Hot It Like Some

Lost a hero of mine today. A fine actor... but more importantly... some of the best hair hollywood ever had to offer. I have an autographed B/W picture of him from his 'Some Like It Hot' days next to my bathroom mirror to inspire me every day as I get ready to greet the world. Gonna miss you Tony.
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Treated Like It's Below

Love it... John Waters talks to David Letterman about one of my favorite things.... strange candy!!
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Breakdown Of Simple Form Factors

Back in the ATL cut.... hanging at Estoria 97 for drinks with friends.
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Too Hard On The Mouse

Outstanding bagel breakfast with Mr. Drakeford. Way too many bagel spreads to show here... so how bought just a taste.
Bergen Bagels on Myrtle
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Later in the day lunch and quite a few of these amazing lemonades. Basil infused vodka lemonades.
The Lodge on Grand Street
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Subway tunnels to downtown for IFC movies and drinks.
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It's really Gaspar Noe in person talking about his mind fuck of a film 'ENTER THE VOID'. What an unexpected treat!!
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It's not exactly a Samuel Fuller movie title but here you have it - 'Dead Pigeon on Steuben Street'.
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Believing Is Half Process

So on my way to the BRAVO thing... Brooklyn in style on a bike. This experience totally made my morning.Loved cruising the town on a bike... can't beat it. Though I was a bit winded by the time I got to the museum.
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Look... there is me at the museum finally. There was a huge line of people (2,000+) waiting to do this BRAVO interview thing. You don't get to see them though, because I was the only thing I was really concerned with.
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After I biked back to the Drakefrod's from what I thought was a killer interview, we grabbed some beers and food.
Maggie Browns on Myrtle
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Dinner later that night with friends. The beer tap handles here were killer... literally.
Fette Sau on Metropolitan Ave
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It's past 10PM... no BRAVO call backs for Mr. Schaefer. Here is me crying... ha ha.
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Mark It Down Town

In the airport headed to my weekend BRAVO adventure.
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Flying into the real first signs of NYC
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Hanging with my peeps, Brooklyn style, at Drakeford's Pleasure Dome.
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Appropriation According Could Smoke

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During Became Not Lincoln Had

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Expected Least Remebered

Follow Operational Constellations

Literally Turned Into A Curse.

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Putting things as they were once again.

Talk About Treatment Before

Working pagination tonight/morning. Doing it with mini prints of each page spread. So it's kinda like playing with a 1/8 scale RR set or a 1/8 scale of a TAS book.
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Talked a bit with my buddy and great designer/artist Matt Lane Harris about the initial state of my thoughts & layouts; to which he had a bunch of really good points to make regarding introduction and overall tone. His main point for me on that conversation was that the pagination would dictate the over-all feel for the work as a whole. He expressed Pop... I want "Process Pop Povera"... so we'll se If I can eliminate items and re-work the page structure. I've already eliminated (3) spreads again. The first output of this book had 56 pages and I have been killing (refining) pages ever since.
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Hot Sectioned Wellness Of Being

Breaking Single Digits

Placement In Streets

Dropped Sealed Beam

Still cranking out the book. I have a few more things that i need to photograph. Layouts are coming along pretty well.
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Acting Out Ephemeral Celebrations

General Lecture World

Unveiled Creation In Marx Language

Thin Grey Honeycombed Staircases

Initial quick layout tests point to ---> HOTNESS!

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
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KANKA - Green Girl (3x4 postcard)

Goes Down Can't Be Found

With a little over 2 weeks before I have to fly to NYC and present my work, I've started the basic structural layouts of the presentation book I'm putting together for use in my casting interview process. It's going to be a horizontal 11x17 format. While some people might just have simple photos of work on white walls, I'm taking the approach that the graphical presentation of the work can lend itself favorably to the work as well. So I'm working on a base grid structure that I'll be working my layouts in. Pages will vary in format. Some will be heavily loaded with multiples of certain pieces (Donuts, Correspondences, 365 Pixel Project, etc), while others will be more light and only feature one piece in the layout. Other aspects that I want to interject into the layouts are details of the works and also possible photos of the works in progress, since the process for me is very important to the end product.
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I have a good portion of the work already photographed, but last night I was pulling a large amount of work aside that I haven't shot or know whose photos are not that great if I need to print them in a 300dpi format. I also have some large sculptural pieces that have never been fully assembled that I need to shot in some environment as well.
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Still not sure how I'm going to bind everything together, but I'll figure out something clean. I'm excited about the layouts. I think it's gonna be a real nice presentation of my body of work. The plan is to break everything out into sets and collections and then weave the work together in the pagination. I'll also be including small typographical info bits as well.

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
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KANKA - Counterfeit Fakery (4x6 postcard)

Girlfriend Small Ball

I got my casting information from BRAVO last night for their Work of Art program. Had the option of traveling to Chicago, LA or NYC to interview (nothing near at all). So I jumped online and forced myself to purchase a round trip ticket for NYC that I'll be using end of this month. It was my best option given location and timing and people I know in the city.
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So over the next 2 weeks plus, I need to bust ass and get all my work collected into a book I can present live and also port to DVD in jpeg format. I have a feeling I'm going to be doing a lot of studio photos to put together a reasonable ensemble of my different bodies of work. A good portion of the work has been photographed but there are some things that haven't. There will probably be 6-8 main bodies I'll focus on and then I'll see which ones I'll present finally. My motto is the more the better. You can always get cut short while presenting work, but I've never run into the problem of running out of work to show. It's just how I do things. I'm also trying to find a kind soul to put me up for a few nights while I'm in NYC too... we'll see which Facebook friends step up. I'm frantic now... I never thought this casting call would come down so damned quick.
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So... Barker was taking photos of his scrambled television the other day. Very much akin to how I've been tracking down and looking at degraded encoded video files. I really liked this one that he pulled so I wanted to play with it a bit.
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I got Barker on the phone last night for a number of reasons, but one reason was to ask him about the logistics of his TV set-up to achieve these effects. He informed me that he was using a rabbit ear digital tuner, but that his living space is in such a place that doesn't receive the best signals. So he ends up with this scrambled view of things. What was most interesting is that he said the picture would get stuck with an image like this on it for a few minutes. I had figured it was a moving pattern of distortion but it's static and changes every so often. Pretty rad television I think. He mentioned he was watch women's swimming or something to that affect.
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Kick Off Close Out

TODAY IN SCIENCE.
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Some postcard action happened this weekend. Setting up some methods that I'm taking over to a few different paintings to round out this season.
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I have one show coming up quick that I'm putting work in which I need to knock out. I haven't listed it on the homepage yet either, but it's a silly little show about summer vacation at MINT Gallery here in town. Guess I should refresh myself with the theme since I'm building the piece (whatever it may be) this weekend. So lets see it's actually called - "What I Did On My Summer Vacation...". Fun little group show vibe... so I'll have to make something that is rather electric I suppose. Something about summer vacation huh... well lets see... what did I do? Well, I drank and goofed off for the most part. This is gonna be tuff.