Abstract Movie

2010-09-01T17:21:00.000-07:00

vesuvius paintings

2010-09-01T17:16:00.000-07:00

Campi Phlegraei is a firsthand report which documents the late eighteenth century eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. Written by Sir William Hamilton, the British envoy to the Neapolitan royal court in 1764,

2010-07-13T19:39:00.000-07:00

IN THE METAL CORES OF PARTIALLY MOLTEN ASTEROIDS, iron-nickel alloys crystallized in a distinctive pattern known as the Widmanstätten structure. This pattern is named after one of the first people to observe it some 200 years ago, Count Alois de Widmanstätten. The pattern forms only deep inside planetary bodies that take millions of years to cool. Iron never crystallizes this way on Earth's surface, so any piece of metal showing this pattern on Earth is definitely from a meteorite.

2010-06-19T08:52:00.000-07:00

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2010-05-14T10:40:00.000-07:00

2010-03-11T07:25:00.000-08:00

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2010-01-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

2009-12-28T14:35:00.000-08:00

2009-11-01T09:05:00.000-08:00

2009-09-19T08:40:00.000-07:00

Harry Ransom Center

"Other Worlds"

Cassini maps of the moon from 1697!

there is also an Edgar Alan Poe exhibit!

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A symposium on public art was presented by Austin Art in Public Places.

Ned Kahn (doing a project at the Austin power plant)

Ned Kahn:
"For the last 15 years, I have created public artworks that use wind, water, fog and other natural processes as their primary medium. Many of these artworks were intended to reveal a hidden or unnoticed force in the site such as the air currents or the ambient light from the sky. The design of a number of these projects was based on an aspect of the natural history or geology of the region that was not commonly known. My artworks often function as small-scale "observatories" in that they frame and enhance our perception of natural phenomena and create places that encourage contemplation."

I love his wind works most of all. He has a bunch of cool videos on his website.

ned kahn

2009-08-22T18:34:00.000-07:00

it's hot so go down to the water

listen to crazy cicada sounds

catch a lizard eating a bee

The Japanese gardens in San Antonio and the McNay museum.

Faux bois!

here, and here

2009-06-15T09:59:00.000-07:00

2009-04-13T12:17:00.000-07:00

rain god

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Custom Art Portraits

2009-03-03T16:20:00.000-08:00

Lisa is launching her new website!

2009-02-21T11:25:00.001-08:00

2009-02-21T11:19:00.000-08:00

they just-a-wanna

2009-02-06T07:31:00.000-08:00

earworm?

2008-11-20T18:00:00.000-08:00

2008-11-10T15:30:00.000-08:00

2008-11-01T11:59:00.000-07:00

My friend Joanna hooked me up with a show in the Catskills- Thanks JoJo!

Wish I could be there - the other artists look interesting!

2008-10-12T11:36:00.000-07:00

2008-10-06T07:57:00.000-07:00

Charla Wood had a show of all this new work from her trip to Spain and Morrocco. It's super saturated color and movement. Looking good!

sarah silverman for obama

2008-09-27T08:40:00.000-07:00

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Obamanos!

2008-09-26T07:16:00.000-07:00

Click To Play

douglas rushkoff

2008-09-25T18:54:00.001-07:00

Julie Heffernan

2008-09-25T05:33:00.000-07:00

The new Julie Heffernan paintings are very nice. I like this new architectural direction.
link and link

2008-09-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

2008-09-12T21:18:00.000-07:00

owl spottings

2008-09-05T18:09:00.000-07:00

Jon Rappleye

2008-09-05T17:42:00.001-07:00

2008-08-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

2008-08-10T07:47:00.000-07:00

Copper

2008-07-09T16:30:00.000-07:00

A slender, elegant copper specimen crystallized from top to bottom, combining the "herringbone" style crystallization with spinel twins!

A delicate "leaf" of copper, with penny-bright luster on both sides and beautiful, ornate form.

something wonderful found by accident...

