Baltz

rochester

Two ply matting

• seires of horizontal constructions, even in the most vertical shots

• piling up of flat picture planes

• often printed v dark

• plast x with two trees and grey pillars

• south wall plast x 350 costa mesa

• exquisite printing,

  • north wall master speicalist company 1640 monovria costa mesa

  • wet wall

  • and a strip of windows,

  • two long, one slightly shorter with white curtains, and one smaller with a grey window, and then a black window half covered by a white shade

• construction detail, east wall, xerox, 1821 dryer road santa anna

  • far left a wall with three shades of grey and half painted

  • the grey transitions into a concrete wall

  • foreground of cinder blocks (andre?)

  • large wall

  • fire escape

  • photographic historical

sand dunes

• ruscha

some of the windows have reflections, of palm trees and the like, reminiscent of stnd landscapes, but the best ones are the ones that have no back ground, no reflection, heavily minimal

smack in the middle of a composition that features a sqaure on a rectangle, two slightly oblong circles, furniture show room, mod couch in black leather and white plastic, reflection of gas stations—pure compostion on the outside, less pureo n the inside ; only depiction of a person is in one reflection, on the inside of a tract home, with a palm tree and a poster of a woman, my second favourite foto of a califonrian palm tree, after adams

has this much care been taken to shoot parking lines the difference b/w spray paint and non, b/w those done carefully and those scattered, the odd cornos of paint in the sprayed lines is weirdly the only chaotic touch

other perfect examples of form

two doors with vertical lines inset in a dark grey almost black cinderblock wall, the cinderblock wall a grid

a vertical white ramp, abuting a white wall, adjacent to a black door with clear vertical liens, above three long rectangles

a full wall of breezeway brick, the only foto in this seires whose interest seems to be about patterns, about the minimal repeating of patterns rather then the rejecting of them—the argument could be made that baltz is a minimalist, or he is talking in the language of late 70s minimalism, but the interest in patterns that are oblique, interupted, do not exist in the traditional ways, suggests that though he may not be an ironist, he was working against fine art patterning in work outside of photographic practice

language of sublimity

what is unusal or remarkable is placed outside the context, for example one of two greyed out doors straight in the middle of the composition against the rule of thirds, a snaller door with a grid on the far left, and on the right, a triple circles, half out of the frame

or one that has a collection of rubber pilled pell mell but we only see a spare inch of it

grey on grey, black on black, white on white

vertical grey band about 6/10^th of thee way up, with a fire escape bisecting it near the edge of the frame

two bare tree

such creamy greys, sumptoousness, materiality

atget?

Compare park city 83 interoir, unfinished dry wall, window dusty, fire place with plastic stuffed in it, absent of even the remakrs of people, with the implicit colonialism of owens

a garage with two small windows, high up showign just floruscents, then a larger windows, with a car,some tools, a trampoline

question of the ironist, and aesthetic purity

should these be connected b/c they are beautiful?

Shadows and patterns of trees on walls

the trees seem so absent, spindly, and out of place, like pearls on a pig

three juniperrrs at the edge of a parking lot

assumption of emptiness, but like the circle.furniture show room one above, there is work that is extremely busy, one with two grage doors, four pillars, a electric box, a garabage conatier, a fume chimney, and 9 meters with two fuse boxes

but one with just three large black squares

little or no text:

sand dunes hand painted

raad and no addmitance on another

one with two garage doors half out of the frame and then two regualr doors, the left one labelled d, the right one c

783 milla road shipping and reciving barely visible

little or no weather

only one has a remeant of snow

little or no odd angles or artistic angles, only two on an oblique

the irony of post modernism: by not making art, one makes art

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Ithaca

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them:
You will never find such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not set them up before you.

Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would have never set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1911)

notes on phyisque pictorial from 1950 to 1961.

• the audience seems confused, wether it is a genuine muscle magazine or proto porn.
  
