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Just something I like to do when it snows big in Brooklyn.

Feb 26, 2010

Self-Portrait in Iceland

Nov, 2009

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Farideh Lashai, the foremost abstract-expressionist painter in Iran

“Nature stimulates the primary sense and the essence of life in me, a sense that we experience in love. The projection of myself to nature arouses the ecstasy of existence in me, and in this way I connect to inner elements.” -Interview in Haft Magazine, No. 19, March 2005

love the Super8mm. from a shoot on a roof in Red Hook, Nov 2009

from machinetext:

mtymx. concert of the year. maybe of the fucking decade. there’s also an art portion - “expect large sized murals surrounding the field, video projections on the main screen, as well as an area for small press/record labels organized by milano chow.”

it’s less than 3 weeks away and i’m getting pretty damn excited. in this interview about the festival Todd says:

“This is a festival in Mexico, it is largely intended for Mexicans. We’re not banking on a huge influx of gringos. If Americans want to come down, that’s great…If you search Twitter for MtyMx, 95% of the posts are in Spanish and they’re going up like six an hour. People in Mexico are psyched, and I’m super psyched about that.”

World Record Appreciation Society #12

Here’s the piece I made for URDB.org at their Feb 16 event here in New York. These monthly events are ridiculously fun and feature 10-12 people who attempt world records they’ve invented themselves. The next one is March 17 and the line-up looks awesome.

Featured world records above:

Mack Elder - Fastest Time To Name All Star Trek TV Episodes In Broadcast Order

AJ Jacobs - Longest Hand Coo

Reggie Watts - Most Fortune Cookie Sayings Recited In Two Minutes Over A Live, Self-Generated Soundtrack

Emily Wilson - Most Table Tennis Balls Served Into A Crowd In 30 Seconds

Todd Lamb - Fastest Time To Vacuum One Pound Of Sugar

Ben Greenman - Fastest Time To Place 19 CDs Back In Their Cases

1st place!

So I guess I like the site 750words.com, where over the last 28 days I wrote a total of 22,161 words. I didnt expect to write so frequently, but I got hooked on the benefits and currently I hold first place (a shared first place, really).

The site’s idea is a spin on something called morning pages in The Artist’s Way. That exercise is supposed to get thoughts out of your head, uncensored and unedited and everyday, to focus on whatever’s important to you. A guy named Buster created 750words.com as a way to iterate on this idea through tech application and game dynamics.

What I use the site for mostly is to write a daily To Do brainstorm. It may seem weird taking 20 minutes to write 750 words when a to do list would take 2 minutes. But there are some useful benefits of “To Do prose,” written with whatever else comes to mind along the way. Rather than just listing actions quickly and somewhat mindlessly, To Do prose gets you to think though the gaps, the questions and issues surrounding what you’re thinking you want and need to do. On several occasions I discovered a solution to problem, a better use of my time, or I re-examined a goal. To Do lists, and list-making applications, are all the rage, but writing it out “long hand” like this for me was a very useful experiment.

Ok, I’m really just bragging here about my first place but you might like the site too…

my snow vertical by nadyawasylko:

Clouds / Holga

People on the internet read a poem about snow

the idea: take comically awkward readings of a bad poem and set it to 60-frames-per-second video of snow falling + music by Erik Satie.

I honestly laughed at a few of these recordings, but was curious if the saccharin poetry of Longfellow, earnestly read by strangers on the internet, had any unrealized potential.

the result is something marginally different, not as funny or as bad, and perhaps with some new latent resonance. alternate title: a phonological survey of the word “bosom.”

Clermont Ave, Ft. Greene / Holga. 2009.

well said, rosekohl:

the ‘p’ in todd p should stand for ‘papa’ or anything related to paternal care, cause not only he brings us the most interesting and fun bills to the most amazing places for a hilariously affordable prize, but also he makes sure we have all the commodities needed, such as modern toilet facilities, and provides us with all the necessary information like that detailed in his web page for the inaugural MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, the only thing he is missing is like an english-spanish glossary with useful sentences to approach the locals in their own language! ha anyways, it is just impossible not to absolutely love this guy.

Flagpole confers cultural legitimacy! And kind words.

Note for anyone in Athens: after the exhibition ends, shortly, Rand will have a post-show conflagration of any unsold framed work. This will be one art closing not to miss.

morninggravy:

The exhibit was recently reviewed in Flagpole, the famed hometown alt-weekly that covers all things cultural in Athens, Ga. In his write-up of our show, the reviewer didn’t even make fun of us or our work. He really liked it. What’s more, he lamented that Morning Gravy, true to our written-on-the-internet word, would probably be our last exhibition together. Thank you, Brian.

