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Existential and bittersweet, dark themes meet vibrant composition in these thirty postcards featuring Jordan Crane's distinctive screenprints and comics.
4 x 5-3/4 in; 30 color postcards
Photography by Shay Rowan at the first performance.
Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis.
"As irreverent as it is poignant" (Australian Arts Review), this classical cello recital plays out like a piece of performance art run by a masterly jester blurring artistry, humanity, and insanity. Featuring Suite Number One in G Major by JS Bach and personal comedic pieces crafted in Idiot classes, Karen fuses in a healthy dose of pathos tackling identity, expectations, and success through the eyes of a fool.
Winner - Tour Ready Award San Diego Fringe
Winner - Best of the Broadwater encore at Hollywood Fringe
Winner - Weekly Judges Pick in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Nominee - Best Overall in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Top Ten Theatre pick by Stage Raw Los Angeles
★★★★ - Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★ "comic timing as impeccable as her playing" Everything Theatre UK, London
★★★★ - The Alternative Gig Guide, Melbourne
SOLD OUT Run at Vancouver Fringe
Tickets greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/delusions-and-grandeur/
Photography by Shay Rowan at the first performance.
Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis.
"As irreverent as it is poignant" (Australian Arts Review), this classical cello recital plays out like a piece of performance art run by a masterly jester blurring artistry, humanity, and insanity. Featuring Suite Number One in G Major by JS Bach and personal comedic pieces crafted in Idiot classes, Karen fuses in a healthy dose of pathos tackling identity, expectations, and success through the eyes of a fool.
Winner - Tour Ready Award San Diego Fringe
Winner - Best of the Broadwater encore at Hollywood Fringe
Winner - Weekly Judges Pick in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Nominee - Best Overall in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Top Ten Theatre pick by Stage Raw Los Angeles
★★★★ - Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★ "comic timing as impeccable as her playing" Everything Theatre UK, London
★★★★ - The Alternative Gig Guide, Melbourne
SOLD OUT Run at Vancouver Fringe
Tickets greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/delusions-and-grandeur/
Photography by Shay Rowan at the first performance.
Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis.
"As irreverent as it is poignant" (Australian Arts Review), this classical cello recital plays out like a piece of performance art run by a masterly jester blurring artistry, humanity, and insanity. Featuring Suite Number One in G Major by JS Bach and personal comedic pieces crafted in Idiot classes, Karen fuses in a healthy dose of pathos tackling identity, expectations, and success through the eyes of a fool.
Winner - Tour Ready Award San Diego Fringe
Winner - Best of the Broadwater encore at Hollywood Fringe
Winner - Weekly Judges Pick in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Nominee - Best Overall in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Top Ten Theatre pick by Stage Raw Los Angeles
★★★★ - Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★ "comic timing as impeccable as her playing" Everything Theatre UK, London
★★★★ - The Alternative Gig Guide, Melbourne
SOLD OUT Run at Vancouver Fringe
Tickets greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/delusions-and-grandeur/
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Hotel Jerome Ballroom
Tristan Harris
Interviewer: Charles Duhigg
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Ian Wagreich
Day 91 - 17 March 2012
He always said her nose was like a rabbit's. Often she thought about it. And in the moment of true clarity and divinity, she felt her foot thump and her teeth grow long and when she looked again, at herself, she had grown fur and long ears. In her eyes she saw the whole universe reflected and she knew the reason for all of it's existence.
Canon EOS 550D
f/3.5
1/60 sec
ISO 400
Dennis Francis, President of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, addresses the 53rd plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
The General Assembly adopted a draft by consensus, deciding to convene a high-Level meeting on 25 September to address existential threats posed by sea-level rise.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
16 January 2024
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN814012
Bhakti wisdom compares our existential situation to a joyride. We leave the nonmaterial realm full of hopes and dreams and enter a temporary body, which is like a vehicle, and think “this is me.” We then cruise the streets of whatever neck of the material woods we happen to be in by our karma in that lifetime, eagerly looking for that stuff called material happiness. After joyriding in this way for many lifetimes we may however, by good fortune, realise that what we’re looking for doesn’t exist here. After all, how can material joy satisfy us if we’re not material? Naturally, such realisation causes a 180 degree turn in our lifestyle.
