Thursday, January 31, 2008

@ the CLUI now (click here)


BIRDFOOT: Where America's River Dissolves into the Sea
"The end of the Mississippi River Delta - the Birdfoot - is a national landscape of disintegration, a fractal labyrinth of dendritic channels, a blend of water and earth, bisected and rerouted by linear, engineered forms of pipeline canals and levees. The people who live and work here, beyond the reach of roads, do so tenuously, in a delicate, disappearing place that is battered by hurricanes, and eroding into the sea."

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Coricos:

Sunday, January 27, 2008

From the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston:

Theseus slays the Minotaur, Artemis slays the children of Niobe, and a man tells his companion to "hold still."

Saturday, January 26, 2008

The Mighty Dipylon Krater at the Met (Greek: 8th C. BCE):

This huge vase features a funerary procession. Check out the mourning women tearing at their hair in the detail. For particularly important funerals in ancient Greece, extra women mourners were often hired to create an extra noisy and melodramatic spectacle on behalf of the deceased.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Gesture drawings by Gee Vaucher (for my students):


Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Some words I like:
"Romanticity"
"Lubricity"
"Unfundamented"
"Evolutionate"
A couple of cross-contours from last semester. (We'll be doing this assignment again on Thursday.)

Monday, January 21, 2008

After weeks of torment its finally done--suffering under the tyranny of the precious object!

Duplex, 2008, oil on panel, 11"x14"

Monday, January 14, 2008

"Video art represents a possible way out of something, out of the renewed tyranny of the precious object, out from under a boutique art market that has amassed grotesque wealth and power while making art itself seem small and utterly dispensable."

"When you have YouTube at your disposal, who needs Chelsea?"

--Holland Cotter

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

"Its better to regret something you did do than to regret something you didn't do."
--The Butthole Surfers