Filed under: NEWS | Tags: Brazillia R. Kreep, Gothic Poetry, iTunes, Johnny Depp, Sweeney Tood, The Kreep, The Rot of Sweeney Todd
The Rot of Sweeney Todd
By
Brazillia R. Kreep
I’ve had several acquaintances like our odd Mr. Todd, but they never hovered in my life very long. They always had somewhere else to go–in a hurry–that I often thought they were bigwigs in some dark commerce or the arts, surgeons or maybe even lawyers at the least. So that when they changed their addresses, my letters to them returned unopened, I assumed they sold their properties and were living off another adventure across the salty seas. Actually, that’s not all together fair. One letter, from a Mac Z. Thumb was returned t’me, opened, with a perfectly formed bloodstain and a smear or two on the flap–a lovely souvenir. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is one of those shady characters. He has a past that would toss you about at night. Your fingernails gauging the bedpost in the moonlight for fear you might never sleep t’dream again. T’is good t’pity and fear the man.
Filed under: NEWS | Tags: Barbara Hashimoto: Junk Mail, Flickr, R. Productions, Shredded Junk Mail w/Grand Piano
(Chicago) July 28, 2008 – Artist Barbara Hashimoto collected and hand-shredded the junk mail that came to her studio address for twelve months. At year’s end she had 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material. Her labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations including Shredded Junk Mail with Grand Piano with musician Edward Torrez and videographer Eric Hoffhines. At the commencement of the performance, an imposing pile of this shredded unsolicited material was amassed in the center of the performance space. As Torrez played on the concert grand piano, Hashimoto transferred her stockpile of shredded junk mail until it fully engulfed both musician and instrument. Her movements, initially deliberate and calm, grew into a frenzied crescendo and then into meditative resignation. Buried in paper, Torrez continued to play, his final melodic lullabies muffled by the hundreds of pounds of paper entombing the piano. The entire video can be viewed at barbarahashimoto.com
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R. Productions, a media + branding boutique in Chicago has just switch-out their old Myspace, LOVEMYFLASH.COM flash layout for a spanking brand new one-bright red of course, with just enough flash to still be rock n’ roll. The first layout we got absolutely free (internet swag y’all) and lasted a few years, the layout and design was that good! Really. You have to be patient when you “tweak” but it’s a good place to browse if your one of the boutiques out there.
They had a bad rap when they started some years ago–hype by competitors? We dunno.–
but we’ve been using their flash layouts and nothing so far, in over a year. LOVEMYFLASH.COM designs are by professionals and they’re always progressive, fun, and there’s even older motifs for the die-hards. Still, we at R. Productions (and their ain’t a lot of us) just wanted to throw props where props is due.
> Spanking Brand New Myspace LOVEMYFLASH.COM Layout
> LOVEMYFLASH.COM Layouts For Myspace
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Filed under: NEWS, REVIEWS | Tags: © 2008, Brazillia R. Kreep, film, Johnny Depp, Musucal, R. Productions, Sweeney Todd, There will be Blood
by
Brazillia R. Kreep
I’ve had several acquaintances like our odd Mr. Todd, but they never hovered in my life very long. They always had somewhere else to go–in a hurry–that I often thought they were bigwigs in some dark commerce or the arts, surgeons or maybe even lawyers at the least. So that when they changed their addresses, my letters to them returned unopened, I assumed they sold their properties and were living off another adventure across the salty seas. Actually, that’s not all together fair. One letter, from a Mac Z. Thumb was returned t’me, opened, with a perfectly formed bloodstain and a smear or two on the flap–a lovely souvenir. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is one of those shady characters. He has a past that would toss you about at night. Your fingernails gauging the bedpost in the moonlight for fear you might never sleep t’dream again. T’is good t’pity and fear the man.
Filed under: PRESS RELEASES | Tags: Barbara Hashimoto: Junk Mail & White Trash, Chicago Arts District, exhibition, fine art, Inc., pilsen, Podmajersky, R. Productions
On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.
The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL. Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.
Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:
JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video
JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28
JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance
JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12
Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East. It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection).
Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.
Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.
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* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com
Filed under: REVIEWS | Tags: © 2008, Brazillia R. Kreep, film, Johnny Depp, Musucal, R. Productions, Sweeney Todd, There will be Blood
by
Brazillia R. Kreep
The history of the Barber of Fleet Street is as long a winding road as any title character has ventured. Todd himself first appeared in 1846 as a villain of a popular “penny dreadful” (so coined because of the cost & the content) magazine serial entitled The String of Pearls. It was a hit. In 1920 he surfaced on the boards in a melodrama penned by George Dibdin-Pitt simply entitled Sweeney Todd. Then our Mr. Todd made several film appearances in English fare until he landed back on the boards in an American Broadway Musical, music and lyrics by the Great White Way icon Stephen Sondheim. That production transformed the dastardly Todd into a forlorn anti-hero instead of the murderous robber he truly was. Who could complain, really? It starred two titans of the stage Len Cariou as the deranged Sweeney and Angela Lansbury as the scene-stealing, love-starved Mrs. Lovett. And fun was had by all. Sweeney has seen several stage revivals until the Demon Barber waited patiently to be brought back to life by a super star, pretty-boy, actor extraordinaire named mister Johnny Depp-thank you very much.
