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張靓潁Jane Zhang - Dust My Shoulders Off -MV from OUTERSPACE Leo on Vimeo.

*影像工作邀約來信請至 (Outerspace studio) Any work invitations please mail us: fxxkleo@hotmail.com

Singer Zhang Liangying, portrays the role of an office lady and was presented at the beginning of the story. This unlucky lady was blamed by her boss over the phone when she visited the Art Institute of Chicago. Suddenly, she enters a world of famous paintings, and was on her way to a fantastic adventure.

In this MV, we try to connect 12 world-known paintings through interesting and smooth transitions. The original values of those paintings are re-defined. For example, Van Gogh’s ear is bitten by Mike Tyson; when the girl in the Gleaners looks up, she becomes the Girl with A Pearl Earring; the two men in black at the end of the bridge in the Scream by Edvard Munch are actually MIB, and they scream because they see the big monster in the painting of Dali; and the man in suit sitting with his back to us in the lonely café of the last painting Nighthawks, is Dali, and so on.

The 3D effect of those famous paintings is the largest challenge in this MV. We invited excellent artists to contribute their ideas and skills on all the scenes, costumes, actors and the singer. The innovative shooting methods are extremely experimental, which seems crazy!

Although the concept of the script is radical, weird and wild, the revival of paintings, the integration of the new and the old, the copy of painting lines and the texture presentation in the production process are all challenges. The traditional arts and aesthetics are supported by creativity, and innovative story line and the overwhelming CG are integrated. The MV was made possible through the efforts of experts in various fields. We hope you enjoy it!

The list of paintings and artists used in the MV: 1. Edward Hopper – Nighthawks 2. Vincent Willem van Gogh 3. Jean-François Millet- Des glaneuses 4. Johannes Vermeer-Het meisje met de parel 5.Andrew Nowell Wyeth-Christina's World 6.Georges-Pierre Seurat-Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte 7. Edvard Munch-Skrik 8.alvador Dali-A Tentação de Santo Antônio 9. The marches of summer 10. Maurits Cornelis Escher-Ascending and descending 11. Maurits Cornelis Escher- Gallery 12. Magritte Rene-The Son of Man 13. Salvador Dali

* As for the 13th painting, the explosion at 1:35 of the MV adopts the style of Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama.

故事的開始，從歌手張靚穎所扮演的OL上班族拉開序幕，電話那頭傳來老闆的責駡，正在逛芝加哥美術館( Art Institute of Chicago)的倒楣OL，莫名闖入名畫的世界，展開一連串不可思議的奇幻冒險。

此MV我們嘗試以有趣流暢的轉場,貫穿12幅世界名畫，並且顛覆改寫原先名畫的世界觀，做出了全新的定義，例如：梵谷的耳朵原來是被拳王泰森給咬下來的、拾穗中間彎著腰的女性抬起頭來，原來是戴珍珠耳環的少女、孟克吶喊那座橋後方的兩個黑衣人原來是MIB，而吶喊的原因是看到了達利畫中的巨大神獸所以尖叫吶喊、而最後名畫Nighthawks寂寞咖啡廳裡背對西裝男，竟然是達利的背影……等等。

為了讓平面經典以3D重現，將名畫"立體化"是此次MV最大的挑戰，我們找來了優秀的藝術畫家們，將所有看的到的搭景、服裝、甚至演員與歌手全都畫上了"筆觸"，"極不正常"的MV拍攝手法，極度實驗性的拍攝現場，只有瘋狂！

雖然劇本創意不按牌理出牌，也可以說非常"前衛另類＆狂野"，但回歸現實製作層面，如何呈現畫作本質並賦予新的生命，新舊衝突的融合、筆觸的臨摹、質感呈現更是實際我們要克服的一大挑戰。以正統藝術與美感為基底，創意為輔，融入超展開的惡搞劇情，加上目不暇給的CG動畫特效，這是各方專業跨界努力後的成果，請開心享用!

