December 2009 – Art From Behind

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they just lost

its ok. they still will probably make the playoffs

what am i saying i have no idea i dont watch football

where are we?

it should be morning

there!

harper’s ferry is pretty

it is where john brown’s last stand was

it is where lewis and clark kicked off their big hike!

my parents had some pretty photos on their camera

this reminds me of sifting flour into the gingerbread cookie mix

my dad always makes gingerbread cookies over christmas

amour propre

i am behind

i am a behind

i am watching monday night football

i fucking love watching football

brett favre please marry me

you have one play left

think about it and get back to me later

we are in new york for like three seconds still

long enough to eat sushi

with rafael who you all know as the New York Minute exhibition designer

seriously brett favre you have one play 4th and goal

i am thinking of you

i cant think straight until he wins

!!!! oh he is the best! they got a touchdown i cant believe it!!!!

its going to overtime

now everyone is going to want to marry brett favre so i will have to wait again

whatever i can wait

i promise to wait for you

WHAT are we still doing in the #$%^ing bathroom at Takahatchi?

damiana was in town and aurel is behind the camera

i got that moustache at juicy lucy’s

i think after i saw this photo i threw it in the snow

i finished this real fast

ding im done! go home

going home

sighhhhhhh

i composed this mural for my brother for a christmas present and then my computer froze RIGHT as i was pulling into DC

before i saved it

so i had to photo the screen

anyone ever done that before?

home

my dad said “if just one blossom had opened people should see it as a miracle”

im taking pictures of nothing someone give me a task

yay! billy took me to Virginia wine tours

its cool its not lame

its not lame

today is opposite day

two sides of the same hay

the stupid bears are about to get a field goal

is this sudden death or what?

looks like we are going to have to walk the last mile!

we made it!

crap

if he gets this field goal brett favre is going to be so sad tonight!

he missed it!!!! oh he missed it

are you enjoying my play by play?

which will be totally uninteresting by the time i post this

like everything

i dont know

ive had so much time to myself the past handful of days

my parents provide no real convsation as they are really old

my brother has his own things going on

i am alone

in a heat lamp shower area

i am a monster

billy made me dinner at his dome

shit these photos are out of order

all ive done is go to WV house and work on the mural and then come home

i think this is the end of Day 1 of painting?

we got a beer at the irish pub near my house and bumped into an old high school art teacher

and my brother talked to every single person in there

i dont know what to say

i dont like intruding in other people’s realities

i feel like everything i say is bragging

i feel like i am just feigning interest and they know it

that is why i am a log that stands alone

that is why i am a shoe that stands alone

that is why i am a

you get it

this one is really obvious also

check out my wedgie

the fucking Vikings just fumbled

we went to Walmart to get some white oil based enamel

not pictured

billy made me nice dinner again

how can you be sad with a brother like that?

finished the sky and so ends day 2

i will have to make another post because my mom just rain out onto the porch to chase racoons

photo op!

stiffy

i’m so cold and tired where did the last blog end?

what of the endless number of holiday parties was it?

which of the times ive been wasted in the past two weeks was it?

i feel like this

at least there are more studio visits to keep me active

this is eric parker’s studio

these works are bound for…brussels was it?

ooo painted sides

it sounds weird but the works really came alive when he put on these afrobeat records

go to whatever site has things like that and put something on when you look at this

i promise!

so i was so in my own world that i didnt even hear it was going to snow and just walked outside one afternoon and was like what the fuck

its great to be suprised by snow~!

i went back inside and finished this bad boy

do you like it???

oops maybe i posted this already tho…

did i?

whatever

gettin hectic out there!

eeee!

rosson came over and we braved the elements to go to Scott Campbell’s holiday party

i stopped to take a photo before i helped her

does that mean im going to burn in hell?

penthouse view

watching the wind whip around the whatever-eth floor of the smythe hotel was pretty awesome

ladies

bums

agyness deyn and matt dillon and phillip seymour hoffman were there (not pictured)

some weird LA band played

scott didnt even know what was going on at his own party

then mark ronson djed thank god because we were about to leave

there were lots of weird celebrities there and like no art people except for nate and hannah

its funny how out of my element i feel when out of the safe art world crowd

rosson thinks ronson is cute

just as we got into the subway this guy barfed this stiff pile and then staggered away. i think he saw me take a picture of his barf. i wonder how that made him feel

i see you!

