As loyal followers of THECHOCOLATECORONER, you all know what a BIG FAN of CHOCOLATE I am. Recently, I heard about a woman who REALLY LIKES CHOCOLATE TOO! She is an artist and her name is JANINE ANTONI. Here she is as a child:





I thought: I HAVE TO SEE THIS ARTIST WHO LOVES CHOCOLATE AS MUCH AS I DO! So I went to the museum and there it was, some half-assed, half-eaten block of chocolate, and another half-assed half-eaten block of soap. Excuse me but WFT?


I was told that in order to understand the piece I had to understand Marcel Duchamp. Well WFTx2! I DO NOT UNDERSTAND Marcel Duchamp. Come on! I looked at a piece called“The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even”. “The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even”? WFTx3! What is that supposed to mean? I do not see a NAKED BRIDE anywhere! And where are these SUPPOSED BACHELORS? Sounds like some kind of fucked up GANGBANG ORGY [edited for content] but it’s just a bunch of MACHINERY! Anyway. Sorry. I get a little HOT IN THE COLLAR, if you know what I mean.


So gang, I found a solution. On RoyalBooks.Com, I can pick up THE GREEN BOX, which will supposedly explain everything. Here is the listing:


Duchamp, Marcel
from the Green Box (Signed First Edition)

New Haven, CT: The Readymade Press, 1957 Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Duchamp to art critic Frank Trapp in the year of publication: "Cher Frank Trapp / Magician / cordialement / Marcel Duchamp / 1957." A companion book to the edition of twenty green boxes of documents published by Duchamp in 1934, and the first book issued by the Readymade Press. [Book #73478]
Price: $2,500.00
save 30%$1,750.00

You may have noticed that the pricetag, even with the 30% savings, is still WAY OVER MY BUDGET! Which is where all of you loyal supporters come in. I’m setting up a THECHOCOLATECORONER paypal account where you can send me a dollar. I figure that I have way over 17500 fans (judging by everyone who’s a registered FAN of THECHOCOLATECORONER so that if everyone sends me a dollar, I can get Duchamp’s THE GREEN BOX, and unlock all of the secrets to “The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even”. And, after I obtain the secrets, I will then share with you, my loyal fans. So click here and donate a buck.


Also, I plan on watching the Art:21 Season Two episode, which features Janine Antoni. Once I do, I can tell you all of HER SECRETS too!

Gnaw vs. Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

The second game commentary will be based on a comparison of visual works. Look at the performance piece by Janine Antoni entitled "Gnaw" and relate it to the "Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors", made by Marcel Duchamp. This will require some research about the two works. Unlike Fellini, this work will not contain a direct narrative to comment on. Base your point of view on a distinct character with a clearly discernible set of values. You do not need to tell me what those values are in a direct way. I should be able to pick up on those principles from your visual critique of the work. Let the game begin.

Neverneverland collapse

He does incorporate ideas about the life of dreams in to this film. I also strongly see the stereotype of the artist as child, or Mario as a child archetype. He is constantly in the struggle of wanting every thing and not wanting or being able to make the proper decisions. He is the director controlling the movie and holding the rest of the cast and crew in suspense over the continuation of their lives. He is secretly reveling in the power that he holds. He is doing the same thing in his private life with his wife.
At the end of the film there is the braking point were he must make the choice of what is going to happen. Everyone brakes into song and dance and the ending is happy he has reached individuation/a break through or whatever. Throughout the whole of the film the dream or fantasy sequences just emerge and so that leads to the idea that he really did just break down and that it is his imagination took us out of the film as his only way of coping with his situation.

I was reading that Fellini was deep in Jungian psychoanalysis during this time. He kept a journal of drawings from his dreams, which influenced this film. 8 ½ represents Fellini’s own creative struggle and is considered autobiographical surrealism. Yes, “who needs linear narrative” for this film demolishes any preconceived ideas regarding narrative. This film is a series of dream images of one man’s creative process into the irrational subconscious mind, or could it be a LSD hallucination. Maybe we all need a little psychedelic help to get into Fellini?

-b

>When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Bless the s.o.b. hallucinating it out in old school black and white… I’ll challenge him at target practice over a few whiskeys any day. There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of a self-reflective ether binge. Throw in a few midgets and go straight to the critic’s jugular, who needs linear narrative anyway--that’s for tie wearing film drones. To actually get paid for writing this kind of manic gibberish seems genuinely weird; like getting paid for kicking Agnew in the balls. So maybe there's hope. Or maybe Fellini’s going mad... Well, at least, I'll know I was there, neck deep in the madness, before the filming went down, and I got so high and wild that I felt like a two-ton Manta ray jumping all the way across the boot of Italy

Fellini knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer--I did not know who he was until he passed out in my bathtub--then I noticed him. I had to have him taken away. "If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up" I told him before he was dragged off.

OMG! this movie was crappy. why even make a move about not being able to make a movie? people in the art department make fun of the movies i like, but at least legally blonde and legally blond 2 had a positive message... and a strong female lead (OMG! i love reese witherspoon). maybe guido couldn't make his movie because he was such a woman hating, poopie pants. seriously, this movie was made in italy? where were all the hot guys? i've been to italy, and i can assure you, TOTAL HOTNESS! all of the dudes in 8 1/2 were all dusty old... i'm sure guido was all hot like half a century ago, but not so much these days. this movie was totaly like seinfeld... nothing ever happened... just a bunch of people complaining about stuff. did i mention, seinfeld is poopie too! even the really cute boy i had over to watch your movie with me left because it was so crappy!!! yawn! thanks for robbing me of a perfectly good friday night, fellini!!! ARRGH!

xoxoxox, victoria

Guido is a handsome boy. A handsome man. A handsome face.
Even when he forgets to shave.
His eyes are put in
backwards and he
pauses too long before he responds.
Dark frames
to keep his looks in--
not let them liberate to
run off with passing fancies.
They are sewn shut reflective caps.
Waiting silver corner style
soaking up
cobblestones and humidity and
chiaroscuro.