Jerri Blank

dom_jerriblank, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

It's amazing how America's Next Top Model accepted the application from one Ms Jerri Blank. She's about 54, spent over 30 years behind bars and is a user, a boozer and a loser. Wow. She looks good though and takes beautiful photographs. The camera loves her. Or something.
Rich over at fourfour.typepad.com has chronicled the rise and fall of Ms Dominique. She is crazy and crazy got her into the top 4, which just goes to show that it's a reality show and not a proper modeling show. Not that this in itself detracts from the enjoyability of the show. It wouldn't be interesting if not for loons like Dom Dom. Two servings of Katarazyna would be two too many. Anyway. Enjoy the Wiener. Winner. Whatever.

fortress of solitude

Superman lives in the fortress of solitude, a structure of crystals in the Antarctic or the Arctic. Depending on what comic book, film or online encyclopedia you read. The building rose out of the icy waters and long crystal rods forms the angular structure. Which reminds me of how the new opera house in Oslo looks like. Coming out of the water at a low angle, stretching high towards the hills in the background.






Both buildings are monumental and the human scale is too small for most parts of the building. Snøhetta, the architects of the Opera house, have made some gestures to incorporate the human body into the building, to make the new opera house more inviting. The small bridge that leads over to the marble blanket that envelopes the whole building and the lowered roof of the entrance.




Superman also offers fine dining inside his fortress. Not so solitary after all! The opera does the same and seats patrons inside the main foyer. Lois Lane might not be happy, sharing superman, but it kinda looks the same.


Some of the colors are also similar. The crystals and ice are like the marble and glass used in Snøhetta's fortress of Solitude. The green color of Kryptonite is present in Olafur Eliasson's commissioned work in the foyer. Pulsating slowly up and down the walls, kind of like Kryptonite!

LOL MODELS

LOLvogueTHREE051208, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

I'm not too good at his LOL spelling, but the girls at jezebel are. Thank the lord. Finally something funny after months and months of unfunny LOLCATS. Can i haz pretty?

Nodeth T Vang

PATRICK with paper hat, originally uploaded by nodeth.

I love this guy. and his photos.
give us some more!
Fight the good fight and let people see more gorgeous boys.
Not photographed by Paul Sepuya.
Here's to diversity!

ANTM CYCLE 10

The next to go......., originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

Dude, this is a model??
Well, she is a model on TV. For now. I have a sneaking suspicion that Loony Lauren will be facing Tyra's elimination put down pretty soon. And it will be down to Lauren's lack of something. "this girl who takes beautiful photos, but doesn't look like a model."
My favorite girls never make it that far. Heather made it overseas. Lauren did as well, but it's arrivederci for Lauren next week. Whitney will be the plus-sized girl that will go the furthest, but she will get the boot too. Dominique will be kicked off for looking too old. Which she does, but Tyra and her boys were responsible for picking her in the first place. Logic is not part of the game, so just throw that out the door. Sense.
Anya might win. She's already been paid 10 000 dollars for a job, which was a first for ANTM. A real job with real pay.
Kata? Fatima? Nah.

Thank God there is no Saleisha on this time. ANTM would've been dead to me if they repeated the over-scripted shitty Sal scenario.

And why do I care so much?

Yo soy noruego

I'm Norwegian. And I'm in Norway. It's a small country, but yet has a large amount of tragically weird people that annoy me. It takes one to know one. This link is only for the people out there who can read Scandinavian. It's one example of how annoying people can be.


Think about it. I know I didn't.

Skipping is underrated

When it takes a promotional tool for me to like the first single from Madonna's new album, I'm left suspicious and feeling slightly used. But I like being used, so what te hoolahey?

Four minutes to save the world from a black crystaline structure that eats it's way through a soundstage??
I'm dying to see a HQ version of the video. Youtube doesn't really do it for me. Not in the way that xtube does it for me. That's for sure.

The video got me at the part where Madonna pushes the car. On a rug. And walks into a family's dining table. Quirky and artsy.
The choreography is also something to note in the video. There's regular dance stuff going on, but the skipping bits are amazing. Skipping is underrated.

Great video by Jonas & François.

ACNE PAPER 6 is out and about

issue_6, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

I did an interview with assume vivid astro focus for the 'exotic' issue, seeing as antiropa veli anapotreptis figis is all about the dissemination of culture through infection. There's a lot of other good stories in the new issue and, as always, a lot of great photography!
I love magazines!

SLK48RP

SLK48RP, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

at the cock. on wednesday. nils bech. scott hug. michael magnan. telfar clemens. 2nd and 2nd.

