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I scored a photo/press pass to go to the Detroit's Electronic Music Festival this year. I am super excited especially cause Phoenix will be doing video work on the old school industrial night and lots of my friends are participating and just visiting. Check out the list of artists. Wow! And Mutek is next week! Can't wait.  ~ Also Bryan is in Time Out this week.
Freaks come out at night
MAJOR KEYS Jan Jelinek hauls his sizable supply of synths to the Bunker.
Brush with fete
“It seems like everyone freaks out about the Winter Music Conference every year,” laments the Bunker’s DJ Spinoza, referring to the big dance-music clambake held annually in Miami. “But Detroit and Montreal get very little love.” He has a valid point. The WMC is basically a hooch-soaked hoedown where you might happen to hear some cool music, and all those open bars tend to attract the always-thirsty music press. But the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (a.k.a. Movement), which takes its inspiration from the Motor City’s status as the birthplace of techno, and Montreal’s MUTEK powwow, which focuses on minimal and experimental textures, have appreciation of music—rather than the search for free ethanol—as their raisons d’être. (Check out demf.com and mutek.ca for more on the events.)
This year’s DEMF runs from Saturday 27 through Monday 29; MUTEK kicks off Wednesday 31 and runs through June 4. But Spinoza isn’t waiting around. He’s invited two of electronic music’s finest—who happen to both be playing at the festivals—to the Bunker bash on Friday 26 as a local prelude to the two confabs. The fiesta features Zip, co-owner of the influential Perlon label, who makes rubbery microhouse with Sammy Dee as Pantytec and produces solo under the Dimbiman name. He’s also a superb DJ, which is a good thing, as that’s what he’ll be doing at the Bunker on Friday 26. And Spinoza’s scored a real coup by securing the services of one of the sound’s most celebrated figures, ~scape recording artist Jan Jelinek, who works in a myriad of styles under the Gramm and Farben monikers, among others. He’ll be performing a live version of his latest album, Kosmischer Pitch, with collaborators Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtman. The party will surely be packed, which raises a question: Why can’t New York have something equivalent to DEMF or MUTEK? The answer, according to Spinoza, is simple. “It’s just way too expensive,” he says, “to put all these artists up in hotels here.”
©2006 Time Out New York
OMG I just found the best photo group on Flickr! Insect Porn
I painted some Easter Eggs and took photos of them with my new macro lens. view my easter egg set on Flickr
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Please come to our Leftovers Easter Egg Hunt at Love this Sunday. I will be there with bunny ears on and we are hiding presents in the eggs.
I walked through the (truly disappointing) Whitney Biennial with my art dealer within an hour. We went to the fancypants opening together hoping to see something exciting but the only things I liked I had seen before at galleries in the past year. What a bummer.... I am going to go back to watch all the video and film works when it is less crowded.  Marilyn Minter Deep Throat, 2004 C-Print on Aluminum 93 x 127 cm Thu, Mar. 2nd, 2006, 02:45 pm
Touch it.
Here is an email I just got from Gregory:
Boy, 12, Sticks Gum on $1.5M Painting
When I was eleven I went on a school field trip to the same museum and touched Van Gogh's painting of the sailor. I mean that kind of texture just demanded my finger! It wasn't until I climbed atop of the Picasso sculpture that I was apprehended. But It was the same sculpture that had been on a TV commercial a year earlier, where all of the kids sang "you gotta have art" as they too sat atop it. Alas my commercial defense went no where with the security guards. Art should be touched goddamnit!
 Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Atmosphere
Red Dinner Menu (all vegan except for dessert) +fresh Raspberries appetizer +Salsa with Red Chips +Paul & Seze's Scarlet Salad radicchio, red romaine lettuce with dried cranberries, blood oranges, red onions, marinated beets, in a sweet black cherry balsamic dressing. +Creamy Tomato Soup +Whole Wheat Pasta with a fresh Tomato Sauce +Fruit Salad with Gran Marnier Liqueur +a variety of Red Wines +Chocolate Cake garnished with Strawberries +Pink Champagne Mimosas with Blood Orange juice And of course all the guests were adorned in all red outfits.
Tue, Feb. 7th, 2006, 06:47 pm
Hot.
 Here is some imaginary kitty torture by cute DJs Derek & Bryan. Why does this picture make me laugh so much? Mon, Feb. 6th, 2006, 05:23 pm
volunteer
Dog Walking and Cat Petting.
Brooklyn Animal Rescue Coalition's mission is to provide safe haven for homeless animals and find permanent, loving homes for these animals. We always need volunteers to help exercise our vast array of small to large dogs by walking them around our funky Williamsburg neighborhood and beautiful parks. Our cats also need to be fed, cleaned and socialized. Absolutely no long-term commitment required.
BARC Shelter, N. 1st and Wythe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Come anytime we are open (at least 1/2 before we close).
Monday-Saturday 11a-8p and Sunday noon-5p.
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