TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (12/19-12/31)
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Letter to Panera
10-29-2008
Dear Panera Bread,
My name is Michael Reynolds and for the past several years, I have been a loyal customer of your fine café restaurant. I have savored your French onion soup served in a sour dough bread bowl. I have enjoyed your soft furniture and softer music that lulls me into near hypnosis. I come for the food and I stay for the atmosphere. However, on this past Monday’s visit, everything changed.
As usual, I ordered a delicious soup filled bread loaf that was delivered to me with a speed and courtesy that rivals restaurants twice the price. As I sat in one of your soft, inviting booths, I laid my order out on the pristine tabletop and gazed at the art adorning the walls. That’s when I first saw it; a two dimensional statement that is so incendiary any citizen worth their fedora would take offense! I am unaware if you are familiar with the writings of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, but judging by the orientation of one of your paintings (see enclosed), I am sure you are more than aware and are taking a jab at traditional issues of representation! As a classicist, I will not return to your fine café until this wrong has been righted. Please let me know when this issue has been corrected so I may enjoy my bread bowls without being bombarded by representational politics, polemics, and the issues of painting in contemporary society.
Sincerely,
Michael Reynolds
Enclosed:
10-29-2008
UPDATE: As of November 9th, 2008... The painting is still upside down. :(
Dear Panera Bread,
My name is Michael Reynolds and for the past several years, I have been a loyal customer of your fine café restaurant. I have savored your French onion soup served in a sour dough bread bowl. I have enjoyed your soft furniture and softer music that lulls me into near hypnosis. I come for the food and I stay for the atmosphere. However, on this past Monday’s visit, everything changed.
As usual, I ordered a delicious soup filled bread loaf that was delivered to me with a speed and courtesy that rivals restaurants twice the price. As I sat in one of your soft, inviting booths, I laid my order out on the pristine tabletop and gazed at the art adorning the walls. That’s when I first saw it; a two dimensional statement that is so incendiary any citizen worth their fedora would take offense! I am unaware if you are familiar with the writings of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, but judging by the orientation of one of your paintings (see enclosed), I am sure you are more than aware and are taking a jab at traditional issues of representation! As a classicist, I will not return to your fine café until this wrong has been righted. Please let me know when this issue has been corrected so I may enjoy my bread bowls without being bombarded by representational politics, polemics, and the issues of painting in contemporary society.
Sincerely,
Michael Reynolds
Enclosed:
10-29-2008
UPDATE: As of November 9th, 2008... The painting is still upside down. :(
bad start to a bad day
Self portrait as a Guy Who Threw Up in a Parking Garage After Eating Apple Slices and a Women's One A Day Vitamin, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
hoodang
I like this drawing by Marlene McCarty... pencil and ball point pen on paper, 120 x 220 inches...
She did a series of drawings about Evangelicals and baptism... this one is from a story where this man asked his daughter to take a vow of celibacy... She met a boy online and broke the vow, and they ended up killing her parents to escape their oppressive religious beliefs... She seems to always render clothes see through-Nice N' Creepy!
She did a series of drawings about Evangelicals and baptism... this one is from a story where this man asked his daughter to take a vow of celibacy... She met a boy online and broke the vow, and they ended up killing her parents to escape their oppressive religious beliefs... She seems to always render clothes see through-Nice N' Creepy!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Mike Reynolds... Painting Enthusiast?
Ive been copying my girlfriend's underwear in gouache on reeves paper... not sure what i'm gonna do with it yet, but...I cut out the first one and mounted it in a shadow box:
(the second one isn't finished yet)
Sexy!
(the second one isn't finished yet)
Sexy!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Affordable Space Travel for the Average Working Man?
PS check out the guy's website, I bet he's fun at a party!
PS check out the guy's website, I bet he's fun at a party!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
back from photolab
These got out of order but they're still fun:
This is when Matt smashed his toe
This is from when I got a molar pulled:
I went to Tallahassee with Spencer, he got his nose pierced there by his friend Jen
This is the Jen that helped pierce Spencer
Mimi and Kim (or is it?!)
Cheeseball photos of clouds, why can't I get away from these?
This is when Matt smashed his toe
This is from when I got a molar pulled:
I went to Tallahassee with Spencer, he got his nose pierced there by his friend Jen
This is the Jen that helped pierce Spencer
Mimi and Kim (or is it?!)
Cheeseball photos of clouds, why can't I get away from these?
New Letter to Crist
October 3, 2008
Dear Governor Crist,
I recently attended your appearance at the University of Tampa (Tuesday, September 23rd) and needless to say, I was impressed. With all the media attention and giant crowds gathered, you managed to appropriately (and safely) handle a foreign dog presented to you on the spot and still come out #1. Kudos!
Neither my girlfriend nor I have seen foreign dog handling performed at such a high level of skill (is this a trait shared by other governors?). When I am presented with a foreign dog with which to handle, I tend to tense up and sweat through my midsection. But not you, Governor Crist! Although awkward at first, you accepted the foreign dog, lifting him under his arms to pose with him for pictures 10-15 seconds longer than you really had to. That’s charity you should be able to write off on your taxes!
You’ve become a hero of sorts down at the local animal shelter. Now, when fellow volunteers and I go to accept a foreign dog, we all jokingly say “better use the Crist method for this one!” Then, we’ll wink (but not all of us at the same time).
As always, Governor, you have set the proverbial bar for dog handling at an almost unreachable height. You are leading by example, a trait I wish more of our publicly elected officials possessed.
Sincerely,
Michael Reynolds
Enclosed:
(4"x6")
(8.5"x11," signed)
Dear Governor Crist,
I recently attended your appearance at the University of Tampa (Tuesday, September 23rd) and needless to say, I was impressed. With all the media attention and giant crowds gathered, you managed to appropriately (and safely) handle a foreign dog presented to you on the spot and still come out #1. Kudos!
Neither my girlfriend nor I have seen foreign dog handling performed at such a high level of skill (is this a trait shared by other governors?). When I am presented with a foreign dog with which to handle, I tend to tense up and sweat through my midsection. But not you, Governor Crist! Although awkward at first, you accepted the foreign dog, lifting him under his arms to pose with him for pictures 10-15 seconds longer than you really had to. That’s charity you should be able to write off on your taxes!
You’ve become a hero of sorts down at the local animal shelter. Now, when fellow volunteers and I go to accept a foreign dog, we all jokingly say “better use the Crist method for this one!” Then, we’ll wink (but not all of us at the same time).
As always, Governor, you have set the proverbial bar for dog handling at an almost unreachable height. You are leading by example, a trait I wish more of our publicly elected officials possessed.
Sincerely,
Michael Reynolds
Enclosed:
(4"x6")
(8.5"x11," signed)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
VP Debates
Incredibly worried about the future of this country, wonder what Plato would be saying (screaming at the top of his lungs) right now?
Do they have to talk to us like we're 5 years old?
have we lost our deductive reasoning?
Do they have to talk to us like we're 5 years old?
have we lost our deductive reasoning?
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