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