We also had a brief mention, and a photograph posted, on the Georgia Museum of Art blog.

Morning, Ft Greene Park. Nov 2009 / 35mm

Backyard. Brooklyn, Nov 2009 / 35mm.

Bedroom window. Brooklyn, Nov 2009 / 35mm.

Pablo Inirio is the darkroom printer for Magnum Photos in NY. For some photographers, mostly the older ones, Magnum still prints in this old school, analog way. Here’s a twitpic of Inirio in his modest darkroom.

He’s worked at Magnum for the past 18 years or so. Once I had the pleasure to meet him in the darkroom and see some of these test prints like the one above. The smell of the chemicals instantly took me back to the make-shift darkroom we set up in our bathroom growing up. I remember the enlarger was set precariously on the sink, the trays of chemicals arranged in the shower, and a towel wedged under the doorway. Maybe that’s one reason I like these test prints.

I don’t know if Pablo Inirio saves them, or if he has any rights associated, but to me these test prints, with +/- exposure notes, are works of art. 20x200?

Ft. Greene playground. Brooklyn, Fall 2009 / 35mm. see larger

No Sitting. Ft. Greene Brooklyn, Fall 2009 / 35mm

High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the 1963 film by Kurosawa

A masterpiece.

Morphine - In Spite of Me

Clouds over Nauthólsvík. 35mm, neopan 1600iso

i’m starting to look through all the film I shot in Iceland. this is at Nauthólsvík, the artificial beach south of Reykjavik.

see large for the grain

Played it twice, then reblogged it. New Orleans, Whistling, Friday.

“Me big Chief, I’m feeling good”

randallopry:

Professor Longhair - Big Chief

I have known about Professor Longhair for a while thanks to my friend Jacques, but I never knew about this track Big Chief. Ridiculous!  Ahh…New Orleans.

BBC 4: Krautrock – The Rebirth of Germany, Part 1 of 6

“Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard… They shared one common goal – a forward-looking desire to transcend Germany’s gruesome past – but that didn’t stop the music press in war-obsessed Britain from calling them Krautrock.” (via)

Woah, this is so good.

The Welcoming Committee. Reykjavik, Iceland. see larger for fangs

Reykjavik, Iceland. Nov. ‘09

selfportraits:

Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait in a Circle of Friends from Mantua, 1602

Ok, here’s how Rand promotes our photography show. A slightly different take than mine…

from randallopry:

Friday is the opening for a joint photo exhibit with my brother Hudson in Athens, Ga at White Tiger Gourmet.  The photos are all medium format pictures that we have been taking with Holga or Ikonoflex in the last year or so.  The opening is Friday night at 6pm and I’ll bring some drinks and some music.  If you can’t make it to the opening on Friday night or live in another city, check out our website.  http://www.morninggravy.com

I’m having a photography exhibit with my brother Rand at the White Tiger in Athens, GA. It’s an exhibit of our medium format photography shot with Holga or Zeiss Ikonoflex cameras.

The show runs from January 8-31.

MorningGravy.com has more details and some low-priced prints.

2010, yo.

from the machinetext:

The Oblivians - Bad Man

during a long layover in some airport over the holidays i made an illustration of myself. i forgot some details, like maybe having ears would be nice. or not.

northern jersey. holga / flickr (see larger)

squaring up (i forget which airport-edition). Holga / flickr

cdixon’s Things startups do and don’t need

Shangri-La. Who’s hiring and agrees with this?

i really want to see this spectacle one year

nadyawasylko:

Mummers footprints - South Philly on new years day 2009

much like the year’s end…

Desde archivo de machinetext:

Bas Jan Ader, Broken Fall (geometric) 1971

executing a plan very much like this with randallopry

from the machinetext archives:

Autodrone - Through the Backwoods. shoegazing dreamy pop.

diminishing daylight in Reykjavik, Iceland (Nov 2009). 35mm chrome / Flickr

The “partially eaten turkey sandwich on wheat award” by Brock Davis of Make-Something-Cool-Every-Day-2009 fame

autumn, sidewalk / chrome, golden half

Six To Eight Black Men, by David Sedaris

read at Carnegie Hall by Sedaris, this is among my favorite christmas stories ever

“Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before you go to bed.”  so many good lines in this. Full story at Esquire

wings of desire, dir. wenders

chinese restaurant always has a point of view

lonelysandwich:

IFC “Christie” (1998) dir. Hank Perlman

google-translated feedback from younger brother to me about a rough draft for a video.