I followed a link from Claude Collins-Stracensky to a video from his project that was at the Hammer last fall. Despite going to their website for exhibition info on a regular basis, I had not looked at this part of the Hammer’s website before. Watch+Listen contains just that, videos and audio tracks of the exhibitions, lectures, readings and various goings on at the museum.
This video is from LACMA’s blog Unframed. I liked how she described the other high school football photographers’ reaction to her. Their comments or attitudes are understandable as she will not be capturing the frozen in-focus mid-air tackle, but—and this has nothing to do with what Opie was doing—why are there photographers at the practices?
Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape on view at LAMCA from July 25th-Oct. 17th 2010
The direct link to the LACMA Unframed blog entry is here.
I was surprised by the overall appearance of the various burgers. Although they are far from what a food stylist makes—and what is in the ads and store images—I was expecting much worse.
McDonalds – Quarter Pounder with Cheese (I order it without, but was given this anyway)
cost: $3.36
weight: 0.63 lbs.*
calories: 410 (with cheese 510)**
Burger King – Whopper
cost: $3.69
weight: 0.97 lbs.*
calories: 670**
Jack in the Box – Jumbo Jack
cost: $1.95
weight: 0.74 lbs.*
calories: 542**
* weights based on my measurements on a kitchen scale
** calories based on the nutritional information on the restaurant’s websites.
latest video, RBG in the works.
I forgot to post this earlier
— As I hoped, although part of the Fisher collection exhibition, a few Sigmar Polke’s are up on the 4th floor at the SFMOMA.
I put this video together to see how the cuts would look with another video in mind.
I really like Jack Goldstein’s work, so I am very glad the Orange County Museum of Art picked this show up, while MOCA’s canceling of this show is a let down. I guess I’ll have to spend a lovely summer’s day in Newport Beach two years from now. Maybe I’ll have lunch at the Galley.
read Jori Finkel story on the LATimes art blog, Culture Monster.
For some images of Jack Goldstein’s work and his CV for check out 1301PE’s page.
the image above is from my google result.
I just saw a bit of nature today. While driving, I saw a crow scavenging something and as I got closer I saw it was a dead pigeon it was trying to carry off. When I got home I googled the phrase, “crow eating…” and was suggested “… pigeon” before I could type it in. So it is a common thing, or common enough. I wasn’t surprised, but I don’t think I have ever seen it. I’ve seen vultures tearing apart a cow carcass in Texas canoeing down a river—in nature. This falls under the occurrences like seeing an eagle fly low over some cars on the freeway that had a wing span equal to the width on the compact sedan in front of me or a young deer walking through the parking lot of a grocery store in LA even though Griffith Park was only about two miles away—not surprising just something one does not see everyday.
Here are some recently completed bus shelter model paintings and a coffee cup. They are all eight by ten inches oil on canvas. They will be part of the Big Show 5 at Silas Marder gallery in BridgeHampton, NY.
