Duane Michals
Christ Sees a Woman who has Died during an Illegal Abortion,
From Christ in New York, 1981
Friday, May 11, 2007
it was weedkiller that killed blow, not bleach.
if and when i end up killing myself, make sure to tell all the truth.
if and when i end up killing myself, make sure to tell all the truth.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
isabella blow killed heself last week, and its fucking me up, isabella was one of my heros, not for discovering mcqueen and tracey and dahl (though thank her for that), but for the fuck money, raw eccentricity and willingness to take aesthetic risks, the willingness to make her life explicity about aesthetics for their own sake. its part of my personal mythology that a willingness to do this, will mean that you would surrive longer than most, the uncomprising self awareness is a salve against the world. i know this isnt true, but i need it to be. blow drinking bleach just shatters it.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Otto Dix, Skull, Ink on Paper, 1926
both the new york and seattle pride festivals are having trouble getting the parade together this year...i wonder what this means (im always wary when formerly radical org. engage the state)
discussion of stadium sized rally for r. Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda (you know that eventually, ill end up a member of some obscure telegenic syncretic cult in the middle of brazil somewhere, i fucking love this guy.
new leftie doc deconstructing michael moore thru the lens of chomsky.
fantastic feature on the dartmouth college zine library, with nuts and bolts discussion of how to taxonomize epherema.
thouroughly bizarre collection of drawnigs from b list celebrities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Daytonna 500.
ikb (inside art joke)
evisercation of wikipedia, from a formely supportive academica nd compolser.
223 Sebastions i wish the sourcing was better, and the java slide show is annoying, but the images are powerful.
first sentence of this story freaks me the fuck otu:
Huge flocks of starving vultures have started attacking live animals in northern Spain, officials in the city of Burgos said on Thursday. In one incident, about 100 vultures killed a cow and her newborn calf, a rancher from the Mena Valley said, according to the Spanish government's office in Burgos, quoted by state news agency EFE.
what is the word for people who cannot read hollywood, but can read lacan--b/c this bone headed and contrian essay about 300, written by Zizek, is a perfect example of that.
one of 26 arial photos of toronado dammage in greenberg kansas.
more discusion of LDS dance
fantastic take down of folk and blues as more authentic, as related to urban poverty.
RIP, Scott Gordon, you were always my favourite gladiator (though not my favourite tarzan, that would be johnny)
Marylin Minter, Pamela Anderson, C Print, 2007.
(i like this one because she looks like melted plastic, like a barbie doll neck deep in vaseline, and she still looks horribly glam, she made what could have been a globe tab stars w/o their make up, thing and upped the ante)
(artists that have used Anderson as muse: Minter, Richard Prince, La Chapelle, Koons,D'Orzio, others?)
teh cape cod weather van company makes these fantastic bronze doorknockers in a variety of nautical themes, the ones of sea life have avibrant, sculptural realism. the sea horse is my favourite.
Captian Planet Saves Northern Ireland
Monday, May 07, 2007
103. Magazines you read regularly:
Print Online
The Advocate
American Rifleman
The American Prospect
Atlantic Monthly
Barrons
Business 2.0
Business Week
Christianity Today
Depatures
The Economist
Editor & Publisher
Esquire
Forbes
Foreign Policy
Fortune
Guidepost
Harpers
Harvard Business Review
Inc.
The Jerusalem report
Money
Mother Jones
National Geographic
The Nation
National Review
New York
The New Yorker
The New York Review of Books
The New Republic
New Scientist
Newsweek
NRA Rifleman
Onion
Popular Science
Reason Magazine
Rolling Stone
Scientific American
The Smithsonian
Salon
Slate
Smart Money
Soldier of Fortune
Time
The Week
Time
US News & World Reports
Utne Reader
Vanity Fair
The Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wired
from a useless blog survey im doing
Print Online
The Advocate
American Rifleman
The American Prospect
Atlantic Monthly
Barrons
Business 2.0
Business Week
Christianity Today
Depatures
The Economist
Editor & Publisher
Esquire
Forbes
Foreign Policy
Fortune
Guidepost
Harpers
Harvard Business Review
Inc.