• there is a large collections of illustrations and paintings, these seem to be more homoerotic, or feature undressed men in increasingly unlikely scenarios
• Quaintance lived in Phnx for at least two years
  
• two photos of bill dell, one in full cowboy regalia, the other in boots, white underwear, and his guns, both squated down
  
• cops and robbers/cowboys and indians, the queering of masculine discourses that were intended in the 50s as tv fantasies for boys
  
• how does playing dress up remain these elements and how do they differ
  
• the chief narrative of this volume is an emergence of a politicised and eroticised narrative that seperates it from other nautarlism magazines (cf the censorship wars/postal wars of 56--and the editorial "crucifixion of the arts")
• also how several of the pictorals conflate masculine roles, so someone who is a marine and a roughneck, or a gas jockey who likes cowboys and horses, or an army soilder who is also a rancher---post war, though korea at this time, might be interesting how this works vis a vis veitnam.
  
• some of the more explicit theatrical stagings of cowboys and indians, including indians in full war bonnets, (and the indians are always caucasion, though there are latino, african american, and pacific islander subjects in these texts) are done by bruce of la, or other la area pohotographer,s which makes you wonder if this is a shadow culture of LA (cf introductury essay about tourists who did not get access to the men of venice beach, while mizer did, was about his understanding of how the culture of image works--so is bruce/la's success one of intertextuality?
• often there is an apologizing for a lack of theatricality
  
• amg 16 mm movie called cowboy and sailor : "they mimic each other, horse around, and have fun, but realising time is flying by" (where do i get a copy of this)
• tale of the old west, tag line: "deft will not be shown on tv"
  
• editorial letters from SLC, ST Louis, TX, elsewhere
• also from clergy, soliders, who help define the aesthetic, defend and also make problematic the queerness or the msm compoenet of the audience
  
• similar to the fanzine tendeinces, in how they define what is the culture of the text, community building
  
• Tex Fraysher
  
• training question of physique, quesiontso f formality, of who belongs
  

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porter, dave p, allie, alex, amy, chris, dave b, erik, rachel, leo, lisa, danielle, andrea, allison, maggie, chris p, ray, pat, maggie, sholem, john (!)

vertias:
sidecar, gerutzumer from niagra, 1/3rd of a 2007 shriaz, grapefruit and cardmom martini.
omnivore ploughman (prosicuetio, roasted portabello mushrooms, beef sasuge, pear and frise salad, toast points); musocovy duck with root vegetables and sultanas; 3 cheese plate (blue, brie with ash, and aged cheddar with spiced nuts); pear crumble.

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Questions

the devils dictionary of publishing terms

the literary history of wombats is more complicated then you could ever imagine.

more informaiton about rape and south africa.

jani leinonen makes the farina cereal perfect ayran child even creepier.


Walrus porn

sarah mackillops hyper minimal installations and sculptures from common materials, are a reconstextualization of 70s instutional critiques, but funnier, campier, and more wry then people like tuttle and hte like.

unl collects comics made by the US government, including but not limited to:

1. Adventures on Space STation Freedom
2. Andy Goes to the Park
   
3. Dennis the Menance Takes A Poke At Poison
4. How DDT Takes Malaria Away
   
5. Leather Head In Korea

and 100s more.

all of 2009's evening standard billboards.

christian charities in oklahma has boring taste in both corruption and porn.

new study suggests prison rape starts v. young.


Marcia Hines is a new zealend soul singer, her cover of Elenor Rigby will change yr life.

not only is this sex scene so fucking hot, but it also shows how gay men have sex, and with has much explicitness as straight couples, which is a certain kind of progress.

great documentary about collier schorr, i wrote to jason after watching this doc:

i was watching a documentary on collier schorr, the german portrait photographer, and she had a line "i am interested in the life i would have had if i was a boy". Schorr is a woman, so the meaning obv/ changes, but it affected me deeply. i feel like i never was a boy, and that attempts to force me to be a boy were disastrous. any number of attempts. i thot that for a long time these sessions were about intergrating my masculinity, which is still a dangerous thing to me, still a threat and i think is still operaitonal. but i think also, that there is something about my work and my life that is about allowing myself to be a boy. i don't know what that means. can we talk about that.

colarado's mininum wage is lowered

blackwater does not violate federal employment regulations.

From Untitled Album

a paticuallry nasty piss take on precious, if a little indie comedy like.

the new jay z video is fucking amazing


Is There Wireless in HEaven, Robert Earle KEen.

dozens of photos of west midland towerblocks

frank kogan's end of the decade summary from los vegas.


