Month: May 2011

Avery Newman meet your new enemy, Miss Andry

shit on a shingle

we are into our neighbors here

and their dog

the bowery is very active

soon we will be emailing out our official “change of address”
email poke@theholenyc.com to get our announcements

its been raining for… a week or so

i dont like cooking for myself, i only like cooking for skinny hungry looking boys
its a big problem

hmmm

wet n pink

wet n pink

we have a gallery ipad

this is where i live!
after seeing this photo i realize this looks exactly like the dorm at Dartmouth i used to live in. I think it was called Mid Mass….

this is the future gallery!
oh shit google maps is going to have to update itself too soon!!!!

this is me watching sad depressing movies like Brideshead Revisited

falling asleep while watching sad movies

going out partying instead woo!

or something
this dude, when jack fabiola jason eric and i were getting into a car to go to brandt thing, ran into us on the street, still high and drunk with some random dude and was wearing actually CROTCHLESS pants. so these pants are a big ol step up

too drunk to get off confusing boots

of all the ways that junkies are creepy the worst is how they stare at your veins, they always want to tell you you have nice veins

a nice morning walk with her cat

a seasonal sacer

more pink
yes, i managed to buy TWO pink bromeliads in one week

evan’s engagement party
congratulations Evan and Nicole!

me on the beach alone with my huge butt

why is everyone so sucky

is there a good man left in the world
uncorrupted by pettiness, greed, modern life

i will chew on that for a while
and scallops

whatever whatever

whatever whatever

whenever dash would say “whatever whatever” it either meant sex, drugs, or something fun

not today

dash also celebrated my love of spaghetti and meatballs. i LOVE spaghetti and meat balls

whatever whatever

and look at abby’s tummy! her innie is about to outtie
baby is outtie sometime… august?

best CHICO mural everrrrr

my ipad does not just have maps, it also has Trailer Park Boys

this is for Brendan!

these are from a series called “been there done that”
none of these are super great examples but im just getting started

i’ve been researching art of the past 50 years to essentially OUT all the stupid people making works that literally have been made 40 years ago

like the precursors of towel art
guess when this piece was made?

some of these are very famous
i guess im just tracing the origins of slacker minimalism
to write about… why today’s “updaters” of the genre are less innovating and more rehashing

took this photo for nick
you will not see any more photos of nick on this blog anymore
does that make you sad?????

you still can see things like May painting a wall talking on her iphone

me in the back of a van

eric schmalenberger picking up a painting for this show:

time out agrees that this will be very fun

slacker minimalism

think of all the people graduating from art schools with their towel art and their piles

slacker min min

sometimes quite beautiful in the details

ok ill can it for today
im not in good mood
i will keep it to myself

where am i in my May album

ok good

alife’s furniture thingie soft opening

soft

you saw all the cool stuff there yesterday so lets go see MORE furniture

because it was “furniture weekend” i think

yay!

wow!

that’s paul johnson and hala matar

these make me think of cool 80s cigarettes and like jem and the holograms

some of rafael’s team

ooh affordable

go buy something before all sold out!
congratulations rafael!!!

evan! hopefully plugging our september show

and then!

can you guess where i am

yay!

ooooo im so excited!!

aaaaaaaaa

omg awesome

listen to the grrls
listen to the grrls
listen to the grrls

i met her in london at a turkist restaurant, what is her name??

oooh casey cameo!

casey has such star power, such stage presence!

i have some video i will post at end

and ryan!
is just the best dancer ive seen casey picked him out of an audition and he is like ten times better than any other dancer to me, and i dont know anything about dancing

i think in this show cody took on for the first time a wee pit of pee wee herman!

but what about The Woman?

this song is Meghan’s dog’s favourite, Meghan says

in the 60s i burned my bra

in the 70s i did it with a chick

in the 80s i did it with another chick

in the 90s i didnt do shit

its pretty great

costume change

crazy backup band

ryan!!

i think his last name is laurence?

in case you guys wanna add him on facebook or summin

whee its mikey d q!

and the guy on the right i want to call him colin but that can’t be right!!
quentin?
in my head i call him “disney goose”

they played old songs and new songs off new album BENT

fuck i think the last night of this is at ps1 TONIGHT

if you are reading this now, go get in a cab hurry!

shit my new camera is pretty good if i dont say so myself

ohhh its over im so happy
it was so good
i felt weird maternal feelings
probably everyone who ever helped them at any part of their carreer felt like “in a small way i helped this” and felt all mom-ish!
to see them all growed up playin at the MoMA!

backstage

crew

i like this photo
that chick on the chair i wanna call “irina”
how about i just call everyone what i feel like calling them?
it will be fun for people
like me

i will call myself….
Cherry
that is what my grandma wanted to name me and my parents said no

i will call elena “Ionna” as that is the first greek woman name that pops to mind
and i dont even know if that is a greek woman name really

i will call the bowery hotel “Poop”

yay!
took john and jorge to tea
also know as “stephan” and “keith”

i call this thing “Kathy”
the woman
all the women!

