A town preserved in the amber of memory. Pine Point N.W.T. B:1963 D:1988
In the late 1980’s the Canadian Government announced its intention to shutter Pine Point, a mining town near the South shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. Pine Point’s 1800 residents were informed by letter that their town was to be wiped clean: its viable buildings sold, dismantled, and reassembled in far away towns; its less than viable buildings demolished and hauled away; its name removed from the map.
“Welcome to Pine Point” is an ‘interactive’ web documentary from the Vancouver advertising duo, The Goggles, otherwise known as Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons. Produced in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, with music by The Besnard Lakes.
Look me in the eye. Marina Abramović’s sensational “The Artist Is Present”. Read about it here. And here. And here. Beautiful still shots on MOMA’s own site, here.
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Film Fragment, “Two Girls Downtown Iowa 1973”
“A child à la carte.” The Procreative Dinner, an ephemeral work between art, science and gastronomy. Geneva, November 2009.
http://prune-art.com/en/
Long before Banksy there was Blek le Rat.
Dunno how the Prow missed this one. Blek le Rat and Up with Hush at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco til June 5, 2010.
Image courtesy of Swindle Magazine. Click here for Swindle’s interview with Blek.
Click here for a video interview with Blek.
“I’ll put the empire state building on your wall
For 24 hours glowing on your wall.”
John and Lou remember Andy.
