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Untitled (Glad), 1999It turns out she is going to be in a group show, Mildred's Lane, at Alexander Gray Associates opening in two days. She also recently released a book, Long Life Cool White, that I am interested in seeing.
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Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2008
I would like to see Moyra Davey's work in person. I can only find a few of her images online, but I like them a lot. This is my favorite.
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Untitled (Glad), 1999
It turns out she is going to be in a group show, Mildred's Lane, at Alexander Gray Associates opening in two days. She also recently released a book, Long Life Cool White, that I am interested in seeing.
Untitled (Glad), 1999It turns out she is going to be in a group show, Mildred's Lane, at Alexander Gray Associates opening in two days. She also recently released a book, Long Life Cool White, that I am interested in seeing.
Friday, June 6, 2008
On print and in line
I am please to have had some work featured in a couple of publications somewhat recently. The first is Taco Bell Drawing Club Volume III. It actually came out a few months ago. It features the work of members of The Taco Bell Drawing Club. I have several drawings included in it. Here are some spreads:
Guess which ones are mine.
More recently released, was Issue Two of Crafty Magazine. I have a photograph and collage in it. See them here.
Thanks Jason and Eirian.
Guess which ones are mine.More recently released, was Issue Two of Crafty Magazine. I have a photograph and collage in it. See them here.
Thanks Jason and Eirian.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Exquisite pain
I just finished reading Exquisite pain, by Sophie Calle. It is a remarkable book. It blends photography, literature, and graphic design in unique and evocative way. All the distinct elements flow together in a symphonic sort of beauty and pain. It is a story of intense personal anguish and the mingling of other's stories to bring about recovery. The effects of the dissonant elements can be summed up in the appropriate title, Exquisite pain. Everything from the letter press cover, the odd book dimensions, the red, and the flow of pictures and text convey a sense of charm and appeal that is tinged with suffering, defeat, loss, and a strange sort of comfort throughout it all.
The book follows Calle's 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair and the three months following, sharing her story of suffering. Additionally, she accustomed to inquiring of others, "When did you suffer most?" Those accounts are coupled with Calle's throughout the days of her recovery.
Reading the various accounts incited in me a desire to write out my own story of exquisite pain. It is something I have written about before, on several different occasions, but once again I felt the need to write out my memories. Though I wouldn't mind to include what I wrote in the book, I still feel some hesitancy to include it on a blog so I have included a more ambiguous account that I wrote several years ago.
Wait
I wanted the stars to fall. I wanted the roads to burn. I wanted the night’s light to wax red. I wanted the world to wait.
But they didn’t, and they didn’t, and it didn’t, and it wouldn’t. The cars rolled by, the sun arose, the telephones rang, but you never got up.
The book follows Calle's 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair and the three months following, sharing her story of suffering. Additionally, she accustomed to inquiring of others, "When did you suffer most?" Those accounts are coupled with Calle's throughout the days of her recovery.
Reading the various accounts incited in me a desire to write out my own story of exquisite pain. It is something I have written about before, on several different occasions, but once again I felt the need to write out my memories. Though I wouldn't mind to include what I wrote in the book, I still feel some hesitancy to include it on a blog so I have included a more ambiguous account that I wrote several years ago.
Wait
I wanted the stars to fall. I wanted the roads to burn. I wanted the night’s light to wax red. I wanted the world to wait.
But they didn’t, and they didn’t, and it didn’t, and it wouldn’t. The cars rolled by, the sun arose, the telephones rang, but you never got up.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
New Catalogue
New Catalogue is a group made up by photographers Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler. Their work is a-a-a-awesome.
Using a methodology that both parallels and gently ridicules the concept of stock photo agencies, New Catalogue has created a series of original editions that tap into popular culture while expanding on traditional photographic genres. - from their website
They printed a small run book in 2005 with Nazraeli Press (only 500 copies), titled Big Ten Co-Eds, Preppy Girls, and The Lost Cheerleaders. The book is beautifully made, large (11x14"), with 30 four color illustrations. In addition there is virtually no text apart from the titles, the images literally fill the pages. The book includes three series: Lost Cheerleaders, Preppy Girls With BB Gun (shown above), Big Ten Co-Eds With Ski Mask (shown below).
On first glance at Big Ten Co-Eds with Ski Masks you might think the Zapatistas have infiltrated ivy league campuses but I assure you this isn't the case. The images show college age girls in ski masks alone in campus settings. The images have a somber and satirical feel. Such characteristics can be found throughout their other series as well in subtler degrees.
Amazingly enough you can still find copies of this book. The deluxe edition from Nazraeli includes a print and is limited to 50 copies, it is $500 (find it under limited editions). Online Nazraeli only has the deluxe edition listed but contact them and you might be able to get the normal $65 edition. Otherwise you can find it at photoeye.
They have a divers selection of projects on their website, all of which are quite excellent. They include (in addition to the aforementioned selections from the book): Ivy League - Yale (pictured above), Ivy League - Princeton, Boy Recording Ambient Sounds For His Independent Film (first image in entry), A. Hitler and D. Eckart: Obersalzberg to Hoher Goll, and Tiger Afternoon.
