Knight at the Musee
by Steven "Pocket" Uppinghouse
This week the louvre announced that it will be displaying The Dark Knight as possibly a permanent installation to the museums already massive collection. The Director of the Musée du Louvre had this to say "We put a lot of thought into it and found the movie to be quite simply a master piece."
The movie is to be installed right next to the Mona Lisa, where it will be displayed on a large flat screen set into the wall and will loop indefinitely. Along with several choice frame stills to complete the display. Of Course this ruffled some Parisian feathers with the museums choice of hanging it next to the Mona Lisa.
"It is a disgrace to the Mona lisa," claimed Jacques Yves, a local Parisian "No one will even look at the Mona Lisa, we might as well not even have it!" Though some are quite excited about the museums decision with a lot of chatter across the Internet. La Petite a modern French design and art blogsite had an article praising the museum for its plans to install the work, calling the exhibition "daring and well deserved."
Many of the films cast and crew plan to attend the opening of the exhibit, which is set for late February. Batman himself, Christian Bale, will be there along with the 1960s Batman, Adam West, who stated he is happy to be finally known for something other then Family Guy. Other Hollywood stars will be in attendance including Ben Stiller, who forced himself onto the guest list claiming that he needs to be there to protect everyone.
edited by: Aaron Thayer
Black Friday Picture Follow Up!!
by Steven "Pocket" UppinghouseOn Friday we spent the night people watching around Beaverton, Oregon. Below are a few photos taken by our art director. Read the whole live blog of our night and a collection of concluding comments here!
Illiterate Poet Wins Major Award
by Derek SchmidtIn an attempt to connect the users of cleverpork central with culture and art from around the world this writer gladly presents to you Carla Rosedale's 2009 Carlo Betocchi Poetry Prize winning poem "Gladder Flub en Tonnino". It is short, but the form and the meter at which Rosedale constructs her poetry really presents an ironic view of language, making it as though their is no meaning or form to the written word at all. That unique critique on the written word asks the reader to take a look at their own words, their own language, in a powerfully existential way and critically examine how they participate in language in their own life. Extremely controversial for her unique prose, critics of Rosedale's work bring up that she is illiterate and her 'creativity' is because she is illiterate and not because she is some kind of poetry genius. I ask the reader to keep an open mind, and to try and see the genius of Rosedale's work for what it is. Enjoy...
Gladder Flub en Tonnino
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Carla Rosedale
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Zoo Replaces Dead Polar Bears With Fakes
by Pat CunninghamW
hen you have an issue with your polar bears dying why not replace them with fake bears. I mean that's what we did with my aunt. We replaced her with a fake bear. No one noticed.
Ok but seriously this brings up an important question. How many of those animals you see in the zoo have been made into anamatronics. Zoo Disney anyone?
SpY
by Steven "Pocket" UppinghouseAn Artist based in Madrid. He makes public interventions, that one might relate too graffiti. Though, they are more like installations that just happen to be on public property. These were just some of my favorites, check all the other stuff on his website.
http://www.spy.org.es/about.php
