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I like this one.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Did you know that many human-form artifacts depict ritual body postures that induce trances & alternative states of consciousness?
the may roundup
May, 2011
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We walked around the gallery and checked out the art - some of which was still being worked on.
whistler and pechakucha
April 14, 2011
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This Carla Dearman painting reminded me of Tara.
whistler and pechakucha
April 14, 2011
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Laughing statues.
whistler and pechakucha
April 14, 2011
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Spotted this one in a doorway on Monday!
the february roundup
February, 2011
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Haha. Great.
the february roundup
February, 2011
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Another!
the february roundup
February, 2011
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If you look closely you'll see the eye and the teeth are cut-outs from a magazine. So good.
the february roundup
February, 2011
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While taking Maddy for her morning walk, I spotted another really great Bortusk Leer paste-up on 9th St between B & C. I love this one.
the february roundup
February, 2011
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Rasterized.
the january roundup part one
January, 2011
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Neato cut-out lines up with all the buildings if you use the eye piece to stand in just the right spot.
the october roundup
October, 2010
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Neato, right?
summer visit to british columbia
August 19, 2010
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Grant's super-cool wall decoration he made out of string and nails!
summer visit to british columbia
August 19, 2010
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Look out, giant bird!
summer visit to british columbia
August 19, 2010
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...we decided to dismount, lock up bikes and get a something to eat.
summer visit to british columbia
August 19, 2010
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Lockets.
the august roundup
August, 2010
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Necklaces.
the august roundup
August, 2010
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The had all sorts of reminders that people used to carry to remind them of their own mortality. Skull and crossbone rings. (Europe; 1692)
the august roundup
August, 2010
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Painted memento mori skulls.
the august roundup
August, 2010
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...BE-DAZZLED bike!
coney island circus
July 11, 2010
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On the walk home we spotted Knitted Bike vs...
coney island circus
July 11, 2010
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On Saturday, we had a big breakfast in the dining room.
quinndepenence weekend: part one
July 02, 2010
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Mantel.
quinndepenence weekend: part one
July 02, 2010
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Mural next to the spiral stairs.
quinndepenence weekend: part one
July 02, 2010
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All sorts of awesome artwork in the upstairs hallway.
quinndepenence weekend: part one
July 02, 2010
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A real full kapala (human skull-cup of the gods) from Tibet. Wow.
quinndepenence weekend: part one
July 02, 2010
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We left the living room and headed up to the second floor.
quinndepenence weekend: part one
July 02, 2010
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I pulled this (woodblock?) print from a garbage can near a print studio in 1998. Time to take a photo and let it go!
the may roundup
May, 2010
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According to the website above, this carving is "a man is carrying something with a pole on his shoulder. Looks like an urn of palm wine."
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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And this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Loved this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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And this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Lots of really interesting paintings like this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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I liked the "sans ladder" version much more.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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This?
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Mustache and a dress. No big deal.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Not so much.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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This painting looked a lot like Pacung.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Bed is this way.
the december roundup: part one
December, 2008
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...gets a THUMBS DOWN from Meredith (he said meta-ironically through a poorly framed and out-of-focus digital picture he'd carelessly shot from the hip).
san francisco work trip & driving to la
November 18, 2008
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Neon squiggle art that greets you in the SFO airport...
san francisco work trip & driving to la
November 18, 2008
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On Friday night I hung out with Siege and took pictures of some new ink-spattered prints he was drying in his studio for his "Fugue State" series.
the november roundup
November, 2008
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Become your dream, Trashman. Become your dream.
the may roundup: part one
May, 2008
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Later on that night, they had some kind of art show where they kept projecting huge illustrations of people on the wall. Then, a bunch of people we know started coming up. Like Leigh! Haha. They'd show a drawing of the person...
the april roundup
April, 2008
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On Thursday night I went Team Gallery for the opening of Ryan McGinley's latest show.
the april roundup
April, 2008
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The opening was totally mobbed. (But apparently Ryan's shows keep getting bigger and bigger. Exactly two years later, in March 2010, Ryan just had the opening for his new show at the same gallery and it was so crowded that they had to call the fire department. Check out this photo of the crowd filling the street outside the gallery! Insanity.)
the april roundup
April, 2008
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...and it featured photographs from the summer Ryan spent in a van driving around the country with a bunch of kids, getting naked, running all over beautiful landscapes and taking photos of them celebrating their youth. I loved 'em.
the april roundup
April, 2008
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The show was called I Know Where The Summer Goes...
