while everyone is trying to rush me and pull me in all directions, i'm taking afternoons off to read in the park now that NYU students are gone (sorry kids). the weather is cooperating. now if i could get the cowboy to leave me alone..
May 2007 Archives
May 29, 2007
May 28, 2007
why do people "celebrate" memorial day? i won't put this picture on my blog- too depressing- but here look for yourself. still feel like having a bbq?
3000+ u.s. soldiers- DEAD
655,000+ iraqis- DEAD
no call for celebration - end the war
May 27, 2007
date: may 25, 2007
time: 4pm-ish
location: 34th st @ herald square, ny
subject: 1st censorship attempt by law enforcement of filming
scene: black woman in mid-20's wrestled to the ground by approximately 14 officers in 4 cop cars and a van screaming "i didn't do nothing"
nypd: no filming! no filming!
crew: this is america, there will be no censorship
nypd:we'll confiscate your camera
crew: touch it and i'll fuckin' break your arm
footage capture: successful
time: 4pm-ish
location: 34th st @ herald square, ny
subject: 1st censorship attempt by law enforcement of filming
scene: black woman in mid-20's wrestled to the ground by approximately 14 officers in 4 cop cars and a van screaming "i didn't do nothing"
nypd: no filming! no filming!
crew: this is america, there will be no censorship
nypd:we'll confiscate your camera
crew: touch it and i'll fuckin' break your arm
footage capture: successful
May 16, 2007
later today we'll be clearing out the wooster st place to make room for a film screening. we won't be having appointments until next monday.
also, i'm working on artwork for an upcoming exhibit in the fall that i'm hoping will be (actually must be) completed by the end of june. so won't be having visits.
have a good one.
May 16, 2007
if my previous post sounded curt well it's because i was sitting in the back of a cab and my face had just been smashed into the thick lucite barrier in front of me.
there's a storm. so staying indoors tonight catching up on gossip with friends.
have a nice evening.
May 10, 2007
still here reading.
passed through on my way here. you absolutely must go see lori earley's girls [yum!] at opera gallery (spring st, soho)
spreading the love: east village idiot
nice blog because he actually walks on the street.. and takes mass transit. oh! and he's a good writer.. punctuation and everything. the whole 9..
May 9, 2007
note to self: never. EVER. invite abe on set. monday he showed up in the largest truck he could find and parked directly behind one of our vans. she "ms. muffin top" came out asking him to move since there was another van with equipment coming and they need room to unload. nope. she became so irate and uncontrollable that eventually her cargo pants fell down. blame gravity and all the junk stuffed into her pockets. in an attempt to salvage whatever career i had left after the humiliating experience, kept to myself for the remainder of the day. pushed into a theoretical corner like that loser kid in the school's lunch room. alone for the remainder of the day with a pack of marlboros.
note to gentlemen traveling from nyc to l.a.: while it's permissible and normally encouraged for guys to touch each other in ny, in huntington beach don't walk up behind a guy and proceed to massage his shoulders. it's not ok.
talk about me: that was a noun not a verb. the nicest article was just sent to me in which the writer discussed some film scene i had created. and there was also a reprint of a press article (2005 read: very old) that was abhorrently misquoted. careful what you read.
just finished going through 600 of my 3800 emails of the past 3 weeks. these are the emails that get past my assistant but don't land on my blackberry (like when the subject starts with FW).
Q-your page has too much text for an artist / A-i'm not a real artist i only play one on the internet.
Q-picture? / A-use your imagination.. i look like an upside down mop. we can't all look like coco rocha :)
Q-can i hang you up on a wall and study you? / A-um, no.
Q-gallery? / A-on schedule.
Q-what do you want? / A-not much really.
Q-ho hum. art? speak? / A-max was that entertaining? did i succeed in entertaining you? should i do a little belly dance routine?
and so on.. i'll be frolicking through the rest of them for the better part of next week.
all the mail is nice. simply means we're doing it effectively. although i don't understand people who send out deranged, psychotic emails that could end them up in the slammer.
is it true? there's an edith piaf film coming? saw the billboard on the way home.
the website needs updating. the server crashed last week. and continues to be slow. so we're working with a friend of mine who owns a web hosting company to move this site (and the gallery one) over to a dedicated server. perhaps next month. will update.
going upstate later this weekend to clear my lungs of smoke so they don't rot- both my own doing and l.a. burning.
i'm home.
May 7, 2007
los angeles and it's very early. already the sun's beaming hot.
it happens every time. some big name gallery wants to make a blue chip out of the next artist and they drop the "warhol" thing. i think warhol was a bit more revolutionary than cartoons and imaginary factory friends:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/arts/design/07mura.html
banally overused. but i could be wrong. regardless, nothing beats a good artist-run, anti-elitist gallery.
i have to go into my indentured servitude now :( almost died on my harley yesterday. but the studio's near so will just pound the streets 'til i get there.
May 6, 2007
i'm sorry kansas. donate to disaster relief
