Abandoned Bird Brand

San Francisco has been pretty fun, but the highlight of this trip was my visit to the SFMOMA yesterday. There were a few pieces that are in the collection that were not on display which made me kinda upset. One of them being a Gerhard Richter painting I've wanted to see for ages... but all in all I was pretty happy. Especially with the selection of Rauschenberg works that were on display... including the Erased De Kooning Drawing from Bob's White Series. It was really interesting especially since they had the tiny work displayed right next to one of his large Black Paintings. I walked through the whole museum... skipping through most of the photo exhibit only stopping to look at a John Baldessari and a Mike Kelley work, but came back to the Rauschenberg works a total of 3 times and spent a good 2 hours looking at just 4 or 5 of his works.

I was also very excited to finally get to see an On Kawara date painting. They are so damned impressive in person, especially if you understand the technical mastery that goes into each one of those pieces. I think I stared at that piece for a good 20 minutes. After I walked away I noticed a puzzled security guard walk over to the work to see what I was doing there forever... only to see him shake his head in non-knowingness.

They had a really nice collection of Paul Klee drawing on display as well. But the odd work that most people were looking at me funny for was the unmarked Matthew Barney performance piece that was neatly hidden from view if you didn't know what to look for. There were a number of people who came to where I was standing and asked me what in the world I was looking at after they couldn't see it over a number of minutes on their own. The first thing I noticed was a drawing scrawled high up in a remote corner of the lobby ceiling... my eyes then trained on rope, climbing clips that trailed across the ceiling and flowing back to a set of white rock climbing pegs and ending at a hidden pile of vaseline with a small white object in it. It was total Barney... I was just surprised to find that there were no call outs to the piece. No place cards nothing... thats why people were looking at me so strange I guess. I was a nice find on my part I thought.

The Lebbeus Woods works blew me away... I wasn't familiar with this artist/architect. I was so inspired by the (6) drawings fabrication. The Richard Tuttle work was very inspirational as well. I haven't seen too much outside of books and watching him work in videos. I think besides seeing more Rauschenberg works up close... these 2 guys left the biggest impression on me in terms of how to complete some of my works that are in production.

Richard Prince - Untitled (Cowboy) [1991-1992]

Jeff Koons - Michael Jackson and Bubbles [1988]
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On Kawara - MAR. 16, 1993, from the "Today" Series [1993]
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Robert Rauschenberg - Collection (formerly Untitled) [1954]
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Robert Rauschenberg - Erased de Kooning Drawing [1953]
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Robert Rauschenberg - Untitled (Glossy Black Painting) [1951]
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Bruce Nauman - Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists [1966]

Richard Tuttle - (details unknown)

James Rosenquist - Leaky Ride for Dr. Leakey [1983]

Robert Motherwell - Untitled (Figuration) [1948]

Matthew Barney - Drawing Restraint 14 [2006]
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Werner Herzog - (Promotional Poster)

Lebbeus Woods - San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, Quake City [1995]

Lebbeus Woods - Nine Reconstructed Boxes [1999]
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Rules For The More Marked Maker

I've been a big fan and tester in this realm for a while. Image and sound degradation caused by multiple upload/downloads of content is pretty interesting. I'm also interested in the same effects that occur when content is uploaded on encoded improperly - hence my Pixel Porno Project.
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Here is an interesting article and test case to check out.

This Is What Happens When You Re-Upload a YouTube Video 1,000 Times
http://gizmodo.com/5555359/the-weirdness-of-a-youtube-video-re+uploaded-1000-times

Unreasonable Northern Proxy

IT'S NATIONAL DONUT DAY TODAY... and I didn't even get my free donut on. I'm such the looser. Here is some information about the day. Thanks wikipedia.
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National Donut Day is on the first Friday of June each year, succeeding the Donut Day event created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served donuts to soldiers during World War I.[1] The holiday celebrates the doughnut (a.k.a "donut") — an edible, torus-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened. Many American doughnut stores offer free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day. In 2009, both independent doughnut shops[2] and large national franchises offered free doughnuts in the United States.[3][4][5]
Chris Parry from the Vancouver Sun noted in a satirical column that some Canadians are jealous of the U.S. holiday.[6]

National Doughnut Day started in 1938[1] as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation Army. Their goal was to help the needy during the Great Depression, and to honor the Salvation Army "Lassies" of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers.
Soon after the US entrance into World War I in 1917, the Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. The mission concluded that "huts" that could serve baked goods, provide writing supplies and stamps, and provide a clothes-mending service, would serve the needs of US enlisted men. Six staff members per hut should include four female volunteers who could "mother" the boys.

About 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to France. Because of the difficulties of providing freshly-baked goods from huts established in abandoned buildings near to the front lines, two Salvation Army volunteers (Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance) came up with the idea of providing doughnuts. These are reported to have been an "instant hit", and "soon many soldiers were visiting Salvation Army huts". Margaret Sheldon wrote of one busy day "Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, 700 cups of coffee."

A legend has spread that the provision of doughnuts to US enlisted men in World War I is the origin of the term doughboy to describe US infantry, but the term was in use as early as the Mexican-American War of 1846-47.
It is still a fund raiser run by The Salvation Army.

