an outline for:
some ways of looking at rhianna: a review.
1. midnite taxi ride after meeting
2. much more music on the airplane
3. deconstructed hooks and the case of raymond
4. qsw, amy winehouse
5. too much noise, too much pretty.
6. rococo pop
7. sounds good loud, sounds good quiet
8. fairy twinkle.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Taken near Wembley, the artist describes the works as "semi-abstract" of his usual observational style. Unfamiliar with his previous work, the pieces staggering up the side of the stairs is clearly from a foreign eye to the rural farmland. Only, the mystery eluded to in each photograph does not quite reach out to stop you and make you appreciate the beautiful simplicities. A handful of farm eggs, close markings of fur and hide, the wild and intersecting slabs of 2X4, a cow staring closely into the camera; the subjects are all there, but the context is missing.
The small showing has literally framed itself as a rural exhibit by the looks of their handmade farmhouse frames, but the novelty of rural life would benefit from further investigation.
Amy Fung's review of the farm show.
The small showing has literally framed itself as a rural exhibit by the looks of their handmade farmhouse frames, but the novelty of rural life would benefit from further investigation.
Amy Fung's review of the farm show.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as Achilles,
who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as Achilles,
who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Tentative Schedule for the Next Two Weeks:
Thursday: Ray 8pm
Friday: Free
Sat: RM @ 2 PM
Sun: Free
Mon: Lakeview Noon, David for Dinner at 6
Tues: Ray Noon
Wed: Mark, Lunch, etc Michael at Lillian Smith at 5:30
Thurs: Savi,Drinks, Ted's, 7 pm Opening at XeXe 6-9 pm Thursday August 16th
Fri Wright AWards, After Party, during the evening
Sat TCAF, maybe Invasion
Sun: TCAF/Wright Booth/Glenys during the evening.
Mon: Danielle, Keele, 6:30 pm
Tues: Rachel, art work, hang out, if she is back from Europe.
Wed: Free
Thurs: Flight Back, Fran's before.
Need to Slot:
Jennifer, Lorna, Sally, Mr Nobody, Collen (derive),Pat, ROM, AGA, movie, QSW crawl (with Dundas), Danielle, Alan, Peter
Thursday: Ray 8pm
Friday: Free
Sat: RM @ 2 PM
Sun: Free
Mon: Lakeview Noon, David for Dinner at 6
Tues: Ray Noon
Wed: Mark, Lunch, etc Michael at Lillian Smith at 5:30
Thurs: Savi,Drinks, Ted's, 7 pm Opening at XeXe 6-9 pm Thursday August 16th
Fri Wright AWards, After Party, during the evening
Sat TCAF, maybe Invasion
Sun: TCAF/Wright Booth/Glenys during the evening.
Mon: Danielle, Keele, 6:30 pm
Tues: Rachel, art work, hang out, if she is back from Europe.
Wed: Free
Thurs: Flight Back, Fran's before.
Need to Slot:
Jennifer, Lorna, Sally, Mr Nobody, Collen (derive),Pat, ROM, AGA, movie, QSW crawl (with Dundas), Danielle, Alan, Peter
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
From Laura Kipnis' The Female Thing, mostly a retread, but she is an excellent polemicist, and esp. the chapter on housework is a sustained blast against conventional wisdom on all sides. (Her chapter on Rape, entitled Vulnerability, isone of the more difficult calls to honesty about the issue)
...Children have to be taught not to play with their own shit, and the fact that most of us have indeed renounced this early pleasure is one index of just how effective bodily socialization is...our thresholds of disgust about such bodily matters have risen exponentially with sanitation advances, making our bodies even more dirty as a civilization marches on...neurosis is civilizations trade off for improvements in personal hygiene: we smell better, we have fewer gastric ailments, but we fret about it all far more... (91)
...Perhaps the shape of the problem begins to come into focus:the household and the body stand in for each other at some not entirely conscious level. But here's the complication:wouldn't scrubbing away at unwelcome feelings also serve the dual purpose of confirming them? Can you scrub away an existential condition... (102)
...What exactly is it about dirt that keeps impeding sexual harmony between men and women? And why the constant accusation mode: one sex somehow more polluted then the other; one sex always offending or sullying or reprimanding the other? (Though occasionally the charge is that someone isnt dirty enough; the accusation of sexual prudishness, usually aimed at a female, though once in a while at an undersexed man.)
Classicist and poet Anne Carson summarizes the dilemma rather elegantly in an essay on the theme of women and dirt in antiquity:"As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face daily is that of touching one another--whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional or imaginary. Contact is crisis"...
