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  • Memories of Theresa
  • Play Theresa Duncan's Video Games Free Online
    Rhizome has preserved Theresa Duncan's visionary video games and they are now available to be played for free at http://archive.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms/
  • Chop Suey
    "Developed in 1994 and published the following year, Chop Suey was a cunning piece of multimedia edutainment, suited just as well to grown-ups — smirking hipsters and punk rockers, probably — as it was to the prescribed “girls 7 to 12” crowd. But it wasn’t a computer game. It was something else: a loosely-strung system of vignettes; a psychedelic exercise in “let’s-pretend”; a daydream in which the mundanity of small town Ohio collides with the interior lives of its two young protagonists." Jenn Frank
  • Smarty
    Smarty was Theresa's second award winning video. This is a film version used to demonstrate the game for potential distributors. Art direction by Jeremy Blake
  • Theresa Duncan's The History of Glamour
    The History of Glamour “In the film, the main character is looking for an identity, and glamour becomes for her a potent form of self-expression. She finds it very liberating, because she’s from a small town. But by the end of the story, glamour becomes limiting, then imprisoning, so she becomes a writer, chooses grammar over glamour.” Theresa Duncan on The History of Glamour in Salon. ~ The History of Glamour, is a music-based animated film, it aired at The New York Video Festival, The Women Make Waves International Women's Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Montreal Film Festival, the Channel Hopping Festival in Austria and was selected for inclusion in The Whitney Biennial 2000. Glamour also aired on Channel 4 in the UK, on Canal + in France, and in Japan. * ~Writer and Director Theresa Duncan; Art Director Jeremy Blake; Art work by Jeremy Blake and Karen Kilimnick; animation by Eric Dyer.
  • Memorial Film
    This film was shown at a memorial for Theresa in New York, December 2007. A special thanks to Wilbur King for the use of clips from his film “Charlotte Goes Swimming” and Raymond Doherty, editor.
  • In a Land of 90's Barbieland Wreckage Chop Suey Got Everything Right
  • Memories Of Theresa Tumblr
  • The Lovely Theresa by Baron Von Luxxury
  • Eric Dyer

Worthy of Mention

Books

  • Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
    Empire (2000)—the surprise hit that made its term for U.S global hegemony stick and presciently set the agenda for post–9/11 political theory on the left—was written by this same somewhat unlikely duo: Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political scientist and sometime inmate of Rome's Rebibbia prison. This book follows up on Empire's promise of imagining a full-blown global democracy. Though the authors admit that they can't provide the final means for bringing that entity about (or the forms for maintaining it), the book is rich in ideas and agitational ends. The "multitude" is Hardt and Negri's term for the earth's six billion increasingly networked citizens, an enormous potential force for "the destruction of sovereignty in favor of democracy." The middle section on the nature of that multitude is bookended by two others. The first describes the situation in which the multitude finds itself: "permanent war." The last grounds demands for and historical precursors of global democracy. Written for activists to provide a solid goal (with digressions into history and theory) toward which protest actions might move, this timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor, major accomplishments in and of themselves. (****)

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The Green Fairy: The Los Angeles Lunar Society's Contraband Christmas

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"Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter." --The Apocalypse of St. John

Wormwood, whose extract used to be a popular ingredient in many perfumes, has a strong floral and herbal flavor (and scent) that is heightened when extracted by proper distillation. Wormwood's active agent thujone is the primary ingredient in absinthe that is supposed to cause the violence and hallucinations that eventually got it banned.

With this in mind, we have been searching for six months for a large enough supply of absinthe for the Los Angeles Lunar Society Christmas party, which will take place on the night of the full moon, Thursday, December 15th at our Malibu clubhouse. [Brief aside to new initiates: you think you are the only one who thinks it is funny to give your Secret Santa a sex toy, but FYI, one year we had an actual pile of them, and guess who the neighbors saw carrying three dildos out to the dumpster the next day? That's right, yours truly, the Lunar Society's straight-laced librarian, registrar and sergeant-at-arms. So give a dildo if you must, but know that there are enough dicks in the Los Angeles Lunar Society already and that you will be disposing of any superfluous ones yourself.]

Since we Lunarians are big paraphenalia buffs, we have purchased many antique silver collectors' absinthe spoons with our holiday party funds. These gorgeous implements are used to hold the sugar cube that we will drizzle water onto and into the gorgeous green liquid resting in the bottom of our glasses. A particularly lovely specimen from our new collection is pictured above. Should be an apocalyptic Lunar Christmas party this year. Thanks to Lunar member Edward W. for donating the money for the absinthe spoons, glasses and carafes, and to Eleanor for donating the geese we will roast on the beach under pleine lune.

Some nights the wolves are silent and only the moon howls, it has been said, and we certainly don't expect any less. See you Thursday.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in Hotel Bars, Los Angeles |

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