Bednarek, Sarah

Sarah Bednarek's got a website!

Mirrorballs and the art of rock

A Great show at the Petri Space with Blanko and Noiry & The Family Band

small arch

Converse Miter

from a photo/sculpture of mine

Digging Machines

My mother's son's brother's daughter's brother is a sandfort building phenomenon. I mostly drink beach sodas and watch the magic happen.
--link that boat fort video again, I love it.

Gabe & Ryan

Gabriel Bennet & Ryan Ford's work was presented at Luhring Augustine Gallery last Thursday night. It's open through the 29th of August, go see it while we're having perfect weather (today)

Gabe & Karen in front of Gabe's sculpture Panorganon: Newton's Love Song

Ryan Ford's nice pairing

and on the subject of great results from lovely pairings- presenting Milo Watkins Rhames by Claire & Virgil

A Superb Spillway

As fine a sight as you could hope for when weaving through the northern counties.
Thank you Richard for giving me the job of driving the car with the super sunroof, and for not complaining when I slow down to take a quick snap.

specking with Meridith Pingree

Here's a fifteen second shot of my computer screen with some hand squigglingNotice the gigantic blob in the upper left?, I think we've got a speck of crud on our fancier camera's sensor, it's hiding better on the second picture but it's there. Anybody know a good dry cleaner?

Squishy Geometry closed today, which is why we brought out the mysterious boog camera.

Welding & Breaking.

Yuckbite making monsters
Brian with brunch fun at one of Williamsburg's classier joints

speaking too loudly

Yikes, this is disturbing. A pal forwarded this link in what seems to be an uncontrollable need to pass it on. I try to be very patient with big ideas and crazy concepts, but this is way too wrong.

brick

I made a small earthquake yesterday. My new method is far easier than the old and I'm really excited about its good looks. stay tuned.

Molten Sprouts

Meridith's show at Fringe Exhibitions is awesome. If you're in L.A. between now and the 23rd of February, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 12 - 6
or by appointment

504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-613-0160

"Frequency" is over

Thanks go to Tina Zavitsanos & Elonda Billera for putting the show together and Millersville University/Sykes Gallery (Brant) for housing it.

CMYquaKe

Tornadoquake

Eagle's Nest

Here's a little bit of footage of me & Pat D from last night at Fritz's pool party. The pool was just short of unridable but was a blast to hang out at. Fritz was making espresso's for us and jamming the raucous rock & roll, all to rid the bowl of "bad art demons" before Fritz installs a sculpture in it for a solo opening this January at Cueto Project. More to come on that, here's this-

New Arch cracks

Lean-to Earthquake

Paper stack and flying cat

Shane Murray's Art

Shane Murray's butt


Shane Murray's Website

And, as promised, flying cat

Surfing Al-Hadid

Stu Hollins, feeling it, surfs an installation of Diana Al-Hadid's in 2005

I recently emailed with a gentleman by the name of Marc Weidenbaum who writes disquiet.com, he had some questions regarding cameras and photography in general. After looking at his blog it was clear that I didn't have that much to offer. His pictures were already good, but I said what I knew and he was appreciative. Anyways, back to his blog, turns out he's done some posts on Diana and has put together some great insight that I'd like to share. Here's his Al-Hadid posts:
Most recent at Perry Rubenstein
This past summer at Tonya Bonakdar
As he's someone who gravitates toward sound art, he was struck with the sound aspect of Diana's sculptures. Wow, I think they're both geniuses, Marc & Diana. One for making this thing that can resonate at a frequency that we can only see, and the other for noticing. If anyone's familiar with my work, you know that I sometimes plug stuff in to try to create dramatic, often ineffective, effects. I happily got sidetracked to this very thing that's got Marc's attention, that visual noise and what I've often referred to as "implied kinetics". More fun, less frustrating, and I can install in a flash. Thanks Marc, Thanks Diana, and most of all, Thank you Stu, for hamming it up when I need it.

Ween'n

So I'm gearing up for the crossword puzzle on the train ride north when I see that Ween's got a review. I thought that was fascinating, me liking both the band, and the crossword. Don't look too hard, I screwed up and put tern down as an arctic floater. It's berg.

Anyhoo, I thought that it would make a nice segued to meeting up with Frank & Michelle to see Ween play at Terminal 5 last Friday night.Ween shook the place up. Funny internet story- when I was younger and had gotten a job at the Salt Lake City Library, the librarians instructed me to familiarize myself with the internet. I was sent down to the basement where there was a computer that was hooked up to it, to fumble through it any way I saw fit. It was 1997 and the first page that came up was a generic search page. I had to choose what I wanted to attempt to "research". Being that I was a huge fan (had been since Ronn & Kelly Benway turned me on to God Ween Satan, right before the Pod was released. I was totally affected), I typed in Ween and pushed go. The first page I found was Vein's Live Ween Website, which began slowly loading its way down the screen. The first website I would ever visit was unfolding in front of me. And at a snail's pace, I appeared. I had an arrow coming off my head pointing to some text claiming I was this Vein's Mother. I was shocked. Here's the photo, circa 1996, not cropped down & minus the "mother" reference.
So, I was hooked instantly, and know I even buy my shoes there (the internet)
The following year I met Vein in Cincinnati, Ohio, thanks to some friends of his who recognized me from his site. He's a real nice guy from Indiana. Anyways, freaky internet stories aside, this show here was awesome. It was the first Ween show I've ever been to that I didn't take a crack at creating a good, non-violent circle pit, even for the slowest of the slow dirges. It's a calling, what can I say, and the forum thanks me for holding back. So I posted up on the 3rd story rail and watched. Here's some of what I saw, with some videos at the end.Here's the only sign of life, during "You F&^$*# Up" censored for your eyes and ear, young and old alike.

youwillheartny / Art Codex was represented by Ernest, Vandana, & Mike
(Mike got clipped by someones head, that's his arm to the right)

5th ave.

After the show we went to Gandhi for a late dinner, it was excellent, especially the mint nan.

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(more)

First Snow with brunch time crime

First Snow

Richtards

stay tuned

Remix!

Erik Guzman, Meridith Pingree, Federico Muelas, are showing in Shift downstairs, same night.

and, in anticipation of tomorrow's post, a little teasing of the birdcentric world I was living in last week.