they’re playing baseball with a football. I feel like I’ve learned alot this week. About myself. Or at least, about what people share. Shelly has been staying with her parents this week, so I was all alone at the lake house, going for morning paddles into the fog and just floating there watching the fog [...]
top of the world
I haven’t actually seen the movie, just this one scene from White Heat in which James Cagney, on top of a burning building, shouts “I made it, Ma: Top of the World” before collapsing in a ball of flames. It was in some movie with “Brooklyn” in the title, in which some kid gets involved [...]
current stucks
i get nervous that i will forget all my ideas. so i made a wiki of them. it broke. so i made a lulu book of them. i forgot some. and forgot to leave empty pages. so i am thinking shards are where i want to be next. like a shard of a few bright [...]
on letting go
Many artists who went to grad school mention, in some interview somewhere, their all important break from grad school work. So, I’ve been eagerly awaiting mine. The thing is, I like my grad school work. It is tight in ways my work is not now, aesthetic in ways it is not now, socially-mediated but still [...]
shadow of the wind
Just finished reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind. Just finished reading it. Missed walking Nikki and Shelly to work to do so. I woke up before her, and lied in bed reading it, and then was almost done, and she had had breakfast and coffee and shower, and I was still almost [...]
my life is a work of art
To be honest, I kept forgetting, but when I remembered, it was a pretty useful mantra. As I said, it got me out of bed as soon as I woke up, no waiting for the alarm or the snooze. Just, “my life is a work of art, wake the fuck up.” While Shelly was at [...]
underground sketchup
Excerpt from Emir Kusturica’s Underground as rendered in Google Sketch Up. I really don’t know where I am going with this. Is Schlocky imitation for the ham-value really what I am going to pull out of remaking movies with Serbs? Is it endearing by proxy of that french guy? It was an unoriginal idea before [...]
sound mirrors and…er…more
Sound mirrors are as beautiful as objects as they are in concept. Lisa Autogena is working on a pair of sound mirrors that “will” enable the british to speak to the french across the channel, which is sort of related to John Ewing’s Virtual Corners (in its last week, so you’d best visit it NOW). [...]
nathaniel katz collab #1
brewing up a collab with nathaniel katz, I received these notes from him in an email: “create a defamilliarization of the everyday while maintaining it in the everyday. think about strategies, necessities of activities… see how we can potentially contrast those (or pit one against the other) in a collaborative piece.” I found this trajectory [...]
deborah fisher: effort
” It’s been years and years since I have fallen for that sensation of working to prove that I am someone, or that I am interesting, and I have never felt more free.” -Deborah Fisher: Effort Wow. Once again, Deborah Fisher feels like the art mom I never had. (sorry, Deborah, I have no idea [...]