Thursday, May 22, 2008

China!

Going to Beijing in 10 hours for an opening on Saturday, stay tuned...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

with Mcinnon the Matrix

beware 10 13

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Hunter MFA show

Richard Wager was there.

As is the Courtney Tramposh miracle machine (I didn't actually see a title, but I like Miracle machine)
And Scott Penkava's gang of hooligans up on the roofTrick shots

Thursday, May 15, 2008

raffle prizes


It's supposed to be a fish, can you tell? There's no neurotoxin, but still, it's a little sketchy. from 2003, taken home by a nice woman. Let's hope it didn't end up burning her house down.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Sometimes Skateboards would rather swim than roll


The Girl in the Yellow and Black tank top said it executed a near flawless dive with zero splash. All's I can say is I'm thankful I wasn't on it. It's green & yellow if you happen to be swimming in the area of 34th street.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

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.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Catch & Release

From a Vimeo search for Throbbing Gristle-

Catch and release from Shackep on Vimeo.

Mom, remember when you gave me a potato chip tied to a string so I could go fishing?
That was really nice, but I wish it had been a little chunk of raw beef. Anyways, what do you want the Mother's Day bird to bring you for Mother's day?



From a Youtube search for Throbbing Gristle-

blow your speakers!


PS1's got a great show up called Wack!. and they've got the reversing falls of Olafur Eliasson. , also great. I don't want to sound creepy, but the Cosey Fanni Tutti (of Throbbing Gristle) room was my second favorite, next to Martha Rosler videos.

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Lacrosse Star

CONCORD-CARLISLE 14, WAYLAND 13: Wyatt Davis netted a hat trick, including the the game-winning goal with 30 seconds left, as Concord-Carlisle edged Wayland, 14-13, in a closely contested Dual County League matchup.

Mel Sperling and Caroline Stack each recorded hat tricks while Lindsay MacDonald added another two for the Warriors (3-8, 3-6 DCL). Lauren Griamanas had a solid effort in goal recording 13 saves for Wayland.

Hillary Cook and Maddy Traynor also had hat tricks for C-C (4-4-1). Amelia Vierstra made 10 saves to net the win for the Patriots.

Not Amelia, but the right team. Go Pats!!
photo: John Walker

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Beijing Rotation & Gyration

Churning

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Friday, April 25, 2008

Central park, and hippies

Imagine $64 worth of flowers from the bodega spread over the ground.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Welding & Breaking.

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

Monday, April 21, 2008

Over The Opening


Thank you to M. River And T. Whid of MTAA for a few moments of fame last week, honoring us by honoring a contemporary performance art piece by Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG) that held our picture. It all went down at thier studio, or OTO Art Space, as it is called one night a month.

an A performance

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

stickitecture

Libby Hartle at Pocket Utopia - show's over April 27th.
She's got some really nice drawings and collages but I was really enamored of that blue pulp jar in back.


Sunday, April 13, 2008

RRobots in Chicago

Nick, who I did a collaboration with last fall, has a show up in Chicago. It looks mind-blowing. The folder he emailed was called "stokedonmyballs", a fitting title. I know I am.

GARDENfresh Gallery
R Nicholas Kuszyk, “Check Out My Green Balls”

April 11 – May 10, 2008


From GARDENfresh Gallery's Website:

R Nicholas Kuszyk was five when his Christian Science missionary parents were murdered by an unknown cannibal tribe in the Ratanakiri Province of Cambodia. R Nicholas spent the next seven years of his childhood headhunting in Cambodia and Laos with his surrogate family of pigmy warriors. By the time he was eleven R Nicholas had become deputy chief of his tribe and was the most skilled poison dart maker in the region. At the height of his poison dart making career, just a single dart made by R Nicholas could be traded for the entire decapitated body of a mature female boar. On his thirteenth birthday he was crowned ambassador of national security under King Norodom Sihamoni, and the eighth member of the Nine Thrones of the Parliament of Cambodia. Although it is not recorded, there are rumors of one of R Nicholas's darts being the weapon that killed the King six months later. R Nicholas denies any involvement in the assassination but having become a close friend to the king (rumors of a more intimate relationship circulated,) this event is said to be the cause of R Nicholas's emotional exile back into the animistic tribal forrest of the Ratanakiri Province where he abandoned his mastery of the blow dart and took up Theravada Buddhist scripture calligraphy. During this time R Nicholas was the first person to receive an associates degree in calligraphic copyright law through Ratanakiri Community College's internet degree program. Using his degree combined with his blow dart making techniques R Nicholas was able to manufacture and license Cambodia's first trademark registered ball point pen made from the hollowed femur bone of the overpopulating howler monkey and a grain of rice. For the ink he used mud. It is here, inspired by the spirit of the rain forrest creatures, where R Nicholas began to develop his style of character illustration. R Nicholas is said to be the only person to have drawn a portrait of more than 3500 endangered and extinct species from life. R Nicholas admits to having eaten the last member of over 1000 bug species due to the extreme conditions of deep canopy life. "It's either them or me." He said in the candid 1999 National Geographic interview entitled "Why am I so much taller than all my friends?" It was this article that caught the eye of Virginia Commonwealth University's art school recruiter Myron Helfgott, who brought R Nicholas to the new world and taught him modern and contemporary techniques of artistic expression. Now known as the "robot." R Nicholas's portraits of the creatures of the shrinking Cambodian rain forrest have evolved naturally over these 9 years into a playful representation of the homogeneous nature of America's unnatural spiritual, social, and aesthetic sterility. R Nicholas Kuszyk now lives in Brooklyn and is working on a children's book being published by Penguin Young Readers group.

Friday, April 11, 2008