peanut butter and jelly sliced like american cheese.

12 saul bass logos, all on one page

gorgeous matchbooks, illustrated with animal themese in a high modernist style, by Jose Maria Cruz Novillo

flickr set of 32 race numbers.


Heart Breaking footage of the farnsworth house flooding.

there is always a good reason to have jed perl around, aside from being one of the better formal writers extant, his criticisms of capital and politics in nu china art, found here, completely destroys the hype.

From Untitled Album

Jessica Biel, French red carpet this week.

in honour of tony hillerman's death an interview b/w sherman alexie and thomson highway, including this qoute:

Alexie: We're not the appropriate kind of stories. If you write about Lakota Indians or horse cultures, you have a better chance of a bestseller. If you write about pre-twentieth century Indians; if you use a "corn pollen, four directions, Mother Earth, Father Sky" sort of language; or if you write about the wonderful relationship between an Indian and a white person: love affair, friendship, mentoring relationship, you have a better chance of selling a lot of books.

If you are of -- now I'm not saying these people aren't Indian -- if you are of a very mixed-blood, you have a better chance of selling a lot of books. It's a particular kind of Indian experience. They have more access to the educational and publishing channels. If you write the appropriate kind of material, you have a better chance. The second you don't, your chances decrease.

I'm very fortunate. I'm writing these highly political books about reservation Indians. I'm telling rez jokes in my books. I think most non-Indians don't have a clue about half the jokes in there. I'm selling a lot of copies and doing well. I'm an anomaly.

Other writers are writing stories that aren't getting told and not because of their writing ability. Ninety percent of the books in any bookstore are not written very well. It's the approach. Any non-Indian writer writing about Indians is going to automatically get a better critical and commercial reception than any Indian. Tony Hillerman, for instance, any one of his novels, has sold more copies than all the books written by Indians, ever.

Do you resent the fact that he writes about Indians?

Alexie: Yes. I resent that he's made a career off Indians, and as far as I know, has not given much back. I'm on the Board of Trustees of the American Indian College Fund -- I haven't heard his name mentioned. I'm resentful that there are many writers out there making careers off Indians and doing absolutely nothing in return. There's a guy I'm reading with tomorrow evening -- Mr. Kinsella -- who's making a career writing books about Indians, and as far as I know -- he's doing nothing for Indians. People ask me and I give hard-core answers. You're making money, give it back. Donate 10% of your royalties to the Native College Fund. How about giving 10% of your royalties to the tribe you're writing about?

brutalism makes a comeback in milan.


Rachel Whiteread talks about her dollhouse project for the MFA in Boston. (c/c with the Fabiola project in LA)

blistering parody of Marvel geeks weird sexual hang ups, by Chip Zadoksi

beautiful progessive posters from a church collectiv, but i have no idea where full downloads here

i found this response by Cary Tennis to an LDS gay male, who has a wife and child who he is fieldtious to, profoundly moving, the idea of the collective, the desire for the collective, and sacrifcing oneself for community takes a kind of courage that seems out of fashion.

From Untitled Album

Brigid Berlin, Tapestery Pillow, 2008

joyce cambells horticultural daugertypes continue the recent attempts to remake the form, the composition, and how they suggest rotting, makes them less historically obsessed and more formally inclined then most.

splendid pleasent a folk art gallery in sheffield mass has lovely things for sale.

i love how brittle and grotesque these stan bitter's pots and cermaics are, all slab work, with minimal decoration, they have a brutality, and an anti funcitonal qaulity, that is sort of fuck you, but not on the scale of the larger of the steel sculptours. he apparently wrote a really impt book called enviromental cermaics, and also designed all of the work for the nut tree resturants, the modernist design haven in southern california, so hes not all raw. He also did these two great monliths, in 1969:

Ochre Base with Mottled Green Top Monolith

From Untitled Album

Purple Monolith

From Untitled Album

his website has some problems, and some weaker work tho.

beautiful and well controlled website for a show at st thomas university, about type and national identity, mostly in europe, mostly in the first half of the 20th century, though the discussions of hebrew and welsh, updating basically ancient languages for current ideological usage was fascinating.

a dozen updates of the london tube roundel, including work by peter blake, bob and roberta smith and james ireland


Videogum, who linked this first, has no idea if it is real, or when it came from, but its like some lost john waters masterpeice.

