FoolishPeople

“Flouncing About” — Spoken Word by Clint Catalyst; Narration by Pauley Perrette

with the aural fixations/visual manipulations of

P. Emerson Williams (from Veil Of Thorns) the artwork of—& special appearance by— Joshua Petker as well as portrayals by Dirk Mai & Julia Romanenko.

Alan Moore: An extraordinary gentleman

As the world recovers from the onslaught of the Watchmen movie and its omnipresent marketing campaign, the spotlight has yet again come onto Alan Moore – its comic book creator, guru of the graphic novel and mystical man of mystery. And yet again, the spotlight has been desperately sweeping the stage only to find he hasn't turned up. He'd be easy to spot if he did – a giant of a man, always dressed in black, with formidable facial hair and large rings on every finger – but he's the archetypal reclusive writer. 

Amid the chatter of debate on the merits or otherwise of Hollywood's rendition of what is generally agreed to be "the greatest comic-book story ever", Moore has maintained his usual dignified silence and stayed put in his hometown of Northampton. On the day I spoke to him, he had already turned down a profile in Time magazine and an interview with CNN, stating that he was busy preparing for a forthcoming benefit gig at the Frog and Fiddler, a local pub. 

"I am aware of the immense power of absence," he says. "I'm not being completely disingenuous here. Of course I'm aware it doesn't hurt my reputation, but I'm not playing hard to get as some publicity ploy. I'm genuinely busy with stuff that is really important to me." 

Novelist, magician and 'guru of the graphic novel' Alan Moore talks to Steve Rose about Watchmen, the dark side of Hollywood and the morality of pornography.

DPRGRM, PILOTLITE, MYTHOS MEDIA & FOOLISHPEOPLE PRESENT ‘Y’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

DPRGRM, PILOTLITE, MYTHOS MEDIA & FOOLISHPEOPLE PRESENT 

‘Y’ 

In a post-apocalyptic world, ‘Y’ is a documentary-style reality show where the grand prize is the future of our species on planet Earth. 

Mythos Media and FoolishPeople will join with DPRGRM/Pilotlite to create 'Y', a feature film that starts shooting in Los Angeles July 2009. 

LOS ANGELES, CA 02/27/09 – DPRGRM/Pilotlite announced a project today that forges a new path in independent cinema by bringing together real world experience and film in a unique way. 'Y' brings an audience inside the creation of a modern myth. The audience will become actual cast members, and be immersed in the story in real time. The film crew will also be part of the story as well as part of the cast, therefore creating a total immersive experience that bridges the traditional proscenium of audience/performer. 

The ambitious staging and shooting technique is enhanced by the premise that in the future, government facilities, such as the one depicted in this film, will have to turn to unorthodox means of funding, such as contracting the facility out as the subject of a reality based TV show. The actual crew will be made up of news, reality and documentary style cinematographers and the production will be filmed entirely in the Cinéma vérité style.

Written by John Harrigan and James Curcio, and directed by Joseph Matheny, ‘Y’ is a unique production fusing characters from Curcio’s second published novel, ‘Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning’ and Harrigan’s screenplay ‘GraveLand’, currently in pre production. 

DPRGRM will finance and distribute the film, working alongside online media corporation Pilotlite, a joint venture between Joseph Matheny and Michael Mailer Films. 

Joseph Matheny, founder of DPRGRM and Pilotlite co-founder says: “We will be employing cutting edge production, post production and distribution techniques that have been gestating for several years while the technology caught up to the vision. We chose this project and this team specifically because the project lends itself to the medium and the people can keep up.” 

James Curcio, Creative Director of Mythos Media, says: “Mythos Media was founded specifically to work on projects like this, and modern myths have been my life passion. I am eager to dive in and create this world, both as production designer and producer of the soundtrack. However, even more, I am eager to collaborate with all of the creatives that are already lining up to become a part of this truly one-of-a-kind project.” 

John Harrigan, Artistic Director of FoolishPeople comments: “Members of FP and I are extremely excited to be working on a project with such a talented and unique team. 'Y' will redefine what is possible in film production and I'm looking forward to taking on the role of Performance Director.” 

