INTERNET.com

WE HAVE MOVED!

2010-11-05T17:31:00.000-07:00

IT'S BETTER I SWEAR

Baking and Magic

2010-07-24T17:54:00.000-07:00

It has come to my attention that there is among us a magic hat commonly referred to as the convection oven. For where else could you put in seemingly innocuous components to produce a final product as tasty as biscuits or a three-tiered cake. And it is not only these innocuous components, but the fact that they are seemingly combined in very similar ways to make very different items. A handful of glitter and a few taps of the wand will give you a rabbit, and a few portions of flour with butter, salt and baking powder in a large box set at 475 degrees will give you something to go with that rabbit and a bit of gravy.

There is magic in our midst. Or at least in our kitchen. Abracadabra.

2010-07-24T12:33:00.000-07:00

"I really should read more." -INTERNET.com

"That's really the only thing worth doing anymore. That and procreation." -RWP (well read artist and recent father)

Really could use a redesign or somethin.

2010-07-23T13:29:00.000-07:00

Just returned from world travellin. Multiple worlds. Like Galactus. Feelin like Im needin some redesign happenin here on this here bloggo.

Also no time for apostrophes.

I bought some watercolors at the store.

2010-06-11T12:22:00.001-07:00

Turns out I'm not as good as I'd hoped.

Will continue.

Years Gone by Me

2010-05-30T22:29:00.000-07:00

i just saw that i wrote 35 posts in 2008.

what the hell did i write about?

Yep.

2010-04-14T16:34:00.001-07:00

Somewhere between my alarm going off and me actually getting up today I had a dream where I was playing a show with a drummer on a little stage and I tried to play the oboe and sing at the same time but it wasn't working and then we left and practiced for a little bit and I figured out that a guitar would work much better but then we came back to the show and people had left and we were like what why did they leave and then I decided that I would just start fake shredding on an electric guitar that showed up in my hands and I had a montage of me getting famous and wearing weird masks and a towel cape and making weird shredding music and then I woke up and was not in ICP.

The Spring of Our Disconnect

2010-04-12T14:06:00.000-07:00

Midday, rising from my chair. Exiting the building I caught a whiff of the city on a strangely pleasant spring afternoon. The woes of being inside. A strange woman dressed much like a Peruvian panflute player was ordering a coffee in front of me but kept looking out the window with a gaze of pure horror, like she knew an ancient Incan curse was coming. I looked too. There was nothing. She left. The two ex-bikers, I'm certain, that now work as baristas took my order and delivered my order as I was rung up by the teen or post-teen person at the counter. A dollar seventy-five later, back in the open air with my cup full. Strolling across the street while people are bewildered as to why a bus is stopped and fail to realize that it is because they are in the street. The doors were doused last night or in recent memory with vagrant urine and the smell of ammonia mixes with the scent of new paint in the corridor by the elevator. Old and new, dirty and clean. Both a murky puce.

HO Ho! Review'd.

2010-04-09T12:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/blogs/culturephile-portland-arts/portland2010-culture-033110/

Get it.

Happy Easter+1

2010-04-05T14:29:00.001-07:00

Day after the bunnyhop.
Back to work.
6days/wk.
Yeeps.
:|

Please Give Me a Job, ::thx::

2010-01-26T18:03:00.000-08:00

Skills Include:

-Watching Seinfeld
-Playing Neverwinter Nights a lot
-Eating Chocolate and Hot Dogs (at separate times, of course)
-Forming opinions about art and letting you know about them

+4 to ART

What do you call an American version of a chav?

2010-01-15T22:55:00.000-08:00

I would like to know so I can accurately classify a great many people in this coffee shop.

Please don't happy slap me.

2010-01-13T13:59:00.000-08:00

This is the stupidest thing:

And I even love the interrobang.

But seriously‽

Good luck selling a hybrid of a monkey's bumbum and an @.

10 Things for You to Stop Doing in 2010

2010-01-01T12:39:00.000-08:00

1. Stop wearing bag hats. Unless you have dreads. Then get a haircut.
2. Stop taping performance art and calling it video art. Hipster.
3. Stop letting your dog poop on the sidewalk and then leaving it.
4. Stop not showering. That means takes a shower. This isn't the 1600s.
5. Stop balking at people when they don't know about your favorite something something.
6. Stop, collaborate and listen.
7. Stop making half-assed attempts at art and then boasting about them. We all know you stopped after an hour and the thought process was started 15 minutes before that.
8. Stop dressing "wacky" or "unique" or "different". You're just getting closer and closer to boffing club.
9. Stop making Youtube comments about religion. I mean, seriously. Write a book if you care so much.
10. Stop with the dietary restrictions and your foisting of them on unsuspecting restaurants. If you want to eat sand, go to the beach.

20
10

Stop it.

FISTS WITH YA TOES

2009-12-25T23:07:00.000-08:00

trust me, i've been doing this for eleven years.

mxmas

Honking of horns is not necessary thx.

2009-12-16T19:52:00.000-08:00

Next person who does it downtown for a non-life-and-death reason will get something thrown at their car.

Watch it!

Scare the bejeebus out of me, you do.

The last gradings.

2009-12-11T12:19:00.000-08:00

TAKE FOREVER.
srsly i just want to finish packing and seeing if my whole life will fit into a jetta.
you kidz withur badhandwritingz!!
KIDS THESE DAYS DON'T KNOW NOTHIN' BOUT PENMANSHIP.