From Untitled Album

Adrian Warren, New York Times, Oct 2008

Francis Fukayama endorses Obama, the death of the project for the new american century? the endorsement is terse, and at under 3 ppghs, suprisingly angry. peggy noonan as well.


Spanish Football Stars write on their taut parties with sharpies. hott.

vatican again colludes homosexuality with other paraphillias, and is awfully fond of pyschologial tests, like the rigour of aquanious can be matched with the mysticism of freud.

13 of the screen tests finally on dvd.

From Untitled Album

Matt Damon, why won't you love me?

From Untitled Album

Anne Hathaway, why won't you love me?

kids candy code, sort of like hobos, but for halloween.

apparently palin sank mccain


Golden Calf, literally (Xians on Wall Street)

aglukkaq. an inuk woman, is our new health minister. minority governments do something.

so, another job creation scheme, 3 weeks this time, but more practical.

All Images Are Commercially Printed From Digital Sources.

1.Anon Dutch Painting on Enamel, After Brueghel, Pension on College, Toronto (2008)
2.Close Up of Arnaud Maggs photo, Susan Hobbs, Toronto (2008)
3.Egyptian Fountain under repair. Met Museum, New York (2008)
4.Pat and Anon Gentleman, European Painting Gallery, Frick, New York (2008)
5.Shark and Anon Gentleman, Met Museum, New York (2008)
6.Interior of a Hepworth Sculpture, Met Museum, New York (2008)
7.Koons Colouring Book, New York (2008)
8.Interior of Kate Spade, SoHo, New York (2008)
9.Detail, pink on red tape box (Aakash Nihalani), Chelsea, New York (2008)
10. Joel Sternfield, Oxbow Archive, Luhring Augustine, New York (2008)
11.Poussin Landscape, National Gallery, Ottawa (2008)
12.Les Naiads, National Gallery, Ottawa (2008)
13.Canadian Landscape, Nicholas Hoare Books, Ottawa, (2008)
14.Reproduction of Paul Kane illustration, looking over Rideau Canal, Ottawa (2008))
15.Detail of William Perehudoff abstraction, Douglas Udell, Edmonton (2007)
16. Terrance Koh Ad, Folded Over, June 2008 Art Forum (2008)
17.Venus, Near Ellington West, Toronto, Ontario (2008)
18. 4 Nan Goldins, from the Ballad of Sexual Dependency, MOCCA, Toronto (2007)

wayne kaustenbaum answered my jackie/o'hara questions today.

frost/nixon not worth seeing, the acting was solid, the directing was good, the sets were excellent, the writing was didactic, formless, and managed to leech the theatre out of the (v. theatrical) tv show.

possible places for the rundman:
http://www.believermag.com/contacts/
editor@pastemagzine.com

this week/next week:

thurs:
works
odsp
others
screen
25 resumes dropped off

friday:
6 pm, rafi, broken pencil, tech check, and presentation.

sat:
d/d, frost nixon.

sunday:
richard back
madmen

mon:
call hr pusateris
call john
call bridgepoint


tues:
geneva centre

wed:
bridgepoint doctors appt

thursday:
2 pm Jones Street Career Centre
resume, mental illness, communication breakdowns, exhaustion.

fri:
football
richards party

sat.
d's party

sun.
madmen

to do:
gifts for peter
gifts for lisa
w

upcoming
nov 8th dr atomic
something else?

some dude just coldcocked me, and i flunked out of the grocery clerk job

Like Louise


Louise Lawler, with her perfectly constructed combinations of money and taste, with an acid wit, is a woman after my own heart. How she creates artifacts that are the results of casual relations, capital, devotion to the temple of aesthetics, and an intellectual rigor. Her work combines the best of documentary and meta-analysis into a tight and explicit ball of ice. The work is so careful, though—so well printed, so aestheticised, so heavily formalized, that they are almost inaccessible.

Like Louise is a set of photos, taken quick and dirty, that mucks up the sterile glassiness of Lawler’s surfaces. Unlike her large prints, that occur in high end museums and galleries, the photos are small (4x7 or 8x11) , and not only taken in prominent galleries, but in private houses, museums of national or international reputation, on the street, and in hotels. They are of original works, reproductions of European masterpieces, photographs of reproductions, and even photographs of photographs of photographs.

Some of them are meant as art historical notes, or to point out previously unseen details, or notes for future writing, or as tourist souvenirs, as comments on work it self, and as a meta critical attachment to the Lawler, and as a discussion of the differences between the old school film and the new school digital proliferation.


