Still Here

Here is a tiny praying mantis on our front porch. More soon - 8 AM summer art history class, dead external hard drives, and other factors have muffled my e-voice. But not much longer!

Pork Chop on a Stick!

Happy Bastille Day!

A Partial Pre-Rotted Alphabet

A for the Aeroplane that flies far away

B for Ball for children at play

D for Dolly in ribbons and silk

Not that I don't agree with the sentiments, but...

Some righteous young street artists saw fit to grace our front retaining wall with this incendiary proclamation last night. Why they would feel it's appropriate to deploy this provocation to law-enforcement officials on the obvious slacker artist household on a street of overweening industry yuppies instead of, oh, I don't know, the closed-down Rampart Police Station about 4 blocks south of here is anyone's guess. It must be part and parcel with the strategy of spraying it in a location -- behind a parked car, a pile of bulky items (one perfectly good headboard, one not-so-healthy couch), two yard waste containers, and a giant poison shrub --that no cop would ever see unless he or she were actually physically walking down the street. I guess if they ran out of gas and were trying to make it to PK's Donuts... I painted it out anyway.

Those Red Blotches Just Won't Go Away!

CACI International Inc is a multinational professional services and information technology company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States. I think this is a still from Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure, but I'm not sure.

Solstice Yard Waste in Search of a Match

After a decade of neglect, the fabricated legalese of our psychotic neighbor - a midwestern cross-dresser whose drag persona is based on Mary Tyler Moore - persuaded the Landlord to send his house trombonist to trim the overgrown Bougainvillea spilling over from Ms. Moore's yard (s/he suffers from Boundary Confusion Disorder). We were left with several temporary (I hope!) environmental sculptural forms, two of which I present for your consideration. I'm tempted to spark one up and commence to leaping, but the whole goddam shithouse would probably take. No great loss, but there's books and records in there!

Some TVs (Part 1)

Downey? I don't even remember.

Nigel bundled in the minivan. It was that Rally-Obedience Annual Thing. What was it? Look at that foot! Paw I mean. Heading home after dark I think. Hence the flash and the faux-Chloe eye.

Abstract Men's Room Mural

BRUUUUUUCE!

Exclusive preview of Bruce Lee bronze statue about to be unveiled in Chinatown. Here, Bruce seems to be saying "It's been a bad day; please don't take your picture!" in his charming patois. Visitors to LA's historic tourist destination will now have an opportunity to commemorate their adventure with a souvenir photo. But be sure to stay behind the  little white fence and "Please Keep Off the Statue"! This has been a DougH on the Go! Exclusive!

This Is Your Last Chance, Baby!

If you want to catch this 5 X 18 ft sucker in the flesh, you'll probably want to get down to AndrewShire Gallery (3850 Wilshire Blvd. #107, Los Angeles, CA, 90010 - 1 block west of the Wiltern Theater) today - although now that I check, the gallery says it's open until Friday, which is the 31st - OK by me. In any case, I don't have a wall that fits it, so go get your BSBBHB,E on! You know what I'm talkin' about.

What Do Artists Know?

A word of advice from Captain Prescription...

Bun Boy Motel, Baker CA.

        

    

Rotterdam Jam Phase 01

Book launch of Ewoud Van Rijn and Dani Tull's publication in conjunction with the upcoming Rotterdam iteration of The Archaic Revival exhibit curated by Dani. Contains Abstract Moldy Slide overlays and a 'patacritical interrogation of Terence McKenna's thoughts on the legendary Voynich Manuscript.

Hap Mo Da

Mother's Day window painting, Phoenix Bakery, Chinatown.

Ultra Shag!

Ultra Shag: A Unique Statement of You. I have nothing to add. Punctuation aside.

A Likely Story

BUS STAGE INWARD

Finally got around to watching Lindsay Anderson's 1967 short The White Bus, which - informed by his background in industrial PR documentaries - is kind of like Magical Mystery Tour if it had been made by Throbbing Gristle. It's just one of 80+ films on my streaming queue that are suddenly scheduled to disappear on Mayday - including Kubrick's sumptuous noir Killer's Kiss, Altman's early JD B-flick The Delinquents (starring Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin), Ken Loach's Kes, Richard Lester and Spike Milligan's The Bed-Sitting Room, Billy Wilder's One, Two Three, and Peter Brook's Marat/Sade -- as well as such less widely celebrated celluloid artifacts as Alan Johnson's Solarbabies (one of the finest post-apocalyptic rollerblade movies in the canon), William Dear's Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Denis Sanders' Invasion of the Bee Girls, and Philip Kaufman's debut Fearless Frank - a high-camp 1967 Jon Voight superhero vehicle narrated by Ken Nordine! I'll have to burn the midnight crackpipe to plow through all this material by Wednesday, but luckily the whippets are all tuckered out from their triumphant visit to Eugene. More on that later...

Happy Stump

Street art the way I like it best, Sunset Blvd above Glendale, April 2011.

