cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
I just came across this great article by Time Etchells on Tehching Hsieh.
And the toast Etchells made at the launch of Out Of Now:
To time
To time past
To the clock
To the watched clock
To the minute hand, hour hand
To the second hand
Against the clock
Against the punch clock
To the heartbeat
To ducking out of time
To running out of time
To [...]
I absolutely must see Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth at SMOCA (up until November 29, 2009). Don’t miss the interesting videos on the SMOCA site. In one of the clips he asks: “What makes people be light within a moment?” Lovely. I am particularly enamored of the second video (embedded [...]
I love the idea of putting gum in my hair!
QUICK! Who is the 1970’s artist who posed for several self-portraits with small gum vulvae affixed to her body? (i’ll post the answer in a few days) Funny, I never stopped to realize that she managed to keep the little sticky sculptures out of her hair. [...]
I sit at my desk and face the door. A very small portion of the view is of the hallway leading to the director’s office. The remainder of that view is a dreadful textured wall with a black plastic baseboard and worn, filthy gray rug. Inside my office: a bit of a mess. Papers are [...]
This great book has been recalled by the library, I have to give it back.
“Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities”
Reprinted in Writings on Cities (1996) p. 228-29
Henri Lefebvre and Catherine Regulier
It is impossible to understand urban rhythms without referring to the general theory, which we will call ‘rhythmanalsysis’ related particularly to these rhythms but not only these. [...]
I have a recurring dream, it is about shopping in a thrift store, the same thrift store over and over again. The excitement of anticipating the shopping trip is always part of the dream. The store is located at the bottom of a hill in my home town. I cannot remember what the sign says, [...]
About six months ago, Beth Kracklauer interviewed me about my Home is Where the Gob Is project. Her write up finally made it into Saveur Magazine and she (accurately quoted me)! I only wish they would have put a link to my website in the article.
Most of the coal mines have closed around Johns-town, [...]
So. I take the fabulous blue frames to my optotician to see if he could fit them to my face, they are great but needed some adjustments. He did the thing that opticians do and when I put them back on my face I still wasn’t happy with how they looked.
In the meantime, he pulls [...]
My recent wish to participate in Track Your Happiness lead me to an interesting discovery: “self tracking.” Why wasn’t I surprised that the majority of self-trackers that I found on line are men? (that’s a rhetorical question). After doing a little digging I found an article in Wired “Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life…” [...]
Just as I had accepted the fact that I’ll probably never own an iPhone, along comes, perhaps, the most enticing reason to reconsider the possibility: Track Your Happiness.
Track Your Happiness.org is a new scientific research project that investigates what makes life worth living.
Using this site, you’ll be able to track your [...]
Lots of different kinds of blogs are interesting to me: product design, technology, programming, art, health, food. I like personal blogs, writer’s blogs, knitting blogs, gardening blogs. I suppose there’d be blogs that I wouldn’t like – maybe ones about strate marriage, car maintenance and repair, hunting… yes, there’s a few more I’m sure.
But there’s [...]
I hastily transplanted the seedlings, afraid that they were too crowded in the single pot. Unfortunately, most them are not going to make it. Since I had to go to Lowe’s and replace to buy a 100ft electrical cord for my lawn mowing excursions (the old cord had FIVE black tape bandages, one of which [...]
Knitta is a pretty funny group of knitters who take stitching to the streets. They consider their work a form of graffitti and call their installations “tags.” I love how the van becomes a sort of clown car with (mostly) white girls spilling out to accomplish the absurd.
I was at Let Them Eat Cake this past weekend and asked the baker if she knew about this recipe for homemade fondant. She had!! I can’t wait to give this one a try!! Until now, LTEC buttercream has been a staple on my birthday cake baking efforts… maybe the fall birthday cakes will get [...]
I actually saw a ROAD RUNNER crossing 19th Avenue at 6:30 a.m. this morning on my way to the train. 19th Ave?! It was so beautiful and swift! I have never seen an urban road runner before.
This great article in the NYT last month focuses on how the unemployed are spending their time…
On an average weekday, the unemployed sleep an hour more than their employed peers. They tidy the house, do laundry and yard work for more than two hours, twice as much as the employed. The unemployed also spend an [...]
I liberated some seed pods from plants on campus. At first I was a fascinated with the pods: those twisted beans, long slender sticks, always asymmetrical ballooning structures. Then I cracked a few open and was astounded by what was inside. Where I thought the seeds would be plentiful, they were spare; where I imagined [...]
omg. i just read the article in the nyt about the financial ruin of annie leibovitz. you’d think i’d be stunned by her $24M debt, or perhaps struck by the possibility that she’ll loose control of her work… no. i’m really just annoyed by this absurd quote from tina brown of vanity fair:
“Annie is not [...]
I used to eat Love Hearts candies as a kid, we’d get them at the Mary Jo’s Grocers in February, they came as part of the Valentine’s Day candy shipment, alongside the lesser, Necco brand sweetheart candies. I cant’ really explain why I love them so much, it has something to do with the texture, [...]
I read a great article on the train this morning from this month’s Cabinet. It opened with an analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald casting him as an attractive young man and his open shirt at the time of arrest as ahead of the Beatles’ curve. Indeed. An image of him with a raised fist is [...]