Using a methodology that both parallels and gently ridicules the concept of stock photo agencies, New Catalogue has created a series of original editions that tap into popular culture while expanding on traditional photographic genres. - from their website
They printed a small run book in 2005 with Nazraeli Press (only 500 copies), titled Big Ten Co-Eds, Preppy Girls, and The Lost Cheerleaders. The book is beautifully made, large (11x14"), with 30 four color illustrations. In addition there is virtually no text apart from the titles, the images literally fill the pages. The book includes three series: Lost Cheerleaders, Preppy Girls With BB Gun (shown above), Big Ten Co-Eds With Ski Mask (shown below).
On first glance at Big Ten Co-Eds with Ski Masks you might think the Zapatistas have infiltrated ivy league campuses but I assure you this isn't the case. The images show college age girls in ski masks alone in campus settings. The images have a somber and satirical feel. Such characteristics can be found throughout their other series as well in subtler degrees.
Amazingly enough you can still find copies of this book. The deluxe edition from Nazraeli includes a print and is limited to 50 copies, it is $500 (find it under limited editions). Online Nazraeli only has the deluxe edition listed but contact them and you might be able to get the normal $65 edition. Otherwise you can find it at photoeye.
They have a divers selection of projects on their website, all of which are quite excellent. They include (in addition to the aforementioned selections from the book): Ivy League - Yale (pictured above), Ivy League - Princeton, Boy Recording Ambient Sounds For His Independent Film (first image in entry), A. Hitler and D. Eckart: Obersalzberg to Hoher Goll, and Tiger Afternoon.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Today's discoveries
Today has been chuck full of new discoveries. The first was a form of shredding like you've never know shredded before. It was yoing at the New York State Yo-Yo Contest. In my earlier years I dabled a bit in yoing myself. I could shred a bit. I even blew some minds, but my mind was officially blow today by some crazy cats. National champions from Italy, Czech Republic, Brazil, and the US were in attendance among others. Yoing is evolving faster than single celled organisms in a cesspool of their own filth and if you haven't seen it recently you haven't seen it at all. Here is a little sampling of the quality of shred I am talking,
That is Paul Han the 2006 US Nation Champion (he was there today).
Other discoveries: The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Yto Barrada, Valérie Belin, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Anne Hardy, and John Stezaker. These are all photographers with whom I have enjoyed a pleasant first acquaintance, with their work that is, not them personally. I am going to look into them more in the near future, and perhaps blog about them after. But for now, if you are into photography, you can start looking into them too and we can talk.
The next discovery was a, "great buy! 99¢," it even says so right on the can. I was yearning for a cool beverage, something like a nice cold pinã colada, when I saw Arizona Grapeade. What really drew me to it was the big can for a little price. I gave it a shot. I continue to give it a shot as I type. Pause...
I am going to call the last discovery a future discovery because it hasn't really happened yet. As I was purchasing my soda the cashier was reading The Full Metal Alchemist! Talk about omens, I sort of think that my craving for a drink happened just so that I would walk into that store at that moment to discover that cashier reading that graphic novel. I mean as far a discoveries go grapeade in and of itself isn't much to blog about but grapeade leading to a new form of Full Metal Alchemist pleasure now that is something. A few weeks ago I was so thoroughly excited about The Full Metal Alchemist that I was going to blog about it. The blog was going to be about my two favorite things about New York. The first was going to be FMA and the second would have been Hot Fuzz. The blog would have been pretty funny because it was to be framed as my two favorite things about NY even though those two things don't have anything to do with NY except that that is where I found them. So anyway, back to the present, I axed the cashier about the graphic novel in comparison to the anime. He said they are quite different and don't compare well. The novel was adapted a lot to work as an anime. I am very pleased with this information because now I am going to have hours more of entertainment from the written series which is 16+volumes. So to any other fans, I will see you in the soft chairs at the bookstore.
That is Paul Han the 2006 US Nation Champion (he was there today).
Other discoveries: The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Yto Barrada, Valérie Belin, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Anne Hardy, and John Stezaker. These are all photographers with whom I have enjoyed a pleasant first acquaintance, with their work that is, not them personally. I am going to look into them more in the near future, and perhaps blog about them after. But for now, if you are into photography, you can start looking into them too and we can talk.
The next discovery was a, "great buy! 99¢," it even says so right on the can. I was yearning for a cool beverage, something like a nice cold pinã colada, when I saw Arizona Grapeade. What really drew me to it was the big can for a little price. I gave it a shot. I continue to give it a shot as I type. Pause...
I am going to call the last discovery a future discovery because it hasn't really happened yet. As I was purchasing my soda the cashier was reading The Full Metal Alchemist! Talk about omens, I sort of think that my craving for a drink happened just so that I would walk into that store at that moment to discover that cashier reading that graphic novel. I mean as far a discoveries go grapeade in and of itself isn't much to blog about but grapeade leading to a new form of Full Metal Alchemist pleasure now that is something. A few weeks ago I was so thoroughly excited about The Full Metal Alchemist that I was going to blog about it. The blog was going to be about my two favorite things about New York. The first was going to be FMA and the second would have been Hot Fuzz. The blog would have been pretty funny because it was to be framed as my two favorite things about NY even though those two things don't have anything to do with NY except that that is where I found them. So anyway, back to the present, I axed the cashier about the graphic novel in comparison to the anime. He said they are quite different and don't compare well. The novel was adapted a lot to work as an anime. I am very pleased with this information because now I am going to have hours more of entertainment from the written series which is 16+volumes. So to any other fans, I will see you in the soft chairs at the bookstore.
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