from some dude's couch to the Whitney: it's war

a couple months ago i had the dipleasure of watching The Hurt Locker in a Bed-Stuy living room full of disaffected ex-film students. they smoke a lot of pot, produce a lot of awesome Brooklyn musical showcases, and wear combat boots from Opening Ceremony. they also interjected "funny" dialogue during one particularly poignant scene involving a lone Capri-Sun.

i wonder if they would make the same jokes about Nina Berman's Purple Hearts series?



of which "Ty" was featured in Friday's "My Turn" series at the Whitney:



probably.

lynn lynn lynn lynn

lynn upson, aka l upson photography is a good friend and good photographer. she always has something fun to take you to, which is why her people photos are fun too. she's kind of the coolest. like her detroit.

still quite sober

i was shocked to see this in the window of St. Marks. i dropped the $19.50 because wow! it took me two weeks to sit down with it because just flipping made me sink into deep homesickness. but. while i appreciate the effort, the best parts were Corine Vermeulen's photo series (see my post), the Carhartt article, and Vaughn Taormina's quote "So if you think Detroit is a shit hole, fair enough, but we think your city feels like a shopping mall."

a homesick photo series

c/o brian ulrich. and the midwest. i moved here 2 weeks too late...

EV Day does Deitch - and the opera.

you can see it for exactly four hours tomorrow

trick or treat

smell katie's sweets

PS 1 continues to be awesome

(Robert Bergman exhibition started yesterday)

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

it's so cold in new york, squatters are starting to move south. danielle levitt captured some in a summer studio.

even gummier

u can knock Gummo all you want, but it's a good movie. and Chloe Sevigny did the wardrobe, making it great.

words like "disturbing", "unwatchable" and "new horror" are often used to describe it. well, there's something even worse: Trash Humpers, Korine's new film. if you don't want to see some real dirty birds losing their minds i don't suggest going to the NY film festival tomorrow. if you do, get me a ticket.

happy almost sorta halloween

dazed (and confused) digital is better than the paper version because there is SO MUCH STUFF uploaded everyday -- and its free. this "scrapheap" (discarded objects recycled into snazzy photo ops) challenge is also part of the new "Franken-fashion" print edition.

Shonibare's last Sunday

tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum

Basquiat's New York

three great things about this film:
it's a "watch instantly" on Netflix
1981 was a great crossover year for art punk style
the Lower East Side in the 80s looks like Cass Corridor now


this post-mortem dramatization is nice too -- and you have to love Ms. World as she was when she was.

a black renaissance

the new kehinde wiley exhibit in new york

not to be confused with the old alexander melamid exhibit in detroit

felt! felt! felt!

i found out about the fashioning felt exhibit at cooper-hewitt at the last minute and luckily got in to see it at the last minute.

felt goes back eight thousand! years and is a truly sustainable material. from start to finish felting is a relatively simple, low impact, and democratic process, still traditionally popular among the nomadic peoples of central asia -- who use it for rugs to booties to saddle bag flair. the exhibited contemporary artists use felt as a form for creatively utilitarian objects and a lot of wearables, to simply pretty ephemera.

an inspiring show of raw material and talent.

some of my favorite pieces, of course, were the dresses.


francoise hoffman: her shapes happen organically (nope, no sewing here), through fusing, often with fabrics like silk.

ps: a nice high felt blog

free headshots

The Walk-In Portrait Studio by Femke Lutgerink (interviews) & Corine Vermeulen-Smith (photography)

From Tuesday April 14th until Saturday April 18th, 2009 the Walk-in Portrait Studio on 13106 Klinger Street, Detroit, MI opened its doors from 11 AM - 5 PM. Inspired by the famous Walker Evens photograph of the License Photo Studio in New York we set out to create a studio on Klinger Street. The studio was set up in a formerly foreclosed house that is currently being renovated. Over the course of 5 days around 85 people came in to have their portraits taken. The next week the portraits could be picked up at the same location.


aida

jamal

rema

kawaun

renee

tina

willy

zana

good morning androgyny

lonely abundance, a puce moment indeed

if you've never seen this Kenneth Anger short

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