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A closer look at two top Democrats

SeizeTheDay — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:55:25 -0800

Chuck Schumer. Barney Frank. A closer look at two of Washington's most powerful men.

Contemporary Art and the End of Japanese Whaling

AtDuskGreg — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:42:51 -0800

The Nisshin Maru is on fire. After being rammed by the Greenpeace Ship Sunrise, chased and harassed by anti-whaling activist Captain Paul Watson, and playing set to contemporary artist Matthew Barney's film Drawing Restraint 9 (which co-starred Barney's wife Bjork), the Nisshin Maru, flagship of Japan's whaling fleet has been crippled by an onboard fire fueled by whale oil, spelling a possible end to whaling in Japan.

Not coming soon to a Googleplex near you.

zardoz — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:05:50 -0800

Matthew Barney, of The Cremaster Cycle fame, has a new film coming out. Starring Bjork and Barney himself, along with a largely Japanese cast, Drawing Restraint 9.

"The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto."

"The core idea of Drawing Restraint 9 is the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity, a theme it symbolically tracks through the construction and transformation of a vast sculpture of liquid Vaseline, called “The Field”, which is molded, poured, bisected and reformed on the deck of the ship over the course of the film."

Uh huh. If you liked the beautiful weirdness that was TCC, check out the trailer {embedded QT}.

Video artists can be such divas...

jrb223 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:48:29 -0800

DIVA 2006The Digital & Video Art Fair just opened in New York (nytimes) some highlights if you don’t live in the New York area, or have a better way to spend $10: Martin Sastre’s BOLIVIA 3: Confederation Next (Barney represents Matthew Barney, see here he is slaying Sastre with a lightsaber) part of his Iberoamerican Trilogy; Vincent Goudreau’s Sub-Paradise – about sugarcane farming in Hawaii (excerpted .mov here); My Favorite – ‘Panoscopic’ images by Luc Courchesne. more inside.

Don Knotts, 1294-2006

Smart Dalek — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:46:11 -0800

Call him Mr. Limpet, Mr. Furley, Wormie, Les Calhoun, or Barney Fife. Actor Don Knotts has passed away at 81.

I love you bitches, y'alls love me.

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:57:53 -0800

Tupac & Barney the Dinosaur: a Video Mashup.

Barney Cam Returns

BradNelson — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:08:01 -0800

Where is Miss Beazley? [Large WMA file] President Bush's dog Barney has a new home video this year. The president has asked Barney to look after their new dog, Miss Beazley. It's a bit hokey, but still amusing. Includes a cast of various administration officials.

The demon lord B'harne, servant of the malevolent alien High Magus of Lyra, has commenced his assault on the human race.

angry modem — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:20:18 -0800

The Barney Fun Page was one of the first things I found online, along with The Jihad to Destroy Barney on the Worldwide Web. Back when nobody knew what a jihad was.

Dinosaur 0, Common Sense 1

Pericles — Sat, 29 May 2004 01:38:55 -0800

Barney is a 6 year old boy whose dad bought the .co.uk domain of his name so he can use it when he's older. Barney is a 60 million year old malevolent purple dinosaur and wants "his" domain name back. Hilarity, thinly vieled contempt and common-sense ensues .. (via NTK)

mathowie — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:17:54 -0800

The EFF is throwing a party, and it's gonna be a good one. Being thrown at jwz's DNA Lounge, the featured event is some celebrity boxing. The combatants? Wil Wheaton vs. Barney and his lawyers.