On the way over, Phil thought about about the change in his pocket.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Arc Along The Watchtower (Part 4)
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Arc Along The Watchtower (Part 5 Conclusion)
This bit is a dialogue on the relative aethetic qualities of the Brooklyn and Manahattan bridge… but is silent now due again to music issues… it’s almost pointless to include it, so it’s just here as a place holder in very compressed state…. This is an imperfect beast:
Valkyries
A Pug Nose Vietnam
I remember that we would sweep up all the seed pods that gathered on the hot, slate deck and then throw them over the railing to watch them spin and flutter down to earth in the sunset like an armada of helicopters… You could peel back the ends and take out the seed and you’d be left with two sticky flaps that would stick to your nose and you’d look like Pinocchio, or Richard Nixon and at some point that made complete sense as they were both supposed to be liars. Whenever I see these things in spring and summer I think about the early seventies and Vietnam and Nixon.
Stomping Ground
Went careening around B. Burgh Saturday night… catching a fairly opaque show at Monkey Town (though I liked checking out all the bathrooms I hadn’t explored before)… The first part of the show I enjoyed, as it was just ambiant shots taken from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West landscape (and I’d spent the day thinking about Wright along with Gehry and drawing a toilet… seems like a theme), but the second piece was a four channel surveillance of an audio art show… so you were watching people listen to a sound installation… Which sounds almost clever, but got sort of dull and opressive… and lets face it the original sound show would qulify as difficult listening… Too many layers of alienation for my taste.
Mercifully, the food was particularly good and so were the drinks and it was sort of interesting to watch the room go from it’s hushed reverential ART mode into something that was alive and loud and competing against the art… in a fine mood we stumbled up to Galapagos where some D.J. was spinning old school funk with heavy metal – so pleasant that I actually had to dance. I forget sometimes how much I like dancing….and there was still ink on the tables from my live drawing days somewhere around the turn of the century…and free Brooklyn Lager… Woke up with the mother of all muscle aches and hang overs and called mom and read the paper and was dumb and happy.
Thinking About Frank Gehry In Brooklyn
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The Arc Of Texture
Ever wonder why the McDonald’a logo is so effective? It’s the same reason that cathedrals and the Twin Towers worked…. not to mention the Brooklyn Bridge. It has something to do with the duality of man. Anways, I went walking around Rat Town in search of possiblity and the future and the past. I was thinking about architecture and that last little stariway at “Ground Zero” and and the urge to preserve and the urge to destroy and urge to create something new. I didn’t reach any conclusions, but I did discover Satan and his color scheme… which seems to be some sort of beige/brown.
Azalea Sequence
I’m working on a large drawing that started with the Azalea photos as inspiration… eventually I’ll post an animated gif, but for now I thought I’d post this stage before it turns into something else.