Thursday, June 12, 2008

Hilarity in Satirical awearness, not Hilary...


Robbie (Lanham)
invited me to a panel discussion held by the partnering of Kenneth Cole, The New Yorker and Don Julio...The guests included Robbie, of course, David Rees ("Get Your War On"), Scott Dickers (creator of the Onion), Andy Borowitz was moderator...

I learned a few things...Tragedy = Comedy. The shorter the time between the tragic incident and the creation of the joke, the edgier the joke...Also, according to Monica Lewinsky's publicist, she is no longer known for her scandal with the former President...she's a handbag designer (this is in reference to Andy Borowitz talking of the best response he'd ever gotten to his satire of someone)...I will admit this, that I had been kinda torn between Obama and McCain, but found out a couple of disturbing things about McCain, 1) his voting record, primarily his non-vote for education for returning GI's and 2) him calling his wife a cunt in front of many witnesses...

I'm so proud of you Robbie...You did great...It was also nice to get a couple of free drinks too...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lee Quinones at Il Trifoglio Nero...




These paintings are part of a set of 12 done for a summer show at PS1 illustrating music influences in an era that was memorable...(The originals were already snatched up by Eric Clapton)...

Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers

Sunday, June 08, 2008

More Juxtapoz riflings...

It's been awhile since my last riflings...
David Choong Lee's "Mental and Material Realms"...I like the architectural aspect of his work...
Dakar, Senegal mural...Hugh Leeman's Separation Wall in the Middle East...
Ron English's McCain billboard...I personally think "I want to be President Erect!" would've been funnier...
Scott Everingham's Reconstructions V...
Oliver Bucheron, aka Zamak's robot designs...

JR, the French artist...


Scott G Brooks...

Scott Brooks - Under the Skin from Brandon Bloch on Vimeo.

Barry McGee on Art Talk Part 1...

Barry McGee on Art Talk Part 2...

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Goodbye Bo...Maybe in the next life, you'll get what's yours...




Bo Diddley, Who Gave Rock His Beat, Dies at 79

from NYTimes.com
Published: June 3, 2008

...Mr. Diddley was a wild performer: jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrestled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head. Elvis Presley, it has long been supposed, borrowed from Mr. Diddley’s stage moves; Jimi Hendrix, too.

Still, for all his fame, Mr. Diddley felt that his standing as a father of rock ’n’ roll was never properly acknowledged. It frustrated him that he could never earn royalties from the songs of others who had borrowed his beat.

“I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob,” he told The New York Times in 2003.

He was a hero to those who had learned from him, including the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. A generation later, he became a model of originality to punk or post-punk bands like the Clash and the Fall.

In 1979 Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of the Clash asked that Mr. Diddley open for them on the band’s first American tour. “I can’t look at him without my mouth falling open,” Mr. Strummer, star-struck, said during the tour.

For his part Mr. Diddley had no misgivings about facing a skeptical audience. “You cannot say what people are gonna like or not gonna like,” he explained later to the biographer George R. White. “You have to stick it out there and find out! If they taste it, and they like the way it tastes, you can bet they’ll eat some of it!”

Mr. Diddley was born Otha Ellas Bates in McComb, Miss., a small city about 15 miles from the Louisiana border...

...Mr. Diddley always believed that he and Chuck Berry had started rock ’n’ roll, and the fact that he couldn’t financially reap all that he had sowed made him a deeply suspicious man.

“I tell musicians, ‘Don’t trust nobody but your mama,’ ” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2005. “And even then, look at her real good.”

Courtesy of Stem...