DO IT.

that's what I'm talking about

SFU-pyramid, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

yes to the Jägermeister, the whiskey, the tequila, champagne, red meat, white wine, beer and pop corn. Not too far away from my food-pyramid. Add chocolate and cheese and that would be pretty much it. Oh, and ginger ale for the tequila and whiskey.
Maybe sparks as well, but I've been through withdrawal for that already. Sparks plus. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Fuck my diet, fuck my liver, fuck me.

words to live by.

politics

jens stoltenberg, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

prime minister? or prime rib? Norway's current prime minister posed for a story in Dagbladet about the changing role of men in society. In the 80s. Men could still be macho and tough, but also do chores around the house. The chore photo wasn't all that, so I was left with the weights. Like 10 lbs or something. What a weakling.
Anyway. Jens Stoltenberg. Grew up with politics. His sister, Nini/Ninni Stoltenberg has also been in the spotlight for raising awareness about narcotics and Norway's policy on drugs. A drug user herself, she has been very vocal in giving drug users a face and also expose the hardships of being one. Jens should help out more. Not in the kitchen, but in politics.

Freedom is precious

L1010451, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

this list of precious people is uncanny. Precious Jane Krakowski? The actress from Ally McBeal and 30 Rock? She sure is precious, but as precious as Bush? is her bush precious? Goodnes.. Memory is beauty, freedom precious.

kooky

L1010452, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

Scott or Michael, I can't remember which one, found this postcard in NYC.
Together with the note above. Crazy people make the best designers.

LES ARTISTES

santogoldles360, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

please watch this new video from Santogold.
click here to watch Santogold's extraordinary 'LES Artistes' video in a world exclusive capacity.

No to fashion

vr, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

what about ok to fashion?

photoshop 101

01-tyra, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

ok, so Tyra decided to lose some weight after her "kiss my fat ass" call to arms on the Tyra Banks Show. Because instead of Oldie Hawn as a guest judge, Tyra would be judged and compared to Paulina Porizkova. Ty-ty went all live-it. Livid? No, a LIVE-IT. A DIE-IT is all negative and shizz. The first challenge was homeless-bum-chic and Tyra went all Living in a box, I'm living in a cardboard box on us. I haven't seen the episode yet. That will wait until youtube Sunday. with Karl. And maybe Nils, who I've managed to hook on cycle 10. Easy.

queen-i-can-has-tea

queen-i-can-has-tea, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

ok, so if cats and dogs can haz cheezburgah, so can the queenz.
My sister and I used to do this as kids, but usually english words written out in norwegian sounds. And usually names of characters from Dynasty. Blake would be bleik. which means pale.
at least spelling has become relative. thank god.

3 of you

3ofyou, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

the movie based on our adventures in NY. They cast some horrendous actors to play our parts, but that's ok. It worked out in the end, in a kind of brechtian way. Thank God for editing.
This was supposed to be the set of the IRC Dethkillers show, which was held in an old garage in the fashion district. This is just a studio back-lot. I hate it when they try to do "NYC" in LA. Anyway,,,,Regine Mowill was played by Anna Kiwasawa, Anne Koch was played by Roberta Haddon and Geir Haraldseth was played by Joshua Dirk. I think that's a stagename.
Anyway, the movie is currently being shopped around for distribution. If you know anyone interested???

He is 20 and angry

look69, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

that was what the casting agents for Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) told the Italian director after spotting Mark Frechette at a bus-stop in Boston. Frechette starred with Daria Halprin in the movie, summing up the state of American counterculture. The movie is beautiful and could best be described as a trip. really. Part road-movie, part nonsense.
Panned by critics and audiences, the follow-up to Blowup (1966) was no Blowup (ha!).
Mark and Daria went back to the commune Frechette had left to shoot the movie, and Mark put all his earnings from the movie into the commune, $60.000. Halprin left without blowing up anything like her character, Daria, does in Zabriskie Point.
Frechette was arrested and incarcerated in 1973 after a failed bank robbery where one his fellow commune dwellers was killed. Frechette died in prison in 1976, asphyxiated in the gym, found pinned under a weightlifting bar.

The watchful eye of Arthur Russell

The watchful eye of Arthur Russell, originally uploaded by thefuturistics.

I couldn't sleep last night. Blame it on jetlag. Or stress. Whatever. I popped in the dvd from the rerelease of Arthur Russell's World of Echo and watched him perform two songs. The recording was done Phill Niblock in New York in 1986 at Experimental Intermedia.
The songs on the DVD are "Terrace Of Unintelligibility" and "Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things AKA Lost In The Meshes"
The camera sweeps close to Arthur's face, his chello, the back of his head and so on. Only close-ups. There's a projection in the background producing subtle colors reflecting on arthur and the cello.