STAR CATCHER
my true adverntures with the stars
and the songs they sing
part two

Don’t miss this return engagement of last year’s Standing Room Only hit!
Maurice Peterson tells more juicy stories of his personal encounters with the superstars
including Cher, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Lionel Hampton, Lisa Left Eye, Eartha Kitt, Joan Collins, Beyoncé and more A-list celebrities,
and sings the songs they made famous.
featuring special guest stars: Berkshire Idol winner, Catie Damon & Michael Lowe

SATURDAY, May 3 2008
two shows: 8:00 & 10:00
Rumpy’s
(the cabaret of The Village Inn)
16 Church Street
Lenox, MA 01232

HIRO Celebrate Thanksgiving Day at La Bottega Music by Suss One and DJ Sematic at The Maritime Hotel

371 West 16th Street at 9th Ave Weds. Nov 21, 2007

VHS or Beta, Moving Units & 33Hz Live
Free Live Show in Atlantic City!!!

Here’s a great excuse to get out to Atlantic City… Unbelievably, we are able to offer our loyal GBH customers free admission to this top notch bill….
VHS or Beta (who have never sounded better), Moving Units (who have been away for toooo long) and 33Hz (who are set to take off any minute now) will be playing live at House of Blues…
and it is free to everyone on the GBH list…

For free admission for you and your friends, just RSVP with your name and number of guests to info@gbh.tv
Remember to say you are on the GBH Guest List when you arrive at the door.

It’s all taking place at:
Club Harlem in the House of Blues
at the Showboat Hotel,
Atlantic City.
Doors 8.30pm. 18+ w/I.D.

Thomas Ruff studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy). Ruff names Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Karl Bloßfeld, Stephen Shore and William Eggleston as his main influences. From 2000 to 2005 Ruff taught Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (the previous “Becher-Class”).

During his studies in Düsseldorf, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. His initial main topic was the interior of German living quarters, with typical features of the 1950s to 1970s (room portraits and design details). This was followed by similar views of buildings and portraits of friends and acquaintances. These are typically shown with emotionless expressions, in very large, passport-style portraits of great detail and high resolution. In a discussion with Philip Pocock (Journal for Contemporary Art, 1993), Ruff mentions a connection between these portraits and the police observation methods in Germany in the 1970s during the German Autumn.

Ruff gave up shooting his own images in a recent series, Nudes, using porn-stills pulled from the Internet. Ruff continues to address photography in the age of the Internet in his latest work, jpeg, an ongoing series of massively enlarged versions of downloaded compressed files, a process that maxes out the resolution to near abstraction. Link Show Link