down, fort greene, 2008
up, west village (geeta's old rooftop), 2008
rosstube
youtube.com selections by my good friend ross middleton
esther!!!
feeling fat?
pleez esplain
johnny, canarsie, 2009
larry, canarsie, 2009
mater dolor, canarsie, 2009
night lights, canarsie, 2009
from my first trip to canarsie
things you should know
ignorantia neminem excusat
wisława, dekalb ave, 2009
alton, dekalb ave, 2009
these two images are from a new series on which i'm working called
"if we can't sit at the table let's knock the fucking legs off"
it's about trees
music
youtube.com selections by my good friend ross middleton
esther!!!
feeling fat?
johnny, canarsie, 2009
larry, canarsie, 2009
mater dolor, canarsie, 2009
night lights, canarsie, 2009from my first trip to canarsie
things you should know
ignorantia neminem excusat
your: possesive form of the pronoun 'you'. is that your body bag or mine?
you're: you + are. you're gonna have to save up if you want to get a liposuction and a rhinoplasty.
you're: you + are. you're gonna have to save up if you want to get a liposuction and a rhinoplasty.
now you know. do it wrong again, get punched. k? k.
wisława, dekalb ave, 2009
alton, dekalb ave, 2009these two images are from a new series on which i'm working called
"if we can't sit at the table let's knock the fucking legs off"
it's about trees
music
the very best of cat stevens, cat stevens/yusuf islam
i like to say that cat stevens invented emo. happy rythyms and sad lyrics? this dude is the king, not to mention the fact that homeboy is completely insane. we all know i love crazy people AND folks that get denied entry to the states. that speaks to something. yusuf is good tunes to carry through SHITTY TIMES. big ups to yusuf islam!! malakim salam.
funcrusher plus, company flow
remember my el-p phase? i claimed it was over but that was a lie. since i heard the first four bars of fantastic damage about 6 years ago, i've been quietly obssessed with this medium sized red haired rapper. i hear from a little birdie that this one is due for a re-release sometime this year which is great 'cause you can't buy it new these days. basically, anything el-p touches, you need to hear, at least according to me. if i was to start a fascist government and i myself could not be the figurehead, i'd see if el-p would be willing to submit a resume. i saw him on the street last week and almost shat myself. i love redheads.
quinta
kierra
dawn
from the series
3 girls, taaffe pl, 2008
chungking express
god, wong kar-wai. speaking of movies where the lovers never make love, movies with a touch of surrealism, this one is a keeper. outside of the linear "plot + character arch + neat bow = movie" structure of most american full lengths, there exists what i like to call "the poetry of film". so what if nothing actually happens or if what happens makes no sense? how about we watch a scene just to see what people do and how...the universalities of life are insurmountable and kar-wai's movies express this with such a lovely tension. this dude loves kubrick and it shows, tarantino loves this guy and i think that shows too...
candids from the CAUGHT series, 2008/2009
i like to say that cat stevens invented emo. happy rythyms and sad lyrics? this dude is the king, not to mention the fact that homeboy is completely insane. we all know i love crazy people AND folks that get denied entry to the states. that speaks to something. yusuf is good tunes to carry through SHITTY TIMES. big ups to yusuf islam!! malakim salam.
funcrusher plus, company flow
remember my el-p phase? i claimed it was over but that was a lie. since i heard the first four bars of fantastic damage about 6 years ago, i've been quietly obssessed with this medium sized red haired rapper. i hear from a little birdie that this one is due for a re-release sometime this year which is great 'cause you can't buy it new these days. basically, anything el-p touches, you need to hear, at least according to me. if i was to start a fascist government and i myself could not be the figurehead, i'd see if el-p would be willing to submit a resume. i saw him on the street last week and almost shat myself. i love redheads.