sigh

the walk home is always the least fun part

just me

in my elevator in my needlessly fancy building

good morning!

boy Patrick would have loved the dog park today

he was shy and weirded out by the snow and didnt want to fetch

quick enjoy the snow before it turns black and gross!

ooOOOo now im in rosson’s studio at 102 N 1st deitch

a sneak peak at her in a sec

first we go to suzanne’s holiday party!

fun with her art collection

yum

awesome

flosson

her boyfriend and some friends played some impromptu music and the lady was really funny and i wish they had played all night!

sneak peak

is it annoying that i am spelling it like that now?

adam dugas is in there somewhere

now we are at

oooo

look at my PBR

ooo autolevels

now we are at .. it starts with a T…. Tundra? no whatever that bar Sarah Foster works at sometimes around the corner from Jules’ building in bushwich

TUNDRA WHAT THE FUCK IS ITS NAME now im pissed off

um i guess this is the next day?

i am a painting machine and am almost done with THIS one too!

the forehead eye area i havent finished is the best part. its all bold orange video lines. you will see. yay!

now is a good place for some rosson sneak peeeeek real fast!

is that…. the NEST show????

occhiombra

the occhiombra does not in any way interfere with the wearing of spectacles

this photo makes me sad

good thing i am so busy doing crap!

small glimpses only

eddie martinez’ show is january at zieher smith

i got some sneaky peekies

ive been to so many studios lately!

its the best!

🙂

this is a book at Spoonbill Spoonbill made about books

yay! someone bought panic room!!!

who is this girl

then i made a pintar!

disregard the red area, it is just taped off while i complete that side

oooOOOooo

im pretty excited about it

and this new book and wait just wait!!!!

in the past 30 min here at work i got:

-christmas bonus

-free Mamas food

-reprinted the NEW YORK MINUTE ZINE MEGAMIX zine!

what a morning

and today i actually mean morning!

bladder green

who pooped on the calendar this month stinks!

everyone is complaining THIS YEAR SUCKED or even many magazines THIS DECADE SUCKED and its really not gratifying to hear

i mean, MY year sucked fuck whoever you guys are.

i feel competitive about the sucky year department and dont wanna hear how bad your year was

if you had a bad year, go tell your mom. if you tell me about it, i will tell you to fuck off

sigh!
it’s too early to talk about that stuff anyway we havent even made it through christmas

anyone confused about what to get me see the above

here we are at the dinner for Josh Smith at LIC deitch

the food didnt really match the scene to me

but maybe i dont know much about josh smith and his scene

my pictures are not cool. i was too hungry and cold

i know the title of this blog is gross. i almost called it REALGAR AND RED ORPIMENT

i guess put them both together for some fun festive christmas colors

warming fluid?

it was fun though

jeffrey gave a funny speech and then josh gave a funny speech

there are lots more! i will have to take better photos next time

aurel with the angry kale

or angry oak we couldnt decide

le voila

went up to taylor’s studio before i left

faces

faces of 2009

this was me this morning walking to work

why do i even say morning anymore? it was the fucking afternoon

this drink was really good

another game of “try to take a photo of jules where he doesnt look scary”

weiners

boy that bar is going to be bummed at us

the next morning i mean afternoon

went to Evan Gruzis’ studio

what a subway stop!

its beautiful

many smells along the way

art!

evan is preparing for a solo show with Andreas Melas in greece!

i wont spoil it but there were lots of exciting things in progress andreas!

weird white things

dont know where to stick this photo except here with the weird white things

what a puzzling contraption

this is somewhere in carrol gardens where evan took me for food

and this punch that was really really good

the food was awesome too

cutey peach! this is what got my mind thinking about new years i think

this is what i picture the golden bowl from The Golden Bowl looking like inside

their dog Merv is really cute

which reminds me:

“The film caused a minor controversy when Griffin shared an open-mouthed kiss with Kathryn Grayson. The kiss was a first in Hollywood film history since the introduction of the Production Code in 1934.”