The Jerusalem report
Money
Mother Jones
National Geographic
The Nation
National Review
New York
The New Yorker
The New York Review of Books
The New Republic
New Scientist
Newsweek
NRA Rifleman
Onion
Popular Science
Reason Magazine
Rolling Stone
Scientific American
The Smithsonian
Salon
Slate
Smart Money
Soldier of Fortune
Time
The Week
Time
US News & World Reports
Utne Reader
Vanity Fair
The Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wired
from a useless blog survey im doing
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Reading this challenge :which encourages people to read 5 books they disagree with in 5 months, i have decided to read the following:
1) Milton Friedman Capitalism and and Freedom
2) Rosseu (sp) The Confessions
3) The Dialectic of Secularism: On Reason and Religion (Ratzinger, et al)
4) Imperial Grunts, Kaplan
5) The Art of War--Sun Tzu
1) Milton Friedman Capitalism and and Freedom
2) Rosseu (sp) The Confessions
3) The Dialectic of Secularism: On Reason and Religion (Ratzinger, et al)
4) Imperial Grunts, Kaplan
5) The Art of War--Sun Tzu
Progress Report:
Goals for 2007
1) Publish 12 articles, online or in print. (work hard on completing after pitching)
4 Published
2) Find 5 Shows
Hulberts Show Done
The Ruscha show, Shows at Sugarbowl and Mosiacs upcoming (which is 4)
waiting responses from Axis.
3) Submit artwork to 6 contests, or the like.
Frameworks, The Flat Show, the Capital City Grant (which is four)
4) Look for Day Job
not done
5) Go to Holden Village in July or August
worried about capital, maybe later
6) Spend time away from Edmonton, but not nessc. in Toronto. (esp. Vancouver)
still waiting
7) read strunk/white, chicago, internalize.
havent done yet
8) continue with the jesus goals.
working on that
9) pay martin off.
payment w, the money in sept
10) try to find my own place
done
11) boyfriend
not done
12) work on being more calm and together]
hospital, etc helped this out
13) pitch WK book, continue on american jesus book
not done
14) be more social.
done
Goals for 2007
1) Publish 12 articles, online or in print. (work hard on completing after pitching)
4 Published
2) Find 5 Shows
Hulberts Show Done
The Ruscha show, Shows at Sugarbowl and Mosiacs upcoming (which is 4)
waiting responses from Axis.
3) Submit artwork to 6 contests, or the like.
Frameworks, The Flat Show, the Capital City Grant (which is four)
4) Look for Day Job
not done
5) Go to Holden Village in July or August
worried about capital, maybe later
6) Spend time away from Edmonton, but not nessc. in Toronto. (esp. Vancouver)
still waiting
7) read strunk/white, chicago, internalize.
havent done yet
8) continue with the jesus goals.
working on that
9) pay martin off.
payment w, the money in sept
10) try to find my own place
done
11) boyfriend
not done
12) work on being more calm and together]
hospital, etc helped this out
13) pitch WK book, continue on american jesus book
not done
14) be more social.
done
the lds blog qoutes a history of dancing in an lds context...
My Response:
Being queer at LDS dances, as I was for most of my highschool years was fascianting. The dances seemed to be allowed as a saftey measure. You kids have fun, we know where you are, and we know that instead of drinking or fucking, you are doing something a little off, but nothing truly problematic. It was the beginning of my erotic life and my cultural life though. It was the place where i found that I liked clean cut young men, and that there was subtext that was ignored or avoided by other men (Time Warp, RAsputin, YMCA all come to mind), it was the place where girls would slow dance with me, because it was safe, my body was not unruly (or at least was not unruly to that audience), and that i liked the raccous, the camp, and the over the top more than the traditional. It also taught me how to two step.
The thing that is missed though, is that it was v. perscriptive. Though the LDS church might be more friendly, more celebratory of bodies than other churches, only certain bodies and certain partners were given this privlege. If you grew up believing tht all bodies were dirty, it seems to me coming out was just an acknowldgement that you had failings of flesh, just a bit different.
If you came out as LDS though it was given that you had betrayed your body, the gifts that were given to you as a result of your flesh were corrupted. The tension b/w queer bodies and straight bodies was then incredibly difficult to process. The violence that the LDS church has done to transgender folks is a really good example of this. According to LDS eitology, our bodies are gifts from god and the pleasure we receive from them are equally gifted, but that means that only people who are clearly gender normed follow this.