Note On Links:
I am including five links from my flickr account, as my hard drive is currently in storage.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/2878369914/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/2955934741/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/2942304727/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/2956782008/

top zombies today

1) wizard of oz team
2) anne of green gables

the canadian parliemnt buildings are ugly, badly placed, blackened, hulking masses that are dull and slavering to the british, completley full of grimcracks and googaws, the canadian supreme court buidling is elegant and gorgeous.

top thirty things in ottawa

1)my truck book carefully repackaged and archived, for someone who has spent so much time on the ephermeal, having something last forever, was humbling, and made me feel v modest, a general feeling i get when i am treated as a professional.
2) beer in 7-11s
3) the conference centre beside the hilton
4) the joyce weiland text peice : man has reached out and touched the tranquil moon, puffy letters, crafting, a wry nationalism, and a charming looseness.
5) that algonquin and assoniboe work were included along with the thomsons, v. little of that work, and the work was put into a side gallery, which are problems, but the beading and felt work were impresive
6) W Blair Bruce's Les Naied, 1896 dozens of fat and happy naked women frolic in a white foam, with a rainbow overhead, sometimes the foam is so thick that only hints of flesh emerge, it looks so bright and so lively, a pornographic joie d vie that i thot was invented in california 50 years after the painting was done
7) louis reil's hand beaded coat, from moose leather, in amongst the other first nations stuff, in an almost random assortment, at the musuem of civ, it almost brought me to tears, and for someone who was so mystical, it should have been in a reliqury.
8) a cranach nude, where all that covers her is a diaphonous draping, and two thick gold chains, matched with the one i saw in berkley last year, where the woman was wearing nothing but a giant fur stole, that started with her genitals and moved past both shoulders, cranach's celebration of the erotic, and the sly critiques of previous painters, who kept trying to convince us that a white sheet over the important bits kept both the subjects and the viewers deceny in check--cranach's nudes remind me of titans venus and the olympia, in how they look straight at us, that the models know why they are there.
9) a big, juicy noland, in its own room. with varriations of yellow (ochre, butter); pink (hot, fuschia), purple (lavendar, mauve) and blue (cornflower powder), in alternating stripes, to suggest a logical conclusion
10) agnes 1985 white rose, not a peroid i like from her, but it combined the brassy instinct of the other work in the 80s, with the slight, humming/wavering of the work earlier. most likely (and i will have to research this) a transition peice.
11) Guston, Room, 1970, which struck me as castratey
12) Hans Building Greins Death, The Maiden and The Serpent, where death is portayed as a man whose flesh is peeling.
13)Niagra Region Covlets, hand weaved and vegetable dyed from 1825-1870
14 A big Glenn Gould Show, including original scores, collections of his petula clark records, two of his pianos, a lot of new media work, and videos at the musuem of civ--the videos of him in studio, kvethcing and joking with engineers, sort of reminded me of Stritch at the Sondhiem reheaserls for Company, with the same me against the world collectively, and they sort of blew away the thesis of crank/lone genius that haunts him, there were also some minor discussions, hints and accusations of his queerness, but nothing explicit, which was a little disappointing.
15) Holy Spirit, 1900, Carving of the Dove for a Gateinua Quebec Church, looks vaguely Brazillian and Vaguley like a pigeon, but i love polychrome abstractions like that.
16) hand beaded work by anon lakota, northern plains, cree, slavey, sioux, blackfoot, mohawk, and ivey crafts people, not enough space to see them individually, and an amazing assinobie war horse mask, in an all over zig zag pattern of grass green and pearl white beads, which was not shown two d, sadly.
17)Stanley Spencer's Masterfully painted cherry trees
18) cornell box, sadly not one that is allowed to work anymore, but one wiht hte parrot (peeling)
19) the dick of a v. pretty rodin
20) a couple of half way decent cezanne works, including a v. late mt st victorie that was all gash and slash
21 chardin's the governess, from (1780?) for the grey door opening onto a grey wall as a grey child stands looking at a grey governess
22) a poussin landscape that was inscrutable as ever
23) fuseli dream of belinda, that had all of his creatures climb out from under and over and on top of the drame, including a nightmarish little homonclous literally hiding under the bed.
24) Beucre Deco Pottery from Quebec
25) William Hollman Hunt and Rossetti (of Dante, not great, but the Hunt, wow all bearded madness) (got a postcard of it)
26) mid 60s bright blue woolen uniforms for canadian airlines
27) the entire room, with reprudctions of broadsides, sounds, and interesting didacic panels, dedictated to the winnipeg strike.
28) the scale model of govern sask.
29) the epic, 100 foot across, dome mural of the seasons, by janvier. with some pretty straight edge geometric abstraction, unusal for him.
30) a chock a block show of quebecious folk art, lots of agricultural work, including some mosiacs made from egg shells and vegetable dyes, mostly domestic scenes, by Jacqueliene Tremblay.

