HANNE'S ART AND CULTURE BLOG

Since I have been focusing a lot on sweaters in my Ebay tips of the day, here is the real deal: "Fashion Flashback from the VIDCAT Archive!1980s Fashion Music Video by premium sweater design company IB Diffusuion. See colorful, large shouldered sweaters, dresses and skirts." The best part of this video, however, is all the great art in the background.

Excerpt from an interview with Susan Sontag and Agnés Varda, moderated by Jack Kroll.

If this was in 2008, I would invite the dancing guy to do a performance in my next exhibition. Also: Link.

If you're in LA, check out my new exhibition Secondary Market, including paintings, sculptures, and art ephemera bought from Ebay. Open until we sell out... Also, Josh Blackwell is exhibiting in the Ooga Booga windows. Open until January 7 2009.
Ooga Booga, 943 N. Broadway #203, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
More info here and here.

Yet another addition to the Single Ladies craziness..!

Shoe Hurled at Bush Flies Off Turkish Maker’s Shelves (Update1)
By Mark Bentley

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The shoe hurled at President George W. Bush has sent sales soaring at the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran.
The brown, thick-soled “Model 271” may soon be renamed “The Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush,” Ramazan Baydan, who owns the Istanbul-based producer Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic., said in a telephone interview today.

“We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy,” he said. “We’ve even hired an agency to look at television advertising.”

Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi hurled a pair at Bush at a news conference in Baghdad on Dec. 14. Both shoes missed the president after he ducked. The journalist was jailed and is seeking a pardon from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 more staff to meet demand, he said. “Model 271” is exported to markets including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt. Customers in Iraq ordered 120,000 pairs this week and some Iraqis offered to set up distribution companies for the shoe, Baydan said. Baydan has received a request for 4,000 pairs from a company called Davidson, based in Maryland. He declined to provide further details.

UPDATE: However, the brother of shoe-throwing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi says he believes the shoes were Iraqi-made.

A documentary from 1988.

Andy Warhol interviews a young, chatty Steven Spielberg in a hotel bedroom, while Bianca Jagger watches. Courtesy of the Warhol Museum. Thanks Lina! ;)

Santas made by me at 5.

Link.

A young Rob Lowe discusses a conversation with Francis Ford Coppola, who taught him that the audience will give a film a life of its own......... Courtesy the Warhol Museum.

Filmed inside a car, this tape focuses on observation of natural phenomena, presenting the obverse of the "If a tree falls in the woods..." conundrum. Does observation change the course of events? Can you believe in things you don't see? In this experiment, the camera occupies a privileged position ‹ showing the woman and what she sees, as well as what she cannot see. Via Benjamin.

Filmmaker is a 30 minute documentary by George Lucas about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People. According to the Dale Pollock biography of Lucas, Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas (1983, 1999), it was Lucas who came up with the idea of making the documentary and Coppola readily agreed, paying for the film out of The Rain People 's still photography budget. Armed with a $12,000 budget and an unused production camera, Lucas filmed and recorded sound for the documentary himself. Lucas and his future wife, Marcia Griffin, later edited Filmmaker in the home they shared, and the results were so professional looking that the documentary was used as an example of first-rate documentaries at USC for many years.

The Ooga Booga Store put up inventory pictures from my exhibition/ store Secondary Market. If you are interested in buying something, you can call or email them. Go there to see more pictures and shop!

Also, remember the 2009 Calendar "Cute Even in the Dark"!. Buy it here.

Ida's new paintings are my new favorite paintings. More Ida here. Ida is having a show in Berlin together with one of my other favorite peoples, Lina Viste Groenli! It opens on January 9! The show is at Galerie Micky Schubert, presented by Gaudel de Stampa Gallery, which represents Lina and Ida in Paris. That is the gallery where Lina held the legendary exhibition Grace Jones Sculpture Project.