此外，值得一提的是歌手張靚穎的勇氣與野心，沒有底線、不給創作者任何框架的創作空間，就算是被顏料畫得面目全非也盡力配合，求得只是一個創意的完整，這是身為一個主流歌手非常難能可貴的，你去看看那些主流的CD封面或MV就可充分瞭解這其中的突破了，華語歌手總是被要求臉要清楚、要大、要美、舞蹈要好記.....創意總是被放在很後面，而這MV最令人振奮的是，我們終於可以把創意放在第一位了!!!

--------------------------------------------------- 深度解密!!! 翻玩名畫與藝術家一覽： *事發地點-芝加哥美術館( The Art Institute of Chicago ) 名畫1.愛德華•霍普-夜遊者(Edward Hopper – Nighthawks) 名畫2.梵谷-自畫像(Vincent Willem Van Gogh Museum) VAN GOGH Van Gogh Museum La Oreja de Van Gogh - Oficial *亂入彩蛋-拳王泰森 名畫3.米勒-拾穗( Jean-François Millet- Des glaneuses) 名畫4.楊•維梅爾-戴珍珠耳環的少女( Johannes Vermeer -Het meisje met de parel) 名畫5.安德魯•魏斯-克莉絲蒂娜的世界 ( @Andrew Nowell Wyeth -Christina's World) 名畫6.喬治•秀拉-大碗島的星期天下午 ( Georges -Pierre Seurat-Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte) 名畫7.孟克-吶喊（Edvard Munch -Skrik） *亂入彩蛋-MIB Men In Black 名畫8.達利-聖安東尼的誘惑(Salvador Dali-A Tentação de Santo Antônio) Salvador Dalí 名畫9.瑪格利特-馬奇的夏天( Magritte Rene-The marches of summer ) 名畫10.艾雪-上下階梯（Maurits Cornelis Escher-Ascending and descending) 莫里茲·柯尼利斯·艾雪 名畫11.艾雪-畫廊（Maurits Cornelis Escher- Gallery) 名畫12.瑪格利特-人子(Magritte Rene-The Son of Man) *偉大藝術家-達利像(Salvador Dali) *關於隱藏的第13幅藝術品: 在MV的1:35秒處點描派的爆炸瞬間,也展示了日本知名藝術家-草間彌生擅長的表現方式與符號

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The Elephant's Song from Lynn Tomlinson on Vimeo.

This is the story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, set to a tune sung by her friend, an old farm dog. Their story is portrayed in colorful, handcrafted animation, created frame by frame with clay-on-glass and oil pastel animation.

→ instagram.com/clayonglass → lynntomlinson.com/projects#/the-elephants-song/

Animated and Directed by Lynn Tomlinson Written by Lynn Tomlinson and Sam Saper Music and lyrics by Sam Saper Vocals by Deletta Gillespie and Brooks Long Instrumentals and arrangement by Trucker Talk: Abby Becker, Greg Bowen, Jessica Keyes, Rich Kolm Sound Effects by Elsa Lankford Sound recorded and engineered by Shea Springer, Sweetfoot Studio Additional animation by Lucy Saper and M.C. Tomlinson

AWARDS: Audience Choice, Best Short Animation, Providence Children's Film Festival, 2020 Climate, Environment, Biodiversity Prize, Festival Le Temps Presse, Paris, 2020 Best Music, TOFUZI, Batumi, Georgia, 2019 Best Narrative Short, Programmers Award, 32nd annual Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, 2019 Best Animated Short, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL, 2019 ASIFA East, Independent Films, 1st Prize, NY, 2019 ASIFA East, Excellence in Music, NY, 2019 ASIFA East, Women in Animation Award, NY, 2019 Global Insights Stellar Award (Top Award), Black Maria Film Festival, 2019 Best Animation, NatureTrack Film Festival, CA, 2019 Best Short Film, Environmental Film Festival at Yale, New Haven, CT, 2019 Best Animation, Nevada Women’s Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV 2019 Best Animated Short, SENE Fest, Providence, RI, 2019 Best Sound Design, Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, 2019 Best Environmental Short Film, Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, 2019 Best Animation, Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, 2019 First Prize, Made in Baltimore Short Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2018 Best Experimental, 2nd Place, Los Angeles Animation Festival, CA, 2018 Best of Festival, Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskill, NY, 2018 Best Animation, Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskills, NY, 2018 Award of Merit for Animation, University Film & Video Association, Las Cruces, NM, 2018