“After many births and deaths, one who is actually in knowledge approaches Me for happiness, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.”
- Bhagavad Gita
Puscifer
at The Greek Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
June 12, 2022
All photos © Kaley Nelson Photography - www.KaleyNelson.com
Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis.
"As irreverent as it is poignant" (Australian Arts Review), this classical cello recital plays out like a piece of performance art run by a masterly jester blurring artistry, humanity, and insanity. Featuring Suite Number One in G Major by JS Bach and personal comedic pieces crafted in Idiot classes, Karen fuses in a healthy dose of pathos tackling identity, expectations, and success through the eyes of a fool.
Karen Hall is a multi-award winning creator and performer. As a cellist she most visibly spent four seasons on the TV show Glee in addition to her diverse work from orchestra pits to symphonic stages and recording studios. Her solo show, “Delusions and Grandeur”, a cello recital meets clown show, has performed to sold-out audiences and critical acclaim around the world.
Winner - Tour Ready Award San Diego Fringe
Winner - Best of the Broadwater encore at Hollywood Fringe
Winner - Weekly Judges Pick in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Nominee - Best Overall in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Top Ten Theatre pick by Stage Raw Los Angeles
★★★★ - Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★ "comic timing as impeccable as her playing" Everything Theatre UK, London
★★★★ - The Alternative Gig Guide, Melbourne
SOLD OUT Run at Vancouver Fringe
Tickets greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/delusions-and-grandeur/
Puscifer (Existential Reckoning Tour 2.0 - Let the Probing Continue) @ Warner Theatre, Washington, DC on Friday, November 4, 2022.
Existential Reckoning Tour 2.0 - Let the Probing Continue Setlist:
Intro: Agent Dick Merkin Video (Spam)
Act 1
Bread And Circus
Postulous
Fake Affront
The Underwhelming
Grey Area
Theorem
Upgrade
Agent Dick Merkin Video (Celebrity Clone)
Act 2
Apocalyptical
The Remedy
Personal Prometheus
Momma Sed (Versatile Mix)
Horizons
The Humbling River (Nagual Del Judith Mix)
Intermission
Agent Dick Merkin Video (Afflictions)
Act 3
Bullet Train To Iowa
Man Overboard
Flippant
Conditions Of My Parole
Bedlamite
Outro: Agent Dick Merkin Video (Tour Announcement)
Photoshop theme: Rejected McDonalds Happy Meal Ideas, 7/27/02.
One of four entries I did for this contest, but the one that required I do some homework. Thankfully, we did have the Intarwebs back then.
AN EXISTENTIAL TOMATO
July 31, 2012
Deconstructing Lichtenstein: Source Comics Revealed and Credited
There are hardcore art world people who think he [Lichtenstein] was the greatest thing and that these guys weren’t real artists. If these guys were so bad, why was Lichtenstein copying them? And he really got lazy, by 1963-64 he was taking the image, tracing it, sticking it in a projector and painting it. And when that painting sells for millions of dollars, it just really bothers me that nothing is given to the original artists.
I don’t think a lot of people know he directly copied his paintings from comic panels. I know I for a long time though he was creating original work that merely emulated comic book styles in paint. But every single painting he did was a copy, and he is held in higher esteem than the artists he copied from”.
David Barsalou MFA 2011
Reblog -Megan Rosalarian Gedris : 31 July 2012
From COMICS ALLIANCE 2/2/11
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C/O Berlin is opening SHOOT! . Existential Photography tonight at 7 p.m. at the Postfuhramt, Oranienburgerstrasse 35/36.
You are all cordially invited to join us and find out about the peculiar fascination of fairground shooting galleries: making a target of one’s own ego, or—for the price of a picture—succumbing to the temptation of staging a duel with yourself as the opponent.