let me put it this way, if yr god is fully masculine and fully femmine (and mother god is often forgotten in the LDS corpus), you are violating yr own divine nature if you are not fully anything, if you are b/w for any number of reasons. The dancing is a perfect example, dancing is encouraged, loved in the communities, but only if boys dance with girls, if boys dance with boys, then a violation has occured (though i saw girls dancing with girls, which makes me think that the church still cannot handle the idea of womens sexuality and is violently opposed to outssider “male” sexuality
sorry this was so long and i didnt spell check, etc
My Response:
Being queer at LDS dances, as I was for most of my highschool years was fascianting. The dances seemed to be allowed as a saftey measure. You kids have fun, we know where you are, and we know that instead of drinking or fucking, you are doing something a little off, but nothing truly problematic. It was the beginning of my erotic life and my cultural life though. It was the place where i found that I liked clean cut young men, and that there was subtext that was ignored or avoided by other men (Time Warp, RAsputin, YMCA all come to mind), it was the place where girls would slow dance with me, because it was safe, my body was not unruly (or at least was not unruly to that audience), and that i liked the raccous, the camp, and the over the top more than the traditional. It also taught me how to two step.
The thing that is missed though, is that it was v. perscriptive. Though the LDS church might be more friendly, more celebratory of bodies than other churches, only certain bodies and certain partners were given this privlege. If you grew up believing tht all bodies were dirty, it seems to me coming out was just an acknowldgement that you had failings of flesh, just a bit different.
If you came out as LDS though it was given that you had betrayed your body, the gifts that were given to you as a result of your flesh were corrupted. The tension b/w queer bodies and straight bodies was then incredibly difficult to process. The violence that the LDS church has done to transgender folks is a really good example of this. According to LDS eitology, our bodies are gifts from god and the pleasure we receive from them are equally gifted, but that means that only people who are clearly gender normed follow this.
let me put it this way, if yr god is fully masculine and fully femmine (and mother god is often forgotten in the LDS corpus), you are violating yr own divine nature if you are not fully anything, if you are b/w for any number of reasons. The dancing is a perfect example, dancing is encouraged, loved in the communities, but only if boys dance with girls, if boys dance with boys, then a violation has occured (though i saw girls dancing with girls, which makes me think that the church still cannot handle the idea of womens sexuality and is violently opposed to outssider “male” sexuality
sorry this was so long and i didnt spell check, etc
Friday, May 04, 2007
links:
john cage on i have a secret
penn jillette cashes the CATO institutes paycheques
a realy cogent article on inflation, Zimbobwe and the economicso f starvation
maoist interventions with late captial, recently in shanghai, this might be street art parody, as the cultural revloution retreads seem to be popular in europan auctions lately.
paying protection money to prevent being harmed in prison, not to other convicts, but to the state, says how high that is as a priotry. (nytimes link)
French, 1690, 9 feetx6feetx7 feet.
post apoclyptic images of the 180 near Berkley, melted (this overpass has been destroyed 4 times in 25 years)
photo by lacy atkins for the sf gate
ecudaor is going all tits up
erowid scans and hots the golden guide to hallucengic drugs
sony celebrates the launch of p3 with a decapitated goats and topless girls with grapes
high times, hard times a show of late modernist abstract paintings, made more often by women and visible minorties, and v. much conceptually present, seems to be of the recent flurry of discussion of what abstraction, and esp non objective paitning means now, this is one of my favourites, because it pushes what painting and drawing are, with location, hanging, material, and othr concerns. the link is to the staltz review, which is solid. (the review also features a bemused review of the latest bjork improablity)
Howardina Pindell, Untitled, 1967-1970 (grid, intervention w. the wall, found or semi found objects, its andre all over again)
Still from the Good Old Naughty Days, a colelction of 19th Century photographic and filmed pornography
the AFA defines sexual orientation for the rest of us, in oppostion to having it be a protected class in federal legislation
soviet stills of how to eat healthy, they all look oddly like outerbridge, and are also uncanny, in what is left unsaid about information control in the USSR
I WANT A YURT
i have been unable to write about andrew wrights photos of water, because i find them so powerful, and lorna says that they are techincally brilliant, they are on at the peak gallery on qsw, and i really want to see them (i think its partly the northern romanticism that rosenblum talked about in historical essay taht marked its history from Fredrich to Rothko, and also the implicit danger, they are of the niagra gorge and he needed a police escort)
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Standing Wave 7 - (2007) digital print on Kodak Ultra Endura Paper size 50”x74”
this is one of them
100 000 images of glass art.
