Ready for the House: September 2011

9/29/11

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Akio cubby/Lobster painting, summer of love, Vernon, France./*with drawings by Joe Brainard./lady Lane's./California Mantle~Bitters, Shire, Korty, Shire, Breslin, Stranger, Korty

see~ South Wizard.

9/27/11

9/26/11

Robert Breer

Two distinctly different shoes...Robert Breer post on TLC here.

*thanks Jason for another round of thoughtful selections.

9/24/11

THING

Inuit whale bone figure/hunter.

In house relatives scroll here.

9/22/11

Bondo/Blendo

Warmjet's AW 801 & Liddle with KP bondo repair/composition.

~photo via Jdubsingles

~KP's roundup here.

~Cabinessence here.

*thanks Loud Dad for link.

9/20/11

BLENDO

Peter Shire holding his Henry award from the California Museum of Design 2011.

Jayme Odgers, an artist and designer friend of Shire's who first met Peter round 1978 at a Wet magazine party in Malibu, has said that Peter's works "bridge the terrain between art/design, function and non-utilitarianism. They are gorgeously outrageous. They smear the professional and personal.

In the early eighties we used a coined word to describe what Peter does with his life and art: we called it 'Blendo'. He's a fellow Blendo. He lives and works in the borders between the obvious, blending opposites, merging disparate elements into a unique whole that is all his own."

Frank Lloyd, from Peter Shire Chairs catalogue 2007.

*Limeys-see some PS work in the Postmodernism show at the V&A.

**Related posts here...here...here.

***South Willard PS shop exhibit here.

9/17/11

BCR

Brett Cody Rogers/Painter's Forms~opens at Pepin Moore, LA tonight.

Details here.

9/16/11

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Navajo spoon from the bowl-ingot silver with arrow feather design c 1930's.

9/15/11

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Magic Toweling/Kelp Cutting~mid morning of the earth, LA.

*click to enlarge

shot by & via moondoglegg

9/14/11

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Ol big tag Patagonia/M-I-USA rugby top from the bowl-big cotton beach clown

deeper Chouinard relatives here.

Duxbak

More/chore/bore~nice condition Duxbak shooting jacket from the bowl, I've looked and passed on so many of these type of jackets, they are either huge and short or costume-core...this guy has great tailoring and details-clean front middle pocket-hidden cigarette pocket and heavy canvas.

more chore here...here

Duxbak vest here

*wait/what~someone paid over 3K for a wooly Duxbak on fleabay :-O

9/13/11

EXCURSIS 1

Excursis 1: Reference Library/Up On My Back and I Will Take You Hither

Andy Beach digs into the archive at the ICA Philadelphia as the first guest curator in their new Excursis series-opens tomorrow night!

info here.

9/12/11

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Picked up at Renaissance.

In house decoys-slow your scroll here.

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Whittled bird found in the Northwoods WI- I'm drawn to pieces which use minimal descriptive information in the act of whittling to achieve the desired form...it could also be the measure of ones attention span or rudimentary skill~but this bird is singing O<.

In house relatives here...here and here.

9/10/11

Renaissance Books WI

I love Wisconsin-for a bunch of good reasons~Renaissance used bookstore located inside General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee being one. I always find something in there, and have had my name called over the loudspeaker due to its powers of distraction. If you are flying out of Milwaukee the plan is to get there a little early.

ps-the downtown location is just nuts.