Make Shit.
There are so many ways to feel miserable, how do you feel better? Watch this short video, ignore this guy’s really expressive eyes and you’ll hear an important message: if you’re an artist you have to make things. Today.
Can we talk?
…about how you can’t survive as artist in New York anymore?
No one can take a joke anymore…
The difference between art and humor. Hint: there aren’t any similarities.
Everything: a new scent.
“Everything” a new headache brought to you by the artist duo Lernert + Sander
Tiny
One of my favorite ways to view/install video.
Cliteracy
Starting Armory Week off right.
In the studio
I’m finally moved into my new apartment in Cobble Hill. The cats are settling in and only fighting 3-4 times a day, which is better than their previous lockdown in separate rooms. I’ve sold my desk in favor of a wide open studio with lots of storage and I’m using a console as a double duty desk to save space…. Read more →
Complications
When remix-friend Olivia Conti posted on her FB wall that she attended a lecture that changed her life and outlook on her career path, I needed to hear about that lecture. Here I thought it was some new agey-self-help-type thing but it turns out it was an academic lecture, which, I don’t know about you, but in my experience, those only muddled things, helping me deconstruct things… Read more →
Postmodernia
I plan on catching up on a lot of Portlandia this weekend and I love sketches like this. I remember learning about postmodernism in college and I remember having it take over my life. Deconstructing everything in life and boiling it down it its essence, now that’s a fun day. This sketch where postmodernism takes over Portlandia just made my day. And… Read more →
Can we hire these guys…?
Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found around lakes, streams, ponds and rivers. But French artist Hubert Duprat puts these moth-like insects to work in ‘Caddis’, supplying them with gold leaf and precious stones instead of gravel, twigs or small pieces of shells. The result is one-part science experiment, one-part performance piece, one-part living sculpture and one-part copyright violation. Duprat… Read more →
