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dentist
By admin2 | March 30, 2007 - 9:58 pm - Posted in

First visit in many years. 5 minor cavities. Need one crown. No root canal or any of that shit. I will take it, I thought it was going to be a lot worse.

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Baird Jones Report: Spike Lee
By coagula | - 12:25 pm - Posted in

Perhaps Spike Lee’s next film should be a ghost story.

The director told Baird Jones at the Ray Ban party at Guastavino’s

“I live in Gypsy Rose Lee’s old house and when we moved in my son saw her ghost. He told my wife Tyson who said ‘No you don’t see her, you don’t see her.’ But I absolutely believe it was Gypsy Rose Lee. I believe in ghosts. Hell yes! My son said she was a nice ghost I guess because we both have the same last name. But she made only that one appearance. She has not come back.”

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Darfur-benefitting Art Sale
By admin2 | March 22, 2007 - 10:10 pm - Posted in

LINK FIXED!

There are still a few quality artworks by name artists available from Haus Gallery to benefit SAVE DARFUR

LINK to 200 Artworks PAGE

I’m #69 !

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Email Exchange:
By admin2 | - 1:01 am - Posted in

>Hi, I’m a big Coagula fan. What do you think of Hirst’s new
>butterfly works?
>This is my fantasy of two possible criticisms.
>
>One: They’re all about him:
>
>Hirst: “When I made this I was thinking about how the poems of
>Philip Lar-”
>Some Guy: “Haha are those REAL butterflies? You are fucked up dude.
>So
>eccentric. Cindy, those are REAL butterflies.”
>Cindy: “Whoever made this is an interesting man about whom I want to
>know
>more.”
>
>Two: Who is he competing with in the
>aesthetic-things-out-of-dead-things
>genre?
>
>Hirst: “I killed butterflies in order t-”
>Ed Gein: “I made a belt out of nipples. Real nipples.”
>Hirst: “I…look there are LOTS of butterfli-”
>Ed Gein: “I’m not even trying to make art, and I win.”
>Hirst: “Look I’m not just trying to shock peop-”
>Ed Gein: “Oh neither am I. I just do this in my home.”

The opening was the scene - something funny happened there - a few people bumped into the light switch and - when the light dimmed - the reflection of the wings’ phosphoresence disappeared - it requires MASSIVE juice to light the pieces so that they mimic stained glass (as they are patterned to appear like church windows). Low light = dreary objects and a room lighting one of these works would kill any other artwork nearby - All about Hirst yet again !

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Email Exchange:
By coagula | - 1:00 am - Posted in

>Hi, I’m a big Coagula fan. What do you think of Hirst’s new
>butterfly works?
>This is my fantasy of two possible criticisms.
>
>One: They’re all about him:
>
>Hirst: “When I made this I was thinking about how the poems of
>Philip Lar-”
>Some Guy: “Haha are those REAL butterflies? You are fucked up dude.
>So
>eccentric. Cindy, those are REAL butterflies.”
>Cindy: “Whoever made this is an interesting man about whom I want to
>know
>more.”
>
>Two: Who is he competing with in the
>aesthetic-things-out-of-dead-things
>genre?
>
>Hirst: “I killed butterflies in order t-”
>Ed Gein: “I made a belt out of nipples. Real nipples.”
>Hirst: “I…look there are LOTS of butterfli-”
>Ed Gein: “I’m not even trying to make art, and I win.”
>Hirst: “Look I’m not just trying to shock peop-”
>Ed Gein: “Oh neither am I. I just do this in my home.”

The opening was the scene - something funny happened there - a few people bumped into the light switch and - when the light dimmed - the reflection of the wings’ phosphoresence disappeared - it requires MASSIVE juice to light the pieces so that they mimic stained glass (as they are patterned to appear like church windows). Low light = dreary objects and a room lighting one of these works would kill any other artwork nearby - All about Hirst yet again !

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Juried
By coagula | March 15, 2007 - 1:37 am - Posted in

So i had to jury some art on the West Side today - Gallery 825 had artists submit centerpieces of tables for the ArtScene 25th Anniversary bash.

There has to be one artwork, pretty much a sculptural object, as the centerpiece for each of the 55 tables at the event. The organization was complex, thankfully all I did was show up and say “Yes/No” a buncha times.

I picked up the March Angeleno magazine at a newsstand and saw the half-page feature on ME there (Page 76). Jada Pinkett is on the cover.

I took the bus there and back, I hate traffic so much. I walked from Wilshire and LA Cienaga up to a half-block shy of Santa Monica Boulevard - that is a major workout for me.

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High Profile Editorializing
By admin2 | - 12:38 am - Posted in

I have been writing about steroids in baseball all week for the L.A. Times Opinion Section.

After trashing their future owner Eli Broad and their chief art critic Christopher Knight in the Angeleno Magazine interview, it will probably be my first and only byline there ever, so at least there are five essays and it is a high-profile subject!

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Judge/Jury
By admin2 | March 14, 2007 - 11:27 pm - Posted in

So i had to jury some art on the West Side today - Gallery 825 had artists submit centerpieces of tables for the ArtScene 25th Anniversary bash.

There has to be one artwork, pretty much a sculptural object, as the centerpiece for each of the 55 tables at the event. The organization was complex, thankfully all I did was show up and say “Yes/No” a buncha times.

I picked up the March Angeleno magazine at a newsstand and saw the half-page feature on ME there (Page 76). Jada Pinkett is on the cover.

I took the bus there and back, I hate traffic so much. I walked from Wilshire and LA Cienaga up to a half-block shy of Santa Monica Boulevard - that is a major workout for me.

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