January 5, 2008
Hilarious Photoshop tutorial. My favorite part is when he's scrolling through Bridge to find an image of his marriage certificate. The narrator reminds me of of a love-child between Dane Cook and David Cross. Found on BoingBoing.
January 1, 2008
SouthSide Artists | A documentary about the UTD/Southside Artist Residency | By Quin Mathews Films
A lot of my current direction was facilitated by the University of Texas at Dallas/Southside residency program I was in right after grad school (2004-2005). I was accepted with the ceramic sculpture that was completed for my graduate thesis. The reason the residency was so important to my development was that it gave me a year-long soft-landing from grad school during a time when a lot of things in my life/work were in flux. I was able to make a lot of work and branched outside of my ceramic roots for the first time.
It's really difficult to watch myself on video. I have a hard time being natural. In fact, I wouldn't know natural if it hit me with a stick. Still, I was happy that all the crap that came out my mouth still holds up. Quin Mathews (the filmmaker) spent a good deal of time interviewing me and thankfully only used a little bit. I was so drained after the interview.
I have a hard time articulating my thoughts when I'm talking about my own work. Luckily, it's not evident in the clips he decided to use. But I do come off a little forced at times as a result of the way the film was cut, grabbing parts of sentences and pinning them together. I'm sure there was a good amount of "blah, blah, blah" he had to trim.
I wanted to preserve this short documentary because you cannot find it anywhere as the whole thing was pretty informal, also, the program was short lived and shut down in 2006 (it had only run for 2 years). Hopefully Google Video is the right choice and the other residents from the program will find their way to it.
January 1, 2008
Recorded January 1, after midnight 2008 in Koreatown, Los Angeles. [mp3]/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/new-years-2008.mp3[/mp3]
December 31, 2007
As a result of TicketMaster's lame fees, the tickets I bought to see The Blow cost $52.25 while the other two tickets I bought to see Steve Martin and Carol Burnett interviewing each other (sans TicketMaster) cost just $40. As George O. Bluth would say ↓ [mp3]/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/gob.mp3[/mp3]
December 30, 2007
A series of beautiful and gut wrenching slideshows featuring audio from the photographers themselves. The presentation is also noteable. The New York Times | 2007: The Year in Pictures
December 26, 2007
I don't know how these parents taught their baby to give the "Evil Eye" but it made my morning.
December 26, 2007
Although I'm confident in, and understand the reasons why, it still burns that I've not finished one piece in 2007. It has been a great year though (the second half more so than the first). Happy Holidays.
December 23, 2007
I finally have some time off to relax. I've gotten to a couple of books I recently bought ($9.98 for both!), on Robert Gober and Charles Ray. Both fascinating, both about exhibitions curated/organized Paul Schimmel (chief curator at MOCA).
My relaxation is furthered by the fact that I now own a brown couch and chair (the bare minimum for defining a living-room) to sit/lay in to read these books. Elizabeth and I have spent 4 months in Los Angeles having only our bed or desk chair to sit in. We were starting to go nuts.
Still no progress on a studio space as things have been pretty busy lately. I do a have a lead to follow up on though. We'll see if it pans out. The odds say no but I am always optimistic.
Lastly, E and I spent roughly 4-5 hours walking from gallery to gallery in Culver City only to be let down each time. The exercise was, sadly, the best part of the trip. So far the shows I've seen in LA have left a lot to be desired. I'm sure that will change.
December 20, 2007
Art 21 has a bit of competition. Creature Comforts on art
December 18, 2007
Me and E listening to David Sedaris.
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