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS: Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, World Premiere, 2018 Ajyal Film Festival, Doha, Qatar, 2018 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan Animation for Peace Program, 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival, OH, 2019 Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, 2019 Canton Film Festival, Canton, OH, 2019 Cinekid, Amsterdam, 2019 High Falls Women's Film Festival, NY 2019 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, DC, 2019 Athens Animfest, Greece, 2019 ASIFA South Animation Conference and Festival 2019 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, CA, 2019 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Shastaland, CA, 2019 Cinema Sousa, Xiamen Animation Festival, China, 2018 Vaasa Wildlife Festival, Finland, Finalist, 2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2018 San Jose International Short Film Festival, San Jose, CA 2018 China International Green Film Week, 2018 Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, 2018 Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2018

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Beat Poets in New York. summer 1959. Anonymous. from Judith Benhamou-Huet on Vimeo.

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HUNCKE from Michael Krause on Vimeo.

Docufiction about the life of Herbert Hucke, a beat poet, who coined the term "cool".

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The amazing dream team of Amiri Baraka akka Leroy Jones at a TV show in 1968 ! from Wild Worm Web on Vimeo.

Free download of the EP here : archive.org/download/Wisdom_Undoing_Randomized_Mechanism_Wild_Worm_Web/Wisdom_Undoing_Randomized_Mechanism_Wild_Worm_Web_vbr_mp3.zip Imagine Roxanne Shante, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Afrika Bambaataa, The Last Poets, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5, Kool Herc & Coke La Rock, Ice T all together ! Here is the legendary history of hip hop, the young mcs tear up the screen with their awesome rap. This can be consider as the public birth of this genre. The first rap at the TV. They show activism at his top in the straight line of the Black Panthers. These first mcs presented as the Young Spirit House Movers and Players come from Leroy Jones « Black Arts Repertory Theatre School ». At the fall of the fifties this poet found Totem Press editions and publish beat generation poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Kerouak. In the sixties he is one of the origins of hip hop style before the last poets with his Black Dada Nihilismus song and he change is name in 1965 after the death of Malcom X to Imamu Amiri Baraka.

Using synched movements and poetry, the kids address various issues from inequality to the lack of a well-rounded black history curriculum in the schools. One girl states affectingly: “We are taught to hate ourselves…America, why did you bring us here?” But the underlying message from Jones through these kids is the importance of pride and self-empowerment. As one of the children says near the end: “Today is ours/Let’s take it.”

Additional music by DJ Wild Worm Web ^^ "Black Power To The People" From MIX Tape WURM EP Forthcoming CDR release on M.M label aemag.virb.com/ Muzik in free share there mixtapewormweb.bandcamp.com/ Secret gift free track form another maxi EP here soundcloud.com/vivid-tribe-of-psychics/04-groovinda-by-wild-worm-web

One last thing I'm not Black or White nor than any other colors, maybe if you need to put a label on me I am more Transparent. The problem is not the color of our skin : it has been just a tool in the hands of the capitalism. Don't give your power to the capitalism. Resist against the modern slavery. It's time to heal earth of this cancer. By changing our habits, by being no more afraid by big brother, by creating an hopefull future.

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Ed Sanders - Live at the Burchfield Penney Art Center on January 12, 2013 from Burchfield Penney Art Center on Vimeo.

Edward Sanders is a poet, historian and musician. In the 1960s he operated the Peace Eye Bookstore in New York City’s East Village, and was the leader of the folk-satire group, The Fugs. He was a participant in the Mimeograph Revolution, publishing in the early 1960s, Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts.