quinta
kierra
dawnfrom the series
3 girls, taaffe pl, 2008
movies
bagdad café
you guys seen this movie? so good. it's a love story where the lovers never make love and those are always my favorite kinds of stories. i'm not gonna get into it too much 'cause talking about art is like dancing about architecture (i will give you five dollars (when i get a job) if you can name the bad indie starring angelina "my crotch is a machine" jolie from which i pulled that quote) but i will say that if you're into theatre, you like indies and a touch of surrealism or you're in a really really shitty mood and you need a reason not to stab yourself in the stomach, this one is for you. cch pounder and marriane sägebrecht bring it for real in this flick. rent it!
you guys seen this movie? so good. it's a love story where the lovers never make love and those are always my favorite kinds of stories. i'm not gonna get into it too much 'cause talking about art is like dancing about architecture (i will give you five dollars (when i get a job) if you can name the bad indie starring angelina "my crotch is a machine" jolie from which i pulled that quote) but i will say that if you're into theatre, you like indies and a touch of surrealism or you're in a really really shitty mood and you need a reason not to stab yourself in the stomach, this one is for you. cch pounder and marriane sägebrecht bring it for real in this flick. rent it!
chungking express
god, wong kar-wai. speaking of movies where the lovers never make love, movies with a touch of surrealism, this one is a keeper. outside of the linear "plot + character arch + neat bow = movie" structure of most american full lengths, there exists what i like to call "the poetry of film". so what if nothing actually happens or if what happens makes no sense? how about we watch a scene just to see what people do and how...the universalities of life are insurmountable and kar-wai's movies express this with such a lovely tension. this dude loves kubrick and it shows, tarantino loves this guy and i think that shows too...
candids from the CAUGHT series, 2008/2009they know i'm watching, they're watching back
žižek!!
commie corner
commie corner
from violence: six sideways reflections
pg. 47
the experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie--the truth lies outside, in what we do.
pg. 56
finding oneself in the position of the beloved is so violent, traumatic even: being loved makes me feel directly the gap between what i am as a determinate being and the unfathomable X in me which causes love...
pg. 76 (speaking about riots in the suburbs of france c. autumn 2005)
what does our celebrated freedom of choice serve, when the only choice is between playing by the rules and (self-)destructive violence?...[the riots] are what lacan called a passage a l'acte-an impulsive movement into action which can't be translated into speech or thought and carries with it an intolerable weight of frustration...they were neither offering a solution nor constituting a movement for providing a solution. their aim was to create a problem, to signal that they were a problem that could no longer be ignored. this is why violence was neccessary. had they organized a non-violent march, all they would have got was a small note on the bottom of a page...
taking, 2008/2009
pictures of people taking pictures
the experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie--the truth lies outside, in what we do.
pg. 56
finding oneself in the position of the beloved is so violent, traumatic even: being loved makes me feel directly the gap between what i am as a determinate being and the unfathomable X in me which causes love...
pg. 76 (speaking about riots in the suburbs of france c. autumn 2005)
what does our celebrated freedom of choice serve, when the only choice is between playing by the rules and (self-)destructive violence?...[the riots] are what lacan called a passage a l'acte-an impulsive movement into action which can't be translated into speech or thought and carries with it an intolerable weight of frustration...they were neither offering a solution nor constituting a movement for providing a solution. their aim was to create a problem, to signal that they were a problem that could no longer be ignored. this is why violence was neccessary. had they organized a non-violent march, all they would have got was a small note on the bottom of a page...
taking, 2008/2009pictures of people taking pictures
the meat and the berries
i'm existing so far inside of myself that it's like i'm not even here anymore. plagued by an intense loneliness, melting south like those fancy houses in the LA hills that lapse down onto the 405 when it rains too hard and the earth gets to quivering; involuntarily celibate, unemployed, drifting...it's hard times in my dome. i regularly lower my heart and shoulders and leak like making waste of emptiness, if such a thing were possible. i don't move, i sit for hours, 3, 10, 18 hours, maybe a day or two without moving and i find fraternity with all the stillness, the stillness of the walls and the floor; commonplace objects are scattered in commonplace ways, they don't sleep or close their eyes and neither do i, the light passes over us all, all over us, over and over. let's be still and let the pain ride (another five dollars to the person who can site that quote (hint* the author was a cancer and died of having blown his own brains out)).
