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.
Category Archives: wine
Free Cash
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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.
