Jimmy Baker
Baker’s got a show up now at Foxy Productions. Not sure if I buy the rhetoric, but it’s interesting, in that Baker’s very much a part of the faux-pastoral movement that you’ll see scattered around Chelsea these days:
In Civil Dusk – the period after the sun has edged below the horizon and objects are still [...]
Matt King
New show—opening party tomorrow. Interesting: King is a prof at Virginia Commonwealth U., alma mater of Tara Donovan. And lately I’ve seen quite a few solid artists coming out of there. Today’s art world is too wooly to imagine an “avant garde” school breaking out from the wilds—but VCU’s recent hits remind me of Black [...]
Do Not Blow Up the Whale!
“The hope was that the the dead whale would be disintegrated by the blast.” Not so much.
Hilary Berseth and Kevin Zucker
Hilary’s a DG friend from waaaaaay back—we had art studios and English class together in college, and were also roomies for a time. Just last week, he opened a show at 11 Rivington. Hilary (who made all the sculptures) is partly known for using bees to make his work, as New York Mag explains in [...]
Patrick Daughters
Video for The Liar’s “Plaster Casts of Everything,” via Creative Reviews nice collection of recent music videos.
brennabrennaaa’s Live Journal
Awesome collection of images. This one from y.morytah’s zawsome flickr.
Playing Banjo During Brain Surgery
Shit. You go on vacay for two weeks and the interbrains (and world) blows up with awesome/scary/beautiful news. Via NYT’s Ideas Blog:
A twangy high note for brain surgery: the bluegrass musician Eddie Adcock plays his banjo during an operation to treat a hand tremor. During the procedure, which someone filmed, surgeons in Nashville used Adcock’s [...]
Geomagnetic Storms
From Wikipedia:
A geomagnetic storm, or solar storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth’s magnetospherespace weather. Associated with solar coronal mass ejections (CME), coronal holes, or solar flares, a geomagnetic storm is caused by a solar wind shock wave which typically strikes the Earth’s magnetic field 24 to 36 hours after the event.
This guy has [...]
Sleep Well, Tiny Friend
Seems like it was only yesterday that I was e-mailing pictures of this cute baby deer to my mom. Named Rupert, the little muntjac fawn was delivered by C-section after his mother was hit by a car. The staff at Tiggywinkles seemed sure he’d make it, but today came the news:
At just over a pound [...]