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'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik
Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik. Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.
A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.
Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Alfred Jarry
SEPTEMBER 8 — ALFRED JARRY
Inventor of ʼpataphysics, precursor of Dada & surrealism.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY. GRANDPARENTS DAY.
Marquesas, Polynesia: FEAST OF PAPA-IEA, God of Kava Drinking.
ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 8 IN HISTORY…
1784 — Shaker leader Mother Ann Lee dies, Watervliet, New York.
1873 — Pataphysician, proto-surrealist Alfred Jarry born, Laval, France.
1949 — Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco dies, Mexico City, Mexico.
1974 — U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon.
1974 — Evel Knievel jumps Snake River Canyon on a rocket motorcycle.
1977 — Blacklisted film comedian Zero Mostel dies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Karen Blixen
SEPTEMBER 7 — KAREN BLIXEN
Danish-born African-based writer of fantasy, decadence.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Hindu world: FESTIVAL OF DURGA, Goddess of Energy and the World.
ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 7 IN HISTORY…
1901 — Boxer Rebellion ends with Peace of Peking Treaty signing, China.
1909 — Psychoanalytic theorist Sigmund Freud begins U.S. lecture series.
1936 — American rock pioneer Buddy Holly born, Lubbock, Texas.
1940 — German blitz bombing of London, England begins.
1962 — Danish author Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) dies, Rungsted, Denmark.
1986 — Desmond Tutu named Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa.
'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik
Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik. Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.
A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.
Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Margaret Sanger
SEPTEMBER 6 — MARGARET SANGER
Sex reformer, birth-control advocate, feminist activist.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Oxford, England: ST. GILES FAIR, an 800-year old pleasure fest.
Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, England: THE HORN DANCE, an ancient
tradition wherein a troupe of 12 men — six with reindeer horns, others
with a hobby-horse, a man/woman Maid Marian, a fool, an archer, a
concertina player and a boy with a triangle around his neck — dress
as foresters. They dance 14 miles around the town boundaries
before the antler men do their long and strange horn dance, followed
by a pleasure fair which lasts late into the night.
ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 6 IN HISTORY…
1522 — Magellan’s ship completes first round-the-world voyage.
1566 — Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dies, Constantinople, Turkey.
1860 — Hull House founder, social activist Jane Addams born Cedarville, Illinois.
1901 — U.S. President William McKinley shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1941 — Jews in Nazi Germany are required to wear yellow Star of David badges.
1966 — Sex reformer, birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger dies, Tucson, Arizona.
1974 — Housing occupations & barricading in Rome lead to legalized squatting.
It's THE CRAMPS, baby!!!
Live CRAMPS at City Gardens (Trenton, NJ circa ’81 maybe ’82) show, courtesy the network of Cramps fans and the folks at Tequila Sunrise Records of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Original source is unknown.
“WHAT I GET FREE/YOU HAVE TO BUY”
Stream: [audio:’http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/07-Track-07.mp3%5D
Download: “Primitive” – The Cramps (live at City Gardens) (mp3)
September 12th, 15th and 22nd – Light Industry presents…
Above: Stills from the documentary Taiga by Ulrike Ottinger
Above: Still from Apocalypto Now by Jonathan Horowitz
Light Industry presents a series of films and lectures ranging from an eight-hour documentary by Ulrike Ottinger which follows reindeer nomads as they migrate across Mongolia (Taiga), to a screening of a mock-50s disaster movie that artist Jonathan Horowitz made entirely from found documentary and TV footage (Apocalypto Now), to a lecture by film critic Ed Halter on a small film company whose inspiring low-budget documentaries explore “Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, the Bermuda Triangle, life after death, UFOs” and the possibility that “extraterrestrial travelers came to earth in prehistoric times to teach technology to our ancestors and create civilization.”
220 36th Street, 5th Floor / Brooklyn, New York 11232
$7 at door
See below for show times:
Taiga
Ulrike Ottinger, 16mm, 1991/2, 501 mins
Presented by Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 1:00pm“Taiga is Ulrike Ottinger’s eight-hour documentary film on life in Northern Mongolia, a journey to the yak and reindeer nomads. For this presentation at Light Industry, we will watch the film in its entirety. Food will be served, but please also bring things to share. Attempts and interpretations of the region’s cuisine are encouraged–yak butter and various ferments? English translations of the transcript will be provided to the audience to read along.
Next year, I will travel to the Mongolian wild steppe with an entourage of women tracing the tracks of Ottinger’s journey in Johanna D’Arc of Monglia. This screening will be an introduction to the trip.” – GBT
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A Rooftop Farm grows in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Rooftop Farms is an organic vegetable farm located on the roof of an industrial warehouse in northern Greenpoint, Brooklyn. If you live in or around the neighborhood this your chance to get involved in a project that would make Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser proud (whose designs feature “a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows.”)
Above: Hundertwasser
Every Sunday the farmers open their rooftop to the community and set up a stand to sell their produce (eggplant, kale, lettuce, beans, tomatoes and more). Read on below for more info, and check their website for updates on weekly events.
Hello,
Visit our Farm Stand on Sundays, from 10am-4pm. To find the Farm,
walk down Eagle past Franklin towards the East River, and look for
our sign (and open door).Volunteers: On Sundays from 9am-4pm, we accept volunteers on our
Rooftop. Once you’re on the mass email list (with our address),
you’re good to go! We can only take a limited number of people on the
Roof at a time, so be prepared to take a break in the shade while
everyone gets to farm. Your support is much appreciated!Sundays, free 2pm workshop: Learn more about our green roof and how to
grow your own vegetables in the city. Topics change with the season,
but the session is always free & open!Farm Education: If you’re a school, organization or group, contact
growingchefs@gmail.com to schedule your visit.Thanks!
Annie N. & Ben F.
Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Tom Lyttle
SEPTEMBER 5 — TOM LYTTLE
Cybernaut author, publisher, gourmet chef, conspiratologist.
Tom Lyttle, Easy Rider Redux. Printed on non-impregnated blotter paper. Signed by Peter Fonda.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Ancient Rome: CIRCENSIAN GAMES in the Roman Circus, originally
a one-day event of athletic competitions which grew
to a week-long festival with many entertainments.
ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 5 IN HISTORY…
1569 — Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder dies, Brussels, Belgium.
1791 — Masonic conspirator, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies, Prague.
1877 — Great Sioux war chief Crazy Horse murdered by U.S. soldiers, Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
1912 — Anarcho-musicologist John Cage born, Los Angeles, California.
1964 — “Rebel Girl” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn dies, Moscow, USSR.
2008 — Psychedelics researcher Tom Lyttle dies, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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