Humor As Art: March 2007

Ethnic Humor Overview

It's somewhat of a controversial thought but I believe in ethnic humor. I believe (get this) it can actually bring harmony to racial tensions. Ethnic humor is everywhere across this globe. Humans love to make "the other side of the camp" feel humiliated and inferiors. It's part of being. What's interesting is the reasons why certain people make fun of other certain people. There's anthropological, historical, societal reasons why many jokes are told about others. A great book: Ethnic Humor Around the World talks about all of these things in depth categorizing it through regions.

I also stumbled upon this today:List of Ethnic Slurs

That's right, an alphabetized list of many ethnic slurs, and their historical context.

In my opinion a must have for any aspiring humorist. OR artist.

Labels: Christie Davies, clacism, comedy, Ethnic Humor, hilarious, racism, wikipedia

The Dark Bob

Bob & Bob were a performance art duo who for 5 years made art together. They performed together, painted together, lived together, sometimes slept together. They were a driving force of the Perforamance art scene in Los Angelas in the 1980's. They would give art the business and gave business the art. Bob & Bob together created mutilated mutated portraits of business executives, financiers, and wall street tycoons in marker.

Very little is written or documented (that I have found) of Bob & Bob. When I was going to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and I performed in a performance class, the big trend at the time was to reference other artists for you to look at instead so that you could emulate their style and use the reference in your artist statement. Well, one of my teachers told me to look up Bob & Bob. I took out a book from the school library. I read it 3 times. Then I tried to look for it on the internet. They were all out of print. A few years later after I dropped out of the school, I returned to that library and stole the Bob & Bob book. It was that important to me.

Now the Dark Bob has been posting old clips on YouTube from back in the day. The above clip is like a promotional video except the Dark Bob gets sidetracked from fans of his early work with Bob & Bob.

Check out the Dark Bob's website, he's still writing and performing - it seems he's good friends with Andy Dick!

The Dark Bob
You can buy some of his cd's here: MITB RECORDS

Labels: andy dick, dark bob, los angelas, mitb, performance art

Art in a post 9/11 era

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A caller requests art reflecting life in this post 9/11 era.

Addressing my audience / Art? for lovers

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ART?

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Shot & Edited by Peter Scheehle

Jamie O'Brien: LIVE #3 (re-edit)

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Anna Feder, Director of the Boston Underground Film Festival stops by to talk about curating films of the bizarre. Jamie confronts her about his video submission to the festival that was rejected. Anna fades in and out of a fake English accent.

Previously Broadcast live on CCTV

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