CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-20 21:27:31 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is so cool...  Among many other tidbits:

Juvenile birds learn these things early in life by interacting with the predators through testing their reactions. Juvenile ravens often will land nearby and nip them from behind. This so-called risky “play activity” is dangerous but ultimately aids in the birds’ survival by providing information about the capabilities of various predators. By deliberately provoking them, ravens learn which animals they can trust and how far away they must stay to remain safe.

2013-05-20 21:08:49 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Pure Awesome X3

Believe me.

This should be the theme song for G+, on an endless loop.

2013-05-19 04:31:42 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Google Plus, don't look now but I see your underpinnings.

2013-05-19 01:40:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Vine

Flowers.

Spring into summer.

2013-05-18 06:42:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

No Further Comment Necessary

More pokes at Toronto's buffoon Mayor, Taiwanese-style and complete with subtitles.

2013-05-18 02:57:59 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Thanks New York Magazine, we owe you one!

2013-05-15 23:20:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

About My Banner Image

It's from Christian Marclay's The Clock, an epic 24 hour film collage with a music score that carries the action quietly forward. Want to know more? Here is a link to the (lengthy) New Yorker article on how it was made.

2013-05-15 23:13:07 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

If You Recognize Your Behaviour In These Photos, Get Help

2013-05-15 22:26:54 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Aaaand it's broken already.

2013-05-15 21:53:48 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

I don't know WTF happened to G+ layout, but it's spectacularly ugly as a graphic interface, not to mention lacking context for anything other than what is being done in the instant. 

2013-05-14 21:21:51 (9 comments, 19 reshares, 19 +1s)

Vox Populi

Take that, Abercrombie and Fitch.

#fitchthehomeless , compete with sideways dig at G+. Ha!

Abercrombie & Fitch Gets a Brand Readjustment #FitchTheHomeless

2013-05-14 18:20:03 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 24 +1s)

How Not To Be A Dick To A Little Person

From From: http://m.xojane.com/issues/how-not-to-be-a-dick-to-a-little-person

1. Do Not Refer To Little People As “Midgets.”
 
There is a lot of confusion around this word, so let me break it down for you.  There is nothing wrong with the actual word, midget; it’s just a word to describe something that is very small, for example, Midget Carrots, Midget Car Racing, my ex-boyfriend is an emotional midget.  The word midget becomes offensive when it’s used to objectify a person of short stature, as in Midget Tossing, Midget Porn, Midget Rentals, where you can literally rent little people for parties and events.  
 
Some little people don’t mind being called midget, but I do. I’ve never heard the word ‘midget’ used in a positive manner; it always seems attached to some form of hostility. When was thelast time you heard s... more »

2013-05-14 03:07:34 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Say YES To Saying NO

"Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation."

2013-05-14 01:55:48 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's Coming From Inside The House

2013-05-13 13:18:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Spectacle

2013-05-13 04:39:11 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Mmmm. Juice.

This is what expensive prescription eyedrops look like after they end up in the juicer. Don't ask. 

At least I was almost finished and had just finished decanting the juice into a jar. 

sigh.

2013-05-12 00:34:20 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Vertigo, Anyone?

10 May 2013 19:24

Available as an embedded video on FB, this is GoPro footage shot by the Port Authority of NY & NJ of One World Trade Center’s final spire installation, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at a symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

All y'all know what happened in 1776 in American history, right? Right.

Follow the link - https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=468293183247925

2013-05-12 00:11:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

This Is Water

Forget the pithy aphorisms and moralizing and cut to the heart of the matter: sink or swim, shift your paradigms, make better choices.

Here is an abbreviated version of David Foster Wallace's epic Commencement address, originally given in 2005.

2013-05-11 23:03:07 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Don't Like 21st Century Abstract Painting? Don't Look.

I got home from the studio and my husband asked if that was paint on my thumb. I took a look and said to myself, yep, I've acquired painter's hands. 

It started out as a crappy work day, ultimately sabotaged by those very hands dropping a freshly glazed board covered in the last of the reserves of the gray paint.

