if i were paid to surf the net i'd be a billionare by now...

_posted in art | design | film | photography | web | 24 June 2007

david cho helps to prove that facebook is way cooler than myspace.

_update: fixed the link and check out the comments on this work...

should be required for viewing for all the myspacers under 18.

im a huge fan of phil borges work... so its nice to see how he goes about connecting with people for those amazing images.

really cool photoshop brushes.

really interesting pictures and documentary about manufactured landscapes.

whoa! selfkiss is at the same time amazing, lovely and freakish. there's something about the idea of one's self being more attracted to it's physical than those around it.

little dolls does exactly what it sets out to do; freak you the fuck out.

digital kitchen

_posted in art | 09 June 2007

digital kitchen has some great work. i first took notice when i saw the title sequence for six feet under. they've complete a new project i absolutely love... designer slash model...

enjoy...

best line ever...

_posted in art | dayedayerocks | 08 June 2007

when i saw tony kushner awhile ago at melnitz he was asked who he would like to see be president in 2008 and he went on about a few things and then said, we've lost what we had in the 60s and its been replaced by "the fantasy of anarchy and revolution."

"the fantasy of anarchy and revolution." how amazingly perfect is that line?

_soundcheck: wilco: sky blue sky

"it's not happening here but it's happening now"

_posted in art | the world | 07 June 2006

great execution... notice that in the first image that child is in front of a FULLY STOCKED GROCERY STORE!!! thats powerful! Walker Werbeagentur Zuerich created some amazingly provocative pieces for Amnesty International.

mmm... ugly is beautiful...

_posted in art | 23 February 2006

yea... im in love...david choe has some real inner shit going on... beautiful destruction people...

"to lose interest in the third act..."

_posted in art | 24 January 2006

sp put me on to this today... the great milton glaser speaks about the arts... it left me with a great feeling... and hopeful... and any man who can rock a scarf that hardcore is a freakin god in my book...

hillman curtis creates a nice short about glaser's views on art.

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my belief is if i like mozart and you like mozart, we already have something in common. so the likelihood of our killing each other has been dimensioned.

"it has survived wars, prisons, and strife"

_posted in art | dayedayerocks | photography | 17 January 2006

so those who know me know that im a fan of viggo mortenson's art and photography... so i was rather jazzed to see his new exhibit (with georg gudni) at track 16 in santa monica this saturday. so the show started at 6pm and by 6.15 we walked out... i was seriously disappointed by the work and by the presentation of the work... the photography is part of a book called "for wellington" and its compromised mostly of movement and light... which is great if it's "light and motion #3" in photography 101 at university x or some shit like that... some of the pieces were HUGE, as in six feet tall and for no reason. i just felt this overwhelming sense of coldness from them, nothing more... there were a few pieces that stood out, only because the other pieces weren't necessarily able to stand on their own merit... then in the third and final and smallest room were various series of what looked like pin hole camera shots that were absolutely beautiful... black and white pieces... the composition, the depth of field, the fact each individual piece fit with the other pieces in its series, made for good art viewing... why these pieces were pushed in the back room and last to be seen, i dont know... but most of my 15 minutes was spent there.

thank god that the patricia correia gallery also had an opening that night, and we were able to walk across the way and enjoy some fucking art. correia gallery only shows mexican-american and chicano/a art and damn if it wasn't fucking great. there were pieces by three different artists and they all held this visceral quality about them (which most of mortenson's pieces lacked).

i've never heard of gronk until that night, but a coworker told me his mom bought tons of his stuff in the seventies at mexican flea markets and shit for almost no money... and damn if i didnt just love his pieces... they really evoked reactions, some on several levels... the santa fe reporter has an interview with gronk (art director) and peter sellars, the director of the opera ainadamar.

