Picasso invades YouTube

Check out our YouTube channel to watch PICASSO: LE CONFESSIONALS

http://www.youtube.com/user/PicassoMeetsEinstein

Here is a sample:

Charles Dabernow Schmendiman

A (in)complete list of Schmendiman's achievements to date:

The Spork

The Chicken Dance

Finger Painting

Confetti Cannon

Laser Tag

CHEESE

The Dunce Cap

And last but not least....his most brilliant invention yet...

SCHMENDIMITE

*In Development*
Ephedra

Clearly Schmendiman is the most brilliant person to have ever step foot in the Lapin Agile.

He wins. Hands down. No competition.

It's all in the wrist.

The Fakecasso-in-progress in Kelby's dorm suite:
"Looks like five weird women to me."

The Real World

Seven strangers [will be]... picked to live in a house... to find out what happens when people stop being polite... and start getting real.

The Historical Lapin Agile

So, is the Lapin Agile a real place? Believe it or not, it is.

The Lapin Agile was probably the most popular of the several gathering places in Montmartre, Paris. It is mentioned in connection with Picasso and his circle in many sources describing those exhilarating times. Formerly named Cabaret des Assassins, its name was changed according to a common practice in Paris at the time – that of making phonetic puns for the names of establishments. The regular clientele at Assassins began to refer to the place as Le Lapin Agile (the agile rabbit), which described the painting over the door by artist André Gill – as in “le lapin á Gill” (Gill’s rabbit) or even “lá a peint A. Gill” (A. Gill painted here).

The owner Père Frédé was the former owner of a small literary café called Zut. With his guitar and distinctive beard, he was a colorful eccentric known to all the artists and intellectuals. The Lapin was a building swathed in greenery, with a bar, a dining room, a terrace, and a profusion of animals The interior was dark, cleaned and polished every day by Frédé’ s wife, Berthe la Bourguignonne. From time to time, Frédé would tune his guitar and announce an artistic evening. All present would sing or recite poetry. Several artists had painted or hung sculptures on the walls, including Picasso who had done a number of nude figures with a single blue brush stroke and a portrait of his friend Jaime Sabartès.

Our Theme Song

Swedish fish foot walkin' down the street
Looking for something he can eat.
Steps in a puddle of we concrete,
Now Swedish fish foot has no feet.

The Poetical Stylings of Tyler Stoltenberg

Welcome to the Lapin Agile
Come on in we're glad you're here
My name's Freddy I'll get you a drink
It's coming right up, with a wink
You just missed Picasso, he ran off to draw
He makes the best art you ever saw
Lookin for Gaston? He's in the loo
After a few drinks, you'll be there too
Over there - that's Albert Einstein
He's doing math and drinking wine

Enter Picasso.

"A little like Rodin's sculpture of Balzac only quicker. Moody, brooding." - p. 32

Drink to me...!

According to http://drunknewsblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/einstein-hated-booze.html -- not a blog your stage manager regularly keeps up with: she simply Googles this stuff -- Einstein didn't like alcohol. Picasso, on the other hand, loved his distilled absinthe. His final words were "Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore." Other fun Einstein details:

1. Einstein Liked His Feet Naked

"When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock," he once said. "So I stopped wearing socks." Einstein was also a fanatical slob, refusing to "dress properly" for anyone. Either people knew him or they didn't, he reasoned - so it didn't matter either way.

2. Einstein Hated Scrabble

Aside from his favourite past-time sailing ("the sport which demands the least energy"), Einstein shunned any recreational activity that required mental agility. As he told the New York Times, "When I get through with work I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."

3. Einstein Was A Rotten Speller

Although he lived for many years in the United States and was fully bilingual, Einstein claimed never to be able to write in English because of "the treacherous spelling". He never lost his distinctive German accent either, summed up by his catch-phrase "I vill a little t'ink".

4. Einstein Loathed Science Fiction

Lest it distort pure science and give people the false illusion of scientific understanding, he recommended complete abstinence from any type of science fiction. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." He also thought people who claimed to have seen flying saucers should keep it to themselves.

5. Einstein Smoked Like A Chimney

A life member of the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club, Einstein was quoted as saying: "Pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment of human affairs." He once fell into the water during a boating expedition but managed heroically to hold on to his pipe.

6. Einstein Wasn't Much Of A Musician

Einstein would relax in his kitchen with his trusty violin, stubbornly trying to improvise something of a tune. When that didn't work, he'd have a crack at Mozart.

7. Alcohol Was Not Einstein’s Preferred Drug

At a press conference upon his arrival to New York in 1930, he said jokingly of Prohibition: "I don't drink, so it's all the same to me." In fact, Einstein had been an outspoken critic of "passing laws which cannot be enforced".

8. Einstein Equated Monogamy With Monotony

"All marriages are dangerous," he once told an interviewer. "Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident." He was notoriously unfaithful as a husband, prone to falling in love with somebody else directly after the exchanging of vows.

9. Einstein’s Memory Was Shot

Believing that birthdays were for children, his attitude is summed up in a letter he wrote to his girlfriend Mileva Maric: "My dear little sweetheart ... first, my belated cordial congratulations on your birthday yesterday, which I forgot once again."

10. Einstein’s Cat Suffered Depression

Fond of animals, Einstein kept a housecat which tended to get depressed whenever it rained. Ernst Straus recalls him saying to the melancholy cat: "I know what's wrong, dear fellow, but I don't know how to turn it off."

Sagot the Entertainer

Clovis Sagot was a circus clown earlier in his life before he converted a pharmacy into an art gallery and began his infamous practice of scalping paintings. Perhaps he still pulled out his out circus tricks at parties or when especially sloshed at the Lapin Agile.