https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/joey-huertas.html

Extreme Economy Seating.

An officer who dragged a passenger off a United Airlines flight has been placed on leave, a Chicago Aviation Department representative told Business Insider on Monday. 

A video showing three officers forcibly removing a man from a plane traveling from Chicago to Louisville went viral on Monday, sparking outrage on social media.

The man was removed after refusing to give up his seat on the flight, the Aviation Department said in a statement.

United says it first asked for volunteers to leave the plane in exchange for $800, but when no one volunteered, it told several passengers to leave.

When the man refused to give up his seat, the officers pulled him off the plane, resulting in injuries to his face. The man was treated at a local hospital.

"The incident on United Flight 3411 was not in accordance with our standard operating procedure, and the actions of the aviation security officer are obviously not condoned by the department," a representative for the Aviation Department wrote in an email to Business Insider. "That officer has been placed on leave effective today pending a thorough review of the situation."

The representative did not clarify why only one of the three officers was placed on leave. They said an investigation was ongoing.

The officers who were involved work for the Aviation Department, which is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department, a Police Department representative told Business Insider.

United Airlines provided this statement to Business Insider:

"Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation. Further details on the removed customer should be directed to authorities."

United CEO Oscar Munoz released a statement about the incident as well:

"This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers. Our team is moving with a sense of urgency to work with the authorities and conduct our own detailed review of what happened. We are also reaching out to this passenger to talk directly to him and further address and resolve this situation." 

                 

            bye.

Homeland Security Tinted Matchbox Cars.

'Tinted Windowed Homeland Security', 
  Tribeca, NYC 2017.

Screening/projection room preparations.

bye...

http://www.screendaily.com/news/fsc-to-sell-tribeca-premieres-dare-to-be-different-frank-serpico/5116842.article

'Helmet Hwy Memorial,' Flushing, Queens 2017.

http://mymodernmet.com/kodak-ektra-smartphone/

Biennial 17.

TGI S.

  TGI S - Saturday 

                 https://darkmofo.net.au 

'THE DISCOVERY' is now on NETFLIX, starring Rooney Mara (and directed by her significant other). Robert Redford makes this streaming-tv-commissioned thing stay on solid ground as it meanders all over the place like a painful sea sickness. bye.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/movies/the-discovery-review-netflix.html?referrer=google_kp&_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/

Non-linear weaving.

Such a wild new world we live in, in which making and creating films and stories can happen anywhere now, and as easy as opening up one's notebook (or MacBook). There are no excuses anymore, and the poet, novelist and film artist are now one of the same- plugged in.  bye.

Tomahawk morning (no TGIF).

Without any Congressional approval, our new president has instigated a new war in the Middle East, in a place where Russia sleeps at night. Wasn't his election platform based on a premise & promise that 'we are not going to continue to be the policemen of the world' ?  

Everyone should begin praying right now. Bigtime. 

And, let's hope that the Mayan calendar was not slightly off by a few years...
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/mayan.html

              

'I am Heath Ledger' premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 17

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A post shared by H E A T H L E D G E R (@heatheledger) on Apr 2, 2017 at 11:43am PDT

 

Newtown, Ct. and onging gun control legislation :

We Are All Newtown Impact Campaign

Not at Kingsley Hall.

Who was R.D. Laing ? a lecture with Peter Mezan, Ph.D.

 

Wed., April 5, 2017 at 8 pm 247 East 82nd Street, NYC FREE.  All are welcome.

 During the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s, R.D. Laing was the most famous psychiatrist in the world -- and arguably the most controversial psychoanalytic thinker since Freud. Regarded as the father of the antipsychiatry movement, Laing challenged the basis of conventional treatment. His ideas enraged the psychiatric establishment but caught the imagination of the public at large. Laing's books - The Divided Self, Sanity, Madness, and the Family, and The Politics of Experience - sold millions of copies and cemented his status as a culture hero. But by the time Laing died in 1989, his influence had all but vanished. Dr. Mezan will give a portrait of the man and his ideas, based on his encounters and friendship with Laing and the crazy world surrounding him. 

bye.

In 2012, the film, DIRTY HARRY was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. bye.

Art Forum , 3/2017 article. p81.

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2017/03/31/detail/a-quiet-passion-with-terence-davies-in-person

zero gloss, deep matte.

       Prints of Roma gypsy sites on Deep Matte paper.

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/uncertain-review-1202006398/

 

Cold Busted.

 

 

 

The big philanthropic 2017 comeback on 13th st.

In addition to film classics, the theater will also play foreign and indie titles. “We feel the indie film community is underserved in terms of the number of screens there are in Manhattan,” said Cohen. “The proximity to [New York University] means there will be a natural audience of film lovers.” Terms of the sale were not disclosed. The Quad will begin a top-to-bottom renovation in 2015, Cohen said, and will be outfitted with the latest in digital projection and sound. One screen will still be able to show film prints. The name will remain unchanged. It marks Cohen’s third foray into theatrical exhibition, having previously overseen the renovation of New York’s Academy Theater at Lighthouse International and the building of the SilverScreen Theater inside the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Cohen said the theater’s original owner, Maurice Kanbar, turned down higher offers for the property because he was persuaded the developer would be a good steward. “This is a passionate labor of love for me,” said Cohen. “It was his baby and I’m the new parent.”

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 AbBraaAAaaacadaBraaAaaa ...

     

              'Chipping away at the stone.'

Working 9 to 5

A remake of cult 80s action film Escape from New York is coming to cinemas, with Robert Rodriguez lined up to direct it. Directed and co-written by horror veteran John Carpenter, the original Escape from New York was released in 1981. The film is set in the then-future of 1997, and follows the attempt by soldier-turned-criminal Snake Plissken (played by Kurt Russell) to rescue the president of the United States (Donald Pleasence) after Air Force One crashes in Manhattan, which has been transformed into a maximum security prison. The film became a cult classic.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/27/robert-rodriguez-direct-escape-from-new-york-remake-john-carpenter?CMP=share_btn_fb

bye, bye.

Finally a documentary on Chris Burden ( r.i.p.)

Chris Burden

American Sculptor and Performance Artist

Chris Burden has produced some of the most shocking works in the history of twentieth century American art, including spending five days and nights in the fetal position inside a locker, having a spectator push pins into his body, being "crucified" to a Volkswagen Beetle, being kicked down two flights of stairs, and even having himself shot. The challenge for viewers is to try to understand such troubling and seemingly "inartistic" gestures. Such an understanding is made possible by seeing these works within the context of Conceptual art during the 1970s, where artists concerned themselves with art based on ideas and action rather than objects created for an elite art market. Additionally, the violent images of the war in Vietnam and the television media in general provided a background setting for Burden. His work further challenges viewers to take stock of their own moral compasses and widen their understanding of the ways in which it is possible for art to serve humanity. 

    bye.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/nyregion/kent-theater-brooklyn.html?_r=1

Experiments in Cinema '17

No Bad Days.

'No bad days'. 
Her boyfriend was killed in a car accident at age 21. 
These were his last words to her an hour before the car accident ...

  

- Life is short. Very short. Never forget.

Tony Conrad destroyed composing. So glad that he did!