(104/5)
(about second wave feminism) Liberal feminists focused on rights based themes like equal pay, fighting discrimination, and reproductive freedom, while radical fminsits seized on the old social-purity motifs: namely, the preoccupation with men;s dirtiness, from their failure to share the housework to their sexual dirtiness, There were distressing new scourges to combat: not germs, but "the objectification of women" (Dirty minded"), the pornography plague (filth), even sex jokes at work came in for sanitation. For some reason, female reformism just keeps returning to the theme of dirt, male cleansing of one sort of another is the fundamental demand...
(113)
If you are a chick, you're sitting on some pretty valuable real estate. Is any other human body cavity quite so laden with symbolic value, not to mention actual monetary worth, particularly for exclusive access? Fathers once traded their virgin daughters for bride payments; non virgins were handed over at reduced rates. Even today, play your cards right and a vagina can mean all sorts of social rewards. Just about everywhere on earth, right of entry to the revered female cooze...can still command wads of cash or cash equivalents, even for non-professionals. Pricey dinners, diamond rings...in what other system of exchange can you trade exclusive access to an orifice for a suburban split-level and a life time of monetary support? Not such a bad deal, considering he back breaking and alienated things a lot of people end up doing for money..(123)
An Old Freud Joke:
Sigmund: Anna, altough I am yuor father, as part of your eduation I must show you my penis so you understand certain fundamental concepts. Now , do you see the difference between the penis and the phallus?
Anna: Yes, Father. The penis is like the phallus, only much smaller
(148)
...Children have to be taught not to play with their own shit, and the fact that most of us have indeed renounced this early pleasure is one index of just how effective bodily socialization is...our thresholds of disgust about such bodily matters have risen exponentially with sanitation advances, making our bodies even more dirty as a civilization marches on...neurosis is civilizations trade off for improvements in personal hygiene: we smell better, we have fewer gastric ailments, but we fret about it all far more... (91)
...Perhaps the shape of the problem begins to come into focus:the household and the body stand in for each other at some not entirely conscious level. But here's the complication:wouldn't scrubbing away at unwelcome feelings also serve the dual purpose of confirming them? Can you scrub away an existential condition... (102)
...What exactly is it about dirt that keeps impeding sexual harmony between men and women? And why the constant accusation mode: one sex somehow more polluted then the other; one sex always offending or sullying or reprimanding the other? (Though occasionally the charge is that someone isnt dirty enough; the accusation of sexual prudishness, usually aimed at a female, though once in a while at an undersexed man.)
Classicist and poet Anne Carson summarizes the dilemma rather elegantly in an essay on the theme of women and dirt in antiquity:"As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face daily is that of touching one another--whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional or imaginary. Contact is crisis"...
(104/5)
(about second wave feminism) Liberal feminists focused on rights based themes like equal pay, fighting discrimination, and reproductive freedom, while radical fminsits seized on the old social-purity motifs: namely, the preoccupation with men;s dirtiness, from their failure to share the housework to their sexual dirtiness, There were distressing new scourges to combat: not germs, but "the objectification of women" (Dirty minded"), the pornography plague (filth), even sex jokes at work came in for sanitation. For some reason, female reformism just keeps returning to the theme of dirt, male cleansing of one sort of another is the fundamental demand...
(113)
If you are a chick, you're sitting on some pretty valuable real estate. Is any other human body cavity quite so laden with symbolic value, not to mention actual monetary worth, particularly for exclusive access? Fathers once traded their virgin daughters for bride payments; non virgins were handed over at reduced rates. Even today, play your cards right and a vagina can mean all sorts of social rewards. Just about everywhere on earth, right of entry to the revered female cooze...can still command wads of cash or cash equivalents, even for non-professionals. Pricey dinners, diamond rings...in what other system of exchange can you trade exclusive access to an orifice for a suburban split-level and a life time of monetary support? Not such a bad deal, considering he back breaking and alienated things a lot of people end up doing for money..(123)
An Old Freud Joke:
Sigmund: Anna, altough I am yuor father, as part of your eduation I must show you my penis so you understand certain fundamental concepts. Now , do you see the difference between the penis and the phallus?
Anna: Yes, Father. The penis is like the phallus, only much smaller
(148)
Evel Keinevel jumps oevr some shit.
Tom Papagordge long lost essay interacting Robert Frank's The Americans, with Walker Evans American Photographs. He makes an argument that Franks book is an explicit counterpoint to Evans, that he shot for shot interpreted and reconstructed the narratives of Evans 35 years earlier, and Frank admits this. I knew that Frank connected himself closely to Evans, but it ws interesting to see how the two texts interlaced.
the American assoc. of civil engineers has a critical infrastructure blog, and the entries are chilling.
