Today I went to Necromance, a store on Melrose that sells death - the bones of various animals, specimens in formaldehyde, taxidermy. The prices are affordable. The beauty produced by the natural world so challenges human craft that you would expect it to be priceless, but of course the biological methods of reproduction cost nothing […]
Category Archives: art
Pushead Jars of Pus
September 3, 2005 – 12:53 pm
And then there were two! If anyone wants to part with the bone or red varients, let me know.
Galatea and Repliee
September 2, 2005 – 11:47 am
Two new links in the sidebar - to David Byrne and Insert Credit, the Pitchfork of video game sites. Their thematic joint - android girls. On August 17 (you gotta scroll down - no permalinks) David posted about Hiroshi Ishiguro’s android woman and compared them to Pygmalion and Galatea. I want to address Ovid’s […]
James Jarvis is awesome
July 20, 2005 – 8:58 am
Last night I went down to Santa Monica to meet James Jarvis, who was signing at Kid Robot. Turns out that not only was he signing, he was doing detailed sketches for every fan who turned up. What a lovely, lovely guy. I had a chance to talk with him and gleamed a couple of […]
Invader at sixspace, Los Angeles, 6/11/05
June 11, 2005 – 9:00 pm
Went to the show. I was sort of underwhelmed; when I first saw his mosaic invaders in Paris years ago I was charmed and intrigued; seeing the stuff in a gallery was antiseptic to say the least. The prices were out of control; pieces from his “alias” series of mosaics preserved in blocks of clear […]
Sony Playstation concepts
February 22, 2005 – 3:12 pm
These come from Digital Dreams: The Work of the Sony Design Center, by Paul Kunkel, the guy who wrote AppleDesign, a book I’m still kicking myself for not buying when I had the chance.
This is the joint Nintendo/Sony unit from 1998 - as a compromise with Nintendo, it had a cartridge slot as well […]
Why do I want to get money?
February 20, 2005 – 9:17 pm
Besides being able to afford medication when I’m old? To buy clothes from countries with child labor laws, son.
Fucking LA rain - I need more shit with hoods.
I love comic books
December 2, 2004 – 9:56 pm
I went down to Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Westwood to meet Jim Lee, Alé Garza and Joe Casey (writer on The Intimates), and stood on line forever, which was worth it, because both Jim and Alé were kind enough to do sketches for me, which made my night. I admitted that I […]
Loopy Looks At Paintings
November 24, 2004 – 10:33 am
Last night I went to Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips at LACMA. DP was an active, dedicated collector with a bunch of money and pretty good taste who, with the help of his wife, a painter with a good eye for talent, amassed a nice group of pictures. (You could also say […]
Qees in the mist
August 2, 2004 – 1:30 am
Yeah, I’m going to the show. (The Aaron Horkey is my early favorite.)
This is why I made that T207 font
July 19, 2004 – 9:59 pm
I’m making a group of nine fantasy 1912 T207 cards. They’re nowhere near complete. Look, everyone needs a hobby.
Also, the demo of Bread & Milk, the video game that accompanies my novel, is, like the novel itself, almost finished. The full deal with be made with RPG Maker XP (god/Enterbrain/hackers willing) instead of 2003.