I’ve started working on a project for a set of six dinner napkins. The embroidered patterns for the set will be derived from these modified anatomical drawings of different parts of the digestive track… they are: esophagus, tongue, guts, mouth, rectum and stomach. The plan, so far, is to do a primary and larger image [...]
There aren’t many strate things to which I aspire… If there is one, it might be holding a camera level, or it might not. In any case, I love the look of this Level Camera Cube and wanted to park it on my blog, so that I can remember to get one (or two) for [...]
The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection is a very easy to search and interesting archive. Here’s a link to historic images of San Francisco from which I drew a couple favorites.
“A written sign is proffered in the absence of the addressee. How is this absence to be qualified? One might say that at the moment when I write, the addressee may be absent from my field of present perception. But is not this absence only a presence that is distant, delayed, or in one form [...]
I just won an auction on EBay for some radical 1940’s German eyewear! I’m so psyched. These bad girls have never been worn, are brand new, vintage and BLUE! I’ll post another update when I’ve tried them on… I have a feeling they won’t be getting lost on my face!
James Griffoen’s images of feral houses made it to Boing Boing a few weeks back. Pretty interesting stuff. But I’m more intrigued by his polaroids of feral dogs since I live in a neighborhood that has a few. They tend to travel in packs, yet James Griffoen’s dogs are mostly singular in the frame. Interesting.
My [...]
“It is as though the unconscious stretches out feelers, through the medium of the system Pcpt.-Cs., towards the external world and hastily withdraws them as soon as they have sampled the excitations coming from it. … I further had a suspicion that this discontinuoous method of fucntion of the system Pcpt.-Cs. lies at the bottom [...]
WOW.
That’s just about all I can say except… where’s the rest of the talk? I want more.
Video of a talk by Loren Goldner on fictitious capital given January 22, 2008, at The Whitechapel Centre, in London.
This talk was hosted by Mute.
I simply love this woman’s work. Someday, I’d like to meet Jenny Hart and buy her tea. She also has a blog where she documents many good projects. I’ll be adding her to my blog roll too. So, I did a bit of satin stitching today, and had to tear it all out since I [...]
As if the $9 a pack purchase price isn’t enough to scare you off… prepare yourself for some seriously graphic images on cigarette packaging in the near future. Obama signed the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” on June 22. The new law requires tobacco companies to cover at least 50% of the front [...]
There is sure a lot to read here… Far more radical and academic than Michael Pollan but not nearly as much fun, for sure. I think its really interesting that this group is operating out of the UK and at the same all over the map with collaborators in German, Indonesia, Africa, Argentina, Denmark… and [...]
Found this site on Boing Boing… and just added it to my blog roll. Some great images here, including one of a camel stuffed into a suitcase. I’m particularly fond of the non-art taxidermy, meaning stuffies intended for display domestically, not in a gallery. Reminds me of a ring necked phesant that my grandpap had [...]
Miles is available for adoption. What a cutie!
I’m going to meet him tomorrow morning after I go to the market.
Here’s a review of “Cold Souls” the film at the heart of my earlier post on storing your soul.
On the ride home from the beach, we cut through Gila Bend (pronounced Heelah) to get to Route 347. Its a small town of about 1700 people established in the mid-19th century. One of the most enduring and charming businesses in Gila Bend is the Space Age Lodge. I recall visiting the cafe in the [...]
Just read a thoughtful article in this month’s ART PAPERS about a piece by Iris Häussler at Art Gallery of Ontario at The Grange called “He Named Her Amber.” Essentially, Häussler constructed a story and embedded the fiction into the institution then recovered it in an archeological dig and invited the public to see the [...]
high tide at 8:38 p.m.
Mary Jo agreed to give me a couple embroidery lessons. She is amazingly dexterous with both hands. I’m not nearly as coordinated in the stitching and she makes it look so easy! I brought two different pieces of fabric on the trip and two sizes of hoops. When I got frustrated with my mitts I’d [...]
On my morning stroll today, I came upon this couple who were walking two medium sized bouvier des flandres. I said “Look, Bouviers!” and pulled them over to have a chat. Apparently they made a special trip to Cali to pick up the beasts from their auntie who has a few too many dogs. They’re [...]
Today I learned that my neighbor’s doggie died. McKallister (Mackie to me) the wonder dog. She was a wise old girl and had just visited me and Dezzie and Fredward on Friday night. I will miss her square rump and smiling face. Things won’t be the same on Minnezona without Mackie.
Blue is my favorite color. All shades of blue. All tones and saturations of blue.
Blue. Blue. Blue.
The best thing about visiting the shore is to see all the variations of blue
where the sky meets the ocean.
I am so excited about presenting next year at the College Art Association in Chicago. I’m on a panel titled “Contesting the City: Experiments in Transnational Public Art.” Abstracts for the individual papers were due Aug 1. This is mine.
“Seven Walks: Francis Alys Reads London”
Jo Novelli
New York University
jo.novelli@nyu.edu
This presentation examines Francis Alÿs’ Seven Walks (London, [...]
This year I went from wearing sun glasses to donning trifocals. Its great to see but kind of a pain in the butt to wear them all the time. If I don’t wear them when I read, a screaming headache ensues… so I keep them handy, these glasses of mine.
The day I got fitted for [...]