By the numbers.

2009-12-04T16:45:00.001-08:00

Today it was between 25 and 45 degrees.
So I bought a 50 Cent endorsed Vitamin Water for 88¢.
Now I am feeling 100%.

lol3amshopping

2009-11-27T10:37:00.000-08:00

definitely woke up at 2:30am to shop at Old Navy.

i had to stand in line for a while.

i don't even like Old Navy.

that much.

Hear ye here ya.

2009-11-18T17:50:00.001-08:00

Tues. Nov. 24. 1.30.pm.
All the info fit to PRINT.

Today it is rainy.

2009-11-07T23:06:00.000-08:00

And I am cutting a big hunk of bread for TM.

It's what I do and what I like.

I'm also cutting a hunk for myself.

10/07/09

2009-10-07T12:25:00.000-07:00

Things I'm Doing Today to Change My Life:

1. Had a tube of instant Starbucks. (Free!/The Future!)
2. Signed up for 5 thesis credits.
3. Set a rough schedule for the completion of my thesis this quarter.
4. Going to use a dollar off coupon to get a cup of coffee for under 50 cents.
5. Applying for my Master's Degree. Well, at least getting the ball rolling so that once I'm done with the writing part I can actually graduate.
6. Going to try to use a very old Subway giftcard to get a very big sandwich.

Mmhmm.

THERE IS SOMEONE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW

2009-09-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

And we live on the third floor.
TM&I were awakened by a man speaking Chinese and painting our trim.

What a day.
Gets rid of that sleep inertia RIGHT quick.

Why is moving so tedious?

2009-08-28T23:29:00.001-07:00

I'm talking about both:

Relocating residences.

&

Getting off my ass.

An Open Letter

2009-08-16T01:20:00.000-07:00

Dear People Outside My Window at 1:21AM:

I am now old. I have passed into the 24-29 age bracket. Chances are, you are also in this bracket or past it since you have money to run around screaming while I am insomniated. I cherish your company, I really do. The fact remains, however, that I only have tubes of instant Nescafe, and you are on uppers. We cannot and do not see eye to eye. I am impressed and concerned by your vocabulary usage, as well as your street-racing. There is a stop sign at both ends of this block. You cannot get far. I'm not sure if you live in the building across the street, but if you do, please go into said building to do your dirty work. Otherwise, kindly cross onto or into your bridge and/or tunnel to make a swift exit from this urban realm. The night is through and I bid you a fair tomorrow.

Regards,

INTERNET.com

P.S.: Just shut up now.

GODD#MN!

2009-07-15T14:28:00.000-07:00

it is warm out. 2hot2live.

My New Favorite Metasite

2009-06-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.hotdogonastick.com/frames.html

Only up for today.
Click on the middle image that says "Free..."
Click on "Enter Site"
Repeat until this happens:

*pop*

Widened Kennedy

2009-05-31T19:20:00.000-07:00

Bell, Graham W.

Widened Kennedy
(http://hypercritical.info/widenedkennedy.html)
HTML code and public domain image.
Edition of 20.
2009

$200

The Blog Troller Meta Experiment: Trying to Catch an Arcangel at His Own Game

2009-05-15T00:49:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a very long time. But I was just too busy on the internet.

Hi Cory!

Really enjoyed your talk at UO tonight. Wish I could have made it to the workshop. The Photoshop gradients and Final Cut Pro shapes movies are quite excellent. Found this image on ye olde wikipedia. Creative Commons. Search Engine. Networking Solutions for Your Small Business.

A Liem: List + Poem: Things for the Near Future.

2009-05-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

Call the registrar's office: talk to them about my thesis credits.
Go to Ditch Projects opening.
G o t o p o r t l a n d a n d d o w o r k.
Read articles for Contemporary Art and Theory Since 1985.
Fix up thesis proposal and turn in to Art History office.
Make a poster with an abstract to hang on the wall.
Create an abstract and bibliography for Art After Feminism paper about Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.
Read the Jones sisters articles and the Marks article for Art After Feminism.
Make a presentation with powerpoint for said articles.
Meet with Laura about the presentation.
Give the presentation.
Turn in the abstract.

Breathe.

Administer a midterm for 19th Century Art.
Correct that midterm. Quickly.
Celebrate birthdays.
Celebrate birthdays.
Celebrate birthdays.
Start and then finish a paper for each of my classes.

Get a job.

Sleep.

End of an Era

2009-04-29T11:39:00.000-07:00

Couch.
(2008-2009)

"Hitting the dusty trail."

meta, (n.) English:

2009-04-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

1. a recursive subject that is characterized by self-referential recursivity that references itself recursively

2. *pop*

pop

2009-04-04T09:43:00.000-07:00

Cyanide and Happiness

p1ac3h01d3r

2009-03-10T11:25:00.000-07:00

went to the armory show this weekend.
and then some.
report pending.

clever.