Pitta in the 'pITA

The highlight of the San Francisco launch event for 'patacritical Interrogation Techniques Anthology Volume 3 at ATA/Other Cinema (Craig Baldwin's 28-year-old underground microcinema) was undoubtedly Pitta of the Mind (Maw Win & Amar Chaudhary) translating found email spam poetry from the turn of the Millennium into swinging intergalactic electro-transmissions. I made a video, so hopefully that will find its way online soon, but in the emantime, here's a couple of action shots, and a sampling of the spoems:

  

bodhisattva cohomology

Any dahlia can brainwash short order cook of, but it takes a real lover to for lover.Any trombone can approach fundraiser toward, but it takes a real guardian angel to traffic light of cleavage.piroshki remain sprightly.

lower adult drum electrophoresis

              - Essie Russell

earring 6 alchemists

Sometimes tornado about flies into a rage, but inside grizzly bear always learn a hard lesson from cream puff defined by!Most swamps believe that from fruit cake graduate from around scythe.And derive perverse satisfaction from the dark side of her scythe.

giuliano liable spine pullman devious symbolic groom atkins

            -     Colleen Hunter

cab driver 666 cream puffs

Indeed, toothache about require assistance from polar bear of reactor.Most cigars believe that grizzly bear from pour freezing cold water on bottle of beer defined by skyscraper.globule defined by toothache is frozen.

propagate inholding dactylic ballast riotous deuce bad

             -     Simone Boudreaux

decor briar drawl

Unlike so many boys who have made their niggardly roller coaster to us.Unlike so many cups who have made their cosmopolitan reactor to us.bottle of beer around is ghastly.Where we can ostensibly mourn our nation.For example, living with chestnut indicates that class action suit living with organize recliner around dilettante.

sheridan factual folklore mammalian moorish halfhearted carte

               -     Tommie Esposito

Rain/boots

Art Art of the City, Art Art Oh yeah!

I'm lookin' lookin' lookin'! The April 2013 issue of Los Angeles Magazine includes a brief and by any measure incomplete overview of the LA Art Scene (check the lower right hand corner of the cover above), but I got to write about a few people I haven't written about often enough, like Nancy Evans, Juan Capistran, Brenna Youngblood, Jennifer Bolande, and Devin McNulty (!), plus a few - Jim Shaw, Jeffrey Vallance, Marnie Weber, etc. - about whom I've written plenty (and will continue to do so). Anyway, it's on the stands now at the low, low cover price of $4.95 and there doesn't seem to be any of the content online except this calendar of coming activities (It's Time to Canvas the City!) which I apparently blogged a few days ago! There's a few other recent writings I need to post about here, hang on...

OOF canopy edge at magic hour

Night Face Chinatown

Achieving Otherhood

Venice renaissance man Gerry Fialka, who introduced Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99 at the EPFC Launch Event for 'patacritical Interrogation Techniques Anthology Volume 3, wrote an essay for Otherzine entitled Nothing and Stay Out, which links 'pITA3 with Rodney Ascher's film Room 237: Being an Inquiry into The Shining in 9 Parts and Robert Guffey's book Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form. Here's the link: http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=29&article_id=172

Otherzine is the inhouse organ for Baldwin's Other Cinema, which will be hosting the 3rd 'pITA3 Launch Event at ATA Gallery in San Francisco's Mission District at 8ish on Saturday, April 6th - stay tuned for details!

Ecce Flentem Homo

Packing up for the trip back from Vegas with the truckload of art I made as AIR at UNLV over the last 8 weeks - a helluva commute I tell you what. Chloe on her high horse contemplating one of my series of paintings depicting men weeping as they sniff flowers - this one is Tigris of Gaul from the movie Gladiator. She was actually checking it out for a while, then when I got out my camera she lost her focus. I think she's looking for a signature here. Sorry Chloe - Artworld doesn't want artists with stylish signatures. Artworld wants artists with signature styles!

Gone to that great Gumboot Clogeroo in the sky!

Just heard on the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour that Canadian C&W icon Stompin' Tom Connors has ceased stompin'. Which I guess makes Mannlicher Carcano the greatest living Canadian musical act. Assuming Gogo is still going. In any case, if you are unfamiliar with this great man's oeuvre, it's sort of like Mike Myers doing Johnny Cash - Gumboot Clogaroo is as good an entry point as any, but I recommend spending some time exploring or reacquainting yourself.

Tordiment! Tordiment!

This very day a tordiment shall commence which will decide forever who is the true cool guy - a noble, courageous audio collagist striving to bring humanity's listening habits in line with today's amazing future, or a couple of bitter punk-rock fashionistos wallowing in a phony nostalgia for a cultural moment that never really existed? Come cheer for your team. There will be blood! I mean wine.

PS: Friday Feb 15 1-3 PM
The Prospectus at The Pacific Design Center
Ste B226 8687 Melrose Ave
Bring a picnic luncheon and floor cushion
(Current show "Paper" includes work by 2 of tordimenters.)

Narcissus Rex

Had some time to kill in my DIY printmaking class and the subject was Valentine's Day cards...

A Night at The Bellagio

 ...with Chihuly, Warhol, Rafat, and Renoir! Plus Chinese Flower Children! Tang Dynasty disco ball horse by Venue Arts. This is like what I imagine that kid in Equus is seeing! "...and Fleckwus spoke out of his chinkle-chankle, saying Behold!"

Actually I'm guessing all the Chinoiserie is by Venue Arts, including the big snake. I couldn't quite hear, but I think Pasha was saying "Get the hell out of the shot, kid - this is MY scene!" Fake Warhol polaroid portrait of the author in front of fake Factory wall on it's way...

They wouldn't let me take pix inside the show, which has a silver double Elvis, a silver Liz taylor, a dance step pattern, and much later work, including an awesome diamond dust portrait of Georgia O'Keefe. But dig these two Warhol/chocolate intertextualizations. Blow this one below up to read the amended Warholisms- "14 minutes longer than this chocolate bar will last!"