Chanda Hai Tu

Happy Nightmare Baby!

Opal went on to become Mazzy Star when David Roback replaced Kendra Smith with Hope Sandoval.

Random Historical Moment:

This album imparts the smell of cloves and pipe tobacco on my nose- probably because those were the things I messed with in high school. Do you remember the first time you crashed at a party? I do. Somebone blared this rekkid the morning after we woke from a raging happening. It was early June in Greenville, SC. The humidity and morning sun softened our complexion while we smoked j's on the stoop about 9am. I tell you, holmes, the memories that resonate within the sleeve of a record are vast. For this reason, I question the notion that our collections should pass. Besides, in 20 years I am not sure I will shuffle through my Ipod listening to the digital collection from my 30's. I need that tangible object to hold on to while I sit, look around and listen.

TRANSMISSION

ARGON

Amos Burke

Don Nix, Leon Russell, Furrey lewis

Gang Starr

Rifles go blast when I kick some ass.

August Natterer

NEK CHAND

Nek Chand's Rock Garden from JNM on Vimeo.

MAGNETIC MOVIE

THE INCREDIBLE SUNNY RAE

Van Der Graaf Generator

Yo, pass the Dutch, E!
Dude is killin' the skins.

imagine

Leon Theremin

kudzu

A pretty common sight in rural South Carolina is kudzu. Kudzu provides a simple illustration of how temporary even the most industrious human civilization can be. Kudzu grows at such an enormous rate (1-2 ft/day) that it could become an entire wall or floor very quickly, and within the calender of a project.

2.28.010 Installation: CRANE ARTS

Georges Braque

possible source of text

When considering a source of text (although I like the idea of using Onomatopoeia), I thought our tags may be a source and a way of referencing the blog. Here is the list:

+COM (1), a "music box" I built in 2003 (1), abstract rendering (2), American, vernacular (2), Americlassicism (3), analog (1), animism (1), Best Birthday Gift Ever (1), big bang (1), Birthday Party (1), Black Moth Super Rainbow (1), boom boom rhythm (1), Bruce Haack (1), buckminster fuller (1), Burroughs (1), C++ (1), camus (1), candy store (1), captain beefheart and his magic band (1), ceramic as adjective (1), cobalt porcelain (2), collected since 2003 (1), congaree national monument (1), constructivism (1), cross-platform sound editor (1), detail (KEMPER / KEEPER) (1), digital controller (1), distance sensor (1), earthenware (1), Ed Roth (1), Edward James- Las Pozas (1), electro-punk (1), film (1), Flathead (1), Fred Astaire " Bojangles of Harlem Swing" (1), Fresnoooooo (1), from a collection of images (1), from the south and like few others. (1), GBV (1), George Lucas (1), glue (3), Gysin (1), h.c. westermann (1), higgs boson (1), hot rod (1), in-process (3), Japan (1), jerry andress (1), jung (1), Karawane score Hugo Ball (1), Kenneth Anger (1), Kustom Kulture (4), large hadron collider (1), Lazlo Moholy Nagy (1), lets motorize it invent a score and loop the paper. (1), low-fire slip (1), Lumière Brothers (1), MAKING A CLAY STAIRCASE 4 DA SPACE (1), Mama's got a squeezebox (1), mammy anicon (1), man machine (1), Mies Vander Rohe's Farnsworth House / The Fox River (2), Moon Eyes (1), motion sensor (1), motors (1), New Painting of Common Objects (1), Nick Cave (1), open source (1), or Fujitabot? (1), paint (1), polychrome (1), porcelain (1), possessive (1), randomly (1), Rat Fink (1), Reciting Karawane 1916 (1), rekkids (1), rock the box (1), seemingly relevent (1), shlock (1), simon rodia (1), southern grubbin' (1), STAR (1), swamp (1), tags (1), text (1), the normal (1), the spring before grad school (1), Tobacco (1), Tom Sachs' "Log Jam" project 1996 (1), treepeople (1), watch it instantly on netflix. (1), watts towers (1), Werner Herzog (1), wood (3), You're-a-peein' (1)

Curatorial Statement as submitted

Practice of the Druggist- Ben DeMott and Eric Miller

Crane Arts, Project Space, March 1 – April 3, 2010

Ben DeMott and Eric Miller have developed an installation of abstract work that purveys their common and individual interests, as well as their relationship as friends and collaborators. Their formulary navigates through ancillary interests, commonality, brotherhood, and culture; then it develops into broader formats of accessibility and technology. This installation is manifested through a blog at http://practiceofthedruggist.blogspot.com over a 6 month period from August 2009 to February 2010.

rekkin-lo-tekkin

Crosley CR-40 portable rekkid playa 4 da space

++on-d-way++

cardinal in red

The aforementioned cardinal in red polychrome. Maybe color is in splashes or highlights, places of emphasis, or symbolic representation?

PFFT!

Deviants Ptooff! 1967

Think Pfft!

mammy anicon

I gotta word.

swift joinery

This image, posted on my currently abeyant blog, a phila, is perfectly appropriate now. *Notice clamping mechanism (bottom, center)

FUEL

So, I'm sanding down this cardinal to remove the details ('cause I like to do that) and I remember a conversation about text. What reminded me of the conversation was my thought to paint a letter or word across the back of this soon to be "idealized" bird. I think of one of my early 4 x 4 casts where I glazed the text "fuel" onto the piece. Here, FUEL refers to wood's other use; one for a piece of wood that is only two feet long. You know, because hardly anything you could ever build with 4 x 4's will need a two foot piece of wood. At least nothing short of a little person. Get it... short_ of_ a_? Anyway, maybe the work itself has text (and is text). These are the types of games I like to play in art making: WORDPLAY. I mean, what more better function is there in life than to communicate through jive or rap?

"Hobby Craft Station"

work space

connectors

connectors, clamping blocks, bases, miters, mounts