Monthly Archives: June 2009

Paris Bends

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I revisted this old photocollage from 11years ago while sitting at the Sauvignon with UU (video here)from flickr. The old one used one of those photobooths from the Garre St. Lazarre. I always found the whole Amelie photobooth story quite a souvenire as I was obsessed with those booths and Montmartre. The video is just all the stuff off my pocket cameras and none of the HD stuff. I will probably marry some of the low and highrez images, but for now this is a very crude pockumentary.

Le Retour de Monsieur Alex

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There is a lot of media to go through now. Drawings and video and timelapses. Etc. Not certain how to procede… and there is laundry. So here is a drawing of me by U U a flicker friend I met with in Paris and spent the day jamming collage in cafés and walking around the Rive Gauche. He has some great photos and vids of our day together so follow his link. I think it’s funny that the Ricard snap has a picture of Kubrick’s ear…not the sense organ you think of when and if you think about Kubrick, but I digress. A timer shot of us at the Café Sun Ra (chosen for it’s Jazz cred name and the Bizarre snaggle toothed gangster/Bond villain looking Maitre De).

No

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I added this just so it would have a roof on the story.
This is the first shot I took in Paris, somewhere near Gare du Nord heading up towards Montmartre. I ended up returning on Bloomsday. I’d say more, but I’m beat. It all started with a Greek at the JFK bar and then I met a Greek woman in Paris who gave me a pack of wonderful Greek cigarettes, but it ended up all Irish in the end, yes?

Penser

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I have my manuscripts ready for Hub and Zipper and I’ll have plenty of time to think of you, me, and everyone and everything we know… which ain’t much, but it will simply have to do. The festival is in the middle of Les Halles, the famous market area of Paris that is now a mall, or something. Anyway a place I never spent any time and right near the Louvre. I still can’t believe I’m going to Paris. Lucky fucking me. I’m bringing two copies of Le Petit Prince.

Cog Traces

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Here is one of the halfs of the cog tracing I did. These were used to protect the floor from epoxy resin stains and to have a model to recut a new cog if the epoxy some how destroyed the cog. There is another side to this but only one of the photos came out. I gave the drawing to the cog’s owner as a sort of bonus memento of the restoration.

Trouble in Purgatory

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Well I’m back on the couch and or pulling vampire all nighters at the studio. This year is like last year and like the decade before that. They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting different results… Guess I know some crazy people… but joy joy the cog has arisen Christ/Phoenix-like from the blood and ashes. Viva La Cog!