August 5, 2007
Highest Skateboarding Fall I've Seen
This fall of Jake Brown's during the 2007 X-Games is the highest I've ever seen. He also walked away.
August 4, 2007
Mueck at the Modern (Install Images)
Like the Brooklyn Museum, the Fort Worth Modern has posted installation shots to Flickr. I was lucky enough to witness parts of the install as well as chat with Mr. Mueck. The reason being was that I was preparing for a kids workshop that artist Patrick Young (present in a few of the pics) and I were teaching the next week. I will be writing about the workshop and posting some of the kids work from it soon (It's some great stuff).
July 24, 2007
Trying Out Youtube
I posted an old skate video of me to try out YouTube. They really have it down. Over time I'd like to get all my old stuff posted for posterity's sake. Gotta dust off the VCR.
July 24, 2007
Not Going As Expected
A few unsuccessful attempts. I actually think these are more interesting.
The formulation process has been a bust. So has the amount of time I've have been able to dedicate towards formulating (lots-o-changes around here). My original idea was pretty trite looking back. Very idea centric with no focus on the visual aspect. The two just haven't communicated well. A big pile of teeth can also really conjure up relationships that have nothing to do with my idea and that has been troubling. It just can't be ignored. Understanding this has proven to me that I'm not totally invested in the original concept. At this point, I am a bit embarrassed about it. Not a good starting place for something that takes so much energy to produce.
I'm working to erase my earlier assumptions so as to respond directly to what's in front of me. Ultimately, and to which I reluctantly admit, form comes first for me. I say reluctantly because I'm not entirely comfortable with results that are purely form driven. Form can be the idea, but how those two connect is not something that I feel is easy to execute. So far, I've found it either works or it doesn't. But then again, coming at it strictly from the conceptual side hasn't been bulletproof either.
June 15, 2007
Brain Crack
ZeFrank describes what brain crack is.
June 14, 2007
Guilty
I've been guilty of some these artist website no-no's in the past. Who knows, maybe I still am seeing as how you have to slide open a javascript drawer just to read this entry (I'll be changing that soon enough though). Pretty good read.
June 10, 2007
In Print
Compliments of Google's book search. 500 Teapots and The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes.
June 5, 2007
Arrrrgh!
Spent 2-3 hours on Saturday shooting tar lines on streets only to find out that the film in my camera wasn't advancing. I haven't used a film camera in close to 6 or 7 years and really believed that the film was loaded correctly. I only advanced it one and it looked as if it had caught. Saying it was a real downer was an understatement for sure. I still haven't found that role of film after I threw it across my house. It will probably surface as a cat toy soon enough.
May 29, 2007
Casting the Teeth
Freshly Casted Arches
Spent most of the weekend being a slave to a little kitchen timer. I have to tend to the mold so often during each cast (3-4 times each hour, per set) that I had to buy a kitchen timer to remind me to execute the next step. I have a few that casted solid as a result of not setting the timer.
I have 17 sets of teeth now and no idea how I'm going to finish them. When the project was in my head it all made sense. Now that I'm actually moving forward on the piece I'm having to rethink everything I originally decided. A lot of what sounded great in my head falls flat when I have real materials sitting in front of me. I'm just going to keep casting until I fill all the Tupperware containers and use the time to formulate my ideas.
May 24, 2007
Street Tar Contours
Untitled Sketch | 2007
This idea has been in my mind for a while now. Not sure how to execute it so I thought I would do a digital sketch to keep it fresh. The tar used to seal up cracks create such beautiful forms. Originally I figured I would try to take bird's-eye photographs as the finished product. I'm still uneasy about photography. I feel that it would just seem like a copy of an original, although I'm still entertaining the idea. Cutting out a huge piece of asphalt would be great but a little impractical at the moment. Trying to recreate this is still what I'm aiming for.
The idea popped back into my just yesterday when I thought about going out and painting them where they lie. The complimentary colors have a nice vibration going as well. I'm not very dedicated to the idea so far but I though I could at least give a try without actually defacing public property. I can't imagine what a home owner would think about seeing me out in front painting his/her street (except to call the police).