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Brian - 2004-02-07 16:36:06 No one remembers that because it didn't make the news. It didn't make the news because we've gotten inured to ads with a Sting song plugging cars and so forth. There's a difference between a car and a butt cream. Other examples of songs plugging products, from an essay about the increasingly blurry line between entertainment and marketing: "Watching TV desultorily during the last couple of months, I made note of Electric Light Orchestra's Mr. Blue Sky in a Volkswagen Beetle ad, the Yardbirds' For Your Love in a Saturn ad, The Clash's London Calling in a Jaguar ad, the British trip-hop band Mr. Scruff's Get A Move On for Lincoln (in the ad where the chivalrous guy unnecessarily throws his jacket onto a puddle for a woman climbing into her Navigator), Led Zeppelin on behalf of Cadillac, Prince's Little Red Corvette for Chevrolet, and Bif Naked's I Love Myself Today for other GM cars. I noticed Carnival Cruise ads with soundtracks by the Beach Boys (Fun Fun Fun) and Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), and a Royal Caribbean ad with Iggy Pop's Lust for Life (which Mitsubishi has also used). The restaurant chain Applebee's is using Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. Heineken is using the J. Geils Band's Give It to Me. And Sony uses the Crosby, Stills and Nash song Carry On (for a camcorder) and Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit (for a PlayStation game). Don't those seven minutes of television sound more intriguing and entertaining than seven minutes of, say, King of Queens or Presidio Med or JAG?" * * * * * * * * * * * * Brian - 2004-02-07 19:55:10 With guys like Mick Jones, Jack Casady, Iggy Pop, and Keith Relf selling products with their songs, maybe the songs don't mean as much to them as they do to everyone else.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-07 20:37:58 Interesting comment. I wonder which musicians are holding out against a fat paycheck from Mitsubishi.* * * * * * * * * * * * 555 artists - 2004-02-07 22:08:49 thought you might be interested: hope to see you at this opening. the following art show (opening on Valentines Day) concerns "coupling," so feel free to bring a friend. please encourage all those interested in contemporary art and ideas to attend. best, 555 artists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Carl Goines, Director Gallery 555 200 East Michigan Avenue Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Tel: (734) 482 5310 Email:[email protected] www.555arts.org Approaches, an Exhibition of New York Artists, Opens at Gallery 555 on Valentine�s Day Ypsilanti, MI, 2/4/04 �Gallery 555 is pleased to announce the opening of our most recent exhibition, Approaches. The exhibit will open Saturday, February 14, 2004, with a reception from 6 to 9 PM. The exhibit will run through Friday, March 5. Approaches brings together work by five New York artists: Sang-ah Choi, Clay Hensley, Anthony Smith, Jr., Loretta Staples, and Natasha Sweeten. Each of these artists has developed multiple, idiosyncratic methods of making art, in contrast to strict academic models of manufacture. This show focuses on the shared instincts that direct these artists� approaches: methods that are informed by notions of discovery, mischief, and play. Each artist engages in various activities to produce concurrent streams of work. Though the manifestations remain distinct, each approach illuminates and affects the other. For example, Sang-ah Choi, primarily known for her resin-coated paintings, also produces series of stickers and editions of pop-up books. These works are filled with delicate figurations extracted from Asian mythology and popular culture, especially that of her native Korea. These alternative processes result in luminous, unique works of art and also serve to flesh out the intricate and overlapping characters that populate her multi-paneled paintings. Natasha Sweeten and Anthony Smith also employ characters to investigate and stage their larger work. Natasha Sweeten combines pairs of fantastic abstract forms on each end of paper strips sized to resemble paint swaths. These coupled forms, recurrent with architectural motifs and natural patterns, evolve into "characters,� that seem to engage in conversation. She uses these characters to narrate a larger painting. Anthony Smith composes characters on board to formulate a rigorous, obsessive narrative. His series of abstract gestures and diagrams provide a platform to stage a monumental collection of paintings on enormous paper sheets. The characters within the work of Loretta Staples and Clay Hensley are borrowed from existing forms. They each use several strategies to capture and manipulate these �found� images. Loretta Staples uses Sumi ink to generate painterly mutations of computer-based curves. She multiplies, enlarges and entangles these forms into a delirious spatial dance, exploiting unexpected relationships and possibilities to create her images. Clay Hensley identifies "found" images within physical sites (a pull-gate of an abandoned factory, a graffiti-adorned construction site) that occupy his visual world. After locating a space that suggests a resonant conversation (layers that respond to one another), he documents his interaction with the site through photography, rubbings, and other vestiges. He then excavates the site by carefully collecting debris, transferring the residual material onto canvas. The eventual image is re-composed in reverse of its �found� orientation. The multiple bodies of work by each of these artists defy conventional roles, such as antecedent to outcome, or a preliminary sketch to a completed work. Often one stream provides an occasion for the other to occur. For this exhibit, each artist contributes a series of paired works from their own various streams, parsed loosely as "drawings" and "paintings," which are interspersed throughout Gallery 555. Although the artists exhibited here are eclectic and disparate, several nodes of inspiration link their work: infatuations with mythic structures, residual traces, digital-age detritus, and cross-cultural hybrids. They also share a mischievous playfulness that animates their often potent, sometimes subversive, re-articulations. The core mission of 555 Studio/Gallery is to further enrich and diversify cultural life in Washtenaw County. In support of this mission Gallery 555 facilitates the development of emerging artists. We offer exhibition space, lead and collaborate in the development of programs for the visual and performing arts, and provide workspace for practicing artists. ### * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-07 22:24:55 I am thrilled to hear from Gallery 555! Thanks for posting! I will definitely check out the show. Is the gallery planning another show following this one, in March? If so I can list it in the Ann Arbor Observer's "Galleries" section for free. I'll email 555 to find out...thanks again for posting.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-07 22:44:25 ...back to musicians and butt cream.* * * * * * * * * * * * Hillary - 2004-02-08 19:05:10 I'm generally bummed when they use songs to sell things, but this might be the one exception. The guy that wrote the song used to say something about Prep H before playing Ring of Fire at concerts. He was chuckling about it on NPR recently. I'll still groan when I hear it.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-09 20:06:43 I heard that bit too...oh well...* * * * * * * * * * * * naked-woman - 2004-09-04 21:58:51 naked woman* * * * * * * * * * * * xxx-rated - 2004-10-03 08:23:17 xxx rated* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |