trumped!

okay SCAD student, Invader just topped you as far as time-intensive and well-planned videos went for today...can't wait for his show next month.

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been out and about doing stuff so much lately i don't even feel like my apartment is mine. letting the dishes sit in the sink for more than a day hasn't even been giving me ocd guilt cause i know i won't be seeing them. out of sight out of mind.

go see: tyson, the hangover. will see: food, inc.


if you haven't already read all of michael pollan's book, do so now

just discovered discovery today. comprised of one part ra ra riot and one part vampire weekend i was surprised i liked them because i'm not into either of those bands. and not gonna lie, i mostly decided to give it a listen because i liked the album art so much. it's dreamy poppy stuff, a little tahiti 80, a little röyksopp...but not quite.


anyway, go listen

and speaking of röyksopp, they provide the soundtrack to this cool SCAD student video. i've definitely seen stop motion with post-its before, but whether or not this is completely original doesn't matter...dude put in a ton of work. only an art school student would have enough time to do this...


loving the little bomb guy

takeshi murata not takashi murakami

seems as though takeshi murata is blowing up these days! i suppose it helps that kanye bit his style with his video for 'welcome to heartbreak,' doesn't it? shouldn't be surprised as this isn't the first time (and surely not the last) kanye rips something off and proclaims he's an originator (justice's 'd.a.n.c.e.' yielding kanye's 'good life' ring a bell?).

anyway, 'ye hatin' aside, takeshi murata is an artist worthy of all the praise. he figured out a way to use the beauty of mishap and manipulate what was formerly an error in a deliberate manner. check it out...


i love the sand art vibe of this one


a still from takeshi's 2007 dvd, Untitled

below is the kanye vid. now i'm not a complete hater, i realize that the video incorporates new elements, but you'd be a fool to not acknowledge takeshi as the inspiration...

i'm baaaaaaaaaack

the tunes for this post...


this website has been consuming too much of my time...seriously, stop by and i dare you to get any work done.

here's what i made:



a few flaws yes, but it's just the first of what i'm guessing will be many...

as requested

so i disappeared...and you can bet the nice weather had something to do with it. i'm going to come with something BIG in the next week or so, but for now...

a few pictures i've snapped the past couple weeks.


this guy lives a few doors down from me; i look forward to seeing him everyday


one day i saw somebody had placed a bunch of flowers in ghandi's hand and really wished i had my polaroid with me. i went back a week later and even though the flowers were now dead, it didn't make a difference to my polaroid


i went to david byrne's 'play the building' at the maritime building with jordan. it made for a great little sunday


in the maritime building. ooooooh & aaaaaaaah indeed


and you KNOW i went to the beach this weekend (drug rug in tow!). it was a real scorcher!

bah humbugging april showers

so that BIG post i said was TK? yeah, i realized i was super hyped on something that wasn't that interesting. i thought i was going to get motivated and book report about it here but then yesterday was dreary and today is even drearier and i'm just not in the mood. so, i'll summarize...

a couple weeks ago i wrote about henry darger and how his artwork reminded me of richard dadd. then a few days ago i wrote about the book i'm reading about the insane dr w.c. minor (who was one of the main contributors to the oxford english dictionary)...well, in the book it mentioned that he was friends with fellow crazy inmate richard dadd (who was in the asylum for killing his...dad)! annnnyway, i just love when things come full circle like that.
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the rain outside has got me down so i'm just going to post some images i'm digging today...


my heart, it is heavy...


...but this guy's moves make me happy


envious


yeah!

omgomgomg

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did you see at the end, the one with his paw on the others back? and the yawner midway through? needless to say i'll be watching this on loop all day...

don't put off your happy life

oh hai...here i am. it's friday yet again, gorgeous out and i'm dancing in my desk chair listening to some good tunes.

last weekend with the family was great, as is (was) to be expected.


this guy and i are now BFF

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things i've encountered, imbibed, and enjoied today (in no certain order):

#1 lego man


fillin in the holes

kinda reminds me of space invaders for some reason. maybe one inspired the other? or maybe not.


pre-installation

a lego related story:
when my brother and i were little, we would barter barbie playing time with lego playing time. he knew that i liked legos though, so he had an upper hand. we usually compromised at 1/2 hour barbies, 1 hour legos. sometimes we'd go all out and play a barbie/lego combo where the legos were aliens. fun!

