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



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

Intense September sunshine made this gate glow.

Keith Tyson
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Jedediah Caesar

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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...

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

Pat's a Farmer!

























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subway walls

METALs

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


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"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

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

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

Almost forgot this picture from the beach trip!

new 2 me

some new stuff I'm excited about...

Aurel Schmidt




Violet Hopkins

more Chris

Beauty On a Budget.

St. Irene

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.

do you ever feel like this?

Rainer Ganahl



Roman Signer















in a great group show at Tanya Bonakdar