In ExHile Media

11/11/2020

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Nicole is the story of a mysterious woman who is desperate to find love. She meets a gentleman named John on-line. They go on a first date and from there the...

21/12/2019

May '68 & the Party of Order

"De Gaulle, seated in his palace moments before midnight on the eve of 1968, was serene and optimistic. 'In the midst of so many countries shaken by confusion,' he promised, 'ours will continue to give an example of order.' France’s 'primordial aim' in the world is peace, the General said. 'We have no enemies.'" ~Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked The World

27/11/2019

Current Project: BEAUTY IS IN THE STREET

"Another world is not only possible, but necessary to the survival and sustainability of the people and the planet."

Formats - Coffee table book: BEAUTY IS IN THE STREET - The Art & Practice of Protest, Revolt & Revolution in Words & Pictures, (1960-2020)
Video: Documentary theatrical film, miniseries
Status: Prepublicaton/preproduction
Release Dates: TBA

Synopsis: Beginning with the events leading up to 1968: The Year of Revolutions, BEAUTY is a historical overview of the social problems that gave rise to a wave of global resistance, the revolutionary movements that followed, their present day counterparts, and the prospects for liberating the people and the planet from systematic tyranny, injustice, oppression, and ultimately global systemwide collapse

23/09/2019

Jordan Peele

We knew that following the success of the box office hit, Get Out, we’d see more from comedian-turned-director Jordan Peele. Carving an entirely new path in filmmaking adjoining art and social awareness, he’s back to produce a series called “Lovecraft Country” set in the 1950s Jim Crow South...

14/07/2019

"To the truer than true, the falser than false; to the more beautiful that the beautiful, the monstrous." ~Jean Baudrillard

14/07/2019

the block interview with gary numan about ultravox and there influence.

13/07/2019

Larry McCaffrey - What is Avant-Pop?

Most of the things we're saying about post-modernism are already present in Modernism--like Futurism, for example. One of the differences between the '50's and '60's modernisms is that writers were starting to deal with the media. Coover, Barthelme and Burroughs all recognized the significance of the rise of the media, and that didn't happen until after WWII. After the war is when consumer and media culture took off. Pop Art was the first movement to recognize this and represent it in a neutral, realistic way. Avant-Pop isn't interested in representing pop culture in a neutral way as Warhol or Lichtenstein did. Avant-Pop wants to work in a more flexible, collaborative way. Rather than showing a Campbell's soup can in a banal, almost celebratory way, the Avant-Pop artist might recontextualize it and turn it into a condom, or something. One of the differences with today's writers like Leyner and Acker is that they grew up in pop culture. They're part of a new species, a vivisystem analogous to what Kevin Kelly talks about in his great new book Out of Control. Bruce Sterling sent me this book and told me to drop whatever I was doing and read it.

The avant-garde saw its relationship to pop culture as oppositional. They were going to lead the way--it was a movement with leaders and orders. Avant-Pop isn't really like that. Its relationship to media culture is one of symbiosis or co-evolution. An example from Out of Control: there's a plant which has developed all these defenses against bugs. But somehow, one kind of ant is allowed to overrun this system. These two antagonists co-evolve, so that eventually the ant requires the plant and vice-versa. If one died, the other would perish. That's what's happening with Avant-Pop and pop culture, which are now existing in a feedback loop. They feed off of and influence each other.

In Japan I met a lot of young writers and musicians who struggle with the same problem American avant-garde artists face, and that is, how do you compete with a media that is instantly able to appropriate radical aspects of your work and put it into a Nike ad? If you consider yourself a radical, dan...

13/07/2019

🎶 I know you tried to change things 🎶

Album - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now Last Gang Records 2003 Directed by: Michael Schiller

13/07/2019

13/07/2019

Garmonbozia

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch - Original Trailer by Film&Clips Directed by David Lynch, with Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick iTunes: https:/...

12/07/2019

Current Project: BEAUTY IS IN THE STREET

"Another world is not only possible, but necessary to the survival and sustainability of the people and the planet."

Formats - Coffee table book: BEAUTY IS IN THE STREET - The Art & Practice of Protest, Revolt & Revolution in Words & Pictures, (1968 - the Present)
Video: Documentary theatrical film, miniseries
Status: Prepublicaton/preproduction
Release Dates: TBA

Synopsis: Beginning in 1968, the Year of Revolutions, BEAUTY IS IN THE STREET is a historical overview of events that gave rise to a wave of global resistance, the revolutionary movements that followed, their present day counterparts, and the prospects for liberating the people and the planet from systemwide tyranny, injustice, oppression, and collapse.

27/06/2019

If anyone knows horror, it's groundbreaking filmmaker Jordan Peele

"After a screening of Midsommar, Peele texted Aster to tell him, ‘I think you’ve made the most idyllic horror film of all time. I was like, Holy s----!"

Let the festivities begin. - July 3 🌻

Jordan Peele has nothing but glowing praise for "Midsommar," from the director of "Hereditary."