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Hop to it

‘In November 2022, I went to Australia to conduct my PhD field research. One night, I took a walk outside my accommodation near the Daintree rainforest in rural Queensland. I found the outer wall of the house completely covered in green tree frogs. Their colour was so vibrant it appeared as if they were glowing in the dark. When I look at the photo now, it reminds me of the remarkable biodiversity I encountered across Australia and the urgent need to protect it.’

Photograph: Josh Ettinger

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Decorative Sunday

GEE’S BEND QUILTS

Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In 2002, folk art collector, historian, and curator William Arnett organized an exhibition entitled "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and later travelled to a dozen other locations across the country, including our own Milwaukee Art Museum (September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004). This exhibition brought fame to the quilts, and Arnett's foundation Souls Grown Deep Foundation continues to collect and organize exhibitions for Gee’s Bend Quilts.

The images shown here are from Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, with essays by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingston, an introduction by Alvia Wardlaw, and a foreword by Peter Marzio. The book was published in 2002 by Tinwood Books, Atlanta, and published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It includes 350 color illustrations and 30 black-and-white illustrations. The dust jacket notes observe:

The women of Gee’s Bend - a small, remote, black community in Alabama - have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. . . . [The] quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. Few other places can boast the extent of Gee’s Bends’s artistic achievement, the result of geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women of the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages.

Our copy is a gift from our friend and benefactor Suzy Ettinger.

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[eesirachs]

Very interested in theology from your blog. I've seen you mention 'fascinance' once or twice and despite my interest in psychoanalysis I've never heard the term. Google isn't giving me too much satisfactory info on it, do you have a specific text on it you recommend?

it emerges against the lacanian, phallic term of fascinum (the penetration and preoccupation of the gaze of the Other). fascinance, its cognate, is explored by feminist psychoanalyst bracha ettinger. it refers to the mutual regard of girl-becoming-woman and the femme-fatale-autre-Mére, a woman who offers the girl the opportunity to re-enact matrixial, pre- and post-natal co-emergences wherein two beings (mother, child) share in affective space. ettinger's work on matrixial borderspaces and co-emergences has been, i think, the most formative to my own psychoanalytic rubric. starting with her matrixial borderspace might work, but also, griselda pollock (an art theorist whom i also adore) writes of ettinger in ways that sometimes exceed the latter's content and style

[mrs-stans]

@villem_keizer11: Can you feel the vibes of Antiparos? Great moments with great people. See you again guys. @annabellewallis @imsebastianstan @cmbenz @how_about_mina @alissamalnati @chacecrawford @willmalnati @ethruss @george.siotou @petros_tsentidis

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/05/nj-bupkis-actor-philip-ettinger-on-working-with-joe-pesci-and-pete-davidson.html%3foutputType=amp Sebs friend, Philip, talking about working with him in bupkis. He says Seb is like an older brother to him 🥺🥺🥺🥺🫶🏽 and apparently he's the responsible for Seb being in that show, haha

Oh my god, this is so lovely 🥺💗 I didn't really know anything about their friendship but this is so cute! Also, "Emmy-nominated Stan" 🥰🥰

[therafanatics]

RAFAEL CASAL - WILDCAT / NEW INSTAGRAM PHOTOS (2024)

Today, WILDCAT is out in select theaters. @maya_hawke @ethanhawke #shelbygaines #ryanhawke stirred their artist souls together and poured out this film, an ode to writers, to those torn between competing truths, escaping fleeting time, happier in their imaginations than the world given to them. It is an ode to escapism, to brutal writing, and to the severe fever that witty retorts and razor-sharp perceptions can reek on your life. And of course, the ticking clock chasing us all.

I love this creative team so much, the whole crew was a joy and Kentucky held us well. If this film crosses your path or pace, please check it out. Starring Maya, @itsmelauralinney #phillipettinger #liamneeson @willafitz @stevezahn and more

Pics by: rafaelcasal

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

2006. Musical Fantasy Comedy

By Liam Lynch

Starring: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Troy Gentile, Ronnie James Dio, Dave Grohl, Meat Loaf, JR Reed, Ben Stiller, Paul F. Tompkins, Tim Robbins, John C. Reilly, Cynthia Ettinger, Andrew Caldwell, Amy Pohler...

