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Private Circulation, for plastic bags

sometime next week, or later this week, or sometime eventually, I’ll have some sort of interview, Q&A, and images regarding my ‘BAGS’ book that I was hoping would have been published sometime mid-last year. For those who don’t know, the book had gotten up to around 430 pages, and then the hard drive which stored all of the digital files (high-res 300dpi TIFF files, and converted PDF files, around 50Gigs of data) failed suddenly, just before I left for Budapest last summer. Since then, I haven’t had the funds to recover the data – OnTrack Data Recovery, one of the world’s leading specialists, has quoted me $800, or more than one month’s rent! But word of the book and my obsessive collections has gotten around, as well as word of the failed hard drive and thus the failed work (for now), and so The Editors of Private Circulation, an e-zine…Continue Reading

je suis ne pas une PLASTIC BAG!

This is perfectly timed! I love it when this cultural overlap happens! I have no clue who Anya Hindmarch is. I reckon she’s some fancy designer. Some of her bags go for Â£995, or $1986 at current conversion rates. Either way, her website says: Sainsburyâ€™s launched Iâ€™m Not A Plastic Bag in 450 stores on the 25th April. Due to overwhelming demand all stock has now sold out. It goes on to say: The first day, Friday 27 April, will see Sainsburyâ€™s become the first major UK supermarket to stop giving out free disposable carrier bags in its stores. That’s TODAY people! Yesterday I just sent off my proof for a book I’m self-publishing, a collection of plastic carrier bags. I’ve been hinting at this work (here, here and here) for many months and finally now it is going to happen! Sainsbury’s of course, going way back, were one of…Continue Reading

How to paint a bike helmet

so I bought this Bell helmet with the intention of modifying it and making it more “cautious”, hazardous, and look-the-eff-out. Eventually the idea is for the whole thing to be fluorescent orange, but first I wanted to do a test. I learned long ago to put faith in rubber cement as an agent to apply to plastic and inorganic surfaces in order to later pull up the cement and anything that might find itself attached to it, in this case some spray paint. Painter’s tape is good for the foundation because it’s easy to apply and cheap, but the rubber cement allows me to make a much finer line, on curved surfaces without worrying about spray paint running underneath the cement – once the cement sets it won’t let anything through. So first thing I did was lay my tape line in the area I wanted to test: and then…Continue Reading

news reflex

after quick glance at CNN this morning: free plastic bags are banned in China! of course they will still get bought, used, collected, and thrown away, but not for free anymore. passed earlier this year, it went into effect yesterday. commentary-less news from CNN: [display_podcast] in other news, conservative new Mayor of London Boris Johnston maintains a blog, powered by WordPress. shows that even conservative twats appreciate free software. oh and love the hair.

Private Circulation #2 out

Issue #2 of Private Circulation has been released, a “bulletin for proposals” including failed or unrealized artworks. this second issue includes some scans of my plastic bag archive, the hard drive which contains this project failed last spring before it could be published. the PDF includes a text, ghost-written by “The Editors” (I don’t know them, although I have my suspicions) from some notes of mine I forwarded them. Issue #2 also includes the first installment of their “Animated GIF Issue Addendum” – I like that wee Lenin guarding over my digital-plastic data! download: Private Circulation 04-12

new work

just putting it out there. work-in-progress.

text on things

now this is what the internet is for! I’ve always thought of my weblog as a depository of my own thoughts; I can’t remember everything that pops up (not popup, but pops up!) on my screen, so I like to think that all I need remember is a tidbit of that moment when I wrote that blog post about whatnot. Then, at a later date, I can reference the blog to find out what I can’t remember but know I once knew! Whew! Well, another great aspect of weblogs and the internet is a type of archiving. I stumbled upon a weblog earlier today that is an archive but also interpretive on a lot of other levels: it could be conceptual in nature measuring tool Mahr 0 4 8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 in. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13…Continue Reading

even pop-up performances require logistics

My flag for The Autonomous Nation of THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU is flying high at Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens. Tomorrow from 3-6PM I’ll be conducting a pop-up performance in the trailer in the parking lot, making lil’ flags for attendees (there’s also one opening and another closing reception in the main building). I need to bike everything over (my route is 4.2 miles), putting everything in my two rear panniers. So I usually do this the night before an event/performance, where I lay out everything I’ll need the following day on my bed, and evaluate it – I go over steps, make sure I have everything (you never have everything – for example where’s my lunch?), and add any additional possibly-maybe items. So here’s this project’s spread – even a 3-hour pop-up performance (with shelter and electricity provided) requires all this stuff! You can zoom in and around in the image below:…Continue Reading

10 days left for the best show in town

Across the street from what appears to be a community home for old foggies or some sort of hotel for traveling shoe salesmen, and sandwiched between multiple abandoned buildings and an auto body & paint store and a Jiffy Lube, located inside a highly discreet brick building typical of your Manchester Avenue and South Kingshighway Boulevard intersection, you’ll currently find the best damn show in town (clarify: the brick is discreet, the building itself is discreet, the monstruous vinyl high-contrast diamond-encrusted basketball banner is NOT discreet!). You have 10 days left to see it. White Flag Projects is a gallery that was definitely not here the last time I visited St. Louis (sure enough they began operations in Sept 06, I was last passing through in August of that same year – although I remember reading about them in Megan and Murray’s blog from their time in the STL). The…Continue Reading

mezzanine rebuild (and Normal Space expansion)

this is a project that has been in the working for some time now. unfortunately all of that ‘working’ had been purely mental, which does the real world and my physical space no good! I’d rather re-make the world! On quite a spontaneous but committed impulse, I set about to destroy and rebuild my mezzanine this past week. I wanted to do it last week actually, but got offered some work that I couldn’t pass up, as that income would help finance this project, and gave me a little more time to go over my building designs and mentally prepare and remind myself why am I doing this – a laborious project – now, when we will likely be moving house in six to eight months (that’s for another post). My old mezzanine was quick and dirty, and was built from nearly-all found or acquired wood, transported home on the…Continue Reading

bollocks! camera time!

I hate to think the blog is a stomping ground for materialist rants, but what else is new. I’ve long-been a proponent of digital photography. I understand some of the arguments in favor of analog film-based photography, having trained in it myself for multiple years, and still turning to it every so often to provide certain solutions that digital cameras still can’t provide (not in my price range anyhow). On that financial note, I also understand the affordability of these digital technologies, and their ease-of-use and immediacy – and the ability to manage images digitally is a truly astonishing feat, and something I won’t give up as long as I don’t have to. Way back when, in 2000, I bought my first digital camera, a Sony Mavica, the FD91 model (I still have it somewhere). A hefty many many hundred dollar investment, it was a sub-1 megapixel (.8MP) camera that…Continue Reading

updates

The bag book (proof) came yesterday. Really fast. By the time my email inbox got the ‘your book has been sent’ notification it had already arrived in the mail! It looks delectable! There were some problems with sizes on the last 100 pages or so. Fixed that (that’s why you make a proof after all!). The colors look better this time around. I reckon that’s because of the difference in scanners I used between this final proof and the first I did about 2 months back to get an idea of the paper, process, etc. Anyhow, it will be available soon. Worked on the boat yesterday evening. Worked until it started raining. Have to go back tomorrow. Opening this Sunday (reminder: post on blog about this! faduh!!) I started working part-time this week. And yet still I don’t seem to have enough time (re-read above two bullet points). Still, this…Continue Reading

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