My favorite X song:
X: New Life
Warren Ellis is posting music videos over on his blog today. Seemed like a great idea.
New Life from X. John looks his usual imperturbable self, and Exene is lookng kinda wild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP3ZhUpAQeg
Red, Green, Blue–M&Ms
Just about my favorite candy, right there.
Richard Diebenkorn–notes on beginning a painting
- attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
- The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued—except as a stimulus for further moves.
- Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.
- Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable
- Don’t “discover” a subject—of any kind.
- Somehow don’t be bored—but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
- Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position.
- Keep thinking about Pollyanna.
- Tolerate chaos.
- Be careful only in a perverse way.
From The Art of Richard Diebenkorn Jane Livingston, etal
Poetry
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
–William Butler Yeats
2 Delicious 2
Hey how ’bout that. Another apple painting!
2 Delicious
A new apple painting:
Noah Scalin
from SkullADay was on the Martha Stewart show today, promoting his book Skulls! (of which I was one of the lucky winners drawn for the signed copy for my papercraft skull–see my previous post), which looks real nice from the glimpse we got on the show, showing off some of his Skull_A_Day creations, and making skull potoato stamps. Looks like a fun time was had by all. There’s more about his experience on his blog.
Can’t wait to get my copy of the book!
Bailout Idea
I’ve got an idea. Yes I do. How ’bout, instead of giving Wall Street 700 Billion Dollars, Washington, gives everyone in the US 2 Million Dollars. With a population of approximately 305,358,236 (US Census Bureau estimate), that’ll cost the gov’t less money, and, really ought to kick the economy up a notch.
Just a thought.
Speaking of Rude Sculpture
(See my previous post.)
Here’s an interview with Richard Serra, arguably the most controversial sculptor of our times.
In the Eighties Serra created one of the most controversial works of public art of the 20th century, a curved wall of steel entitled Tilted Arc . It stood, 12 feet high and 120 feet long, in Federal Plaza in Manhattan for just eight years, while local opposition reached such a pitch that, after a combative public hearing in 1985, a jury voted that the piece should be dismantled and removed. Serra sued the federal government over the issue of ownership but, after a protracted and bitter court battle, lost his appeal. In May 1989 the piece was cut into three parts and consigned to a New York warehouse where it has languished ever since.
‘I don’t think it is the function of art to be pleasing,’ a bruised but bullish Serra said at the time. ‘Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.’ His attitude did little to endear him to the New York public, even as the contemporary art world rallied around him.