Country: United States

Language: English

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EVIL Has Now Been Digitized. "August Underground's Penance" reviewed! (Unearthed Films / Blu-ray)

“August Underground’s Penance” on Blu-ray/DVD Combo Set. Purchase Here! Armed with a digital camcorder and a dark desire to kidnap and brutally torture, rape, and murder random people, deranged serial killers Peter Mountain and his girlfriend Crusty are now a gruesome twosome after the demise of Crusty’s brother Maggot.  The couple’s documentarized carnage continues forward near Pittsburgh where…

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chacecrawford: Happy Birthday buddy @imsebastianstan 🎉

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of all the movies i believed might warrant a moviegroovies revival, i think i speak for all of us when i say that this one was... not at the top of the list. nevertheless: unexpected, unwanted, and unsung: dream a little dream (1989).

mmmmm... i liked it. more than i expected to, anyway. to be honest, this was one i probably wouldn’t have picked up on my own, even for the “two coreys” phenomenon and its tangential connection back to the lost boys (my beloved)--as i’ve indicated before, while i’ll do anything for love (of the lost boys), i won’t do that (watch corey feldman movies)--but my dad got some kind of meredith salenger itch this week, and this was the result. all in all, it was pretty solid? kind of dragged for me, but there were no scenes i’d point to in particular and say “cut this.” plus, they did some interesting things with the bodyswap concept... and, if we’re being honest, i found myself pretty impressed by feldman’s performance.

(said nobody ever. i know, i know.)

what i liked: the body swap is a fairly standard stock plot (although, as i type this, i can’t call to mind NEARLY as many examples as i thought i could. i’ve extolled the virtues of vince vaugn in freaky on this blog before, haven’t i?), but dream a little dream had a fairly unique take on it; most of the movie is corey feldman acting as jason robbards’ character coleman, but we never see robbards as bobby. the justification for the plot is given a lot more screentime than the handwavey explanation which typically accompanies such a story (although i’m not necessarily sure that this is a good thing--sometimes the plot does NOT demand explanation; groundhog day & etc.), too--we devote a substantial amount of the exposition to coleman’s obsession with dreams and the idea that, as we don’t really know what dreams “are,” therein lies the path to eternal life, eternal youth...

sometimes it really is better just to say a wizard did it and have done, i think.

what really stood out to me, though, was whose movie it really was. don’t let the smokescreen of the two coreys fool you--dream a little dream is coleman’s movie, through and through. coleman, not the delinquent teenagers, is the one with a problem to be solved. it’s coleman, and apparently coleman alone, who has to learn a lesson, and while “this was what being young was like--and it wasn’t easy” is a pretty standard one for this genre, it feels... different, as presented. i searched a while for the big why, until it hit me: dream a little dream is a teen comedy about an old man.

bobby, on his own, has plenty of problems, and the introduction, cutting between title cards and a seinfeldian conversation between coreys feldman and haim, serves as something of a red herring in that respect. we gear up for a movie about teenage ne’er-do-wells coming of age, finding themselves, and presumably getting the girl. the thing is, though--that’s not the movie we get. quickly after we’re presented with our presumed protagonists, we’re introduced to another figure: a grumpy old man searching, to the detriment of his relationship with his friends and wife, even, for more. he has a good life, and he’s still deeply in love with gena, but he’s restless and ill-content. it’s already a departure from the role of older figures in such movies (because if our teenage protagonists represent youth and chaos, then older characters, especially much older characters like coleman and gena, are stability, stagnation--they’ve already figured it all out, and are liable to be trapped in their ways)... and then his obsession pays off, with a little help from fate, and he ends up occupying the body of bobby keller, with gena taking up a more backseat role possessing his female counterpart, lainie diamond.

