tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203780042012-01-27T03:14:23.207-08:00You and your beer and how great you arexnbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957700731376280589noreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20378004.post-52980382030215028472011-12-16T10:46:00.001-08:002011-12-16T10:46:30.618-08:00

http://americancensorship.org/

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Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.

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http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/maryland-and-fracking

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OK, so pics from the KUVA show.

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So here we go

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Not Art related, but something I am interested in. NYT More U.S. Solar goes to China

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Here are some images from our first pour here.

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So that gap is going to stretch into January. (Drag) I am having a show At kaiku gallery in February so we are doing a low temp melt in december for bronze and aluminum. The school wishes to maintain resin bonded sand which is cool, I have tracked down sand, (expensive) chemicals (also expensive) and Made flasking materials and other tools from scrap wood and metal lying around. I am going to buy

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So remember when I promised that I would keep folks up to date on my goings on? Hmm yeah, I meant like every two months. But here is a torrent of posts to keep things up to date. The school, is KuvA, www.kuva.fi, here is a picture of that.Once we arrived, everyone has been awesome, and they showed me to the foundry (or what was to become the foundry) sadly it had been a carving studio and junk

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The Forum Box is currently showing work by Turku Artist, Hannakaisa Oksane. The Majority of the work is scululptural in nature, featuing several wall pieces reminicent of painting. Using wood as a primary material, the artist has developed a cohesive body of work, involving thread or sewing technique as the primary form of joinery. The work relies heavily on contextual reference inherent in the

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So here we are. things are good so far. The persons at the Fulbright center were spectacular. Things are being worked out as far as space for the fall and there is room already for the foundry work to begin. Sadly, that room is currently filled with crap which will need to be removed and sorted out before we are able to really start building. There is a plan to have courses ready to teach some

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Thats the itinerary. We are on the jersey turnpike right now. Did you know that they sell NJ turnpike memorabilia? I was going to buy a sweatshirt but they were sold out. Hot item with the tourists I suppose. What else besides your shoes smelling like gas could you possibly want for a souvenir of your trip through ( or to ) the garden state. The weather says it is in the 60's in Helsinki and I

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http://www.ginandtacos.com/2010/08/16/a-very-special-time-warp-fjm/

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So we are back online, It has been a while since I posted anything but pics and announcements. Sorry about that. The story is that I have been awarded a Fulbright grant and am moving to Helsinki for a year, starting next week. As such I will be falling out of the DC and baltimore scene. Either way there is a lot of things that I have been up to. And my goal is to keep everyone that reads up to

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I am sorry if this has been a total drag to read for all these years. I have been a total complainer. What a drag. Sorry. Life is awesome again .

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New Work:  Katherine Mann, Michael Enn Sirvet & Christian BenefielOpening Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7-9 pmHamiltonian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works byHamiltonian Fellows Katherine Mann, Michael Enn Sirvet and Christian Benefiel. In moments both subtle and cacophonous, each artist reflects on often-overlooked nuances in their environments in which they live and 

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Hello all,  I  Hope that you have all are digging your way  out of winter. Here are two shows that i am in this weekend, the First is in Chicago IL, so if you are out there, please stop in and check it out. Opening is this Friday from 6-9 at the ARC gallery, 832 W superior #204, Chicago IL. There are a lot of works in this show, and I have a small rust piece. Also I am going to be a part of the

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Mouth activated inflatable sculpture.

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Studio day three : inflatable inflated wood glued.

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So I am in Johnson VT doing a mini residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and it is pretty cool so far. I am doing some inflatable work and Am trying to sort something out working with the snow. I am going to try to keep this up to date with Daily photo posts. Either way Thanks for looking out. Studio Day one at move in. End of Day one

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So seeing Nick cave soundsuits was kindof cool at the SAM. It was especially interesting paired with all the African celebratory masks and costumes. I

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If you have the money I have the Goodes.

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So a sign that fox is a joke. They have their own retail store. That is on par w/ Disney and Looney Toons. Granted we are in Texas. At the George bush intercontinental airport. But still.

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So my good friend shell toes -http://www.thickskinfashionforward.blogspot.com/  has taken an interest in my wine project. She writes-  When I was surfing all my morning blogs I noticed your post about drinking only wine. I will admit I have had many a fantasy of chugging bottles of wine while creating masterpieces of art. Just watch Modigliani. But that will have to wait until Helmi's out of the

xnbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957700731376280589noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20378004.post-63218766490984261362009-11-11T18:44:00.001-08:002009-11-11T18:44:58.614-08:00

So I didn't know that the transformer benefit auction which I was a part of on saturday was going to have complimentary Belgian beer. Wine tasting officially started Sunday.

