24.11.08

22.11.08

romanization of chinese names can bite it

chen hongshou is this artist i'm writing about for my Ming dynasty painting class
whoo
basically he's like: um, so, we love tradition, but there is a serious artistic stagnation going on upins.
so: i'll still paint like all y'all, but i'm going to paint like ALL y'all and won't be lumped in with anyone
then he's like check it: i'm depressed about the Qing rule and my painting is way crazy and unlike all of what has been going on except it's still looking like old stuff which is just exactly what everyone has been doing anyway my goodness do we love to copy old Tang and Sung paintings i'm going to get drunk on wine

he really liked to drink wine

no lie

me2

17.11.08

thx hllbrtn lol chatlog

a.o.
(11/17/08 11:55)

Halliburton has filed for a patent on "patent acquisition and assertion by a (non-inventor) first party against a second party."
haha so meta
thanks halliburton


g.b.
(11/17/08 11:56)

shit my mind

a.o.
(11/17/08 11:56)

They patented suing people for patent infringement

g.b.
(11/17/08 11:56)

how can you patent getting patents when the FUUUUUKKKCCCKCCKKAHHHHHH
*pop*
haha
so now if i sue someone for patent infringement i have to pay them because i'm infringing on their patent to sue me for infringing on a patent that i'm suing someone for
fuck my life

a.o.
(11/17/08 11:57)

pop

g.b.
(11/17/08 11:57)

pop
that is the most meta shit i've heard all day
and i'm in art classes



YAO

11.11.08

1 2 w@ch : Ditch Projects

oh hi.

so last thurs. instead of correcting all the midterms i have/am correcting now, i went to the inaugural shindig over at Ditch Projects in Springfield,OR (industrial zone + strip clubs).



















Firstly: it's in like a barn or something or a warehouse. And the ppl that got it all going made a beautiful bunch of white walls fitting of any artspace. To properly view said walls, they had a showing of the 60 Second Southern Video Festival. Consisted of a bunch o' short videos ranging from geese flying against the wind, a man with a banana in his trousers, digital curmudgeonry to a weird little movie dealing with teenage relationships and zombie/vampirism. Gone in 60 seconds. well, the whole thing wasn't 60 secs, it was like an hour. and it was kind of cold. but i suffer for my art! and there were tallbs of busch. overall: good things are going to happen with these folks.



















also if you're not convinced: they (all the MFAs from UO that were there [yes, i felt a lil awk being the MArthistory pompous outcast there, but i'm used to it by now]) played a game properly titled "Stump" in which you flip the hammer and then pound a nail in a stump. someone's going to put an eye out here.



















if you're around UO/EugOR, keep yer eyez openz. apparently there's going to be more video art, some "weird" music, performances maybe and also some traditional put me on the wall with a nail and wax poetic art shows.

webpagesitecom: Ditch Projects
pez.

5.11.08

REMEMBER remember

the 5th of november
the gunpowder
treason and plot
i know of no
reason why
gunpowder
treason
should
ever
be
FORGOT

also omg hope and change
let's rock this bitch

3.11.08

thx bro-drillard

sometimes i'm reading some stuff and baudrillard is all like: here, have some knowledge and i'm like: thx.