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Christiane

the key to the open fields

About Me

I enjoy quiet walks on broken glass...www.christianed.us

My Interests

Art with heart, art with truth, art in all its forms and expressions. My other obsessions are...history-rise and fall of empires, nanotechnology, ai and other artificial forms of intelligence, camping-sleep on the ground-woods, paranormal, existentialism, socio-politics, crazy-zen buddhism, equal rights, collecting antiques, sci-fi,

I'd like to meet:

whomever i'm supposed to cross paths with...deep rollers. Purchase Soma Mestizo's TELOMERE

Music:

Soma Mestizo, Funkadelic, Balkan Beat Box, Res, Radiohead, Cassandra Wilson, PJ Harvey, Skunk Anasie, Shriekback, Neil Young, Digital Underground, Labelle, Bebel, Martina Topley Bird, Nouveau Riche, Bjork, Bustarhymes, Outkast, Sarah Vaughn, Musafir, Flora Purim, Faith Evans, Digable Planets, Weather Report, Liz Berlin, Cesaria Evora,The Creatures, Michael Franti, Mos Def, 3 Generations Walking, Astrid Gilberto, Erykah Badu, Asian Dub Foundation, Heavenly Voices Boy King's Choir, Sakai, Prozak for Lovers, David Bowie, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Anthony Hamilton, Rachelle Ferrell, Nina Simone, Celia Cruz, Blossom Dearie, Henry Threadgill, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Maria Da Silva, Public Enemy, Dub Squad, Jack Wilson, Aaliyah, Beethooven, Cause and Effect, Bach, Jill Scott, Dana Owens, Kina, Grace Jones, Basement Jaxx, Van Zant, Himalayan Project, Femi Kuti, Ursula Rucker, Yoko Ono, Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees, Henry Rollins, Gang of Four, Deelite, Imani Winds, Kelis, Joi, Kodo, LAL, Lexsis Jumps, Kilo, Phat Man Dee, Bellrays, Parliament, Tool, Graph Nobel, Sonji, Massive Attack, Missy Elliott, Ministry, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, The Roots, Sade, Seeed, Tricky, Depeche Mode, Zap Mamma, Serge Gainsbourg, Betty Davis, Goldfrapp, Mary J Blige, ...

Movies:

Alien, Napolean Dynamite, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Blue Velvet, Real women have curves, In the Company of Men, Andromeda Strain, The Rabbit Fence, Bride with the White Hair, Killer Clowns, To Sir, with Love, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly; Diva, Hedwig, Whale rider, Hero, The Piano Lesson, The Abyss, Their Eyes were watching God, A History of Violence, Eraser Head, Shaolin Soccer, Undercover Brother, Fear of a Black Hat, The Ring, 7, V

Television:

Battlestar Gallatica, VH1Soul, Tripping the Rift, 4400, History Channel, nip/tuck, Scrubs, Psychic

Books:

Jean Paul Satre - The Respectful Prostitute, Butterball- Guy de Maupassant, Flight-Sherman Alexie, The Vagabond- Colette, Dune- Frank Herbert, Joe Turners come and gone - August Wilson, Crescent - Diana Abu-Jaber, The Alienist - Caleb Carr, The Nature of Balance - Tim Lebbon, WE - Eugene Zamiatin, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, Demian - Herman Hesse, The Portable Promised Land - Toure, Killing Rage - Bell Hooks, Portrait of a man Unknown - Nathalie Sarraute, The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby, The Dwarf - Par Lagerkvist, Indian Killer - Sherman Alexie, Cell - Stephen King, Swarm- Michael Crichton

Heroes:

My mother, my friends, Martha Jackson, Guerilla Girls, Harriet Tubman, Cicely Tyson, Kali, Sophia Loren, Sidney Poiter, Renee Margritte, Paul Klee, Krishnamurti, Bell Hooks, Betty Davis (the funk singer), Nina Hagen, Annie Sprinkle, Salvador Dali, Nina Simone,

My Blog

Women, painting and power-repost

by Chris ZydelI'm standing in my studio, watching ten women painting in silence with exquisite focus and concentration, and the energy is just humming. All of a sudden I hear a groan from one of the w...
Posted by Christiane on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:22:00 PST

POWER - The Definition of Feminine Power at Future Tenant

FUTURE TENANT PRESENTS: POWER - The Definition of Feminine PowerCurated by Christiane D.September 28 - October 20www.futuretenant.orgThis group exhibit will collectively express the definition of femi...
Posted by Christiane on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:17:00 PST

Jim Crow the Zombie: Jena 6 re-post

Jim Crow the zombie is walking the earth, and those in power continue to nurture and provide the ripe environment for his existence.(some) American cities may be multi-culti islands of cool, and even ...
Posted by Christiane on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:33:00 PST

Women risking power

How We Define Power by Linda Lawless, MDOur culture historically has held that women should be most powerful in traditional roles that foster the growth of others such as mothering, nursing, teaching,...
Posted by Christiane on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:32:00 PST

Trinity Cathedral offers Blessing of Pittsburgh Artists

Annual blessing of Artists Coinciding with the opening of a new performing arts season, Trinity Cathedral offers its first Blessing of the Artists event. "Artists serve us holistically," say Fr. Paul...
Posted by Christiane on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:21:00 PST

Podcast about the POWER exhibit

Curator, artists and writers talk about the upcoming exhibit.Go to this link http://futuretenant.org/podcast.html, click on the episode, then when it redirects you, click "Direct download: sept07power...
Posted by Christiane on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:14:00 PST

i am hobby horse

TO THE PUBLICBefore going down among you to pull out your decaying teeth, your running ears, your tongues full of sores.Before breaking your putrid bones.Before opening your cholera-infested belly and...
Posted by Christiane on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:22:00 PST

Where are the patrons of yesterday?

Dominique de Menil had this to say about the artists in her and her husband's collection:"The gifted artists are the great benefactors of the world. Life flows from their souls, from their hearts, fro...
Posted by Christiane on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:16:00 PST

Why, thank you for the drugs

that poison our waterI just love mutant fishwith two headsand hey, lookit has both genitalsso i guess it can have sex with itself (and of course the fish in my area are probably sporting a blonde doo)...
Posted by Christiane on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:39:00 PST

September, an amazing month of ART

Recoil, Drink & Draw, James McBride, Global Beats, etc...http://www.christianed.us/cerchio.htm
Posted by Christiane on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:00:00 PST