below my name on my business cards it says “collector of strange things”. i’ve been thinking about this lately, mostly because i’m formulating a show in a few months to be installed at My Place of Employ. in late December i started collecting tea bag sleeves. it may be known that My Place of Employ […]
over the past few days, i’ve found myself thinking more than once about the work of Thomas Demand. not sure why. i saw a show of his about two years ago at MOMA, stumbled upon by accident when Olive and I were going to see the Diane Arbus retrospective.
his process is explained thus:
“Photographs can […]
oh, god, what a shitty week.
for the most part, like 90% of the time, now, i’ve managed to regulate my moods. pulling myself out of the depression that swallowed five years of my life was mostly due to me performing cognitive therapy on myself, which i don’t recommend for everyone, but it seemed to […]
from this week’s NYTimes Real Estate Section:
“The Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia was nearly as expensive. “Landlords were very aware that people like us were coming in looking for retail or studio space,” he said. “It felt that the prices were ahead of the neighborhood, and I was kind of depressed by what I saw.”
ok, […]
and i remembered just how terrifying it is to put your body on eight small wheels and attempt to propel yourself rather quickly in a large circle along with dozens of other people similarly attired, almost all of them faster and younger than you.
Jeanine and i drove somewhere to godforsaken South Jersey, the land of […]
on tuesday, i drove up to Providence to a) see my friend James and his new place, and b) to see UMass Dartmouth and try to charm my way into the MFA program. the drive from Philadelphia to Providence was exactly five hours, which is a nice equilibrium: much longer than that and i really […]
i want to be this lady (taken from The Sartorialist).
there is also a really good article i just read on Slate about Diane Keaton and how Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with women “of a certain age”. no new revelations there, of course, but Diane Keaton’s real life (as opposed to her reel life) […]