The Failure of Knowing

Check out my HipstaPrint

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Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Dreampop
Film: Pistil

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l'orgue at Notre Dame.

Metro Station "St.Michel".

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4days in Paris is not sufficient

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A city of
Extremes.

Paris of The Dead,
and of The Living.

always ahead.

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Upcoming: a post from and about being in Paris.
Stay tuned.

The DAily Mail.

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The Daily Mail, a new Radiohead track, recorded by NPR and available HERE.
Enjoy. I did.

September 2011,Susan Lee Chun lectures about her work at Broward College on the occasion of the group show "Anything is Possible" , curated by Harumi Abe.

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Susan Lee Chun talking about her work at Broward College, Sept. 2011

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l6hpV4NrR0

A trilogy of videos for PAPILLON

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A Trilogy of videos i made for Los Angeles band Papillon:

All Day Tomorrow & Another Game (Epic Redux)

Smoke Signals

Generations

The future is now.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awWtK7MvgjI&sns=em

WWW.RAULJMENDEZ.COM

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BSS rocks FLL

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BSS rocks FLL.

Day Job at the Drawing Center - artnet Magazine

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Day Job at the Drawing Center - artnet Magazine

'National Portrait Gallery Protest' with you

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Hi!

I thought you would enjoy this video: http://vimeo.com/17494969

WWW.RAULJMENDEZ.COM

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Fwd: Captain Molina landing in Quito.

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WWW.RAULJMENDEZ.COM

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Wilfredo Molina <wilfredomolina7@gmail.com>
Date: October 30, 2010 9:06:07 EDT
To: Raul Jose <lhqqr9@aol.com>, r2fly2@gmail.com
Subject: Captain Molina landing in Quito.

Check out this video on YouTube:

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Good Reasons to Vote Republican

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Listening to a lot of Jazz lately. It must be October.

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Chant this, ether:

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Miami summer. Be gone.

Andy Warhol eats a burger

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the invisible friends one leaves behind....

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Tom Paints En Plein Air

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rjm

August 12, 2010.
A few months ago, i left a blank canvas at friend and artist Tom Scicluna's home with a vague request for him to execute a painting. Consistent with his methods and systematic ways of making art, this was his response. It was executed on the outside of the east wall to my Coral Gables studio. I think better images and possibly more info can be found at WWW.TOMSCICLUNA.COM

Exhibition News

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This is Nowhere, as installed at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, summer 2010

(pic courtesy of Tom Scicluna)

and for the cats?

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We need these for domestic animals.

remembrance of things past, burning.

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From The Museum of Arms in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Solomon Graves researches during the opening of TSFPLTMT:Florida Arcane

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TSFPLTMT presents : Florida Arcane

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arti choke heart no more leaky holes in your brain no more false starts

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stay connected

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Do Easy by Gus Van Sant

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Sao Paolo, the massive sprawl.

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Sao Paolo seems to go on forever, covering the Earth with concrete and
endless sprawl.

Argentine Bicentennial

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Today is the Argentine Bicentennial, and The Failure of Knowing is pleased to be able to spend a day absorbing its sights and sounds. We arrived late last night to a crowded and celebratory boom-crash smoke filled Buenos Aires. Too tired from a long long day of work to partake in the festivities, I went for a short wander into the heart of the fireworks.

This HIstory

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The Key to a successful bat house is design and location.

TSFPLTMT: FLORIDA ARCANE

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In case anyone is out there reading this: Postings will resume, perhaps soon.

My efforts have been focused on my work, the fruits of which are beginning to come to life.

In a few weeks I will install :

FLORIDA ARCANE: from The Society for the Preservation of Lost Things and Missing Time.

In the meanwhile, dear anonymous readers, please check out :

WWW.SOCIETY4PRESEVATION.ORG

Publish Post

2010 approaches, unstoppable.