172 minute 1972 documentary on the Manson family, from American Pictures International. The doc won the Oscar, but the most interesting thing about it, is that the whole thing has a psychedelic aesthetic, with odd splits, coloured lenses, and other camera tricks, look at the kaleidescope lens segment with the three men, two women and a horse, it looks like ken kesey directing equus. (the matching of manson's aesthetic and the film producers aesthetic, leads to some really interesting questions about the connections b/w politics and form)
New Eine Mural in London.
I like this one better, for its scaling, its almost imperial grandeur, its sly wit, and its refusal to engage in the usual wall writers ideas of property and public/private space.
Mitt Romney talks about the church, b/w the commercials on an Iowa radio show. one of the more interesting deferences of his faith, well thot out and explicit. it will lose him the election, just as gulliani's new york lifestyle will lose him his. more on romney here
vladimir zrimaov's woodcut illustrations of gogol are sufficiently Russian and bleak.
I have posted this before, but its getting some mileage, b/c of the Flavin LACMA show, so here it is again.
monument 4 for those who have been killed in ambush (to P.K. who reminded me about death), 1966
(the permanences of the idea of monument and the ephemeral nature of the material, being in the corner of a room, like a shock, like an ambush, the four bulbs, simple and explicit one-one connection and the almost religious literalness of the red, undermined by the conversational parentheses, and the initials, its clarity becomes inscrutable at that point)(i think that tension, and the cold, technocratic machine feel of the work as well, makes it so profoundly against not only vietnam but how we conduct war post-dresden)
iraqs power grid is beyond fucked, for a variety of reasons, some not the americans fault.
gorgeous hand drawn graphic design, with an excellent website.
Jerome Lebling, South Saint Paul, 1962. From his book on Minnesota.
more info on the thesis that Neanderthal breed into homo sapiens, and did not make themselves extinct, i've always been fond of this theory, so its good to know the physical evidence is encouraging it.
WeeGee, Infrared Photo of Lovers on Long Island Beach (similar to the infrared work he did at movie theaters)
waissa has applied to be part of the exposure photo show, and i don't want to get into any trouble, but it would be an honour if we had him, his work combines interests in vintage technique and the difficult v
varragicies of isreali history, into gorgeous and haunting (important) work. (esp. his polaroid transfers, which decay and fall apart into abstract landscapes, like the lacunae of people, of memory has phyiscally imprinted itself onto the text, like words on the body.
22 photos of Chicano murals, from orange county, in disheartening states of disrepair, peeling in the california heat. these works of history, art, and racial conciousness should be perserved as landmarks.
Matt Damon, why wont you love me?
Random Bunny Man, why wont you love me?
stephanie dearmond's cermaic textual peices are femmey, and kind of sweet, in an interestingly crafted way.
pfizer has released the first anti-hiv drugs in years, spec. for people with drug restient infections. looks like good news.
Glen Murphy rising star in the young republican, likes mansex, resigns (he's also basically a rapist, which is why he should resign)
New PJ Harvey, live at Copenhagen. Much less out there and angry then her earlier work, but the unique voice and vocalizations.
imagine if that catholic heart of christ thing looked like a muppet and happened to a sad indie boy in love, you have the gist of the video here. the song is awful.
Grinderman, Nick Cave, he totally stole john wilmot's monkey.
and two lolcats:
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Out at the airport Oedipa, feeling invisible, eavesdropped on a poker game whose steady loser entered each loss neat and conscientious in a little balance-book decorated inside and out with scrawled post horns. "I'm averaging a 99.375 percent return, fellas," he heard him say. The others, strangers, looked at him, some blank, some annoyed. That's averaging it out, over 23 years, he went on, trying to smile. Always just that little percent on the wrong side of breaking even. Twenty-three years. I'll never get ahead of it. Why don't I quit?" Nobody answering. — The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Qouted by Jane Dark, in his review of Ocean's 13
Qouted by Jane Dark, in his review of Ocean's 13
i always get slightly paranoid when a couple of days pass w/o any real work being done, and then i always realise that i need to start looking at work done in a week rather then every day, today, i felt the weekend was kind of lazy, but then i realised this week i continued the ruscha project, installed the farm show, did pr for the farm show, had a 2 hour meeting, coordinated progress reports, wrote an agenda and planned time/date for the next programming meeting, asked people to be part of the postcard project, met with joe (lunch but also the installation), got some help and made some progress with the exposure religiuos project, confirmed november for the sugarbowl, and arranged at least 4 lunch/dinner dates for toronto.
