Artist Alex Melamid’s Art Healing Ministry

Submitted by Steve Lambert: Alex Melamid was once part of Komar and Melamid – an amazing pair of artists. He has now created:


The Art Healing Ministry:

Watch the NY1 video interview of Melamid here.

Harnessing the Power of Art!

…Alexander Melamid, working with Gary Krimershmoys, has started his Art Healing practice. Art is capable of alleviating and even curing psychological and physiological problems of afflicted individuals. It has become evident that there are many benefits of exposing oneself to Art masterpieces especially for those who strive to keep themselves physically fit with flawless skin and flat stomachs.

In our practice, we use treatments such as van Gogh/Seurat Face Peels, Brancusi Slim-Down Projections, as well as home remedies supplements like Art Charged Water, Art Enhanced Votive Candles, Art Anointed Prayer Cards and last but not least our Targeted Maladies Museum Tours like the Frick Collection Vermeer Radiant Skin Therapy or in extreme cases Faecal Encephalopathy Met Visits.

These procedures and supplements, used in concert, along with healthy eating habits and exercise, are sure to bring amazing results. Your skin will radiate with an ethereal glow and your waist will shrink to the size of a proverbial twig. Guaranteed!

Until June 15th, if you write to us and tell us your problem, we will send you a FREE introductory abridged personalized Art Program of appropriated Art Images and Color Combinations (AIACC) remedy targeting your disorder with razor-sharp accuracy!

Party at an unemployment office! / Fiesta en una sucursal del Inem! [English & Spanish]

Submitted by Steve Lambert from the site of Enmedio (Intercambio colaboracià³n y trabajo colectivo de Enmedio):


Fiesta en el Inem / Party at an unemployment office
Enmedio
30 Abril 2009

Fed up with the crisis. Tired of the fear that mass media communicate everyday. Sick of suffering in silence at home, we decided… go dancing at an unemployment office. Here is the result.

http://blip.tv/play/Af6VRYuOLw

[Espaà±ol]
Hoy Jueves 30 de abril se ha llevado a cabo la fiesta en el Inem. La venà­amos preparando desde hace unas semanas y por fin la hemos liado.

¡Ha sido una auténtica gozada!, unas 40 personas hemos irrumpido a las 12:00h en la sucursal del Inem situada en la calle Sepàºlveda de Barcelona. Allà­ nos aguardaba el ambiente habitual de estos sitios a esta hora: una mezcla de parados (locales y extranjeros) hartos de esperar y perder el tiempo, aburridos, irritados y con cara de asco, llenos de miedo por la crisis. Menos de cinco minutos de baile y cachondeo han sido necesarios para cambiar esos rostros en crisis por caras alegres y sonrientes. Algunos nos han acompaà±ado en el baile, otros aplaudà­an y todos ellos, sin excepcià³n, han agradecido esta ola de luz y de color, este arrebato de alegrà­a y disfrute allà­ donde menos se lo esperaban: en una oficina de trabajo en plena crisis.

Aquà­ os dejamos algàºn documento de esta hazaà±a, ¡qué los disfrutéis!

Soccer Hoaxer Scores

Submitted by Steve Lambert:


Fictional Moldovan Soccer Phenom Tells All
by Brian Phillips
Slate.com
January 23, 2009

Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press.

090123_snut_soccertn-2001On a typical weekday, the English soccer press devotes itself to unsubstantiated rumors, manufactured scandals, and bikini pictures of players’ girlfriends (who seem to roam the earth together in a giant conjugal yacht, like the Beatles in Yellow Submarine). This week, however, thanks to an ingenious hoax that took in the Times of London, the soccer press has been engrossed by Moldova. Specifically by one Moldovan teenager, who is not, as it happens, a real person.

Earlier this month, the Times ran a feature called “Football’s Top 50 Rising Stars,” which featured at No. 30 a 16-year-old attacker named Masal Bugduv, whom the paper, never one to fear irony, described as “Moldova’s finest.” A bright future seemed to fill Bugduv’s windscreen. The young player had been “strongly linked,” the Times said, with a transfer to the London club Arsenal, had already earned a mention on the popular soccer news site Goal.com, spawned excitement in online forums, and been portrayed as something of a savior by the magazine When Saturday Comes, which introduced him as “one bright spot” amid Moldova’s nationalist strife.

But as the old scout’s adage says, even the most talented young striker will struggle if he has no corporeal being. Continue reading “Soccer Hoaxer Scores”

The Zen of Parking

Submitted by Steve Lambert:


Carpark: a site specific public art project
inSite ’94, San Diego, CA

In 1994, artists Nina Katchadourian, Steven Matheson and Mark Tribe were invited to work collaboratively on a site-specific project at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California for inSite ’94, a binational art exhibition that takes place at various locations throughout San Diego and Tijuana.

Check out the video:


For more information and photos of this project, visit MarkTribe.net

Special Edition of NY Times Blankets Cities with Message of Hope & Change

From Steve Lambert and friends:

An elaborate prank Special Edition of The New York Times from The Yes Men, the Anti-Advertising Agency, CODEPINK, United for Peace and Justice, Not An Alternative, May First/People Link, Improv Everywhere, Evil Twin, Cultures of Resistance and thousands of volunteers was launched and revealed today:

Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had come to an end…


Here’s The New York Times’ take on the story; Gawker’s “Exclusive” outting of the pranksters, including details of the instructions to the volunteers; and, an article from the Herald Tribune.


Here are identical videos from hschweppes and zencube (traffic is heavy, so hopefully one of the links will work):