From LBC yesterday-original pencil price 10 50.
4/16/12
4/10/12
Choices
Awesome mini's in the John Chamberlain show at the Guggenheim, made from scrap tin and old Tonka's- so much more air and space in these little guys compared to the jumbo's.
*Playskool block plinth in third shot :-!
**had me thinking of these again.
4/7/12
Dinker
Faith in L brackets, digging this D.I.Y dinking rig~lower east side N.Y.
*the do a bit posse : term/tag was (to the best of my knowledge) coined by David Franzke and popularized by David Jolly in the colonies circa 1997.
Forrest Bess+Antique Roadshow
Watch Appraisal: Forrest Bess Oil Painting, ca. 1950 on PBS. See more from Antiques Roadshow.
3/29/12
3/24/12
3/23/12
[O"]
Get Out Of My Dreams/Get Into My Car.
~my greatest/latest hits from Unchanging Window.
*that red car has strayed WAY to far from Los Angeles.
3/20/12
6
I found this note on the back of a sketch book this week, circa 1988...our uncle would travel to the states on business trips and on our request-reluctantly-pick up what were then expensive items in the colonies. He was calling our Mom because he was about to go to Rip City Skates and I wrote this down so she could put my order in.
3/18/12
3/16/12
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Grabner: Perhaps that is why I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the necessity for creating a studio scenario built on situational boredom. I am finding confidence in David Foster Wallace’s belief in boredom as a necessary human condition. Of course I am not talking about the crippling, existential kind, but boredom that recontours our relationship to time and social networking, a condition absent of distraction, or as Dave Hickey puts it, absent of static. I am interested in how ideas emerge, grow, and sustain themselves within this condition. Positive boredom is contentment. I am positively content in the studio but endlessly unnerved and anxious in my other work.
~Taken from Barry Schwabsky's awesome interview with Michelle Grabner in The Brooklyn Rail.
~you need to read it.
3/14/12
3/13/12
3/12/12
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Wild shrimping in the West...Jr knifewing bolo (scone dipper) + tenugui kerchief.
Mamma's don't let yer babies grow up to be Cowboys.
3/11/12
3/10/12
Fethernit(s)
Summer IS around the corner...vintage T's from PCC last week raglan red and regular blue sleeves.
3/8/12
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Zuni Knifewing's~
//top-Alonzo Hustito mosaic overlay bolo c. 1940's, this one has been riding collar the past few weeks-the finer nature to the inlay (given it's size) and the larger stamped silver surround- along with the separate striped fan form below the kilt make this a great piece.
//Unidentifed (flying) knifewing pin c. 1950's, I liked how simple this one was, and also the faded color of the stonework.
//Tiny knifewing figure ring, set into jet background, whilst this could be John Gordon Leak, the figure seems like it's having too much fun, too animated, possibly David Tsikewa (due to the long eyes and raised wings).
//Dan Simplicio knifewing pendant, again set into jet background with snake eye turquoise border c. 1940's, similar to Leak but more details such as the multi piece wings and striped diagonal cornmeal pouch.
//Knifewing bolo, possibly Frank Vacit c. 1940's-50's, the colors are neat here, and the rain cloud formed headdress.
*again Toshio Sei's book is the best source of information on all this jazz.
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