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So let's try this. My whole life I have had an aversion to wine. White, red, I never like any of them. As it stands right now beer drinking is getting me into a bit of trouble. So I am pulling the old switcheroo. I will only drink wine (as a booze) until new years.Kind of a saucer procrastinators version of a new years resolution. I feel that wine might make me a bit more tolerable at at

xnbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957700731376280589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20378004.post-9561499089564786012009-10-23T17:48:00.000-07:002009-10-23T17:49:52.444-07:00

So I just went to knit wit at nudashank gallery. All work involving knitting and thread and other softeeees. The space is quickly becoming one of my favorites in Baltimore.These pics are a few highlights for me.

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Here are some images of this work installed at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington VA. This show runs through Nov 7 2009.

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Good afternoon everyone,I hope your summer has been pleasant. This is the fall update for things I am involved with.Things went very well with the residency at the Jackson county Green Energy Park. The work that I made there will be At Arlington Art Center As a part of their fall solo exhibitions. The opening for this is Friday sept 11 from 6 -9 pm. I am particularly excited because the solos

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I am teaching a drawing class at Montgomery college this fall. For those that know me you know that this is what I have wanted to do for a good portion of my life. There is a lot of HR bullshit going on, but I guess that that is the nature of the beast.

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http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5236&Itemid=85www.christianbenefiel.com

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So shell toes Shelton has eccomended I dust off the old bloggy blog and tell folks what is happening. So here we go.This is a review of a show I had in Baltimorehttp://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=18459

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So, this past saturday After heading to the Grand opening of Hamiltonian Gallery We decide to retire to the black cat. This bar is the old staple for kids who either want to be hip, and don't know where the hip place to be is, or maybe are getting a little too old for the bar, but still wish they were cool. I belong to the latter group. I think. The bar is split into two levels, one for national

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So Also, in a late review, Conner contemporary had thier grand opening ceremony last week. The work seemed ok, although there were too many people to really make an assesment of the space or artworks. Brandon Morse had a new video piece in the show, which for me was the highlight. I am a bit biased about this, as I studied under him in graduate school, but realistically The piece was really

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So this is what i was talking about.http://www.bethanien.de/kb/index/trans/en/page/aboutlinkthis is a link to the Künstlerhaus Bethanien website essentially, this is an alternative nonprofit in berlin, to the best of my assumption, which was saved by artists from demolition in 1974. I believe that the story goes... A bunch of artists were squatting in this hospital campus, and it was up for

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So, Long time now posty, well, I have been gone for quite a while. What have I been up to, Oh many many things.To start, I finally received a Degree in something, what might you ask, well, Art!, yes beautiful, interesting, relatively useless art! And where to go with this art degree? well hopefully somewhere. We will See. FAQ? Does this degree legitimize anything that has been posted on this site

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So what is so sexual about this work? Though it is difficult to directly put your finger on, (no pun intended) there are elements that are mysteriously erotic about these works. Many of the elements vaguely imply a nebular round shape. Flopping and sagging over time, the shapes come to a point defined by a co centric smaller circle of similar, yet rougher often darker materials. Some forms are

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Enough talk, here is some more visuals for you

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The idea of personal space is confronted in this body of work through the same interaction as the other concepts presented. In each piece the work begins innoculously laid out on the ground, harmless and non-invasive. As the cycle of the work progresses the pieces grow and consume more realestate, meanwhile rising to an imposing height, and pressing out against the viewer. At this point, the

xnbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957700731376280589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20378004.post-12633694731941331662008-04-16T08:40:00.000-07:002008-11-13T02:33:18.609-08:00

Just for fun, before i started uding Rhino to draft these projects, I was doing the math longhand in a notebook. here are some shots of that process.This is the image where i used the formula for elipses to define the profile curve of an elipse which was 3x4.Once i had the coordinaates for various points along the curve, the distance formula is used to calculate (surprise) the distance between

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So why include the viewer, who invited them to the party? As the activation of sense in the visual arts becomes less and less about visuals, and the world of high definition, surround sound, blue ray, blue tooth, interactive wireless interface, home theater, Ipods, Digital animation, netflix, youtube, movies ondemand, IMAX, Satellite television Radio, HD radio, gives a thousand other reasons not