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Awaiting the turn of the clock ,the inevitable collective aging, this Whitman poem that' s been score to Levi Jeans advertisements comes to mind:

( though i'm not sure why)

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the
seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines
within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high
plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental
blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the
Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O resistless restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd
mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

See my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

On and on the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly
fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the pulses of the world,
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions
pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Lo, the darting bowling orb!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait
behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you daughters of the West!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your
work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Not for delectations sweet,
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding
on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the daybreak call-hark! how loud and clear I hear it
wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!-swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Back to Leaves of Grass 1891

Walt Whitman

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Micheal Borremäns at Zeno X

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Rachel Whiteread at ABMB

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A rare small and collectible Rachel Whiteread.

Santiago Sierra at ABMB

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Los Penetrados

Steven Shearer Sums Up The Week In Miami

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Jason Rhoades at the Rubell Collection

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Steven Shearer's Puffs @ The Rubell Collection

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A Holiday gift suggestion(hint hint)

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Barbara Kruger The Rubell Collection

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Detail of Interregnum Portraits ( see below)

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Stephen G. Rhodes @ The Rubell Collection

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Dan Flavin @ The Rubell Collection

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Paul Uklanski @ the Rubell Collection

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Storm Tharp @ PDX Contemporary

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Charlie Roberts @ Richard Heller Gallery

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The heavy-handed Maria Jose Arjona, atop nail - embedded ice blocks, courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers @ Pulse

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wacky things for sale at Arthouse

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Brian Dettmer @ Packer Schopf Gallery

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Exemplifying the gimmicky and sellable, Brian Dettmer nevertheless manages to wield a steady Xacto blade.

Francis Alÿs, subtle and smart.

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Jacin Giordano at Snitzer with a sizable leap forward .

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Peter Doig

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Christian Marclay @ Cooper Gallery

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Yoko Ono's Play It By Trust

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Stanley whitney is like a pop-y sean scully

Julia Scmidt is the poor-man's Luc Tuymans

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Richard Aldrich @ Bortolami

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Mel Bochner @ Rhona Hoffman

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Matthey Day Jackson at Perrotin Gallery

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The Before to Below's After.

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Why can't they get past irony? Lionel esteve' s work is asinine and aims for the lowest common denominator.

Matthew day jackson @ Perrotin Gallery

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Oregon fall, last week.

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La Biela, Buenos Aires, Oct 2009

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Dematerializing...

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro's BLUR BUILDING in Switzerland.

Existentialism and unemployment, welcome to the future.

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Richard E. Grant and his great and brilliant work as the tragic title role in Withnail & I.
Shown below, the Halmet soliloquy.

Wake up America. PLease

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Hans Hoffman, still taken from "Painters Painting".

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From the Department of Indie Know How:

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Developing Film in Coffee :) , Caffenol C and Agfa APX 100 from DanPV on Vimeo.

For everyone complaining about the cost or unavailability of processing film, here is a lowcost & ingenious method using vitamin c, powdered caffeinated coffee, water and "washing soda" to produce soft-contrast negatives.

I haven't tried it yet but soon will.

www.wonderhowto.com

Awake for 36+ hours. My mind is this bowl, my body is that egg.

2009-07-21T21:45:00.002-05:00

The Way Things Go

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The Way Things Go from Jack Turner on Vimeo.

ARTLURKER posted this as their sunday video. I couldn't resist doing the same as cause and effect rule the day and night for better or worse, beyond judgement and above all other laws.

Fischi & Weiss. The Way Things Go.

Dead Dash Snow

2009-07-14T15:14:00.004-05:00

Dash Snow overdosed last night. Another artist dead too early at the age of 27. I wasn't a fan of his work, though I find any larger-than-life persona interesting as a cultural phenomenon, like pop music or fast food fads or clothing trends- the gritty child of Warhol's shadow.Mr. Snow's personality eclipsed his work, and that may very well have been the point. I imagine he knew the risks and accepted their possibilities...

A somewhat relevant scene, from the film HAPPINESS, regarding the excesses of the human condition and their effects (the real tragedy...):

and in the Northwest they're doing this...

2009-07-12T22:23:00.001-05:00

Trek in the Park

In Portland's Woodlawn Park, Star Trek in the Park. Brilliant.

Last week at the Miami Art Mueseum....