the april roundup
April, 2008
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...would you just look at how much she enjoying that! So art-rotic!
thailand: part eight - samui to koh tao
August 24, 2007
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Later that night, I got frisky with the bas relief murals at our resort...
thailand: part eight - samui to koh tao
August 24, 2007
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...and we all marveled at "Heart of the Cajuns" painting that Siege's agent had given him of an old family photo of Siege with his mom and little brother.
the april roundup: part one
April, 2007
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My favorite was this illustration of two monkeys that was done on an old-school 5 1/4" floppy disk! I liked it so much I bought it as a gift for Mer!
the april roundup: part one
April, 2007
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And Ellen using the frame from Jack's party to frame herself!
the april roundup: part one
April, 2007
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...or familiar masked-faces! Check out Grant flexing down in his Mexican wrestler mask!
the april roundup: part one
April, 2007
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Later that night after work, I went to the opening of Katie & Ellen's show in the East Village. A bunch of the pieces there were collaborations between Ellen and Katie and there were a bunch of a familiar faces...
the april roundup: part one
April, 2007
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OMG! Giant art!
day trip to storm king
November 06, 2005
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The venue was kind of meh, but it did have all these really great paintings of pretty girls on the wall.
the march roundup
March, 2005
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The were awesome.
the march roundup
March, 2005
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Which, by the way, has the dopest tapestry in the history of looms hanging in the bathroom.
the january roundup: part one
January, 2005
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And then on Sunday, I Paul invited me out again to check out the "Beautiful Losers" art exhibit at one of the local SF museums. I asked him for the address and he was like "Oh, it's on Mission and 3rd St." I was like "Oh, new place is 2 streets over and 13 blocks away - so I'll walk over and see you in like 15 minutes." Yeah, too bad that's an estimate based on the size of city blocks in NYC - turns out that "blocks" in SF are like a 1/4 each and so it ended up taking me just about an hour to get there. Hahaha. Doh.
the september roundup: life in san francisco
September, 2004
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We also watched the janitor put on a pair of pajamas and trick a crowd of people into thinking he was some sort of highly-regarded Japanese artist.
the may roundup: part one
May, 2004
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Little did the crowd realize, but this piece is patterned after the mop-stroke used to remove dogshit from a tiled floor.
the may roundup: part one
May, 2004
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A few of Emilie Elizabeth's photos made it into the highly competitive Parson's senior show so on Tuesday night I went over to the Westside to check it out. (There's a naked chick in the one on the left! Naked I tell you!)
the april roundup
April, 2004
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After Lee's gallery, we went across the museum and check out Roger Hior's work - he takes metal objects (like this BMW 7-Series engine) and dips them in a copper-sulfate bath
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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Pretty neat, right? You LOVE art, I know.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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...but then I got caught taking sneaky pics and I had to put my camera away. Her most recent sculpture is some of the most beautiful, striking art I've ever seen and I the exhibit completely overwhelmed. I think I heard that this entire 150+ piece show is coming to New York City this summer - if it does, you should go see it.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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On Friday morning, Jordana (who is a painter) took me to the Hammer Museum to see Lee Bontecou's "Retrospective." Here's a cool, drippy permanent installation in the museum's lobby.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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She become known for creating these super-creepy canvas and wire sculptures.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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I managed to capture a few pics of these scultpures from the mid-seventies, where she was going through a period of creating all these crazy, Egyptian scarab beetle-like scultures...
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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These pics are all sorta shitty and totally don't do her work justice - they're absolutely striking in person. (You're not supposed to take pics in the museam and I was forced to snap all these ninja style when the guards weren't looking.) Anyway, towards the end of the 60s, Lee started moving away from the scary-looking scultures that she was known for and started more organic flower-like sculptures that were met with tepid critical reactions. So in the early 70s she stopped exhibiting and pretty much dropped out of the art scene. Well it turns out she's spent the last thirty years working and all of the stuff she'd been working on (that nobody's seen until just recently) is completely amazing.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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I love going to museums, but enjoy them infinitely more if I'm there with someone who knows alot about what we're seeing and can contextualize it for me. Jordana is one of those people.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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Here's the original painting! So bad ass!
tara's 21st birthday and goodbye party
September 30, 2003
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This picture is art too. It's called "Katie and Art = Art." Noice, right?
goodbye uncle stephen
July 07, 2002
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Katie's a painter and we headed over to one of the galleries that was exhibiting some of her rad-ass paintings.
goodbye uncle stephen
July 07, 2002