O’Brien and Blondie guitarist Chris Stein. Guests on the show included George Clinton, Mick Jones, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Tuxedomoon. Mu-Meson Archives Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $10 with supper.

Saturday 31st May
Sounds of Seduction
Goes Mondo Mod ride your Vesper and dust off your mini skirts, go-go boots and stove Pipe pants at Hermann’s Bar for groovy, funky dance floor action. You will be able to dance to the rarest grooves with the original crew Jay Katz, Miss Death, guest DJ’s and of course Go-Go action. Put on your dancing shoes and get on down, for a 60′s Go-Go frenzy. 9pm $10 Crn City Road and Butlins Ave.

Monday 2nd June
Raw Meat (1973)
The British police (led by character actor Donald Pleasence) follow a trail of tube station crimes and stumble upon a group of former subway construction workers who were trapped in a tunnel collapse during the Victorian era. Those who survived resort to extreme measures, including cannibalism–and now they must be stopped.
Annandale Hotel 7.30 Donation

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone +61 2 9517-2010

Annandale Hotel at 17 Parramatta Rd Annandale. +61 2 Ph 9550-1078

Hermann’s Bar Crn City Road and Butlins Ave, opposite main gate Sydney University, Wentworth Building

Ban the Bombs

Cluster bombs are weapons that break up in mid air to litter the ground with mini-bombs, some of which remain unexploded for years awaiting innocent civilians. But as the international community meets in Dublin to ban them, the Australian Government is going out of its way to frustrate the process.

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives and limbs, mainly children from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. But our Government is trying to water down the treaty that could ban them.

They’re hoping this issue will slip under the radar without anyone noticing – but the stakes are simply too high to ignore. We need a strong international treaty to prevent horrors like those experienced as a result of land mines, and that decision is being made right now in Dublin. Join me (Kent Holloway) in banning the bombs:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/BanTheBombs

Ugly American, New Works by Chet Zar

If anyone is familiar with monsters, it is American artist Chet Zar. He explores them every day. They are part of his life, both professional and private. As a designer, special effects make-up artist, sculptor, and 3D animator for major Hollywood studios and rock bands such as Tool, he sketches, creates and builds them on a day to day basis – if you know the movies Hellboy, The X-Men, The Ring, or the Oscarwinning Guillermo del Toro film Pan’s Labyrinth, you have seen his creatures come alive.

As a painter, Zar portrays them as they are: ugly. When you look at Chet Zar’s paintings, you will realize an inescapable truth: We are the monsters.

Zar’s creations represent how we all occasionally feel on the inside but rarely admit to the outside world, and despite their ugliness, his monsters retain a certain degree of sensitivity, even humanity about them, a vulnerability that is unexpected and thus only discovered by those allowing themselves to look beyond the surface. The artist’s intimate relationship with his subjects is revealed by overcoming our own initial resistance: If we can move beyond our revulsion and dive into our – and Zar’s – subconscious, we may be surprised to find that ugliness does not ultimately have to lead to rejection. We may come to find that we feel compassion for these creatures who smoke, cry, smile, and play like humans – in short, we may discover the Other in ourselves.

Using different, more vivid colors than his usual earthy tones such as blue, purple and pink, Zar’s latest body of work titled Ugly American is politically motivated – as Zar says, the metaphorical Ugly American never looked uglier to the rest of the world. Thanks to the policies of the Bush administration, the once good standing the Americans enjoyed in the world community is gone.

Keeping this in mind, it seems only natural that the Ugly American show premiers in London and not his native Los Angeles, although the era of Bush’s tight grip on public American opinion has weakened significantly as his presidency is drawing to a certain close, and Zar’s criticism of current American politics would be more likely to find whole-hearted support than anything else.

Strychnin Gallery London – 65 Hanbury Street – London E1 5JP

Web: www.strychnin.com

How to start a flash mob

Simple guidelines for creating a Flash Mob or Cacophonous Event.

The potential of a flash mob is so high; it could be a chance for a variety of people to get together to do something meaning- like feed the homeless, or pick up trash.But, no. It becomes a complete waste of time: pillow fight or atm applause mob?

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Start-A-Flash-Mob/

Transpunk

Oh! Oh! Oh! I just LOVE yr GEEKGIRL blog!!!!

Maybe you wanna drop me a visit at:

http://transpunk.webeden.co.uk

It’s my new UK queercore, punk, riot grrrl, poetry, image…erm…project. Yes.

Hope this finds you happy and well.

Sarah aka Emmett from the UK

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SquatFest – The Anti-Tropfest Fest

Sunday night, Feb 17, 7:30pm. We are very excited about our exciting secret location! To find out where it is SMS the word “squat” to us on the day: 0400 881 144. And we will bounce back all the details!

About Squatfest:
SquatFest happens every year at the same date and time as TropFest. While the hopeful entrants for TropFest are fretting about whether they’ll get the chance to move up a rung in the Hollywood Sweatshop, artists and activists from ’round Australia are living it up, projecting films and videos in an inspiring squatted venue.

The adventures of Tim & Puma Mimi & Tim Leary’s entrance into the multiuser sarcophagus

Tim Leary would have loved this!! Presented by etoy and Tim & Puma Mimi. Gone from one dimension transmuted to another.

etoy’s MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS (a white cargo container at the entrance to ARCO pavilion 14) is where the art group etoy calls and reactivates a dead pioneer of the information age: Timothy Leary. He is the first MISSION ETERNITY TEST PILOT to enter the multiuser sarcophagus, and again the pioneer: other pilots will follow him.

In Madrid, 8g of Leary’s mortal remains will be integrated into his updated TERMINUS. This plug-shaped capsule stores the ashes of the MISSION ETERNITY PILOT after cremation and links it to digital remains such as personal data, voice samples, images, a post-mortem activity plan and more.

The ceremony held 16.02.2008 was public and accompanied by 4 etoy.AGENTS and a live act by TIM & PUMA MIMI from Zurich. http://www.myspace.com/timandpumamimi

Background to the etoy.ART-INVASION 2.0
http://www.etoy.com/blog/archive/2008/02/10/etoy-art-invasion-2-0.html