Friendly reminder...

I should not hesitate a moment...

The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.

-Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for all the warm and kind thoughts

Thank you for all the awesome greetings on the day of my birth.

Javier and I

Reiterate - Mike Kelley

Uncle Marty (RIP)

My Uncle, Martin Rothschild died on Thursday after a long battle with Cancer. He was a great man, and an incredible Uncle... I really wish I was a better nephew to him. I was lucky enough to spend last week with him. I played an awesome game of chess with him last week; I beat him but he had material advantage over me (he had taken more chess pieces from me than I did of him)

He did many things with me and for me. I feel a lot of the good attributes that I have are related to him and his care. Here is a brief and definitely not complete list of all the things I remember doing with him. I also listed some of the things that he taught me how to do.

How to throw an American football

How to catch an American football

How great NY bagels are

How to long distance jog/run

The philosophical importance of Sunsets

Showing me how great NYC is

How magical driving around La Mesa is early in the morning

How to take care and enjoy yourself

My first time behind the wheel of a car

Finding optimal moments to fall asleep during a La Jolla Playhouse production

How to be a great father

How to bet at the horse race track

The strategy of "attacking the square" in a game of chess

The etiquette of Queen in danger in a game of chess

My first visit to the Empire State Building

Starlight Express (with my Aunt Paula and cousins, etc...)

My first NY Mets game

How great having and being family is

etc...

FCRS installation series: Future Space of Relative Concerns 2001/2015

For the past few weeks I have posted a new series of new/old drawings for installations to be made. Here is the 3rd in this new series of drawings, I have started calling them FCRS (Future Concerns of Relative Space). For documentation of the original "Future Concerns..." installation see this older post

FCRS installation series: Relative Concerns of Future Space 2001/2015

Last week I posted a new series of new/old drawings for installations to be made. Here is the 2nd in this new series of drawings, I have started calling them FCRS (Future Concerns of Relative Space). For documentation of the original "Future Concerns..." installation see this older post

New/old installation: Concerns of Relative Future Space 2001/2015

Way back in 1999 I had many (Art) experiences and I also had an idea, that idea forever changed my production of Fine Art and my relation to it. The work, Future Concerns of Relative Space 1999/2001 (for more info see older work) was a dramatic change in comparison to the work I had done before that.

I had many ideas to expand this work and to use the medium of mono-filament solely in my production. This idea became some what strange as my relation to "Future concerns..." changed. Though I made some small sketches, but nothing every seemed to hold my attention.

I decided to revisit the use of mono-filament and decided to make another drawing for a proposed installation, Concerns of Relative Future Space. I might make more, I have not decided yet. I plan to install this work sometime soon in my studio, though I may have to build some new walls to accomplish this.

Since this is a sort of gray area work: being new/old I decided to display it in color.

Fine Artist of the Month: Hyperlinked Note Symbols for Sally Bozzuto

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I created a collection of hyperlinked Music Notation symbols for NYC area Fine Artist, Sally Bozzuto 



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A reminder, an older work.

Below is an older work from 1999.  In regards to my personal life, it felt appropriate to post this week.

The Line Between (from the Snake Oil Artwerks series/show), 1999
Lacquer ink transfers on found/recycled foam-core board
on found/recycled cardboard

Fine Artist of the Month: Phyletic gradualism/Punctuated equilibrium chart for Christopher X J. Jensen

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a hyper-linked Phyletic gradualism/Punctuated equilibrium chart for NYC area Fine Artist, Christopher X J. Jensen


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Fine Artist of the Month: Linked letters for Willem de Kooning

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a hyper linked latin characters for former NYC area Fine Artist, Willem de Kooning

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Plan/Nets: a new series of digital drawings

I have begun a new series of digital drawings that are quite different than previous digital drawings I have made in the past. These drawings have a different process and different aesthetic merits than previous drawings. There is a more fantasy/illustration aspect to them than any of my other work, though they never quite get to a "realistic" place.

I am figuring out a way to show these creations, since I don't believe that they have the same "life" as my other digital drawings.

You can hear more about these new drawings on my podcast Holistic For Play via iTunes bit.ly/H4PiTunes or Stitcher Radio: bit.ly/H4Pstitch or old school RSS: bit.ly/Hol4Pla

Fine Artist of the Month: Linked quote for Piet Mondrian

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a hyper linked a Mondrian quote for former NYC area Fine Artist, Piet Mondrian.

To approach the spiritual in Art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

-Piet Mondrian

Fine Artist of the Month: Linked ASCII tree for Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a hyper linked ASCII tree for NYC area Fine Artist, Sylvia Plimack Mangold

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Fine Artist of the Month: Linked loose word grid for Frank Olt

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a hyper linked loose word grid for NYC area Fine Artist, Frank Olt.

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Fine Artist of the Month: Internet Meme Graphic for Alan Scarritt

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a Internet Meme Graphic for NYC Fine Artist, Alan Scarritt.

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Meme graphic generated by: imgflip.com/memegenerator

Alan Scarritt's work is on view right now at NyeHaus until this Saturday October 26th 2013

Fine Artist of the Month: Linked Concrete Poem for Gordon Matta-Clark

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I made a linked concrete poem for former NYC Fine Artist, Gordon Matta-Clark

Conical Intersect Bronx Floors                   19    43
Splitting: Four Corners Splitting                     19       75
Untitled (Tree Forms) Three Films:                   19             73
Fire Child, Fresh Kill, Day's End Untitled              19              72
(Energy Tree) New York City, from the project           19                   73
Wallspaper Bingo Food Fake Estates Office Baroque     19                       77
City Slivers TheWall Tree Dance Substrait Photoglyphs      19                            78

Work in progress from The Return/ ... /Enter Series: Cut and Restore Rope - Enter

Below is a work in progress, Cut and Restore Rope - Enter, from the series of work, The Return/Pledge/Turn/Prestige/Enter, or for short "The Return/ ... /Enter" which was begun in 2009. Like I said many times before it stemmed out of the Parallel Panels body of work. For each of the 5 installations in the series, the requirements are: that all are squares (4 sides equal), there are 4 panels in each installation, there are 4 repeated elements inside each panel, all create a system which shifts, morphs, all are painted with oil paints or have them incorporated in some way, are on on different base medium (canvas, wood, linen, etc...), all transform in various ways in order to correspond to a panel or panels within each in the group, as well as other requirements. Each installation corresponds to each of the other installations and changes graphically and texturally, thus painterly throughout the entire series.

The title of the series is an analogy to the basic elements of all fine art experiences and it is an extension of the 3 basic segments of all magic performances: Pledge, Turn, and Prestige.

I created 2 of the installations in 2009, Substitution Trunk - Return,  Linking Rings - Pledge; I created Cups and Balls - Turn, this year, 2011; and I should complete the series this year, 2013, with the final 2 installations: Chen Lee Water Suspension - Prestige and Cut and Restore Rope - Enter.

See earlier posts on the series for more information and documentation.