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Evelyn Austin

It's the nature of us all to want to be unconnected

I program the monthly Ignite Amsterdam events, and am Mediamatic.net's editor. I did not write a screenplay about zombies called "Out break". I did write a novella when I was in elementary school, concerning horses, a kidnapping, beheaded ghosts and a great escape to Germany. If you want to know how it ended, get in touch.

  • Strange guy reads Song by Adrienne Rich-

    You're wondering if I'm lonely:
    OK then, yes, I'm lonely
    as a plane rides lonely and level
    on its radio beam, aiming
    across the Rockies
    for the blue-strung aisles
    of an airfield on the ocean.

    You want to ask, am I lonely?
    Well, of course, lonely
    as a woman driving across country
    day after day, leaving behind
    mile after mile
    little towns she might have stopped
    and lived and died in, lonely

    If I'm lonely
    it must be the loneliness
    of waking first, of breathing
    dawns' first cold breath on the city
    of being the one awake
    in a house wrapped in sleep

    If I'm lonely
    it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore
    in the last red light of the year
    that knows what it is, that knows it's neither
    ice nor mud nor winter light
    but wood, with a gift for burning

  • The Beatles - Revolution-

    One of my favorite songs. "Revolution" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The Beatles released two distinct arrangements of the song in 1968: a hard rock version as the B-side of the single "Hey Jude", and a slower version titled "Revolution 1" on the eponymous album The Beatles (commonly called the "White Album").

I love literature and especially those novels featuring men in a midlife crisis. Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, Bernard Malamud, Paul Auster.

Big admirer of poets such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Kenneth Koch: A Tragedy by Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Comics by Richard Peel, Jason, Jeffrey Brown, Kolbeinn Karlsson. Lost Girls by Moore and Gebbie is beautiful. Maus (Spiegelman) gave me nightmares for a week.

I like maps. Collect books, music and lingerie. Fleur of England, Mimi Holliday, Damaris.

I host an online radio at Eclectro.nl that aims to unite kindred spirits and provide a platform for producers, labels and musicians in/from Holland.

The art project "Can one take the top of(f) a mountain?" concerns the dissolving of the Netherlands Antilles. When this happened (10-10-10), the highest point of Holland shifted from Vaalserberg in Limburg to Mount Scenery on Saba.
This touches on issues such as (national) identity, language, future government, community and mountain tops. We're making a documentary.

http://ctsrgc.eu/

http://eclectro.nl/days-grow-short-radio

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  • Evelyn Austin-

    made by my computer. while re-reading The Information.

  • Pasfoto: Evelyn-

    Gemaakt op Leiden CS, 9 maart 2011 om 11.30am. Grieperig. Foto nodig voor nieuwe OV Chipkaart en studentenpas Universiteit van Leiden.

  • zon in de pijp-

    Made at Marieke's old place on the corner of Ferdinand Bol and Ceintuurbaan. Torn down now to make room for the Noord-Zuid Lijn.

  • The Yes Men impersonate Dow Chemicals-

    On December 3, 2004, the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, a man claiming to be a Dow representative named Jude Finisterra was interviewed on BBC World News. He claimed that the company had agreed to clean up the site and compensate those harmed in the incident, by liquidating Union Carbide for $12 billion USD.

    Immediately afterward, Dow's share price fell 4.2% in 23 minutes, for a loss of $2 billion in market value. Dow quickly issued a statement saying that they had no employee by that name—that he was an impostor, not affiliated with Dow, and that his claims were a hoax. The BBC broadcast a correction and an apology.

    "Jude Finisterra" was actually Andy Bichlbaum, a member of the activist prankster group The Yes Men. In 2002, The Yes Men issued a fake press release explaining why Dow refused to take responsibility for the disaster and started up a website, at "DowEthics.com", designed to look like the real Dow website but with what they felt was a more accurate cast on the events. In 2004, a producer for the BBC emailed them through the website requesting an interview, which they gladly obliged. (Taken from Wikipedia.

Work
Mediamatic Foundation (1 May 2010 – now)
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