DREAMING YOUTHS

WFMU

2012-02-29T05:38:00.001-08:00

Even though I am always talking about the cool apps I have - the general consensus on them tends to be people telling me that they suck.
But I think I finally found one which is bloody amazing.
WFMU radio. And it's free. And it's non-commercial.
You can listen to their live stream straight from New Jersey or listen to a bunch of their podcasts. FrEe. I'm particularly enjoying the antique phonograph podcast.
If you want to waste a whole lot of time then start reading their blog.
Or go explore the Free Music Archive.

PRE SERVE

2012-02-29T03:18:00.001-08:00

'Not I' by Samuel Beckett was introduced to me by my artist friend Alastair Frazer in a cafe in London that stocked copious amounts of preserves.
The monologue is an outburst mimicking as closely as possible the natural flow of consciousness of an elderly woman who was abandoned by her parents and has gone on to lead a loveless, lonely and traumatic existence.
The first time I watched it I found it really difficult but since seeing it then it has popped into my head over and over again. It's definitely haunting.

It'snotTHATbad

2012-02-29T03:16:00.003-08:00

Private View #1

2012-02-29T02:46:00.001-08:00

Check out the first in a series of blog posts written by two of the best people you could ever know.

http://betterneverthanlate.blogspot.com/2012/01/private-view-1.html

Their reviews of London private views and the Vyner Street 'First Thursday' party scene will no doubt be insightful, scathing and hilarious.
Keep following and Enjoy!

Egyptianreggae

2012-02-29T02:11:00.002-08:00

Somebody who is definitely embracing his European frame of mind is Jonathan Richman. Kerry and I took my little sister to go and see him play in Cardiff this month. He may be 60+ but he can still dance better than any of the kids I know.

EuropeanFrameOfMind

2012-02-29T02:06:00.003-08:00

When my friends and I are feeling kind of stressed out by life out we always say to each other 'you got to get into your European frame of mind'. By that I think we mean the nonchalance, family values, passion for the more organic kinda things in life - like trees, food and sunglassess... I haven't summed it up very well and there's definitely some nostalgia in there to a time we weren't alive - but basically if you've seen any French new wave movies you know the kind of cool I'm talking about.
Shelley sent me this quote the other day and I think Umberto Eco makes a valid point on European sexual revolution:
"I call it a sexual revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl – they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children. The Erasmus idea should be compulsory – not just for students, but also for taxi drivers, plumbers and other workers. By this, I mean they need to spend time in other countries within the European Union; they should integrate."
So marry a French man and don't let the little things bother you. Remember, you can always just play your records, have a little beer, steal a cool car and take a walk on a beach somewhere.

Pina Dead Class

2012-02-29T01:45:00.005-08:00

Shelley told me about the film Pina by directed by Wim Wenders in tribute to the choreographer Pina Bausch.
I'm not usually into dance related movies - mostly because the dance related movies I've seen happen to consist of 'Honey' and 'Step Up'...
This however is a whole other experience. The trailer lets on at how breathtakingly well it is shot and arranged.

It reminded me of the Polish artist Kantor's stage work called 'Dead Class'. The characters don't exactly dance in his work but they convey so much emotive dialogue through their actions and it is acutely choreographed by Kantor. The video is surreal verging on absurd but if you read around a little you can figure out what's going on well enough to realise it's brilliant. The concept behind the Dead Class is intensely profound but visually I think it corresponds to Pina well.

check an extract of the Dead Class here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7iuty_tadeusz-kantor-la-classe-muerta-dea_creation

DAYbroughtbackmyNIGHT

2012-02-24T07:23:00.002-08:00

A new friend introduced me to the work of John Milton recently.
You can find different analyses of his sonnets online. I had to check out some essays to get the meaning down.
This one was recommended to me and is my favourite so far:

Sonnet XXIII
Methought I saw my late espoused Saint
Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,
Who Jove's great Son to her glad husband gave,
Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.
Mine, as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint
Purification in the old Law did save,
And such as yet once more I trust to have
Full sight of her in Heav'n without restraint,
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind;
Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight
Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shin'd
So clear, as in no face with more delight.
But Oh! as to embrace me she enclin'd,
I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

i can't care bout anything but you (lol)

2012-02-22T06:27:00.001-08:00

A video comparison outlining the importance of the tape player in modern culture.

W.A.R

2012-02-22T06:02:00.000-08:00

Women Art Revolution, 2011, dir. by Lynn Hershman Leeson, is an exploration of the underexposed feminist art of the twentieth century. It's a view into the 1960s feminist movement against the anti-war and civil rights movement. It's a collation of feminist actions against major cultural institutions. It's the older generation of women artists sticking it to the man.