No problem! The will is strong even when the body is tired. I did what all artists do: cleaned up, carried on, and at the end of a rapidly improved day came home to revel in the first lilacs of the season.

Mmmmmmm. Lilacs.

2013-05-11 04:30:49 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

Want To Learn A Little Something About American Art In The 70's?

Put aside 2 hours and watch this. Or don't.

2013-05-10 03:52:13 (41 comments, 3 reshares, 28 +1s)

How Does One Name One's Work Art?

How can this be called painting?

"Henrique Oliveira has a very peculiar way of painting, one that makes him a painter. The decision as to whether what he does is painting is not up to him, in this case. And it is this peculiar way of working or his artistic process that turns what he does into a very special painting. Far from conventional. 

That would justify the development of his plastic research that has wood as the material of his installations and that I dare call paintings. It is not paint, but the scraps of wood that lend color to his “paintings.” Wood scraps that carry the discoloration of time. They become paintings that do not remain on the flatness of a canvas. They are engineering works of complex pictorialness and subsequent visual precariousness. They are far from formal constructive paintings. They wouldbe r... more »

2013-05-07 21:56:48 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Subject: Monika Pon-su-san, AKA The Green Lady

"One day in 1950, a curly-haired stranger walked into my uncle's laundry in Cape Town, where I worked.

He stood there as I served a customer, his eyes fixed on me the whole time. He only spoke when we were alone together in the shop.

"Hello!" he said. "I'm Tretchikoff. I'd love to paint you."
...
A lot of people ask me: "What is that stern look you had on your face? What were you thinking about?" And I always say: "Well you know, one gets tired sitting and just looking."

2013-05-07 15:06:00 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Interview with Charles Ramsey

Man who helped three women escape their captors tells it like it is, including a sideways comment about racism in America.

2013-05-05 03:43:06 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Whatever your attitude toward sex, it is a natural part of life - something essential to our existence that carries great opportunity for beauty or ruin.

2013-05-03 22:06:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Daily Ritual

Coffee!

2013-05-02 22:59:18 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Whether you're a page-generous penner or a short writer of world-containing phrases, a philosophy-loving biologist, a literary filmmaker or a musician who reads critical theory, START YOUR MASTERS / DOCTORAL DEGREE AT EGS THIS SUMMER IN SAAS FEE. Apply NOW— http://www.egs.edu/admission/online-application/

2013-04-30 01:12:31 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Cry, Baby. It's Good For You.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/apr/29/crying-baby-festival-tokyo-pictures#/

2013-04-29 13:34:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

That's My Work

Saying yes as an artist, validated in unexpected ways.

Mind blown.

#TyraBanks   #ParisPhotoLA   #DanzigerGallery  

2013-04-27 07:26:31 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Drawings At A Photo Fair?

Well I never...

#ParisPhotoLA   #JenniferLawrence   #JamesDanziger  

2013-04-27 05:20:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

"...REFUSING to respond violently IS DOING SOMETHING." —JUDITH BULTER.

IMAGE: BUTLER AT EGS.

2013-04-25 23:51:20 (24 comments, 13 reshares, 23 +1s)

Witch Hunts and Speculations?

This is what happens.

2013-04-25 15:11:35 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Roger Ballen

I've been a fan of Ballen for quite some time. In his most recent work his drawing skills are given primacy in his photos. Love.

2013-04-25 14:59:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

It's A Good Day

If you are in LA you can go see some of my paintings and drawings at Paris Photo LA.

James Danziger (Chelsea dealer extraordinaire) has them, accompanied by the stunning photo of Jennifer Lawrence that started the entire undertaking.

http://www.parisphoto.com/losangeles

2013-04-24 23:34:03 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

We might be a small place in a tiny mountain village in Switzerland but our vision and our hearts are as GRAND as the fourteen (13,000ft) mountain peaks which surround us. There's good reason why all the Bigs come to us (the Bigs = Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Žižek + more). We're ALWAYS on the look-out for new faces to come fill our rooms and tables with discussers and listeners, it's now time you accept our invitation (to apply) and start your MASTERS/DOCTORATE degree this SUMMER 2013. To do so see here: http://www.egs.edu/admission/online-application/.