3 self portraits from "i'm so tired", 2006
this dude is my new favorite photographer. i won't say much, he's got a blog where you can see all that needs to be said, click here.
meriem bennani
meriem delicious
so i'm cat sitting for my friend phil; phil has two roomies, one of whom is sam who has a girlfriend named meriem who gave sam possibly the most precious gift i've ever seen, a hand drawn tarot deck. so amazing, when i saw it i felt like she'd made it for me.
meriem's work can be seen at her site. i'm a big fan of works on paper and meriem's work is well worth my big fandom. watch out for an interview with ms. bennani once this whole "depressive fit" madness is over. till then, go see her site, gaze on her work and be amazed and filled with hope that maybe one day you'll have a girlfriend so lovely...
jason mecier
ross is in the throws of a passionate depression too and thank god for that 'cause there's nothing worse than feeling like you're the only one who hates yourself/life. luckily for me and for ross, his outlet for his madness is finding new things to be excited about, like jason mecier, who does mosaic portraits of celebrities that will blow your mind. check him out here
jerome karsenti
i can't read the words on this guy's site and i have no idea how it is that i came across his work but i like it a bunch and who needs words when you've got images. wooty woot...check him out here.
jessica elaine
baby baby baby, 2009
hey, guess what, i can draw! but only if i wanna bone ya. phil gave me some colored pencils for christmas (thanks phil!!!) so i took it upon myself to engage in a little regression, a little obsession and four hours of staring really hard at a picture from baby dayliner's myspace page. i think it's a pretty effing decent portrait, eh? eh?
rat tar
andrew laumann
3 self portraits from "i'm so tired", 2006
this dude is my new favorite photographer. i won't say much, he's got a blog where you can see all that needs to be said, click here.
meriem bennani
meriem delicious
meriem's work can be seen at her site. i'm a big fan of works on paper and meriem's work is well worth my big fandom. watch out for an interview with ms. bennani once this whole "depressive fit" madness is over. till then, go see her site, gaze on her work and be amazed and filled with hope that maybe one day you'll have a girlfriend so lovely...
jason mecier
ross is in the throws of a passionate depression too and thank god for that 'cause there's nothing worse than feeling like you're the only one who hates yourself/life. luckily for me and for ross, his outlet for his madness is finding new things to be excited about, like jason mecier, who does mosaic portraits of celebrities that will blow your mind. check him out here
jerome karsenti
i can't read the words on this guy's site and i have no idea how it is that i came across his work but i like it a bunch and who needs words when you've got images. wooty woot...check him out here.
jessica elaine
baby baby baby, 2009hey, guess what, i can draw! but only if i wanna bone ya. phil gave me some colored pencils for christmas (thanks phil!!!) so i took it upon myself to engage in a little regression, a little obsession and four hours of staring really hard at a picture from baby dayliner's myspace page. i think it's a pretty effing decent portrait, eh? eh?
post script
gozen and here we rest need you!
gozen and here we rest need you!
i'm trying to do lots of things. two things that you or someone you know might be able to help me do:
1. MAKE MPGS
i have a whole bunch of still images that i want to make into short stop-motion flicks. anybody know/have the software to make a series of jpgs into mpgs? get at me!!
2. MAKE GOZEN PRETTY
gozen is my photography stuff and soon, this blog will no longer house any of my own artistic photos, only work by other people and photos i've taken to show you stuff like some art or some food i ate at some place. if you know how to change blogger blogs to make them look less tacky and more awesome GET AT ME!!! and quickly, i'm suffocating in this inability...
1. MAKE MPGS
i have a whole bunch of still images that i want to make into short stop-motion flicks. anybody know/have the software to make a series of jpgs into mpgs? get at me!!
2. MAKE GOZEN PRETTY
gozen is my photography stuff and soon, this blog will no longer house any of my own artistic photos, only work by other people and photos i've taken to show you stuff like some art or some food i ate at some place. if you know how to change blogger blogs to make them look less tacky and more awesome GET AT ME!!! and quickly, i'm suffocating in this inability...
and remember PULLING OUT IS NOT A CONTRACEPTIVE. bag that shit!