Nothing Toasted Lightly

"Honey Bunny" — Vincent Gallo (2001)

Vincent Gallo - Honey Bunny by le-pere-de-colombe

Big Boys Vapid Display

It Should Sell In Finished Glimmer

R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois
December 25, 1911 – May 31, 2010

Pink Days and Blue Days (1997)

Tender Vacancy

I had a very strange and lucid dream on the night of the 21st. I don't remember many details but there was a very attractive woman in it with black hair. Before I woke from the dream I noticed what I assume was a name tag on her chest and it read - TEAHARI. I think there were two words there actually, a full name, but when I woke up, I immediately wrote the word Teahari because it was the only thing I remembered vividly.
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Now what is strange is that I read words and remembered them. Typically in dreams you can't make out words... they just look like gibberish. At least that is what I've read in a number of books. And I can't remember any other time where I specifically remember reading text in a dream at all, least wake up and write it down.
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So I Googled the word Teahari and something came up and it's a person. A woman with black hair. Her name Marina Teahari (yup Facebook). I believe she is Romanian from the language I saw on one of her posts. She is set to private. I was considering doing a friend request just for the hell of it. But I'm unsure about it.
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I've always considered dreams to be something of a connector between different spaces and times. Makes me wonder if people can have similar dreams but not have ever met each other in this space and time. I'm really curious... that's the only reason I was considering the request... it's scientific exploration.

Whatever Waits Behind The Door

Tapered At Both Ends

Every Step I Pray There

Omitted Cocktails

Dealing Out The Risk

The secret project and someone caught me in the act.

The Sea Of Neighboors

More My Speak

MAILING TRANSFERRAL APRIL 29, 2010
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BARKER - Winehouse Varient (3x5 postcard)
KUTZBACH - The Hudson Hawks 01 (5x6 postcard)

Clean Saturation

Rolling Foam Blessing

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 31, 2010
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BARKER - Irimi Nage (5x8 postcard)
KANKA - Black Cat (5x8 postcard)

Fractioned Bar

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 30, 2010
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BARKER - Kennedy Snooker (3x5 postcard)
KANKA - Arabic Dish - Dash (3x5 postcard)

Shooter Around Co

Like Shoelaces In Oil

Taste Isn't All Worry

Accept Records Of The Door

Mean Streets Of West Philly

Draining the Good Age

Training Arms Cleanser

Questioning Revolt

-- add (3) videos B/W portraits --

Dreams In Grey Silk

Long And About

Be Alone Crawling

Better Write Down

Creatures Yet Gotta Do

We Cast The Cause

Quick trip to the bowling alley where Vincent Gallo filmed "Buffalo '66"

Managed Land Lunch

Grey Silky Flash Dancer

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

DECEMBER 21, 2009

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BARKER - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type C(4x6 postcard)
KANKA - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type C(4x6 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type C(4x6 postcard)

Everyone But Trailer Girls

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

DECEMBER 19, 2009

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BARKER - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type B(4x6 postcard)
KANKA - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type B(4x6 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type B(4x6 postcard)

Broken Knife Stick

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

DECEMBER 18, 2009

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BARKER - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type A(4x6 postcard)
KANKA - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type A(4x6 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type A(4x6 postcard)

Bitter Ends Vacation

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
DECEMBER 17, 2009
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BARKER - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type D (4x6 postcard)
KANKA - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type D (4x6 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type D (4x6 postcard)

The Movie Business Exists

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
DECEMBER 16, 2009
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BARKER - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type E (4x6 postcard)
KANKA - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type E (4x6 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type E (4x6 postcard)

Hard But Willing Phases

MINT Gallery - Postcard Pin-Up Show

Thomas Arthur Schaefer

Amy Winehouse Variant
Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type A
Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type B
Amy Winehouse Contoured Malignant Neoplasm - Type C

Emily Maxwell

Christy Lin

Too Much Teeth Grinding

The Clinton Body Count

THEY LIVE screening at The Plaza

Wednesday.... It's late.... Err it's early. Rain is coming down. Just got home from Elmyr. Brushed my teeth and shot a good 15 minutes of experimental portraits in the mirror.

2010 is the year where I pull all my techniques together and finish production on the large Blue Jughead series. I've had this huge build-up of blue objects in my house for the past 3-4 years. I need to refer back to the postcards, as they are some of the original test material for this set of work (hense they fall under the new work as well). The new work involves a set of (3) oversize rectangle panels, a set of (9) large square panels, (25) bottle opener blocks, (25) tooth pick blocks, (50) mc'big burgers cast in silver with painted container, (50) mc'frys cast in silver with painted container, (1) box of blue bubble gum cigars, (1) box of fine silver dinner ware, (5) hammocks, (1) full bedroom set, (1) refridgerator, (2) soda pop shop bar stools, (25) embroidered pillows, (100) cheeseburger paintings, (1) Extra Jumbo Dine-In Meal construct, (1) Extra Jumbo To-Go Meal construct.

The point behind these self portrait experiments is that I'm going to eventually pose for some of these panel paintings... The larger ones, as the Jughead and then render these images onto the panel in my monochrome oil painting technique. I'll use this new silk screen method to develop the under layer similar to what I did with the Kurt Russell piece, but on a more focused full figure scale/scenario.

Take A Ride And See Whats Mine

Was under the impression that I'd be able to get into the Plaza early to install this painting, but nobody is there. So I'm sitting over at the Righteous Room having a drink and waiting.
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The piece was completed last night around 4:30am and then left to dry with the heat turned way way up in my place to help cure the pieces faster and pull moisture out of the air. When I woke the blocks were dry and at 3:00pm the shelves were dry. At that point, I installed the shelf hanger bars to the shelves and packed up my blocks. Grabbed some tools and hightailed it to the Plaza only to end up drinking. So... Iggy Pop is on the juke and the beer is cold. Life is still good enough.
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