The talented LA photographer Lauren Randolph snapped this cool shot (of me!) last month. Can’t wait for next year’s Weird Life gathering….sure to be just as wonderfully weird! ~m
Weird Life 2012
Joshua Tree, CA
Digging A Hole, Looking For Something: Michael Krueger and Travis Millard
Little red dude (top plate) is coming home with me! Love this series by Travis Millard — if you’re in SD in the next few weeks ya gotta check it out. ~m
SEEN: Digging A Hole, Looking For Something: Michael Krueger and Travis Millard
SAN DIEGO, CA: Double Break’s show Digging A Hole, Looking For Something featuring new works by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard (pictured above) opened Friday May 18th and runs thru June 16th.
Coming from Lawrence, Kansas and Los Angeles, CA respectively, Krueger and Millard’s first connected at the University of Kansas and have long drawn inspiration from one other. Both artists explore the figure of the “common man,” displacing the mundane and the mythic from everyday life, weaving threads between past and present. Their search for the sublime in this densely hyper-visual yet vacuous post-industrial age is rife with humor, longing and discovery, as is apparent in this selection of new works on view at Double Break. - Double Break.
Make sure to check out Double Break’s online store for all available artworks and T-shirts from the show.
Digging A Hole, Looking For Something
Artworks by Michael Krueger & Travis Millard
May 18 thru June 16
Double Break Gallery
1821 5th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
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@ArtBarter bringing you the best blog post about Tom Sachs’ upcoming show (opening May 16th, NYC) that I’ve come across… I’ll add that Nike has a rad pair of kicks to go along with SPACE PROGRAM: MARS, called the Mars Yard Shoe - they’re quite handsome! ~m
It is extremely rare when an artist is able to fuse life, functionality, science and creative energy into a piece of artwork. Tom Sachs is an extraordinary artist, taking arts to the same plateau of science and technology. Tom Sachs’ works are an exploration of life outside of earth, drawing on his personal interest of space and primordial survival. In his latest works Tom has created an installation showcasing the equipment needed for survival and living on Mars. His latest piece SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is a culmination of self-exploration and an inquiry into survival. The piece is nicely descried as ‘Utopian Follies and Dystopian realities’. SPACE PROGRAM: MARS opens on the 16/5 at Park Avenue Armory
Ryan McGinness is a rad dude, and so is Dan Busta, the man behind this great shot….
Here’s one from the archives, Ryan McGinness posing for a photograph in 2005. I love this picture.. however I still have trouble making it work in my book. I don’t shoot many artists as of late and I don’t have much black and white portraiture. I suppose I should shoot more black and white. One of the reasons I love this picture is because it is a testament to my ignorance.
One random day while reading the newspaper in San DIego I found that Ryan McGinness would be having an opening at a small Gallery in La Jolla. I then called the gallery to see if it would be ok to come down and take a portrait of Ryan. The gallerist said, “Why don’t you ask him yourself” Next thing I know I’m talking to Mr. McGinness who had been installing all day. He answered, sure comedown a bit early and take a few shots. So the next day I armed myself with some Neopan, my Hasse and some gusto and made my way there.
Bau 14, 86 lbs., 2011 by Noah David Bau
Hey, Hot Shot! First Edition 2011 Contender Noah David Bau
Contender Noah David Bau has created a series of portraits of orphaned Thai young males, whose meager livelihoods depend on intensive training and competing in Muay Thai, a combat sport similar to Indochinese kickboxing. Read more…
(Source: heyhotshot.com)
I am honored and very pleased to be hosting Duane Pitre’s Feel Free installation at the Museum Incubator in LA…more info HERE
Alien Workshop is releasing this great skate deck too, which I am buying (duh).
memorize every line, every cushion
March 31 - July 29 (2012) at SFMOMA
(via “The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area” at SFMOMA | Artinfo)
Very stoked that Mister Sikander Khan is on tumblr to keep me up on all things great in the worlds of music and skate.
(via sikandr)
Artist Jason Polan draws Mark Gonzales for Every Person in New York
(Source: smeetstrart)
SO MUCH GREATNESS IN CA THIS MONTH….
OC: WOLFBAT SHAMANS AND THE WHALE OF GRATITUDE - now until 03/24/12
LA: HELLO SPRING - opens 02/18/12 : artist talk 02/19/12
SF: MIDNIGHT ON THE SUN - opens 02/18/12
LA: THESE FRIENDS THREE - opens 02/24/12
YUCCA VALLEY: WELCOME TO THE DESSERT (ART SWAP MEET) - 02/25/12
Only on our strange little planet.
“Little is known about Kim, who is thought to be about 28. We do know he attended school in Bern, Switzerland, during the 1990s, has a passion for the National Basketball Association and Michael Jordan and, according to North Korea’s infinitely creative propaganda machine, began driving at age 3…”
Among the many tantalizing questions surrounding Myanmar’s flirtation with democracy is this: Might Kim Jong Un be enticed to try something similar in North Korea? (Illustration by Allison Krumwiede | Column by William Pesek on Bloomberg View)
