Archive for March, 2007

Whispering Corners

Whispering Corners

Leah is my art buddy. Here you can see her enjoying Whispering Corners by Stephen Vitiello, at the Bard CSS show at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. The piece itself was awesome - 5.1 audio of miscellaneous urban sounds with a strong but organic rhythm to it.

 

Yeah

Yeah

Donald Urquhart at White Columns. more: www.whitecolumns.org/wr.urquhart/gallery.html

 

Darkest

Darkest

West (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument Valley, January 26, 2007, 5:36-6:06 PM)) by Spencer Finch. Not too much light in the lens here. At David Zwirner.
Stills from The Searchers are on the screens, facing away from the entrance of the room, casting light on the wall which is meant to approximate the light specified in the title.

 

Lighter

Lighter

West (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument Valley, January 26, 2007, 5:36-6:06 PM)) by Spencer Finch. At David Zwirner.
Makes for an interesting light source, though it's hard to reproduce the reproduction of light that Finch has crafted.

 

Lightest

Lightest

West (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument Valley, January 26, 2007, 5:36-6:06 PM)) by Spencer Finch. At David Zwirner.
Taken in an entirely dark room, lit just by an array of 9 televisions.

 

Red Chief Brand® Apples

Red Chief Brand® Apples

Not, apparently, a joke. All the ways this is wrong aside, that's an awesome illustration.

 

Untitled (Clouds)

Untitled (Clouds)

All told, I must have spent about 10 minutes looking at this painting alone today. Doesn't transfer to a photograph, but for whatever reason, this was totally heartbreaking.
She shares an idiosyncratic hyperrealism with Vija Celmins that only reveals itself at certain distances from the artwork.

www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/129/work_2411.htm

 

Buying a stairway

Buying a stairway

Looks almost like a very pixelated elephant.

 

Drops

Drops

Middle of a parking lot in Chelsea after this weekend's big snowstorm, during the subsequent thaw.

 

Drops

Drops

Middle of a parking lot in Chelsea after this weekend's big snowstorm, during the subsequent thaw.

 

Drops

Drops

Middle of a parking lot in Chelsea after this weekend's big snowstorm, during the subsequent thaw.

 

Drops

Drops

Middle of a parking lot in Chelsea after this weekend's big snowstorm, during the subsequent thaw.

 

Drops

Drops

Middle of a parking lot in Chelsea after this weekend's big snowstorm, during the subsequent thaw.

 

Annahmestelle

Annahmestelle

Sport Toto N 500. Nice type, via Cafe Steinhof.

 

Bamway

Bamway

(Well lit) Construction site near BAM.

 

Komatsu

Komatsu

Leah and I were walking back to the Slope after seeing Pan's Labyrinth, which meant that this earth mover was terrifying.

 

No telling how deep it is

No telling how deep it is

Maybe there are squids in there.

 

PC Richard

PC Richard

PC Richard is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

 

Yellow river of commerce

Yellow river of commerce

Key Food

 

Shoes

Shoes

A small sampling of the range of shoes worn by our downstairs neighbors. I think the little rain boots with faces sell it for me.