Style is what remains once chaos put you down #21 (Brits do not know how to cook but can teach magic steps of dances)

"The key dance moves that make men attractive to women have been discovered by psychologists at Northumbria University.
(...)
“We now know which area of the body females are looking at when they are making a judgement about male dance attractiveness. If a man knows what the key moves are, he can get some training and improve his chances of attracting a female through his dance style.”
Click on the click to be led to the academic videos & use in conscience your weapon of choice.
(Picture: Verdi's opera 'Aida', Geneva, 2002)

Please, Sin & populate with me the Former World #108

Homo Touristicus in il museo permanente della globalizzazzione #5

Prolific artist designing new pieces of the Paris' museum: Aleksandra Mir, 'Plane landing' (2003).

Sad announcement for angels in tuxedo:

The European Court of Justice could soon decide the municipality of Maastricht is right to prohibit the admission to ‘coffee shops’ of persons not resident in the Netherlands.
An opinion of the Advocate General was proposing this view to the European judges on 15 July.
Discrimination between consumers of haschich/pot/... would become for the first time lawful in Holland (i.e. in Europe).
All of this, of course, to fight against "drug tourism"'s disorders and illicit trade in narcotics "in the EU" (read "in the Netherlands"); the prohibition however- under due rules of economy- will make prices stiffer, products more desirable and illicit traffic's frequency in Europe higher. One might call that a counterproductive effect.
Next step: Amsterdam's lights closed to non-Netherland citizens?
To be continued.

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #52

Niobe & her children (punished by Zeus for hubris), Villa Médicis, Roma, as gathered by Balthus.

Je mets dans mes peintures la lumière qui manque à mon pays #51

Back from Douarnenez
& son festival annuel des films de ce qui reste sur scène quand le bruit global a cessé
Où dans un concert de consciences
Moins comprimées
En vacances d’empressements
A l’affût des trames
Jetées volontairement sur les géographies de l’Arrière-Monde
Le vertige horizontal trace alors sa route
Chemine sous les paupières du réel
Emprunte ses labyrinthes
Et l’acculturation des Busi-Nenge tremblote du fleuve Maroni jusqu’ici
Et le massacre silencieux des Karen tremblote des plaines birmanes jusqu’ici
Et Port-au-Prince tremblote sur l’échelle de Richter jusqu’ici
Lentement
Calmement
Aux abords de la chaise en plastique
Sans le soulagement d’un slogan
Sans correction d’impuissance
Réaménage le royaume des images
Où le soir venu les carabins des Caraïbes rythme le Malgré-Tout sur la place du fest-ty-val
Secousse le désir malmené par ce qui reste sur scène quand le bruit global a cessé
Où l’amitié attablée, amzer zo, met du beurre salé dans l’éternité de son sentiment
En remet encore un peu pour être sûr
A Douarnénèze
Où les strings coincés dans la Pomme d’Amour ont difficilement pris mode mais où, gast, la rencontre concupisce sans complexe (bières et capotes 100% bio)
Où, ma doué, à coups de soleils noirs, le shit - encens de la nuit- époumone le Uno
Avant la rentrée vers les coups d’Assomoire de la iLangue et de la ePolitique portés sur la mémoire

Please, Sin as if the unbearable lightness of being was possible for more than five minutes #107

(Picture: Brusqu'elles + PhotoFunia's frame)

Style is what remains once chaos put you down #20 (Middle East Gods might share a different view on chance of peace than John Lennon)

The homo ludens, the internet's industry & the European Union #2

The idea is accepted that the Homo Ludens has per se no future in market economy's rules.
But how public the idea should be?
Euractiv reports that in some international negotiations between the EU and the US on this type of issue, the US have a taste for the dark side of the force.
More precisely, the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is a draft agreement that has - many times- roused suspicions among Internet lobby groups in the EU who fear that the deal will allow any government "to come down as hard on peer-to-peer file sharing as they would on commercial piracy".
A homo ludens deprived from his addiction to free peer-to-peer in the name of the eFight against ePiracy? Ah. The principle is obviously more or less easy to accept by public authorities according to the secrecy of its negotiation. Click here to be clicked to the unveiling.