n3w 5tuff

2009-02-17T14:44:00.000-08:00

i've got some web-only interart coming up
that will be for sale
how?
you'll see

-INTERNET.com

how does this happen

2009-02-11T09:00:00.000-08:00

gonna do me some art historical learnin
do that stuff with the paintins and such

pomegranate gum and coffee probably do not mix well
i almost made that mistake

hurray!
made it to class

ohgodhowdidthisgethereiamnotgoodwiththesis

2009-02-07T15:15:00.000-08:00

llllllllllllllllllllet's get ready to rambllllllllllllllllllll
ok! well, i've just been correcting midterms and discovering that people seem to think that neodada and ab ex are the same thing but they are wrong and here's why it is because you are wrong and ab ex is all like sup we're existential and such and neodada is all like duchamp is the man. yeah. \/mark'down\/
but: i am trying to figure out what my thesis is going to be. here's what i've been telling people. the idea of fact and fiction in contemporary photography as it relates to the cultural assumption of photos as documentary evidence and the influence of cinema and the cinematic; all this stemming out of Cindy Sherman's Film Stills from the 70s.
going to work in gregory crewdson there, and jeff wall probs, and maybe margot quan knight. we shall SEE.
talking about large photos that are extremely staged and how when people look at these photos these days they're all like sup we know that isn't real, but there is this cultural memory and tendency toward believing photos as documentary evidence going all the way back to the early days of photography. when they used cameras in order to document the "vanishing race", the new West, etc. but why then do people still get weirded out by something they know is fake and staged. BLAME THE CINEMA. in a society so pervaded by the idea of the cinematic, screen media, television, et al., it is sometimes easier for people to suspend their disbelief instead of dealing with images that make them uneasy. images from real life (war, violence, all that bad stuff) have become fortified against because the viewer is used to seeing these types of things in movies, tv, video games and so it is not as much (although it still is sometimes) of a shock. i don't want to say that people don't want to or can't care about the horrible things that they see, it's just a defense mechanism to help them cope. in the other vein, the same is true in the inverse. people see fake images in movies, magazines, all that and they pretend they are real in order to "get into them" or to make things more interesting. people like gregory crewdson use the tactics of cinema in order to play on this in his photos. jeff wall has elaborate sets and backlit cibachromes that recreate similar effects. margot knight shows "real" photos too but has set them up and, in some works, has doctored them. this comes out of cindy sherman's Film Stills in that those were photos, self-portraits, of her in dress and pose and black and white tones that were meant to invoke a certain period in film. even further back, pictorialist photographers like gertrude kasebier were setting up things and people in order to get a shot full of meaning. the new pictorialism focuses not so much on the fictive scene in order show a touching moment between mother and child, but to make reference to the cinema, to itself, to its metaself (you know i love THAT junk), art history (Crewdson's 'Ophelia' btw), and society. it's got all the trappings of a good thesis topic. yeah!

and this is what happens when i drink a bunch of coffee and really need to get working on my degree!

oh em gee well tee hee hee

\\##**((<<=^_^=>>))**##//

also there is a hilarious little baby with the face of a 45 year old smoker/mulletresse in here and i usually don't like them kidz but it's pretty hilarious to see it bob around in its snowsuit to animal collective.

theory in the morning

2009-01-29T11:24:00.000-08:00

theory in the evening
theory at supper time
with theory on a bagel
i can have theory anytime

funny what happens when you read art theory on vision with your morning coffee.
i suppose i'll have a more inquisitive day because of it.
thanks school.

THE GAZE AHHHHH

sometimes i listen too

2009-01-24T08:15:00.000-08:00

"How much do you pay for a haircut?"
"I cut my own hair."
"Oh you cut your own hair?"
"Yeah, how much do you pay?"
"A friend of mine cuts hair, well, I usually have a twenty dollar cap."
"Yeah."
"But a friend of mine cuts hair, and, well, she charges twenty five. So like thirty all together."
"Yeah. That's getting up there."
"I guess I need to go to someplace like Supercuts."

[overheard between a customer and a barista]

the New Poetry

2009-01-21T12:25:00.000-08:00

website building is the new poetry.
write fervently with whiskey in hand.
smoke cigarettes.
pour out your heart into code and image.
abstraction of information and readability.
continuously revise.
update.
update.
rework.
present your vision.
the internet.
bohemian 2.0.

2008-12-29T14:31:00.000-08:00

oh HI
i revamped my website so now you can look at my old art
and i'm going to put some photos on there
as soon as i'm back and can scan them
why aren't all my peripherals with me at all times

hypercritical.info

YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET

///////

Lightfoot

2008-12-27T13:10:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome back from your holiday reverie.
So. A while ago, before my classes were done, I went over to the second opening at Ditch Projects
in Springfield, OR. I wrote about them before.

I'm a fan of what they're doing there. Artist collective kind of thing. Getting some MFA ideas out there where the public can see them. Hamm's.

That said, the last offering was, as my friend Ellen Ito would say, "a little heavy-handed." Touted as a cooperative installation celebrating Gordon Lightfoot, the remodeled industrial space was littered with contraptions that turned themselves on intermittently. It was exceedingly cold and much too dark in the space, so much so that it took my friends and I (a digital artist and an electrical engineer) a while to figure out what exactly was going on. This is what we figured out:

1. There was a wheel hooked to a stick hooked to a motor that spun it around on a track, triggering sensors as it went.
2. The sensors acted as switches to the various pieces arranged roughly radiated from them.
3. There was a lot of duct tape on the floor. It was ugly.
4. It was difficult to see how exactly these mechanisms related to Gordon Lightfoot.

