Carols and Nikki
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Carlos B
Kevin
vendredi, mai 15, 2009
vendredi, février 27, 2009
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I am here at Krishna's attempting to upload the second half of the people pictures from the 2008 Walk. Unfortunately there are some technical difficulties and I will have to try again another day.
I've been singing in the choir at 4th U Church on the west side which, if you know me you know, is kind of a feat because I am not especially gifted in this arena. This lack of training/talent is heightened by the fact that pretty much everyone else seems to be fantastically talented. Luckily, everyone there is also very nice and good at teaching and tolerating the less musical. I wish I was saying this to be modest. Krishna lent me a book called Music Theory for Idiots. This book has actually helped, causing no less than three epiphanies so far.
The church is also hosting a production of the Vagina Monologues (April 4th). This has pretty amazing as far as church experiences go. It prompted me to go to the library and check out the book.
I have started to practice typing/writing by typing one 11pt page every morning (or almost every morning). This has been good. I've also taken up belly dancing.
Last night Charlie Rose had a guy from Amazon Books on talking about Kindel (sp?) paperless reading devices. This guy looked very much like Tom Beach if Tom Beach had gone partially bald and gotten a very conservative hair style. Apparently, Amazon or his branch of the business is buying up land in Texas and building spaceships.
I am here at Krishna's attempting to upload the second half of the people pictures from the 2008 Walk. Unfortunately there are some technical difficulties and I will have to try again another day.
I've been singing in the choir at 4th U Church on the west side which, if you know me you know, is kind of a feat because I am not especially gifted in this arena. This lack of training/talent is heightened by the fact that pretty much everyone else seems to be fantastically talented. Luckily, everyone there is also very nice and good at teaching and tolerating the less musical. I wish I was saying this to be modest. Krishna lent me a book called Music Theory for Idiots. This book has actually helped, causing no less than three epiphanies so far.
The church is also hosting a production of the Vagina Monologues (April 4th). This has pretty amazing as far as church experiences go. It prompted me to go to the library and check out the book.
I have started to practice typing/writing by typing one 11pt page every morning (or almost every morning). This has been good. I've also taken up belly dancing.
Last night Charlie Rose had a guy from Amazon Books on talking about Kindel (sp?) paperless reading devices. This guy looked very much like Tom Beach if Tom Beach had gone partially bald and gotten a very conservative hair style. Apparently, Amazon or his branch of the business is buying up land in Texas and building spaceships.
vendredi, janvier 02, 2009
Walking through Downtown Brooklyn, Chinatown, NYU to Bryant park
Vatya & Eli Levi
Jilberto
Turan
Anah, Alexa & Stephanie
Carolin Chin
Amy at the Center for Architecture
Ryan at Housing Works
Reef
New Museum
Russel Reaves & Rashawn
Dennis Christie
Shateisha
Mr. S Wayne & (Johnny B.?)
Louis
Randy Chin
Louis
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jeudi, décembre 18, 2008
mardi, décembre 16, 2008
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Snow! Great big fluffy hunks of it were falling as I walked around the cemetary, down 4th and Flatbush to the Dekalb st.
Last night I went to a good talk called Eutopia Now at the Center for Worker Education (25 Broadway right next to the Bull). Michael Sorkin spoke in amusing tones about zoning, soy plastics,new urban vehicals, Santa Monica, Far rockaway, 600 Miles of waterfront, artificial islands, better ones (bedouins?), photovoltaics, parks, and showed some great images. I rode down in the elevator with him and Greg Williams, the president of the CCNY, but couldn't think of anything witty to say.
Here is a list of terms that I had to look up:
Prolix
Levon?
Malthusian
Berman
Arverne
Arendt
Buzz Passwell
Bio-remediation
I have loads of pictures from the walk, but can't up-load them here at the library.
Snow! Great big fluffy hunks of it were falling as I walked around the cemetary, down 4th and Flatbush to the Dekalb st.
Last night I went to a good talk called Eutopia Now at the Center for Worker Education (25 Broadway right next to the Bull). Michael Sorkin spoke in amusing tones about zoning, soy plastics,new urban vehicals, Santa Monica, Far rockaway, 600 Miles of waterfront, artificial islands, better ones (bedouins?), photovoltaics, parks, and showed some great images. I rode down in the elevator with him and Greg Williams, the president of the CCNY, but couldn't think of anything witty to say.
Here is a list of terms that I had to look up:
Prolix
Levon?