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The observer has a critical role in these pieces, without the viewer, the piece is really just a pile of material and somewhat simple wiring. At this point it is difficult to say where exactly the viewer comes into play, and how, but the viewer will have to make choices about the level of involvement that they have, and those decisions will ultimately control outcome of the piece. Several

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In all of these peices there exixts a cyclical time based element in which things inflate and deflate. This cycle, though only to be set off when the viewer approches references the taoist principles of balance, force (tao) and the struggle between passive and aggressive action. The balance of form, precision set off by imperfection, the simple made complex and vice versa are instantly apparent

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In general in my work, i am often presented with a material and objects are created from that material. I believe this body of work is separate from previous works, in the sense that the idea to work with sail canvas came to me, without any specific pieces In mind. While the transformation has been relatively smooth to go from steel and wood to a softer material, the transition was not without

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The swatches of fabric are cut from sail material. in this case either Dacron, Nylon or a kevlar/mylar laminate. each material has Its own sets of properties. because most of the products are made from thermalplastic materials, they are best cut with heat, so as to reseal frayed edges as the material is cut. as the material is cut out, the pieces are laid out and attatched using a thin double

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Once the models have been built and the surfaces unrolled and defined as developable two dimensional shapes, the transition into reality is ready to begin. The first step in going from Ideas to reality is transforming files for the shapes of the surface from a file in 3 dimensions to a two dimensional vector based doccument. this is usually done using either architectual programs such as Auto CAD

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The process for these pieces, involves sveral mediums and practices from modern 3d modeling through processes thousands of years old. Working to make a consistant body of work, I often start with drawings. As is the style with much of my work these drawings are done using Scrap materials, construction paper, paint, the works.From there, the drawings go into a 3d modeling program to be built

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So here is a brief overview of the 2008 CAA conference in Dallas. There is no Bohemia. everyone gets dressed up and applies for jobs, the world of academia is as cold and stiff as everyone described. There are good eggs and bad eggs though, It is fun to differentiate between the folks who are obligated to be here and the ones who came for the party. At times i find myself being part of the sea of

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I am writing this from a free internet terminal in the dallas fort worth airport. I think it is pretty ccool that this exists.The stainless steel keyboards are pretty cool too.

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So, this is my new plan: Pending approval, I am going to compose the written part of my thesis for MFA on this site. The various issues i feel I am dealing with will be addressed in a sort Of public Forumn, Open for comment and critique. The vast majority of the thesis will be represented, as you can guess by the actual work tangible artworks, which will be on display sometime in mid april in the

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Soagain it was my birthday this week. I am not feeling old necessarily, but have am realizing every day that I am not young any more. I have been pretty busy working out a thesis for my MFA, but have been working fairly diligently and believe i am on the right path. As usual, the writing is the hardest part for me. I write at roughly the same level as a third grade boy, mostly hyperbole and

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So,I should preface this post by first of all thanking everyone in the UK who has shown me so much hospitality and generosity over the last few weeks, Carrie, Hugh, Tiff, Len, Jane, lawrence, brian, butley mills, Clementine, Matt sigmon, thanks for all you have done for us and I hope that someday i can repay you.... but the show must go on... so....long time no posty. Been busy for the last few

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What has been going on with me, i ll tell you what. the cold is ending, the darkness is over. its warming up and light out side untill like 8 pm. All winter i have been thinking that i would be able to climb out of this depression when the weather got better. But to no avail i guess. It seems to be harder and harder to get out of bed in the morning, and the nighttime hours seem to slip away. In

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So how was Stockholm you might ask? It wasn't much fun, just cold and boring. Sweden differs from the rest of Europe by being very socialist, and taxing the hell out of everything. so that's a drag. It is similar to the US in the fact that they have Sunday beers. (Sunday beer is 3.5% beer that can be bought on Sunday in some states where blue law prohibits the purchase of alcohol on Sundays) The

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So, Estonia, its cold here. very cold. I am glad that i brought my lined pants. I have been wearing almost everything that i brought with me when i go outside. Over the weekend, we went to winter days, a celebration of the winter solstice, out in the woods, where we drank and hung out in sauna, there were bands and games and it was great. This is what the school here does to start out the

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My Girllfriend is down with the flu, and it sucks, sxhe has been puking and aching all day. I think she got it from the dog. anyway, i have decided that drinking beer is the best way to for me to avoid this problem. ( the logic on this is really long and complicated, and took me four beers to work out myself) Any way, I recently got a letter from jack Livingston, asking for my top ten events in

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I dont have a very good sense of smell. I rarely notice things like perfume, (or my own horrible so i am told BO.) i love the way my girlfriend smells after she has a shower and puts on lotion.Its funny the small things you miss.

