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Monday, December 21, 2009

Swimming Cities

Swoon’s “Swimming Cities” project ranks for us as one of the most impressive art installations of the year, arguably the decade. An adventure like this [Swoon and her crew essentially constructed a vessels out of trash and hit the open sea] has an equally intriguing back-story...

"Life along the Hudson River was incredibly light and playful, and most unreal. Every day of the float was an adventure. We climbed the turreted castle walls of an old armory; we jumped from the rooftops of buildings flooded in a quarry. Moses and I took acid and had sex on a trampoline, laughing and bouncing for hours. The story climaxed when we reached Manhattan after 3 weeks on the water, and in one day, Ben went to jail for graffiti, Chicken went in the hospital with a near amputation, Mandy was admitted into a sanitarium, and as KSW partied in our boat docked around the corner from the final destination, the Deitch Projects, a gun was pointed at my head.

It was a cop; she asked if we were “a bunch of fuckin’ pirates?”
the whole story at...
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Features/swimming-cities-from-spys-perspective

Sunday, December 20, 2009

it snowed

Mos Def joins Gorillaz

In between a Blur reunion and several other projects, the always-busy Damon Albarn is also working on the next Gorillaz album. Dubbed Plastic Beach, the LP is set to feature Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Lou Reed, and several others. They will appear on what Albarn called "the most pop record I've ever made," according to an interview with the Guardian. It will certainly be interesting to hear exactly where he plans on taking this album. Gorillaz and Demon Days were very different from one another sonically, though both did contain elements of "pop" here and there -- "19-2000" and "DARE," respectively, for example. Plastic Beach is scheduled to drop in 2010.