two things

1) i got a full time job today.
2) i did an assesment, one of those ones that actually suggest i have more life skills then i give myself credit for, have to wait another month though, because the agency that gave me the assesment does not deal with dual diagnosis (ie mental illness and devolpmental disabilities) so they have another one who does--it is weird that what i think of in my head as just crazy is by the authorities to be two distinct conditions.

416 540 0009

more lake ontario

more lake ontario
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose

October 24
7pm doors open
8pm screenings
8:30 panel discussion and Q&A
(reception to follow)

FASTWURMS ---- Anime
Keith Cole & Michael Caines --- Sunflower
Natalie Wood ------ Daisy Divorce Blues
Jared Mitchell – Gnomosexual
Pete Dako --- Gem Speedo
Peter Kingstone ---- Looking Toward The Stars
Dayna McLeod --- How To Fake An Orgasm
Kirsten Johnson ---- Destiny
Lisa Pereira & Bennett Jones-Phillips ---- Simply Diapers
Kelly McCray ------ The Gauge
Dawn Boyd ---- Dogboy

Panel: Jared Mitchell, Keith Cole, Deanna Bowen, Lisa Pereira.
Moderated by Anthony Easton.

thursday
john 11 am 30 birch aevnue, summerhill subway
367 to beth


saturday
2 pm richard


next week:
24th Panel (7pm?)
25th Frost/Nixon
30th Football Game
Richards Party
1st Move
D's Party

exhaustion.

twelve hours, two meals, 5 hours of d and d, two graham norton episodes, a dozen new friends...i feel blessed

Put down that guitar so i can fuck you, baptist bugger.

totally prefunctory job interview, with a 15 minute wait, and no discussion of salaris of benefits until i get the job.

house i could settle for is not answering the phone, and her mail box is now full so i cannot leave a message.

no email contact from perfect place.

still homeless. still jobless.

wait for odsp is 6 months, wait for ontario works is more then 2. a bunch of interviews with social services set up, but they are all intake, information sessions, prelimanry stuff, which may or may not (i am guessing not) push into something significant.

3200 in the bank.

Anthony S. Easton
301 457 Marlee Ave, Toronto, Ont., M6B 3J2
647 379 5054

Objective
* To secure full or part time employment in the retail industry

Highlights of Qualifications
* Certified in Alberta First Provincial Customer Care
* Possess WHMIS Chemical and Industrial Safety Certificate
* Willing to work all shifts, including overtime and holidays
* Prompt worker with excellent work ethic
* Safety conscious

Related Skills and Abilities

Retail/Customer Service
* Possess cashier, sales associate, stock person experience
* Worked in gas station, bookstore, toy store, telephone surveys
* Computerized cash register experience including cash, debit and credit card transactions
* Excellent, efficient customer service skills – Treat customers as I would wish to be treated
* Experience working in a fast paced environment, serving high numbers of individuals under diverse conditions
* Experienced in stocking and tracking inventory

Security
* Restricted access to secure areas
* Trained in security from recognized security company
* Loss prevention experience
* Trained in airport security, industrial security, personal safety and drug related procedures
* Guarded hospitals, construction sites, retail establishments, office buildings, sky scrapers,
* residential neighbourhoods, shopping malls and industrial parks
 

Programming/NPO:
* Consistent Advocate for Diversity
* Worked wit National and International Clients
Liaised between funding sources, artists, and other programmers
Billed Clients
Created a variety of community partnerships
Fostered team work and group spirit
Helped craft, and analyze mission statements, communications, by laws, with other steering committee members, and fostered strategies for implementing these.
Crafted extensive new media cold call lists, and completed the cold calling
Worked at all levels, doing all work that was necessary.





