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Sebastian Gogel
I recently met this artist in Chinatown working on his installation with another artist at ChungKing Project. Amazing work, I'm not really ready to write any commentary as I'm still digesting these images. But I will say the stuff is good...very good. This guy is pretty amazing....I'm definately a fan. Sebastian Gogel look under "kunstl...
Fiver
Fiver was that ultra-nervous bunny in "Watership Down", that had a sixth sense and the uncanny ability to predict catastrophe. I used to be very skeptical of ESP, but for about 2 months after 9-11, I developed the strange ability to know precisely what people were going to say or do about 2 -3 seconds before they actually did it. It wasn't a constant thing, but it was a marked ability that I became somewhat startled by. It's a fairly useless sixth-sense, however, as it was only a few seconds of leeway before I sensed something and then it actually occurred. Furthermore it only lasted a short while, and once the transcendental plane had achieved...
Apophatic Divinity
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.""A way a lone a last a loved a long the."(the first and last sentence of "Finnegans Wak...
Celebrate the New Dark Age...
...was an album by the Chapel Hill indie rock band Polvo released in 1994. If you're familiar with the band, that's great. If not, I'm hardly surprised. The reason I'm dropping a mention here, however, is that I think there's a lesson we can learn from this 90's rock masterpiece...one spelled out explicitly in the album title. Sadly, I feel that it may in fact be true that we live in a Dark Age of sorts, for all the obvious reasons that hardly need any explication,...but this should not eclipse the sublime beauty and poetic grace that constantly emerge from this gloom. "Light shines in darkness, because what else could it shine in?" I've been...
Absurd
I fully recognize the problematic nature of posting this, and any other image for that matter, on this here internet. But I have to say, this is my blog, and I'll do what I wan't. If you don't like it, don't read it. Nonetheless, It does feel kind of Myspace to be broadcasting the contents of one's own mirror. And maybe there is a part of me that lingers still in adolescence, a desultory and petulant teenager...trying to find my way in this world of diminished expectations. When you think about it, adults aren't really that much different from teenagers, and, as a point of fact I believe that they are less honest..mostly because they are better...
Surrender for Fashion
I made this painting in 1999 at CalArts..posting the below image of Jenny Agutter from "Walkabaout" refreshed my memo...
Part 40 of A.E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad'
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.This verse is recited at the end of Nicolas Roeg's stunning 1971 masterpiece "Walkabou...
"lifestyle arbitrator"
Sorry Bart, couldn't resisist...its was just calling me.I hope people realize this as being in the spirit of an homage..and an expression of sincere admiration. I wish people would do humorous send ups of my art.....
antonhenning.com
I love this painting by Anton Henning...it's a quotation of a famous work by Courbet called "Patron Greets Genius". Courbet was famously narcissistic....Anyways, Anton Henning is a fun painter. Looking at his work doesn't make you think much, but it makes you feel good. It makes me wan't to paint in bright, cheery sun-drenched hues. He's probably a really happy guy, and that comes across. But who knows...it all could be a performance...maybe he's an irritating asshole. Does it matter?...Not really. I wan't to do some paintings based on populating his luxurious modern interiors with wierd noirish sci-fi characters...now that would be cool. a...
I am the Cardinal of Geneva
Turns out that I'm also the Cardinal of Geneva....but don't be too impressed, it's just some fictional character in an online fantasy game that internet nerds play. I'm going to take control of my character and will soon be doing things very unbecoming of a Cardinal...alot of drunken swearing and staring leerily at lusty wenches. Getting loaded before mass and proclamations of the greatness of Scientology....click on the link below and then read to the bottom for the new and improved Cardinal..hehe. His Eminence, Jacques de Beauf...
