white people stuff

spot on, especially with the Chicago Marathon coming up in about a month

on net art

read this

art fair craziness

art fairs go online here
$4,000-$20,000 for timed cyberspace!

google alert

I setup a google alert on my name a long time ago and kind of forgot about it (I usually only get stuff about a republican politician in the south) but this reminded me that Mormons do indeed believe in sacred undergarments... see here

PS I don't endorse anything that other Mike Reynolds says.

some AoT coverage

art on track pictures by Sixty Inches from Center here and here!

PS
and here
The last one is of the first stand up comedians -- Dara -- she was really great

down to the wire

Art on Track this Saturday!

behind

behind, maybe some actual substance next week or two... in the meantime:
Shaun Richards!
apparently NC is becoming a hotbed for young art people. Weird!

Spoke

A couple people I know (here and here) and I were in this on Friday. It was hosted by this guy, Vince from USF! Matt won a prize

Art on Track

This Guy
and
This Guy
got a car!
August 7th, Saturday, 5-10pm, Orange Line in the loop, competing for $5k!

blog mentions (a lot of the info is redundant):
Nylon
Chicago Art Magazine
Chicago Now
Trend Hunter
Media Bistro

holy great time waster

Sketch Swap

Daletoons

As despicable as I find this guy, some of his cartoons are "unintentionally awesome" (to quote artnet)

danger zone

laundry day, new (old) marker shirt for openings:

bean situation

behind, more next week... until then:

Arts Funding Essay

I don't know where I originally saw this

a little long but worth the read

Rozanov's definition of Nihilism

"The show is over. The audience get up to leave their seats. Time to collect their coats and go home. They turn around... No more coats and no more home."

holy amazing idea

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG project on chat roulette:

No Fun - Eva and Franco Mattes from Franco Mattes on Vimeo.

banned from youtube

three walls fundraiser

(on the way to the train there was some kind of cool kid bike ride; they shut the street down for hundreds of people like this):



Went to the three walls benefit with Rachel
It was good!



Highlights include web auction, followed by silent auction, followed by live auction (wtf?), weird seizure performance accompanied by a young man engaged in Tom Green-like behavior with a microphone (see above). Didn't make it in time but they also had naked women reading from the script of "The Secretary."

Getting Setup in New Apartment

The only thing I have up right now is a screen print by William Powhida

Dang

"(Postmodernism) makes you sound like an undergrad"
+
This is Why You're Fat by Jessica Amason

1990 themed party

Former Yale-ies

Here
and
Here

Weird side note:
Rode in an elevator with Chuck Close leaving the Richard Gray Gallery with Allen and our new friend Rachel last Friday.
He's a nice guy!

Mira Schor

A Year of Positive Thinking
Schor is one of those people who I want to not like but can't (for whatever reason). Her writing is more insightful than her painting, I think.

Contemporary Art On Craigslist

Here

the ad is good for one week.

NEXT Art Fair 2010

Some pics from the fair, April 29-May 4, 2010.

New Acquisitions

1st drawing is by Louis De Marco, a part of Project Onward

He makes signs and drawings to help deal with anxiety and autism. Different colors represent different emotions.

2nd piece is by Zach Houston

I traded this for a drawing I had shown at the NEXT art fair a few days ago. He runs a project called Poemstore where he does these awesome poems (on a subject of your choosing) really fast on a typewriter. Both going in the new apartment (once I find it)

Zach's poem (on the primary colors):

Micro Real Estate Sales in Detroit

Make Love Land
I bought 12 in!
support on Kickstarter here

NEXT update 1

The internet is too slow to upload images... more after show breakdown.
Peter Ludlow just bought 2 in. of JL. Yes!

NEXT Tickets

If you're in Chicago, Free passes for NEXT:


PLEASE BE OUR GUEST!

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations--galleries, project spaces and art publications from around the world.

You and a guest are invited to attend the Artropolis, enter promotional code NextGuest on the ticket order form.

let me know if it doesn't work.

NEXT getup

Preview of suits for NEXT... Allen helped me find some great stuff today:




you can't tell but I have bright blue pants on
media blackout until it's over but I'm trying to work out a different one for each of the five days.

Packaging Arrived

The packaging arrived for my project @ NEXT, I'm going to spend most of tonight filling/fitting all the boxes with the appropriate accoutrement:


PS
Press Release:



PPS
I got a fortune cookie today that (I hope) relates to this project:

HerpFest

My stepbrother Jason is involved with the Chicago Herpetological Society
They had a trade show(?) today, I went to check it out:







A quick auto-portrait before I left:

What's this?

Blank pieces of paper?


more like important information:

Invisible Ink

I'm working on a project with invisible ink (you can only see it with a blacklight)... here are some quick tests:







The ink is water soluble and you can do light washes, but you're pretty much limited to two or three tones...with a really light touch. Everything after that gets muddled together. Also, if you over do it, a thin yellow film builds up on the paper, pretty much defeating the purpose of invisible ink.
I bought it from Jet Pens
they're really good

Portfolio Page

I set up a portfolio page for when Allen and I do the NEXT Art fair.... It's still being worked on (I found a glitch already) but check it out:

Mike Reynolds

It probably won't be up for another day or two, the domain/name server was just changed

fun!

Ben, Lindsay and I were talking about Robert Longo's series Balcony

John Kacere may be his bottom-half counterpart

+1 creepout Hilo Chen
is his work about anything?

The Creeps

Here

US to launch campaign to attract tourists

Here
Worth reading the 300 comments on why people do/don't want to visit the USA

Lazer Tits

Thank you Photoshop

Museum of Bad Art

MOBA
yes!

Martin Mull

Gay Restaurateur a la Roseanne or Virtuoso painter? He has an MFA from RISD
See More:
Here
and
Here

Eric Yahnker

I forget where I saw his stuff originally... Here

Love lift us up where we belong

powdered charcoal on heavy watercolor paper.... it's still very rough, but starting to look human. For collage, more later.

9.5 Theses on Art

by Ben Davis
Response by EAG

What's up with

Poland

CAA

the college art association conference was held early this year in Chicago... I was kind of disappointed I couldn't go, although this video helped me get over it real quick:

yow-zah

fashion in germany

weird

Newly Acquired

"Morning Counterpoint" 2003