Ke$ha PArty at a Rich Dude's Wife. I am unconvinced how good she is, but I do appreciate the complete lack of apologizing for being as classless as humanly possible. The overly literal attachment to pleasure and the uncritical stance towards her own genius seems sort of played out, but then she sings songs with titles like Party At A Rich Dude's House, where she talks about pissing in the dom, it sort of reminds me of an unironic, uncontextualised version of Be Your OWn PEt.

Shelly Niro The Shirt, via sally. Angry, wry, and taking post conceptual photo work away from the white and the priveleged.

cult stories are always better when they feature french aristos.


Anthony Bourdain burns tones of coke.

9 contemparies work through images of the nativity

fantastic article on those airport scanners and issues of disability.

twitter:the orgy actually funny.

Roberta SMith writes the Obit on Noland. I don't think she likes him v. much, but i think that the point she makes about his inheritance from matisse is why i like him, I think that Matisse is a problematic figure in 20th century art history, because most of his work is about pleasure, and the sensous over ranking colour over almost anything else--there is nothing political, nothing cross refential in the work of matisse, so the people who fall in love with him, paint from him, are risking being called decorative, or unimportant, or shallow. i am not making an arguement against politics in art, but i think that pleasure for pleasures sake has a place, and those who work from that have a place.

somali pirates and real estate

getty writes the books on art frames.

Two comments on Nashville Scene this year.


Taylor Swift could do with a bit more self-awareness, but there is something tender about her songs that makes them seem so real. I know her problems with authenticity and pop, but there is something so lovely, so intensely broken about how she realizes she was told a lie. On the other hand, you do not want to get Miranda Lambert angry -you wouldn't like her when she's angry. Revolution is not the masterpiece of the last album, but enough of a new direction, with the same kind of pop instincts grafted onto a desire for Opry legitimacy. It makes me want to know what she's going to do next.
— ANTHONY EASTON

There is something so lovely, so exacting and so emotionally wrought about Lyle Lovett's Natural Forces. Filled with a swing that is only sometimes melancholy which sets the place with an exactitude that is effortless. It is also one of the most charmingly filthy albums of the year -including a cover of the Doughboys' epic food = fucking opus "Pantry," and perhaps the catchiest song about masturbation ever ("Choke My Chicken"). That he does this while covering Van Zandt's heartbreaking "Loretta" or "Bayou Song," the harshest text about Louisiana since Randy Newman, is even better.
— ANTHONY EASTON

Kenneth Noland, the best pure painter since 1950, the most under rated abstractionist of the 20th century, the post minimalist who had the rigour and the creamy love of hand applicaiton, a colourist of such subtlety and skill that to look at his work had an earthbound, american spirtualism, but mediated by a profound work ethic, the creator of important masterpeices in every decade of the 20th century, and a man whose stripes outclassed, outworked, and overmanouvered his rivals, is not the best living painting working as of yesterday.

(i love noland, i am a noland evangelist, last year i said this about him:
My favourite living painter, and this year I saw a dozen examples of his best work, not only a couple at the usual places in Edmonton, but 4 at the Abstract show at the Jewish Museum, one of his chevron stained paintings next to NE Thing's velvet ribbon riff on it at the AGO, and the joyous, cosmically humming 20 foot long stripe painting from 1967 to 1970. Can we please have a decent retrospective , please? )

from this year:
Greenberg had to expunge Johns from the canon for a number of reaons, most pointedly because it was obvious that Kenneth Noland==who Greenberg celebrated--had pilfered the format of his concentric circle painting directly from John's targets. Even more troubling was the fact that if Johns were allowed into the ranks of the chose, the keystone of Greenberg's argument that painterliness was dead would crumble. Greenberg had to admit that Johns had a nice hand. But he dimissed this talent wit h a brash as minor, implying that Johns was nothing more than a hand, ignoring the multitude of new issues that John's paintings placed at the centre of contemporary aesthetic practice. (146)

Noland is a better controlled painter then Johns, Noland's concentric circles were doing different work then John's targets, but she is right, that the four horsemen are still unappreciated for their painterly skills or their draughtsmenship, because critics like greenberg would lose if he admitted it, and because critics post greenberg were not interested in textual authority.


this i wrote two years ago:

3) Noland, Magus , 1962

All of what we go to Newman for, but better, because he is decorative, and the lack of taking oneself seriously while still making paintings that ravish at 22 feet seems a high wire act (seeing him live, seeing those pencil lines, and how he makes the colour straight, ie his techinique is almost process oriented)