Malthusian
Berman
Arverne
Arendt
Buzz Passwell
Bio-remediation
I have loads of pictures from the walk, but can't up-load them here at the library.
mercredi, décembre 10, 2008
Henry Mayzick
Kristina Gindinova
Carol Solovay
Laureano Feliciano
Ary & his mother
Angelica, Catherine and Amanda
Some of Ms. Kosovich's (sp.?) Social Studies students at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.Highhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.Highhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.High//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.High
Shirley and her very cute dog.
John Dooley recommends this website: www.nycsubway.org
Mike and co-workers near New Utrecht
walking the d-line
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Yesterday I started working on the first step of the NYC History Timeline Large Scale Sculpture. After talking about the idea to Holly at the Urban Center at CCNY, I was convinced that a good way to start would be to walk the length of the proposed site, the D-train.
This is a photo documented performance art piece. This month (December 2008) I will walk the length of the D-lineover the course of several days. In this way I hope to:
a) get a feel for the landscape of the city
b) make some contacts with people who live in communities surrounding the D-line.
So far, I have walked from Coney Island to 55th Street Station near Sunset Park.
The library doesn't seem to want me to upload these images here today, so I'll have to try again elsewhere.
Yesterday I started working on the first step of the NYC History Timeline Large Scale Sculpture. After talking about the idea to Holly at the Urban Center at CCNY, I was convinced that a good way to start would be to walk the length of the proposed site, the D-train.
This is a photo documented performance art piece. This month (December 2008) I will walk the length of the D-lineover the course of several days. In this way I hope to:
a) get a feel for the landscape of the city
b) make some contacts with people who live in communities surrounding the D-line.
So far, I have walked from Coney Island to 55th Street Station near Sunset Park.
The library doesn't seem to want me to upload these images here today, so I'll have to try again elsewhere.
mercredi, novembre 26, 2008
The Names, AF=author function, Moma
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aA man calling himself "Ron Ransom" slipped a petition for non payment under my door today.
If I have time I hope to go to Moma after dropping off the job application Michael gave me. Yesterday I came up with a list of questions for Damien Hirst. (Was that him getting out of a cab around 33rd st?) Eureka! I think I am learning how to get more out of the library resources. The research continues:
Contemporary Art (in NYC) 2008
Daniele Buetti--snowflakes+supermodles
Pablo Helguera--style
Joan Gibbons--memory
Eric Shiner
zkm
"I am sitting in a room."
I just picked up a book on Sound Art by Jim O'Rourke
powerhouse books
Garden City
Rugg+Sedgwick
aA man calling himself "Ron Ransom" slipped a petition for non payment under my door today.
If I have time I hope to go to Moma after dropping off the job application Michael gave me. Yesterday I came up with a list of questions for Damien Hirst. (Was that him getting out of a cab around 33rd st?) Eureka! I think I am learning how to get more out of the library resources. The research continues:
Contemporary Art (in NYC) 2008
Daniele Buetti--snowflakes+supermodles
Pablo Helguera--style
Joan Gibbons--memory
Eric Shiner
zkm
"I am sitting in a room."
I just picked up a book on Sound Art by Jim O'Rourke
powerhouse books
Garden City
Rugg+Sedgwick
lundi, novembre 24, 2008
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Vagina, Vagina, Vagina
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"Vivons heureux. Vivons caches."
I've been spending more time at the Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL). They have some databases there that seem like they could be powerful if one could figure out how to use them. My favorite right now is Reference USA which for my purposes is basically a really good yellow pages. (Remember phone books?)
I am researching the state of nyc art 2008.
Most of my contact with the fine art world here (besides talking about painting with my neighbor's Amayas and Mark or Photography with Krishna) has been related to the art dept. at city college, P.S. 1, Moma, Lew, Barry, and the key-lime-pie queen in the Bronx, the Whitney, looking at le pendant perdu, and magazines on the newstands at pen station.
People I seem to have art crushes on today are:
Tracy Emmer (sp?)
Damien Hirst
Keith Tyson
Kehinde Wiley
Pierre Cavalan
janaina tschape
Elizabeth Peyton
Taka Fernandez
Cindy Sherman
Iris Eichenberg
http://www.phoenix-gallery.com/
http://joshualinergallery.com/gallery/
"Vivons heureux. Vivons caches."
I've been spending more time at the Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL). They have some databases there that seem like they could be powerful if one could figure out how to use them. My favorite right now is Reference USA which for my purposes is basically a really good yellow pages. (Remember phone books?)
I am researching the state of nyc art 2008.
Most of my contact with the fine art world here (besides talking about painting with my neighbor's Amayas and Mark or Photography with Krishna) has been related to the art dept. at city college, P.S. 1, Moma, Lew, Barry, and the key-lime-pie queen in the Bronx, the Whitney, looking at le pendant perdu, and magazines on the newstands at pen station.