A Gothic treat, a naughty piece of eye candy that seldom disappoints, Mr. Burton’s blood ballet is a lovely slice of art. It is not the penny magazine or the stage play or even the musical it was based upon, but an entirely new beast. A terrifying opera with fangs where Depp sings his bloody heart out. He holds it up for all to see, still beating, dripping crimson-goo as he rock-stars all over the celluloid screen. Wonderful. See it on DVD in a Deluxe set with all the pomp and circumstance affordable for the price. Just remember to pay homage to a villain on equal footing as The Ripper, play it at the witching hour with the lights out, a few candles burning around the house. A glass of red wine, a potpie perhaps, and, oh yes… there will be blood.
THE ROT OF SWEENEY TODD
In the attic there he rots
Sweeney Todd plots n’ plots
Of ways to spill the blood of men
Then spill some more t’say amen
T’nightmare’s of his great love lost
Aught t’avenge at any cost
Sharp razor blades
Pot Pies in spades
The Demon Barber shaves n’ shaves
Though a price this Todd will pay
Sweltering plates of blood t’weigh
T’pour them over frozen heart
Thaw the pain t’dare depart
From filthy attic in the sky
Down below were demon’s fry
T’devil’s purge by fires hot
Fore’er our Sweeney Todd will rot
Filed under: NEWS | Tags: Brazillia R. Kreep, Dull1, R. O'Donnell, R. Productions, Richard O'Donnell, Static Multimedia, Static Networx, The Kreep
Writer/producer Richard O’Donnell, known in Chicago for having created and produced the professional theatre company New Age Vaudeville, the New Variety cabaret, and the R. Rated Fox Chicago TV show, is about to unleash his syndicated Gothic character,The Kreep in a series of columns, books, podcasts, and merchandise published/produced by Static Multimedia.
Partnering with Static Multimedia (a devision of Static Networx), Richard O’Donnell’s The Kreep a.k.a Brazillia R. Kreep–a Gothic poet, writer, and illustrator–will start appearing in regular syndication on Static Multimedia http://Staticmultimedia.com under the title Brain Waves. The first series will be reviews of classic horror on DVD such as MGM’s Midnight Movies Witchfinder General, starring Vincent Price.
“The Kreep has already made a lot of new media appearances,” says creator O’Donnell, “The Kreep’s on MYspace (http://Myspace.com/brkreep,) The Kreep’s on twitter, (http://twitter.com/thekreep,) and The Kreep’s on blogs such as got2write (http://got2write.wordpress.com,) and now The Kreep’s on Ezine Static Multimedia (http://StaticMultimedia.com) and I couldn’t be more thrilled for the interest in the guy.”
Filed under: NEWS | Tags: iTunes, R. O'Donnell, R. Productions, Richard O'Donnell, Static Multimedia, The Kreep
Writer/producer R. O’Donnell, known in Chicago for having created and produced the professional theatre company New Age Vaudeville, the New Variety cabaret, and the R. Rated Fox Chicago TV show, has unleashed his syndicated Gothic character, The Kreep on iTunes. Along with rants and reviews published on the Ezine Static Multimedia of classic Sci-Fi/Horror on DVD, a poem will be included each week read by The Kreep himself and available for Free downloads on iTunes.
Partnering with Static Multimedia (a devision of Static Networx), R. O’Donnell’s The Kreep a.k.a Brazillia R. Kreep–a Gothic poet, writer, and illustrator–will start appearing in regular syndication under the banner Brain Waves. The first series will be reviews of classic horror on DVD such as MGM’s Midnight Movies Witchfinder General, starring Vincent Price.
“The Kreep has already made a lot of new media appearances,” says creator O’Donnell, “The Kreep’s on MYspace (http://Myspace.com/brkreep,) The Kreep’s on twitter, (http://twitter.com/thekreep,) and The Kreep’s on blogs such as got2write (http://got2write.wordpress.com,) and Ezine Static Multimedia (http://StaticMultimedia.com) and now iTunes, I couldn’t be more thrilled for the interest in the guy.”
Brazillia R. Kreep a.k.a The Kreep is a forlorn Gothic poet and illustrator living in Kreepsville. The Kreep lives in an old Victorian mansion near lake Scares.
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