Archive for December, 2005

UNCOOLKIDS normally only reports on events going on New York. But in light of yesterday’s events, I am outraged and scared and think everyone’s time would be best spent learning how to protect themselves from Big Brother.

Cryptography. The art of secret messages. Most of us have only ever encountered it when we were little and used secret decoder rings. But it’s something we should know how to do, even if we don’t think we have to. I’m gonna lay out a basic technique you can use in case of emergency (I’m preparing for the worst here).

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“The current generation of twenty and thirty something’s is the first generation to have grown up with easy to use video cameras and camcorders in their homes. Most of us experimented with these home video cameras when we were children. “The Movies I Made as a Kid,” will put these creative videos on display.”

I love this idea. Jon Friedman from Tremendous Rabbit Productions and The Rejection Show sent this out earlier today:

“”The Movies I Made as a Kid” is moving forward and picking up speed. Gather up your old hilarious kid movies when you go back home for the holidays. This project is being developed for the web, festival, and the TV! What is “The Movies I Made as a Kid” you ask?

We’ve made a beta preview test pilot trailer featuring my own kid video. You can find out more about the project and see me as my awkward glorious 14 year old self here.”

Contact Jon Friedman at jon AT rejectionshow.com for full submission details. It is free to submit.

For those of you who haven’t seen the magazine articles, the late night guest spots, or any of the other media circus that’s been happening the past couple of weeks, Howard Stern is leaving KROQ for Sirius Satellite Radio. This morning was his last show.

And for some reason, I can’t stop paying attention.

First thing this morning I woke up and turned on “The Last Show”. Some low brow jokes were made, a girl got naked. The only difference between the last show and any other show I’d heard was that clips were the fans that kept calling in to thank Stern. That’s right. No matter how you feel about him, you can’t deny that there are hundreds of thousands of people who love Howard Stern.

I got on the internet to research this relationship Stern has with his fans. Message boards were filled with people saying they were coming to New York to be here for the last show. Not just driving in from Jersey and Long Island, but flying in from all over the country. They were all going to meet up outside of The Howard Stern Building to be there for a parade after the show. I thought about going, but the idea of being in a crowd of die-hard Howard Stern fans scares the shit out of me.

Then I found the live Howard Stern Walks: Yahoo web-cast of the after party, taking place right now at the Hard Rock Cafe. I can’t stop watching it. They interviewed John the Stutterer, Wendy the Retard, Crackhead Bob, all members of Stern’s ‘Whack Pack’. Sheryl Crow will be playing live in a few minutes, and right now, I am watching Martha Stewart welcome Stern to Sirius radio. Is anyone else’s head exploding?

I just found out that Quo is gonna be playing tonight at 8pm at Arlene’s Grocery, Stanton between Ludlow and Essex.

Anyone who has not seen him play live should go check out this show.

The Interactive Telecommunications Program is having their winter show on Sunday and Monday. Prepare to be inspired. One of the projects that’s not to be missed:

“Smoke is a window display where a sensor detects cigarette smoke and transforms a recorded video of a solo dance piece. Designed to be installed in a window outside a dance studio or performance space, Smoke is motivated by and reflects upon the prevalence of smoking in the dance community.”

“Smoke is made up of a custom smoke sensor housed in a small device attached to the outside of a display window. The device senses a variety of gases, including cigarette smoke, and communicates the presence of the gas to a second sensor inside the window. A PC inside the window runs a custom application that alters the appearance of a dance video piece as more or less gas is detected.”

Smoke will be on display on the corner of Waverly and Broadway on Sunday from 2-6 and Monday from 5-9.

“AL GORE AND TOMMY LEE JONES IN PERSON
‘THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA’
NEW YORK PREMIERE
At the Paris Theatre, 4 West 58th Street, Manhattan
Monday, December 12
6:30 p.m.
2005, 121 mins. Sony Pictures Classics. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. With Jones, Melissa Leo, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam.

The Museum is pleased to announce that Former Vice President Al Gore will co-host the New York premiere of Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Gore was the Harvard roommate of Tommy Lee Jones, the film’s star and director. After the premiere screening, Jones will participate in a Pinewood Dialogue moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz. The film will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 14th.

Jones’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, written by his longtime friend, screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), won awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes. “Start learning to pronounce Mel-key-odd-ess right now, because eventually you may want to tell people you just saw the best movie of the year,” writes film critic Richard T. Jameson. Tickets are $18 public/$12 Museum members. Call 718-784-4520.”

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Dec 6, 8—10 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20, 30, 45, 55
Apx. 70min, no intermission

BAMdialogue with Sasha Waltz
Dec 8, post-show
(free for ticket holders)

BAM Ticket Services
718.636.4100
tickets@BAM.org

In 2002, Sasha Waltz’s “Körper” created a sensation when it premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her energetically physical dance works incorporate strong visual and aural imagery coupled with intense partnering and a microscopic look at body perceptions. Her new work, “Impromptus,” continues her dynamic group interactions, with dancers that assemble in organic formations that seem to tumble, melt and jettison forth. The 70-minute work is set to piano music by Shubert which will be played live onstage. Waltz is often compared to the genius German choreographer Pina Bausch, but her territory is her own, with a grab bag of experiences in dance that combines American postmodern sensibilities and German Expressionism. Preview a video clip HERE. –Tom Pearson

photo: “Impromptus,” Festival d’Avignon 2004, by Cathy Peylan