Exportadora De Sal

A tour of the world's largest evaporative salt mine:

Coming soon to a theater near you!

John Brinton Hogan's Cell Trees

Surface Tension_Copenhagen

Bay Dredge Outtake:

Joseph Smolinski

Cell Forest, digital C-print (2005)

Cell Harvest, digital C-print (2005)

The project officially ends today. I'm gonna miss that pipe...

This was the first day I saw the effluent suddenly turn a urine yellow.

Leachate Incinerator Spews Volatile Organic Carcinogens

(A short, very beautiful video I found tonight.)

Journey Through a Leachate Well

I recently re-found this found footage of a remote camera journey through a clogged leachate well at the Cummings Road Landfill in Eureka, CA. Leachate is the so-called "garbage tea" that must be pumped from landfills. Enjoy!

"Success is the best revenge."
--Nila Ambler Carruthers

Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter (Los Angeles)

"All trees, even parking lot trees, need our respect and affection..."



(The artist's audio diatribes that accompany each video monitor are hilarious--especially the one about the little parasitic bugs that suck and shit on his beloved tree's leaves.)

He's getting pretty sick of that pipe...

Another one from my "post-it" collection:

An interesting category to ponder...

Mike Davis

Trapped near Burnt Ranch California:

Evan Holloway at the Marc Foxx booth, Armory Fair, 2007

Diane and I with Mierle Laderman Ukeles' "The Social Mirror" at the Feldman booth, Armory Fair, 2007

Michal Rouner's "Hitlakdut" at the Pace booth, Armory Fair, 2007

Gillian Carnegie at Andrea Rosen, New York

Justin Lieberman at Zach Feuer, New York

Tony Oursler at Metro Pictures, New York

The Mighty MOMA

Pipilotti Rist's "Ever is Overall", 1997

The Mighty MOMA

John Baldessari, "What is Painting", 1968

The Mighty MOMA

Phillip Guston, "Painting", 1954

The Mighty Met

Florine Stettheimer's "Cathedrals of Wall Street"

The Mighty Met

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, "Juan de Pareja"

The Mighty Met

Peter Paul Rubens' "Venus and Adonis"

The Mighty Met

7th C. BC Greek Amphora, depicting a battle between Herakles and the centaur Nessos. (Nessos tried to abduct Herakles' wife Deianeira.)



Below: a detail of the two brave warriors in combat.