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So, jay z and i chose to come out of retirement at the same time, wierd right? Lots of things are happening right now, things like this...so that rules, but there has been others as well. for example, i am going to estonia in a few weeks, for a few months to study under Villu Jaanisoo and wont be back untill july. so thats cool. I have been asked to speak on a panel at sloss Southern iron art

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So i am running out of internet access these days. I am moving and am unsure if there will be internet at my new residence... but while i am on the way out i thought i might post fairly regularly for a change. I have returned from My internship at Franconia Sculpture Park. Things went fairly smoothly all summer. It is a great way to spend a summer, especially if one has just graduated from

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So this past week we had the honor of working with Coral Lambert to plan the franconia Hot metal Summer Pour. The pour was a reasonble succes, aside from small problems with the resin bonded sand curing. We poured three times, running the fairly new Aurora compliments of Felicia Glidden as well as a well modified furnace originally built by Michael Bigger. Many of the artists, were either MN

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I had a rough night last night. First I jumped through a fire only to really hurt my knee, then I saw my own reflection in the mirror, and realized how out of shape I am. It always seems to happen, I never exercise, then do something remotely aerobic, and wind up with a pulled something or the other. It Inspires good work though, at least work that I think is fun to make.Speaking of which, this

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It is almost 100 degrees outside. It hasn't rained in almost a month, and there is no change in sight. Other than the weather, there have been other developments here. First I have completed a new piece, which I like but do not think I want to leave here, I may take it back to MD. Unfortunately the park hates it and will not give me more supplies to make a new piece in the same vein. Off to the

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This weekend we were lucky enough to be joined by sculptor Jon Isherwood from the east coast. While his slides and comments were quite impressive, he seemed to have little to no faith in my generation as a force to be reckonded with socially, politically, or even in the world of art. Which at first might seem offensive to those of you who happen to fall into that lovely 18-30 ish demographic, But

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The story of Franconia Sculpture Park Where I am spending the next few weeks. The park is run by a sculptor named John Hock, just north of the twin cities in Minnesota. The work is good and the beer flows like, well, beer. There are other sculptors here, from all over the country and even the world, (I don't want to start name dropping yet) and it is good to work with people who are excited about

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I find myself in the courtyard of the hirshhorn museum, in a 40's era farmerjohn bathing suit sunbathing with a group of performance artists. Smithsonian security is telling us that what we are doing is against the code, ( what code, was never indicated) Eventually we were asked to leave. It seems odd that an art museum would turn away art, (not really) but we left, and I realized that I am not

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Today i saw a band on television that I used to listen to. like five years ago, maybe more, this band was a fairly decent hardcore band, in the same line that the misfits were, kind of gloomy, lots of black and songs about death, but they were good, not too image centered of a group, certaintly not my favorite, but one that I chose to spin once in a while while i was working as a DJ at a college

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long time no post.Today I saw a phenomenon that i have been noticing more and more recently. kids smoking. I dont thiknk it is more prevelant, but just that the older I get the more I notice these sorts of things. It is quite a prediciment, knowing firsthand the pain they are setting themselves up for. I wish I could tell them to quit now while they still can. I hate it. I think about what I was

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The whitney biennial exhibit.I recently went to a panel discussion of various curators, and gallery directors and heard a phrase mentioned with half sincerity "Is any biennial ever successful?" Curious question, and I cannot say that I am in any position to argue one way or another about it,as my experience in biennials is minimal.I will say that the Whitney is as always hit and miss, across all

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Through the 21st of may, The Walters art gallery in conjunction with the Contemporary Museum will be showing work by renowned 20th century artist, Louise Bourgeois. The work, spread throughout both buildings presents work from all stages of the artists career, from the 1930s until today. the show is aptly titled femme, and is a departure from the spiders that many people associate with

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So. I just got back from NYC, an afternoon of gallery (and bar) hopping. I saw the whitney. (more on that later) Sad that i missed the david smith retrospective at the guggenheim (sp). There was lots of good art, and lots of crappy stuff (i might still just not understand art too well) Chelsea piers were as always fun to visit, but enough to drive me crazy at the same time. so many hipsters to

