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Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Sunday Video: The Residents

As promised last week, due to my laziness, this week’s Sunday Video is by The Residents.  The group has remained anonymous for more than thirty years, and continues to develop some of the strangest and interesting performances in rock music. The Residents – One-Minute Movies. This post was contributed by Bob Snead.

Jet Set Saturdays: Miami Hiatus

Susan Lee-Chun, Screen Capture from Suz-ercize (from Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom). Image courtesy of David Castillo Gallery. Our Jet Setters are in Miami this week on mass for the opening “Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom” at David Castillo Gallery. Curated by our very own West Coast Editor, Annie [...]

Welcome to the world of Chatroulette

Image credit. Thanks to my friend setting their GMAIL status as the link to a website, I was exposed to what is in my opinion the powerful cultural experiment called Chatroulette. Essentially, the site is a place to video chat people from around the world, but unlike most chat programs in the Chatroulette world you [...]

The Sunday Video: JohN’s Birthday Party

Monday was my birthday, so I thought for this week’s Sunday Video I would focus on a song by The Residents, a longtime experimental art collective/ rock band that tops my list of faves. But the song, Birthday Boy doesn’t have a real video (besides the fan videos on YouTube) and it’s really hard for [...]

2.20.2010 at Twenty Twenty Projects

2.20.2010 installation view. Image courtesy of the artists and Twenty Twenty Projects. Interspersed within the perceptual mechanisms by which we account for tangible reality we humans are reputed to possess a number of latent faculties, their fruits often discredited as mere superstitions, which when developed can facilitate skills that open whole other worlds. Irrespective of [...]