I just bought and listened to the audio book of David Lynch reading his new “Catching the Big Fish.” It’s a marvelous peak inside his persona and creative process. I would have thought that he was a William Burroughs type character, or Jack Nicholson, or Dennis Hopper. You know, probably smokes a lot of dope, [...]
Christian Marclay is a remarkable sound artist who has a passion for unloved sounds (watch video). He used scratching LPs as sound makers before Hip hop was a gleam in Grand Wizard Theodore’s eye. This YouTube video gives an excellent overview of Marclay’s talent and is worth watching, regardless of your musical tastes.
Christian Marclay is [...]
I read an entertaining and insightful interview (”Critical Condition” 1 Apr.2007) with LA Weekly critic Alan Rich in the local Arts blog FineArtsLA.com. Alan is a brilliant and witty writer and has covered and listened to more music than probably anyone else on the planet. He has faithfully reported musical life in New York and [...]
Many years ago, my friend Scott Hobbs took me to a house that belonged to Cameron [aka Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel]. I knew little about who she was, only that she was an artist, had occult interests, was supposedly the first actress who posed nude in a motion picture (non-porn), and was an eccentric personality. [...]
The BBC reports that virtuoso pedal steel guitar player “Sneaky” Pete Kleinow died yesterday in a Petaluma, CA nursing facility from Alzheimers. I knew and loved Sneaky as a pedal steel player who played with the Byrds, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, and a list that goes on and on (check out his bio on [...]
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See Pauline Lim’s work at the Tristan Gallery Online.
Illustrator and cartoonist Al Hirschfeld’s grandson posted this video of his grandfather at age 99 drawing a sketch of Paul Newman. It is a beautiful performance.
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You may remember that a year ago I got a teaching award, and got to go to all these fun banquets. Well, it’s a year later and the new batch of teachers are getting their just rewards. This year, David Rodes was the brilliantly funny and witty master of ceremonies. He later tried to complain [...]
The amazing inventor, Theo Jansen, has invented a fleet of wind propelled robots, designed to roam the deserts of the future post-greenhouse-effect world. The ever-sensuous Museum of Dust looped a bit outside its mission to bring these desert rovers to our attention (and I’m glad she did):
No one, that is, until Dutchman and god, Theo [...]
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