The HMC, Inc. and Mucius Gallery cordially invite you for the

HMC/A.I.R./Budapest International Artists Residencies
closing exhibition

Mucius Gallery
1066 Budapest O utca 35

August 5 - August 10, 2008
Closing reception: Tuesday, August 5 at 6:00pm
Opening remarks: Beata Szechy, HMC

Exhibiting artists are:

Holly Boruck, CA, USA - Howard M. Christopherson, MN, USA - Lana Ing Gabor, Kanada - Odette England, UK - Lisa Erdman, FL, USA - Gregory Euclide, MN, USA - Niku Kashef, CA, USA - Benjamin Page, CA, USA - Andreas Papanastasiu, UK/GR - Candida Pestana, Portugalia - Megan Randlett, MA, USA - Jenna Spevack, NY, USA - Hannah Verlin, MA, USA - Marlene Vinha, Portugalia - Patricia Tinajero, TN, USA - Kristine Trever, VA, USA - Rudee Westphal, SD, USA

FilmFest:

JoyPRadio: In Stereotype
(http://www.nedpr.org/2008/joypradio)
(an episode of NedPR produced by Joy D’Albora)

In this episode you’ll find :::
“Cherry Fillin’ and the art of…..”
The local West Hollywood Drag Queen fills us in on the day and the life.

“Jimbob’s Plea”
Oh no! People are scary!

“Luellyn Watts”
An in studio interview with a guy who knows a lot about something.

“Hapu’s Party Spot”
A 7-eleven in the Valley…..just wants to party.

And peace. Love and Happiness.

You may view the latest post at http://www.nedpr.org/2008/joypradio

Best regards,
Nedcaster
ned@nedpr.org

last week I had a work shop in Emam Ali Museum. That was good. I had some feedback and got some new experience.now I would like to share it with you. Here you are.

I preformed this piece, which I spent hours researching and writing, for my writers group last week, and was actually filled with a new kind of fear while I read...I had this abstract feeling of impending destruction, perhaps on the line of Guillermo Vargas' destruction for creating the gallery installation he created. I'm realizing quite poignantly that one must be quite brave when one sees things in a different way then the herd, and yet one is an artist, so must self-express.

I followed the piece with Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Dog,” --a poem I highly recommend you google and read, as it captures the spirit of the free roaming dog of the U.S. 1950s, as well as provides a great metaphor of the human spirit:)

This issue of Unlikely 2.0 features;

art by Johan Wahlstrom,
photographs by Mary Ellen Derwis,
performance art by Leigh Herrick and Branko Gulin.

Check it out @ http://www.unlikelystories.org/

Jeff

If I could unzip my body I'd probably unleash my soul
Release my whole existence to finally go and reach my goals
My stamina persistence, be demandin you to listen to
The parables of livin-life, to understand my vision you must
Project your eye sight directly on what I write, cuz
I see the future retrospective in my hindsight
Trajectories paved, by intellects and true scholars
So that kids like me, could unchain our blue collars
I'm dat militant type, concepts explode your conscious state
Your self's concussion had your blood gushin all your common traits
Fulfillments from the sweat I spilled, killed me dead so I could build
A bigger badder self of who I am today... wit these skills
I speak to space, bantering wit stars on my weaker days

In a dynamic change to the format of the traditional SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, this year's art program will represent innovative, juried and curated installations. I was lucky enough to be invited to serve on this Jury by its Chair, Lina Yamaguchi (see below), and am quite excited to see this exhibition in August in L.A. ... this experience with Lina and the other Jurors was a great one and I believe this exhibition will be quite a 'marker' (alongside Vibeke Sorensen's Jury in 2007) for all the experimental arts.
J.Dill
http://interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com
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Slow Art:
In Slow Art, new media artists re-imagine speed through the paradigm of slowness.

Vol. 5, Issue 2 of The Poetry Victims is now online @

http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com/

Guest artist ... Carol Radsprecher
Guest poet ... Taylor Graham

Check it out!

Jeff

The annual Clifftop Gala in Gorleston, Norfolk, U.K.
Weekend of 25-27th. July, on Marine Parade.
This event attracts about 20-25,000 visitors and is one of the largest attended events in the country.
www.theclifftopgala.org.uk

~~~ and ~~~

The Chet Valley Festival on 9th. August at Langley Village Hall, and Jubulee Hall, Loddon, 29th. October, 11a.m. - 2p.m.
www.chetvalleyfestival.co.uk

All welcome to any of these public events.

I'm speakin of hell...every fuckin weekend I dwell
On this redundant life cycle that repeated itself
No different from the last, but the beat of it spells
Imprisonment from nine to five, it keeps me in jail
A humble mind is crumblin, to flakes and ash I'm stumblin
While takin cash to pump it in, to gas's taxation
A nation's addiction, to be burnin oil...my jubilation
Reached its boiling point, as my sermon coils in truth - my patience
Left the hospital, impatiently as my premonition
Strapped itself to when my vision's, windshield was clean...
As I windmill through dreams, fantasies of who I used to be
A life liver drop out, reminiscin on who I used to see
A copout of mine, was that I had no time to write a rhyme
Thoughts grew insecure, so now I hide this idle life of mine.

I've been trying to upload an image for three days now - can't get anything but a little red x. I've changed the size to weblog size, changed to .gif from .jpg and now I can't even get a preview of it. Argh...

I'm supposed to be upstairs doing "stuff" - - - all I want to do is work on some art. Summers are tough - kids around all the time, breaks concentration. I admire artists who can get work done while their children are home. Those who will peacefully sit with Mom or Dad, creating their own art. Is this a myth? Mine always have questions, want to go somewhere, etc.

Of course, that's family life. I LOVE family life, but sometimes I get in my art "zone" and I want to build walls around me. So I don't even start art because I don't want to wall off my family that way...

Check it oot: http://www.nedpr.org/2008/write-on

Subscribe through Itunes: http://www.nedpr.org/itunes

• A conversation with Enrique Kalil about producing his NedPR episode Enrikaydio (Check it out at http://www.nedpr.org/2008/enrikaydio)
• Nedcaster talks about the work of writing and shares his writings at www.mypencilpours.com
• Writings from Nedcaster, Lacy Telles, Jaime Becktel and Molly Benson
• Morning Becomes Epileptic w/Ned Hardcore and music from Ben Floren and Friends (Check out more at www.myspace.com/guestroomsessions)
• Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• Artwork created by Jaime Becktel

LISTEN AND SHARE YOUR OWN WORK!!!

Create on...

Nedcaster

Hi all; I'm new here and looking forward to connecting. I'm pretty isolated, which is good for getting work done, but sometimes it just sucks the life out of me. This should prove a good antidote. I'm on a low right now after a complete manic spring, which was excellent for creativity but awful for sleep. The fam. suffered.

I'm getting us ready for a trip to Seattle/Bellingham/Lummi Island to visit former Peace Corps (dh's) friends. I'll be taking along the sketchbook; maybe there'll be something worth posting. Friends have been traveling around the world this summer and have brought me all sorts of wonderful ephemera, too, for my collages and assemblages. Now I'll have "stuff" from the NW, too.

I ponder bout life and bein somber wit no options
Of exonerating me, from this haunted state of livin in
The discipline of discontent, my vision starts but never ends
Freedom's not a regiment...I follow in life.
So my negligence to speak my voice leaves me deaf wit every noise
I'm reachin for the stars while the stars reach for other boys.
It's not my time, It's not my time,

Part 2 coming up...