next week, i have to give images to sheri, attend two meetings for exposure, secure postcards, do some homework for exposure, work out a grant for the grand prairie project, pack, sort out cash, find a way to the airport, and go back home for two weeks.
which is a weeks work
next week, i have to give images to sheri, attend two meetings for exposure, secure postcards, do some homework for exposure, work out a grant for the grand prairie project, pack, sort out cash, find a way to the airport, and go back home for two weeks.
which is a weeks work
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Friday, August 03, 2007
article on the mountain meadows massacre from the ensign this month. it is a brave document, taking full responsibility and not sparing difficult details. that it was posted as a full text on the net, suggests interesting things about the lds realtionship to new techonology.
norman foster talks to anthony caro.
the original text of the chicken house article, the basis for the best little whorehouse in texas. melvin howard died this week
Lizzie Grubman at a Getty Event.
LiLo, just before her arrest.
biologists engage in excercises in taxonomy with bookstores.
i like justin vinseky's photos are v. quiet and sort of politely suburban in the best way.
discussion of china's finical involvement in africa:
African markets are so undeveloped that the opportunity there is still quite small. According to Stanlib, a South African asset-management group, the market capitalisation of the whole continent is just $800 billion, of which South Africa itself makes up $600 billion. The rest of the continent’s markets, in other words, are worth a good deal less than Exxon Mobil. Put another way, China could buy every African quoted company with its foreign-exchange reserves.
ted stevens house was raided by the irs.
On the front cover of the TImes of India, last week.
small stakes does v. elegant limited edition silk screen posters, with a sophisticated visual wit.
the election results from japan, are being called evenge of the middle classes. i dont know nearly enough about it, but more questions then answers are coming.
these 10 images from mayfair, in london, by rob gardiner have a refined elegance that jettisions most of what we have learnt about the aesthetics of photography in the last 70 years. for the better.
Sol Lewitt, In Four Directions, Ink on Paper, 1980.
the bishop of chelmsford's new ordination has gone a bit off the rails, in one of those stories that is so petty, it becomes an episode from a david lodge novels.
new truitt site, which begins a CR of her work, list of collections, some writings, etc. The best thing about it though is that her cv is going to include DVDs, so that people can actually treat the sculptures as 3D objects.
the new us pasport is a fantastic example of the triumph of ornament.
The Alpaca's they plan.
great article on why ehtonal is a huge scam, which results in less food for poor people, doesnt aid emissions at all, and prevents/encourages corn famers from actually growing something that might be useful.
Robert Olen Butler's wife left him to be one of Ted Turner's girlfriend, this resulted in a letter that is a masterpeice of pasive agressive boasting.
jack barnes has been the head of the socialist workers party for decades. he was reposnible for the turn to industrialization the SWP did in the 70s, which resulted in soft college students attempt factory jobs, just as the sector was startign to die a massive death. he just sold the new york loft that the party had for 109 years to a executive at Warner Music for 1.872m.
Tim McGraw stops concert. asks for his pinky ring back (same concert where faith hill told an anon concert goer to stop grabbing tims balls)
Sometimes I am a cliche. (50 Hunks from 50 States, this one is from Nebraska)
mexico city allows same gender congujals.
the weird thing about this trailer for rendetion (a list cast, about the cia and their moving prisobners to eastern europe to tortue them) is that the prisoner is jake gyllenhall. they couldnt find an arab? (though the idea of gylenhall being tied up and his clothes being stripped from him is kind of hot)
Wolly Bully, by Sam the Sham
skull a day blog
Two Traffic Choppers, Collision, Phoneix.
norman foster talks to anthony caro.
the original text of the chicken house article, the basis for the best little whorehouse in texas. melvin howard died this week
Lizzie Grubman at a Getty Event.
LiLo, just before her arrest.
biologists engage in excercises in taxonomy with bookstores.
i like justin vinseky's photos are v. quiet and sort of politely suburban in the best way.
discussion of china's finical involvement in africa:
African markets are so undeveloped that the opportunity there is still quite small. According to Stanlib, a South African asset-management group, the market capitalisation of the whole continent is just $800 billion, of which South Africa itself makes up $600 billion. The rest of the continent’s markets, in other words, are worth a good deal less than Exxon Mobil. Put another way, China could buy every African quoted company with its foreign-exchange reserves.
ted stevens house was raided by the irs.
On the front cover of the TImes of India, last week.
small stakes does v. elegant limited edition silk screen posters, with a sophisticated visual wit.
the election results from japan, are being called evenge of the middle classes. i dont know nearly enough about it, but more questions then answers are coming.
these 10 images from mayfair, in london, by rob gardiner have a refined elegance that jettisions most of what we have learnt about the aesthetics of photography in the last 70 years. for the better.