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reVisit reVision reVerb performance at Miami Art Museum July 2009.
Choreographed and performed by Ana Mendez. Musician by Rebeca Pena of Flux Forces.

I didn't make it to this unfortunately...

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The view from the new Locust Projects back yard.38th street enters into the local "scene" during the off season with several new spaces,spotty parking,and an onslaught of hipsters wanna-being themselves. ...
what will follow this?hopefully something othes than exercises in relational aesthetics and the like.

wetheat tv

2009-07-11T21:52:00.002-05:00

Wetheat Tv is documenting the miami art community. Click the link to see. Well done, short & tight. Typical questions posed to artists as they work in their studios with the camera fetishizing their processes.

The Hunger

2009-07-03T23:50:00.003-05:00

VIRILE TO RISK AND FIND; KINDLY WITHAL
AND A READY HELP.
FACING THE BRUNT
OF FATE; INDOMI-
TABLE.-UNAFRAID.

The Donner Party inspires stoic poses.
Good thing it's summer.

at the entry to churchills there's this

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shuckers at dusk. margaritas squared.

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Hurry before it's gone.

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There is a little over a week to see the 2009 South Florida Biennial at the Hollywood Art & Culture Center. I think it ends June7th. I have a piece in it. Shown here, the 2007 multipanel painting titled "Portal One (hungry ghosts two)".

I confess to not seeing it yet, but I hear that it's plenty worth the short drive north.
I plan on going to see the show next week

Is there Anybody out there?

2009-05-26T20:16:00.003-05:00

What is this strange and elegant fruit?

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Aging simulator.Regard the hydraulic lifts/actuators.Shown here unpowered.

Bruce Nauman, "Stamping in the Studio"

2009-05-12T21:54:00.003-05:00

performance art and video works in mind..
Bruce Nauman. Few do this better.
1968. Relevant as ever...

iconic hand gestures future looks good.

2009-05-03T15:11:00.002-05:00

MIT's Media Lab and TED lectures.

(so awesome...no other single word for it)

Iquique, Chile

2009-04-06T14:42:00.005-05:00

Iquique, Chile. I'm here for a couple days.

Similar to Baja California, large sand dunes meet the south pacific in dramatic sweeps. Excellent seafood and wine. Cheaper than Santiago de Chile. And, sea lions bark in the shorebreak not 20 yards from my hotelroom.

Vignetted to accent the stark landscape.

More to come.

night and day and night

2009-03-27T18:44:00.003-05:00

Day and Night in Miami during the only bearable time of the year:winter.

Unfortunately the heat and humidity are back as of tomorrow, alas we are back into the terrarium.

(daytime pic taken with the Holga120...beautiful camera..)

(nighttime pics taken from Loft2 with CanonEOS..lovely piece of equiptment also...)

big fish eats the little one?

2009-03-04T19:12:00.001-05:00

Frank WIck, untitles piece at an unnamed location. Frank and I disgree on the notion that art should be "gotten" within the first few seconds of viewing it. He thinks it should. I don't. Art shouldn't be obliged to reveal itself immediately. If it does,then great. I prefer a more novelistic approach where layers of meaning are shed over time.

Frank, title please?

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Anri Sala at MOCAnomi.

jorge on the ukelele

2009-02-10T23:24:00.004-05:00

It's my pleasure to present Jorge Alvarez of SOLO DOS EN TIJUANA, playing a tidy, bad arse Ukelele.

REVOLVE with the left foot as an axis.

2009-02-07T19:55:00.001-05:00

The Knight Center, above, pre Whirling Dervishes of Rumi. Because the cosmos are spinning, from nanoparticles to entire galaxies, it is evident that our fundamental condition is to revolve. The Whirling Dervishes demonstrated this idea beautifully, quietly,precisely, last saturday night. It was not a performance, but instead a prayer slash ceremony dating back to the 13th century. One of the oldest such things still being performed on this planet.

NonFictions

2009-02-04T21:21:00.004-05:00

.800 section of the MDPL Main Library. Where lewd, subversive, and sometimes disgusting things happen towards the rear. Out of sight, the riffraff like to do nasty things back there...

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The latest build-up in Jacin's studio area.