June 2008
28 posts
This week.
Big streets, big blisters. Welcome back Danya. We’ve missed you.
I met Larissa at the Seu Jorge and Thievery Corporation show in the park. She’s lives in Brooklyn, by way of Brazil, and is my newest smiling friend.
And please, people, don’t tell Daknow that I posted a picture of him smiling on the internet. He has a reputation to uphold.
Love.
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead;...”
– A. Einstein
Public Decency
Ya’ll ready for this? Cue the exciting music, and clap your hands for the New York Public Art Fund. Hoorah.
For 30 years, the Public Art Fund has been working with emerging and established artists, making it possible and taking the lead in presenting artists’ projects, commissions, and exhibitions in public spaces.
From their website, “Public Art Fund’s ongoing programs encompass three...
Important.
If I had any advice for the good people in my life, and I could find it all in one place, it might just be here. Have fun.
Fifty things everyone should know how to do.
Works with Metal. Works with Love.
Working where I do, I see beautiful objects everyday. Sculpture, art, oddities, and eccentricities galore. Despite frequently getting my mind blown, there’s always room for more visual TNT. Thank you to whoever made this brain.
Sculpture has become my obsession of choice. Primarily metals. Bronze mostly, but most any metal will do. That kind of work drives me wild. There you go, ladies. The key to...
Mixology.
If throwing your Hall and Oates mix on a blank CD still leaves you singing “I can’t go for that. No can do,” then my anachronism loving friends, I have an answer. Thank you to Sarah for being all over the cool men’s tech blogs like I was all over clear liquids last week.
The USB mix tape has all the markings, feelings, and overall goodness of the old mix tape John Cusack doled out in High...
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone...”
– George Carlin
RIP George Carlin
A shining star fell from our skies yesterday. A shining, burning, pissing, cursing, fucking brilliant star. A man that challenged first amendment, broadcasting standards, and made people laugh. All in one breath.
George Carlin was more than a comedian. He was a social and entertainment industry groundbreaker. He lived a full, inexorably intrepid life, and will be undoubtedly missed. There are very...
Artist of the week.
How could I possibly put a tag like this on someone so obviously and powerfully talented. Well, shame on me. It kind of puts me in my place. Much like earlier upon finding out the Liger was a real animal.
Anyway. Eitherway, check out Cal Lane, visionary and executioner of metals via filigree and aptly aimed lasers.
This way to the cool.
Moodstream™ by Getty Images - Please. Wow. →
Click this. Immerse yourself. Now. Thanks J.
One more Tiny Reason I
Because things like this seem to be happening all around us all the time. Not necessarily exactly like this, but anomalies, obscurities, and all around ridiculously cool things like this.
All the time.
Check out the micro machine of architecture erected in this fair city right under our noses.
I can’t wait to see it. Thanks Michelle. :)
You Love the Arts. Now Support Them.
The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum began in the 1950’s, when Will Geer was blacklisted for refusing to testify against fellow artists during McCarthyism and the reign of HUAC. Will and a number of other musicians and actors retreated into the hills of Topanga and began a theatre for other similarly blacklisted actors and musicians. In 1978, after Will Geer’s death, his family and a...
Beat the Heat.
Stay cool, and immerse yourself in some sweet, flowing goodness on the Lower East Side. Fondly dubbed the LES, this neighborhood is the sexy, gritty, punk rock star of the city, and is one of my favorite areas. Home to more bars than clubs, more leather than lace, and more fun than not. Tomorrow – yes I’m actually letting you New Yorkers know about something a day in advance – the LES plays host...
Art is Hard
That’s not entirely true. Art isn’t hard. Being what people call “successful” in the world of Art is hard. If I had to call art anything, I would call it Truth.
That said, in the past year of my life I have had countless discussions surrounding the issue of being an artist and “making it” in this cut throat, glass ceiling, absolutely taxing world we exist in. Throwing oneself out there and...
The Good People.
Or as as they’re sometimes called, “The Goods.” No one in these photos is anywhere near me currently, physically, but all are ever available through the smiles we share.
Sunday.
It’s 12:30 a.m. It’s so hot. It’s been so hot all day. Miserably hot. It’s thunderstorming now.This is the first time I’ve been near a computer today. That makes me more happy than sad.
Congratulate me.
Going for a walk now. Love.
Make Art Now.
I think I’ve made it quite clear that I’m all too eager to promote my friends, what they do, and particularly what they make.
Rex Kalehoff is a fine young gentleman I met through Nicole Dungao, who would also be a fine young gentlemen if she weren’t such a beautiful young woman. And I mean that in the best way possible.
Gender differences aside, these are two of the most...
Thanks for telling me NOW.
But for future reference, World Environment Day is June 5.
“World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.”
Read more about it here.
Something I would be into if I had been aware of it. Isn’t it strange that...
What the Bleep.
What if everyone in the world got together and focused their collective brainpower on one thing? I’m talking everybody. All 6,677,602,292 some odd of us. What do you think would happen? Anything?
The brain is magnificent. Concentrated and incomprehensibly powerful, it is the epicenter of the most complex organism the Earth has ever known. The bragging rights are great. The accolades? Great...
Rock n’ Roll has Left the Building and Obama just...
Today is a big day. A founding father, a man that stood stronger and straighter than most musicians without the backbone or stepping stones of anyone else before him, passed away yesterday at the age of 79. Bo Diddley, dubbed “The Originator” died of heart failure but will live on forever as one of the foremost innovators of rock n’ roll. Responsible for rhythms adopted almost every rocker that...
“…if Elvis is King, Diddley is Daddy.”
– Tom Petty
Lay it Down.
I’ve met some amazing people during my tenure in NYC so far. People that I have no qualms adding to the list of all stars that have made my life so special up to now. One of these young sages is Eric Herman. Eric started a record label while at Wesleyan University, representing mainly Afro Beat acts. They have a great publishing catalog and some great bands grooving with them. They are also...
Sunday Jazz.
Sunday Jazz has slowed its roll in 2008. A devastating blow to the musical prowess of one Coleman Jones. For the latter part of 2007, Tacuma and I were involved in a jam sessions every Sunday with some fire kindling sages by the name of Kinchasa and Rodney. These men have been playing jazz longer than I’ve been breathing air. They ran with Tacuma’s mother and father, and watched Tacuma...