wine – IT IN Place

California Nostalgia

alex — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:01:47 +0000

These vids, vj together in interesting ways. Perhaps bigger than the sum of their spider parts. Finally getting around to dealing with old footage to send off to Victoria as I promised her months ago. To be fair, I told her it would probably not be till we were done with the end of Zipperhead and tomorrow is the last show. YOU SHOULD COME if you haven’t already.

Hey Kerry Ann (Screen Test)

alex — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:48:32 +0000

Up on Judy’s roof the ladies were talking about food. Some people you know, you always think: “They should be on Camera.” Kerry Ann is one of those people. Fortunately the camera seems to love her.

Noble Rot

alex — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:06:56 +0000

The other day I shared a couple of glasses of Chateau d’Yquem with a friend. Keith Richard’s band name “The Expensive Winos” kept coming to mind. It was a funny week that rolled from that beautiful Sauternes to jug wine from plastic cups and cheap beer. It made me laugh and be glad of life, etc. I’m King of the world….buddy can you spare a dime?

Spilled Dog

alex — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:55:22 +0000

The other day I made this substitute dog to keep me company in the studio. It’s made out of a saw horse and a sand bag and wine soaked crate from out in front of the Lorimer Street liquor store and a stuffed squirrel dog toy tail. Bailey would have been 15 yesterday, if she was still with us. I made a quick drawing of her licking her paws on her last day and I’ve been working over it off and on ever since…. It’s wine soaked as well. Something about death is like a broken bottle spilling out all the good stuff and you are left with nothing buy shattered glass, or ashes.

Frost Bite That Chicken

alex — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:03:19 +0000

Here is the updates from Friday’s Frost Space time lapses mixed with a Mingus song by way of Dylan’s old satellite radio show. Eat that chicken yes! Also some motion graphics made by a student of Golan Levin. The Eater is eating all sorts of heads I made over the years that they got off Flickr. I find this one thematically appropriate to the the first course of Frost Street… Food from the fridge… or whatever it is: Revenge Served Cold? Also a dead white pigeon I saw under the BQE on the way to the studio. Looked like an angel, or a Nationalist Seal….

Oh My Eyes, Oh MyEars

alex — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:09:51 +0000

Lat Friday I was hanging out with Ben and he threw me a pad of rice paper and started noodling on the guitar. I recorded him with the tiny mic on my still camera and eventually put it in the I Want More video. We also spent some time laughing at You Tube viral trash like the THX lemur below. We talked about scale on the internet (as I’ve been trying to make these longer documentary experiments) and wondered if these multiauthored motion jokes weren’t in some way great art. This one is like that uh huh moment of satori writ in cross species EYE get it face recognition. Anyway, it made us laugh.

Eat

alex — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:02:00 +0000

More Songs About Movies

alex — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:39:58 +0000

Here are some Collabs from Brian Raszka and The Library Project. He’s taken up my animated gif obsession and when you stack them up like this it really becomes sort of cinematc. This trio is all obsessed with Foreign and American film: Particularly the word play on French New Wave stars Goddard and Truffaut… Which is sort of like God is True or Faux (meaning “fake” in French)?. Brian’s animated finishes come right at a time where Sonja is trying to engage the group in a larger animated story. More on that idea as it happens.

Apocalypse Now and Then

alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:05:40 +0000

weekend fun. Including a thing on the block called the STUPENDOUS… where at sunset everyone made noise… very fluxus I thought.

Sing In Soprano Sotte Vocce

alex — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:51:16 +0000

well this is the glass hammer Vouvray. If yo can find it … buy it drink it.. etc.

A Box of Rain

alex — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:22:23 +0000

I found a cloudy and a wet paint sign yesterday and then Prince and Joni sang about Canada and wine (or beer?) and a hard rain came.

Free Cash

alex — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:57:37 +0000

animated Hell Money essay from the same time as the slide sheet I sent to Dadi Wirz. I just reunited all my hell money. That should be good luck right? Maybe now I should burn it?

The player here is Veho because I burnt most of my megs at vimeo. Nice thing about Veoh is that you can play the vid full screen and it allows you to run longish vids with fairly high rez. I con’t much like the player bar at thebottom, but it’s servicable for todays blog diptyque.

The Video is from today when I dropped the dog off to cut a summer trim (and stop the pant pant) I went walkabout to the park and museum and Library (there to check on possibly showing the Library Project collabs… got to contact the currator). I found the Technology Share Fair for Brooklyn Schools while walking the halls of Brooklyn Museum… I ran into Cash while wanting something to quench my thirst. He offered up lemon ginger ale… it has been the basis of my ever evolving liquids all day (adding coke and lemon juice and wine sorbet and only leaving it for Miller Time).

The music here is from Dave Chapelle’s Block Party CD (from Brooklyn Public Library) and is Mos Def and posse. Bill Batson gave me Mos Def shirt years ago when the Queen kicked me out of the Kingdom and had me Siddhartha sleeping on couches without clothes or money. I always wore it with pride… but am only learning why now. Mos Def is most def…. Busy Bee me. No sleep in Brooklyn.

The Perfume of Money

alex — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:38:57 +0000

This is Dave Cambel singing on the roof of the Artflux show from two weeks ago… inspiration for my own roof party that weekend…. The man of wealth and taste muttering forgotten lines (wrongly I might add) is yours truly… who? WHO? There is more from this concert that I shot, but thiscomes off the Fluxart blog. On a night in a breathless weekend of never ending verbal yammering, this kid made me shut up and listen… Oh to be young and talented in New York City Motherfucker. Must be good to be the Prince. One fun trick is to play VDJ with the vid in the Roi V blog below, etc…. fun things to do with multiple players… brand new world kids.