spencer made roof cooking last night!
these chickens are dancing around with cans of beer in their hoo-has

this guy said he made a ring of where he grew up and i said you grew up in a vegas hotel and he said no in the projects in the bronx

littel ceasar

peeking

peckin away with sticks

cock n ball ball ball ball balls

summer colors

subtle summer colors approaching

i lost my camera at Black and White, i lost three awesome days of photos, oh well, i guess?

this is the first photo i took with my NEW camera purchased right before Salem went on so i could capture this, our first HOLE THING!

new york city is full of one too many cock vultures

dash said that
i am just going to delete any comments about dash unless the comment is “i love and miss dash”

because i do! and i think about him every day and i wish he could have been part of the new hole so much

he would have loved fun lawless basement dungeon party 🙁

sigh now im all not into even like saying anything

don’t worry this month is class A drug free
May is Definitely a Month for Abstinence

there have been a lot of late nights recently btw

pretty fucking fun ones!

jack is pretty much the funnest thing around
and yes in that way he relates to dash
who was hands down the funnest thing around for all time

its ok to say that
only some people have magic in them
those people you want to keep around you at all times

this is on fabiola roof corner thingie later

the one firework
it was supposed to make fun smiley but oh well

much much later!

kembra bought me this great shirt
im actually sitting by a computer waiting for, well, to know whether i should wear this shirt or not????

does don baechler live in my building???

this is last night
uncle jules had fun party to say bye to his paintings going to paris on monday

there were tons of people there but i only took photos after everyone left

the party for paintings was very dark in there so hard to see paintings
you will see them in combo of flash and no flash and decide which you like

this one i call “the masterpiece”

look at this butt!

what’s up with jules having just the right touch on some things, but it looks like he did so fast and haphazard, but then its perfect touch? like shadows on water

smoochi

missed/connection?

man time

protesty!

this one has some pretty awesome things happening

i like this weird blotchy rejecty one!

this is an odd one too

ooo

this is really impressive

stuff

he’s really good with light
can you tell that even in the dark?

awesome

that is a lot of great work jules!!!!

this is the photo from the start of the post
jules and i do not like slacker minimalism
keep your towels and dirty rag art away from us
thanks!

although i AM into this
“bath mat art”

what else is happening

got excited about this again

i dunno

these photos dont seem to fit anywhere

oh yeah they do!
so ALIFE Rob and Arnaud are teaming up with RISD furniture dudes and teddy liuliakis to do this cool thing in storefront

JIM JOE

KR

the furniture is pretty awesome

this fancy table and chairs are like 25K

pretty awesome

fucking really awesome actually

invitey

here is some paperworks on it

here are some Eric photos from Salem night too for your viewing pleasure

teddy!

jack and may

jack may mcginley

jeanette may woo!

john jack and fabiola who made this night happen!

smoochin

smoochin
there was a lot of smooching

pretty

yay!
john draws pictures of naomi watts and was really excited to meet our new neighbor

some porn fell outta the ceiling

so many people came and i didnt even see them in the fogs

yeah it was pretty fun and there is more where that came from
the future is now!!!!!

something there is that doesn’t love a guest blog

but i don’t know what that something is!

everyone loves when it is not me taking photos!
i do too
very restful

this guest blog is from a real photographer toO!
what a treat
Eric Cahan

he has lots of interesting things

and titties!!
thank goodness

ooo “found art” i love it

real art is good too

ellsworth or jarjar?

i had a photo of this guy too!

Eric also makes art
(pees in cups sideways)

just kidding
i like this photo because in real life you never see eric with a speck of dirt on him

yes, towel art makes me cry too

look its lucien!

“Art”

i think this one is my favourite but is this an artwork or a real earth

oh look we are back to saturday!
see he took much better photo than me of exact same thing
(he is a photographer)

another fun treat of someone else takin pictures is there are sometimes photos of ME!
which i love because i have none

now you can see the art better too

now you can see the jack better too

OMG is that naomi campbell

not too shabby

these photos are so good its like Elle Decor or something

foo!
no tripod or nothin

what else

photo of a photographer!
patrick mcmullan, fabiola and jason

this is funny because we were at an opening of a photographer who is known for using the best super resolution mega cameras so you see every little crispy detail, and this guy is like taking a 1MB cameraphone pic of it

maybe i’ll leave you with that one
“photography”
“photography on the internet”
WHAT DOES IT MEAN

for cajones:
confetti eggs for balls

in a few hours there may be a need for cascarones

got a few rungs more to climb

jack was all “ill buy you lunch meet me at this restaurant” and it was a grocery store across from the movie theater
but it was great!

