The Porcupine School of Poetry

This is taking me to another place right now. And I like...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:50:12 -0500

This is taking me to another place right now. And I like it.

"Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide whether it’s good or bad,..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:58:17 -0500

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide whether it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they’re deciding, make even more art.”

- Andy Warhol (via art-documents)

Tadashi Kawamata/Tree Huts in New York via: art-documents

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:52:07 -0500

Tadashi Kawamata/Tree Huts in New York

via: art-documents

I’m loving Oddly Specific.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:36:50 -0500

I’m loving Oddly Specific.

via www.mrbreakfast.com

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:34:42 -0500

via www.mrbreakfast.com

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Mastaba for The United Arab...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:58:29 -0500

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Mastaba for The United Arab Emirates in comparison to the largest pyramid in Giza, Egypt.

The Mastaba

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:57:29 -0500

The Mastaba

Christo and Jeanne-Claude via

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:52 -0500

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

via

YouTube - nicholifavs's Channel

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:25 -0500

YouTube - nicholifavs's Channel :

Maybe this was already big and I’m late to the game, but I just found out about Nicholi White. A kid who video blogs and makes lip-sync videos entirely at the Apple Store on a demo computer. Art, democracy, and public space don’t collide in such a beautiful way very often.

“A dress made by Ellsworth Kelly in 1952, using the same...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:59:40 -0500

“A dress made by Ellsworth Kelly in 1952, using the same fabric as his painting ‘Red Yellow Blue White’”

real normal: Ellsworth Kelly

"Following Piece 2.0″ was, in its own way, a jam session, a free-spirited mishmash of familiar beats..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:34:20 -0500

““Following Piece 2.0″ was, in its own way, a jam session, a free-spirited mishmash of familiar beats and tunes. As fine art begins to explore the cultural paradigm shifts brought about by mobile technology and the social Internet, I hope artists borrow more regularly from open source, Creative Commons culture as we develop and share our work. Social and digital media in particular, a breeding ground for retweets, screen grabs, and viral marketing, present an ideal venue for new ways to challenge rigid concepts of originality in fine art.”

- Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back

"One of my frustrations has been that people, when they graduate from college in Michigan, they kind..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:56:14 -0500

““One of my frustrations has been that people, when they graduate from college in Michigan, they kind of take the path of least resistance,” said Detjen. “And they sometimes decide to go to place like San Francisco, like the Bay Area, places like Chicago, places like New York, where there’s already a huge concentration of young people who are trying to do progressive things. And they sort of forget about the fact that they live in this place where there’s just an incredible amount of need. That’s been tough for me to see.””

- MICHIGAN: Generation Y Michigan: Pledging Allegiance to Michigan (2009-11-16)

Listen to this story, and every time they say “Detroit” replace it with “Grand Rapids.”

But I suppose it’s also cool to help Detroit.

James May’s LEGO Home Demolished | Inhabitots NNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:33:37 -0500

James May’s LEGO Home Demolished | Inhabitots

NNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!

iheartmyart: Erwin Wurm, Untitled, 2009, (edition of 6 + 2...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:04:43 -0500

iheartmyart:

Erwin Wurm, Untitled, 2009, (edition of 6 + 2 AP), acrylic, paint, cloth from the exhibition Desperate Philosophers,2009

"For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:12:24 -0500

“For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.”

- Very cool project. You’d better have a look before it’s gone.

Bringing Impermanence To The Digital World - PSFK

"So if we, his fellow scribblers, begrudged Hunter anything, it was not his lifestyle. It was his..."

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:20:01 -0500

“So if we, his fellow scribblers, begrudged Hunter anything, it was not his lifestyle. It was his writing about his lifestyle and, in the process, outing of our lifestyles by telling people what we were doing. There are some creatures who like to dance but do not like the light, and, for nearly a decade, before Hunter became a “name”—before “rock writer” became a part you played in the alley behind some concert hall—we were all invisible, a tribe of happy, insatiable shadows on the loose. We had all the perks of fame and none of the grief.”

- DAVE HICKEY - THIS LONG CENTURY

This Dave Hickey essay has me thinking two things:

1. I need to reread Air Guitar.

2. His description of “new journalists” of the seventies seems to analogous to what many bloggers would like to be. But of course things are totally different now. It makes me wonder what’s happening right now that we’ll only fully digest decades later. Who are those “insatiable shadows on the loose,” and what are they doing?

Looks like I’ve got to go to Chicago pretty...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:57:00 -0500

Looks like I’ve got to go to Chicago pretty soon.

britticisms:

The Cubic Meter of Infinity in a Mirroring Cube by Michelangelo Pistoletto

The first thing you’ll see when you step off the elevator on the fourth floor for “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008,” opening tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago is All, 2008 by Maurizio Catelan, a sculptural installation of “bodies” underneath cloth. It’s intense and introduces the show and its differentiation from traditional ideas of Italian art.

We had a media preview this morning and I did a short walk-through of the exhibit. It far surpassed my expectations, with a variety of different works in varying media including painting, sculpture, photography, video, along with numerous site installations.

Make sure you check out the labyrinth/maze in all white. You might miss it, mistaking the small entrance for a door or even some sort of optical illusion. Don’t be fooled! It is breathtaking and claustrophobic, but in the best possible way. And don’t forget to go down a blackened hallway and behind the curtain to see The Cubic Meter of Infinity in a Mirroring Cube by Michelangelo Pistoletto (photo above), an awe-inspiring installation that overwhelms the senses and completely re-arranges your sense of place and security in the body.

Google Wave explained. via: robotindisguise

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:01:04 -0500

Google Wave explained.

via: robotindisguise

You know those terrible “we will not tone it down”...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:26:45 -0500

You know those terrible “we will not tone it down” Miracle Whip ads? I suddenly think they’re pretty great. These guys know how to play ball, read this.

Steven Colbert vs. Miracle Whip via robotindisguise

Jeff Elrod Get Off the Internet V 2008 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 38...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:19:38 -0500

Jeff Elrod

Get Off the Internet V

2008

Acrylic on canvas

72 x 38 inches

Leo Koenig, Inc.