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I feel I should preface this post with the fact that I probably have no idea what I am talking about. A feminist friend of mine who is very much smarter than me, once told me that most people, including many who identify as feminists, ( I assume she meant me) have no clue about what actual feminism is.So. Feminists.I have never really been a fan of feminists, or any ist for that matter (ie

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This is a question that alot of people lie about. I personally wish that I could say i didn't, but I do. I watch TV most weeknights from 2-4 in the morning. I havent always. When i was in Undergraduate I PAwned my TV and used the money to buy Fugazi instrument, only to realize i had no tv to watch it on...Either way, my favorite part of TV is the commercials. Every so often there is something

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So the review for the Dada exhibit at the national gallery. I have been down to see the show twice now, once during the week, and once on a Sunday. If I can make a recommendation, please go during the week, time permitting. This exhibit is very educational, with a mass of information coming to you in all media, about the artists, the scene, the works, the materials, everything. There is a

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So, Dada is in town. The national gallery is hosting a Dada exhibit, more on that later this week. But any who, If you don't know, Dada was a movement around the time of and in reaction to World war one. I never know for sure if I love the dadas or hate them, on one hand they did open a whole new can of worms in the art world, making it ok to use new materials, and mediums, focusing more

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Last night I spent the whole night in my studio, working and drinking and listening to my friend play air guitar along to some jam band. You might not think that one could hear someone play air guitar, or even that an air guitar made any noise, but Petes does, it goes Weooww-weo-weoow-neener-enat-neeow. and the more we drink, the louder it getsSpeaking of air guitar, lets revisit the last post. I

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The Conner Contemporary ( http://www.connercontemporary.com/ ) is Hosting Whippersnappers, who in their own words are "young, Bright, culturally astute artists who, in our opinion, rock."These "rockstars" (Fatima Hoang, Michael Magnan, Maki Maruyama, Annie Schap, Zach Storm, Matthew Sutton) provide a curious assortment of unconventional contemporary pieces, from collage to conceptual. Highlights

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From Jan 27 through May 7 2006 The travelling exhibition "What Sound does a Color Make" Will be on the campus of UMBC in the Center for Arts and visual culture. The Exhibition features mostly video installation, focuing on the concept of synthesia, the idea of one sense stimulating another and vice versa in a cycle. Self-Portrait of Paul (DeMarinis), by Jim Cambell, is my pick of the show, which

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From Jan 27 through May 7 2006 The travelling exhibition "What Sound does a Color Make" Will be on the campus of UMBC in the Center for Arts and visual culture. The Exhibition features mostly video installation, focuing on the concept of synthesia, the idea of one sense stimulating another and vice versa in a cycle. Self-Portrait of Paul (DeMarinis), by Jim Cambell, is my pick of the show, which

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The Goodyear blimp is gone. But I think Budweiser might be stepping up to fill the shoes. The superbowl an incredible marketing scheme. People tune in just for the commercials... That is even a Scene worthy excuse for watching the game in some circles. It even has advertisements for itself. It is near 6 hours of A over romanticizing a garish sport (comparing it to chess, or art) and cleverly

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I have spent the last week eating tiny turkey sandwiches for breakfast lunch and dinner. It has been great eating three meals a day. I keep taking the leftovers from funeral receptions. I have been to two different funerals this week. One was for my grandmother, the other was a family friend who shot himself in the face. The funerals are weird because it has been the same group of family and

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I have never had a real job, in the sense that I have never had to put on a tie and shirt for work and nice pants and the whole getup. I don't know my way around the office. I have been temping for an office this past week. I hope that my job never becomes filing crap and getting lunch for everyone. Not that it is difficult work, it is quite easy, but monotonous and eventually worthless. After I

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I heard a guy getting his heart broken tonight. I went to get a beer from the fridge and heard yelling in the parking lot of my apartment. i thought that people were fighting. I looked out the window. there was a man yelling into his phone about hating someone on the other line. he hung up. he was weeping. I lit up my last cigarette ( i am trying to quit for new years) and smoked out the window.

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Good after noon. its now one o clock and i have yet to get out of bed. i am not terribly hung over, but i probably should be. lucky me. any way, i probably should inform you if you dont know about me at all. i am a mid twenties male middle class and white. probably the most boring motherfucker that you know... but thanks to the internet, now even a shmuck like me can have a soapbox. I am a

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