Let It Be Victory Memorial

alex — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:00:52 +0000

(with this player you might need to hit the volume wedge at the bottom right to hear the soundtrack which rocks)..

Memorial day meets dying dog and filet Mingnon and brats and Frank’s wild years and The Royal Wylds live with the book art from Double You at The Library Project. Here’s the start of my Hell Money slide list that I just got back from Dadi Wirz in Switzerland. He had my slides for about seven years and showed them to all the galleries he liked in Basel, etc. No bites, but still nice of him to try and all this time later, it is a thrill to see a complete slide sheet from that era. I was pretty fucking good back then and as Allan Stone told me DeKooning used to say after a whiskey or two: “Those fucking bastards are going to pay… they are going to have to fucking pay and pay and pay… where were they when I needed them? Now they are going to have to pay.”

Zarathustra's Secret Garden

alex — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:29:03 +0000

A vlog fooling with painting and Lou Reed and Bowie and thoughts on upcoming Royal Wylds music Video for Kimbo and some documentationof my work next to Crista Grauer’s at Artflux last week and just, you know, loving spring in Beautiful Sugar Mountain Brooklyn.

Drunken Boat

alex — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:10:45 +0000

Oh the honey and the wine and women and song did pour fourth from the mouth of a yellow whale, where I crashed upon the shore of some magnificent island populated by circe and her two sisters yin and yang. It was like the crystal noise from Zimmerman’s lyre and moaning of monica. There were the hebrews and the Romans and Celtic tribe as well, but I walked with silk guns and white arab charger to unite the world on one great drunken boat

or: I went eating and wine tasting at Tribecca festival. If you want to be treated well in life, I suggest you roll with beautiful Korean women, you’d be surprised what people will give you for free, just because of those lovely smiling eyes. Then off to the temple on the mount for Noahs Barmitzvah… havanagela and MORE wine and food and dancing of the horah and on and on. You cant make this sort of stuff up. It is just wild eyed JOY…. Be Attitude and Beat Less.

This is Harry Twep… an Id character that I drew on a retreat when I was maybe thirteen years old, or so… ironic…. My mom scanned it for a my fortieth birthday card. She’s some kind of witch or something… I mean that in a good way.

Monkey Boy Types and Scribbles

alex — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:29:06 +0000

Monkey Book 2 was a rather mind blowing lecture by artist/information engineer and all round great guy, Brad Paley… this is sort of a Mother’s day card meets portrait of the artist as a success story, rant of a lunatic, art history lesson… or something?: you tell me.

Music is a mash up of Animal Collective, some annoying kid kicking the subway seat with glorious train glee, and The one and only John Lennon and his fabulous Beatles, produced by Phil Spector if you can believe it Jackson Pollock.

http://wbpaley.com/brad/biosImagesCvs.html

http://monkeytownhq.com/monkeybook2.html
W. Bradford Paley has been doing visual work on computers since 1973, has been recognized for contributions to the design and art worlds (e.g. at MoMA and the Whitney, by NYSCA and NYFA). He practices in New York City and often teaches at Columbia University. For details see didi.com/brad.

post in progress… tune back later.

image: Library Project collab of driftwould and Bradley Wind… AKA driftwind (Say I).

Orson Whales

alex — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:01:51 +0000

This is more or less a birthday gift to myself. I’ve been drawing it on every page of Moby Dick (using two books to get both sides of each page) for months. The soundtrack is built from searching “moby dick” on You Tube (I was looking for Orson’s Preacher from the the John Huston film), I couldn’t find the preacer, but you find tons of Led Zep and drummers doing Bonzo and a little Orson reading from the Novel for a failed Italian T.V. film…… makes for a nice Melville in the end.

Cinqo de Mayo I turn Forty. Ahhhhhhh the French Champagne.

Another Green World

alex — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:05:19 +0000

Another vlog while I scan and scan. This remix has a lot of Goddard clips and a Brian Eno mash up. The drawing is a finish of a Carloine VK start from The Library Project. Stangely today Moby Dick came on TCM. I missed, however, Orson’s Sermon.

Degustation

admin — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:50:34 +0000

I see him making a show of it and an ass of himself. He’s trying to impress the girl, but as with all things that take great effort, there is some sort of grace missing. I imagine that they invite monsieur Tistan to share a glass and that when he finally tastes the wine, the waiter reappears with a new bottle and the old one is gone.

They are both speechless and puzzled.

“It was corked,” he said. “Not terribly, but if you are going to drink a Bordeaux, I wanted it to be perfect for you.”

Corked

admin — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:10:22 +0000

She comes back from the lu and sees him talking to the old man. They make eye contact. She mouths: “YOU ARE TALKING TO THE OLD MAN!”
He makes a YES with his eyes and the old man truns to see her emerge from the interior of the restaurant into the glourious sun that sparkles in all colors like a floating oil slick off her raven black hair. Time slows delieriously and the world seems to watch her slowly sway and float towards the table.
“Speaking of the devil,” Pat says.
“You told me I’m an angel,” Caroline says.
“You are most assuredly that,” M. Tristan says.
“Now he is a gentleman,” She says.
“Of course he is,” Pat says.
“Not so very gentle, I’m afraid,” M. Tristan says cryptically and the waiter pulls the cork on the Chateau Margaux. It is a hollow gasp of a pull and the waiter pours a small amount of the wine into the glass and they all look at the glass and study the sun coming through the redness of it.

Collabs from brian and thanophonic, caroline vk, brian and jade peggler, and a start from yours truly.