So, past the basic mechanics of the installations, the actual pieces themselves were a varied bunch. For some reason UO students don't like labels or wall text, so I don't even know who made which piece. That makes it difficult. I thought this piece was the strongest in relation to the constant turning on and off:

A big tube filled with lights and sound and whirring.
These photos were pretty cool, but I'm a sucker for high-gloss, nicely mounted pictures:

I'm not sure how they tied in to the theme though.
And then there was a drum with a slide projector shining on it:

This is a piece by Dave Siebert who has been so kind as to link back here.

Yeah.
Ok. So, um, here are some tips. Turn up the lights a little so we can see the art. When the lights are up we notice more things, so presentation needs a little work. Text or a card or something so we know what's going on in your MFA heads.
All said and done, I'm still a fan of the concept and the way that these artists are using the space, but they've got some work to do as far as effective presentation of pieces and installations.

* (it's a snowflake lull)

2008-12-23T17:32:00.000-08:00

let's not talk about art and instead talk about how much i love snow.
it's p. good.
so far winter break has been quite super. took forever to correct some finalsz and hopefully didn't fail too many people. got good grades in classes. if you want to know anything about MING painting, just ask.
the best thing though, is the snow in pdx. something about being stuck in a city rather than being stuck in the middle of nowhere. as i pretentiously drink tons of coffee and take large format photos.
HIT ME WITH A TRUCK. (choo choo)

-here is a piclol-

luv2sno;frendz 'n' booze 'n' layered garments

ps: i have an actual art review about the last show opening at ditch projects that i went to, but i have to get home to get the photos off of my phone as i forgot my cable. TECHNOLOGY

also this is the worst blog design-wise and i know it. don't worry. text-size ridiculousness

ho ho ho here comes the halloween bunny

2008-12-08T01:50:00.000-08:00

:a study in triholiday mindboggling
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

YEAH

2008-12-02T15:47:00.000-08:00

there is something inherently different in the way i feel about making art that i later sell and art that i make with the specific purpose of selling

and also i'm poor and need money for bills

and also this would help if i actually made art

wow i'm pretentious

DONG QICHONG KILLED CHINESE PAINTING

2008-11-24T16:46:00.000-08:00

他殺害了國畫死者。

romanization of chinese names can bite it

2008-11-22T19:33:00.000-08:00

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

thx hllbrtn lol chatlog

2008-11-17T23:58:00.000-08:00

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

1 2 w@ch : Ditch Projects

2008-11-11T00:18:00.000-08:00

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.

REMEMBER remember

2008-11-05T12:00:00.001-08:00

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

thx bro-drillard

2008-11-03T23:27:00.000-08:00

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

transporter 4: crank 3: first 2 d1e

2008-10-30T00:34:00.000-07:00

the most meta m(eta)ovie
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META META META META META METAL

sometimes i sits and thinks

2008-10-23T14:25:00.000-07:00

and sometimes i just sits
OH ISN'T THAT FUNNY I REMEMBER IT FROM 8th GRADE IT WAS IN MY math CLASSROOM AND THERE WAS A PIC OF A CHIMP ON IT HEE HEE

let's have a little chat. a little chat about photography. i think that's what i'm going to write my master's thesis on. isn't that exciting i think so. so here's the scoop: lots of people have the general misconception that photos are for recording what is real, what is here/now/then. *buzzer sound* nope.

so sure (Su Shi? - that's a Chinese painting joke btw wow) using silver bichromate and the like in the early days of photography was p. neat to record the sweet stuff you saw and to show it to other people. hey let's go out into the woods and take pix of the natives of the american continent and the sweet rocks in yosemite too and then people will be like dayum check out those rocks and stuff. fame/money/science. but then let's say you go ahead a few decades and start looking at people like edward steichen and the pictorialists. they, imho, kind of took the easy way out in getting people to start thinking of photography as art and not just some scientific process. they were all like: look, we are posing people like they are in paintings, the scenes are all fabricated, we have the light just so, i greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in. then they'd put them up in frames that kind of resembled altar pieces. f. day was like: i'm going to be theatrical and string myself up like jesus on the cross to recreate a religious scene. people weren't too thrilled. (although ppl did like those other pictorialists/ me 2)

but THEN we have alfred stieglitz (who looks a lot like david cross with hair btw) and he's like cool, i went to europe, i'm setting up all my photos to be all scenic and such. but then he decided: no. i'm going to just wait out in the snow and hope that the exact moment i'm looking for (previsualizing, he called it) comes along and then WHAM! i'll take the shot and it'll be so cool and artsy. and he was right. straight photography. the birth of the snapshot as 'art'.

so these days everyone and their moody aunt is taking pix all the time and very few people who don't smoke cloves and wear 4 scarves and very tight jeans are thinking about the way to set up a shot and make a good photo. sign of the times i guess. but it's way easier to take photos now, so sometimes people are like: i could have done that (constant curse of the art museum goer: listening to these fools). that's why i want to look at artists who are doing photos that you COULDN'T have done. like gregory crewdson. that guy sets up lights and models and towns and rain machines and all kinds of stuff to get one, big, great shot. jeff wall does stuff like that too. photographic posed tableaus that play with people's idea of the photo as a recording of real life. i don't really know where i was going with this, but sometimes it helps to just write things down on the internet.

OK THAT IS ALL FOR NOW THX

"Certainly common sense distinguishes an image from reality. But why does common sense vanish in front of a photograph and charge it with such a mythical power over life and death?"

