Hello and welcome to the blog entry for Canned Culture, Episode 7. We are currently getting everything typed up and beautiful for you, so check back as we will be posting the complete CC7 blog shortly.

And here we go with it all...

We are very excited to continue bringing you some of the best of the best of artists names that you should become familar with. These individuals are literally breaking the mold and paving a brand new path for all of us.

With so many wonders to choose from...lets get started.


Nimrod Antal's Kontroll

This film recommended to me by a Mr. Matt Runyen

Id like to use my own words but this wonderful review says it all, so Ill leave the words to Ms. Ella Taylor from the L.A. Weekly:

Kontroll, a Hungarian quasi-thriller of considerable gloomy charm, won the Prix de la Jeunesse Award at Cannes last year, and it’s easy to see why. Set entirely in the depths of the Budapest subway system — at no point in its 106-minute running time do we see the light of day — the movie combines high-speed rail chases and schoolboy prankishness with the kind of romantic alienation that many young people wear with their basic black and assume will see them through the rest of their lives.

Writer-director Nimród Antal, still in his early 30s, lived in Los Angeles long enough to acquire a slight Tarantino swagger. But then he went home to study filmmaking, and his movie is unmistakably European in style — Tarkovsky, by way of the Kaurismäkis, with a dab of Jim Jarmusch. The plot, such as it is, centers on a group of ticket inspectors, a wan, lethargic breed apparently much reviled by Budapest commuters. At their helm is Bulcsú (Sándor Csányi), a moody young refugee from a better life aboveground with the hollow-eyed good looks of a young Paul Henreid.

Though he manages to keep his little band of losers together despite bullying from management, competition from a rival group of inspectors and intermittent provocations by a fleet-footed teenage stowaway, Bulcsú appears to have given up on life. To make matters worse, he’s haunted by a mysterious hooded figure who creeps up behind commuters and pushes them into the path of oncoming trains. Then comes love, and hope, in a form only an Eastern European surrealist could conjure up, that of an exquisite woman in a teddy-bear costume with a ludicrously padded rear end.

Kontroll is goofy, smart and beguiling, and it whips up an almost unbearable luster from its grimy subterranean labyrinth — a gorgeously lit image of Bulcsú sitting disconsolate atop a huge vent in the tunnel is unforgettably wistful. What the movie lacks is a point, unless you count Bulcsú’s rote existential quest. But Nimród Attal has time on his side, and we should expect to see much more, and much better, from this talented young filmmaker.

Leah Brown

What can I begin to say about the wonderful Ms. Leah Brown that has not already been said. Well....I bet we can think of an entire days worth of words, non-stop to say about this incredible sculptist as she continues to develop and evolve her craft. Leah is a resident artist at the Hub-Bub Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

She has a weath of venues and installations on her resume and is currently doing some more really great things. Though I should just let her tell you about that herself. Below is and extra portion to the interview held with Leah Brown featured in our latest episode. (To Arrive Shortly)


Below are the specifics on the date, time, local of the Scarecrow Wedding if your lucky enough to live near this area of even within a 10 hour radius, hiking down there and taking a gander might be worth your while.

The Scarecrow Wedding will be up at the Cottonwoods Trail in Spartanburg, SC, during the month of February. Reception is Saturday, Feb. 10th from 3-5. Champagne and Wedding cake will be served. Free and open to the public.

As well as her:

Exit Show from the Hub-Bub.Com Artist in Residence Program will be held the last week in March through the 3rd week in April at the Showroom Gallery in Spartanburg, SC. Opening Reception TBA. Gallery hours are Mon-Fri 9-5.

I know I am going to try and make a detour to this amazing opportunity to work as part of Suzan Lori-Parks nation wide tour piece.

Also I'm building an installation to be used as the stage set for 2 weeks of the production of Suzan-Lori Parks project, 365 days/365 plays. The plays are are weeks 22 (April 9-15) and 24 (April 23-29) and are a part of a national project where a different play is performed every day for a year in theaters around the country. This is in association with Woffard College, but the location for the plays is TBA.

All of this and more can be seen here at: Hub-Bub

Amber A.K.A. Applefaerie

Until a few months ago, when Melissa introduced me to the DIY revolution, I had no idea people still spun their own yarn. The concept was a bit astonishing as it is no simple task and the art is intricately detailed. If anyone loves taking ideas and concepts, scenes and seasons, food and poetry - and turning it into tangible thread-like material to be knit/crocheted/worked into anything the fiber-lover's heart desires, it is Applefaerie.
However, it is one thing to be told this and quite another to see for yourself.

Be sure to check out her Etsy account here: Applefaerie Yarn

And do not miss the extended version of the process (the kind of wonder journey you'd take with Mr. Rogers to the crayon factory) at her Flickr here: Extended Collection


Join us on myspace.com and check out some of these here folks' pages as well to find out more about the individual, what makes them tick, what makes them smile, and such. That's all for this month. Take care kids.

Tags: apple faerie, cromartie high school, hub-bub, kontroll, leah brown, lucy knisely, nimrod antal, odetta, yarn