New girl glow eyes blue outside the edges.
Purple lips. Bad at liking girls.
An old chinese fortune cookie promise and a fresh poem she wrote.
Primal conversations neighboring and the door slams.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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Yell "CRAZY HOOOOOOO!" on tar roof tops painted silver to keep the temperature of the entire city down round ground level where sweat is an equalizer. Steamy cheekbone bathroom illuminated. Red tea scarf.
Humor over insanity inner city outside in the grass.
Humor over insanity inner city outside in the grass.
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beautiful buddha answer of dumbfounding dumbness make you go "Ahhhh" it's that simple so and doesn't seem real. Nonsensical harmony of new messiah message man - bumbling beard and all.
"My socks are soaked!"
"unsoak them"
new epic poem of unepic answers
"My socks are soaked!"
"unsoak them"
new epic poem of unepic answers
Saturday, April 11, 2009
DRAW TOUR S.F.
Today is the opening for the first real show that I've been involved in. Super psyched. Here's the Press Release and a link to images.
http://www.fusegallerynyc.com/DrawTour/tour.html
On exhibit at:
SHOOTING GALLERY
839 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 931-8035
www.shootinggallerysf.com
APRIL 11th – MAY 7th 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 2009 7-11pm
DRAW is a must-see art exhibition featuring original drawings by over 300 artists in the skateboard, music, urban, tattoo, literature, design, illustration, animation, psychedelic and new contemporary art worlds. The show is a tribute to the often underrated but
fundamental building block of visual and graphic art: the drawing.
DRAW is the largest contemporary drawing exhibition to emerge out of New York City. Most recently, the exhibit drew over 2000 people to its London debut at StolenSpace, East London’s Leading Contemporary Urban Art Gallery. The exhibit debuted in October
of 2006 at NYC’s Fuse Gallery to phenomenal response from audience and press alike. It had an equally impressive showing during the SXSW 2007 Music and Interactive-Film Festival in Austin, Texas. DRAW is currently on a six-country world tour that includes
future showings in Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Berlin.
Artists whose original works are in the show include: Alex Grey, HR Giger, Clive Barker, Richard Serra, David Byrne, Dalek, Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers, psychedelic legend Rick Griffin, Ron English, Neck Face, skate legend Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Jack Rudy, Sorayama, Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), WK Interact, Camille Rose Garcia, Tim Biskup, Benjamin Cho, Mark Bode, Kevin Llewellyn, Michael Hussar, Eric White, Rich Jacobs, Shawn Barber, Mike Giant, DAZE, Derek Hess, Mark Dean Veca, Brian Degraw, Nate Loman, Brendan Fowler, Aurel Schmidt, Gary Baseman, Shepard Fairey, Tara McPherson, Mars-One, Hank Williams III, and many, many more.
DRAW is curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey with guest curators Justin Giarla, Rich Jacobs, Jamie O’Shea, Tim Barber, Damian Weinkratz, Les Barany, Brendan Fowler, Mike Aho, Sto, Lisa Lebofsky and D* Face.
Special thanks to Louisa St. Pierre, Peter Rosenthall, Amy Rosi, Shelter Serra and Ivory Serra.
For interviews with the curators/artists, high-res images or any other information please contact:
press@shootinggallerysf.com
phone: 415-931-8035
http://www.fusegallerynyc.com/DrawTour/tour.html
On exhibit at:
SHOOTING GALLERY
839 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 931-8035
www.shootinggallerysf.com
APRIL 11th – MAY 7th 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 2009 7-11pm
DRAW is a must-see art exhibition featuring original drawings by over 300 artists in the skateboard, music, urban, tattoo, literature, design, illustration, animation, psychedelic and new contemporary art worlds. The show is a tribute to the often underrated but
fundamental building block of visual and graphic art: the drawing.
DRAW is the largest contemporary drawing exhibition to emerge out of New York City. Most recently, the exhibit drew over 2000 people to its London debut at StolenSpace, East London’s Leading Contemporary Urban Art Gallery. The exhibit debuted in October
of 2006 at NYC’s Fuse Gallery to phenomenal response from audience and press alike. It had an equally impressive showing during the SXSW 2007 Music and Interactive-Film Festival in Austin, Texas. DRAW is currently on a six-country world tour that includes
future showings in Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Berlin.