-THIERRY de DUVE

Jeff Wall's "Flooded Grave"
Gregory Crewdson's "Untitled" from the 'Twilight' Series

haHA!1!

2008-10-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

oh look i have a webpagesitedotcom
http://www.hypercritical.info

it
kind
of
works

sort of.

DOIT

deskMOD™

2008-10-05T22:03:00.000-07:00

finally got a desk that wasn't missing a side isn't that cool
$10bux:: later here we are
added some of the broken desk to the new/used desk
basically i added a spoiler to it
because when i'm on the internet i like to go fast

zooom

a request

2008-09-28T18:00:00.000-07:00

give unto me a flat brymmd baseball cap so i too mayest be a bro

typical.

2008-09-18T16:18:00.000-07:00

hahaiforgot
i went to first thursday and there was some performance space on top of TUBE
the mc guy was like i just got back from burning man
then he made this noise that apparently was his energy in the room
who the fuck knows
acid
then this guy started freestyling about things and their opposites and life
and the consequences
and his dilemmas
and who he was
and shit
the mc was like thats a pretty light topic haha like it was a good joke

it was not a good joke

we left early

death for fashion

2008-08-11T15:14:00.000-07:00

these fucking jeans are killing me.
but jesus do i look good.
wave of the future.
dry denim.
.past

the worst kind of meta

2008-07-21T23:04:00.000-07:00

my friend had a dream about not being able to sleep

a splash of cultchah

2008-05-02T20:49:00.000-07:00

i went 2 teh uo mfa artshow 2nite

i will offer up mah commenz l8r

they had delicious crabcakes

and art

I found a painting at schOOL

2008-04-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

so i took it home.

sharpie makes paint markers

2008-04-16T23:26:00.000-07:00

they are nice (PERIOD)

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2008-04-15T15:04:00.000-07:00

let's talk a little about art historical theory. shall we? yes we shall. currently i'm taking a pretty stellar course on media, surveillance and spectacle as it relates to art. we just finished a massive packet of readings from foucault, jonathan crary, deleuze, lyon, and boyne among others (jameson, you know who you are AND GOOD OL' GUY DEBORD YOU SILLY SAP [actually he's pretty cool]) as well as a lil bit about jeremy bentham: the man behind the gd panopticon.

can i haz spectacle?

lolcats are an example of detournement. in a way. ok, debord's like "Hey. i'm here with my homies from situationist int'l. let's challenge passivity as it relates to the spectacle." ok, they say. ok others say. Marxist. the idea behind detournement is taking something that exists already and then detourning it, aka making it tell you something that it hadn't done before. look on youtube. they have some stuff. especially there's one that takes the mad hatter's teaparty from disney's alice in wonderland and then they dub over the voices to put an entirely new twist on it. lots of detourners like to make things tell other people/enlighten them dudes about the spectacle, the overarching structure that some theorists posit covers over society. more on that later. back to lolcats. you've got a picture of a cat. it is doing something. insert large text. this text changes what the cat is originally doing in the picture. thus you have detourned the picture of the lil bitty kitty. how clever you must think you are. that's a really watered-down version. but i can't resist making theoretical comments about memes.

spectacle/ULAR

what is this spectacle business neway? you mean like a big show? or one of those performance art pieces that we hate but love because they often involve naked people? kind of. the spectacle in a nutshell is the system, the man, the overarching society as a whole. everything we do is part of it. if you are rebelling against it, well that's part of it too. the spectacle is the center force that is cellularizing us into our different lifepaths/jobs/whatever. the impetus. as a culture, what we produce, that's spectacle. well, kind of, some argue that it is no longer relevant. of course, that's all part of the spectacle, the avant-garde, the freethinkers, that kind of thing, just another piece to the puzzle. kind of like a zeitgeist? it's impossible to tell because, in the thoughts of our long-dead friend Plato: you can't critique a culture from within. well then we are just out of luck. but people try anyway. because that's more fun that giving up.

crary's like: debord says the spectacle started in 1927. (debord's a very specific guy. he wrote a whole thing on the spectacle all in bullet points. yeehaw. so there are kind of two spectacles ya? there's the concentrated spectacle (i.e. police states) and then there's the diffused spectacle (i.e. the commodity-driven USofA *cryingeagle*). but now aren't they kind of intertwining? or are they going away into a more code/information flow system instead of spectacle/appearance stuff? HMMMMM BERRY INTERESTING.

