And Vice Versa
Too much context contaminates the content.
Hundreds of Spectators
See also http://supercentral.org/ll/564
Sculptures Involontaires
July 30, 2009, 1 annotation
“Sculptures Involontaires,” photo-essay by Brassaï, originally published in Minotaire no. 3/4, 1933.
Comment
Blue Dog Democrats “vociferously oppose a modest surtax on the top one per cent, whose effective tax rates have dropped by fifteen per cent since 1979, while their after-tax incomes have more than tripled.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, “Talk of the Town,” The New Yorker, August 3, 2009
Why We Make Mistakes
A man whose arms were covered by full sleeves of tattoos read Why We Make Mistakes on his home-bound commute.
The Cul-de-sac
July 27, 2009, 1 annotation
A young woman wearing a yellow shirt with the slogan “Glidden Gets You Going” took a break from handing out flyers to passersby. She stepped away from two purple columns—each one holding brochures, “Top Ten Colors” color chips, and sporting a photograph of four nuns carrying buckets of paint across a British-looking, two-lane street—and said to her friend, “The first time I ran away, it was from one of those things where the houses all look the same.” “You mean a cul-de-sac?” her friend suggested. Distracted, the young woman drifted back to the columns and resumed her canvassing.
Manifesto for Digital Reproduction
The belief that identical images can be produced from the same source file is a myth: All images are now unique.
But Spacing Destroys Simultaneous Presence
Bulletin Board at Minus Space’s Viewlist
Above: Shinsuke Aso
Minus Space recently published its third exhibition for Viewlist, an online project space where artists are invited to present visual essays. Curated by Karen Schifano, Bulletin Board: Inspiration Information features images taken by the participating artists of their studio bulletin boards, walls, or book shelves. Not all the images depict bulletin boards, suggesting that the presentation is more about the artists involved than about the show’s namesake. A detail not at first evident is that the participating artists—keeping with Minus Space’s stated mission as a platform for reductive abstraction—are mostly working with … reductive abstraction. I’m left wondering how the artists similar aesthetic interests relate to what they tack to their walls, and if there is a connection. Bulletin Board is definitely essayistic—it feels incomplete but proposes an interesting direction.
More images after the jump.