MAKER III

 

Coming Soon.

 

Also, working on RIOT’s summer reading series. Will likely be at Austin Java again, if they’ll let us.

Keep tuned. Summer’s here, yours truly is freshly graduated and has time enough now to get ‘er started up again.

George Leake debuts COEUR at 12th Street Books

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George Leake runs the production company Ars Notoria, as well as Pull Down Press. He has published several chapbooks including Blood and Chocolate, Tacit Notes, Nine Nocturnes, and The Hedgepig Agonistes. His latest offering is the lush, heady and thoroughly bewitching Coeur.  He has produced many outstanding literary events and readings around town including such memorable events as WAR TRANCE at Hyde Park Theatre, featuring UT’s own giants, Douglass Parker and Tom Cable.

He will be reading from Coeur at

 12th Street Books, Thursday February 26th, at 7pm.

 

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An excerpt from Coeur:

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down to the footpath-scuttling in the brush

scarlet tree bellowing-here is the track

where blossoms engorged assert and express

longing for joining, crush fallen whisper

utters we can’t, you won’t, what will they say

nothing from everything, what shall we reap

a glance, a word, a kiss, day unto night

grey beyond windows, a plain wooden chair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAKER III : V O Y E U R

It may be literary blasphemy to hi-jack and invert (pervert?) the sentiment of Fitzgerald’s “privileged glimspses,” but when mulling over the theme for this next issue of Maker, those words and that first chapter of Gatsby are what immediately come to mind. I love, too, the line that tells of poor Nick Carraway’s unfortunate susceptibility to ”the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.”

It’s not entirely fitting to invoke this chapter, I know. Nick never asked for nor wanted so much nakedness. And Voyeurism according to the DSM-IV would not count the thrill of observing an emotional disrobing. What I’m after is a much broader, and perhaps deeper, interpretation.

A voyeur, unlike Nick Carraway, is never privy to the intimacy she sees. The moments are stolen, not yeilded unbidden. What I hope to gather, from all friends and strangers alike, are stories and poetries of exquisitely uncomfortable moments of witness.

To inspire you–a few images–

Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Perhaps a poem about Ms. Lonelyhearts? She was one of my favourite parts about that movie. It was such a heartbreakingly intimate moment–when Jimmy Stewart sees her through his window having  dinner alone and toasting her glass to a ghost.

 

 

 

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Michael Powell’s ‘Peeping Tom’. Another movie with a photographer, but…. um… very different.

Movie info from Amazon.com:

Michael Powell lays bare the cinema’s dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (Michael Powell in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father’s work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colorful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock’s Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell’s film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell’s picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full color photography, documentary techniques, and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence, and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 rerelease, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative American audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. –Sean Axmaker

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Marcel Duchamp’s Ètant Donnes:

 

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Send your words to because.words@gmail.com

 

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S P A C E M A N : D A D A : R O B O T

SPACEMAN:DADA:ROBOT

 Hey folks, just wanted to let you know about an upcoming multimedia art show by the artistic collaborative Electronic Planet Ensemble.  The group includes Sergio R. Samayoa, Chad Salvata, and David Jewell, an artist and poet RIOT Ink has had the pleasure of featuring at a couple of events. 

We here at RIOT Ink know great work, so believe us when we tell you this is going to be a spectacular show.

So GO!

Be blown away!

And tell ‘em RIOT Ink sent ya!

 

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via email, David Jewell:

 There will be a mail-art exhibit at the VORTEX THEATRE from JANUARY 9th to JANUARY 24th 2009. We will display all art received before the closing on Jan. 24th.

The THEME is Spaceman:Dada:Robot.
You can send something about one or all three of those words.

Mail art is the sending of original art, which you create, (i.e. a postcard, a poem, a collage, a drawing, anything) through the mail. We will display all mail received and also show it on the web. If it gets to us soon enough we may use it as part of the video for the show.

The show is a multimedia show: Music, Spoken Word, Big Video Screen, creating an environment of entertaining
sights and sounds. Stories and thoughts and music that has a beat and you can dance to.

It is fun based. Not serious based. It is serious.
But not boring. It is lively and enlivening and the text of the show contains actual astounding Facts About Space and Time.

So send us some art to this address:
Spaceman.Dada.Robot
8003-B Tisdale Dr.
Austin, TX 78757

The Performance will be at the Vortex.

Starting Friday January 9th at 8 p.m.

and every Thur. Friday, Saturday and Sunday after that until the 24th.

 

Vortex Theater is at 2307 Manor Rd. 78722

 

 

For more info. click here

mail art will be displayed at
http://www.sergioplanet.com