Homo Touristicus in il museo permanente della globalizzazzione #4

Oui je suis un nègre-tempête
Un nègre racine d'arc-en-ciel
Mon coeur se serre comme un poing
Pour frapper au visage les faux dieux
Au bout de ma tristesse
Il y a des griffes qui poussent
Je fais sauter mes ténèbres
En mille matins de lions.
La foudre sur vos toits, c'est moi!
Le vent qui brise tout, c'est moi!
Le virus qui ne pardonne pas, c'est moi!
Les désastres à la Bourse, c'est moi!
De bon coeur mon soleil signe tous vos fléaux!
Je suis une petite fille
Qui traverse un torrent de fiel
Chaque matin pour se rendre à l'école!
Et tel le pasteur noir qui remue
Les cendres encore vives de son église
Je remue les légendes de ma vie
Je ne bâtirai pas de nouveau temple
Je fais sauter ma peur
Je fais exploser ma biologie
En pluie d'étoiles sur vos têtes
Vos chiens je suis venu les empailler
Je suis venu empailler vos lois féroces
Je vais garder dans l'alcool vos prières
Vos ruses vos tabous vos histoires de blancs!
Et la couronne d'épines dont vous êtes si fiers
Je la pose sur la tête de mon ours savant
Tous les deux nous monterons
Dans le prochain avion pour Londres
Paris Rome Madrid Lisbonne Bruxelles
Toronto Los Angeles Miami Le Cap Sydney
Le monde verra ce que vous avez fait
De l'homme qui pleurait sous les oliviers!

René Depestre, Un arc-en-ciel pour l'Occident chrétien, Prélude (1967).

(In apparence, an American answer to René Depestre from Glenn Ligon, Gold No Room #40, 2007 - as currently displayed in Santiago de Compostella in the 'Black Atlantic' exhibition of the modern art museum. The Depestre's strength is obviously in the transcendance of his geography and in his claimed position of a lucid but unified history; this strength mainly roots in poetry; this strength was contained and promised in the French-speaking artistic movement of 'Négritude' in the 30's which was hardly transposable and transposed in the USA. To be a 'nègre-tempête' (literaly a 'storm-niger') is rooted in the Antilles islands but offers a universal condition, even after 1967; that is clearly what Glenn Ligon in his painting reports to be impossible to experience in the US, even in 2007.)

It is time to take a Rabelaisian break: Brusqu'elles is on vacation for the rest of the month.
See you all in September,
Pax tecum,
B.(Pictures: Brusqu'elles, Galicia, Spain; Gent, Belgium; Galicia, Spain)

XXIst century's icons & myths mapping our daily roaming en el Laberinto de la soledad #40 (I should have cancelled my subscription to the cable)

Please, be my Golem, rise from the fallen wastes of the collective internet & stroll onto the paths of my indetermination #109

The Brusqu'elles' taste for blurred boundaries and pixelled memories has been fulfilled by Takeo Magruder with his clever representation of what is an Encoded Presence (no downloading, only on display) and by Ivan Chabanaud who perfectly sumps up the art of memory and the memory of the art in Nudity (no downloading, only on display): this might be the first time that software in art is not only a gimmick but finally a mastered tool for poetry.

Please, Sin louder & take that innocent whistling away #108

British artist: Miranda Whall.

XXIst century's icons & myths mapping our daily roaming en el Laberinto de la soledad #39 (Me & my car)

British artist Daniel Dewar & French artist Grégory Gicquel: MASON MASSACRE, 2008, Sculpture en marbre de Castelnou, Château de Fontainebleau, France, 2008 (Photo André Morin).

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #50

French photographer: Edouard Leve.

Style is what remains once chaos put you down #19

"little ladies more
than dead exactly dance
in my head,precisely
dance where danced la guerre.