Ireland

2008-06-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

A typical scene around Western Ireland. We were in the middle of mostly cow pastures and forests. Tiny towns scattered along tiny roads, the remains of estates and farms and new houses being built everywhere.

Lough Derg

We caught the end of a music festival and saw the Tulla band play in front of town hall in Tulla, the nearest town 6 km to our east.

(play the above 2 videos at the same time)!

The roads were tiny- and there were swarms of gnats making crazy patterns in the air and a hovering fuzz around all vegetation, which Mau said was like the Poconos. It stayed light out until 11:30 PM!
pictures by sista Maureen

In Quinn we had a surprise of more traditional music.

a crazy fairy fungus

A highlight of our trip- the Spancil Hill horse fair

We made it to the ocean- an amazing color, very very windy. Stopped in Miltown Malbay where the whole town was in one pub watching a football game.

We stayed in a charming cottage renovated from the farm workers quarters of an old estate.

2008-06-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

This big butterfly decided to tuck itself into the window and get some rest and shade for a bit.

here is another bizarre mystery rock, it's got a friendly face.

2008-06-05T17:26:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Tina!

2008-05-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

Leslie Shows

2008-05-06T17:39:00.000-07:00

In the artist’s words, her latest work “comes out of a constellation of ideas around landscape painting, self-organizing matter, and the view of ‘things’ as aggregates. While these are for the most part landscapes, I am interested in the matter that constitutes the ground, and how it relates to human bodies and culture. I want to show matter as the principle actor, whether it’s as gold coursing through economies or teeth, or charcoal and pigment depicting dirt and mud.”

wish I could see this - It's rockin my world! at Jack Hanley Gallery

2008-05-05T05:26:00.000-07:00

Wandering around a South Austin back alley on a Sunday morning.

2008-04-13T19:01:00.001-07:00

2008-04-11T08:14:00.001-07:00

2008-04-01T18:44:00.000-07:00

out the window this morning

2008-04-01T14:48:00.000-07:00

Austin art report

"Twenty To Watch" show at AMOA

I really Liked Stephanie Wagner's rococo dogs. AMOA has a video of a studio visit with Stephanie.

Mexic Arte Museum is chock full of cool stuff.
Recently saw

"la Caja"- (the box)
It's a portable miniature museum with miniature art...

And today I saw a huge exhibit of ex- votos.

(Teresa Gomez Martorell)

They also have a room full of local artist's miniatures that are part of the "Taste of Mexico" auction coming up to benefit the museum.

AND a few months ago it was "From Revolution to Renaissance" Latin American art from 1890's to 1950's, the lifespan of Diego Rivera.

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Trenton Doyle Hancock at
Arthouse Jones Center

Okay Mountain group show

paul ahern cardboard artistry- 4walls gallery

2008-03-30T16:43:00.001-07:00

2008-03-19T10:52:00.001-07:00

2008-03-12T18:56:00.000-07:00

The Harry Ransom Center has a wonderful show of Jess aka Burgess Collins' work. Never have I seen such a comprehensive and interesting show of his work. Curated by Ingrid Schaffner who has curated other marvelous interesting shows like Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery
In conjunction with a show about "beats".

on the road

2008-03-11T13:55:00.000-07:00

2008-02-27T13:01:00.000-08:00

2008-02-27T12:44:00.000-08:00

2008-02-04T13:10:00.000-08:00

turn up the volume and listen to the sound of the Forest on a warm January night in Texas

2008-01-31T19:13:00.001-08:00

2008-01-22T18:51:00.001-08:00

2008-01-07T09:12:00.000-08:00

2008-01-01T09:53:00.000-08:00

For New Year's Eve Faith(far right) led the parade with a float she made in homage to Carmen Miranda. She carved fruit out of foam, and had a trailer attached to the truck with a swingin' band! then enlisted her retinue to dance around.