_quote

East LA-born artist Gronk is an exquisite rebel, part of a clique of avant-garde Chicano artists in the late 1960s that avoided the clichés of macho nationalism. A queer, a painter more informed by I Love Lucy reruns than Aztec pyramids, an organic political activist with a sharp wit, I imagine Gronk what Oscar Wilde would have been like if he’d lived through our years of plague and reaction.

gaspar enriquez's piece, La Patsy, Los Homeboys, y Bush, is definitely an interesting piece. more so, because the order of the pieces can be changed about, as well as props added, like the brown sacked libation... enriquez says, "One is born a Mexican-American, but one chooses to be a Chicano, Politically charged, the Chicano lifestyle has been passed from one generation to another. It has survived wars, prisons, and strife." i hear you brother...

and my favorite of the three, Xavier Cazares Cortez!

chicano prayer wheels anyone? how awesome is this... and yes i did spin the hell out of the "just a little bit louder now" prayer wheel.... cause damn if it can ever be loud enough... or fast enough or angry enough or high enough... his collage of pieces were just amazing... my favorite of course, "don't Tell GgoD your plans"

the time spent in the correia gallery was definitely time well spent... and i left with a nice little piece of merchandise... no, no artwork (which would have been fucking nice), but i did purchase the saddest place on earth by camille rose garcia. it is currently the book of feature on the new coffee table...

flickr pictures from the exhibit

_soundcheck: bob marley, kaya

i'm back home in los angeles

_posted in art | dayedayerocks | film | interactive narratives | music | news | photography | the temple | web | 15 November 2005

well, on a bed of california stars is back, since ive been told several times i need to start it back up and i am tired of sending out emails, so here it goes...

two week vacations are freakin' long! i feel like i was in georgia for a whole month. re:birth, my first exhibit, was a blast! pictures are up… hoping to add more once i can track them down.

finally finished reading, on photography by susan sontag, while sitting in airports on saturday (as in the whole day saturday). previous to sontag's passing in 2004, i had only read one of her writings, notes on "camp," which i found to be very entertaining.

there are tons of passages from on photography that do it for me, but i think these are the most interesting...

_first quote

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. Except for those situations in which the camera is used to document, or to mark social rites, what moves people to take photographs is finding something beautiful. (The name under which Fox Talbot patented the photograph in 1841 was the calotype: from kalos, beautiful.) Nobody exclaims, "Isn't that ugly! I must take a photograph of it." Even if someone did say that, all it would mean is: "I found that ugly thing. . . beautiful."

if any photographer made the ugly beautiful, it was diane arbus.

_second quote

A photograph that brings news of some unsuspected zone of misery cannot make a dent in public opinion unless there is an appropriate context of feeling and attitude. The photographs of Mathew Brady and his colleagues took on the horrors of the battlefields did not make people any less keen to go on with the Civil War. The photographs of ill-clad, skeletal prisoners held at Andersonville inflamed Northern public opinion-against the South. (The effect of the Andersonville photographs must have been partly due to the very novelty, at the time, of seeing photographs.) ... Photographs cannot create a moral position, but they cnn reinforce one -- and can help build a nascent one.

regardless of one's views on the war in iraq, final salute is a very touching piece, and most definitely an "unsuspected zone of misery." there is a great deal of "appropriate context of feelings and attitude" on both sides of the debate on iraq.

_another quote

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again. Photographs like the one that made the front page of most newspapers in the world in 1972 -- a naked South Vietnamese child just sprayed by American napalm, running down a highway toward the camera, her opens open, screaming with pain--probably did more to increase the public revulsion against the war than a hundred hours of televised barbarities.

(nick) ut cong huynh's image of a "a naked South Vietnamese child just sprayed by American napalm, running down a highway toward the camera, her opens open, screaming with pain." Winner of the World Press Photo, 1972. a portion of the "hundred hours of televised barbarities."

_in other news

the uc system's investment committee voted to divest from sudan! the recommendation goes to the board of regents in january for an up or down vote.

well it's started... i have no idea where this damn thing is suppose to go or exactly what it's suppose to be... but hey... who doesn’t want lay their “heavy head tonight on a bed of california stars”

_soundcheck: cat power, the covers record