From September 29, 2011

Murdoch is god father to one of Tony Blair's children.

Koneig's house in Tujanga--one of those glass and beams, all light LA wonders is for sale--link goes to a bunch of pictures and one construction drawing.

speaking of LA and construction Doug Smith's photos of foreclosed homes are haunting.

From September 29, 2011

This might be the most 90s photo ever taken.

Chicago REader used one of my photos.

New Hammer show of Whiteread drawings, including a loveley one of her ghosted stairs.


The Hooters Girls remember 9/11

3 women is coming out on Criteron, finally!

Anti Roma violence and violent rheotric is racheting up in Czech Republic.

From September 29, 2011

Rberg foto of Merce Cunningham, from a collection of photos taken in the mid 50s to the late 60s, published by DAP. Impressed at how incorperated this photo is, how much it is of a dancer aware of his own body.

Cherry Martin the london gallery, has a show of black and white photographs made into manquettes and sculptural bits, tiny and quite lovely.


Rick Perry saves the world from the spirit of evil first nation cannibals.

70 Ghanain movie posters

Skin a Deer with a pick up truck.

the atlantic's new blog on cities is brilliant, this eccentric but much needed essay on cul d sacs and surburban construction is a good place to start.

6 examples of Death on a PAle Horse, including a v. late BAsquit.

From September 29, 2011

Habitat being constructed.

inuit populations in alaska have increased rates of botulism, because of the switch from storing meat in the ground to rot, to storing meat in tupperware and ziplocs.

big Adams show at The Denver musuem of art.

fantastic short documentary on the gathering of juggalos

on Dekooning, musuem shows, and the problematic late work.

singles help family and community more than married folks.

Waid and Riveria's Daredevil comic is gorgeous.

Tenderfoot, aka as Adam Bohemer is a great folk singer, a man with an amazing beard, and really cute besides.

"I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated," "But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious."

Adams

I think what I think at this point was that i found it interesting that a number of male country artists who did albums as statements about their dying in the last couple of years made it harsher, harder, rougher--starting with the American Recordings by Cash and moving onwards--including but limited to Louvin, Wagoner and Kirstofferson. That this is so smooth, and so much like the golden age of AM radio really as a response to the harshness of other voices, is historically interesting--b/c Campbell wasn't an outlaw, and was almost if not a mirroring than a kind of correcting in terms of 70s country. In this sense, he is considering the trajectory that was set down for him by Webb (or to be more generous--the choice that he and Webb decided to embark on together)

Which is one of the things I really love about country music, is that the career arcs, and narratives are decades long, instead of weeks or months or even years. We are talking 40 years here.

about Glen Campbell's new single.

last night, wonderful sex with a newish boy at his place then dinner with his primary, and looking at vacation slides. today, baptist dedication north of newmarket.

metaphors of domesticity

The Rest Is Silence: The Tapes Hyang Cho
2011, 12 ft; dimensions variable , 189 cassette tapes with cases, 90 minutes each, tape recorder, speaker

This show had a number of peices, but this one was the most powerful for me. She recorded herself reading Spinoza's ethics word by word, on a set of 90 minute tapes. As one tape ended, she would type what reminded her of the work Sometimes its nothing, sometimes its these really problematic words about sex and death--the tapes would be played in sequence--each word would be underlined, and the pencil would be rubbed off on a blank notebook afterwards.

it's an academic work, but Spinoza, with his efforts at and eventually failing to ride the intellectual line between his instincts and his traditon, and the non-western nature of Hyang Cho's other work, have an isolation and a lonliness, a profound fear at wanting to communicate, and being unable to communicate.

that the speaker is grey, and the tapes are black and white, and the edition of spinoza she chose was black, and the only colour was the gold along the spine--made it a visually stark work as well.

(note about analog vs digital)

Ed Ruscha Beach Towel

Over 20 years on in the history of the episcopal ministry involving both genders, or as the Canadian Church said, bringing completeness to episcopal ministry, I no longer can actually seriously engage the argument about the validity of the sacraments celebrated by women. The sacraments we celebrate are valid and transform lives much as the sacraments celebrated by men in holy orders. That is because in the lives of the men and women the Holy Spirit has conferred gifts of grace. My successor in the Diocese of Edmonton was ordered deacon and priest by a woman in episcopal ministry who then was a co-consecrator at the episcopal consecration. In the USA there are a growing number of bishops all consecrated by the Presiding Bishop, also female. Apostolic Succession has not been endangered by these episcopal acts. Rather Apostolic Succession is the handing on of the apostolic faith and the authority to uphold and protect it, which has less to do with the pedigree of the episcopal minster than the work of the Holy Spirit... Victoria Williams on Women PReists.

full essay here

From September 3, 2011

Waste Landscape, Elise Moran and Clemence Morad.
materials: unsold CD+wire+inflatable
Surface : 500 m²

Torontoist visits Detroit's Mies buildings--including some amazing shots from lafette park--totally not disaster porn.

English High Courts note that stop and search seizures are racist against AFro Caribbean citizens.

Tariq Ali on the london riots

genuinely terrorfied about continual legal and extra=-legal attempts in Wisconsin and elsewhere to disenfranchise poor voters.

walter reed closes

which reminds me of this:


love these pants

204 page photobook on the nature of bounce

beautiful poster that taxomizes wrestlers name

love this punkcore/pyschobilly/bluegreass band from Austin.


Historical Comedy on the Invention of the Vibrator and Cronenberg's movie on Freud are the two that I really want to see at Tiff

Cineea Madrid's photos and story about the problems and successes of Nrothwest Rodeo, is genius.

Scottish Poetry Library used my photo.

From September 3, 2011

Jane Mansfield, Photographer Unknown. mid 50s.

John Cain sought to arm Qadhafi.


Alan Cumming Butches Up Cabaret, with a Military Themed, Don't Tell Mama--sexy as fuck.

Etsuko Ichikawa is a glass blower from Seattle, who is working on drawings using paper and molten glass--this video of the procedure from the Anthropologist, borrows alot from Namuth's video/photos of Pollock--but it's oddly both more controlled and more destructive.

Scott Aarnson decimates academic publishing.

Jen Graves essay on whitness and race in suburban seattle reminds me discussions of race and whiteness in Edmonton.

From September 3, 2011

I love in porn when the sign and the signifer collapse--the erect rocket and the flaccid penis.

From September 3, 2011

I love in porn when the sign and the signifer collapse--the erect rocket and the flaccid penis.