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As I mentioned in my last post, Jessada took me for a ride to go see some Muay Thai while the iguana was being prepared. I had been asking about seeing some boxing since I got to Thailand, but I wasn’t sure if it was going to happen. What ended up happening was [...] I ate a lot of new and interesting things in Thailand, including adding several new species to my list of “things that I’m definitely above in the food chain.” I don’t recall ever eating a reptile before, so Iguana works on two levels. I’m usually pretty enthused about eating something totally new, but I [...] Still churning through the thousands of images I shot in Thailand. This is one of my favourites. I shot this on my first visit to the fields near the farming village in Kalasin where I spent half my trip. There’s this beautiful orange/gray twilight in Eastern Thailand, that’s unlike anything we’ve got in [...] I’ve hiked my shorts up over my belly button to write this, but I’ve got a gripe with these young artists and their “on campus art opening” music. I’ve been to two on campus openings lately, a pack of BA/MFA openings at CSULB and an Open House at El Camino College, and I’ve found [...] Maybe I’m still too tired from last week’s craziness to appreciate this show. I’m still a little burnt out from putting together FR8. I know that there’s a map of sorts that explains the organizational principles behind the arrangements of works, and there’s some obvious instances where clear relationships are created, but the whole [...] Has the internet finally made it possible for individuals to commission interesting art? Is art finally making its way to the common man? I’ve recently developed an addiction to these little internet based thematic commissions. By sending off a name or descriptor, and a few bucks, you can now buy a semi-custom, postcard [...] The FR8 install is moving towards completion. There’s a massive number of pictures from the install in their Flickr set now. Above is my new favourite bit from FR8 – Beth Elliott’s salt lick. It’s like a Matthew Barney readymade. I may get to re-visit my No Fate piece from Contemplating Apocalypse sometime [...] I’m a big believer in the inevitability of things, both in art and outside of art. The piece below touches directly on this – it’s inevitable that someone would construct it at some point. The above photo is an image of Show Card a site specific installation/solo show by Anna Leigh Gold (label [...] My current curatorial project is FR8, an exhibition of twenty-four commissioned and selected artists, as part of the Port of Los Angeles Art on the Waterfront Festival 2007. I curated a six artist “tester/mine canary” version of the exhibition for last year’s festival, and it was a pretty successful project. This year, I’ve [...] Hyper prolific illustrative genius Adam Koford, a.k.a. Ape Lad, is busily illustrating just about everything – Hobos, Fairy Tales, who knows what’s next? I recently ordered a Baba Yaga illustration from him in his you name the fairytale, I’ll draw it for $20 deal (which is an insane deal). I missed out on [...] |
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