the normal shoulder shuffle

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

gif of me with my mates Richard Zimmerman and Cassie Thornton, not only two of my favorite people in the whole wide world, but whom I both met while living in London – us few Americans enjoying time away from GWBushland – and now we each live in, around, and through NYC.

bye bye drinks

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

this is me and my matey Richard Zimmerman drinking at Mama’s in LES at 4am, for his going away drinks before he leaves for Salt Lake City later this next week for what I suspect will be longer than expected. But after looking at this image I concluded that the reason Richard and I are so good together is we are complementary complements. Stature-speaking, I come up to around the middle of Richard’s rib cage. But size isn’t everything. Richard wears orange zip-up hoodie with green undershirt, both articles somewhat washed out, having been put through the washer on hot one too many times; I wear luscious blue hoodie with denser orange undershirt, both colors bright enough to direct traffic. We’re complementary complements!

art cars

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

ArtFagCity over two weeks ago posted about artists fabricating “life sized cars out of unconventional automobile materials” (original post here).

Always one fighting for my contemporaries as well as being interested in art that is more than simply static objects in a white cube space (although I am sad I missed the Inside-Out NASCAR at Pierogi2000 earlier this year – looks like it would have been a fun piece to see), I thought I should highlight Jason Eisner, a friend, fellow artist, and ex-boss!

Above is a photo of one of Jason’s (standing to left of car, with beard) wood (mostly scrap) sculptures. This, a functional comic-car. The photo was taken by Richard Zimmerman, so I’m not sure how far along beyond this picture the machine might have advanced; knowing Jason, it might be painted, gesturally eratic and vibrantly colorful… or not, and just be made of wood and screws!

Related websites:
Other art car links include Jason Rhoades writing in 1998 about his Impala Project;
also check out Nina Katchadourian’s Natural Car Alarms