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Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Carnival For Adults
A Secret, Boxed-Up Bazaar Of Fantastical Things - A Carnival For Adults..........from current.com
In a desolate, industrial section of West Oakland, Calif., the first of 20 box trucks arrives before sundown. A couple of cargo trailers are parked on a street that is home to an abandoned cement factory.
When this Lost Horizon Night Market is in full swing, a bunch of sideshows and art environments will comprise what is essentially an open party for adults in a public place. Attorney Michael Burstein is the self-described cat-herder-in-chief for the San Francisco Night Markets.
"We're probably in violation of a variety of parking ordinances," he says."I'm sure some of the attendants will show up and have open containers, which is illegal in San Francisco and Oakland. And I'm sure there will be a variety of minor infractions."
Burstein is right about the open containers. Many in the crowd of 700 swig from bottles of wine or small chrome flasks. Invitations to these Night Markets are spread by word of mouth, and people are asked not to publicize them on mailing lists, blogs or via social networking channels.
At the market, people wander from one box truck to another parked along the dark city block. The Best Little Boxtruck in West Oakland has swinging saloon doors, a bar that serves sarsaparilla and several bales of hay to cushion the fall off a mechanical bull with a bunny head on it.
The entertainment at this inner city carnival is a bit unusual. For those who enjoy destroying breakable objects, for example, there's the smash truck.
Inside this small box truck is a woman with a cigarette clenched between her lips. She wears a welder's mask and thick suede welder's gloves as she smashes a computer and a plastic rocking horse to bits. There's a Plexiglas panel protecting onlookers from debris as the woman wails away with her hammer.
There's something for everyone at the Lost Horizon Night Market. If you don't want to vent aggression, you can hang out at a cozy campfire inside a truck with a hole in the roof. There, David Marti — a mechanical engineer at Stanford and a member of an art group known as the Department of Spontaneous Combustion — presides over a fire pit improvised from a wash tub.
"Does anybody want a sausage?" he shouts. "Well, what else do you do with a campfire?"
Box Truck Culture
The installation artists who participate in the Lost Horizon Night Market rent their box trucks for $150 for the day and deck them out with outlandish props that transform the trucks into vehicles of fantasy.
Inside one there's a speakeasy where Catie McGee strums a ukulele and her sidekick Absynthia pours a potent, green fermented beverage. McGee wears a corset, fishnet stockings and a black feather boa as she leads the crowd in a bawdy singalong.
"He ain't too smart but he gets things done," she belts. "He's a long-tongued, double-jointed son-of-a-gun. He's read the Kama Sutra 26 times and he wears my panties on Tuesday nights."
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In a desolate, industrial section of West Oakland, Calif., the first of 20 box trucks arrives before sundown. A couple of cargo trailers are parked on a street that is home to an abandoned cement factory.
When this Lost Horizon Night Market is in full swing, a bunch of sideshows and art environments will comprise what is essentially an open party for adults in a public place. Attorney Michael Burstein is the self-described cat-herder-in-chief for the San Francisco Night Markets.
"We're probably in violation of a variety of parking ordinances," he says."I'm sure some of the attendants will show up and have open containers, which is illegal in San Francisco and Oakland. And I'm sure there will be a variety of minor infractions."
Burstein is right about the open containers. Many in the crowd of 700 swig from bottles of wine or small chrome flasks. Invitations to these Night Markets are spread by word of mouth, and people are asked not to publicize them on mailing lists, blogs or via social networking channels.
At the market, people wander from one box truck to another parked along the dark city block. The Best Little Boxtruck in West Oakland has swinging saloon doors, a bar that serves sarsaparilla and several bales of hay to cushion the fall off a mechanical bull with a bunny head on it.
The entertainment at this inner city carnival is a bit unusual. For those who enjoy destroying breakable objects, for example, there's the smash truck.
Inside this small box truck is a woman with a cigarette clenched between her lips. She wears a welder's mask and thick suede welder's gloves as she smashes a computer and a plastic rocking horse to bits. There's a Plexiglas panel protecting onlookers from debris as the woman wails away with her hammer.
There's something for everyone at the Lost Horizon Night Market. If you don't want to vent aggression, you can hang out at a cozy campfire inside a truck with a hole in the roof. There, David Marti — a mechanical engineer at Stanford and a member of an art group known as the Department of Spontaneous Combustion — presides over a fire pit improvised from a wash tub.
"Does anybody want a sausage?" he shouts. "Well, what else do you do with a campfire?"
Box Truck Culture
The installation artists who participate in the Lost Horizon Night Market rent their box trucks for $150 for the day and deck them out with outlandish props that transform the trucks into vehicles of fantasy.
Inside one there's a speakeasy where Catie McGee strums a ukulele and her sidekick Absynthia pours a potent, green fermented beverage. McGee wears a corset, fishnet stockings and a black feather boa as she leads the crowd in a bawdy singalong.
"He ain't too smart but he gets things done," she belts. "He's a long-tongued, double-jointed son-of-a-gun. He's read the Kama Sutra 26 times and he wears my panties on Tuesday nights."
Click here for the daily Met-Art Gallery. Never be disappointed :-)
Saturday, April 9, 2011
3-D erotic film remake
Image via Wikipedia3-D erotic film remake yet to go before MDA
By Kenny Chee
THE 3-D remake of the 1991 Hong Kong softporn film Sex And Zen still has some way to go before it can be screened here.
The Media Development Authority (MDA) told my paper yesterday that the remake, 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, "has not been sent to MDA for classification".
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The film was said to open here on April 28, but will first hit Hong Kong screens on April 14.
Said Ms Tan Lee Cheng, MDA's head for Chinese film classification: "We understand that Golden Village, the distributor, is working with the producer to ensure that the film meets the classification standards in Singapore."
A Golden Village spokesman confirmed that "we have not done a formal, official submission of 3D Sex And Zen to MDA yet".
She said: "We are waiting for the completed film we want to show in Singapore to be finalised, before submitting that to MDA for classification."
As a result, she said it was "difficult to gauge" when the film might open here, adding that the April 28 release date was a tentative one that the distributor was working towards. Industry insiders said earlier that 3D Sex And Zen was in the process of being classified by MDA.
This was despite foreign reports which said that the film had a Singapore release date, and that the film-makers had removed more than 18 minutes of explicit scenes to present a "tamer" 110-minute version for markets like Singapore's.
Other versions of the movie reportedly exist, such as a 118-minute one for Hong Kong and a 129- minute director's cut. Golden Village's spokesman said it was uncertain which version of the film would be sent to MDA, or when the submission would be made.
An industry player said it was "quite common" for distributors to submit films to MDA near their release dates, such as two to three weeks before.
She said that the classification process for most films often takes one to two weeks but, for controversial ones, the process could take "a few months", especially if the distributor appeals against a decision made by MDA.
If the process goes way past the film's opening date elsewhere, the distributor would be worried about illegal copies of the movie appearing online, she said.