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 7:00 p.m., Innis Town Hall
May I Blow My Bugle Now? My Life in Clips
Illustrated lecture by Guy Maddin on his major influences and favourite films

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Seduce My Son! - mw4w - 20 (SF/Bay Area)

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Date: 2010-01-02, 4:17PM PST

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My 20 y/o son is home from college. He's a great kid, attactive and well-liked, but he's also never had a girlfriend. I think he'd have more confidence if he could lose his virginity by getting wild with an *older* woman. I'm sure he's super horny; from looking at the socks and towels in his room, I think he's going for a masturbation record. You should be attractive, but I'm open to different ages and body types.

I will not participate, but I would like to invite you over under the premise that we know each other. I'll leave you alone after that and we can let nature take its course. He really is terrific and handsome, so this should be fun for everyone. Safe play only.

What can I offer you in return? Well, if breaking in a kid is all you're looking for, then we're all set. If you want more, I'm bi and considered quite a MILF. I could fool around with you separately if there's mutual attaction, or perhaps we could entertain a male friend of yours. The possibilities are endless!

mw4m m4w

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four thots on the feast of the circumcision:

a) previously i have written about the importance of this feast as a discussion of the sexualisation of the holy. the embodiment of flesh that has sexual thots and feelings. i still think this is true.
b) the thing that i have avoided, is that the circumcision marks the male body. the incarnaiton of the divine is one in a male body. the foreskin is holy, the original sin lies in the foreskin, the church rests on christ, the erection of the cross an erection of the body.
c) what do we do with the sex of christ (sex in the elizabtethan sense, sex in the victorian sense, sex in the biological sense, and sex in the cultural sense). there are an infinitie number of ways to gender the divine, but to worship a male body. for those who the male body has done damage, for those whose male bodies are unstable, for those who never learnt how to embody their maleness, how do we construct that worship? to put it another way: if christ is us and we are christ, if we are the body of the christ, what does it mean that the incarnation, the foundaitonal miracle of our community is a miracle of the penis. it is not only a miracle of the penis, but it does feature promiently. how do we, who have complicated realtionships to their penis, are required to intergrate one into our understanding of the divine.
d) the unruly body, the body of collapsing, of unrealiblity, of being on this earth and therefore not perfected, this body impressed into the flesh of the divine, how do we embody its maleness w/o being reactionary, while still working for liberation?

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oh and continue with the autisticats stuff.

new years goals 2010

art:

1. finish at least three projects (luther, pills, copycat)
   
2. one or two things at art met (copycat, luther)
   
3. send package to bau xi (email them first)
   
4. start finding places for work outside of toronto (family in la to start)
   
5. apply for a show at a gallery 4 times (akimbo)
   
6. do more with film, and its antecedents (ie chromographs)
   
7. try to get published in worn (email them)
   
8. curate at least one more show (maybe leather, email lds quilt idea to textile musuem)
   
9. show in edmonton in sept. (local media blitz)
   
10. find a place for the frog peice (fieldworks in northern ontario, and then where?)
    

academic:

1. 3.4 average (a-)
   
2. worry less about extensions (and take them if you need to)
   
3. work on g etting into the sds (after next summer)
   
4. figure out post masters plans (mls, outside of Toronto?)
   
5. research in boise, chicago, slc, and calgary (funding for calgary and chicago secured)
   
6. book proposal done (after chicago)
   
7. curate a show via the leather archives (travel maybe?)
   

writing:

1. try again for now, eye, and exclaim re:cd reviews (shake trees)
   
2. one review a month for left hip (or feature)
   
3. try to get three other peices published at least one of those in print (so one pitch a month again)
   
4. try local stuff (taddle creek maybe)
   

personal:

1. keep using online dating sites, two dates this year (incl. fetlife and okcupid)
   
2. try to not to pressure oneself about progress and the like
   
3. do one thing a month that you would otherwise say no to (laser tag!)
   
