New Art Blog

thank you for your interest. I have created another, more focused art-blog at www.lookuplookdown.wordpress.com

New job. Show. Pug.

So hey,
I started a new job a few weeks ago. I now work at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. We hosted a band last weekend , The Mighty Vitamins. The Vitamins create all of their own instruments from everyday objects. Very cool. After their performance I took a few pictures. Please Enjoy...

A container of malets.


Various harmonious utinsles.


The Vitamins amplify the wood that all of these objects are placed on with contact mics. So the sounds created by the rocking horse and other toys are translated through the reverbations of the table.



This is the back gallery at Intuit.


I think this is a piece of a door that has been strung up. I really enjoyed the honeycomb-looking drum in the background next to the amp. It was made out of the tin containers that hold really nice bottles of whiskey and such. It kinda sounded like a Jamacian steel drum.



Each prong coming out of this "handle-can" is tuned to a different note. It can be played with a bow, mallet, or I guess you can just bang it around on things.



This is Neptune, my roommate's pug.



Yea, so check out this table. Lots of noisey stuff.




This young gentleman is playing a tin wine-glass with a bow.



A close-up of one of the tables.






I'm not sure how this instrument works.

Th-th-th-th-the Piracy of Ideas.

I had been drinking High Life. It was that kind of night. And as I suddenly leaned heavily against the nearest wall a painting was knocked off.

A painting that I never noticed before. The canvas was frameless and painted in the same shade as the wall:
Sky Blue.

If I remember correctly, there was only a single airliner depicted on the canvas. It lay in the middle there, flat and undefined. I liked it. I liked the simplity. It reminded me of an airplane in the sky.

Chicago is home to one of the worlds busiest airports and for a half hour one early spring day I took a photo of every jet that pasted overhead.

These arn't all the pictures I took, just the ones I liked.

Love:
K

long time no flaneur

hello all my good friends,

I know it's been a while since I have set out another installment of my little pictoworld. But give me a break I've been busy.

Things have changed my friends: I have shaved and gotten tattooed. I quit working for that slum-lord Alderman Joe Moore and have began working two new part-time jobs. I slip my time between a beautiful and inspiring employment at the Chicago Botanic Garden and an ineffectual, disorganized, and despised bike shop.

In the upcoming days i will be posting a number of photo essays: One inspired by my Korean Cohort, Blake Ritter, another filling in as sort of a wrap up to my aldermanic escapades, a photo excursion to Milwaukee, and an introduction to my job at the botanic bonanza.

Love:
K

Book lovers love Quimby's

Quimby's is the coolest most awesome bookstore in CHICAGO. They have the best zine selection ever, and tons of naughty stuff. You can sell your chapbooks, zines, art work, and poetry there by consignment.

All you literatos should check it out. They ship.

Mix4you

I put together a pretty chilled out mix today. I suggest listening to while doing tantric type things. It seems like winter is sticking around way to long here in Chicago. A few weeks ago we were all tempted with record highs around eighty degrees. Now it's snowing. So I made a really long mix full of really long songs.



If you haven't used Imeem before, I suggest you check it out. The site operates really smoothly and it's pretty easy to find good music and videos. I'd compared it to myspace but more heavily centered on music, video, and photos.

relive a few moments of my life