In the early 1970s, he wrote The Family, the harrowing story tracing the “family” of cult leader Charles Manson. Also in the 1970s he wrote Investigative Poetry, a well-received manifesto on how poets should take on the ancient task of writing histories. In 1975 appeared Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volume 1, the first volume of a four-volume set of interconnected stories tracing life in the Beat Generation and Counterculture eras of the late 1950s through the 1960s. Other volumes of Tales of Beatnik Glory were published in 1980, 1987 and 2004.

Additional books by Sanders include 1968, A History in Verse; The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg; and Chekhov, a biography in verse of Anton Chekhov. From 1998 till completing it in 2011, he wrote the 9-volume America, A History in Verse. His selected poems, 1986-2008, Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War, has been published by Coffee House Press.

Da Capo Press has published his memoir of the 1960s, Fug You— An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs and Counterculture in the Lower East Side, which won the 2012 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles award.

Another recent writing project is Poems for New Orleans, a book and CD on the history of that great city, and its tribulations during and after hurricane Katrina. He has been granted a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in verse, an American Book Award for his collected poems, and other awards for his writing.

Two of his books, The Family and Tales of Beatnik Glory, are under option to be made into movies. Sanders lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife, the essayist and painter Miriam Sanders, and both are active in environmental and other social issues.

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"America" By Allen Ginsberg Poem animation from poetryreincarnations on Vimeo.

Here's a virtual movie of Allen Ginsberg reading his polemic and much admired poem "America" written in 1956. It appears in his collection Howl and Other Poems. The poem is in the first person and reads much like a monologue. It is presented in a somewhat rambling, stream of consciousness format. America is a largely political work, with much of the poem consisting of various accusations against the United States, its government, and its citizens. Ginsberg uses sarcasm to accuse America of attempting to divert responsibility for the Cold War ("America you don't want to go to war/ it's them bad Russians / Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. / And them Russians"), and makes numerous references to both leftist and anarchist political movements and figures (including Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scottsboro Boys and the Wobblies). Ginsberg's dissatisfaction, however, is tinged with optimism and hope, as exemplified by phrases like "When will you end the human war?" (as opposed to "why don't you...?"). The poem's ending is also highly optimistic, a promise to put his "queer shoulder to the wheel," although the original draft ended on a bleaker note: "Dark America! toward whom I close my eyes for prophecy, / and bend my speaking heart! / Betrayed! Betrayed!"[1] America is also an intensely personal poem, making references to Ginsberg's use of marijuana and his homosexuality, as well as fellow Beat writer William S. Burroughs. The longest line in the poem is a sentimental description of a Communist meeting his mother took him to when he was a child, ending abruptly with the ironic pronouncement "Everybody must have been a spy.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 -- April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.

Ginsberg was born into a Jewish[14] family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues, such as World War II and workers' rights. While in high school, Ginsberg began reading Walt Whitman, inspired by his teacher's passionate reading.

Kind Regards

Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2013

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John Giorno Interview: Inside William Burroughs' Bunker from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.

Step inside ‘The Bunker’ in New York, the windowless former apartment of the legendary writer William S. Burroughs, and let yourself be guided around – from Burroughs’ typewriter to his shooting target – by its current resident, the iconic poet John Giorno.

William S. Burroughs lived several places throughout his life. Between 1975-82 the drug addict and writer – famous not least for his automatic writing in books like ‘Naked Lunch’– lived in 222 Bowery, one of New York’s first YMCAs in the 1880s. Performance poet John Giorno has lived at the address since the early 1960s and was delighted to host his friend and colleague, who lived in the basement for seven years and dubbed the windowless space ‘The Bunker’.

“He was a brilliant transcendent writer, but he was more brilliant here,” Giorno recalls and explains how Burroughs was high from nine in the morning, and then would have vodkas and joints at five o’clock in the afternoon. Giorno himself would join him, albeit a bit later in the day: “Doing that for those endless years and years, that was a lesson – not sure what the lesson is though.” Having downed several more bottles of vodka and smoked more joints, Burroughs and his guests would shoot at the target poster, which still has its original bullet holes.

