THIS IS HOW YOU SAY IT: AID-REE-UH

Go.

2011-03-03T18:43:00.000-05:00

They'll have work in it, I'll have (new) work in it, We'll all have work in it. Come by

2011-03-02T18:42:00.000-05:00

Finally, getting around to making that “Songs About Horrible Accidents & Events” mix

BOOKS & LOOKS (sketch innit)

2011-02-25T13:50:00.001-05:00

Do You Like to Draw/Paint/Collage/Paste/Sculpt/Write/Crumple/Jizz/Trace Things?

Inside of a Book?
A Special Book. That I Make, Just for You. And you. And you....And you.

I Hope I Haunt You (Embodied Hand, writing, telling cryptically of your downfall)

2011-02-23T04:03:00.000-05:00

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2011-02-22T06:07:00.000-05:00

"Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. If you just recognize this and manage, out of yourself, out of your own talent and nature, out of your own experience and childhood and strength, to achieve a wholly individual relation to sex (one that is not influenced by convention and custom), then you will no longer have to be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your dearest possession."

Right now I am using 1 more computer than you are.

2011-02-19T12:01:00.000-05:00

Let me tell you: Working/Marinating on new projects. Technology should, in theory, make progress faster - but it seems to slow me down, personally.

COMMUNITY SHITE: I am working with an emerging non-profit that wants to do awesome things. More later, as it appears. ALSO: Helping organize the Second Year of The Sketchbook Project. Get in touch soon if it interests you.

WHAT AND HOW/WHERE:

December 1, 2010 - March 15, 2011...3.5 month Daily project with Emily Pardoe. Currently in activity and showing in my bedroom only.

Saturday, MARCH 5, Art Haus Show @ Clark Ave in No to the Ho, Mass. Details coming..

Like spitting in my hand and giving you a high five.

2011-02-06T10:17:00.000-05:00

Two Jobs/Two Many/Tu Mal

2010-04-25T16:25:00.002-04:00

AGES AGO/The Past In Brief:

-At MIT Visual Arts Center in Boston, this gender show got me like crack (I went back twice, and it has since ended) The videos Charles Atlas made in the '80's, brilliant brilliant...Hail the New Puritan's last scene murdered me

-I met Marina Abramovic at ps1 in Queens, fulfilling something somewhat.
She signed a book I purchased and wrote me a message for the future on the back of a David Shrigley postcard.

She said she was tired.

-Currently Courting Camus, Rilke, or anyone morosely tragic while still strangely uplifting into sadly attractive. In youth, I wandered in libraries and lived there, picking up books at random and devouring them. I'd read a name suggestion and follow that lead; so my personal discovery upon classics and traditional literature was solely based on chance. In short, there is much I've read and much I've missed, and I see mostly advantages. This method caused the following: I now read things that, in the past and in my immaturity, I wouldn't understand then (which happened often) - My unique literature exploration allows me to still have a personal relationship to random readings - I appreciate word-of-mouth suggestions more than any other kind, because I've known so few.

-Go see the William Kentridge at MOMA, you bastards

Two months past and it is still resonating...

So I went to New York,

2010-02-05T13:30:00.000-05:00

Because it was due time to saturate.
It was a few days ago/I stayed for a few days.
Here's part of what happened:

CHELSEA BOYS,
<>Caught the tail end of a photo show at Danziger Projects It featured a lovely photographer and lovely friend of mine, David Schoerner. Very Happy to have managed to see it on its last day Up. David's series "After Betty" nods at Gerhard Richter's turning woman portrait from the '80's:

<>At fredericks & freiser gallery, A lad named Nicholas Di Genova has tiny hands. Look close and see, he has drawn numerous amounts of butterflies. Normally this is not an image that impresses me very much. Here it does well. These are impressively small drawings.
At first I thought they were prints...

<>A notable experience at Printed Matter
, in which I come out empty-handed. I managed to use my roving eyes well and not commit to anything- a shame and a pleasure.

<>My favourite Wolfgang

More later -

RESONATING OBJECTS FROM HOLLY DAYS....