Work History

2008 PTP
CSR
Midnight Shift, trouble shooting, inbound customer service, minor tech support, sales, and creating opportunities for excellent customer relations for a large scale Internet and phone personals service, keyholder

2007-2008 Exposure.
Steering Committed Member, Programming Director
Inaugural programing at international arts festival. Helped Craft Mission Statements and by-laws. Commended by Albertan Provincial Government.

2005-2006 Doug Wright Awards
Crafted innovative new media strategy for Canadian comics awards, and aided in implementation.

2005-2008
Freelance Writing and Photographer
Work featured by the CBC, Wall Street Journal, The Alberta Gallery of Art, Rivington Arms Gallery,The National Gallery of Canada Library, Victoria Times Colonist, Geez, and others.

Toys R Us
Sales Associate Toronto, On 2004 - 2005
Worked during the busiest time of the year, at the busiest store in the country. Prevented loss, helped customers find exactly the right product, tracked inventory.

Guest Service Attendant
Petro Canada Service Station Edmonton, AB 2003 – 2004
Midnights, Prevented Loss, Maintained Secure Premise, Cashed in and out, credit cards, interac, POS systems, and corporate accounts.

Surveyor
Ipsos Reid Edmonton, AB 2002 – 2003
Excellent completion rates

Security Officer
Initial Security Edmonton, AB 2002 – 2003
Group Four Security Edmonton, AB 2001 – 2002
Loss prevention tainting, worked in a wide variety of ensnarements, in a wide variety of shifts.

Cashier
Second Fiddle Book Store Edmonton, AB 1999-2001

References available upon request

proof of your Social Insurance Number
Health Card
proof of identity, such as your birth certificate
recent bank statement for all your bank accounts
copy of your mortgage or rental agreement
Record of Employment and/or your most recent pay stubs
copy of your Canada Child Tax Benefit statement (if you have children under 18 years of age)
information about other money you may be receiving, such as a pension
information about assets you may own, such as a Registered Retirement Savings Plan, and
proof of immigration status, if required.

i think the only thing preventing me from doing something fairly rash right now is that it would be improper in a house that is not my own.

two places one i love one that is perfectly servicable. think w/i the time frame, im going to take the one thats perfectly servicable (old victorian parlour, with mantle)

so fucking tired

at peters, time for a minor link dump:

which magazine covers british mid century magazine, continued to the 80s, same style as pelican paper backs, beautiful.

who thot that hazmat orange and robins egg blue would not only work together, but soften brutal concrete enough to make it charmingly domestic---case study from rural finland.

bitchy type jokes are amusing.

discussion of the leham corperate collection


poorly thot out and not very politically astute art, for obama.

a reapprisal of Victorine Meurent in the gaurdian, she might not have been a whore and a drunk, and she was defintely an artist in her own right.

samantha cohn takes lovely photos of men, often with out their shirts off, with low key, semi dark lighting.


The head of the American United Steel Workers rips apart the racism of the working classes, vis a vis Obama, in an old school, 30s style barn burner of a speech, really worth watching.

the new york times discusses the circualr logic and inability to stay on question, but not the hero worship, that were hallmarks of palins debate strategy

class ended with pints, and a group of people that i really like and admire, people who are trying again after traditional carers, with marriages (some truncated), sometimes kids, and the like.

looking at houses again

i have been listening to hank williams jr for the last hour, it is frightening how much i find it spirit lifting.

I could survive for 47 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

the problem with a divinity school application, is that it requires
a) a clergyperson
b) a bunch of people answering how good of a xian you are.

i havent regullary attended church since joes, and i dont really have a clergy person.

ase

the place i liked at leslie and queen was totally fucked, foreclosure, bank, dishonesty, meltdown (not by me), so i rented a storage locker and started trolling craigs list.

jenn, the bitch queen of passive agressiveness (seriously, moving out she kept talking about how i cost her octobers rent, and how she wasn't bitter, and how she forgot hr last name, and how she wishes me the very best, just sickly sweet, but with a really viscious edge on it), by forgetting (or frankly refusing to give me her last name, means no chance for sueing her...so out 400 there, 450 for a new mattress, no deposit in the above place, so 350 for that, 5 days at the hostel for 260, 75 for storage, oh and i lost my camera, on the 72A bus b/w pape and union station.

winter is a coming in, and this is not a good sign.

i get 75 for my event tonite, and 130 for ets, and have a job interview next week, but man my savings are disappearing faster then anything.

also im hungry