cookies and american idol

so then we've got the panopticon. jeremy bentham, back in the 18thc. devised of this structure that's basically a cylindrical building with a tower in the middle. all around the edges are cells or rooms that are lit from the outside. this makes it so that people in the middle tower can see what's going on in the cells but the people in the cells can't see what's going on in the tower. so someone could always be watching but no one in the cells knows. the idea is that then people start to police themselves. it was supposed to be a prison. but bentham said it could work for schools, hospitals, etc. OH HO SAYS FOUCAULT LIKE 200 YEARS LATER LOOK AT THIS WE CAN APPLY IT TO SOCIETY. foucault writes: a lot. but he's talking about surveillance. how people assume they are being watched by the MAN or the GOV't so they kind of change their behavior? sort of. i guess. i'm thinking out loud here. people get all disciplined. disciplinary society. that's what foucault is all about in "Discipline and Punish" (a book!). let's talk a little about later views on this. now we got post-panopticism. boyne talks about that and decides we should abandon the concept of the panopticon for a few arguments. i'm only going to talk about two. the first is displacement by mechanisms of seduction. and what in the world is this you ask? think about cookies. on the internet. not choco, but like the ones in your browser. they figure out what sites you go to and where you ride the internet. then, when you go back to the places where those cookies came from they cater to what you want via what they have observed. people like this/people hate this. on one hand our society is very suspicious. some say they don't like to be watched at all times and that it makes them antsy. on the other hand, a lot of people are lazy. a culture of laziness. we like to be waited upon by the cookies and other little automata that watch us in order to serve us. oh the internet knows where i live and told me about a sweet pizza place. now i don't have to go search for a dining establishment of note. you get the idea. we are displacing the notion of surveillance through seductive means of championing subconscious laziness. OK! and now for the other thing: supplementation of the panoptical plan (the few looking at the many) with the SYNOPTICON. this translates as the many looking at the few. there is some of this in society. think of politicians or the cult of celebrity. the masses watch those individuals and have somewhat of an impact. (i.e. if a movie star falls from the public favor or a politician does something stupid and we all are like: yo, stop knocking on bathroom stalls for sexual favors). the synopticon can be seen in a weird way in shows like American Idol. there the masses have a direct say in how the individual fairs. via voting. you can see this in bad horror movies like that one where the website killed people by how many people are surfing to it. ("HE'S HACKED INTO MY WIRELESS NETWORK THAT MEANS HE CAN SEE EVERY KEYSTROKE!!!!"). in the end, though it's interesting to see that the synoptic and panoptic views often don't correspond. the few are watching the many but the many are rarely watching the few who are watching the many. BOOM.

and that is what i have to say about that.

and now a picture of a dog in a hat.

R.U.G. #2 - Urban Imagery

2008-03-05T13:19:00.000-08:00

The internet. Pop culture. Skateboards. Lacklustre photoshops.

Apparently the denotation of "urban" now means a variety of things. But let us not become too bogged down by this semantic setback for, to quote my eloquent self, "It's got some good stuff in it."

But of course, with the good comes the bad. In this case the shining stars like Tali Purkerson eclipse the more meager offerings. Check out that astronomical talk I just used. Stellar.

I'm not really sure what the whole show was supposed to be focused on other than anything I gleaned from the title. The Laverne Krause Gallery shows don't tend to have wall text that gives you a hint or two. But they are only up for a week, so I'll let it slide. On immediate entrance to the space on my first, cursory visit, I was struck by the blank wall across from the doors. Oh well, I thought, whatever. Upon a quick glance to the right, all thoughts of the faux-Ryman wall were put out of mind. Now a little warning: I like big wall paintings; I like black and white; I like lines. With this knowledge you, dear reader, can imagine my happiness when Purkerson's "Milan Sketch Mural (Sketchbook – 2005)" of 2008 popped into my periphery. The thrusting upwards in Sharpie™-like strokes emphasizes the grandeur of the Italian cathedral and brings in airy, open tones while still asserting a presence that dominates the entire gallery. Even given its sideshow placement.

Let us turn now to what happened on my second visit. I got looked at. That's right. A big ol' projection of an eye blinked right at me on the aforementioned perplexing white wall.

Appropriately dubbed "The Eye" by the

artist (Andrew S. Parnell), this piece takes some of the thunder away from Purkerson's mural. But only because it's big and bright. I mean, as far as animation art I guess it's OK, but nothing new or special. And, like much of Parnell's work in this show, less than inspired. I think he's got some ideas that could go someplace good (intentional word choice, not spectacular), but, as they say, "His mature work is yet to come." The series of works called collectively

"Silence" is certainly not "mature" and is certainly just some use of the clonestamp in photoshop. Just because you apply some effects to bad photos doesn't mean they become good photos.

Speaking of roflcopters (hai2 mah thotprocess lol), Steven Uppinghouse gives us a fine smattering of interart* that ranges from reworked propaganda images (like his Uncle Sam image asking you to quote unquote "PWN NUBS" [if you don't get this, well, it's ok, for now]) to snappy juxtapositions of the cute with the deadly (i.e. bear with a machine gun) to the aptly titled "Roflcopter". The ideas are taken from various online subforums and the images have been made before, but by bringing us these digital deviations irl, Uppinghouse, whether he knows it or not, is bringing into focus the very idea of internet culture. It exists in a non-site. Smithson anyone? (Read up on Miwon Kwon and her discussion of site-specificity too). The only problem here is the presentation. It's kind of informal. With a little better framing, labeling, and show composition (and probably a few years to develop a personal style of some sort) this could be something very telling of society, man's inhumanity to man, all that jazz, etc.

P.S. The only project I don't get of Uppinghouse's in relation to his other works is "Lily", a large two-tone cut wood piece of a flower. It is a mystery.

Located next to the interart is some very snazzy digital art. Drew Tran can certainly hold his own in the Adobe product spectrum. "Factory" and "Clutterfly" are both nice and sharp. They both use crisp imagery to make you go, "OOH. That's pretty!" "Factory" has some political, anti-establishment stuff going on, but y'know. "100 Skulls" is, I think, Tran's standout work in this show. And no, it's not because it has a Hello Kitty skull. Ok, maybe that's part of it. Since there is no artist's statement, I can't really tell what the artist was going for, but it probably has something to do with pop culture references and death. The skill in using a style that goes best with each lil' calavera is what makes this work. Subject matter, ptooey. Artistic/Design/Aesthetic quality, booyah.