C/O Berlin, 4.Februar 2011
Ausstellung
SHOOT! . Fotografie existentiell
5. Februar bis 27. März 2011
Eröffnung Freitag, 4. Februar 2011, 19 Uhr
Existential pessimism has received $883M in philanthropy, sparking a rush of premature regulation and regulatory capture. There are now 407 AI regulation bills in the works in America. Let’s look at the bellwether bill from California: SB-1047
SB-1047 requires developers to ensure safety before training large AI models, with civil penalties for violations of the Act. This reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how AI is built. It is not like engineering an artifact with known functional blocks. Metaphorically, it’s less like purposeful design and more like directed evolution, or parenting. The absurdity of this regulatory approach becomes stark if you substitute “teenager” for “AI” as a thought experiment. Testifying that a teenager will be “safe” is an empty promise providing a false sense of security at best. Doing so before you start parenting is rank absurdity.
You can't prove safety in any cutting-edge complex system built by iterative algorithms — whether AI or teenager. Nor can you control them, in the engineering sense. (Summary of why in my 2006 Tech Review article)
In SB-1047, developers must make “a positive safety determination that the model does not have the capability to enable certain harms, such as the creation of chemical or biological weapons that would result in mass casualties or a cyberattack on critical infrastructure resulting in $500 million or more in damage.”
It sounds like a reasonable goal, but how would you parent a teenager to prevent this? How far would you have to cripple an AI to remove its chemical and biological reasoning? Given the vast array of industrial chemicals that could become a WMD if released, it becomes a fool’s errand. In my neighborhood, the arsine and phospine at our semi fabs could kill their local community if released. Did I just enable a harm by mentioning it? Even if you could purge most of chemistry and biology and the references to their powers, the mind control becomes crippling. The core reasoning powers of the AI models degrade with the more mind control you impose. Just like a teenager.
Like typical regulatory burdens, testing needs to be according to “a written safety and security protocol” with annual compliance certification. Lots of work for lawyers and bureaucrats, and a hindrance to the builders. The burgeoning bureaucracy is the shoggoth on the face of America.
As with cellular ag, the regulatory chokehold on innovation and progress is coming in the new industry's infancy. I would hope the government would look back on the early days of the Internet and all that blossomed in the unregulated domains. Innovation is what makes America great, again and again, but for the ignorant impulse to preemptively regulate that which we don’t understand.
The regulators do not understand that which they regulate… and they never will. This may make them uneasy, but we are routinely building complex systems that exceed human understanding. We cannot regulate the product if we cannot understand the product. The locus of learning and progress is the process, not the product of creation.
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Hotel Jerome Ballroom
Tristan Harris
Interviewer: Charles Duhigg
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Ian Wagreich
Early attempt using Mei Teintes. I like the hair and shaping the body volume.
Prismacolor on Mei Teintes
July 2008
Christian Hidalgo
This photo is about pollution and all of the other existential environmental issues at hand. The graffiti background is hectic and disorienting representing the chaos and confusion of the whole crisis. "Clean up or D!e" means a multitude of change needs to happen before we fully reach the point of no return. Everything here is spray-painted and lit with direct daylight balanced lighting (one-point lighting). My white balance is set to daylight and my f-stop is higher to capture more detail on the walls. I shot this with my 18-55mm stock lens. Additional versions with slight variations are available on my photostream and Exercise 13 Album.
Legendary band from San Francisco's punk heyday.
Self-taught guitarists/vocalists Johnny Strike and Frankie Fix formed the nucleus of Crime, and their stark vision dominated the band through its lifespan. In the summer of 1976, with bassist Ron Ripper and drummer Ricky Tractor on board and a few hasty rehearsals under their belts, Crime recorded and self-released their debut single, “Hot Wire My Heart” b/w “Baby You’re So Repulsive.” More: crimesf.com/murder-by-guitar
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Hotel Jerome Ballroom
Tristan Harris
Interviewer: Charles Duhigg
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Ian Wagreich
Puscifer
at The Greek Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
June 12, 2022
All photos © Kaley Nelson Photography - www.KaleyNelson.com
"So you haven't had an existential attack about the arbitrary nature of this project?"
-My Boss
This is what I work with for my volunteer job with Rare Books at UBC. I digitize bookplates and catalogue them, which involves research on the artist and owner, translating the odd Latin motto, flipping through the Heraldic Dictionary, and looking at the piece through a magnifying glass to determine the printing technique.
I think we need to up the Book Club ante with personalized heraldic bookplates.
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Stay tuned for sexually explicit croquet images from my new (paying!) job with Rare Books.