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New Work
Just posted a couple of new pieces. One’s SFX, a gentle mix of sound effects and side effects. bit.ly/fVJ6XV The other is The Originals, a very small survey of the use of that word in your supermarket. http://bit.ly/e0lZ2n
Feb 28th
October 2010
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Oct 27th
John Baldessari
“I’m not going to temper, I don’t change, don’t want to take the chance of some magic being broken. I like being in my studio, being around all my stuff, magazines, books. This is my existence, this is where I get my power.”            - John Baldessari
Oct 20th
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Martin Amis' The Information
I just re-read the first paragraph of Martin Amis’ The Information. Something about it really blew me away. Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It’s nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that… Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and your sob probes, and you would mark them. Women—-and they can be wives,...
Oct 15th
September 2010
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August 2010
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America During the Depression →
These are color photos documenting rural life from the depression through World War II. It’s a really amazing portrait of the changes in this country during that period. Some incredible faces and glimpses into life.
Aug 5th
July 2010
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Bruce Nauman's Holocaust Memorial
Bruce Nauman was once asked by Hannover, Germany to conceive a Holocaust memorial for the city. His idea was to create a piece that consisted of the following sentence. “We are sorry for what we did, and we promise not to do it again.”
Jul 13th
Jul 13th
Helmut Smits
This is a piece called ‘Quarter Pipe’ from a Rotterdam based artist named Helmut Smits. He’s lovely. Sifting through his stuff you get this sense of gentle, quixotic and slightly off-kilter thinking. There’s a movie on his site where a kid invents a star. It’s heartbreakingly beautiful. http://helmutsmits.nl/
Jul 12th
Michael Kimmelman on art
“Art isn’t about perfection. Before cameras, travelers sketched so that they could record what they saw on trips, as souvenirs, in the same way that bourgeois families, in the days before recordings, used to listen to music by making it themselves at home on the piano or singing in the parlor. There was a more intimate connection between the amateur musician or artist and the...
Jul 9th
May 2010
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May 19th
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WatchWatch
HR and HR Bad Brains frontman HR interviews himself. I love how he ignores his own questions.
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Roman Signer
A friend sent me the work of Roman Signer. He’s a Swiss artist who makes time-based sculptures. When I look at his work I think, wholy shit you can do that. It’s about play, it’s about curiosity, it’s firecrackers and playing with matches. Here’s his site.
May 17th
WatchWatch
Steve Brule Sushi!
May 13th
Jenny Holzer on Words
Question to Jenny Holzer: “What’s the beauty of words?” J.H. Answer: “When you get them right, people understand.”
May 13th
The Wisdom of Wyatt Earp
“It’s not the the first shot that counts, it’s the first shot that hits. The point is to draw, aim and fire and deliver the slug an inch above the belt buckle”              - Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929)
May 13th