Cry Out - Theo Adams

CRY OUT (Trailer by Matthew Stone) - Presented by the Theo Adams Company from Theo Adams on Vimeo.

Theo Adams, a wunderkind director, performer, and visionary, has created a ground-breaking new kind of theatrical production with his Theo Adams Company. Their ambitious project combines queer cabaret, classical music, power ballads, and expressionist dance that promises to be a mesmerizing, mind-blowing experience. In a time when it seems like everything has been done over and over again, it’s refreshing to find someone who can think and create in such radically different terms.

The world premiere of ‘Cry Out’ will be Monday, November 30th in Tokyo, and it will be performed around the world throughout 2010. In each different city, they plan to collaborate with local performing artists to craft an inimitable presentation every time.

Theo Adams is a self-taught, 20 year old director, performer and visionary. Fresh from an epic collaboration with acclaimed photographer David Sims and W Magazine; His newly formed company of talented and passionate dancers, musicians, artists and performers are travelling from London to Tokyo to realise their most ambitious project to date.

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Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and at a moment when the economies all around the world are paying for the excesses of capitalism, Chasing Napoleon questions the gravity centre of our political lives and explores utopist landscapes of all kinds, from Hobbes’ state of nature to the influence of science fiction in Paul Laffoley’s work.

It also includes elements as different as Dieter Roth’s inventory of Reykjavik, Theodore Kaczynski’s anti-capitalist manifesto, Darth Vader and, of course…Napoleon Bonaparte, the ultimate political symbol.

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Showstudio Fashion Revolution at Somerset House

Blogs, Twitter, websites of all kinds… Our perception of fashion is changing. The fashion image is nowadays so much more than just the printed photograph.

Visionary photographer Nick Knight understood this 9 years ago and founded Showstudio, an innovative, interactive, imaginative and inspiring website.

Somerset House now hosts an exhibition showing some of Showstudio’s best works, created by Knight himself in collaboration with some of the biggest and most exciting personalities in fashion.

Nick Knight's 100 Portraits LIVE at Somerset House

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BHOPAL, 25 Years Ago

People walk past a statue of a mother holding a dead child in her arms in Bhopal, India, on November 18, 2009. Residents are bitter whenever they glance behind their homes toward the old Union Carbide factory, where a lethal plume of gas escaped from a storage tank in the early hours of December 3, 1984, killing thousands instantly. Survivors say the anniversary marks another year of physical and psychological trauma compounded by government and corporate negligence.

To this day, Dow Chemical (who bought Union Carbide) has refused to clean up, and whole new generations have been poisoned. For more information, please visit http://www.bhopal.org.

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Saturday Morning Me

saturday morning me//
still sipping on chai/wheat toast and honey/
grey sweats/grey hoodie/navy houseshoes/
listening: broadcast/
opium incense/two ivory candles glowing/
forecast: procrastination & naps/
but first: grocery shopping/salon stop/
so what about you?/

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Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures

Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures by Graham St John is the most wide-ranging and detailed of all the books on rave. More than the study of a musical movement or genre, Technomad offers an alternate history of cultural politics since the 1960s, from hippies and Acid Tests through the sound systems and 'vibe-tribes' of the 1990s and beyond. Like Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, Technomad makes unexpected but entirely convincing connections between people, movements and events. Like Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, St John's book introduces us to unknown heroes, committed geniuses and genuine revolutionaries. Beautifully written, with a genuinely international perspective on electronic dance music culture, Technomad is one of the best books on music I've read in some time."

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Just ordered it from Amazon. In paperback; hardback already sold out.

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Can You Really Shrink?

Have you ever heard someone say that they have shrunk over the years? When I'd heard that in the past I didn't believe it to be possible at all but it happened to my husband.

AND he regained his lost 3.5".

He lost 3.5" of height to put him back at an even 6'0" because of spinal problems. After surgery to rebuild the discs in his spine he's back to his full 6'3.5". So there is merit in the saying about people shrinking.

I still have to stand on my tiptoes to kiss him. :)

By the way, he continues to heal and is getting pretty good at using the walker around the house but it's hard on a man to be seen as needing aid or help so it's an emotional journey as well.

