TYPICAL DISTRACTIONS from JesusDude

Just got up (ha!) 4plus hours ago and have been online with all of just a coffee as fuel!
Checked FB to see what was up- and indeed it can send you into a cyber spin of sorts.
here are some of today's links

Ruppert posted a good link on the subject of FB privacy settings http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-complete-guide-to-facebook-privacy/ Always worth a close look at AND a good link to hold on to.

Sissydude is finally now back online at http://sissydudeomen2.tumblr.com/
John W at SissyDude Always finds suprising images like this I assume it is at BurningMan btw. And he always has some interesting links to some of his sourceslike his canadian com-patriat porn-star ryan russell And subsequently (as sometimes things devolve) to further links like this (somewhat MAIN-stream stuff) that is basically porn PR

Below is an interesting website of a NYC based artist/fashiondesigner colaborator/Jesus-dude (see first 2 fotos on this posting ) with some interesting writings on his blog
www.disiterate.com of concept books ie; Personal ads or letters never sent...




Fabian put up a pic today that prompted me to pursue the original
as well as a text from Goude

The arabesque that Grace Jones is executing in this 1978 photograph/artistic creation may be graceful, but it is also impossible. "What I'm interested is the illusion of reality," says the photographer and art director Jean-Paul Goude, who was to be Jones's Pygmalion, transforming her from hard-partying model to an androgynous fantasy image and international superstar. "And unless you are extraordinarily supple, you cannot do this arabesque. The main point is that Grace couldn't do it, and that's the basis of my entire work: creating a credible illusion."
A look through So Far So Goude, which collects the highlights of Goude's idiosyncratic 30-year career, reveals how much he has been inspired by the idea of an impossible image of womanhood. Goude's approach was to prove ultimately frustrating as far as Jones was concerned.
She had gained a certain amount of fame from modeling and performing in gay discos when Goude met and fell in love with her, and decided that she needed a more dramatic image. He photographed Jones in a variety of positions that were combined in a montage to make it possible to show her in profile and full frontal simultaneously. The anatomically unlikely arabesque was the end result. Accompanying an article by Nik Cohn in New York magazine, Goude's photographs were to launch Jones as an icon. Then he let his imagination run free, creating images of her with an imaginary male twin and multiplying her into an army of clones.
"Initially, she was flattered by all of my attention," says Goude on his former muse and lover. "And she's no dope - Grace is an opportunist and she knew my vision was good for her career. Initially, she let herself be taken over, but then she suspected that I had only fallen in love with her image." Was that true? "Of course it was! That's the story of my life."

Originally from the Guardianhttp://arts.guardian.co.uk/image/0,,1672997,00.html

Somewhat unrelated to FB is the blog of a friend of Iz in NYC at http://cultureserve.net/blog/

CULTURESERVE.NET is an online global art journal that seamlessly combines academic discourse, street vernacular and philosophical perspective with a focus on urban contemporary art and a passion for social justice. As a result, art + culture become a platform to explore the human condition in the 21st century while simultaneously re-defining the “value” of art in contemporary culture. With a focus on street art, women artists and creators of flavor around the world, the site serves a global network of artists, activists, arts professionals, and the general public. Cultureserve’s content is written and curated with the aim of exploring intersections and pathways across race, gender, religion, class, age, nation, and the cultural landscape.Cultureserve.net is a project by Diana McClure and was most recently, a Finalist for a 2008 Creative Capital l Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Ingo"S" showed me his evolving new body of erotic-reliefs (in Plaster)works. They have some interest but are for a certain market as decor- perhaps those who own dungeons and so on. His BF has a http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrebergarten (wow!) which I am keen to see. I mentioned to him I would love to cultivate a Follie- ruin (or Kuenstlerische Ruine in German)
It now even seems possible that Fanta and his BF "may" try to get one at the same Gaertenkolonie or nearby.

here are some provisionary reference links:

a survey bloghttp://follyfancier.wordpress.com/

An international verein http://www.follies.org.uk/

And what seems like a listing http://www.follytowers.com/

footnote: Real american ruins http://weburbanist.com/abandoned-buildings-towns-and-cities/

[VIDEO below] Le Désert de Retz (outside paris) *try to find out when they have "Portes Ouverts" like Berlin's "Offenen Tur des Denkmals". They have opened to the public as of june2009- with tours on the 2nd/4th saturday of the month but by appointment only.

Here is a description and History of the Le Désert de Retz
and a Blog with more images of the Désert de Retz landscape and structures


(Members of the Frédéderic Passy family, who owned the Désert from 1856 to 1936 and lived in the Broken column, showing their addition of fourth-story windows and flattened roof, c. 1910.)

The Desert de Retz was officially reopend to the public on June 13, 2009. Guided tours of the Désert de Retz are conducted on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month and are by appointment only. Call +33(0)1 39 22 31 37 or contact the Chambourcy town hall for reservations.

Mairie de Chambourcy, Hotel de Ville, Place Charles de Gaulle, 78240 Chambourcy.

You may also wish to contact the previous owners, Jean-Marc Heftler-Louiche and Olivier Choppin de Janvry, or Pierre-Emile Renard, president of Histoire de Chambourcy de Retz et d'Aigrement (HISCREA).Mr. Jean-Marc Heftler-Louiche [j.m.heftler(at)wanadoo.fr],14, rue Saint-Guillaume,75007 Paris, France. Mr. Olivier Choppin de Janvry,6Bis, Grande Rue,78290 Croissy-sur-Seine, France.

Histoire de Chambourcy de Retz et d'Aigrement (HISCREA)30, rue de Gramont,78240 Chambourcy, France,Tel/fax: 01 30 74 47 51 President: Mr. Pierre-Emile Renard [pierreemile.renard(at)noos.fr] 4, rue Georges Thill, 78240 Chambourcy