i’m not going to reimburse you for the electric bill actually
in case you read my blog, now you know
deduct it from the mile long tab instead
i’m done playing nice

all i do is eat lunch it seems

oh wait!

sometimes i order boob stress balls with my cell phone on them

so we missed the Festival of New Ideas on the Bowery
we can’t have new ideas until we have keys
this is APF party for their gates (the Guess one was Barry’s gate apparently?) at Hala Matar’s space on the big B

this is Kris’ cool necklace she designed

this is John who is in town!

wig

eggs
this is all very straightforward

posting blogs in the morning imbetween lawyer, insurance broker, and landlord phone calls makes me really straightforward

sue took us out to dinner and it was so great!
this is blood orange sorbet?

these are abs

that’s peter coffin

we got pretty blurry on friday
Spencer’s “emergency party”
i love that name, it really captures the urgency of today’s youth

what else

candy bracelet, algae shot

chlorophyll face

burning truck!

ack!!!!!

eric peeing
we went up in this fun car to connecticut with Fabiola and Jason and peeing Eric to see this “Peter Brandt guy” ive heard so much about
ha ha

apparently he was opening a josh smith show in his polo grounds building

look at this monster

josh smith josh smith josh smith

it was good bad!

une affiche!

all the “party people”

so then!

who made these again??? amazing

we got to see the “main house”

we saw a car crash! we did not see any water buffalo

we did see water though!
look at this amazing natural pool

riddle me this:

look doesnt that look like little nick in the bottom left?

sigh!!

there were so many exciting things and interesting people, i wish i could give you a sketch, Mr. Brandt’s son was the most interesting unique strange person i’ve met in a long time, his speech, manner, dress, conversation, opinions, it was intense….

maybe i can work him into a novel one day but until then u just get blog comments

bye fancytown

hello.. oops i guess still fancytown

nate’s show at fancytown gavinbrown

look at agathe’s baby wearing a-rons hat! awww!!!
sorry i stole this photo from you a-ron here drag it onto your desktop and now it is yours too

stop, drop and cloth

clippins

stinker

hoarder

hater

communication

butts

flash back!

tings

ooOOoo

remember seeing these in progress at Not Quite OPen?

Hi Sam Orlofksy!

hi lady
hi lady lady lady

repetition and difference
warhol warhol warhol
josh smith josh smith josh smith

people

that’s jack talking to courtney love somewhere over there

this is a dinner party

this one!

its ok to post photos of attractive people when they look kinda yuck because there is like ten million good looking photos of them out there you can look at if you prefer

stacy engman

fabiola shark pants

food dude
Eric took some of these
oh wait!!!! tomorrow we will have Eric guest blog it will be great

fab got poked!

grimacing guys

smooching sirs

getting messier

whee!

wheee!
did i take this?

i mightttttt be blacked out at this point

yeah
if i smoked weed then i was definitely out because i dont smoke weed

i do eat hangover corn with abby the next day!

ok got some things i’ve started that i need to finish
by any means necessary!!!

so the young people set off on their jaunt, trying to be very full of beans

this is at Fabiola’s shop for homeless work program event
i bought a really awesome thing that you will see probably tomorrow

this is big fat teddy’s new baller mansion

shit!

what did i do the past few days

now that i am not in fun couple

not a fuck lot it looks like

not fuck a lot it looks like
this is me having martinis with meghan

ha ha this is me at the same restaurant the next day for lunch with a girl who i want to call cecelia but now that i look it up its:
cecilia!
oh good

this is jack asking the New Museum for Neosporin

this is Cian my graphic designer for the Hole’s awesome un autoleveled look

have you ever seen hair quite so red???

if you are expecting fun partying, you have one more week to wait

i cannot move a muscle in the direction of fun until all my paperwork and money and keys in my hand happens

if you knew how close something soooooo awesome was, you would feel frenzied with anticipation
and your heart would be a small panic raisin

humph!
i am at Eddie Martinez’ studio
thank goodness for some awesome art on this!
i didnt know how long i could really keep u busy with street photos and promises of future gallery awesomeness

he has … two big shows coming up? one is in like three days so i can post those photos, one is in september so i cannot post those photos

im positive i have already fucked up!!!!

maybe if i stick to small details i wont spoil anything

although dog is in the details

um ok i have to post this photo because this was my favourite
pretend you never saw this!
or if this is the paris show piece, then bask in all its glory!!

can u feel my profound satisfaction that i finally got a good photo of this?

jack saw how in russia every girl everywhere gets flowers for everything
study group
casual friday
co-ed volleyball
you name it, a girl will receive flowers for it
if you see a woman under… forty on the street not holding flowers, it is very sad and you have to feel very sad

so now he thinks its fun to give everyone flowers
which it is!!!!
i can think of like only two things that make me feel like a girl!

🙂

not this

oh who am i kidding sitting here blogging i have work to do