“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Matthew Briar Bonifacio Rodriguez 2009
It’s been so hot here in Seattle that it’s hard to sit down at my extremely hot powerbook. So for today it’s just films I like right now.
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Entitled Robert Hardgrave
Galleries are still getting battered by these trying economic times.(myartspace)
“I remember the extraordinary enthusiasm for the internet, but now it is a surveillance-work tool, or a social-work tool. What one dreams of is escaping that. The 90s ideas of cyberreality seem preposterous now. We design more and more elaborate means of captivity for [...]
1972 Viet Nam Series Rene Mederos via Javier Hernandez-Miyares amazing photoset on flickr
I have a curriculum to write and have been having a hard time concentrating on it so this week there may or may not be more posting but as it is it’s going to be spotty at best.
I do want to let [...]
Magic In your Fingers Greg Lamarche 2007
Western contemporary art aesthetics have a hard colonizing effect on the way artists around the world are creating work. I’ve seen this first hand in the realm of “Street Art/Grafitti” when artists that have absolutely no credibility in the world of graff become proclaimed the next great “street” god. [...]
South Indian Film Posters Matt Lee ( via Jux)
An extended look at the work of Mode 2, Sharp, Delta, and Enron at the Urban Affairs show in Germany (via Ekosystem)
The BBC has produced a great slideshow/interview with French photographer/ street artist JR on his work in Rio’s oldest Favela (via ektopia)
Post economic bust ghost towns [...]
A Big Mess
In these trying economic times artists are doing things that just a year ago would have horrified their dealers. Case in point is Mike Giants open studios in which he is selling new originals and prints for cash on the barrel. (via TWBE)
“Ironically, the younger generations in general don’t perceive corporate involvement [...]
Boxing Painting Ushio Shinohara (via Target Practice at SAM)
Who say’s you can’t take it with you. A look at the burgeoning funerary architecture business in Culiacan (via mananarama)
Jesus Saves, particularly if you are wearing the right tshirt. (via senses lost)
“The people that ride these bikes have to know what they’re doing,” he said. “And in [...]