John Giorno has been using ‘The Bunker’ as a guest room for visiting friends and today everything has been restored and kept like it was when Burroughs lived there: the target poster, the typewriter, the gun magazines and the desk all set for someone to sit down and write. We also get to see the ‘Orgone box’ – a box invented by psychoanalyst William Reich, who believed that orgones are vibratory atmospheric atoms of the life-principle, which can be concentrated as a creative substratum. “And if you sat in there you would collect orgone energy of the universal power,” Giorno adds.

Burroughs “always believed there could be chaos and catastrophe, so every house should have a vessel to be able to save enough water to live for four days. So that’s why that was there,” says Giorno about the big water tank on the floor. Giorno also shows us Burroughs’ lamp, which is made from a – still functioning – rifle from the Civil War, as well as his BB gun: “It's a generational thing of his, coming of age as a young person in the 1920s and 30s, living in the country in St. Louis, and also outside, and being alone and being frail. I don't think his family were shooters, somehow it entered his life, all of those things.”

John Giorno (b. 1936) is an American poet and one of the most influential figures in contemporary performance poetry with his intensely rhythmic and philosophical poetry. He has published a wide range of poetic works such as the collection ‘You Got to Burn to Shine’, spoken words with William S. Burroughs and Laurie Anderson. In 1962, Giorno was the subject of Andy Warhol’s 6-hour movie ‘Sleep’. Giorno has also created Giorno Poetry Systems, which has published more than 40 spoken LP’s with acclaimed artists such as Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith.

William S. Burroughs (b. William Seward Burroughs II in 1914 – d. 1997) was an American writer and artist. He was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major influence in popular culture and literature, he wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, found success with his confessional first novel ‘Junkie’ (1953) but is best known for his highly controversial third novel ‘Naked Lunch’ (1959). Along with artist, writer and poet Brion Gysin, Burroughs re-invented the literary cut-up technique in works such as ‘The Nova Trilogy’ (1961-1964). Much of Burroughs’ work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict. In 1951, he accidentally killed his wife Joan Vollmer with a pistol during a drunken ‘William Tell’ game and was consequently convicted of manslaughter. Through the years, Burroughs also created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual artworks, including his celebrated ‘Gunshot Paintings’. He did not, however, exhibit his artwork until 1987, and for last 10 years of his life, he presented his paintings and drawings at museums and galleries worldwide. He died at his home in Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997.

John Giorno was interviewed by Christian Lund in New York City in October 2017.

In the video, John Giorno reads from his poem ‘The Death of William Burroughs’ (1997).

Photographs used in the video: Photo of William Burroughs (1989) - Courtesy of John Giorno Archives, Photo of William Burroughs with John Giorno and Keith Haring (1987) - Courtesy of Kate Simon, Photo of William Burroughs in the Bunker (1979) - Courtesy of Kate Simon

Camera: Mathias Nyholm Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen Produced by: Christian Lund Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018

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Excerpt from Gregory Corso Memorial - Program Five: Patti Smith and Oliver Ray perform Stardust from Steve Zehentner on Vimeo.

The song Stardust was written by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish in the late 1920's and performed March 11, 2001 at the Gregory Corso Memorial held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on New York's lower east side.

THE GREGORY CORSO MEMORIAL - March 11, 2001 Gregory Corso was a key member of the Beat movement, a group of convention-breaking writers who were credited with sparking much of the social and political change that transformed the United States in the 1960s. Corso's spontaneous, insightful, and inspirational verse once prompted fellow Beat poet Allen Ginsberg to describe him as an "awakener of youth." Although Corso enjoyed his greatest level of popularity during the 1960s and 1970s, he continued to influence contemporary readers and critics late into the twentieth century. Writing in the American Book Review, Dennis Barone remarked that Corso's 1989 volume of new and selected poems was a sign that "despite doubt, uncertainty, the American way, death all around, Gregory Corso will continue, and I am glad he will." - Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/bio/gregory-corso

