Alternate Living Arrangements

I’ve been processing some of the non-exhibition photos from my trip to Thailand this year.  Yesterday I put up a series of photos of cargo barges and ships taken in Sriracha Harbour, a largely breakbulk operation.  I took these pictures while accompanying S. Ian Song to the island of Ko Si Chang, which [...]

So He Can Make a Rock So Big Even He Can’t Lift It…

Seen on the highway between Springfield and Branson in Missouri.

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On The Road – Kilroy In Kansas City, MO

Driving back from the more than excellent RJ’s Bob-B-Que, we rolled up on this, a tiny piece of a huge pair of murals decorating the Foxx Equipment building. Making it better is that Foxx is a beer and beverage equipment supplier. The mechanical backbone of modern Baccanalia, sponsoring lowbrow, psychedelic anthropomorphic, animal-based graffiti [...]

Big Red at the Kemper Museum

The Gao Brothers (Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang) – Miss Mao – painted fiberglass, 2006 (label)

Chinese, post-pop art is everywhere. If you’re Chinese and you can produce anything big, bright and with a reasonable symbolic relevance, it’s your turn at the art market ATM machine.

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To Do – On The Road Edition

I’m on the road in Missouri, eating as much BBQ as is humanely possible, and a little bit stuffed and sick from it. I also just spent two days marveling at the joys of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Kemper Museum, the National WWI Museum and the Toy and Miniature Museum in glorious, smoky [...]

Getting There… Slowly… At 500 Miles Per Hour…

Note: I’m writing this offline, and some of my posts from Thailand will no doubt be wackily out of order as I screw around with the time zones on my computer. Oh, and Flickr is working but being slow, so no matter how fast I can process, there seems to be a bottleneck [...]

The Spindle Is Gone

After removing the top two cars, the whole sculpture was torn apart. Dustin Shuler’s Spindle is dead. This is the saddest day in public art ever. I can’t think of anything else to say.

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Waffle House! Waffle House! Waffle House!

I’m at the Tallahasse airport (which has free power and free WiFi!), and I’m one happy Californian, topping off a too short trip with a much deserved and lusted after meal at the roadside shrine of my pagan faith, a Waffle House.

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Eating on the Go

I spent my day hopping by air to Tallahassee. I ate plane and airport food. I ate three sandwiches today, and a pickle. I took pictures. Now I share.

Above – Airplane food! This breaded chicken sandwich actually managed to, kind of, sort of remind me of all that decent airplane tonkatsu I [...]

Seen on the Road – GAS WAR

Last night, a snowstorm closed the I-5, forcing us to take the 58 to detour through Bakersfield and over to the 14 to get home on time.  The detour was great, because we got to drive through a snowstorm near Tehachapi, the first snow I’ve been in contact with since I was about [...]