2010-01-14T16:15:00.011-05:00

Look at these things. One is a gift I gave and several are gifts I got. I gave this Miranda July/Harrell Fletcher book "Learning To Love You More" to someone I love. If you were not aware, This book is a printed archive of unique assignments that the authors had posted on their website to anyone in the world to respond to: "Tell your life story in a day" or "Take a picture of the sun" or "Write a script of the conversation you wished you could have" - the cover here is "Take a picture of your parents kissing".
While the requests are somewhat twee, the international responses are incredibly shocking, gorgeous, complex and uplifting. Artist Harrell Fletcher must be the mastermind behind this brilliant project - harrellfletcher.com/ is constantly bursting with generous suggestions for shining ideas.

These people with their backs to you are: The Janfamily.
This book has alluded me for years and now finally rests in my hands. The sophisticated and more beautiful cousin to the July/Fletcher book, it is aptly named "Plans for Other Days" A funny, unique photography catalog book full of soft suggestions: "How not to do what you did yesterday" and "How to blend it". It poses as a strange "how-to" manifesto that catalogues simple but innovative ways to react to our environment. The cover here encourages an alternative to a handshake: Make new friends who are just meeting each other: Button and zip their jackets together in order to introduce themselves. Why not?

These 2 photos right here ask: "Trace the outlines of your previous apt or home into your new one. That way the past and present will unite and strengthen one's character."
The JanFamily has scraped the previous paint job of chairs into the wall and floor (perhaps their past had more people in it?) and in the next photo they have used a drawing material to indicate various furniture and objects, now since gone.
I shall do mine with chalk...

Truly the genius of this book lays in the ambiguity. The format is very abstract and contains a very personal mood, despite being conceived by several individuals. While optimistic and insightful in conceptual message, the mood of melancholic, airy uncertainty is evident with each page. JanFamily is a London-based arts collective that made this vivid book and fell off the face of the earth. I find that as tragic and appealing as the text itself

A blank square. Of beautiful, perfect, pristine, stretched canvas. A brilliant gift. While the object itself should fully satisfy - This decisive show of confidence and encouragement nourishes me with a more gorgeous fortitude...

How wonderful! Exotic: Marzipan in the shape of fruit! For the first time in quite some time, Marzipan touches me

For Willy K

2010-01-13T21:53:00.002-05:00

There's now a huge library on the internet. Have you heard about it?

REPEAT: die Aktualität einer rekonstruierten Vergangenheit spüren

2010-01-04T21:35:00.007-05:00

We're not just any body

...this happened

and that

Something I didn't do - it made me unable to continue seeing

Here it wasn't kind,

Do I have to die once or twice
To keep you for the rest, the rest of my life
Baby, what am I going to do
Baby, what am I going to do
With you, with you

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2009-12-23T18:43:00.001-05:00

THE INFANT, THE ANIMAL
(LES ENFANT)

- Cranberry cardigan, Striped scarf
- Sonic Youth tuning
- Yellow, Left, Tobacco-Stained, Index Finger
- Reading my journal
- Hammish the 18-Year Old Cat
- Tequila in white tea
- A man lying down in a boat
- Yoko Ono on the window
- Sleeping with shoes on
- Kicking my foot - the foot of the leg crossed over the other
- Green ginger wine
- A Swedish girlfriend studying law - A Swedish girlfriend studying fashion - A Polish girlfriend
- Selfish, selfish, selfish
- Music on my desk
- Screaming in reverse
- A big fat fucking empty barstool
- Professional dishwashing
- Crushing a can in a mirror
- Curry couch
- Modern love

Approximately one week ago:

2009-12-14T17:11:00.028-05:00

A person named Jeff Havens spent time in my studio and we made things side-by-side on a quiet, cold Sunday. Longtime collaborator and very close friend of mine, Jeff is a painter / print-maker / draftsman / curator / writer / activist and performance/ video /installation artist who lives quite reticently in Northampton, Massachusetts.
He is also a musician who plays in a band named Sway, based out of Boston (myspace.com/swaymusicforever)
For pure pleasure, I often play music with Jeff in his home. Or rather, he plays a stringed instrument and I sing (myspace.com/furhoodlums)

Here are some pictures of Jeff creating a collage installation in a gallery. (Photography by Michael Kahan of kahantext.com)

It is somewhat difficult to view Jeff's work or even Jeff himself, as he lives on what is most commonly referred to as "the fringes of society" He does have an email and telephone, but has no website or computer and does not treat electronic devices like extensions of his body. I feel very lucky to know him and have him around me consistently.