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organic food brands

"Which giant corporations own which "small" organic food brands? (2009 edition)" How much more clear they be? We have graphs that show us more and more about the crap that we are eating.

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More Lifelounge Goodness

Daphne Guinness (who is famous for being thin, stylish, marrying/divorcing a Greek shipping magnate and having tons of cashish) actually wore those McQueen shoes. This shit is outrageous. In a good way.

Where will the shoe pendulum swing next? Fashion takes such outrageous risks. You don't see many extreme looking oh, let's say, books or dinner ware or cars or buildings. Maybe a tad different but fashion is outrageously innovative and who doesn't love that rebellious attitude?

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Gabriel Wickbold Photography

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Saturday Morning Me

saturday morning me//
olive lounging pjs/multi headscarf/
scarf around neck/gold slippers/
coffee #2/wheat bagel w-brie/oj/
playing with gopi dots/
listening: sacred chants of devi/
forecast: work first & nap later/
so how about you?/

We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting. --Terence McKenna

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The RunnyBunny on Etsy

King Poodle, Skully, by the Runny Bunny.

From the website: "I have made this using two of my favorite old molds. The crown is hand formed. This piece is 11 1/2 inches long by 8 1/2 inches tall. This is made to order and will ship in 1-2 weeks."

Yay! Her creations make me happy and when I decide on which one(s) I want to buy I'll even be more happy. I like funny happy, not creepy weird.

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Another Suu Kyi Release Rumor? Or...

This rumor involves Barack Obama. And at an upcoming summit, he is going to for the first time publicly ask for her release.

Burma claims it will release Aung San Suu Kyi. link

Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Ong San Soo Chee), Burma’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate, symbolises the struggle of Burma's people to be free.

Although some of us have been yelling long and loud, right now, finally, The WORLD is watching.

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Designer Michel Berandi

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Michel Berandi and his clothes are a thing of beauty. And I like the influences that he's cited in the following interview.

What are some key experiences in your life that had shaped your point of view as a designer?

The Damned’s gig in London circa 1978/79. My first screening of Alejandro’s Jodorosky’s The Holy Mountain and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. Those provided compelling wallpaper for the mind, but my deepest key experiences are mostly literary.

Aldous Huxsley for precision, Allen Ginsberg for flow, William Blake for beauty, Ed Sanders for smartness & coolness, Anthony Burgess for linguistic joy, Fredrich Nietzsche for historical vision and Frank Zappa for weirdness. Issac Asimov and the Marquis de Sade remain perhaps my favorites overall. Read More »

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Handmade? It Looks Like You Made It With Your Feet

REGRETSY is an obvious spoof website on the popular craft site, ETSY.com, and I find it totally hysterical. I am seriously wiping away tears after seeing the stuffed twitter bird on their sidebar.

Now I buy things from Etsy quite often so I like what many of the people there do but there may be a few crafts that come up just a little short.

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She was 'like an angel'

Neda's mother: She was 'like an angel' - CNN.com

The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front."

"People go and write on her grave in red ink the word 'martyr,'" she said, "and then the authorities go and wipe it off." MORE »

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Quote Of The Day

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

~Steve Jobs

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Loving Sam Rockwell

To me Sam Rockwell can do no wrong. His acting jobs are very diverse in the many independent gems and bigger studio movies he appears in and he's always challenging himself. There are two movies out now that offer him up to us Rockwell fans.

From the team that brought us Napoleon Dynamite, comes Gentlemen Broncos. I hate to draw a broad conclusion because I've not seen the film but Sam Rockwell could be the best thing about this movie and that's good enough for me. See Trailer - (more...)

Benjamin (Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Coolidge), is a loner whose passion for writing leads him on an journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker.

The film, Moon, has been around the festival circuit and with limited release in the US in June 2009. The trailer was so intriguing I had to see it and fortunately was able to download the movie. (more...)

It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. His only companion is a robot named "Gertie" (voiced by Kevin Spacey).

N O T E W O R T H Y - Moon is directed by David Bowies son Duncan Jones. Did you know that there is a petition to get Sam an Oscar nomination for Moon? Click here.

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