Some Websites I like

www.reubencox.us/home.htm
www.bethganz.com
www.marosy-weide.com
www.cigharvey.com

Happy Halloween From Baba Yaga

I was Baba Yaga Today, Russian witch. Polish and Russian folklore has it that Baba Yaga will get you in your sleep if you are a bad child. My parents used to try to use that one on me. It never really scared me, however.

A Sequence is Born (Nathan be Proud!)

Oh boy! After much time spent getting images ready to print, I decided to go back to basics. SEQUENCING. Here I was, having fun, ignoring the illustrious and enigmatic notion of "the sequence", when it was pointed out to me by my boo that I didn't need to print images I was not gonna use. How elementary, you say, what a no-brainer. I had just been making big prints of images I liked, rather than thinking about how they go together, how they form relationships. I was beginning to lose faith in this whole "photoshop thing" while fixing corrupted, fragmented pixels, calling the process "inane" and for "automatons only". My boo came home to witness my whining and cursing and said, "That isn't art (meaning the process of sitting on the computer and ripping your hair out over pixels". "Do you have your sequence yet?" No, I replied. Next a foray into the wonders of C-Prints was had, including him looking into the price of JOBO's, etc, to which I vehemently declared, "I don't have time for this shit!" "I can't learn that now, it's too late in the game!" to which he replied, "Well, aren't you in school?!?" to which I said, "No?!?!"

Isn't my life great? This is what happens when you have two art fags in the same house. Each gives the other a hard time about his/her corresponding art. At any rate, he asked me why I have to do all this (i.e., the computer stuff), to which I explained three times that that's the only way I can make color prints at school...more talk of JOBO, people who can make C-prints for you, that's expensive, etc. Ech!!!

Alas, I went back to my roots (just like the RuPaul song) and printed miniatures of alllllll my images and played the deduction game. So, for all ye that care, there will more than likely be 16 damn prints in this sojourn into pixel hell. Perhaps a title will be "The Poet's Garden", named after the place of the same name in Highland Park. At this initial stage, it seems appropriate considering this body of work encompasses outdoor and plant shots and I was a poet in my former life aka pre-VSW times. Yeah Yeah Yeah

so there's that for now. gonna start playing with pixels again.

Factoids

Latest Book Read: Mad in America by Robert Whitaker. did you know george eastman gave 20,000 bucks to Eugenics in the 20's??? Interesting. It's a history of asylums and how "crazy" people were treated and are currently treated vis a vis medications, written by a journalist. Interesting stuff.

Latest Art seen: Sara Segerlin's thesis installation. Diggin the woods and screens and lights.

Latest Music listened to: Blockhead: Uncle Tony's Coloring Book
Swayzak: Some Other Country
Elliot Smith: Either/Or
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- S/T
Brazil Remixed -Various Artists
Earlimart- Treble & Tremble

etc etc

Photographers that might be interesting/currently looking at: Joseph Sudek, Melinda Dahl, Robert Adams, Cig Harvey, Carter Mull, Eva Marosy-Weide, Collier Schorr, Jocelyne Alloucherie, etc, etc

Come To Lakeshore and Buy This Shit!!!

Look what yummy wastes of money we just got in at the store!!Come in and be way too cool for grad school with these beauties from kidrobot!!! Or go to www.kidrobot.com !!!!!

Sunday nite at Chez Filipek/Hill

This is what my boo does to me in passing, seeing me at the computer. War paint a la ProActiv Solution. My face is a wipe-off- what- you- don't- want -center. It's starting to tingle.

Finally!!!!

This is the only one that the computer will allow. Safari Has Bugs. Better get some RAID.

Dumb Technology

well, here i sit waiting for the blogger to upload my images. i am skeptical. it doesn't want to cooperate. Alas, fellow viewers will be unable to see my creations and i guess that is the way it has to be for today. Shot multiple rolls of slide film and have many contenders. Shooting with something specific in mind kinda takes away spontaneity, i think. There were bunches of things i have seen that do not fit into what I'm doing at all. I can always save them for a later date. I am starting to relive the interiors project all over again, except now i am outside. Eventually I will tire of this. Yet, it is good. It's nice to play in the woods with a soundtrack in my ears. I was frustrated that some shots were blurry despite using the ground, logs or my own limbs as tripods. Must be the camera shaking. Fun. Poop on that!

Happier and Cheezier Times!!!

A Lesson in Stan Brakhage

So, I admit it--for the purposes of blogging things that might be interesting, I search the youtube. I try to find artistic and retarded things. I don't want to write anything about myself because I don't do diaries (some serious alliteration here)! Also, the annals of my life are not for consumption. Therefore, if I must share something it will be points of interest that one might make a pitstop on. Here, I am including a clip of Mothlight for those who might not have seen it or for those that want a refresher. I have to say, this is one of those films that changed everything for me. It changed my mind about what film COULD DO--it does not have to have a freakin STORY (yawn)--yet it can be endlessly entrancing nonetheless. Is that spectacle? Sorry, I'm not so binary. The motion media world is not diametrically opposed between narrative and spectacle. Both co-exist.