HEN NIGHT
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NEW SPECS!
Christine and I are geeks and were both in need of some new glasses… we wanted to look professional around the office, don’t you know. She’s long sighted, I’m short sighted - talk about the blind leading the blind! We both opted for Fantastic Man worthy frames in varying shades of tortoiseshell. We’re just waiting for our MENSA accreditation to come through now…
One of my favourite pieces on display at the MOMA in NYC, at the entrance of the special exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976 is a still from Bas Jan Ader’s I’m Too Sad To Tell You (1971). Jan Ader worked in conceptual arts many facets including film, installation, performance and photography. Much of his work played on suspension, emotion, irony and illusion. It is haunting and mesmerising.
Jan Ader’s final work of art was his own disappearance in 1975, when he embarked on what he called “a very long sailing trip.” It was part of a triptych, ‘In Search of the Miraculous’, and was his attempt to cross the Atlantic in a 12.5ft sailboat. Six months after his departure the boat was found half submerged off the coast of Ireland. His greatest act of suspension and, ultimately, commentary on the fragility of life.
In January 2010 Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears will open at The Claremont Museum of Art in California.
Rene Daalder’s film Here Is Always Somewhere Else about the life and work of Bas Jan Ader was released last year. Watch the trailer here.
Our friend Backyard Bill takes beautiful pictures of people in their own clothes… he finds something subtly special in each of them.
If you’re in London, he is exhibiting some of his work as part of Re-enactment at the Old Truman Brewery.
image via Backyard Bill
“I always think you should work with your hands… there is no shortcut.”
Courtney Love, after the Rodarte SS10 show.
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Spotted having lunch at the Colonial Cafe in downtown NYC, street skateboarding legend and artist, Mark ‘Gonzo’ Gonzales.
He has been making art almost as long as he’s been skating… pen drawings and watercolours. His most recent show, ‘South West’, at the Half Gallery was inspired by South Western-style rugs and Navajo patterns. Gonzales also takes photographs, writes poetry, designs clothing and makes ‘zines. He appeared in Harmony Korine’s film, Gummo and recently directed the video for Coconut Records’ Any Fun featuring a skateboarding Chloe Sevigny… He’s an all-round cool character.
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