strident impasse

barf

one; i was kidding myself. until my wordpress blog looks better i dont want to use it, and i clearly cannot cold turkey putting photos of things in the public domain; i am in too deep

so there

my weekend is not going to look good together but it wasnt good in real life either so that is fine

drank with santa waiting for aurel at the newly opened Lovely Day

went to Spencer Sweeney gavin brown christmas party

saw robert there!

tv baby too

spencer’s art was odd

i guess i would say “kippenberger-esque” for lack of a better word

but that is also what lazy reviewers of his shows have said so now i feel lazy too

matt and brain are not lazy

jules and rosson

hot ear lobe

ug where am i now?

oh yeah this thing

nikki took me from GBE to this club by my house where this ex-sex pistol was playing and it was funny

oh man

dont remember this very clearly

what else?

woke up feeling like shit

felt like shit all day

what a lively narrative!

at some bi bim bop with ben

this looks like monday already going to look at Jules’ painting for his upcoming show

this is just a detail the whole piece is AWESOME!

and he better name it KATHY or i will cry!

im not supposed to spill the beans

im trying not to spill the beans its hard

here are some tiny tiny beans. placed not spilled.

ok enough!

what a bleak expanse

my new favourite graffiti writer 🙂

now what day is this? still monday?

stopped by the armory where Kembra has a free studio

finally found a camera setting that goes with the armory

“sunset”

yay!

im so happy with how these came out even though its not so great

if you have seen my failed armory photos over the past i dont know two years then you will feel my triumph

bloomingdales

where am i now?

oh yeah im at Kim Light’s house

she had a holiday party/ one night art show

i like this photo

i’ll leave you with this

pricked for pouncing!

swan song

i dont wanna do this blog anymore

at least not on myspace and not the way i have been doing it

give me a second to fix things around and we will start a new life together somewhere else i promise

until then hang out with me in the everglades and get a million mosquito bites

this is where i ate lunch and where i was eaten

very hamlet of me

i ran with a cloud of mosquitos chasing me and three of them managed to get into the car with me!

the everglades are a dangerous and unfriendly place

the buzzards know this

this buzzard was eating the snake in the above photo

life and death in harsh conditions

is the world really this unrelenting and cruel?

sorry im feeling philosophical at the moment

philosophy being the only consolation sometimes

the philosophy of the everglades is not terrbly uplifting at teh moment though

if i could only rise above the muck

if only i were an eagret perched on a dwarf cypress

i guess i am about as tall as a dwarf cypress. maybe i just need a bird hat. rosson! one bird hat please

sigh

odd

this guy started crawling up the wall after me i shit you not

so i took a picture and ran away

the walls are not very tall

the walls that seperate normal life from horrible painful morass of shit are not very tall

stay on the path stay on the path

a hunter alone in the wilderness

swamp and glade

i guess glade makes it sound so much better

i dont really have any more philosophy to offer

i could use some

i gotta get out of this swamp

before the buzzards pick my carcass

i have strayed way off the map

my best days are behind me

maybe nothing a free breakfast wont fix

reading about death under a rainbow

burning the shit out of my hide

after me, the deluge

everything seems broken

boy ok enough commentary from me

i went to the botanical gardens to kill more time before my flight

it was totally sucky except for the 200 lizards crawling around everywhere!

i chased lizards for 3 hours

i must have caught about 4 or 5 but they wriggled out of my hand each time

i was too afraid to crush them so they wriggled out

is there a metaphor in there?

or just that people called me “Lenny” after my big growth spurt as a kid?

mice and men

how about just mice men

“of mice men and bodacious babes they are too pathetic for”

ok ok im getting away with myself

as these lizards did from me

sigh!

i just wanted to feel some life in my hands for a sec is that so awful?

airport bars

airport scenes

home to what is that behind the lobby art?

oh no

walking to work in the blaring morning light with a sunburn and freezing

finding a copy of this on my desk

oh brother look at me an nikki!

given what is going on in my life this is like the pinnacle of insult and irony

where reality idealism and perception meet and explode in my face

i hate irony

whatever happened to sincerity?

