Saturday, February 19, 2011

Alain Delorme ////// // // ///// /// //// // /

Alain Delorme was born in 1979.

James Casebere /// /// ///// /// /// /

James Casebere

Jamie Campbell / // /// /// ////

Jamie Campbell

Jamie Campbell / // // //// /// //// //// //// ///// /

Jamie Campbell

Rachel Perry Welty // / // // // // /

Rachel Perry Welty graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1999 with a fifth year certificate in 2001. She had a solo exhibition of her work at The Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, 2004 and at the “CC”Coburn Gallery in Colorado in 2007. She was selected for the “Levity: Selections Spring 2007” exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York. Most of us don’t pay much attention to the mundane objects we use everyday, like the twist ties that hold the plastic wrap on our bread and the broccoli together or the little paper cups that we pull out of a water dispenser. Using thousands of the throw away items at her disposal, Rachel Perry Welty takes these ordinary items and creates works of art with texture, complexity and meaning. There is a ritual about compiling these unconventional art materials into sculptures that seems both overwhelming and obsessive. Link here.

PB Sandwich / / / / / / / / w Jam

Carry your fave sandwich everywhere with this handy faux PB&J pouch. The photo-real fabric makes it look totally yummy! Each sandwich half makes a roomy zippered pouch–open it up to see the peanut butter n’ jelly halves, which stick together, with a magnetic closure. Buy here.

Scott Fife / / / / / / / / // / / / /

I like the physical nature of building the sculpture–it seems very old-fashioned and traditional. The idea of the material itself–it’s friendly, flexible, there’s a glow from in it. I’m the full-service artist–doing it all at the moment. I like the aspect of the low-tech tools that I need to make something like this. In the beginning [it was] an Xacto knife, masking tape and glue–now it’s the screwgun. So that hasn’t changed much at all–the directness of it, that I could begin to shape this, I can make this very plastic without any special process. There is that sense of one person building this thing–it becomes a “feat”–the whole thing isn’t about that but within the world we live in right now, it makes it a kind of tribal ritual piece; the fact that it was done by the human hand. [That] takes people back to the place in their life where they remember pasting things together [and so] understanding the process.” – Scott Fife

Walton Creel / / / / /

” When I decided I wanted to make art using a gun, I was not sure what direction I would have to take. I knew I did not want to use it simply as an accent to work I was doing, but as the focus. My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun. To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose, to deweaponize it. During my first experiment I came across the concept of creating an image hole by hole on a surface. I also figured out that canvas would be too stressed by the process of a rifle firing many bullets into it. I moved on to aluminum and, with further experimentation, I figured out exactly how far apart my shots needed to be and that moving beyond .22 caliber was simply too destructive. When the aluminum was painted beforehand, the blast of the gun knocked off a tiny amount of paint around each hole, which helped fuse the image together. ” – Walton Creel

Monday, February 14, 2011

Lakota / / / / / / / / it works

Fleet Foxes / / / / / / / / / / / White Winter Hymnal

Joe Pug / / / /// ///// /// // Hymn 101

Two Princes / / /// ///// ///////// / / / / / / / // //// // / / /

Beck / / ///// //// //// /// //// Loser

Weezer / / / / / ////// /// /// Buddy Holly

John Butler / Ocean Live at Federation Square / / / / / /

Searching for Heritage (Ocean); Jon Butler Trio

Gorillaz; Some Kind of Nature

Lykke Li; Dance Dance Dance

Billy Bragg and Wilco; California Stars

Joanna Newsom / / / / / / The Book of Right On

Sunday, February 13, 2011

four legs / / / / / /

evoke / / / / / / / / /

little sprig / / / / / / / / / / / /

SaurSaurSaurus / / / / / / D.H.

the future / / / / / / / D.H.

Rapid 99 / / / / / / / / / D.H.

Goldfishes 77 / / / / / / / /

Poker Monkey / / / / / / / / D.H.

If I say,
I'll raise you two Mud Crabs,
to which you raise,
one eyebrow,
and see my Mud Crabs,
with one Japanese Snow Monkey;
I raise anti to four clown fish,
plus a Leopard Shark and three Boreal Owls,
fast as you can say mud bath,
then you fold,
to the pressure of my,
ridiculous bluff;
then its time to skip town,
and Vermonty Python.

Dan Hedges
February 13th, 2011

Conjuring / / / / / / / D.H. / / / /

Conjuring,
leads us to the thought,
that,
conjuring,
is,
atomic movement,
playing one massive joke,
on itself;
since the variables in play,
outweigh,
the human,
condition.

D.H.
February 13th, 2011

Andrew Leus / / / Goodbye Motorcycle

Sunday, February 6, 2011

What is TRUTH?

What is TRUTH?

Aesthetic experience;
Lends itself for us to know
that
Truth is a sensory experience observed by the human mind.
Experience is truth in the moments before we go looking for it.
Truth is therefore a constant unfolding of energy at play,
And experience is therefore truth.

Aesthetic experience is uncoded; language before it formed out of chaos;
The chaos of light, time, and space, forms aesthetic experience just before language
May be formed to describe it.
Language is inferior; gets in the way of;
What touches us most deeply and moves us forward is aesthetic truth;

The effort to describe is worthy, and so language is worthy.
Aesthetic experience is the only truth we have.

Language is our desperate attempt to corral and gather chaos.
The essence of language is therefor desperation,
as we defend ourselves against chaos in civil society.

Dan Hedges
February 6, 2011

Andrew Leus / / / Tree Hugger / / / / /

Brad Bateman / / / / /

Brad Bateman / / /