About ‘Y’: 

Civilization has fallen. In the rubble, we at the Y Corporation have developed the ultimate solution to save society: the Y Show. 

We encourage all good citizens to sign up for the Show. You will be housed within a wonderful Haze Treatment Facility and undergo unique psychological treatment, which will clear away the illness of individuality. This reprogramming will be broadcast to the eyes and ears of Citizens in our New World, populated with previous contestants and patients. This is a reality show unlike any other! 

There is a secret that haunts Haze01, the original treatment facility. Two patients, locked deep within its walls, contain archetypes that reject all reprogramming. They channel portents and omens of another future, a world where myth and divinity remake reality, manifesting a planet fit for Gods. 

In this season of the Y show, the doctors of the facility make their final attempt to process these two patients, before they break free and unleash total anarchy. Tune in. 

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Notes to editors: 

About DPRGRM/Pilotlite: 

DPRGRM was founded by auteur Joseph Matheny to meet the new age of media convergence head-on with cutting edge media projects like ‘Y’ and Pilotlite, which Matheny co-founded with Michael Mailer of Michael Mailer Films. For more information visit: http://jmatheny.wordpress.com 

About Mythos Media: 

Mythos Media was founded by James Curcio, Peter Emerson Williams, Michael Szul and Tovarich Pizor in 2006 to produce modern myths. In the past, these have taken the form of comics, novels, and albums. For more information, please visit: http://www.mythosmedia.net/   

About FoolishPeople: 

FoolishPeople was founded by John Harrigan in 1989, taking its name from one of the major arcana of the tarot, card 0: The Fool. FoolishPeople create weaponized art, ritual theatre, collaborative events, books & film to raise a numinous experience within the witness. FP engineer immersive, open source experiences that become a catalyst for positive change. For more information, please visit: http://www.foolishpeople.org  

Press Contact: 

Joseph Matheny 

DPRGRM 

jmatheny@dprgrm.com 

310.928.6959 

http://citizen-y.com

The Genius of Rage: Christian Bale

Audio recorded of Christian Bale on the set of Terminator

Now while you may be quick to judge him, this displays nothing but the fact he cares that much about the work he's doing.

If people want to continue to watch someone who continues to produce work of such a high calibre, then they simply need to deal with the way he works.

You may say there are other ways to reach the level of focus and artistry he displays in the characters he manifests, perhaps with Transcendental Meditation. David Lynch, a lifetime devotee has stated that being an artist does not mean you have to suffer and live in darkness, well watch the Lynch documentary 'ONE' and witness how David Lynch deals with people on his sets.

How much rage would you feel if you had the ability to send your imagination and mind to a place where you believed the human race was on the verge of extinction and you had been hunted your entire life by virtually indestructible killer robots, who have the ability to hunt you through time?

Thanks to Damien Debarra for the audio.

infekt.viral - ०.7 - Terra:Extremitas 2

infekt.viral - 0.7 - Terra:Extremitas 2 from infekt.viral on Vimeo.

"The 2nd sound/video piece for FoolishPeople's Terra:Extremitas is focused largely on running sound to video through circuit bent equipment. In addition to attempting to remote interface with the locale of the performance through google maps. This particular video acts as a juxtaposition between personal Nightside Qabbalah workings I have performed over the past year and their performance. Both of the pieces for this collab are examples of early attempts at psionic videos." Ikipr

Infekt.Viral - ०.6 - Terra:Extremitas 1

Infekt.Viral - 0.6 - Terra:Extremitas 1 from infekt.viral on Vimeo.

"A Video and sound piece composed for Terra:Extremitas by FoolishPeople focusing on remote interfacing with the locale immediate to their performance. This was achieved through a combination of psionic video, witness samples, and circuit bent equipment translating sound to video distortion while utilizing radionic tones scaled to audible octaves." Ikipr

Day and Night with Kenneth Anger

Peek

James Curcio on his work for Terra.