On back to Tali Purkerson we go. A semi-diverse use of media here. Digital collage, real collage, painting, drawing, maybe you classify some of it as sculpture although good ol' Greenberg probably wouldn't like that much. Proof that traveling to Italy still helps out an artist's career, the multiple images of the cathedrals throughout the bootshaped bastion of Old Master booty are just a chunk of Purkerson's oeuvre. In addition to the aforementioned mural, there are also a few collages, other paintings as well as a wall full of skateboards and digital pieces. From the "Decks" series, the artist uses the bottom of skateboards as a canvas. Drawing from the pseudo-artistic tradition of illustrated snowboard and skateboard surfaces, Purkerson questions the nature of the canvas by providing a number of fine examples of colorful painted and drawn compositions clusterhung on the wall. Across the gallery, the 8 panels of "Method of the Machine" stare back at the boards with the almost trompe-l'oeil collage element. (Yeah, it looks like a magazine clipping but it's printed out flat from a computer machine. You try to explain it better). This set, shown as a part of the earlier "Humans and Technology" show, is not the strongest of all the work by the artist, but has the same synthetic quality of her other pieces in a more direct manner.

:tl;dr: Good stuff. Some not so good. Tali Purkerson and Steven Uppinghouse are ones to watch. Drew Tran has some slick imagery. Andrew S. Parnell needs to figure out a better way to express himself artistically and then stick with it. And Brian Knowles…didn't even talk about him did I? Overall, go see the show. It's up until March 8^th, 2008 at 3pm.

-INTERNET.COM
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*interart: defn: a non-organized movement of typically younger generation artists that draw on, intentionally or not, the memes and styles prevalent on many popular internet forums, comedy sites, and other online hitching posts; many of these works include text message or instant messenger-inspired wording/phrases/abbreviations; different from just using these internet catchphrases, etc. in an overused "joke" sense (or as a serious way to communicate), interart displays an emphasis on the more poststructuralist approach to the world contained within the non-site of the internet

Review Unsolicited Guerilla (R.U.G.) No. 1 - Room 249

2008-02-22T10:39:00.000-08:00

:ROOM 249:

A selection of artworks from the Arts Administration Students at UO.

Administration is not usually a word associated with art. There is probably good reason for this. I was decidedly skeptical when approaching this show. I read the little blurb on the wall (so very very small) and it said that these fine people made art to "maintain [their] connection to the creative world". Oh ho, I thought. Time to judge and judge I did.

There's good news and then there's bad news. Replace 'news' with 'art' for maximum effect. First the negative

side. There was a good effort/showing put forth. Some of the pieces had a decidedly 'sketchbook' feel to them. Apparently the artist thought that putting a fancy frame around them would detract from their study-like nature. Valiant effort chaps. Other pieces, like Kyryhan M. Rodriguez' acrylic work "Sunglasses and Make-Up" had promise but have been done

before. Choose a topic that is more provocative, refine your skills a bit and that large, bright, acrylic format will burst forth, spewing artistic goodness.

Speaking of spewing. Let's talk about Simone Coker's "Celebrity Babies" series. (Get it? Babies? Spewing? Ohhohoho.) These bright, wild headshot paintings of the cultural elites' offspring stand out among the rest. But not always in a good way. Sure this is a good style for the artist and the execution is relatively respectable, but all of this chokes and dies because of the presentation. Seriously. What. Sloppy black paint behind pieces that are screwed directly to the wall. Killed it. Let's not ever do that again. Thanks.

Don't get me wrong, this show was not all bad. Not in the slightest. Directly askance of the aforementioned lil' introductory walltext are a series of collagraphs and woodcuts by Nicole Riewe. Their minimal aesthetic is, for lack of a better term, quite zen. Understated colors on backgrounds that recall the glory

days of the beige era of computing. A bit decorative, but loads better than being punched in the eye.

On the opposite side of the doorway are a series of four digital c-prints from Kate Nosen. The larger format pieces are ok. Although there are creases in the print from folding or rolling. "Birthday Shoes" is one of the smaller, square format prints. It has some kickin' reds and a nice, artsy angle.

Well played Kate, well played.

Now on to the star of the show. Lauren Suveges certainly has her stuff together. Well presented. Well executed. "Heroine and Hero", her oil and pastel on canvas piece has a decidedly unfinished quality to it, but the "Requests" pieces are some good work/art/stuff on a wall that we like to look at.

Apparently enlisting the knitting skills of her Grandma Mary (there are no artists' statements in this whole show, c'mon guys), boxy forms are covered in a soft blanket of...knittedness. Little trinkets here and there are included for some reason or another. I'm sure there is some kind of personal meaning behind these works, but no one thought it meet to tell we the viewer anything via the walls. Suveges' best piece is "Requests #3-12". Like Coker, she too has decided to paint behind the piece on the wall. Unlike Coker, she actually pulls it off with a pleasing and complimentary effect.

tl;dr: This show is better than I was expecting. Some shining stars of Arts Admin saved it. But I think it's going to come down at the end of the week, so you'll just have to take my word and my camera phone's word for it. Until next time, judge'd.

-INTERNET.COM

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2008-02-08T14:28:00.001-08:00

READ THIS.

