Respect the Boss

I am sitting now at the new Cupcake Royale on Capitol Hill. It is air conditioned, which, after six hours behind an espresso machine at my job in Madrona, feels fucking fantastic. There are so many people in here, just soaking up AC and calories.

I have purchased several bottles of Evan Williams Whiskey, which are sitting in a large brown bag at my feet. Nobody is coming to visit me and get more booze, which is a bad sign for the Implied Violence Shot-a-Thon. So I am posting the results of the second-week check-in/tally-up in hopes of inspiring more booze selling to the hot and hungry masses.

Shot-a-Thon Leaderboard Week Two

Expect many Shot-a-Thon Sponsors at Implied Violence’s first funding bash this weekend:
“No Friends Only Enemies” will have three bars, vagina punch, and whiskey shots. Straight Up!

Sir Evan Williams, Esquire

This is an article I talk about a lot. It is an article from The New York Times I read a while back, I think in March of this year, about an architecture/urban planning competition that France’s President Nicholas Sarkozy proposed for transforming Paris into the first “post-Kyoto” city. Paris is the city of love and light, a place I have only been to once, and a city whose landmarks and their histories give it its strong identity as much as the people inhabiting it. This contest had 10 finalists, the most provocative and “outlandish” proposal was to move all of the existing monuments and landmarks of Paris to outlying, gritty neighborhoods. I enjoy this image, this gesture, this thought and the boldness to pursue writing and planning such an act. The architect is Paris-based Roland Castro. I think Implied Violence will help Mr. Castro with our fleet of Zeppelins: we will simultaneously black out the sun over Paris while moving all of the monuments in the city while darkness overtakes the city of light. And when IV’s fleet of Zeppelins moves on to the next city: Cairo, London, St. Petersberg, Tokyo, and so forth…Paris’ rioting masses will calm and draw new maps. Cartographical Catastrophy.

Above is the link to the article about said competition. It is definitely worth a look-see!

Joey Joey Joey

“Best of…” is our good friend Joey Veltkamp’s blog about art and culture in Seattle. His blog is the best blog by one of the best and nicest people in the whole city…maybe the whole state, country, continent, hemisphere, world, and universe. Joey is a man-about-town who is seen at every event, every opening, every show, every bar, every restaurant, all of the time. He recently went on a trip to Montreal and New York, which he writes about with wonderful excitement and wonder. Joey posts about Implied Violence quite often, and is one of our biggest supporters. “Best of…” is the best.

I read this in the Seattle times yesterday. There is a documentary that Tom Chapel made me sit through called Dealing Dogs http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/dealingdogs/ which was awful and sad and really weird. The highlight was when they were making a mountain out of dog corpses with the quote, “dead doags”

Here is the Seattle times blurb:

Here’s the fifth synth. Comin’ to get you Ed Lee, this will point cloud your mind. You’re gonna need some Silverlight or some #@$ click here
Yo, press “P” for POINT CLOUD people!
And press “F” to FULL SCREEN.

The Head

Implied Violence is presenting “The Dorothy K.” in New York City this September as part of the New Island Festival.

The Dorothy K. is Part One of the middle section of a larger piece entitled “Flinch Not and Give Not Back”, a piece that was conceptualized during Implied Violence’s artistic residency at The Watermill Center. It exists as an articulated, accordion-like 4-part series, which, after it’s logical conclusion, illogically endures its death in a miserable afterlife—resting on top of and in relation to “Flinch Not and Give Not Back”, feeding off of it and sucking it dry. When The Dorothy K. finally succumbs to its death, its death being its ending, so ends “Flinch Not and Give Not Back”.

From the New Island Festival–
Direct from Holland, the New Island Festival will set up stakes on New York City’s Governors Island from September 10–13 and again from September 17–20. The festival will kick off the fall with concerts, DJ sets, provocative theatre, stunning site specific performance and dazzling visual arts, performed by world class Dutch performers. More than 100 artists will perform during the festival.

We’re having some benefit parties. Please join us.

August 1st 2009

“No Friends Only Enemies”
The Basement of The American Hotel
Located at 520 South King Street
Seattle WA 98104

“An all night art and music extravaganza with tacocat, Strong Killings, and many many more. Art by NKO and Implied Violence”

and August 8th 2009
Implied Violence+OnePot
The Basement of The American Hotel
Located at 520 South King Street
Seattle WA 98104

Wanna help us get to New York City? Join the Shot-A-Thon!