Mimi à
la voix fragile
qui chatouille Des
Italiens

the putain à la gorge d'ivoire
Marie-Louise Lallemand
n'est-ce pas que je suis belle
chéri? les anglais m'aiment
tous,les américains
aussi... "bon dos, bon cul de Paris" (Marie
Vierge
Priez
Pour
Nous)

avec les
longues lèvres de
Lucienne qui pendent
les hommes vieux et les
chauds se promènent
doucement le soir(ladies
assurément mortes les anglais
sont gentils et les américains
aussi,ils payent bien les américains dansent

exactement dans mon cerveau voulez-
vous coucher avec
moi? Non? pourquoi?)

ladies habilement
mortes précisément dansent
ou a dansé la
guerre j'm'appelle
Manon,cinq rue Henri Monnier
voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
te ferai Mimi
te ferai Minette
dead exactly dance
si vous voulez
chatouiller
mon léazrd ladies tout à coup
j'm'en fous des nègres

(in the twilight of Paris
Marie-Louise aux jambes de
reine cinq rue Henri
Monnier un little love
quémande,Mimi au corps
comme une boîte à joujoux,want nice sleep?
toutes les petites femmes exactes
qui dansent toujours in my
head dis-donc,Paris
ta gorge mystérieuse
pourquoi se promène-t-elle,pourquoi
éclate ta voix
fragile couleur de pivoine?)
with the

long lips of Lucienne which
dangle the old men and hot men
precisely dance in my head
ladies carefully dead"

E.E. Cummings, La Guerre, IV, 1937.

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #49 (My self is an addition of self-images)

Fantastic photographer (living in Canada but working within various boundaries): Pedro Isztin.

Epiphany is hard Labour too #53 (My self is an addition of self-images)

South-Korean artist: Gwon Osang.

About the sculptures of photographs, his site claims that:

"From the modern gaze of Charles Pierre-Baudelaire to the simulacra of Jean Baudrillard, the photographic media rule over the modern city as the primary force underlying all visual concepts. Photography embodies the will to arrest the transient moment in time which has in turn, made it the very media to completely transform our conception of the visual field with its capability to separate image from reality.(...)

“In sculpture, we sculpt an object and cast it into plaster which is no different from the process of developing negatives in film. Also, the process of re-making the original object from the plaster cast is parallel to the printing process in photography.".

Homo touristicus in il museo permanente della globalizzazione #3

Paintor: Marco Zamora.

Annonce:

« L'homme est malade parce qu'il est mal construit. Il faut se décider à le mettre à nu pour lui gratter cet animalcule qui le démange mortellement, dieu, et avec dieu ses organes. Car liez-moi si vous voulez, mais il n'y a rien de plus inutile qu'un organe. Lorsque vous lui aurez fait un corps sans organes, alors vous l'aurez délivré de tous ses automatismes et rendu à sa véritable liberté. Alors vous lui réapprendrez à danser à l'envers comme dans le délire des bals musette et cet envers sera son véritable endroit », « Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu. »

A.A.

Œeuvres Complètes. XIII, p. 104.

Announcement:

"There's something behind the light". Click here to learn more.

Homo Touristicus in il museo permanente della globalizzazione #2

The pool of our secret dreams has been designed by Shelley Rose (to be confirmed). The map of our globalised holiday was picked up on the hysteric strike gently site; map's depictions regarding Middle East are still valid.

Epiphany is hard labour too #52

7400-MINI ANTELOPE, 1999, ALTERED TAXIDERMY, 8 x 16 x 14 INCHES; PHOTO CREDIT: EDMUND BARR. LOLA ISERN, 2001, ALTERED TAXIDERMY, 27 x 30 x 18 INCHES; PHOTO CREDIT: JOSHUA WHITE.
Los Angeles-based Artist: Carlee Fernandez.

XXIst century's icons & myths mapping our daily roaming en el Laberinto de la soledad #38 (Me & my car)

German artist: Rabea Eipperle, 'Unbekleidet mit auto', 2004.
(In my area, most of the drivers are from Poland of from Maghreb; still, the rationale is unsurprisingly the same).

Summer into summer #19

The anonymous pictures happily framed by Brusqu'elles have been mostly loaded from this gallery.
Old bonus: The hottest hetero video-clip of the summer in Spain is here (though the conclusion is tough).