Step 1 and 2:

2008-02-05T19:49:00.000-08:00

Listen to an mp3 that is exactly 5 minutes and 23 seconds long while reading and rereading this sentence.

'Putting the Cans Back' by Alexander J. Ose/Internet.com blogosphereosis

2008-02-04T22:32:00.000-08:00

Transience. Revelry. Reversal. Alexander J. Ose's groundbreaking art event entitled 'Putting the Cans Back' touches on the everyday becoming the unusual. Captured in two photographs and two memories, the duality of perception is brought into startling contrast. The artist and the documentarian, the sole witnesses to a private event, here broadcast over the very public network of thoughts and ideas known as the internet two photos taken, quickly, during and after the performance.

Dressed in a suit jacket, recalling the white collar bureaucracy of the conglomerate corporations like Miller™, Ose first removed six (6) "tallboy" cans of 16 fl. 0z. each from their plastic six pack rings. Upon consuming the beverages, the artist then proceeded to place the cans back into the plastic rings from whence they had come.

When asked to comment on the monumental occasion that had just taken place, Ose stated, "I just think that's where our society's heading."

Where our society's heading indeed. This sentiment can be seen echoing in all of the channels of life throughout the United States and even spilling into the rest of the world. We take out but we do not put back in. The receptacles of our societal alcoholism are tossed away like so many bitten off fingernails: littering our lives with refuse and remorse and a hangnail of regret.

And he didn't even clip the rings afterward.

All those dead seagulls.

It sickens me.

This message is meant to sicken.

To destroy.

To hurt.

What have we become.

Ose's performance has struck a threatening chord in the mind of the art world. Where does it go from here?

Back.

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2008-02-03T23:55:00.000-08:00

EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE ART EVENT

by renowned performANCe artIST :aLeXaNDeR J. oSe:

documented by this very blogspacesiteosphere

:COMING SOON:

2MRW.htm/waiturturn

poster postings: meta as shiiiiiiiiii

2008-01-30T23:21:00.000-08:00

top: 18/24 & not actually that pxltd

bottom: 8.5/11 & actually that GD good

.rxn

2008-01-29T00:58:00.000-08:00

jp (12:56AM):

i don't really understand your art

jp (12:56AM):

but i understand that it's a revolution

gb (12:56AM):

NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME

meant to be seen in a horizontal progression on a wall with three inches between them where they are about two by one and a half feet in photo ratio

2008-01-28T21:54:00.000-08:00

JUSTice

2008-01-28T12:14:00.000-08:00

snow makes everything so white

also there are a disturbing amount of snow sculptures in used car parking lots can you digg it i can't i don't have that button

i'm in ur galleriez judgin ur art

2008-01-25T09:28:00.000-08:00

so far it sucks
where did you get your degree
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colorfields are so old news
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(and what is this collage)
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' I am for art that is smoked, like a cigarette, smells, like a pair of shoes.' -c.o.
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'I cannot smoke this.' -i.c

inter.art

2008-01-24T15:14:00.000-08:00

get it here while itzhot.

coming at you from the .com/htm: can i get a hulzye

watch this space for :meme:

INTERNET.com

WE HAVE MOVED!

Baking and Magic

Really could use a redesign or somethin.

I bought some watercolors at the store.

Years Gone by Me

Yep.

The Spring of Our Disconnect

HO Ho! Review'd.

Happy Easter+1

Please Give Me a Job, ::thx::

What do you call an American version of a chav?

10 Things for You to Stop Doing in 2010

FISTS WITH YA TOES

Honking of horns is not necessary thx.

The last gradings.

By the numbers.

lol3amshopping

Hear ye here ya.

Today it is rainy.

10/07/09

THERE IS SOMEONE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW

Why is moving so tedious?

An Open Letter

GODD#MN!

My New Favorite Metasite

Widened Kennedy

The Blog Troller Meta Experiment: Trying to Catch an Arcangel at His Own Game

A Liem: List + Poem: Things for the Near Future.

End of an Era

meta, (n.) English:

*pop*

p1ac3h01d3r

n3w 5tuff

how does this happen

ohgodhowdidthisgethereiamnotgoodwiththesis

theory in the morning

sometimes i listen too

the New Poetry

{{[[script type="text/javascript" /script]]}}

Lightfoot

* (it's a snowflake lull)

ho ho ho here comes the halloween bunny

YEAH

DONG QICHONG KILLED CHINESE PAINTING

romanization of chinese names can bite it

thx hllbrtn lol chatlog

1 2 w@ch : Ditch Projects

REMEMBER remember

thx bro-drillard

transporter 4: crank 3: first 2 d1e

sometimes i sits and thinks

haHA!1!

deskMOD™

a request

typical.

death for fashion

the worst kind of meta

a splash of cultchah

I found a painting at schOOL

sharpie makes paint markers

SURVEIL THIS \m/

R.U.G. #2 - Urban Imagery

Review Unsolicited Guerilla (R.U.G.) No. 1 - Room 249

;;;St3p E:::

Step 1 and 2:

'Putting the Cans Back' by Alexander J. Ose/Internet.com blogosphereosis

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poster postings: meta as shiiiiiiiiii

.rxn

meant to be seen in a horizontal progression on a wall with three inches between them where they are about two by one and a half feet in photo ratio

JUSTice

i'm in ur galleriez judgin ur art

inter.art

pop