4. keep room in at least vaguely the right shape (hamper and recycling bin bought)
   
5. sheets, blankets, etc (new ones)
   
6. go to montreal or winnipeg. (for mansex)
   
7. less money spent eating out (like maybe twice a month for fancy)
   
8. try to go to the movies twice a month
   
9. stop worrying about what you should feel and just let some of that go unprocessed
   
10. esp. about God
    
11. buy a goat
    

family:

1. support amy in anything she needs to do (send that book)
   
2. take less money from mom (or pay her back promptly)
   
3. try to be less of an asshole to yr father (cause you cant change him)
   
4. try not to take advantage of ray and pat and d (but i dont?)
   

i am interested in the life i would have had if i was a boy, and that is one facet of it.

collier schorr.

she is a woman, of course, so it is a little bit different, but it has hit close to home.

aj apparently is bisexual

From Untitled Album

This south american fruit bat has been found to hang upside down because of his sweat.

Donald Bartheleme's reading list for grad students, about what you would expect, but interesting nonetheless.

hondurus has a surge of homophobic violence

kick ass features an eleven year old chop socking her way thru various european apartments, i for one am excited.

From Untitled Album

via strange maps, it is a nebraskan farmers field, in the shape of nebraska.

instead of resigning now maybe the irish bishops could have done something about pedophiles when they were actually present in parishes, and no moving them about does not count as doing something.

Sondheim and Lansbury dish about musicals.

me on nellie mckay

i think that an academic discussion of sucession as it realtes to national politics would be incredibly useful at this point (cf east timor, scotland, kosovo, bosnia, indenigenous land claims in australia and canada, quebec, eteria, somilia, kurdistan, etc etc) but i remain unconvinced that the work can be done by a secretive orginazation of apologists from the american south.

From Untitled Album

Leeches feasting on blood foam, as part of a Russian cosmetics and mecdical leech farm.

an important revulation of Jefferson's view on patents, and it's relation to historical copyright law.

Edward Schillebeeck who surrived 3 vatican investigations of his orthodoxy, has died last week at the age of 95. His refusal to actually have opinons but to carefully consider all possiblities, and to talk about the importance of discourse and a multiplicity of praxis over any cultural orthodoxies gave me permission to be a theologian. he is why i am in god school. his two tiny books on the eucharist and on celibacy are highly recommended.

top five qoutes from this lacerating interview with nyt critics Mahaoloa Dirge on women and hollywood:

I had a female studio chief a couple of years ago tell me point blank that she wasn't hiring a woman to do an action movie because women are good at certain things and not others. If you have women buying that bullshit how can we expect men to be better?

Working within the system has not worked. It has not helped women filmmakers or, even more important, you and me, women audiences, to have women in the studio system. … I think the studio system as it exists now is a no-win situation for women filmmakers.

Let's acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them. But they are important commercially... I've learned to never underestimate the academy's bad taste. Crash as best picture? What the fuck.

One, the people making Romantic Comedies have no fucking taste, two, they're morons, three they're insulting panderers who think they're making movies for the great unwashed and that's what they want. I love romantic movies. I absolutely do. But I literally don't know what's happening. I think it's depressing that Judd Apatow makes the best romantic comedies and they're about men. All power to Apatow, but he's taken and repurposed one of the few genres historically made for women. ….We had so few [genres] that were made specifically for the female audience and now the best of them are being made by Judd Apatow.

There's a reason that women go to movies like Mamma Mia. It's a terrible movie… but women are starved for representation of themselves. I go back to Spike Lee and She's Gotta Have It. I remember going to see it at the Quad in New York, surrounded by a black audience. People are starved for representations of themselves.



Dear Jonas Brother: If the sex isnt v. good, then you are doing it badly. asshole. kisses. anthony.

the italian northern leauge actually did immigration raids on christmas eve.

esteher chavez who spent her life working against the murders of women in Juraez, died last week.

From Untitled Album

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Kate Beaton does Wilde and Bosie

more protests turning violent in iran

60 images from paris, 1962

first playboy club bunny manual.

From Untitled Album

MArtin Parr, Lemon MErianuge Pie, date unknown

sarah barnski does gorgeous street photography, with some really strong portraits.

i want every single soliary one of these sweaters

i love these circuit building kits intended to teach kids.

The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Tarintino Mix Tape cleverlly edits his films so that the visual similarties/stylistic tics become obvious.

i am totally obsessed with the elegance of joy garnett's compostions, here in the unmonumental seires.

karl rove divorices his wife.