Artists whose original works are in the show include: Alex Grey, HR Giger, Clive Barker, Richard Serra, David Byrne, Dalek, Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers, psychedelic legend Rick Griffin, Ron English, Neck Face, skate legend Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Jack Rudy, Sorayama, Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), WK Interact, Camille Rose Garcia, Tim Biskup, Benjamin Cho, Mark Bode, Kevin Llewellyn, Michael Hussar, Eric White, Rich Jacobs, Shawn Barber, Mike Giant, DAZE, Derek Hess, Mark Dean Veca, Brian Degraw, Nate Loman, Brendan Fowler, Aurel Schmidt, Gary Baseman, Shepard Fairey, Tara McPherson, Mars-One, Hank Williams III, and many, many more.
DRAW is curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey with guest curators Justin Giarla, Rich Jacobs, Jamie O’Shea, Tim Barber, Damian Weinkratz, Les Barany, Brendan Fowler, Mike Aho, Sto, Lisa Lebofsky and D* Face.
Special thanks to Louisa St. Pierre, Peter Rosenthall, Amy Rosi, Shelter Serra and Ivory Serra.
For interviews with the curators/artists, high-res images or any other information please contact:
press@shootinggallerysf.com
phone: 415-931-8035
Monday, February 9, 2009
Makin' Mends
I love it when bummerdom becomes productivity. I was really bummed out for a while there round about christmas time and it really sucked. I lost a lot in terms of my ideas about the way things should work between people and their communications and in terms of the function of hope. It resulted in me starting this blog and rambling about everything and anything (especially love). It also resulted in me fasting a bit and then drinking heavily. But what's important is that I made something good out of it. I needed to distract myself or else I couldn't sleep so I turned to the thing that is second most important in my life: art. And my solution wasn't to focus on making my own art. It would have been terrible. I instead started to focus on everyone else's art. I started putting together art shows with the help of my roommates called Fresh Grown Local that focus on showing the art of our friends in a celebratory environment. Everyone is welcome. Then we could all drink to our hearts content in the context of art. We could damage our livers and our brains productively! The first show had a great turn out and the second one is coming up on the 27th and I couldn't be more excited. I needed that disappointment in order to focus on art and organizing these events. Ideally I want to develop an art focused community. That's something that I feel hasn't existed much since the eighties and not in prime form since the fifties and sixties. It's kind of a stretch to say that We're anywhere near developing this sort of community but I think these art parties are good for us anyway. I've made a bunch of new friends through it and become closer with old ones and it's just the beginning! I'm really excited about art and people in general. Still a bit numb but it's definitely residing. Pins and needles stage.
New focus.
New people.
Good friends.
Makin' Mends.
New focus.
New people.
Good friends.
Makin' Mends.
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Pyramids
From the cup on the ground to the man in the crown,
Not one exists more than another.
2-D it. We live flat existence.
And then there was woman.
Not one exists more than another.
2-D it. We live flat existence.
And then there was woman.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
True Romance
What does the truth mean? And what does the way that it's portrayed mean? That sounds like an unanswerable question or some sort of pseudo-intellectual meditation topic but I mean it more by degree and in a 'how does it impact a life' kind of way. There have been a few instances in my life where people have told me the truth and I later realized that it would not have mattered at all if they had done that. What does the truth matter to me if the words are not shown by means of action? What kind of truth, if any, do I want to know?
Truth has to be physical and then expressed in words. It can't work the other way around because language is an invention that can't quite grasp the all-over-ness of truth. Language simply bludgeons it's recipient with approximations and man-made abstractions until, perhaps, it is finally able to conjure up a feeling close to what it is attempting to convey. It is an imprecise and incomplete system that we have come to rely too heavily on. Truth was around before the invention of language and that's the order that they need to remain in. For truth to be conveyed, it requires physical aid.
I've always been one to show people how I feel about them rather than outright telling them (at first, at least). Sometimes it's by going out of my way for them, or making something for them, but whatever it is, it's me saying physically how I feel about them. Simply telling takes no effort aside from that of speech, which is all too easy sometimes, and means relatively little in comparison. Of course there may be foundations for the words, but there is no structure to house them. Build the house and then fill it.
