1. strange fruit

    December 28, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi
    death, extreme, photography, reality, USA

  2. Is Muscle Galaxy a Speechless Participant?

    December 7, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    body modification, discussion, extreme, media, USA



    >>> Thinking about starting an Arnold Schwarzenegger religion?

  3. Barn Owl – Heaviness of the Music

    December 6, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    music, performance, USA

    Thanks to Vincent Normand, I recently discovered the latest works of San Francisco duo Barn Owl. Give it a whirl!

    “At the beginning of all our shows I want to tell people not to get wrapped up with what we’re doing physically, but to listen with a different set of ears, to be open to what could happen just from listening to the music.” (…) “Drone can be used to answer questions that you couldn’t usually answer,” they say. “It’s a vehicle to enter the spiritual world from the physical and take something back.” (in Nada Mucho)

    The music enters your head and worms its way around, like acupuncture opening up energy channels.

    Check their myspace page HERE !

    Barn Owl – Light from the Mesa from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

  4. JACK FERVER’s RUMBLE GHOST: next week at PS122

    December 4, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    dance, performance, SB people, USA

    Ghosts can be scary, but the human psyche is scarier.

    Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphors–scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the pain sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages, abused children. In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind.

    Written and Choreographed by Jack Ferver.
    Performed by Benjamin Asriel, Reid Bartelme, Christian Coulson, Carlye Eckert, Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, Breanna O’Mara.
    Dramaturgy by Joshua Lubin-Levy.
    Original Score by Calder Kusmierski Singer.
    Costumes by Reid Bartelme.

    DEC 8th-DEC 12th

    Tickets can be purchased HERE !

  5. day of the dead

    December 1, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi
    body modification, performance, SB people, traveling, USA

    a little selection of images by our friend autumn.

  6. DESARROLLAR

    November 30, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi
    art, contemporary/modern art, dance, inspiration, performance, SB people, USA

    by Laura Schwamb and Makram Hamdan

    A gallery exhibition and solo performance at Center for Performance Research

    A collaboration of visual art and dance, the evening begins with a gallery exhibition of works by Laura Schwamb. Her videos, animated neon, and black and white images set the atmosphere for the performance. Her concept of having a human bridle fabricated was beautifully realized and made possible by Johnny Farah. The exhibition is followed by a solo performance in the main theater by Makram Hamdan. Using the show’s theme, conceived by Laura Schwamb, Makram Hamdan engages to push the limits of poetic control, visceral constraint, and physical endurance in a challenging semi-autobiographical performance based on memory.
    CPR – Center for Performance Research December 9, 10, and 11. 2010.

    Gallery exhibition opens at 7:00pm – Performance begins at 8pm – SHARP

  7. Prote Stari

    November 26, 2010
    by Jason Farrer
    fashion, USA
    Times I’ve sat in a throng of well bred blond American women while they’ve laughed out loud as Thom Browne delivers a taste of their own medicine on a silver spoon. Students of LFHS are no strangers to American old money aesthetics and never has Thom Browne failed to bring a crooked smile to my face as he replaced my adolescent ideas of subversive behavior with a flavor for inclusive provocation. Its no wonder that Thom Browne is a favorite of the far reaching staff of Sang Bleu. As many recent New York designers plunder thru countless tiresome references of anti-social youth culture to farm their too cool for school image, Thom Browne triumphs as the American designer holding a rear view mirror to the traditional dress of the upper echelons of a nation both impatient and proud. Built on the back of blue blood love of quality and educated nuances of subtle style statements, the house has single handedly provided the resounding laugh track for a nation on its own fast track to success without digressing from the craftsmanship revered by the conservative class. Mr. Browne’s punch line is further punctuated by the fact that he is the man entrusted to uncrust the lusted over Brooks Brothers label. The all American ability to knowingly deliver the goods as well as a heavy dose of anecdote may be the reason Mr. Browne is so doted on.
    His first womens’ collection was recently launched under the radar and we would just like to take this seasonal opportunity to extend a Thank You to the man who truly understands work ethic and esthétique of the New World. The first outing of the Thom Browne woman not only boasts the  juxtaposition of traditional fabrications remixed with the kind of humor we’ve come to expect, she demands that we reflect on his talent for proportional play. These kinds of gross exaggerations haven’t seen the light of day since another American great, Andre Walker coyly sent his voluminous skirts down the Parisian runway with white Brooks Brothers’ button downs back in ’93 as a self referencing ’83 throwback.


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    noun

    an upper- or middle-class American white Protestant, considered to be a member of the most powerful group in society.

    DERIVATIVES

    Waspish adjective

    Waspy adjective

    ORIGIN 1950s: acronym from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.