peloothered

im so behind;

i got sick on the way back

i always get sick after fart fairs

this is new york

this is me waiting for patrick on a bench

this is 950 a month with broker fee

this i s pat carvin his big tofurkey feast i cooked him

shouldnt everyone get to have two thanksgivings?

this is me talking about art and books to Trinie Dalston’s class at NYU

i dont know

this is me and pat walking home after seeing the twilight movie!

it was hottible

i mean horrible

ah the airport

ahh they only had convertibles left at Dollar

ahh the Fountainebleu is really nice

i spelled that wrong i think

it comes wiht an imac but the internet is 16dollars a day so fuck that

kind of a sophisticated piece for a hotel, huh?

first stop design miami

thought there would be celebrities there but there was just ben

🙂

look at all this dumb crap

yay!

this is what i came to see!

ben says “comfy”

jim had a zine station

isnt that odd?

aron made a max fish but it wasnt ready when i went there

oo oo nibbles!

terence and javier and ben eventually nicky and i had dinner at the fancy chinese place run by the famous british chinese dude

the food was sooo goood

ill warn you in advance this blog is moslty food

mmm and drink!

and being silly

oops this section goes right before dinner section

ack!

im already outta order

this stuff is so…..wholesome

wouldnt it be funny if this was a photo of the friendswtihyou guy’s room?

the morning beach was so beautiful

the morning booth was pretty beautiful too

can u believe michael jackson called kehinde to comission a portrait? unbelievable

evan’s mannequin had a great time there

rosson’s new painting of Luna Park in coney island wowed everyone too

peres booth

kerfuffle

thanks rosson!

so this is the next morning

ben and that girl behind him kept BBMing eachother during lunch

im hungry and these food images are REALLY gratifying

a new greenie for me

this is NADA

which was “eh”

i hope someone bought that

i like this guy and i keep forgettting his name or to go to his shows or studio or anything

there was a lotta “canvas as art”

which for the record is not cool

why do i take photos of things like this

or this

i kinda liked these

another geometric rosson

ooo pelicans

i was gonna go fishin with kehinde but he said the weather was too bad

he was right!

i made it to OHWOW before the deluge

to see what they said was “better than the first IT AINT FAIR”

🙂

andrew kuo

brian degraw

lizzi and rita

dave sherry’s room

ick autolevels ruined the julia chiang room

here is a better photo

they have a skate ramp now

and an uholy mess

im gonna make the murals a seperate post so i dont get myself all turned around one sec

knock down drag out

im knocked down so im going to drag out the blogging to keep my fingers busy

this is barry’s mural for the Wynwood walls

oh shit

i had to sit outside the clemente for ten minutes while the rain splloshed

ooOOoo

looks much better here than before actually!

grabbed nikki from there as the clouds parted

the os one was a little weird

kenny scharf

futura

that other dude

sigh! as much as i hate to admit it, whatever you call what he made made a pretty great “mural”

right?

marty cooper making of photos

lets tag!

oo jim looks cute

what is ara doing you ask?

he and jim made this!

its so confusing

it is suzanne’s favourite

there was a little interior show too

kind of random

this looked really good there

ok more murals:

the girl who was kicked outta FAILE

Stelios Faitakis

pretty technically neat but then kinda Juxtaposey i dont know

clare

the setting is pretty great

adding some new artists next year!

right around the corner is a restaurant Joey’s where nikki and i had the best italian food

there are so many great handpainted signs around miami

i wanted to take photos of them all for pat but most places i couldnt get outta the car

or was too lazy

im sure i did somethin between eating lunch and eating dinner but my camera says otherwise!

i had conch stew at Tap Tap

my favourite!

everyone else ordered these gruesome fishes!

aurel did too of course

there are little lights at the bottom of the pool to make it look like stars

so! the BEST BEST night i had out i ddint have my camera at all so it has POOF disappeared

but it included going to the V magazine roof party, someone sharing their e with me, going to the basement of the delano

and dancing

going to the standard late and jumpin in their pool, and then who knows. at some point the sun came up but no one cared

rosson was wearing the coolest dress that night too

dammmmitttt!!!!

the beach looks gross with autolevels

so im gonna end this post

its over