Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A "ballsy critique of outsourcing, The Simpsons, and the standards and human rights conditions that people in first world nations accept"? - MTV

Banksy vs. The Simpsons from Room237 on Vimeo.

Yves Klein



Half shaman, half showman, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. An innovator who embraced painting, sculpture, performance, photography, music, theater, film, architecture, and theoretical writing, Klein was a precursor of many movements of the postwar avant-garde, including minimal art, conceptual art, land art, and performance art. He self-identified as “the painter of space,” seeking to achieve immaterial spirituality through pure color—primarily an ultramarine blue of his own invention, International Klein Blue. Through these and other experiments Klein aimed to reach “beyond the problematic in art” and rethink the world in spiritual and aesthetic terms, creating a pivotal transition between modern art’s concern with material objects and contemporary notions about the conceptual nature of art.


Category, By. "Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers." Walker Art Center - Calendar. Web. 13 Oct. 2010. .

Monday, October 4, 2010

American Gothic

Let Me In

Let the Right One In is a vampire fiction novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. It takes place in a suburb of Stockholm in the late 1980s, where a 12-year-old outcasted and bullied boy named Oskar befriends a distant and curious century-year-old vampire named Eli. The novel focuses on the darker side of humanity, taking on themes such as bullying, drugs, pedophilia, murder, prostitution, and the supernatural.


In 2008 the screenplay by Lindqvist was adapted into a romantic vampire film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The film quality highlights the cold darkness of Sweden beautifully and 11-year-old actor Lina Leandersson, who plays vampire Eli, adds a cool and refreshing front to vampire flicks. The film was highly praised and received numerous awards at various film festivals. It's international success sparked the American film adaptation that is being released this October titled Let Me In.