May 2008 Archives

they're working on the roof of my building so i'm not around. instead we're walking around looking for a new locale for the gallery (that was supposed to be set up in la). chelsea most likely.

planned this summer: unofficial bands playing disco jams and film screenings and art exhibits. all for fun.

the sun is out and the weather is great. have a lovely weekend.

artists and friends you're invited to film screenings this weekend and next. rsvp required. why? last night we hosted an impromptu film screening for a friend from belgium. so many people showed up we thought the floor might sink.

we walked up madison today to lunch at nello's. is there an evacuation on the northern side of the island?? i don't come here often but every 3rd store is for lease..

this morning i woke up to gun shots. frightened forgetting i'm in the country. then angry at people hunting, murdering animals, on my property.. the police department's answer? hun, you need a fence. or i could donate it to peta. what season is it again?

mccain = nuclear holocaust

Hire a soldier you will get war. That's John McCain's job. Watch this:

back in the city and getting mexican for dinner.
have a good evening.

i've been drowning in projects for so long forgot that this is our 5th year anniversay-- the first art sale that began my professional career. it would have been last february but now is a good time as any to celebrate. thank you to all my collectors and staff without which none of this would be happening.

this is where we are.

there are pending contracts with studios to film and photograph here. we have our own projects to get done. so wooster gallery will be closed from june re-opening in september. exact dates will be posted on the front page. the 3rd annual art raw festival (btw i have no idea why that website stopped working) is happening in july. check local listings ;-)

also, i won't have any new work available for sale until next fall/winter. there are some gallery exhibits lined up and any available originals will be displayed then.

it's election year. we have a candidate to get into the white house. and people are running around wondering what's next (oh, calm yourselves down). somehow i think that 'sex and the city' movie will lighten people up.

spending a couple of days upstate to decompress.

p.s. to everyone who's been commenting- i'll be back to respond later. check your inbox.
p.p.s. comments on here aren't published. otherwise it would just be a bulletin board like the myspace page.

this blog is vague in regards to my personal life. that won't change. what most people don't know is a set of my friends are well into their 60's. a pack of women who say what they will fearing no repercussion. and i'm sure i enjoy their company more then they do mine. the problem? they're 100% behind hillary clinton. the hillary or mccain in '08 type. but i still love them.

i wonder: if hillary didn't want to 'obliterate' nations. if her name weren't clinton. if she wasn't so deceptive. if she wasn't an outright liar. if she hadn't moved to my state to get attention as a senator from ny. if her husband wasn't pres for 8 years leading our country into monarchy mode. if they weren't corrupt. if every state she lost she didn't utter the words: "that state doesn't matter." if she didn't feel the whitehouse was owed to her. if her campaign wasn't bancrupt and in chaos. taking lobbiest money and then threatening everyone with it. asking super d's to keep their vote private. if she hadn't turned her tenacity into lunacy.

a vote for mccain is a vote for: bush's 3rd term. 100 years in iraq. possibly attacking other countries such as bomb, bomb, bomb iran, syria, north korea, etc. our soldiers being torn to pieces, mentally, losing limbs, and dying for an unethical, needless war that should have never been started. 2 new conservative supreme court judges to take us back to the 1950's. keeping scientific research stagnant. corporations over people. bowing to the lobbiests. taking an exorbenant amount of cash from big oil, pharmaceuticals, etc. moving backwards on the world stage. merging church and state. and i hate to say it but the age.

the world sees us as a young, modern, vivacious, innovative country. how the world views us effects what occurs within our borders. i understand that my life doesn't align with most americans. i don't have a mortgage or kids. i don't drive. and food in nyc is cheap and good. maybe we share a common work ethic. if more americans travelled abroad they'd get a better understanding of our own country and what gives it this coveted greatness. perhaps.

Dear Superdelegate-

I am writing to urge you to support Barack Obama, our front-running Democratic Presidential nominee. Unlike his opponent, Obama has run a dignified, competent and highly successful primary campaign. He has stayed on message of Hope and Change; a grassroots effort with a message that has not only resonated with Americans but with people around the globe.

I sincerely wish you would cast your vote soon so that we may move forward in preparing for the general election.

Regards,
Lemya el Sophia

some people are just out of control. last night while filming at a hotel (which will remain nameless because if there is anything i've learned from past experiences is that they always google you the next day) our crew got into a physical- yes fist fight- with management. how does this happen you ask? well, apparently a guest tipped off the service desk to "deafening noise and smoke" down the hall. i bear witness that we didn't have so much as a cd playing. and no one was smoking in the room. what they did in the fire escape isn't our concern. luckily, one of the cops was a cousin of the troublemaker and they dropped us off at the nearest bar. lesson learned: none. i didn't do anything wrong.

off to work. there's a ridiculous amount of work to get through today. happy cinco de mayo.