Strangely enough, physical lies can be told as ell as truths and also very different in their physical and verbal states. Physical lies are a little less malicious than verbal ones. In terms of relationships, if two people sleep together with the appearance of caring about each other and afterwards it is discovered that one of the participants really couldn't give a shit, that's a sort of physical lie; but at least both of them got a (hopefully) good fuck out of it. It's like giving a present to someone because you have to. There is that pain that comes with the realization that the person didn't mean it, but at least you got a gift.
Verbal lies don't have any of the fun that physical ones do and can go on for far longer, so long as the physical act of 'making good' on the words can be avoided, and because of this are just downright mean. They can cause far greater pain and anxiety because of their ability to go on forever.
The real truth can only be determined through physical action and followed up with verbal approximations and confirmation. Physical interactions are a way to determine what a person thinks about you and it's a way to enjoy it whether it be true or false in the end. If it does turn out to be a "lie," you can be sure there were intoxicants involved. In the case of a fist fight, you will definitely know the way a person feels about you and the pain resulting from it will engrave the occurrence forever in your memory and possibly your face. It's concrete. Even if a physical lie occurs, it can't last and it doesn't have the build up that verbal lies create in anticipation of their proof. It gets found out quick and it's easier to deal with because the idea of the truth hasn't been formulated into words yet so no attachment is formed and there is no way for it to sink in to the sentimental, language run brain.
Once again here I am advocating physicality. Being physical is the basis of living and neither physicality nor life exist as terms or states without the other. Go ahead and throw Love and Truth in there too. They're all connected and dependent upon one another. It's a web you can't break free of and there's constantly distractions, such as lies, and sadness, and spiders that might make you think hat life's all just a bunch of bullshit. It is though. But that's why you gotta love it. Thank God it's all just a game and we can play it how we like. We can smile now.
Show people how you feel. Do something you mean.
Truth has to be physical and then expressed in words. It can't work the other way around because language is an invention that can't quite grasp the all-over-ness of truth. Language simply bludgeons it's recipient with approximations and man-made abstractions until, perhaps, it is finally able to conjure up a feeling close to what it is attempting to convey. It is an imprecise and incomplete system that we have come to rely too heavily on. Truth was around before the invention of language and that's the order that they need to remain in. For truth to be conveyed, it requires physical aid.
I've always been one to show people how I feel about them rather than outright telling them (at first, at least). Sometimes it's by going out of my way for them, or making something for them, but whatever it is, it's me saying physically how I feel about them. Simply telling takes no effort aside from that of speech, which is all too easy sometimes, and means relatively little in comparison. Of course there may be foundations for the words, but there is no structure to house them. Build the house and then fill it.
Strangely enough, physical lies can be told as ell as truths and also very different in their physical and verbal states. Physical lies are a little less malicious than verbal ones. In terms of relationships, if two people sleep together with the appearance of caring about each other and afterwards it is discovered that one of the participants really couldn't give a shit, that's a sort of physical lie; but at least both of them got a (hopefully) good fuck out of it. It's like giving a present to someone because you have to. There is that pain that comes with the realization that the person didn't mean it, but at least you got a gift.
Verbal lies don't have any of the fun that physical ones do and can go on for far longer, so long as the physical act of 'making good' on the words can be avoided, and because of this are just downright mean. They can cause far greater pain and anxiety because of their ability to go on forever.
The real truth can only be determined through physical action and followed up with verbal approximations and confirmation. Physical interactions are a way to determine what a person thinks about you and it's a way to enjoy it whether it be true or false in the end. If it does turn out to be a "lie," you can be sure there were intoxicants involved. In the case of a fist fight, you will definitely know the way a person feels about you and the pain resulting from it will engrave the occurrence forever in your memory and possibly your face. It's concrete. Even if a physical lie occurs, it can't last and it doesn't have the build up that verbal lies create in anticipation of their proof. It gets found out quick and it's easier to deal with because the idea of the truth hasn't been formulated into words yet so no attachment is formed and there is no way for it to sink in to the sentimental, language run brain.
Once again here I am advocating physicality. Being physical is the basis of living and neither physicality nor life exist as terms or states without the other. Go ahead and throw Love and Truth in there too. They're all connected and dependent upon one another. It's a web you can't break free of and there's constantly distractions, such as lies, and sadness, and spiders that might make you think hat life's all just a bunch of bullshit. It is though. But that's why you gotta love it. Thank God it's all just a game and we can play it how we like. We can smile now.
Show people how you feel. Do something you mean.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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