Gregory Corso died on January 17, 2001. A Memorial was held in New York at The Angel Orensanz Center on March 11, 2001. The event was produced by Paola Igliori, Jeremiah Newton, Clayton Paterson, James Rasin, Elsa Rensaa, Roger Richards and was filmed by The Lower East Side Biography Project. Speakers and performers PROGRAM ONE: James Rasin, Roger Richards, Sheri Langerman, Francis Kuipers, Anne Lombardo Ardolino, Peter McCabe, Lucy McCabe PROGRAM TWO: Janine Pommy Vega, Martin Matz, Debbie Harry, James Rasin, Anton Rosenberg, Edgar Oliver, Ira Cohen, Marilyn Meeske PROGRAM THREE: Maggie Estep, Filippo Chia, Andy Clausen, Steve Dalachinsky, Paola Igliori PROGRAM FOUR: Raymond Foye, David Greenspan, Taylor Mead, Herschel Silverman, Perry Robinson PROGRAM FIVE: Patti Smith & Oliver Ray, Robert Yarra, Brigid Murnaghan, Penny Arcade, PROGRAM SIX: Hal Wilner, Laki Vazakas, REPEATS Raymond Foye, Patti Smith & Oliver Ray

The Lower East Side Biography Project was created in 1999 by performance artist Penny Arcade and video producer Steve Zehentner as an ongoing biography series and oral history archive. The LES Bio Project’s biographies and archive will help to ensure that future generations have access to the mad souls of invention and rebellion that built the Lower East Side’s international reputation as an incubator for authenticity and iconoclasm in art, culture and politics.

The project seeks to stem the tide of cultural amnesia by bridging the cultural gap between long time residents and newcomers to the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. To this end, the LES Bio Project has a community-media training component where young filmmakers are trained in production and post-production technologies and then become shepherds of an individual oral history that they edit into a 28-minute biography. Since its inception, the LES Bio Project has trained over forty individuals, completed forty 28-minute biographies, and videotaped dozens more interviews and live events.

The LES Bio Project's biographies stream live every Monday at 11pm EST: mnn.org/live/1-community-channel, simultaneous cablecast in Manhattan on Time Warner Channel 34, RCN 82, FIOS 33. View the current television and livestream schedule: facebook.com/LowerEastSideBiographyProject More videos by the LES Bio Project: The Lower East Side Biography Project - Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia pennyarcade.tv stevezehentner.com

GREGORY CORSO MEMORIAL CREDITS Camera RICK E. JUNGERS STEVE ZEHENTNER Edit MASATSUGU SHIMURA STEVE ZEHENTNER

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Taylor Mead, The Lower East Side Biography Project, excerpt from biography from Steve Zehentner on Vimeo.

Taylor Mead (December 31, 1924 – May 8, 2013) was a performance poet, painter, underground film star, comedic actor, astral clown, whimsical beatnik, refugee from old money, a true pop prince and the real son of Andy Warhol. Featured in over 100 films including many Warhol films, Mr. Mead was unequaled as the insouciant pop enigma who has seen everything and done it all. - Penny Arcade

If you like this video and want to support our work, please click the Tip Jar. We are currently fundraising to preserve Penny Arcade's & The Lower East Side Biography Project's video tape archive and to produce more content like this. Thank you kindly! Penny Arcade and Steve Zehentner

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mead appeared in Ron Rice's beat classic The Flower Thief, in which he "traipses with an elfin glee through a lost San Francisco of smoke-stuffed North Beach cafes..." Film critic P. Adams Sitney called The Flower Thief "the purest expression of the Beat sensibility in cinema." Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman called Mead "the first underground movie star.

Mead lived in New York City and was a fixture of the Lower East Side. He performed and read poetry regularly at The Bowery Poetry Club. His latest book of poems is called A Simple Country Girl.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mead whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Mead_Taylor cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/farewell-taylor-mead/

The Taylor Mead Biography was produced by The Lower East Side Biography Project and was edited and directed by Sibylle Jud and Steve Zehentner in collaboration with Penny Arcade.

