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I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between contemporary art and music video lately. A lot. Too much, really. And the roots of music video really lie in the TV music shows of the 1970′s, of which many, many were devoted to disco. In some ways, the 70′s golden era of film went [...] I love octopus. I don’t just love them when they’re smuggling coconuts or wrestling with gachapon, they’re one of my favourite foods. I’ve been trying to arrange a sannakji dinner in LA for what seems like years now, ever since I found out about the delicious, still moving, still kind-of-alive octopus dish. Sojung made [...] Tomorrow is the last day to see my installation, Ragnarok Supply, at the El Camino College Art Gallery, but my portion of the artist talk is now up on the YouTube, for the ages. The video is pretty dim, but there’s a brief (and if you know me, this is the “Maximum Brevity” [...] Lucinda over at blogging.la has the scoop, and the confirmation, as well. Not a great surprise here, but no certainty about the future of either the collection or the facility, yet. Ahh, late night drinking. One evening, while in Seoul, following a delicious meal of rice noodle ramen, I was lured out for soju at an izakaya. That’s an iced platter of oysters and sea squirts up there. The oysters weren’t as fresh as they could have been, so we kind of skipped out [...] In which I consume a delicious surprise, a hot dog shaped mochi on a stick, wrapped in odeng and covered with a sweet, hot, sticky sauce. This combined the awesome chewiness of mochi with delicious notes of fish, sweet and chili. This is kind of a waste of a cup, but it [...] Well, I’ve held back on posting photos of the final piece until now, because I really want folks to come and see the piece in person and stand in the intentional space of the installation, but I’m hoping that if you haven’t made a visit to the El Camino College Art Gallery to [...] On my last full day in Seoul (don’t worry, more food coming, as we’re moving backwards and forwards in time here), we stopped into a Chinese noodle place in Bukchon after a meeting. I think Sojung had a heavy-duty hankering for jajangmyeon. Jajangmyeon consists of white noodles served with a black soybean paste, [...] Torrance-based Flickerite and global traveler Brandon Shigeta is in Asia at the moment and has the most beautiful set up, Mobile Vendors, which I believe was taken entirely in Thailand. He’s shooting with a 5D MkII, so the quality, colours and everything else is just [...] Things turn up in the strangest places. Possibly the most “Western museum-like” space I visited in Seoul was the Artsonje Center in Bukchon. Three stories of museum, complete with store (with mystery connecting elevator to basement Indian restaurant), with an entry price of $3 or $1.50 for students. I actually like some [...] |
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