People I seem to have art crushes on today are:
Tracy Emmer (sp?)
Damien Hirst
Keith Tyson
Kehinde Wiley
Pierre Cavalan
janaina tschape
Elizabeth Peyton
Taka Fernandez
Cindy Sherman
Iris Eichenberg
http://www.phoenix-gallery.com/
http://joshualinergallery.com/gallery/
vendredi, novembre 21, 2008
Broadway Whispers
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CUNY Graduate Center cafe has works on paper hanging by or referencing these artists/events:
James Rosenquist
Amos Anderson
Roy Lichtenstein
Sol Le Witt (?)
Man Ray
Andy Warhol
Alexander Lieberman (sp?)
Chaine Simpson
1980 DNC
David Hockney
Picasso
Marcel Duchamp
World Congress for General Dis Armament and Peace
I'm here at the Business Library researching:
Contemporary Art in NYC 2008
How are you?
CUNY Graduate Center cafe has works on paper hanging by or referencing these artists/events:
James Rosenquist
Amos Anderson
Roy Lichtenstein
Sol Le Witt (?)
Man Ray
Andy Warhol
Alexander Lieberman (sp?)
Chaine Simpson
1980 DNC
David Hockney
Picasso
Marcel Duchamp
World Congress for General Dis Armament and Peace
I'm here at the Business Library researching:
Contemporary Art in NYC 2008
How are you?
jeudi, novembre 20, 2008
black tea shortage at penn station
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Well...grr...it's thusday ....it's november...I have a shrp pain in my shoulder and I'm craving caffine. There for some reason seems to be a black tea shortage at both Penn Station Borders and K-mart. This has made me unreasonably cranky and sad, as I am trying to quit drinking coffee and black tea is my substitute of choice while perusing the glossy art-porn. Now I am at the Sience and Business library...trying to rationalize spending a relatively large amount of money on Robyn Hitchcock tickets in the same week that I am re-applying for food stamps/public assistance.
Here are some galleries/artists I read about on my last Border Magazine Stand binge:
www.salomonarts.com
http://www.keszlergallery.com
www.joshuagallery.com
housprojects
www.theguildny.com
Well...grr...it's thusday ....it's november...I have a shrp pain in my shoulder and I'm craving caffine. There for some reason seems to be a black tea shortage at both Penn Station Borders and K-mart. This has made me unreasonably cranky and sad, as I am trying to quit drinking coffee and black tea is my substitute of choice while perusing the glossy art-porn. Now I am at the Sience and Business library...trying to rationalize spending a relatively large amount of money on Robyn Hitchcock tickets in the same week that I am re-applying for food stamps/public assistance.
Here are some galleries/artists I read about on my last Border Magazine Stand binge:
www.salomonarts.com
http://www.keszlergallery.com
www.joshuagallery.com
housprojects
www.theguildny.com
mercredi, novembre 12, 2008
Humility, Hubris, Pride and (Homelessness?)
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Still here at he GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis)improving my job readiness;not drinking coffee;and thinking about the history of public assistance, civil service, and corporate welfare.
November 22 4th U on 76th St is having an auction to which I have donated a few of my "dead" neighbor, Mark Shevlane's drawings. Monday night after attending a screening of Slumdog Millionaire, I stopped by the Art Student's league to talk to Barbara Adrian with whom Amayas says Mark studied.
As I am also preparing to apply yet again to CCNY's MFA program, my mind is on the state of contemporary art in NYC 2008. Last night I stopped by the Borders at Madison Square Garden to look at art magazines. Art in America, Interview, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Art Papers. Many of the good ones are funded partially by the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Now I'm off to a job fair at the Radisson Martinique Hotel on 32nd street. Then to talk to a law office about a class action law suit against the owners of the building where I live. Maybe I can get a hair cut today too.
More art links:
From Art Papers
oda projesi
center for tactical magic
embrace atl
out of actions
from art in america
aca galleries
Jacques Roch
Franklin Sirmans
art slant
James Cohan Gallery
Al Held
sideshowgallery
baldwingallery.com
gagosian
liza lou
mark dion
jenny holzer
michael snow
Bill Gilbert
from new american paintings
creative arts workshop
paul booker
www.hollyjohnsongallery.com
robert mcan
sydney yeager
keith allyn spencer
gillockgallery
from Cabinet Quarterly
Fogg Art Museum
michael taussig
Aperature
Still here at he GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis)improving my job readiness;not drinking coffee;and thinking about the history of public assistance, civil service, and corporate welfare.