The Lower East Side Biography Project was created in 1999 by performance artist Penny Arcade and video producer Steve Zehentner as an ongoing biography series and oral history archive. The LES Bio Project’s biographies and archive will help to ensure that future generations have access to the mad souls of invention and rebellion that built the Lower East Side’s international reputation as an incubator for authenticity and iconoclasm in art, culture and politics.

The project seeks to stem the tide of cultural amnesia by bridging the cultural gap between long time residents and newcomers to the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. To this end, the LES Bio Project has a community-media training component where young filmmakers are trained in production and post-production technologies and then become shepherds of an individual oral history that they edit into a 28-minute biography. Since its inception, the LES Bio Project has trained over forty individuals, completed forty-six 28-minute biographies, videotaped dozens more interviews and live events.

The completed biographies are broadcast and streamed live every Monday at 11 p.m on Time Warner Cable Channel 34 and at mnn.org Community Channel One.

LIKE us on Facebook and view a current streaming and Manhattan cablecast schedule facebook.com/LowerEastSideBiographyProject

Steve Zehentner: Producer, Co-director/editor stevezehentner.com

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Ferlinghetti - Trailer from Brett Marty on Vimeo.

A feature film about Lawrence Ferlinghetti: the iconic poet, Beat publisher, and founder of City Lights Books in San Francisco. FerlinghettiFilm.com

Official Selection, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2009.

Role: Editor / Creative Director Runtime: 73 min

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Learning from Allen Ginsberg from Reason.TV on Vimeo.

Beat-icon Allen Ginsberg is getting a resurgence of attention, 13 years after his death at the age of 70. A movie based on the story behind Ginsberg's signature poem, "Howl," opens this Friday. It stars James Franco as the young poet embroiled in a 1957 obscenity trial over the poem, which ended in a landmark win for free speech. The movie is already garnering praise for animated sequences (made partially in Thailand) that put images to Howl's words. Director Rob Epstein noted that Ginsberg, a fan of Eastern religions, "would appreciate us outsourcing to a Buddhist country."

And an exhibition of Ginsberg's photography, "Beat Memories," played to enthusiastic crowds all summer at Washington-D.C.'s National Gallery of Art. Ginsberg had both a unique eye and unique access to a generation of literary heroes, snapping classic portraits like Jack Kerouac smoking on a fire escape and William Burroughs standing next to a sphinx at the Museum of Natural History.

Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie looks at why Ginsberg—a champion of gay rights, free speech, nonviolence, and drug legalization—still has a lot to teach us.

Approximately 2.30. Produced by Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie

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Downtown Heptasm - Reel 1 (Alpha) 'The Monkey's Brother' from buckinfudgy on Vimeo.

A reconstruction of the first of seven legendary 'beat' reels from the late 1950s. Originally created by Ed Coolly, recreated by Buckinfudgy.

History:

Edmund Coolliquoi (Ed Coolly) was an Anglo-French expat living in New York in the mid-1950s. He became 'turned on' to the work of beat poets and performers, jazz musicians and the possibilities of electronics. His day job was as a technician for local New York experimental TV station, WRZY. To fill in gaps in programming, and during the late night closedown, Coolly developed collections of test signals, countdowns and industrial film footage. Overlaid with poems and sound from beat poet friends, these developed into 7 sound and moving image collages, each one lasting for seven minutes. These films became known as the ‘Downtown Heptasm Reels'.

Continually refined, developed and added to throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, Coolly only stopped working on the collection shortly before his death in 1967. By this time the reels had become legendary amongst television technicians, and were regularly screened at happenings and psychedelic gatherings in San Francisco, London and Paris.

Although the masters were lost, some fragments of the original reels have been retained in private collections. Few agree on the full content of all seven reels (for example, debate is split on whether the Zapruder footage was ever included) but enough first person testimony exists to aid the rebuilding of the seven parts. Returning to the original sources, Buck in Fudgy have begun work on a project to restore ‘Downtown Heptasm’ to its original Hepcat glory.

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The Subterraneans- Kerouac, Pollock and Bowie from moochcassidy on Vimeo.

