February 2012
3 posts
addendum to previous
call a baby and go to Dave’s email on my cousin dude God that unbundled them or or or or or or you want to dad on
I talked fake Korean to my new iPhone voice...
It was like:
look a bit but it to him today and didn’t Muqtada but L to sleep with somebody about you with a drink thing getting up and get it on the windows to be but I’m going to be pushed around him to get that contract up and I’m Gonna meeting but undermotivated things were a lot of cleaning to get a Papakapu stupid dentist section phenomenon take up the dog living room...
ahh i just remembered that i have this thing. i should resume it. ok, super, now that’s taken care of.
July 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
Reach Out And: The Job Application by Robert... →
reachoutand:
Esteemed gentlemen,
I am a poor, young, unemployed person in the business field, my name is Wenzel, I am seeking a suitable position, and I take the liberty of asking you, nicely and politely, if perhaps in your airy, bright, amiable rooms such a position might be free. I know that your good…
September 2010
2 posts
idea: website kudzu app
Write an application that gradually covers your homepage when you don’t update it.
April 2010
1 post
Listening to
Pemungkah/Rebong/Gambangan by Benjamin Britten & Colin McPhee on Irwin’s Show. It’s great.
November 2009
1 post
Brending
Consider the whole of your life, what you already do, all your doings. Now please exclude everything which is naturally physiologically necessary (or harmful), such as breathing and sleeping (or breaking an arm). For what remains, exclude everything which is for the satisfaction of a social demand, a very large area which includes foremost your job, but also care of children, being polite,...
September 2009
1 post
idea: mixtures
Mix beauty products with opposing or contradictory effects. Observe the results, then bottle and market it.
July 2009
1 post
“…One afternoon my wife and I built a puppet theatre. After propping the...”
– Albert Appel Jr.’s introduction to the Annotated Lolita via: dot dot dot
June 2009
2 posts
“In a way, [Man Ray is] like an object. You can look at him and say, how am I...”
– William Wegman
“never mistake a clear view for a short distance.”
May 2009
1 post
idea
Keep a log of the web-pages for every local ad I see on the subways. delicious tag: subway_ads
April 2009
2 posts
idea for a one day video
Make a set that is basically just a table, but like, really good. Cook breakfast, lunch and dinner, and with one collaborator, videotape eating each meal. ummm…
Idea
‘How I Earned the Right to Vote’ - title for an autobiography up to the age of 18
March 2009
4 posts
I wish...
I often find myself wishing that everything I owned had a telephone number so I could find it when it’s missing.
The Problem
The basic thing I want from the video I’m working on is to convey the feeling of recognizing that you exist for other people as they exist for you, and that they have a consciousness that is as expansive and unfathomable as your own. The difficulty is in the complexity and fleetingness of this moment of consciousness.
Art, history, documentation, culture, context
Everybody agreed a while back, I guess, that context is important to an artwork’s meaning/significance, etc., and I was just thinking about why that is and why it became more true, or at least more recognized (same thing?) during the 20th century, and I think it has to do with mediated culture. With the advent of photography and mass media, a work of art was photographed in context and its...
Idea: Food & Paint
Mix food & paint together. Think about it more…
February 2009
8 posts
Idea: Andrew's Crépes
OK: So the idea is to hang out outside of Andrew Kreps gallery with a crepe cart and sell crepes at market prices. This enterprise will be called Andrew’s Crépes. Hopefully it will be a success. Waiting ‘till spring…
I'm Getting Scared of the Internet
I am afraid surfing the internet’s going to destroy my mind and my self. I often notice large chunks of time - 30-60 min or so - have passed without my noticing time’s passage or formulating a coherent thought. During that time any focus or resolve, any clear sense of self I had has been mushed to a pulp. My mind is left like a multiply exposed photograph, with little sense governing...
Let it all out
Holding it in will make you constipated, which I recently learned is quite painful.
To Do
Make a crayon rubbing on paper of the inscription on the courthouse at Madison and 25th.
Freedom
Lately it’s been my feeling that art at bottom is about absorbtion and freedom, or absorbtion towards freedom. I think that all art is really practice in freedom, and striving towards freedom. Maybe the real carrot art holds out in front of the artist is freedom, and the artist struggles through being towards that place, or object - to become free in a freedom achieved through an...
“All art is practice in freedom.”
– I said that
Remember what the sun was like setting over the...
I want to cover a floor in crumpled teal foil and make an illuminated sunset behind it. I want to throw a party there, and play only sea sounds, and for everybody to walk on the foil and and feel like they’re walking on water and nobody goes home alone if they don’t want to.
January 2009
3 posts
“I’m the bird, and you’re the ornithologist.” I don’t really sit down and think...”
– Stephen Soderbergh in an interview with a critic quoting Orson Welles in an interview with a critic
Ambition
At this moment in my life I hope to produce an open-ended and complex body of work that is vigorously pursued enough to grow coherent without resorting to narrow-minded marketing strategies that can produce a cheaply won cohesion at the cost of depth. My only motivating forces should be the whole-hearted and open-minded pursuit of all ideas and impulses that compel me, and serious reflection on...
Something about good art I read
On a plane from New York to Washington, DC, en route to New Mexico, I read the transcript of a memorial that Zadie Smith had given for David Foster Wallace in Harper’s and she reported something true that he once said. Something approximately ‘There is something timeless about good art, and it’s not talent, even shimmering talent. Talent is like a pen that works instead of a pen...
December 2008
5 posts
I spent some time in the bathroom
Last night I got a new pair of swimming goggles, and as I was trying to adjust the headband in the bathroom, the clip that holds the strap in place on the right side snapped loose, and I was sure it had gone flying off somewhere. I spent an hour looking for the clasp. I probably touched every horizontal surface in the bathroom. I couldn’t find it anywhere so I assumed it had gone down the...
Don't rush
I’m often rushing between places. I do this hoping to spend my time more efficiently. I realize that most of the time I shouldn’t be rushing. I don’t like to be in a rush, and I rush because I feel like I’m saving time by doing it. Really, though, I’m wasting time: I’m spending time doing something unpleasant and disruptive to thought, when I could otherwise be...
“The Situationists said, ‘Be local,’ When you become clear about your personality...”
November 2008
4 posts
Computers
My middle-school biology teacher told my parents at a conference that the best thing they could do for me was to buy me a computer. So my parents, that week, bought me my own computer, a Compaq (my dad used a Mac, but being that this was a career-related purchase I got a PC) that I kept in my bedroom. The first thing I did, I think, was sign on to AOL and search WebCrawler for...
My Thoughts During and After Catherine Sullivan's...
OK quick form:
Catherine Sullivan’s work could be an interesting touchstone for me as I try to develop the body of work I’m now beginning. Her videos are rooted in a narrative film-making, but they complicate the process and the product in ways that I find interesting and relevant. She works with film’s relation to theater, fiction’s relationship to documentary, and with...
Remember this bit from the New York Times
On Obama…
“His triumph was decisive and sweeping, because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens. He offered a government that does not try to solve every problem but will do those things beyond the power of individual citizens: to regulate the economy fairly, keep the air clean and the food safe, ensure that the sick have...
October 2008
20 posts
I should remember the feeling of working in an...
I was bored, and tired, and constrained, but I didn’t feel so much pressure to justify my being. My path was carved, and I mostly just tumbled through it. I was secure in my quiet, dim suffering.
I should remember not to be lazy and not to give...
Because then I’ll just hate myself.