Boy Oh Boy...

It is that time of year again - I can't believe it! It seems to come faster and faster every year. So tomorrow I begin a very long trip Northward and then Eastward to spend my Christmas holiday. So there won't be much action around these parts until the week of January 5th. But if I can post I will! Just no promises.

Here are a couple of links - my internet gift to you! I will try to give you some good ones...

...Make your own Keds! Yes I will thank you - via Susan Belle...
...How to make your photos look like they were taken in 1962 - in a good way - also via Susan Belle...
...the best idea ever: Vintage Plant...
...an interview with M/M via printfetish...
...Adam Curtis documentary The Century of the Self - alright this is 4 hours long (broken into 4 parts) and totally terrifying/fascinating - not exactly a "holiday" theme either, but there you go. Maybe you are bored to tears and need some brain food...
...really liked this, this, this and this - okay - basically this whole site: Arend deGruyter-Helfer...
...Peter Saville via Bevel and Boss...
...I saved this awhile ago but I think it was kind of entertaining: A Short Sharp Shock. Somewhere in there was a reformed punk with long blonde hair, a big pink bow and a Cats (the musical) sweatshirt...

Oh! And here is a gif gift for you that I made. Maybe you can email it to someone who you forgot to buy a present.

OK - I am afraid that is all I have to give. Hope you enjoy! And have a really wonderful Holiday however you spend it.

xxx

b.

Random Thoughts and Feelings

Alright. To be honest I just wanted to post this video so I could listen to it a few times in a row. It got buried under deep in my tumblr but I just dug it up because I missed listening to it. I think I got it from here. Yep. That's where.

More about Hermeto Pascoal here...

This is the part I love the best:

"Hermeto is a prolific composer, famous for his project Calendário do Som, in which he composed a song every day for a year so that everyone would have a song for his or her birthday."

Installation

So I set up this little installation piece this weekend. I wish I could figure out a better way to document it. I tried taking photos but of course they turned out all dark and murky from being indoors in low light, and then I tried taking a movie which looked even worse and is even more embarassing somehow - maybe it is the sound of me trying to be quiet? Or my shaky camera work? The only thing I really like (other then the real thing in real life) are these super lo-fi still shots from the movie.

So to help you out here is a verbal description:

finch's nest + gold chain + gold striped plastic bag + a space + red plastic bag pinned to the wall with a T-pin + a space + pretending that the floor is painted white + on the left two worn out black paint-spotted converse all stars surrounded by gold sparkles and gold painted rocks and yellow translucent rocks plus one sliver painted rock and two red translucent rocks + on the right a book stand holding a book open to a spread of illustrated black, yellow and red butterflies.

If I take a good photo I will let you know but until then you will have to use your imagination.

xo

b.

hint-

Peter Coffin

(...all images from here...)

I really like this work by the artist Peter Coffin. Just my kind of stuff, even though I can't really put it into words. Also reminds me a little of Magali Reus...

Here are a few links:

...here at Andrew Kreps Gallery...
...here at The Saatchi Gallery...
...wiki page (self written? who knows...)...
...an article in Frieze magazine...
...an interview in Flash Art by Maurizio Cattelan. (here for the scanned article)..
...at the Barbican Art Gallery...
...Art in America article...
...an article by Jerry Saltz in the Village Voice...
...on ArtCal...

That is all I can handle. There may be more out there...

xo

These Days Are Short and Dark but Warm Inside...

I forgot to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving...those who celebrated it that is. I hope you had a nice one. I sure did. I ate this instead of the regular old turkey and it was as good as it looks.

Some buddies and myself also checked out this movie which I really enjoyed even though the other two were not so sure. But I thought between Catherine Denuve, her daughter Chiara Mastroianni (Father being Marcello Mastroianni no less!) and Mathieu Amalric (the same actor who gave such a good performance in the Schnabel directed movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) - it couldn't go wrong. The non-cloying holiday backdrop and a smuggled in bottle of wine also helped to make it feel perfectly cosy.

Some things that have been of interest lately:

...I have been really enjoying Nick Currie's posts on The Moment blog and his Click Opera livejournal is great too...
...one of Currie's latest Moment posts was on the super little magazine Sede, which I stumbled on awhile back, and the wonderful new project MOLDE...
...this photo zine looks like it would be very interesting and beautiful - I really like the project description too: "...A zine is assembled. They see their prints for the first time once the zine is alive. The zine is alive."...
...two Queens of Rock - inspiring interviews with Janis and Patti - so glad they were out there and just doing their thing...
...maybe everybody knows about this already but just in case you don't - NYPL digital library - free and open access to over 640,000 images...
...an A+ blog. Routine Investigations. Check it out!...