Tomato Music @ Machine Project this Friday August 31, 8pm (click here)

(From my collection)
Robert Gutierrez:

Shoshana Dentz:

Alex Jackson:

"In pragmatic terms, art is a privileged zone of gratuitous activity, with boundaries maintained by the agreements of the vested authorities."

(I love Peter Schjeldahl's concision.)

Smoke near Buttonwillow, CA:

Osman Khan at LA Louver

("Networth", 2004, credit card machine, software, projector, and computer.) You swipe your credit card in the machine provided, whereupon your name is Googled and then (presumably) is projected onto the screen. The screen generates a hierarchy of all who have swiped (along with some certifiably famous names thrown in) so that you can see how you measure up in cyberspace. I dutifully swiped, but waited and waited for my name to appear. I did, however, spot a few friends' names on the screen.

Art for Humans (click here)

My video "Bay Dredge" will be featured at this screening; go if you're in LA:

The new haircut:

Anri Sala at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

Dammi i Colori, 2003, video, 14 minutes:




"In this video, Anri Sala meditates upon the newly painted, brightly colored facades lining the dilapidated streetscapes of Tirana, Albania. An embodiment of social and political change, the presence of these colors marks the dissolution of communism and the resurgence of individual expression in unusual ways." (The video also indicates that the mayor of Tirana is a painter.)

Lake Erie Water Snake:


(A rare species that lives near the Davis-Besse power plant.)