Estudio Teddy Cruz, Practice Diagram, 2008

"Latin America is the only place in the world where governments have attempted to harness the potential of social networks and the dynamics of informal economies in order to rethink urbanization."

(California City: a suburb abandoned in advance of itself 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.)

Packard Jennings (click here)

(A completely engrossing video.)

The kind of mind that stops fearing death, well, that frees up some disk space there...

--Author Steven Dubner in last night's episode of Charlie Rose

Never argue with someone whose job depends on not being convinced.

--H.L. Mencken

Tom LaDuke @ Angles Gallery (click here)

Auto Destruct, 2009, oil and acrylic on canvas over panel, 60" x 80"

Lorena y yo durante la presentación de BORDOCS en Tijuana:

Integrated Planning Model: Improve student learning through outcomes assessment and measures of institutional effectiveness.

(How hard I fought for this sentence.)

Tara Donovan and Lorena Mancilla at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego:

Its almost not useful to think about what art is anymore because what isn't?

--Mark Ruwedel at a recent lecture at the LACMA

José Luis Martín:

Urban Crude: The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin (@ the CLUI now)

"The oil industry, blamed for many of our urban woes, has left a legacy of open space that could be a more lasting, treasured, and important resource in this, the largest pool of urbanity in the nation."

The very fact that there seems little chance of selling pictures until the war is over seems to be a release to me, and I feel free to work on a picture like this, which would neither, even in normal times, increase my standing with the critics, or find a purchaser. Since no pictures of any kind are being bought, I might as well paint entirely for myself. This is what an artist ought to do under any circumstances, but it is not as easy as it sounds.

--Charles Burchfield, 1943