EVERY TRIUMPH COMES AT A COST.

The Priest said to me today, on Palm Sunday, that "every triumph comes at a cost". I immediately set out to compose my new Blog (yes, this one. so you wanna comment about your OWN personal war and its costs he/me asked himself?)

YES.

Let's begin, with the word- War? ... He/Me entered this exhibition with a slurred gait (DEFINITION: gait is the way locomotion is achieved using human limbs. I kinda strutted into the museum that is photographed above in this Blog = Duh, LOOK UP AT THE PICS THAT I ATTACHED). Wondering: Jane, will there be anythin' here worth your Saturday's while? Every time I (me) goes to a show (meaning when I force myself to go an exhibition with my old student ID that I use for a/MY FREE OF CHARGE ticket) I leave with an inspired glow. My “gait” expands itself. I end up walking "WIDE-OPEN" (Think to yourself SPREAD EAGLE, like i just got off of a horse).

The works here (German Expressionism) were primarily based on the effects WAR has on the creative person. Have you been AT WAR? I feel that WAR does not always require a machine gun stockpile. WAR can be any kind of PERSONAL battle that drags on pointlessly to create havoc, disorder and most importantly to satisfy the insatiable hunger of the selfish EGO's soul. WAR= I WILL GET WHAT I WANT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. For every artistic soul, WAR is a corrupt nightmare.

WAR scrapes against the very human grain.

And so does GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM. The swervy non perfect lines.

The prostitutes were drawn from exceptionally high angles (artist would climb up on furniture to distort "perspective"!

The use of pens, pencils, cardboard, everything and anything (except mortar).

I did find some interesting ideas for my upcoming work.

I am more interested now in distorting the general idea of how we see the filmed human face.

My brain wheels are spinning.

There was nothing particularly “funny” about any of the works that I experienced in this exhibition. I now know with certainty that I will now spread my humorous natural JANEY gait with fine caution. I will walk the “funny narrative line” carefully.

FOOTNOTE: OTTO DIX's drawings were/are amazing !!!

CLICK ON LINK FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION CRITIQUE/DETAILS-

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/design/german-expressionism-the-graphic-impulse-at-moma-review.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Me & Amy Goodman bitchin' bout da "SYSTEM" !!!

This writer met with NPR/ PACIFICA RADIO icon journalist AMY GOODMAN. Why? ummmm, why you ask me?

-let's just keep this blog very simple. and say that we very innocently decided to share our thoughts about "the system"

(it was a VERY productive dialogue)

Are we working on a project together you wonder? SHHHHHHHHHH!!!

luv,

ME

xoxo

p.s. We decided to NOT crash and get "arrested" at any Republican Tea Party. We kept things simple. Screw tea, we did LATTES.

p.s.s. here's a link to some recent NPR funding news! :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/npr-public-television-wont-get-budget-ax/2011/04/12/AF5CtwSD_story.html

Coffee: Yay or Nay ? That's the Question.

This is what He (meaning ME) looks like when contemplating a few coffee trivia thingys:

1) do I (meaning ME) have the energy or desire to drive to a supermarket to get coffee (HE/ME ran out and that will be a problem in the morning).

2) does (meaning I, which is the same as ME) HE have enough money to get the coffeee, and how much will the coffee cost, and should I go to a fun place to buy it or a simple cheap place that may be running a pathetic cheap sale...

SOLUTION WAS:

Bought coffee. a little over 3 dollars. took cell-fone portraits to document the trivial "condition".

GOODBYE.

Use these pics for your cellphone Desktop Display!

I rule. DUH! WINNING (oh yeah, i bought CHOCK FULL O' NUTS, btw).

xoxoxo

The "Soul Surfer" Bethany movie.

I am still moved by the film. Saw it last night. Expected less, got "more". The film was very well done, had a good balance of triumph and catastrophe. Moved me to tears a few times. The shark scene was perfectly edited: fast, effective, horrific, enlightening. I left the theatre thinking/knowing that the girl who remains surfing in the water is a true life hero (and NOT simply a survivor).

me
xo

p.s. I didn't get popcorn and/or a large soda with xtra-ice and the movie STILL worked. So, there's your JANEY Thumbs-Up guarantee that it's good.

Rehearsals for GIRLSTORIES (in ASL, American Sign Language)

rehearsals. film preparations. I'm exhausted. He (i.e. I) put this up here before going to bed.

bye for now.

xo

p.s. click on the PLAY button above to see the fun...DUH

Anna Politkovskaya "is journalism worth dying for": New bio book release

Rest in Peace . Murdered (shot) by her own government (Russia).

Her creative fight to expose Russian government deceit via her writing had a value cost: her life.

Her new posthumous biography (containing the various articles that she managed to get published despite many years of death threats) reminded me of the importance of living one's life for things that are greater than oneself.

me

xo

Thank God! Finally !!!!! You GO Frances !!!!!

http://www.tmz.com/2010/04/10/frances-bean-cobian-courtney-love-guardianship/

JUSTICE IS SERVED !!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!! AND GOD BLESS FRANCES !!!!

Kurt, from up above puffs on his cigarette, flips on God TV, glances at a rerun of TWO AND A HALF MEN and scowls with a huff&puff at Courtney: ... "DUH WINNING !"

A quote personally selected by JANEY for you this week -(Winston Churchhill)

Churchill 6/4/ 1940:

We shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.