While in my studio, we both drew drawings and talked about important things. On the right here is this terrible drawing of a man's face that I did then. I feel pretty good about it

THWO DRAWRINGS IN QUEENS NYC

2009-12-02T16:28:00.003-05:00

Today is Official Giving You Short Notice Day:

Throughout the month of December,

"die Zeit of Drawing" (The Time of Drawing)

December 5 - 27, 2009

Opening December 5, 6-9pm

Two drawings of mine are in this group show. Both are featured on my website and if you can guess exactly which ones they are, I'll make you a cup of fair-trade coffee and give you a back massage. The two said drawings in this show have not been exhibited very much, let alone outside Massachusetts, so that is kind of cool

My beloved comrade Jeff Havens also has two new drawings in this same show that are absolutely brilliant gemstones.

Tragically I cannot attend the opening but I hope you can check it out?

Here's the way to it:
By foot, subway and car...
http://climategallery.com/html/directions.html

Lame Rogue vs. Dumb Dumb in Big Parking Lot

2009-11-25T07:43:00.017-05:00

The moleskin with watercolour paper and half rounded edge pages

A fourteen day too long delay. Quite exhausted, underneath this pile of exciting projects, stressful news, good novels, depressed situations and turkey week. A frequent flurrying will follow-

I don't know anything about these.

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2009-11-11T08:37:00.003-05:00

THE CHICK

- Sly
- You want to fix my head
- Squids and octopi
- Faded red
- Holding you front stage
- French singers
- Chapped lips
- Inconsistent bad breath/good breath
- Shitty mattress
- Lean limbs
- Fluttering, light lashes
- Shoulder shirt buttons
- Striped wheel
- Looking sideways when you kiss
- Star socks
- African tree patterns
- Belly button semen
- Cocky quips
- Sensual, apprehensive laments
- Rainbow bike
- Swedish dream

Its you I'm talking about

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2009-11-05T07:24:00.008-05:00

THE BEAST

- Upstate Maine
- Obnoxious
- "The Mask" on VHS
- Tom's Shoes
- Buying girls jeans on Ebay
- Gummi Bear slingshots
- Sweating profusely, drinking out of a Newcastle beer jug on the floor of my living room
- Stolen spinach artichoke pizza and maple syrup
- Baltimore bail
- Sufjan Stevens and staring at a screen
- Yelling at my bedroom window
- Whoopie pies
- RIP YOUR THROAT OUT
- Sleeping on a cot
- Sharing wet dreams

Its you I'm talking about

Year In

2009-10-28T00:02:00.008-04:00

Naturally, I think I see things best. Therefore I am the best photographer. Empathy is good bones and sociopath attributes aside - here are several images of my mind 2009.

People I Feel Sorry For

2009-10-19T06:19:00.008-04:00

Right now I am drawing small drawings that are motivated by my sympathy for a particularly tragic human condition. Here are five of Anne Boleyn. An ambitious young lady who got a bum deal? Perhaps. I am working mostly from a portrait of Boleyn by an unknown artist.

Brother David, I Want To Be Like You

2009-10-06T02:44:00.005-04:00

The boat, I believe it to be in progress

GLASS VEGAS PAINTINGS

2009-10-02T23:12:00.015-04:00

The Table, Conceived Feb 2009. Shown in "Milk Teeth" Group Exhibition, East End Glasgow, Scotland. Now owned respectively by Mr. Jodi Cave (www.jodi-cave.com)

Also exhibited in same group show, also made in February. The Lake. Michael Bleach now owns this work.