Post Titled: amazing FLASH MOB-HOMMAGE AN DEN KING OF POP MICHAEL JACKSON thanks to Virtual Nights blog for posting it!
http://www.vn-blog.de/p/flash-mob-hommage-an-den-king-of-pop/

Post Titled: "Dash Snow, Downtown Artist, Said to Be Dead of Overdose" -gawker

post titled: woollllly mammmmmmoth.
 

Post Titled: Carolyn Scott & Rookie
on an overcast summer morning I am reconnecting with youtube...
thanks Svea!

grease dog dancing

Post Titled:Cute lemur slow loris
As this ol' Post-Google is in summer hiatus riding it's bike in the sun and studying graphic novels on the ufer, we will be posting much less but hot damn, thanks to hot tipper NK for this, quite possible the cutest thing of all time (note: post google is also a sucker):

Post Titled: non-fiction, a correspondence since yesterday: of course.

"To Mr. White:

hey, where are you these days? hung out with Jesus, he's fine."

His reply:
"To The Art Rat:

I'm in the wilds of Mexico, wondering with a pack of dogs (the only true companions I've ever known). We roam at night and sleep during the day. We eat only cactus berries and drink only the blood of the guilty. This is indeed the life.

The Desert Wolf"

Post Titled: I originally heard this clip the other day on the BBC, so if you can somehow close your eyes and click PLAY then you will know why I posted it... RECOMMEND: Focus on the tiny voice in the blackness of radioland that is being represended by the backs of your eyelids.
Paris Michael Katherine Jackson speaks during her father, Michael Jackson's memorial funeral. July 7, 2009

Message from St. George's regarding ADVENTURES OF POWER:


Movie Night is not exactly back. But St. George's Bookshop would like to announce a premiere screening, this Saturday at Babylon Mitte. "Adventures of Power", a new American independent comedy, tells the epic story of an air-drummer trying to save the American Dream. It played Sundance, won prizes at seven international festivals and stars cast members from "Entourage", "This is Spinal Tap," and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." It will be released in the States in the fall, but Saturday at 8PM is the German premiere. The film's director and star, Ari Gold (not a stage name), will be at the screening to answer questions following the show.

The screening will take place at Babylon Mitte, 30 Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. If you mention St. George's Bookshop at the box office, you will receive a €1.50 discount off the ticket price (€6.50 -> €5.00). And in honor of the bookshop, the Babylon is offering the first three St. George's ticket-buyers a free set of tickets to the upcoming "Rocky Horror Picture Show" screenings at the Babylon.

You can watch a trailer for the movie at http://www.adventuresofpower.com

We hope to see you on Saturday.

The night before the screening, director/star Ari Gold will also be performing LIVE as Power, an air-drummer crashing the 6th German Air Guitar Contest. The contest will take place in Kreuzberg at Lido, Cuvrystraße 7, on Friday, July 10th, at 8pm. It should be a fun night. (http://www.lido-berlin.de/contact)



St. George's Bookshop and Babylon Mitte present
ADVENTURES OF POWER - German Premiere
Saturday, July 11th at 20:00
Babylon Mitte
30 Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße

Director/star Ari Gold will be in attendance.

www.AdventuresOfPower.com
E-mail: power@adventuresofpower.com

Post Titled: Back in Berlin.
Returning from my first visit during the reign of Barak, my thoughts were: whereas in Bush's America, the TEAM AMERICA themesong which states: "AMERICA- FUCK YEA!" was gross, in the Obama America I'm actually kind of thinking: "America.. fuck yea."

Thanks to all of you who made my trip totally amazing.

Post Titled: TAR ART RAT and death and punctuality.
I am in America, (first NYC and now D.C. area) hence the lack of posts lately. I have no internet and have been rototilling, fighting termite infestations, planting seeds, etc.) and actually had I been on-time meeting a friend the other day then there was an extremely good chance I would've been involved in a deadly Metro train crash, but fortunately I am a perpertually late person, and hence still living today to type this blog post. so: hooray for tardiness, and I plan on never being on time ever agin... (of course on the grand scheme of things i realize these things could work both ways...)
D.C. Metro Red Line Crash June 2009

 
KAMPFTERN POWERSHIFT... an accidental collage edit. tar art rat
been out in the city exploring on the bike, finding some amazing stuff these days, things that make this city ever-more strange and wonderful...

Post Titled: Opening Stanza from Choruses from "The Rock" by T.S. Elliot
my dad just sent me this at the bottom of an email:

The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

O perpetual revolution of configured stars,

O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,

O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying

The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.