Pre-Parade

2007-12-28T06:20:00.000-08:00

2007-12-19T11:15:00.000-08:00

2007-12-10T09:11:00.000-08:00

2007-12-06T11:26:00.000-08:00

unpacking boxes- I found my purse collection!

2007-12-01T18:10:00.000-08:00

Vince Hannemann

and Steve Wiman

2007-11-19T11:04:00.000-08:00

2007-10-12T12:57:00.000-07:00

2007-10-11T12:01:00.001-07:00

2007-10-10T20:14:00.001-07:00

Morgan Library

"Painted with Words is a compelling look at Vincent van Gogh's correspondence to his young colleague Émile Bernard between 1887 and 1889. Van Gogh's words and sketches reveal his thoughts about art and life and communicate his groundbreaking work in Arles to his fellow painter."

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also at Morgan Library- Cylinder Seals

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Martin Honert

at Matthew Marks

"Giants is a sculpture of two men, each approximately eight feet tall. These figures, dressed in sweatshirts and carrying backpacks, are inspired by the artist’s memory of circuses from his childhood, when human oddities were still put on display. Remarkably lifelike, they are made of painted polyurethane, natural hair, and meticulously produced over-sized clothing."

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2007-10-07T09:24:00.000-07:00

One really ought to have the decorations up by October 1st.

2007-10-05T16:07:00.000-07:00

McGolrick Park

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CUE Art Foundation
Lenore Malen and The New Society for Universal Harmony
perform "Harmony as a Hive"

A Meeting of The New Society for Universal Harmony featuring a lecture on the song and dance of the bee by Kathryn Alexander.

Kirk Nurock, composer and specialist in cross-species music, will relay bee sonics to the human environment. Meeting officiated by CUE exhibiting artist and archivist of The New Society, Lenore Malen.

"If Kirk makes music and the animals respond, then it's a pleasure for the humans to respond too--'cause after all, we're animals." [Zen giggle]
-John Cage [from a video interview]

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We sang along with bee sounds.

xylor jane

2007-09-26T12:19:00.000-07:00

Pat's Birthday at Wine bar. Check out those green shoes...

down on the Indian River in Delaware, smelling the Ocean.

2007-09-16T10:40:00.000-07:00

Intense September sunshine made this gate glow.

2007-09-13T18:35:00.001-07:00

Keith Tyson
(click to read an interview with Keith)

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Jedediah Caesar

(and here)

He made blocks of acrylic that had all kinds of debris and junk inside, then cut it in slices. It's really beautiful and interesting up close.

I'll never forget a Mad Magazine cartoon I saw when I was about 10 years old, of what the future would be like and how we were going to deal with a population explosion and garbage proliferation in oh say the year 2000. The cartoon showed a drawing of a building made out of "interesting and colorful" blocks of compressed garbage encased in acrylic. I have that comic saved in my files somewhere. Anyway I remembered that the cartoonist was Al Jaffee, so I googled, and what do you know- he's still coming up with ways to encase waste in acrylic...

2007-08-26T10:36:00.001-07:00

2007-08-23T12:31:00.000-07:00

Starting to document the indigenous August "green" of Greenpoint.

2007-08-23T07:03:00.001-07:00

2007-08-21T17:19:00.000-07:00

Pat's a Farmer!

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subway walls

METALs

2007-08-17T05:36:00.001-07:00

Last night I saw Richard Serra's films at Moma. There was a nice silent B+W about a rotating railroad trestle bridge- and the subway rumbled underneath the building to make an ambient soundtrack, along with the uncomfortable giggles. So in walks some idiot with a talking toy device that says things like- "The bullshit's getting deep around here". He got kicked out, and slowly the people in the audience who didn't realize they were going to be watching "art" films left.

