All Hallow

Halloween is tomorrow with a selection of slasher flicks to choose from on the telly. I haven't seen the list yet, but when I do I'll post it.

An abbreviated list of Books I've given as gifts over the years:

The Book of Imaginary Beasts
Invisible Cities
Things That Fall From The Sky
As I lay Dying
Fictions
Birds of America
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Pending,really.

I owe a few emails. All apologies as the demon has kept my hands busy <and other excuses>.

Polls open

We are the last in a long line to vote on this first day of early voting.
Democracy in action.

Deadline looms.

The Art & Culture Center has posted something about my upcoming installation...

click on exhibitions.

Emotional response cannot...

From the closing night performance of Federico Nessi's solo show at Spinello Gallery. It was very uncomfortable inside, almost hostile. Good show. Above Ana Mendez performs as part of the piece.

Solo Dos En Tijuana

World, I present to you :

Solo Dos En Tijuana.

Enjoy.

and the beast lunged forth...

[...]"I considered fire, but I feared burning of an infinite book might be similarly infinite and suffocate the planet in smoke."
JLB, "the book of sand"

fair warning

In an effort to curb, or at the very least manage, my irrational fear of bears, I went out and hunted one down.
Turned to from hunted into hunter....

Shelf life

2020's temporary high profile space where Placemaker once was. Group show.
3852 north miami ave.
The piece below above is by Frank Wick. Scott wouldn't let me try them on.

roman signer on the brain

this was summer on the oregon coast.*.

*note famous rocks in the distance.
** before avian flu was part of the collective paranoia

if you're in Germany

If you happen to find yourself in Heidelberg, after checking out the oldest Apothecary in Europe, and sampling the local Reisling (the only white i can stomach), do check out the following show that I'm in:

Click the link embedded in the above title for more info..

close your eyes and .....

This is James Casabere. He creates these miniatures of stark and desolate spaces which are then photographed and printed (in large sizes..). I haven't seen one in person. I just ran into his work for the first time a few weeks ago so I'm not familiar with it at all.

july and it's hot

This image is incredible. I'm not sure the distance from the explosion that it's shot from, nor the altitude of its top (10thousand to15thousandfeet?).

Sabre-rattlers out there take note, and be wary of your war mongering.

I just began reading Kevin Brockmeier's new collection of short fiction, The View From the Seventh Layer. After Things That Fall From The Sky, and A Brief History of the Dead I've developed a real appetite for his work.

In an effort to save cash, more frequent trips to the Library have temporarily added these books to the coffee table:

1)Phaidon's SCULPTURE TODAY

2)The Architectural Unconscious (James Casabere + Glen Seator)

3)The New Urban Landscape , edited by Richard Martin

4)PAUL McCarthy, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art , NY

a great list...I'm suddenly very interested in James Casabere's photographed miniature spaces, especially the flooded ones. I'll have to look for an image to post here.