Post Titled: NON-FICTION: Just Your Friendly Neighborhood Singing Booze Fiend! (Viktoriapark, Berlin)
I Thought I'd actually lost this recording but I just found the USB stick (it was stored on in a sewing kit!)
A NOTE ON WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR: Quite randomly in the middle of an interview for an article, a worn-looking sort gentleman in a jogging suit came up to us and sang this song (recorded with his permission, of course) and then snatched one of our unopened beers and ran off with it! (ANOTHER NOTE: the first 50 seconds are fairly quiet, then it get louder so lookout)

Singing man sings lovely song before stealing our beer in Viktoriapark by tarARTrat

May 2009

Post Titled: facebook username claimed
http://www.facebook.com/tarartrat
not all that impresive, but what IS impressive is that I also claimed my real name as first.last which is a miracle since I have an extremely common name. tarartrat tar art rat post-google postgoogle.com painting drawing berlin seattle kreuzberg

 
hand scan with temporary animal tatoos
from OuBu TRIBAL TATOO bubble gum

 
videocamera das Parfum

 
Post Titled: WATCHING THE GREEN PEAS...

Post TItled: just became a member of VIMEO and immediately found a really nice modern dance short

BEATRICE AT THE MARKET from marzio on Vimeo.

Post Titled: DSM-V, the revised edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder. The bible for the mental-health industry
"Internet Addiction
According to an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, this is a disorder “that involves online and/or offline computer usage and consists of at least three subtypes: excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations, and email/text messaging.” It has several components, including excessive use, which is “often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives”; withdrawal, which leads to “feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression when the computer is inaccessible”; tolerance, meaning “the need for better computer equipment, more software, or more hours of use”; and negative repercussions, “including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue.”" found at THE DAILY BEAST

Post tITLED: NON-FICTION, 2 DAYS AGO: Hitting the ground running in search of BITTE ORCA at Berlin, Alexanderplatz.
Kind of a mini example of like exactly like what is wrong with everyting on a much larger scale... (oR a sampling of my place in the universe of man?)
I went to a few of the larger media stores at Alexanderplatz a few days ago looking for the new Dirty Projectors' album BITTE ORCA. Found nothing. Not even old DP albums. All I found was a place-holder for where their cds should've been.
Two days later paperpools emails me: "Did you see this? http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/07/dave-longstreth"
link to the guardian, (which I hadn't seen yet because, unfortunately, I rarely read the guardian because I am 100% addicted to NPR) anyhow: that article informed me realized that the album came out on June 8th-

Just wanted to point out here: in the United States, (or in Seattle in-paricular) there would've been no question about where to find it. There were always at least 2 record stores within 15 minutes of my apartment no matter where I lived in the city, but for some reason in Berlin (which I'd otherwise consider to be one of -if not THEEE- major cultural capitals of the world at the moment- it is damn near impossible to find a good little record store.)

But still: Saturn, the HUGE new Saturn at Alexanderplatz, (one of the most popular shopping hubs in the center of one of Europe's largest
cities!) is carrying a mere 4 copies of the album tucked away in its "Independent" section- behind (ok, next-to) the Star Wars bobble-heads and Metallica Death Magnetic t-shirts in plastic bags. What the heck, guys?!? It isn't anywhere on (or even NEAR) the "Neuheiten" (New Releases) wall, which is overflowing with the likes of Depeche Mode (DISCLOSURE: I like DM) and about a dozen other completely crap pop acts.

Wow, folks... wow.
This is an obvious point, a point too obvious to even blog about- but too important to igore... the fact that the Dirty Projectors,
a truly great act producing wonderful music that sometimes sounds like pop, is nearly invisible and unplayed outside the indie-rock-o-sphere.
Honestly, I wasn't really even expecting to FIND the Bitte Orca there at all -I EXPECTED to leave the store empty-handed or simply with some old Erykah Badu album on sale for 4,99 (that happens).
but since the top No.3 slot the NEUHEITEN wall was empty I plopped BITTE ORCA in there in hopes that an employee might have an epiphany or some poor lost little German soul might happen across it...

