AND IN NEW YORK TONIGHT!!

For all the Shop at Maison B blog readers who live in New York, here is something you might want to go and check out [then report back and let me know how it went...]

Event InfoName: NASTY NETS at NYUFF - DVD release screening!
Tagline: As Nasty As U Wanna Be
Host: Marisa Olson
Type: Music/Arts - Jam Session
Time and PlaceDate: Friday, April 4, 2008
Time: 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Anthology Film Archives
Street: 32 2nd Avenue
City/Town: New York, NY

Nasty Nets has just produced a DVD (with video & data for maximum pleasure!) and we're releasing it in a screening called NASTY AS U WANNA BE at the 15th (and final) NY Underground Film Festival.

Please come and enjoy, and get your discounted dvd's--$5 while supplies last!

Big thanks to RHIZOME for sponsoring the dvd & screening!
http://nastynets.com/dvd.html
http://www.nyuff.com/2008/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=295



Nasty As U Wanna Be
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO MIN INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Organized by Marisa Olson & the Nasty Nets with support from Rhizome.org

Identifying themselves as an "internet surfing club," Nasty Nets is an international ensemble representing some of the most active artists working online today. Together their work both celebrates and critiques the internet by employing original and appropriated imagery and audio, such as animated gifs, YouTube hacks, html cheat codes, and other found and edited material, offering a poignant and humorous take on contemporary digital visual culture.

This event will serve as a release party for their new dvd, which features videos for dvd players, copious digital files to be opened on personal computers, and a type-in website by Michael Bell-Smith. Tonight's screening will feature videos from the dvd and additional works by members of this 25-person crew.

Nasty Nets was founded by artists John Michael Boling, Joel Holmberg, Guthrie Lonergan, and Marisa Olson, and includes members Peter Baldes, Michael Bell-Smith, Camille Paloque Bergés, Kevin Bewers- dorf, Brian Blomerth, Charles Broskoski, Petra Cortright, Chris Coy, Paul B. Davis, Michael Guidetti, Britta Gustafson, Travis Hallenbeck, Chance Jackson, Lektrogirl, Tom Moody, Javier Morales, Paul Slocum, James Whipple, Robert Wodzinski, and Damon Zucconi. The Nasty Nets DVD is generously supported by Rhizome. Discs will be sold at a discount to NYUFF ticket-holders, at the festival, while supplies last. - Marisa Olson

My song and video that I made for it THE RESULT is going to be screened. If you want to check it out for yourselves, the link is here, but I would have to say that reports from my friends who work in offices was that they saw the first few moments and said "I think I better finish watching that at home." The video is made from culling other peoples clips from YouTube and editing them together.

xx Emma [aka Lektrogirl]

Vamps

This was the moment I fell for Wendy James:


That was before everyone had a stylist, a hairdresser and a make-up artist to make them a photo-perfect consumable product...you could tell her style was all hers, like Madonna in the early days, I always loved it when she was a little bit off, as you could just tell it was her own mistake....actually that's what I love about Amy Winehouse, she's the first pop star in AGES who doesn't seem to have a stylist and she looks better than anybody else out there.

Anyway, went to see Wendy's new band Racine at the bowling lanes the other night, which was such a fun night as I saw lots of mates I hadn't expected to see there, danced and laughed a lot AND discovered a new band to love!

It was great to see Wendy who is still like a little peroxide pixie with HUGE self-belief and attitude, I couldn't stay for the whole gig due to babysitting duties but I saw the whole show of support act, the Plasticines, an all-girl rock and roll band from Paris and LOVED them!! God, they're all jaw-dropping beauties, in fact the lead singer looks like a very young Nancy Sinatra (and they did a cover of These Boots Were Made for Walking in case we hadn't noticed at first!) and they looked like they might explode they were having such a good time, it was like The Donnas crossed with Brigitte Bardot which is good enough for me!



Wednesday was such a good day because Jasmine took the day off from her Portobello duties and came for a Soho visit, in fact she was so ready for the 'ho (not me, Soho), that she came for breakfast, a cheese croissant from Maison Bertaux of course, and we nattered ALL day, stopped for a fine macrobiotic lunch from the cafe on Meard St (can't remember the name of it, or find in on Google, that's hippies for you, they're too busy eating that expansive food to bother with a website!), had some quality time with Sonja, then picked up an inadequate snack to walk along with to meet Emma, Max, Caz and Paul in the Queen's Larder (or the Queen's Lard was it Jasmine?) for a pre-gig drink...

We met Sonja again at the gig, who'd been yawning and protesting exhaustion then walked in all glossy and amazing...

Emma wouldn't let me photograph her as I think she was protecting her photo-face copyright but Caz had a go at one and I think it worked very well, not typical due to closed eyes but she still manages to look great!

Big surprise of the evening was running into Nikki, who used to be our Saturday girl about three years ago and has had so many adventures since I saw her! She moved to New York, worked at Nylon (both things she used to fantasize about as we nattered on Saturdays so it just shows you, if you visualise your dream....) and evidently became best friends with Wendy:

....and is about to get married! Not to Wendy....
Off I went leaving Jasmine dancing down the front, so good to see her in Soho again.....


Check out The Plasticines....

Madame xx

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