November 22 4th U on 76th St is having an auction to which I have donated a few of my "dead" neighbor, Mark Shevlane's drawings. Monday night after attending a screening of Slumdog Millionaire, I stopped by the Art Student's league to talk to Barbara Adrian with whom Amayas says Mark studied.
As I am also preparing to apply yet again to CCNY's MFA program, my mind is on the state of contemporary art in NYC 2008. Last night I stopped by the Borders at Madison Square Garden to look at art magazines. Art in America, Interview, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Art Papers. Many of the good ones are funded partially by the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Now I'm off to a job fair at the Radisson Martinique Hotel on 32nd street. Then to talk to a law office about a class action law suit against the owners of the building where I live. Maybe I can get a hair cut today too.
More art links:
From Art Papers
oda projesi
center for tactical magic
embrace atl
out of actions
from art in america
aca galleries
Jacques Roch
Franklin Sirmans
art slant
James Cohan Gallery
Al Held
sideshowgallery
baldwingallery.com
gagosian
liza lou
mark dion
jenny holzer
michael snow
Bill Gilbert
from new american paintings
creative arts workshop
paul booker
www.hollyjohnsongallery.com
robert mcan
sydney yeager
keith allyn spencer
gillockgallery
from Cabinet Quarterly
Fogg Art Museum
michael taussig
Aperature
jeudi, octobre 16, 2008
ASLA, AFSCME, GMHC, and the skyscraper museum
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Here I am at The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), a Community Based Organization on 24th Street that (among other things) works with the NYS Dept of Labor to assist workers transition to better lives/jobs. The computers here are very fast.
There was some question last week when I went to the workforce center on 125th street last week to see about getting an extention on unemployment benefits. The question was to apply or not to apply, for public assistance that is. I applied. One week later I am here feeling pretty good about the decision. I won't know until next week if I qualify for anything, but I am pretty happy now with the "tough love" (for lack of a better term)I have recieved so far.
I am interested in jobs related to buildings maintenance and construction, as well as entreprenuership and the arts. I'm still planning on applying to CCNY's MFA program for fall 2009 even though my 2006 and 2007 applications were rejected. (Applications are due by the end of 2008.)This time my work will have to do with History (time+storytelling), Quilting, and Communication.
In addition to attending coffee and cookies at Redeemer, Erin and I have joined the choir at fourth UU (Landmark on the Park). THis has been a big source of joy, better than imagined. The choir director is amazing. The people are great company. Rosemary is great. Jill is great. All is good. On Sunday anyway. Tonight I am going to a R.E. leadership group meeting there.
We met a Photographer/videographer/screenwriter/director named Michael who lent me a copy of B. Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything and offered to let us collaborate on some projects with him. He is trying to digitally edit a play called "Blind Date". He smokes too much, but is otherwise a nice guy and a good mentor. He says I am wasting my time with this this Public Assistance Application/Endevour. I respectfully dis-agreed.
Last night I checked out a new museum called the Skyscraper Museum
Here I am at The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), a Community Based Organization on 24th Street that (among other things) works with the NYS Dept of Labor to assist workers transition to better lives/jobs. The computers here are very fast.
There was some question last week when I went to the workforce center on 125th street last week to see about getting an extention on unemployment benefits. The question was to apply or not to apply, for public assistance that is. I applied. One week later I am here feeling pretty good about the decision. I won't know until next week if I qualify for anything, but I am pretty happy now with the "tough love" (for lack of a better term)I have recieved so far.
I am interested in jobs related to buildings maintenance and construction, as well as entreprenuership and the arts. I'm still planning on applying to CCNY's MFA program for fall 2009 even though my 2006 and 2007 applications were rejected. (Applications are due by the end of 2008.)This time my work will have to do with History (time+storytelling), Quilting, and Communication.
In addition to attending coffee and cookies at Redeemer, Erin and I have joined the choir at fourth UU (Landmark on the Park). THis has been a big source of joy, better than imagined. The choir director is amazing. The people are great company. Rosemary is great. Jill is great. All is good. On Sunday anyway. Tonight I am going to a R.E. leadership group meeting there.
We met a Photographer/videographer/screenwriter/director named Michael who lent me a copy of B. Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything and offered to let us collaborate on some projects with him. He is trying to digitally edit a play called "Blind Date". He smokes too much, but is otherwise a nice guy and a good mentor. He says I am wasting my time with this this Public Assistance Application/Endevour. I respectfully dis-agreed.
Last night I checked out a new museum called the Skyscraper Museum
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