Archive for December 2010
cheers to a new year
Thursday, December 30, 2010 1
Joan Didion, 1979
Ben Johnson, Weary, 1966
Anntian spring/summer 2010
Aidan Koch
Mara Carrafone
Mikhail Vrubel
Well hello there...
Carrie Schneider, Derelict Self, 2006–2007, c-prints, 30 x 36 inches each
"Derelict Self is inspired by the idea that mimicry can be a way to both gain and lose a sense of oneself, as well as my own experience of being a younger sibling."
"Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio (Jessica James Lansdon)" (2007) by Carrie Schneider
Carrie Schneider, Dazzle Camouflage (for Peter), 2008, c-print, 45 x 60 inches
I really love her work. See more on her website.
Jessica James Landsdon, War Between the States, 2004, string, nails and cut vinyl
Back of Monster Island where Mollusk Surf shop is. Mural work by Maya Hayuk, Kyle Ranson, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, and Momo.
Kyle Ranson
Mary Virginia Carmack
William Blake
Nicolas S
Tauba Auerbach
Bruce Conner
Adam Farmer
Tomita Fumio
Yago Hortal
Magali Reus
Silje Ramstad. Haha, I love this.
Arna Óttarsdóttir
Benjamin King
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Chris Labeau
Gunnar S. Gundersen, Dance, 1968
Philip Guston
Jonathan Zawada
Monica Canilao
2010 went tits up, bottoms up for 2011!
Daul Kim
yes
Sunday, December 19, 2010 0
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages…For what I have always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort…this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. - Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
“This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. - Shakespeare, Hamlet
If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
"I feel beaucoup fantastic."
Thursday, December 9, 2010 0
I am giving serious consideration to less-than-desirable money making options (hey, Kathleen Hanna did it!), a wee bit tipsy, and these are the three songs that I think are the most beautiful ever and I just played them in a row.
"Dear John" by Nice (1991)
Lyrics like a short story in song form.
"Cattle and Cane" by The Go-Betweens (1983)
The notoriously difficult time signature gives both a nostalgic quality as well as a timeless one.
"Golden Brown" by The Stranglers (1982)
In between beating up The Clash and doing lots of drugs, they wrote this song and scored a #2 hit on the British top 40. It has a very English, traditional sensibility about it – a bit reminiscent of The Pentangle (who I am also a huge fan of). Plus this video is fucking class.
"Dear John" by Nice (1991)
Lyrics like a short story in song form.
"Cattle and Cane" by The Go-Betweens (1983)
The notoriously difficult time signature gives both a nostalgic quality as well as a timeless one.
"Golden Brown" by The Stranglers (1982)
In between beating up The Clash and doing lots of drugs, they wrote this song and scored a #2 hit on the British top 40. It has a very English, traditional sensibility about it – a bit reminiscent of The Pentangle (who I am also a huge fan of). Plus this video is fucking class.
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- Jersey Flesh Timetrack
- Mary Virginia Carmack-Rilke
- Momus
- Nothing is New
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- Ty Melgren
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