Sol Lewitt, In Four Directions, Ink on Paper, 1980.
the bishop of chelmsford's new ordination has gone a bit off the rails, in one of those stories that is so petty, it becomes an episode from a david lodge novels.
new truitt site, which begins a CR of her work, list of collections, some writings, etc. The best thing about it though is that her cv is going to include DVDs, so that people can actually treat the sculptures as 3D objects.
the new us pasport is a fantastic example of the triumph of ornament.
The Alpaca's they plan.
great article on why ehtonal is a huge scam, which results in less food for poor people, doesnt aid emissions at all, and prevents/encourages corn famers from actually growing something that might be useful.
Robert Olen Butler's wife left him to be one of Ted Turner's girlfriend, this resulted in a letter that is a masterpeice of pasive agressive boasting.
jack barnes has been the head of the socialist workers party for decades. he was reposnible for the turn to industrialization the SWP did in the 70s, which resulted in soft college students attempt factory jobs, just as the sector was startign to die a massive death. he just sold the new york loft that the party had for 109 years to a executive at Warner Music for 1.872m.
Tim McGraw stops concert. asks for his pinky ring back (same concert where faith hill told an anon concert goer to stop grabbing tims balls)
Sometimes I am a cliche. (50 Hunks from 50 States, this one is from Nebraska)
mexico city allows same gender congujals.
the weird thing about this trailer for rendetion (a list cast, about the cia and their moving prisobners to eastern europe to tortue them) is that the prisoner is jake gyllenhall. they couldnt find an arab? (though the idea of gylenhall being tied up and his clothes being stripped from him is kind of hot)
Wolly Bully, by Sam the Sham
skull a day blog
Two Traffic Choppers, Collision, Phoneix.
one of the (many, many) interesting things about MIA, is though she raids global funk, msot of her sources seem already mixed...(ie favela is a mix of south beach, samba, afro-pop, and portugese dance music; bhangra is euro-house, american hip-hop, and bollywood; grime is american hip-hop and the anglo narrative tradition; ghana/nigerian afro-beat works to cross africa in ways marcus garvey never imagined; etc)
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
***Indian Red is renamed Chestnut in 1999 in response to educators who felt some children wrongly perceived the crayon color was intended to represent the skin color of Native Americans. The name originated from a reddish-brown pigment found near India commonly used in fine artist oil paint.
Via Crayola Creative
Via Crayola Creative
Baptist Student Ministry Belief Survey
(they were handing them out at sub today)
what one word would you use to describe your life:
exciting
purposefil
fulfilling
average
directionless
burdensome
carefree
empty
other
what do you hope for most about the future
having a family
peace
success
hapiness
money/wealth
fufilling life
fun/interesting life
to make a difference
other
what do you fear most about the future
war
death
unemployment
being alone
the unknown
sadness
failure
debt
other
What is your current spiritual belief?
Muslim
Catholic
Atheist
Hindu
Sikh
Buddhist
Other
how would you describe god
(a centimeter of space)
What do you think makes someone a xian
(a centimeter of space)
How would you rate your desire to know god (0=not at all, 10+very high) Why
Contact Details
(name, year of study, m/f, phone no., email)
Please Check any of the following that interest you:
participate in a Bible study group
Meet to talk about christianity wih a christian student or staff
other, please specify)
(end of survey)
this is why i have so much contempt for baptists, is the sheer banality of their belief system. that and if you filled out the survey, you could win an ipod. nothing says LOVEMEJESUS more then portable data.
(they were handing them out at sub today)
what one word would you use to describe your life:
exciting
purposefil
fulfilling
average
directionless
burdensome
carefree
empty
other
what do you hope for most about the future
having a family
peace
success
hapiness
money/wealth
fufilling life
fun/interesting life
to make a difference
other
what do you fear most about the future
war
death
unemployment
being alone
the unknown
sadness
failure
debt
other
What is your current spiritual belief?
Muslim
Catholic
Atheist
Hindu
Sikh
Buddhist
Other
how would you describe god
(a centimeter of space)
What do you think makes someone a xian
(a centimeter of space)
How would you rate your desire to know god (0=not at all, 10+very high) Why
Contact Details
(name, year of study, m/f, phone no., email)
Please Check any of the following that interest you:
participate in a Bible study group
Meet to talk about christianity wih a christian student or staff
other, please specify)
(end of survey)
this is why i have so much contempt for baptists, is the sheer banality of their belief system. that and if you filled out the survey, you could win an ipod. nothing says LOVEMEJESUS more then portable data.
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