This is without a doubt amongst the best Flickr sets I’ve seen in a long time… try to counter that. From the set description: “Homegirl プリクラ is a collaboration between artists Rio Yañez and Mayra Ramirez. It is the next phase of Yañez’ art series examining the relationship between Japanese youth emulating Cholo and Chola culture and their counterparts in the United States. Homegirl Purikura reverses the appropriation of visual aesthetics and uses Japanese photobooths (Purikura) to create portraits of Cholas. The use of Purikura enables Yañez and Ramirez to create a hybrid visual presentation of portraits decorated in Chola cultural references but using uniquely Japanese visual tools to do so.”

IRL purikura! This is my dream come true.

Bonjour,
Nous vous invitons à venir découvrir le nouveau numéro de Novembre Magazine,

le
Jeudi 9 février 2012

de
18h00 à 21h00

à 19h00
Performance de Gilles Furtwängler

chez
Ribordy Contemporary
Boulevard d’Yvoy 7b
1205 Genève

A jeudi!

http://www.ribordycontemporary.com
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Novembre magazine event! Thursday the 9th of February 6-9pm

In 1973, France decided to celebrate Jean-Michel Jarre as the embodiment of national electronic music at the detriment of Igor Wakhevitch, who was too much of a satanist. Last Friday, Standard and Poor’s finally decided to downgrade France’s credit note.

No offense to Jarre’s fans but I see an evident causal relationship here.

As emo as it sounds, the weather was perfect yesterday to wander in the Père Lachaise cemetary;

SCIENTIST: Then we can’t really describe what we have named.

TEACHER: Any description would reify it.

SCHOLAR: Nevertheless it lets itself be named, and being named it can be thought about…

TEACHER: …only if thinking is no longer re-presenting.

SCIENTIST: But then what else should it be?

TEACHER: Perhaps we now are close to being released into the nature of thinking…

SCHOLAR: …through waiting for its nature.

TEACHER: Waiting, all right; but never awaiting, for awaiting already links itself with re-presenting and what is re-presented.

SCHOLAR: Waiting, however, lets go of that; or rather I should say that waiting lets re-presenting entirely alone. It really has no object.

SCIENTIST: Yet if we wait we always wait for something.

SCHOLAR: Certainly, but as soon as we re-present to ourselves and fix upon that for which we wait, we really wait no longer.

TEACHER: In waiting we leave open what we are waiting for.

SCHOLAR: Why?

TEACHER: Because waiting releases itself into openness…

SCHOLAR: …into the expanse of distance…

TEACHER: …in whose nearness it finds the abiding in which it remains.

 

(Extract from Blanchot’s L’attente l’oubli (1963) in The Infinite Conversation) 

a dog cannot lie

…

if a lion could speak we would not be able to understand what he said…why do i say such a thing?

…

what’s going on behind my words when i say: this is a very pleasant pineapple?
take your time.

…

we imagine the meaning of what we say say as something queer, mysterious, hidden from view…but nothing is hidden! everything is open to view!

you can’t know this pain, only i can!

it makes no sense to speak of knowing something in a context where we could not possibly doubt therefore to say i know i am in pain is entirely senseless

are you saying there are no philosophical problems?

there are linguistic, mathematical, ethical, logistic and religious problems but there are no genuine philosophical problems

you are trivializing philosophy

philosophy is just a byproduct of misunderstanding language. why don’t you realize that?!

from Derek Jarman, Wittgenstein (1993)