I Saw the Dirty Projectors 4 times here in late 2007/early 2008 and it left a huge impression on me. I'd never seen anything like them on stage, as I have blogged and blogged again- in terms of pop-rock, they were like sitting in the cockpit of the Sonic Millennium Falcon at unsyncapated mathematical lightspeed. Their shows made my eyes cry, like people cry at weddings just because they were so damn beautiful.
Initially I happened upon them when they opened up for Beirut, and then again at Dave Shrigley's WORRIED NOODLES show in Festsaal Kreuzberg (went alone to that because no one would come out into the cold) then WEST GERMANY (dragged half a dozen people along that time and showed up 3 hours too early: ) and then at the Maximum Black Festival.
As I bought cds at shows encountering their recorded music was interesting at first because at the time all I wanted to hear were the goosebump-inducing RISE ABOVE tracks they'd played live (but that CD wasn
't out yet) so I fell in love with New Attitude, and over time the Getty Address has become a favorite... and I am not trying to listen to Bitte Orca in moderation so I don't burn-out on it simply by over-listening.

aiaiaiai, folks, aiaiaiaiaiaiaiiiiii....
today is a schizo-weather Wednesday... so so so:
TAR
FREE
ART
NOW
RAT

 
Post Titled: Due to fairly limited access to American media, I've once again gotta into the habit of watching LOST online while I draw or do the dishes.

 
Post Titled: ANTIQUES.

Post Titled:

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
by Love-in-the-City

fred astaire and ginger rogers rodgers

Post Tilted: Europawahlen 2009 ResultatenAfter being forced to look at these images for the past few weeks as Europe was apathetically dragged through another vague EU election, we bicycled around the city, armed with bullshit-piercing lenses freshly installed into the Post-Google Golden Goggles of Righteousness. Post-Google hit the streets wielding a camera and and an 8th-grade sense of humour to provide the ULTIMATE Post-EU Elections (local?) campaign poster wrap-up/round up commentary.
Our results!:
WINNER
Dr. Silvana Koch-Mehrin for so effectively using the Much sexier than the average sexy Librarian angle.

BIG FRAKING LOSER
Joacim Zeller for looking like a grumpy Disney vulture.

Not Pictured: Dagmar Vote for me because I'm your nice Aunt Smiley and kinda Ethnic and look like I'll make food for you Barths-whatever. (We like her, too.)
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Post Titled:
nennt man sowas "pelzengraffiti"? yep: furry Graffiti in Berlin.
Found these on my way to Alexanderplatz. Not bad!

nennt man das pelzengraffiti?

 
 
Post TItled: the tiny blue car often parked out front...

 
Post Titled: Heart Stickers on Spraypaint background

 
Post Titled: perfekt denglish in magjic marker sagt "bank king ingwer rogers"

 
Post Titled: Ghost Painting...

 
the Hinterhof at Flo/Buck's

 
юлиа

 
Post Titled: Hmmm...
Did Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold quit twitter? or is my internet connection just whack...?
If so I am kinda sad because I liked his updates. Argh.
TWO DAYS LATER: NOPE, STILL DOWN.

 
Post Titled: Ingrid.

 
Post Titled: Laura and Ingrid

Post Titled: day after d-day is day after b-day...
Post Subtitled: Day of healing becuase I Turned 29 yesterday.

 
 
 
 
Post Titled:
non-fiction, graefekiez fotos taken of young Turks and Salisburger "Sully" Morland jumping on a wall on the afternoon and night of June 1st, 2009

 
Arthur White & Mo by Clayton Ryan

post titled: shooting miss kitty zazu group 2 
 
 
 

Post Titled: shooting kitty zazu
 
 
 
 
a few photos i took for an upcoming project of theirs.

 
NEW FLYER for "SCHOEN VON TINTEN", an art show at CAFE CK
featuring artwork by
Sam Gieben
Stefi Haslberger
Tom Mason
Ahu Dural
Gert-Jan Akerboom
Eliza Gauger
and Paul Thomas
VERNISSAGE June 5, 19.00

FREE VODKA (enhanced in a surprising manner!)
FREE FOOD (snacktime!)
COFFEE BEER (it's even caffeinated!)
CAKE (better than your mom's!)

DJ PER PERON aka PER ASPERA AD ASTRA & friends putting a boogie in your butts.
LOCATION: CAFE CK Marienburgerstr. 49
cory Andreen dj people's champion peoples champion
artist exhibit exhibition berlin coffee
Sam Gieben Stefi Haslberger Tom Mason Ahu Dural Gert-Jan Akerboom
Eliza Gauger and Paul Thomas art show kunst ausstellung

Post Titled: Looking for a break, a pause to breathe in the Normal...
life has just been surreal lately so I was trying to ground it (with my heel) via NPR, that's National Public Radio- my unseen God.
But... apparently there is just as much surrealism today in the macrocosm as their is to be found in the microcosm of the newsworld as there is in my tiny Kreuzbergverse.

