Readeeee Break

I'll be back after the holidays.

Weekend: Wake Up

I have to wake up tomorrow at 5:45 am. Anyone that has lived with me knows that I annoyingly sleep through alarm clocks. So, when I found out that I had to be up and functioning in downtown Manhattan this Sunday I promptly went out and purchased Clocky. The appeal was that I knew that Clocky would wheel away after one snooze. Ergo, I would get out of bed and turn the alarm off. What I just found out is that Clocky makes an ungodly loud digi-screeching noise.

Light: bk215

Weekend: Nuts

This was in my avocado
















Santi came home with a story about this little guy throwing bits of bark down from a tree he was sitting underneath.

Burn

Richard Euringer, director of the libraries in Essen, identified 18,000 works deemed not to correspond with Nazi ideology, which were publicly burned. cerca 1930's-1940's

Currently Getting Caught Up

Jig from KioskSecured dream catcher. Not sure of source.

Ty Jas

Celling an Aesthetic

Watch this from Zeitguised
more motion here. Thanks S.

Hairy

Weekend: Hojas

Portrait by SantiMore night light photos
From A Universal History of the Destruction of Books
"Its a common error to attribute the destruction of books to ignorant men unaware of their hatred. After twelve years of study, I've concluded that the more cultured a nation or a person is, the more willing each is to eliminate books under the pressure of apocalyptic myths. In general, biblioclasts are well-educated people, cultured, sensitive, perfectionists, painstaking, with unusual intellectual gifts, depressive tendencies, incapable of tolerating criticism, egoists,
mythomaniacs, members of the middle or upper classes, with minor traumas in their childhood or youth, with a tendency to belong to institutions that represent constituted power, charismatic, with religious and social hypersensitivity. To all that we would add a tendency to fantasy. In sum, we have to forget the stereotype of the savage book destroyer. Ignorant people are the most innocent."
thanks S

Fahrenheit 451

Title sequence by Syd Cain for François Truffant's 1966 film based on Ray Bradbury's sci fi novel. No typography was used.An announcer read the credits as a series of still images of tv antennas were shown. Featured in the recent issue of Eye.

Peace

President Martti Ahtisaari

According to the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel's will the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

Bailout

image via

Light: Step hb12

Happy 50th Birthday NASA

EarthRise, 1968 The Last Whole Earth Catalog described this image as: “The famous Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise over the moon that established our planetary facthood and beauty and rareness (dry moon, barren space) and began to bend human consciousness.”NASA has always been a topic of conversation at Whitt reunions. Papa helped to make the shields that the shuttles would launch off of. And my dad and two of his siblings got their first jobs there. I have always admired their engineering minds.

Weekend: Performance

Fri: Fairly uneventful debate.
Sat: S took me to see my first performance at the Kitchen. It was called Anger Nation. I enjoyed the textures of video and sound.
Sun: Workshop at 3B. Its rare that I can spool a full and neat bobbin on the first try.
PS be sure to peep this yen folding via FF

Larry Gottheim

Avant garde film marker cerca 70's
Will be part of the Between Stills and Moving Images Exhibition
I love these stills of his work.

Photog

William Eggleston is at the Whitney come October
Seven 7 chromogenic coupler prints 1979
Flowers 12 chromogenic coupler prints 1978

Complementing this show, an exhibition called Between the Still and Moving Image
Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line (1970), in which trees and a landscape gradually emerge on the screen as a thick fog begins to lift. "(the exhibition) examines the relationship between the still and moving image from the 1930s to the present, by artists, filmmakers, and photographers who use stillness, cinematographic composition, and movement to question the conventions of both photography and cinema."

Now Showing

At Peter Blum in SohoCover of Volume 4, Issue 11, November 1922
lithograph after a drawing by El Lissitzky

Weekend: Switch Gears

Last weekend I said good bye to my last delightful house guest for a while and to the crazy days of summer.
And finally, after years of threats, I went to documentary filmmaker group event that happens every Sunday at a place down the street called Union Docs. They are a sweet and interesting bunch.
So heads up to any doc makers wanting to show your work or those who are interested.

Persistence

For the past few weeks I've been going through images and photog portfolios for work. This one stayed with me.
Christian Weber

A Couple of Thoughts

Pieces from from Santiago's "Buy Them Now" project.Humans take the place of pet store animals.

Articles of clothing pressed between large sheets of glass.

Louise Nevelson

I am looking through her work for the first time now. She is depicted in a play by Mercedes Ruehl Called “Edward Albee’s Occupant.

Ian Wright

Paydirt

Mel Chin is back finding beautiful solutions to earthly ailments.

Morph

Milgram's six degrees of separation, questioning the core of the theory

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Election

consuming

Tis the Season

Its about gallery time in New York! So grab your most uncomfortable shoes, put on your important face and go get yourself some free wine! I kid, though it is that time and I am excited to see some new work. I will post as much as I can in the next month.I want to see Chris Johanson at Deitch this weekend.
Sidebar: a minute fun

Fall to the Sky

Kenneth Snelson is a sculpture and photographer who worked with Buckminster Fuller

Dan is Good

My friend Dan designed this t-shirt.
I am def. getting one.
You can too!

Sarah Oppenheimer

creates interesting perspectives. This one is my favorite.
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Weekend

Happy Birthday James and Jeannie

Raquel Falkenbach

has a nice reel. I really like the musicvia

Brittny Badger

already has plenty of buzz but if you haven't already checked her out then here you are