We shall never surrender.

And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.

What is the moral of this quote ?, says Jane to his/herself???:

LET NO FORCE BREAK YOUR SPIRIT. KEEP MOVING FOWARD. NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN YOURSELF. NO MATTER WHAT. NO MATTER HOW DARK THE SKY APPEARS.

ttfn,

mexoxo

DVD release coming soon for my new film (DVD/On Demand)

On Location (image above)

http://store.strandreleasing.com/scripts/prodList.asp?newitems=Y

Manual Typewriters click/clacks are back (God Bless America, BUT WHERE's MY $$$$$$)

I wrote HOMEWRECKA entirely on my old beat up Smith-Corona! Talk about early predictions! Ummm, so yes, I am a hero (even if I did find my typewriter in a public trash dumpster). I have ONCE AGAIN, started a New trend! When is my paycheck $$$$$ strolling into my habitat?? (Charlie Sheen says: DUH...NEVER)

CLICK ON the LINK BELOW FOR an ARTICLE ON THE REVIVAL OF THE "TRUE" CREATIVE WRITING TOOL, and all of the fiends & thieves of my brilliant ideas who are getting on a line to buy what I found a long time ago in their backyard garage sales dump can :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/fashion/31Typewriter.html?_r=1

PS1 MoMA showing Nakadate film/photography work

click on this link for exhibition info: http://www.nakadate.net/

Laurel Nakadate is known for her works in video, photography, and feature-length film. This is Nakadate's first large-scale museum exhibition and will feature works made over the last ten years in all three media, including her early video works, in which she was invited into the homes of anonymous people to dance and pose in their kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms.

365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears documents a year-long performance in which the artist

photographed herself weeping each day. In January 2010 issue of Artforum Jeffrey Kastner

wrote, "Dangerously smart, dangerously bold (and frequently just plain dangerous), Nakadate has built an indelible body of work around her provocative investigations of psychosexual identity and female power. She seems like the bastard child of that underground film genius Jane Public...but only God knows that for sure. For my own sake alone, I stand in awe"

Software for communication with those who are Hearing Impaired

CLICK ON THIS BELOW LINK 4 software...

http://www.sorensonvrs.com/

BTW: SVRS interpreters are connected for the communication between parties online, and are certified by either the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) or Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID), hold a state interpreter certificate at the Intermediate or Master Certificate skill levels, know JOEY HUERTAS, or have years of professional interpreting experience.

me

xo

ASL (American Sign Language) film: Public Rehearsals

I had my first meeting with Patricia and we had a public rehearsal/creative dialogue regarding the new film. She's Amazing. True artist. We communicated via fast handwriting on spiral notebooks, txt cellphone messaging and ASL (American Sign Language).

more to come!

WAY EXCITED ABOUT NEW FILM AND THIS PROCESS OF WORKING ....

me

xo

For the love of CELL-Portraiture... "ME" ! xo

the office space that I used: "aftermath"

After working on my new film's Press Kit design & layout, I decided to take a walk to get myself a nice hot latte.

I cleared the desk a bit tho for this sharing cell-pic

me

xo

SZE exhibition @ Yossi gallery & JEFF KOONS

THIS WRITER (i.e. me) went/drove to see the exhibition of one of my favorite photographers working today in contemporary stills. "CITIES" exhibition is up at Milo. A nice collection, but for those who have any interest in his work (Sze Tsung Leong) must get his published book. His color photo studies are complete overlooks of an old and new CHINA colliding by contruction and deconstruction, in a photographed mud and cement jungle.

xo

p.s. BTW, the scrap that you see on this blog was my "scribbled notes" written on a found napkin ---galleries that I had planned to go to earlier this week. Today, Saturday, I bumped into Jeff Koons outside of the Gagosian on 24th while loading his kid into the car. My car is nicer than his. God Bless Me. Glad that I went on a Saturday instead of a Thursday. I didn't give him my autograph. He didn't give me his. Welcome to New Yawk City .

Click PLAY to see JANEYS cell-fone clips

Awesome to see moving-picture living "portraits" of folks not living anymore.
Spirits captured forever in one enormous room setting.

If Warhol merits any credibility regarding contributions to art, it is with this.
Period.

me
xo

MOVING PICTURES exhibition aka Screentests @ MoMA

Amazing exhibition. So many souls captured forever via the power of 16mm film (Bolex camera FILM ART @ 16 frames per second)

--- More "personal" feelings posted by JANE later.

"Me" aka "he" aka "JANE" is too busy now to unload.

Need more time to process my experience. Duh.

Cut me some slack.

me

xo

HIGH CLASS Dinner 4 ME looks like this...

...until one of my blog fans TAKES ME OUT TO EAT !!!!! (c'mon already STOP BEING CHEAP!)

Recording Session for "JANE" narration

Images from the recording session for the character of JANE (i.e. ME). French dialogue. Girlstories film trilogy hostess. About 5 hours of major hard work.
BUT IT ALL WORKED ! NOW comes the "cleaning up" of the hours of raw sound sessions. Wish me luck. I am drained.


me
xo

p.s. I have become a master at the art of multi-tasking my life.

p.s.s. DEDICATED TO JESSIKA

CLIPS from the "making of" JANE sessions

French actress-performer-protagonist for GIRLSTORIES film, Flo