From Post Secret
harpers closing up loopholes that allow dodgers resisters to find saftey.
all rich white guys look teh same (camera man cheat notes, from the republican debates
footage of a porn star having her mouth, tits, ass, cunt, and fist enshrined in latex.
fantastic interview with Martin Parr, about his new show at Hasted in New York, about European Colour Photographers from teh 70s, with some pretty fucking spectaclur images.
the loc has a blog
john cage on i have a secret
penn jillette cashes the CATO institutes paycheques
a realy cogent article on inflation, Zimbobwe and the economicso f starvation
maoist interventions with late captial, recently in shanghai, this might be street art parody, as the cultural revloution retreads seem to be popular in europan auctions lately.
paying protection money to prevent being harmed in prison, not to other convicts, but to the state, says how high that is as a priotry. (nytimes link)
French, 1690, 9 feetx6feetx7 feet.
post apoclyptic images of the 180 near Berkley, melted (this overpass has been destroyed 4 times in 25 years)
photo by lacy atkins for the sf gate
ecudaor is going all tits up
erowid scans and hots the golden guide to hallucengic drugs
sony celebrates the launch of p3 with a decapitated goats and topless girls with grapes
high times, hard times a show of late modernist abstract paintings, made more often by women and visible minorties, and v. much conceptually present, seems to be of the recent flurry of discussion of what abstraction, and esp non objective paitning means now, this is one of my favourites, because it pushes what painting and drawing are, with location, hanging, material, and othr concerns. the link is to the staltz review, which is solid. (the review also features a bemused review of the latest bjork improablity)
Howardina Pindell, Untitled, 1967-1970 (grid, intervention w. the wall, found or semi found objects, its andre all over again)
Still from the Good Old Naughty Days, a colelction of 19th Century photographic and filmed pornography
the AFA defines sexual orientation for the rest of us, in oppostion to having it be a protected class in federal legislation
soviet stills of how to eat healthy, they all look oddly like outerbridge, and are also uncanny, in what is left unsaid about information control in the USSR
I WANT A YURT
i have been unable to write about andrew wrights photos of water, because i find them so powerful, and lorna says that they are techincally brilliant, they are on at the peak gallery on qsw, and i really want to see them (i think its partly the northern romanticism that rosenblum talked about in historical essay taht marked its history from Fredrich to Rothko, and also the implicit danger, they are of the niagra gorge and he needed a police escort)
Standing Wave 7 - (2007) digital print on Kodak Ultra Endura Paper size 50”x74”
this is one of them
100 000 images of glass art.
From Post Secret
harpers closing up loopholes that allow dodgers resisters to find saftey.
all rich white guys look teh same (camera man cheat notes, from the republican debatesfootage of a porn star having her mouth, tits, ass, cunt, and fist enshrined in latex.
fantastic interview with Martin Parr, about his new show at Hasted in New York, about European Colour Photographers from teh 70s, with some pretty fucking spectaclur images.
the loc has a blog
I love the colours, the slightly blurred edges, and the intensity of certain tones that Polaroid cameras provide. The cool tones in these photos are ones that the camera and film lavishes attention on. The beige and brown of snow, the green of weeds choking a water pipe, the unique teal of northen British Columbian lakes, ferns and grass against tile or stucco. I wanted to amplify the nature of the medium, to show these colours off as best as I can. The prints intergral white frame is twinned by the wooden shadowbox. Putting a number of these shadow boxes on the white walls of the axis cafe will provide a kind of third frame, all of that white collapsing into colour.
12 images:
Greenery, Parking Lot, Prince Rupert
Boston Ferns, Ft Sask, Alberta
Snow Mountain, Millwoods Town Center, Edmonton
Skeena River Detail, near Terrace, BC
Hay and Straw, Farmfair, 2007, Edmonton
Siberian Carregana, 99th and 104thm Ft Sask
Bridge over the Skeena, Mntns, etc, near Prince Rupert
Long Grass and Mosiac, Burrard and Davies, Vancouver
Fogged Window, with Finger Mark, Pat and Rays, Toronto
9 Power Lines, 99th Ave, Edmonton
Shed Boards, Ft Sask
Painted and Now Peeling Fiberglass, Location unknown
12 images:
Greenery, Parking Lot, Prince Rupert
Boston Ferns, Ft Sask, Alberta
Snow Mountain, Millwoods Town Center, Edmonton
Skeena River Detail, near Terrace, BC
Hay and Straw, Farmfair, 2007, Edmonton
Siberian Carregana, 99th and 104thm Ft Sask
Bridge over the Skeena, Mntns, etc, near Prince Rupert
Long Grass and Mosiac, Burrard and Davies, Vancouver
Fogged Window, with Finger Mark, Pat and Rays, Toronto
9 Power Lines, 99th Ave, Edmonton
Shed Boards, Ft Sask
Painted and Now Peeling Fiberglass, Location unknown
Thursday, May 03, 2007
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