#2 this photo


attention, dear sister. you should use the color scheme in this photo in your nursery. how calming.

#3 a plaid dress

i want (need!) the plaid dress in this au revoir simone press photo.


one smart looking dress

because i haven't found it (yet!), i settled for this plaid brassiere instead.


a little personal to share, i know

#4 sebastian tellier

a frenchman with a good sense of humor. divine is today's theme song and here is the (funny!) video

suckers!

so it's been a minute...but here i am! i was quiet for a few days because i felt it would help to prepare me for a new personal goal. and that goal is...

not interrupting! i've started to realize when somebody brings up a topic that i'm really into or know something interesting about, i overstep myself and interrupt. i quickly follow up my anecdote with an oh my gosh, but you were saying? but that's still rude. and i won't do it anymore. or at least have every intention of curbing it to the best of my potential.
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it's spring and i need a new springtime jacket. i've found a few nice uns but they're always mens only! that is not gonna work, even a small would be too big i'm afraid...

this seersucker one from subscript would be real nice...


i can plz has in syze xtra smallz?

oh gosh, this one from woolrich is just...a dream.


guaranteed to turn any boy into a babe
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okay this is pretty funny. guy made a drawing of every piece of art at the MOMA viewable to the public between January 19, 2005 to January 31, 2005. clearly i'm a little late to the party, but at any rate, might make a nice gift for a few of the art phags i know...

the same artist, jason polan, has a blog where he is documenting his attempt to draw every person in new york. i'd love to spot myself on there, but sadly i don't frequent the taco bell on 14th (he has so many pics drawn there!).


taco bell on 14th

oh but i'm in luck. you can make an 'appointment' of somewhere you'll be for several minutes and a description of what you're wearing...and he just might show up to draw your portrait (in secret!).

oh, looky here

what just crossed my inbox but some info on a little art show i'll have to stop by...

DARGERISM: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND HENRY DARGER

The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page chronicle of intergalactic war. Hundreds of watercolored drawings accompany the tale, begun around 1930 and worked on until his death. In them, the often-undressed child heroines of Abbiennia, the Vivian Girls, defend their country against enslavement by the evil Glandelinian people. Dargerism establishes this eccentric genius' pervasive influence on contemporary art by showcasing 11 artists alongside his own drawings. In the process, the exhibition assembles an irresistible anti-canon of young artists seeking an alternative to the sanitary, concept-laden, New York aesthetic.

it's at the American Folk Art Museum and runs till September 21st, so you can walk and not run...i knew they had a henry darger center there, but this will give me extra impetus to get there sooner rather than later...

funny how when you learn about something new, it manages to creep into your world again and again...

ART

on my way from the subway this morning i saw 10 reds caps...count 'em, T-E-N reds caps in only 4 city blocks. i'll never cease to be amused by that trend.



speaking of the nati, i'll be heading home a week from today. get to see my preggers sister and sister-in-law, go to a real thrift store, spend time with the fam AND friends...and even go with Jess to her doctor's appointment to learn the sex of Baby Mason.
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though i miss the marc jacobs of yore, i still think the man is a genius. and love him. and i could care less about victoria beckham but appreciate that she has a sense of humor about herself. really enjoyed the recent nytimes article on juergen teller...


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a friend recently put me on henry darger. dude was insane and wrote a 15,000 page fantastical manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (phew!) and made hundreds of drawings and watercolors to illustrate it. OH and nobody knew about them until right before he died. i really dig his work...already put the documentary about his life in my netflix Q. i was all "i'm going to read his biography, too!" but it costs nearly $500! WTF?! i'm going to do some further investigating and try to track it down, but...seriously?!


i encourage you to google for larger images...gotta get in close to really appreciate


darger traced a lot of his work from pix in magazines/papers/etc. i think i spot the Coppertone girl's head on the right!

darger's work reminds me of another mentally insane artist...Richard Dadd. at one point before he was diagnosed as 'not all there,' Dadd had to fight off urges to attack the Pope. me, too, dude...me, too.

I was taken by one of his faery paintings at the Tate in London this summer.


detail

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okay, one last thing. a little light-hearted fun to send you on your weekend...because it's FRIDAY! compliments of dutch boyz Kraak & Smaak.