siesta todos los dias

On surrealism

2010-02-05T00:59:00.002-05:00

Surrealism is off the hook. The visual surrealism isn't the pure surrealism. The 'founders' or to put it more amusingly, 'conspirators' of the movement were poets and pure surrealism is in it's birth state.
Example:
THE OBSCURE SILENCE OF METALS WAS GRAZING ON THEIR WORDS
Visual artists were interested in it and produced their visual work yes. What they couldn't accomplish that the writers were able to easily do since words are not as iconic was to write, with seemingly a lack of reason, eccentrically familiar, or passable, prose and poetry. The extent of the capabilities of the visual capabilities of surrealism "treat the image as viable only so long as it conflicts with reasonable presumptions... provides a spectacle for which rational logic or past experinces have not prepared us."

SYQ SYQ SYQ

2009-08-11T00:32:00.003-04:00

working with showpaper these days/
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=192982051&albumId=457721&page=3

And here's SHAWN CHENG, a fabulous local comic artist.

2009-04-20T01:57:00.000-04:00

VIVIANWONG.NET , ,

2009-04-13T12:04:00.006-04:00

http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=20848

Yayoi Kusama =
cray + cray

2009-04-11T10:53:00.007-04:00

Imagining Defeat
by David Berman




She woke me up at dawn,
her suitcase like a little brown dog at her heels.

I sat up and looked out the window
at the snow falling in the stand of blackjack trees.

A bus ticket in her hand.

Then she brought something black up to her mouth,
a plum I thought, but it was an asthma inhaler.

I reached under the bed for my menthols
and she asked if I ever thought of cancer.

Yes, I said, but always as a tree way up ahead
in the distance where it doesn't matter

And I suppose a dead soul must look back at that tree,
so far behind his wagon where it also doesn't matter.

except as a memory of rest or water.

Though to believe any of that, I thought,
you have to accept the premise

that she woke me up at all.

2009-03-20T23:34:00.004-04:00

My candy braces

2009-03-19T01:58:00.009-04:00

the super Lamb banana
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2009-03-19T01:52:00.010-04:00

Be pleased to meet

2009-03-17T21:26:00.007-04:00

CHRISTOPHER DAVISON// love child of intaglio and Bosch//

http://www.christopherdavison.com/works/200604etcetera/200604etcetera01.html

2009-01-29T21:02:00.003-05:00

2009-01-24T16:03:00.023-05:00

When Freud worked with people with trauma (particularly the trauma experienced by soldiers returning from World War I), he observed that subjects often tended to repeat or re-enact these traumatic experiences, a phenomenon that Freud called repetition compulsion. This appeared to violate the pleasure principle, the drive of an individual to maximize his or her pleasure. Freud found this repetition of unpleasant events in the most ordinary of circumstances, even in children's play (such as the celebrated Fort/Da (Gone/There) game played by Freud's grandson, who would stage and re-stage the disappearance of his mother and even himself).

2009-01-14T10:17:00.006-05:00

plastR jacket

2008-09-22T00:08:00.008-04:00

Been listening to Diane Cluck's radio stream on http://phoningitin.net/shows/369-Diane-Cluck

amazing diagnosis

2008-08-13T22:10:00.008-04:00

And the Doc said I got'sa lot of it. This is my emoticon for the day. . . only what's missing is the knife through my throat.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: Charlotte Gainsbourg

2008-08-08T00:37:00.005-04:00

What a spectacularly oval face.

Heros

2008-08-05T16:42:00.005-04:00

AMY HEMPEL

http://www.pifmagazine.com/SID/413/

Portrait Series

2008-07-23T12:11:00.007-04:00

I am so incredibly in love, indebt to, and inspired by Helen Levitt.

ey.e.

From Carlsbad, California!

2008-07-23T11:53:00.006-04:00

My sister and I arrived here following the harvest. At the time I was there there were huge rectangles of brown between the neighborhoods up on the hills and the shops and highways below. Here is a picture of the floral nurseries from google. Definately one of my favorite places with xtra points for burritos.

2008-06-23T09:32:00.004-04:00

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smo'work

2008-06-19T11:18:00.006-04:00

The Color of Pomegranates

2008-06-18T00:32:00.004-04:00

Today I watched a film by Sergei Parajanov called The Color of Pomegranates. This enigmatic movie is about the inner workings and turmoil, history, and discovery of the poet Sayat Nova. This character is portrayed as various characters in the movie (male and female).

This film has the compositions I wish for my paintings to have when they grow up and get a life