The film documenting a steel mill making a huge metal cube was wonderful. The movements of the workers, what they said about working on artwork, the glowing hot metal cube being hoisted slowly throughout the darkened massive building. Then the steelworkers outfits- glittering silver capes, sparks, and bursts of hissing steam.
Can you picture it?
Steelmill/Stahlwerke. 1979. USA. Co-maker, Clara Weyergraf-Serra, Lizzie Borden, DeeDee Halleck

not Serra:

"The Alamo" (Tony Rosenthal) is located on the Astor Place Traffic Island at the intersection of Lafayette Street and 8th Street. The 15 foot sculpture can be rotated on its tip. It was the first permanent contemporary outdoor sculpture installed in the City of New York.

Also in the neighborhood:

Tim Hawkinson tin foil sculptures

Jim Shaw

2007-08-16T09:29:00.000-07:00

I first saw Jim Shaw's work in a magazine that published his "dream drawings".

At PS1 is an entertaining show mixing up "The Dinner Party" with "The Donner Party".

Also some of his thrift store paintings, and his portraits.
Read an interview with Jim.

gifkollektion

2007-08-15T10:20:00.000-07:00

I've been downloading animated Gif's from myspace for a while. Now it's quick and easy to upload multiple image files there.

here

comets

2007-08-14T11:38:00.001-07:00

2007-08-06T11:09:00.000-07:00

Almost forgot this picture from the beach trip!

2007-08-04T16:51:00.000-07:00

new 2 me

2007-07-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

some new stuff I'm excited about...

Aurel Schmidt

Violet Hopkins

more Chris

2007-07-28T10:22:00.000-07:00

Beauty On a Budget.

St. Irene

2007-07-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

my friend Anastasia dancing with the Greek American Folklore Society in Astoria.

It was Saint Irene weekend and we visited the gorgeous church where a few years ago an icon started to weep.

2007-07-27T12:39:00.000-07:00

do you ever feel like this?

Rainer Ganahl

Roman Signer

in a great group show at Tanya Bonakdar

how to spend a hot day

2007-07-26T17:14:00.001-07:00

Alyson Shotz at the Guggenheim is magic can't take a picture of the magic though everyone tries.

these are fresnel lenses, which create a sort of holographic effect- multiple images seen through the plastic float a few inches in front of the surface of the sculpture.

also
divisionism

Emilio Longoni, Glacier (Ghiacciaio), 1905. Oil on canvas, 156.5 x 200 cm.

then to the movies...

looking at art, watching art

2007-07-14T19:54:00.000-07:00

31 Grand Gallery opened up a new location on Ludlow Street and downstairs neighbor Karen Heagle had a painting in the show.

"Laocoon (Tom DeLonge)", 51" x 54", acrylic and ink on paper, 2006

I heard the cops came....Way to Party!

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I'm crazy about Takeshi Murata! He makes video using found film.

This one is called "Pink Dot"

--at Foxy Production

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Jesper Just has a short haunting film at Perry Rubenstein Gallery The soundtrack is a whistling version of "Nights in White Satin" --so creepy

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Andrea Rosen had a show of Kinetic artworks from the 50's and 60's. Just about every piece had a little on/off switch.

D. Hill crew caravan to Atlantic coast

2007-07-03T20:42:00.000-07:00

AHHHHHH the beach was excellent!

sorry about the music :)

real bitch island

2007-06-14T13:22:00.000-07:00

Chris Crocker

can't get enough

Healthy foods.

Dustin Yellin

2007-06-07T18:34:00.000-07:00

wow- this is amazing work.

It's built up layers of resin which are painted into and somehow it magically turns into an illusion of a 3d object encased inside a block of plastic.

There are subtle colors and pigments and metallic powders in the paint if you get up close. Photo just doesn't do it justice.

at Robert Miller gallery

this is a better description

a tree grows in...

2007-06-05T10:44:00.001-07:00

our beautiful McGolrick Park

from my window

2007-06-04T15:39:00.000-07:00

Jean Prouvé

this was pretty cool- a prototype for a metal kit house.