"This is a sneak peek at the soundtrack that will be used in a performance at Terra Extremitas, put on by the Foolish People. The script and soundtrack are based on some of the eschatological themes in Fallen Nation, and will serve as a bridge between that and a future project with the Foolish People, and many other creatives you may or may not have heard of…"

Terra:Extremitas- Ikipr

"I am a Magus working through Qabbalistic and transdisciplinary means to create music which corresponds to systems of magick, divination, gemtaria, etc. By using the harmonic/melodic correspondences found in esoteric orders, I map symbolic and archetypal forces and the way they interact via music. I accomplish this by channeling the specific forces needing to be invoked through my conciousness' bio-computer, as I improv to write the song...like a meditation/ritual of sorts to give each track the proper feel, whilst still working within this rigid model for "sacred music" - The songs being similiar to a ritualistic setting in which EVERYTHING has to be of a nature akin to the forces wishing to be invoked, in this way I assure that the audio is given proper form enabling it to act as a vessel for these concepts given life on the archetypal plane through the listeners subjective experience....This is then employed alongside such things as planetary tuning, brainwaves entrancement, cutups, quantum splinters for invocations of digitally captured events and people, planetary orbits as tempos, radionic tones, image to sound methods, embedding pre-existing hypersigils in sound and more obscure methodology I cannot iterate...on a similiar note randomness is employed in the musical setting as a way to not only play off of divine synchronicity but also a means to influence the general outcome through meditating - trying to effect and bring under control the EMI field of the machines involved through non-local quantum interfacing with my etheric body and thusly allow this to build and change the sound in various manners."

More information about the techniques Ikipr utilizes can be found in the:

Theory Section of Aleph9.com

and Liber Tek

aleph9.com

myspace.com/ikipr

ikipr.blogspot.com

Terra:Extremitas- Jonas Ranson

Originating from Essex, Jonas Ranson currently lives and works in Hackney, East London. Jonas is a Fine Art Graduate of Falmouth College of Arts [1997 – 2000] and subsequent Printmaking Post Graduate of the Royal College of Art [2001-03].

Having spent the intervening years as Fine Art Screen Print technician for K2 Screen based in Clerkenwell London, Jonas has recently been studying at University of Greenwich on the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education Programme. This has included a years teaching placement at the London College of Communications where he has been teaching on the Foundation Graphic Design Course and CMP in Illustration.

About his work:

"I am drawn to the marginal and hence subversive nature of supernatural themes, the ideas and symbolism of the occult and it’s association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Taken from disparate yet analogous influences, works attempt to coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation.

Earlier themes have had a palpable reference to the sudo science of Physiognomics. Physiognomics proceeds by analogies, that is, it attempts to identify the features of the face, those traces and marks which reveal the essence, individuating the different characteristics, passions, pathologies, vices and virtues.

More recently, and with particular reference to the Terra: Extremitas Project, current works are derived from a series of observations and meticulous drawing of primitive architectural sources. Hand drawn then manipulated and assembled with digital software, the final works take the form of dystopian structures, a kind of panopticon, architectural systems of observation and control. The practical utopia, compiled from successful architectural examples and abstracted inferences of appropriate urban proportions, is an exemplar of these dystopias."

About Terra: Extremitas:

"Works for the project are concerned with approximations of distopia. The nightmare holiday village that promises a return to the lost natural way of life, humanity goes back to its source, like prison, like a workhouse. Society as ruthless egalitarian. These spatially isolated places represent discontinuous times. Planners seeking the healthy city choose to sterilize by abstraction, and then render the environment anonymous by replication, replacing the dying cells of the diseased city body with clones from an ideal monoculture. No one can steer a living thing, it moves forward one step at a time. No living enterprise moves forward by 'planning'. Working in narrative collaborations with project director John Harrigan, I have developed a series of animated sequences, ‘animated paintings’ if you will, which seek to create mercurial and sublimated compositions, a heteroclite a world in all its declensions. I could not have dreamed this heteroclite world for life is false to formula."

JonasRanson.com