like i said, the reverse is never true. bobby still exists in a spiritual form during coleman’s escapade, making the occasional cameo in coleman’s dreams (and one has to wonder about the influence of a nightmare on elm street on this movie’s final form; at one point, bobby even quips “you were expecting, maybe... freddy krueger?”, the dreams are shot in a similar, fuzzy way to nancy’s, and in the last act not falling asleep becomes an apparently life-or-death matter for gena), but he’s not walking around in coleman’s body, which i do believe the movie is stronger for. bobby might have a takeaway lesson from all of this, but it’s coleman we follow, navigating his way through high school and first love and the mortifying ordeal of trying to pull his wife’s consciousness up through a teenage girl’s mind. and i like that the delineation between lainie and gena and even bobby and coleman isn’t always clear; they’re sharing the bodies. as coleman points out at one point, “we’re them.” there isn’t quite a point where one stops and the other starts--coleman takes on more of bobby’s mannerisms and speech patterns the longer he plays his part, and lainie, when she’s around coleman, acts more and more in accordance to gena’s personal quirks. it’s surprisingly heartfelt, in a way. the end product is sometimes messy, because it’s juggling the body-swapping a-plot with a romantic triangle subplot involving an angry boy with a gun and a minor gang war between rival delinquent groups at the school (although, i will say that the culmination of THAT, the confrontation where coleman urges joel to shoot HIM, was pretty satisfying), but it’s mature in a way you don’t see in a lot of its contemporaries. ultimately, we’re watching an old man face the consequences of his monomania and realize what really matters to him is love. the rest is set dressing.

and as for the rest, hm. corey haim’s role didn’t pan out nearly as much as i expected it to. he sticks around for most of the movie to make faces at coleman when he does out of character shit in bobby’s body, but doesn’t even make it into the final scene when coleman and bobby (in their respective bodies again) come to a final understanding. it was already a pretty long movie, but i can’t help feeling like more could have been done with their friendship, especially with dinger making it onto the cover of the movie (unlike robbards) and into all of the promotional material. toward the end, coleman-as-bobby genuinely thanks dinger for looking out for him during the ordeal, only for dinger to ask if he’s “going fag” for his trouble. (as an aside: was this a thing people said? i’d never really heard it before i watched the warriors last week, but here it popped up again. whatever.) dinger’s character also continuously brought weird, sexualized racial comments to the table (first referring to apache women, then hawai’ian), which served no purpose but white supremacy’s. this, along with the ease with which lainie’s mother makes the decision to have her second husband drug her teenage daughter with a sleeping pill mixed into a glass of wine, can be explained (but not excused) as products of their time, but, y’know, come on. even in 1989, these scenes were written, greenlit, and parroted by people who should have known better.

hey, killer soundtrack, though. all in all, i could watch it again.

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Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (1948 - ), “Eurydice - Medusa - Pieta n1”, 2015-2018.

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Rita Sue Dreifuss First // Last

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Manodrome

Manodrome (2023) #JohnTrengove #JesseEisenberg #AdrienBrody #OdessaYoung #PhilipEttinger #SallieuSesay Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (November) Genre: Drama / Thriller Regie: John Trengove Hauptrollen: Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young, Philip Ettinger, Sallieu Sesay, Ethan Suplee, Evan Joningkeit, Caleb Eberhardt … Filmbeschreibung: Ralphie (Jesse Eisenberg) ist ein Mann, der mit den Kräften von außen und den Dämonen in seinem Inneren ringt, als er auf eine geheimnisvolle Familie von Männern trifft,…

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That each of us has been an object-cause-of-desire of the Other is a part of our own phantasy. Thus if the artist sets you up for an ambush, it is as if s/he is saying “you don’t see me from where I look at you,” at the same time as s/he is offering an image that brings you closer to the ache at your own blind spot. The oeuvre (work) is an ouverture (opening) onto a gaze that incarnates in your feeling a place dignifying your self as an objet a for your lost others, or conversely dignifying their psychic site as constituting lost others for you. It is an opening onto a gaze as absence, an absence that feels to you like the mysterious, evasive point of view you desire, from which someone else was once looking at you without you being aware of it, or longing for you with passion and desire. Is there out there in the world such a place where desire meets reality without fading you out of the picture or expelling the gaze? If there is such a place—an echo of a primordial world—art is what brings us as close to it as it is possible to come, although not in the image it presents, but rather in the absence the artwork brings almost within your grasp.

Bracha Ettinger, "Wit(h)nessing Trauma and the Matrixial Gaze"

[mrs-stans]

@cmbenz: Big chill ✨🌭🧸

[musette22]

https://twitter.com/hourlyseb/status/1654204192205029377?t=eGkY8ZaiBHIAAxC5AviDJg&s=19 awe! Seb working with one of his best friends, this is so cute ❤️❤️❤️

OH I didn't realise that was him!! Didn't recognise him with the curlier hair, but aaaahhh that's amazing! Especially because he goes "hey, that's my best friend!" about Pete to Seb, when Seb is actually one of his best friends 🥰That's adorable!! ❤️