As I sporadically begin watching (actually just listening in an open tab) that hit show LOST this morning-while doing dishes adn housecleaning, mind you- where I'd left off in 2006 (towards the end of Season 2) and then all throughout the morning and afternoon come the reports over twitter and NPR of a "disappearance of flight AF 447 flying from Rio to Paris" which then develop into the reports of a crash in the Atlantic and perhaps the plane was struck by lightning... all this as I watch a lot of LOST...
THEN
there is a report about Nunchucks being illegal in NYC and how that all came about. My reaction: Holy sh*t... Michelangelo is a criminal at large an has been all along. That is a game changer.
THEN
a movie review of a new film version of LAND of the LOST, which was a television show I loved as a child but was absolutely terrified of WHY? because of these so-called "Sleetstacks") (i don't remember them ever haing a name. I hadn't thought about the show in years, but NPR prompted a youtube search and actually watching the original LAND OF THE LOST INTRO and themesong for the first time in about 25 years I was amazed... basically, it is pure cheeze! It looks like 7th-graders made the show! Kitch incarnate! Not to mention that has some of the worse Ed Wood-grade special effects of all time! Off of this is seems to just shamelessly flaunt.
I'd always wondered how kids could get into such things as the Might Morphin' Power Rangers, but actually watching the Land of the Lost trailer kind of convinced me that maybe kids just don"t notice the CHEEZE and the horrible special effects or painfully annoying characters.
As my cousin Claire said of the Ewoks when she first watched Return of the Jedi: said "yea, what was up with all those teddy bears running around?" -I can imagine if I was in my teens at the time it was released in the theaters then to go from the cool darkeness of The Empire Strikes Back) ... STAR WARS episode I is strong evidence for such a theory... apparently kids are actually attracted to a certain kind of kitsch,
Would kids know if they were watching the new LAND OF THE LOST or the old one? Would they have been able to do FINDING NEMO on a budget of 100,000 instead of 100,000,000?

 
Post Titled:
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Just an incredibly odd coincidence here...
Yesterday I was walking along the canal, just minding my business and harassing the swans with my friend when I notice a small champagne bottle bobbing at the water's edge with what appears to be a note in it. I pluck it out of the water and it contains a drawing (scanned above) by one of the artists (whom I've yet to meet) in the art show I'm putting together, (see above HERE).
The likelihood that I of all people would find this is just mindblowing and freakish. Not to get all Amélie on you, but it once again eminded me of the marvel of all the connections and missed connections we have at every moment and the turn of every corner... where the infinite meets the weird and beautiful.

Post Titled: "Them ain't raincoulds my nigga,
-that's blunt smoke."
Post Subtitled: "Welcome to Seattle where the SUN DON'T SHINE." Homesick-inducing local hip-hop video by JAKE ONE (dist. by Rhymesayers?)

THANKS to Bubba for the "grown in a lab at Seattle U" (tenfootman) for the tip.
Owwwh! In terms of where this video was shot it is probably THE most familiar-looking video ever. I think I could not only name every corss-street and storefront of every location but also name the businesses that were there before...
psst: hey, isn't that Butterfly?? yep.

 
Post Titled: Which one of these Captions bests fits the above foto?:
A. "Fascists R' Us" called and they want their star Parking Policewoman back.
B. Terminator: Salivation.
C. Somebody seriously needs to get laid (and it ain't the newlyweds.)
D. Humanity FAIL.
E. "GERMANS...!"
So, I accidentally arrive to a wedding a half-hour early (and about every half-hour a new wedding party emerges from the
Standesamt Mitte under a hail of rice, etc. Beautriful, really) but as I am observing the current wedding party I notice
the guys from the wedding sort of one-by one running over to deal with a Parking Policewoman. She was working in tandem with
another Policewoman to basically bust the whole lote of everyone, none of whom were obviosly illegally parked, and all of whom
were parked on one of the most low-traffic streets in Mitte. Nevertheless, the Parking Policewoman worked her way from car to car
with her little Rechner... wow. I am so glad I had a camera today. More images to come from this absolutely beautiful and
strange morning/afternoon.

 
Post-Google's Guide to Pure Denglish by TAR ART RAT, Himbeer Active 02 Two coffee=flavour drink found at a gas station by Tegel. Now they are on sale at Rossmann. In France this would be illegal.

"decrease the spieß" is a public initiative sponsored by the CIA, the BBC, NPR, A&W Root Beer and Club Maté. copyright TAR ART RAT 2009, Berlin.

Post Titled: why see the Terminator when you could see the Terminators? ...(which includes "A Martinez")

a note on the current changes here at POST Google - yeah! awkward video!