Found this piece of cardboard art on the Williamsburgh Bridge. It said Leviticus on it. When I was working on the portrait, I added a few strokes on the cardboard. The animated gif is both sides of the cardboard.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
More Songs About Movies
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.
Protest Singer
Here’s a painting I’ve been working on for a few months. Hard to say if it’s done, but other than mucking with the face, I haven’t had the nerve to change it much. It’s so fucked up that it sort of charms me. Thinking of the Smiths here: “I thought that if you played an acoustic guitar, it meant that you were a protest singer. I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was terrible, oh let me go.”
Cheers
Better half’s birthday today so I went up on the roof and started doing some paintings about the movie about her being gone, or a character very much like her. Painted an enormous patchwork portrait of her and one of Phil and Abe up on the roof drinking Anime Proseco. She hated the one of her, so here is us… Who is to say if they are done, but it was fun making them.
In The Heat Of The City
You Don't Have To Go TO College (or Cog Time)
I made this cog (a sort of cat dog gaurd) for my Friends in Williamsburgh to guard their house. After the winter and much weather it needed a sort of tune up and shifiting out of acrylic to oil paints, etc. So this is me getting the job done under sun and obvious clouds…. plus a smashee of Animal collective with Beach boys… oh and the banjo is from the day before where I spent some time with my junior advisor thinking about the orgins of rock and roll and guitar music… He drew the banjo, I tried to expain the mathematics of the twelve note scale and failed in the bitter Keith Moon Pentatonics of a wicked hang over…. fucking fireworks and all.
Mail Vice
This is some mail art from New York Correspondence School (which is to say the guy who works at my local wine shop). Middle periodic table one is a library collab with him and the top and bottom is two sides of his vice howl.
rocking chair got me
COGnation
Been hanging out in the Bburgh a lot lately on business and pleasure. Big in the mix is putting the fix on the COG (the unofficial mascot of the The Institute). Poor beastie has suffered some chipping over the winter and she wants to look her best for Summer (don’t we all). A neighbor seeing it said, “Your dog is looking a little stiff.” Given the health of my actual dog this line was funny and sad.
About Glamourama
I hung a face in a group art show at About Glamour Gallery in Williamsburgh Brooklyn. It was a sort of first served first hung show. You had to come the day before and pick up a number (like at a butcher shop) and then the next day they called your number and you ran in to find a patch of wall. I found a column for my “Cloudy” guy and found some friends and went to Monkey Town afterwards for drinks and truly tasteless jokes. The next day I had to shoot some stuff for A Royal Wylds music video and while we waited on the Cast Major Tom tuned his drums and mucked about. Shades of Bonzo and here’s Orson Whales on Boonika