Images: Jackson Pollock 51

Music: “Subterranean” from David Bowie’s “Low” 1977.

Words: ‘The Subterraneans” excerpt by Jack Kerouac 1958

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at 95 from KQED News on Vimeo.

The beat poet, painter and publisher recounts six decades of life in San Francisco.

Video: Adam Grossberg Reporter: Joanne Elgart Jennings

Read more: ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/03/at-95-ferlinghetti-recounts-more-than-six-decades-of-life-in-sf/

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"Why D'Ya Do It" Marianne Faithfull rocks eternal at NYC Village Gate performance of Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! from Steve Zehentner on Vimeo.

Please support my work by becoming a patron of PENNY ARCADE PERFORMANCE on Patreon. Patreon is based on the pay-what-you-wish subscriber model. You can subscribe for as little as $1. For fans of mine, who subscribe and become my patron, I will be releasing content exclusive to the Patreon platform. It will include archival videos of my shows, livestreams of performances, serialized readings of my developing memoir, unedited full length interviews from our Lower East Side Biography Project...and much more. Thank you for your consideration. xoPenny patreon.com/Penny_Arcade?fan_landing=true

After a one year 1992-93 run of Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! at Art D'Lugoff's venerable Villlage Gate in New York City, the house that played host to some of the 20th centuries greatest legends: Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, Lenny Bruce, Billie Holiday....for the show and venue's final performance, Penny Arcade added one more deserving creature to the lexicon, Marianne Faithfull. With Quentin Crisp, Jeff Buckley, Laurie Anderson and nearly 400 hundred other souls in attendance; sultry, fierce, lioness Marianne sang four majestic heart rendered songs with Marc Ribot on guitar, David Mansfield on violin and Greg Cohen on bass....add in Penny's world-class erotic dancers, Jill Morley, Veronica Newton, Alicia Hopkins, Leta Davis, Carson Sayers, Guinevere Liberty, Cynthia Henry; and this was a performance for the ages. "Why D'Ya Do It", co- writtten by Marianne Faithfull, is from her landmark LP, Broken English.

...from Wikipedia. "Why D’Ya Do It?", was a caustic, graphic rant of a woman reacting to her lover's infidelity. The lyrics began with the man's point of view, relating the bitter tirade of his jilted lover. It was set to a grinding tune inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s recording of Bob Dylan’s " All Along the Watchtower". Poet and writer Heathcote Williams had originally conceived the lyrics as a piece for Tina Turner to record, but Faithfull succeeded in convincing him that Turner would never record such a number. Its plethora of four-letter words and explicit references to oral sex caused controversy and led to a ban in Australia, where local pressings of the LP were released with smooth vinyl in place of the track and a 'bonus' 45 single as compensation (the ban did not extend to import copies)."

Penny Arcade: A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Play-House of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol’s Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art. Arcade’s brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning over international audiences ever since.

Penny Arcade is the author of ten full-length performance pieces including the mainstream hit Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! Her work been presented in venues as celebrated as the Sydney Opera House and as sordid as New York’s Pyramid Club.

With long-time collaborator Steve Zehentner, Arcade is the co-producer of The Lower East Side Biography Project, a video oral history project. The project’s biographies cablecast in New York City every Monday at 11pm EST. LIKE us on Facebook and see the current cablecast schedule facebook.com/LowerEastSideBiographyProject

Bad Reputation, her first book was published by Semiotexte/MIT Press, and she was recently portrayed by Sex in the City actress Cynthia Nixon in the film, Englishman in New York, the biopic about her friend Quentin Crisp. pennyarcade.tv

If there is an underlying thematic in all of Arcade’s work, it is perhaps this concern to advocate the full expression of our “life force”—creative, sexual, physically and verbally expressive—and to speak out against those societal and political forces that would repress such energizing self-realization. – Stephen Bottoms, University of Leeds, U.K.

Steve Zehentner Credits: B!D!F!W! design/co-direction/sound score; Video edit stevezehentner.com

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Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie [720p] from Freethought on Vimeo.