Deitch art and artists,Fischerspooner,Old New Yorker artoons, New World Disorder (sic),the Owl of Minerva flies at Twilight (Hegel), the arcane pursuits of those Bavarian culture-vultures (see The Owl of Bohemia and take it from there) to those secret redwood forests in California (don't go down to the woods tonight kiddies). The psychopathology of European Aristocratic Heraldry and its ubiquity in corporate branding today-see the Peugeot logo for example. Need I go on about "the return of the Middle Ages" as Umberto Eco warned of in his collection of essays on America; Travels in Hyper-reality, half a lifetime ago?
Music
Barry Adamson,Scritti Politti,Matt Finish,Little Feat,Miles Davis(Electric)Captain Beefheart,The Who,Jimi Hendrix,Sun Ra,Kevin Borich Express,Matt Walker+Ashley Davies, Jeff Lang, Ross Wilson (all) plus Mondo Rock, Todd Rundgren (Something Anything),Alex Chilton plus his Big Star,Ariel and all of Mike Rudd's product, Severed Heads,Kraftwerk,Stelarc's Prosthetic Head, Gary Shepherd's Cybafaeries label's>The Electric Bath,John Cale,Brian Eno,NEU,Richard Thompson,Adrian Belew,Fred Frith,Ralph Towner,Leo Kottke,Joni Mitchell,Cornelius Cardew,The Mahavishnu Orchestra,Yellow Magic Orchestra,The Nazz,Rickie Lee Jones'new A/V release-Sermon on Exposition Boulevard 07...Stephen Cummings and Dave Graney.
Movies
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who,Fahrenheit 451 by Truffaut,2001- A Space Odyssey and all Kubrick's masterpieces, Slaughterhouse 5,Catch 22,Performance,Things to Come by Alexander Korda from 1936,Playtime by Jacques Tati plus all his other gems, The Party,Wonderwall by George Harrison-'67-'68,The Ladykillers with Sir Alec Guiness,King Kong,Crash by Cronenberg, BladeRunner, THX 1138, The Time Machine, On The Beach, 24 hour Party People, Citizen Kane,all of Werner Herzog's astounding works and Errol Morris' documentaries...
Television
ABC 2 and SBS TV Australia-select shows but mostly not. That April Fools Day broadcast on SBS in 2005 of Christianne Kubrick's hoax documentary "The Dark Side of the Moon", aided and abetted by Donald Rumsfeld,Henry Kissinger and the CIA's collusion with a bewildering array of "utterly possible" real life Washington DC Beltway insiders in the Republican Executive (then and now) as talking heads and actors being themselves.It even has super 8 home movie footage of a very young Rumsfeld walking with Nixon in the White House Rose Garden obviously discussing a Vietnam exit strategy with his then boss in '71-'72.As Warhol once so sagely put it to CBS in a black and white '60's news reel , " I'm faking it for television". Withering and meticulous hoax documentary about how Stanley Kubrick secretly faked the Moon landing footage in MGM Studios in London for the Nixon administration.It had all the expensive stock footage that only big bucks and the State deptartment could furnish. But to watch Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Neo-Con monstrosity Lawrence Eagleburger and retired CIA director Richard Helms in paneled booklined offices in Washington DC reminiscing about a bogus story had a certain devastating irony and a degree of ersatz truth to it. The entire documentary is worthy of the genius of Kubrick had he lived and the wit of the Situationists, Peter Sellers and Malcolm McLaren.A very subltle piece of brinksmanship on Christianne Kubrick's and Jan Harlan's part, verging on the hyper-real.It certainly transcends the mere description of entertainment or even satire. It was Dr.Strangelove meets Austen Powers.Mindblowing and try and see it if possible..Its on Google Video as a freebie download and streaming movie now.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3288261061829859642&pr=goog-sl
I suggest you Google "Deitch" a brilliant artist collective site and art gallery out of New York, really new and big fun and the http://www.fischerspooner.com site and into the Odyssey Flash animations there which are really quite beautiful and startlingly novel in conception,realization and content.
Books
Mark Dery- The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium-American Culture on the Brink, 1999, Interzone- Media Arts in Australia by Darren Tofts, 2005.Stelarc-The Monograph MIT press 2006- with essays by Dr. Julie Clarke, William Gibson,and a host of stellar contributors, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, The Plague by Albert Camus, Kalki by Gore Vidal, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Ticket that Exploded by William S. Burroughs.
Heroes
Johnny Heartfield (anti-Nazi collage art pioneer)Marcel Duchamp,Joseph Beuys,Domenico de Clario, Salvador Dali,John Cale,Buckminster Fuller,Stelarc,Albrecht Durer,Troy Innocent, Jacques Tati, Peter Sellers, Jon Ronson, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alex Jones, Brian Eno, Martin Sharp,Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix,Matt Moffitt,Mike Rudd,Ross Hannaford, Ross Wilson,Brian Wilson, Green Gartside,Aldous Huxley, Francois Truffaut,Dennis Hopper,Woody Guthrie,Kurt Vonnegut and Gore Vidal readily come to mind among a myriad of other luminaries.
Brecon's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Melbourne
Body type:
0' 1"
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:
Cancer
Children:
Love kids, but not for me
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
Intermedia artist
Brecon in your extended network Posted at 6:42 AM Aug 13, 2007 view more
The Young Charlatans circa 1977 Carlton Victoria. Proto punk ensemble with Ollie Olsen, Janine Hall, John Murphy and Rowland S. Howard- photo by Brecon Walsh 1977 & 2008
Who I'd like to meet: Stanley Kubrick,Peter Townshend,Brian Eno,Tim Burners-Leigh,Benoit Mandelbrot,Nikola Tesla,Miles Davis,Aldous Huxley,Rocky and Bullwinkle, Ren and Stimpy,John Cale,Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz and Gilbert and George, but only in my wildest imagination as their art is enough for me.
Hey Brecon, Love to see you at our show:-) It will have been 6 months since our last Melbourne show! we play at Yah Yah's on Saturday 25th April with our new stripped back line-up including new drummer Simon. It's free entry and music starts at 9pm xxx Hope your well xxx
On the eve of their first national tour in over thirty years, Daddy Cool guitarist Ross Hannaford has been robbed of his most valuable possessions, his musical instruments.
In what appears to be a random joy ride robbery, Ross' 1989 white Toyota Hi Ace van QRN 479 was stolen from the Melbourne suburb of Yarraville in the early hours of Sunday morning with all Ross' gear concealed under a tarp in the back.
Stolen along with the van were:
- Chandler 555 Guitar - customised and hand painted in Red Yellow and Green sunray design.
- Ampeg Jet II amplifier
- Rare 5 watt Diason amplifier
- Home made amplifier in Diason Cabinet with Peavey 158 Blazer head and Marantz 12" speaker
- Green and yellow Indian "hippy" bag with Boss Phrase Sampler, MXR phase 90 and Tremit Tremolo pedal.
All of these instruments are unique and irreplaceable, so musicians around Australia, keep an eye out for them. If you see or hear anything please contact the Police or Mark Sydow Management @ www.marksydow.com