IMAGE: BUTLER & RONELL AT EGS, SAAS FEE, SWITZERLAND.

2013-04-24 15:27:32 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Average Hipster 

2013-04-24 14:53:18 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Why Google is 'creating a mind.'

Google Now is great. But how do you make it better?

I believe Google is building a software-based artificial human brain, capable of interacting with people convincingly as if it were a real friend.

And Google isn't alone in this quest. Here's what's going on.

http://www.datamation.com/applications/google-one-step-closer-to-creating-a-mind-1.html

2013-04-23 21:59:48 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 30 +1s)

Throwing Shade, Old School Style.

This is what happens when you know the variables of painting shadows. 2D becomes 3D in affect.

More: http://www.peeta.net/walls.html

2013-04-22 04:58:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-22 04:57:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-21 16:29:02 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Pop Quiz

Section i - Contemporary Art

1. Life is short. Circle all that apply:
a) Live in the present. 
b) Live an ethical life. 
c) Maintain awareness of the difference between a question and an answer. 
d) All of the above.

Section ii - Art History

Bearing in mind that:
1. Art is long
2. Art came first 
3. Art is a formulation of philosophy - one must live a life in order to understand either 
4. Religion is acceptance and application of the truths of an other

Do you:
a) Eat dessert first.
b) Save room for dessert.
c) Have your cake and eat it too.
d) All of the above.

2013-04-21 04:31:51 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 23 +1s)

De Profundis


http://www.dinovalls.com/es/galeria/5/

2013-04-21 02:54:28 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Render unto Ray Caesar the things which are Caesar's

In this case an exquisite array of palette, pose, folds, fabric, seduction, fetish.

http://www.raycaesar.com/gallery/2013 (warning, website has sound)


Ray Caesar, Fallen Study, 2013

2013-04-18 01:24:04 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

Coffee: my daily ritual. 

1. the set up.
2. an accidental pear
3. my coffee table, where I never actually drink any coffee.

34K of you? What's your favourite daily ritual?

2013-04-17 21:23:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Inner Tubes

John Currin's working choices.

Interview here: http://200-percent-blog.blogspot.ca/2011/06/john-currin.html

2013-04-17 02:58:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So You Think You Know About The Art World?

Tell me about 'the' art world you think you know and then read a little sumpin' sumpin' about the one you don't know at all. 

"Over the years the family has amassed an estimated 300 Picassos worth $900 million, and about 4,500 other works by artists including Monet and Miró, many secreted in a duty-free warehouse near the Geneva airport. It is a treasure that Forbes estimated to be worth over $3 billion. Before this week, Hillel Nahmad’s gallery was a cynosure of refinement and wealth, with masters like Wassily Kandinsky and Francis Bacon on the walls."

Didn't expect that, didja?

2013-04-17 02:09:49 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

+Jerry Saltz Giving You Just The Tip

A tour of his favourite paintings in 2010, Sister Wendy style.

2013-04-16 03:29:47 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

Welcome To The Academy

In which The Critic postulates that the Monkey Farter is Absent.

via +Hyperallergic and +Hrag Vartanian

2013-04-15 20:27:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

I Have A Theory

Jerry Saltz posits one argument in favour of the shift of painting during the time of the Impressionists. My pet theory looks further afield, at the broader realm of 19th century visual art histories: the demons of photography were barking up the ass of these French painters.

It is known that both Degas and Monet frequently used photographic images as their source material. The move of Impressionism away from precise depiction was perhaps a declaration of the hand and imaginative potential of the artist now that they were free to work away from the onerous task of realism. This alignment of thinking became more obvious as photographers also declared the artistic merit of the photographic image as something other than the scientific document Fox Talbot envisioned - the hand of the pictorialist photographer worked both the surface and in-camera depictive space of... more »

2013-04-14 06:46:26 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

2013-04-14 05:07:41 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Soooo, is +CircleCount toast?