Kinda weird that it's displayed on the same site where a shantytown used to exist in mid eighties. There was a camp down under the bridge that you could see riding over the Queensboro. Tin roofs and everything, dogs, campfires, bikes.

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and finally went to the new and improved MOMA

I'm glad Titus 1 was left intact, or so it felt

Andrea Parkins

2007-06-02T10:08:00.000-07:00

Attended Andrea's sound installation and was transported-

lying down in the dark with your shoes off is an excellent way to listen to music.

Andrea Parkins

June, 9 2007 at Diapason gallery -- installation: FAULTY (per-objective) -- final showing
1026 Avenue of the Americas #2S (between 38th & 39 Streets), just below Times Square, New York, New York

FAULTY (per-objective) is a multi-channel audio installation by Andrea Parkins. The work creates purposefully flawed sonic structures, built from a variety of sources, including sound recordings that document the specificity of objects - collected or invented - as they are set into motion. (Upended wine glasses on tilted/greasy mirrors, taut lines of plastic tubing, wobbly plaster forms, apples/potatoes that roll across a bumpy floor, spinning metal washers, stretched skeins of plastic gimp, raspy little snapshots in the wind - these might be performers.) Through the use of Max-based generative processing, multiple chains of audio events will arrive at an indeterminate sonic outcome - an aurality that weaves playful connections between sonified objects, materials and language - and a metaphor for the slippage between object and meaning that occurs through the passage of time (and space).

BIO:

ANDREA PARKINS is a sound artist, composer and electro multi-instrumentalist who also makes/arranges objects, images and (sometimes) words. Known for her dynamic timberal explorations on the electric accordion and inventive use of generative sound processing, Andrea has appeared on more than 40 recordings on labels including Hatology, Atavistic, Knitting Factory, and Creative Sources. She has performed worldwide as a soloist, and with artists such as Nels Cline, Thomas Lehn, Fred Frith, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and Otomo Yoshihide. She has also presented her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen and Experimental Intermedia, among other NYC venues. Currently, Andrea continues to develop and perform a series of Max/MSP-based audio/visual works inspired by Rube Goldberg's circuitous contraptions, a project realized during artist's residencies sponsored by the Hamburg Cultural Board in Germany; at Harvestworks in New York City and CESTA in the Czech Republic. For more information: www.myspace.com/andreaparkins

ABOUT NYEAF: The New York Electronic Art Festival is produced by Harvestworks, the New York University Music Technology Program and LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, with support from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Columbia University Computer Music Center, Roulette, the Electronic Music Foundation, 3LD Art and Technology Center, Eyebeam, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Institute of Electronic Art. Additional support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, mediaThe foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space @ 38 Park Row, the Experimental TV Center Presentation Program, Cycling 74, Tekserve and Newmark Knight Frank. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Program is made possible by the support of the September 11th Fund. Space generously donated by Time Equities Properties. NYEAF is a Harvestworks 30th Anniversary Event.

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Pat threw a lovely party to welcome me to Greenpoint (and to break in the landlady who lives downstairs)

Here's Pat- takin' care of business.

I will never dance again...

Thanks Glen. Let's make more movies! I want to make a new version of Necropolis this summer- everyone think about your characters and start building the scenery!

under Union Square

2007-06-01T08:35:00.001-07:00

inspirational

2007-05-11T12:06:00.000-07:00

an inspiring day- a few of my favorite artists-

Gordon Terry

André Ethier

and then a musical performance of the MOE!KESTRA!

2007-03-23T11:01:00.000-07:00

Henceforth, "Camping In Oakland" shall become known as "Camping in Greenpoint"...

Logan's Run

2007-03-10T20:51:00.000-08:00

Redwood City

2007-03-05T12:06:00.000-08:00

rest stop

art by Ash

I am a vibration sensor

2007-02-28T19:57:00.000-08:00

Tilden Park wintry afternoon