Inspired by the film I'm going to write a post about each of the 39 women who sit at the table of Judy Chicago's installation 'The Dinner Party', currently in Brooklyn Museum.

the richness of our own neighbourhood is the exception

2012-02-22T05:47:00.003-08:00

Ray and Charles Eames - Powers of Ten, 1977

Influenced by Kees Boeke's - Cosmic View: the universe in 40 jumps, 1957

Analysed by Mark Dorrain 'Adventure on the Vertical', Cabinet Magazine, Issue 44, 2012

'Beyond its ostensibly educational function, the film does two somewhat contrasting things. Firstly, insofar as it is a dream sequence - a monstrous sleep of reason or perhaps even a 4 dimensional nightmare -it pictures a kind of vertiginous, abyssal collapse of the everyday reality with which the film begins....On the other hand, when we see it within the Cold War corporate and national context in which it was conceived and developed, Powers of Ten with its visual rhetoric of voyaging through scales, across outer and inner space, aimed ultimately at the core of the atom - might also be read in terms of the domination and control of the realms that it pictures....Here we can experience why it is important that we first go outward.'

Reminds me of Ilya Kabakov, the man who flew into space from his apartment, 1985

The hero with cosmic visions is restricted to the power of fantasy. Only sometimes does the wish to escape allow us break through even the most concrete of confinements. The beauty of the escape is soon dampened when one realises that if the hero lives within a totalitarian stricture then his mind's fantasy will only ever be prescribed by what has been shown. The Utopian limbo that the hero travels to is only a montage of what he has been shown to him in movies/books/television. Therefore the hero's vision of utopia is a controlled and controllable escape space.The freedom is a facade as the fantasy is always transient and uninhabitable. The hero will always fall. No matter how far in or out we go we are still consumed by a powerful other, in some shape or form.

FullyInappropriate

2012-02-06T06:15:00.001-08:00

I'm helping the Swansea Women's Centre and the Swansea Feminist Network in what is currently a written protest to stop the council from allowing a fully nude table dancing club to open in the city centre.

Rates of rape and sexual harassment around areas where there are clubs like these are significantly increased. Their plan to open this club right near to Swansea's biggest underage drinking street is completely ridiculous. Women shouldn't have to avoid an area in fear of verbal or physical harassment. It also provides a predominantly male only zone in which women are projected as sex objects. Job prospects in South Wales are low - a woman shouldn't feel like the best way of making money is to strip. It's demeaning and societally digressive.

Here is the page where you can download a template letter:
http://swanseawomenscentre.co.uk/2011/blog/nude-dancing-club

and here are some email address you can send it to:
evh.licensing@swansea.gov.uk
julie.james@wales.gov.uk
geraint.davie@parliament.uk
jamessc@parliamnet.uk
chris.holley@swansea.gov.uk
erika.kirchner@swansea.gov.uk
alan.lloyd@swansea.gov.uk
david.phillips@swansea.gov.uk
keith.marsh@swansea.gov.uk
planning@swansea.gov.uk

Please pass the message on to anybody you know who will oppose this. Even if you agree with what happens inside the club, think about the location and the danger it puts mothers, daughter, sisters, girlfriends etc in.

Just Kids

2012-02-06T05:58:00.000-08:00

Everybody I know who has read this book can only comment on its life changing quality.
Patti Smith lived free and feral. If you need some justification on following creative instinct, even if it's leading towards poverty then this book will justify all your inherent yearnings to continue.
Here's a couple of extracts to tease:
(Patti on her early days with robert Mapplethorpe)

'We got the subway out to Brooklyn found the key and let ourselves into the apartment.

We both fell shy when we entered, not so much because we were alone together as that it was someone else’s place. Robert busied himself making me comfortable and then, in spite of the late hour, asked if I would like to see his work that was stored in a back room. Robert spread it out over the floor for me to see. There were drawings, etchings, and paintings. Paintings and drawings that seemed to emerge from the subconscious.

I had never seen anything like it. We looked at books on Dada and Surrealism and ended the night immersed in Michelangelo. As dawn broke we fell asleep in each other’s arms. When we awoke he greeted me with his crooked smile, and I knew he was my knight.

As if it was the most natural thing in the world we stayed together, not leaving each other’s side save to go to work. Nothing was spoken; it was just mutually understood.'

'I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon realised it was a tremendous stroke of luck to wind up there. We could have had a fair-sized railroad flat in the East Village for what we were paying, but to dwell in this eccentric and damned hotel provided a sense of security as well as a stellar education. A week or two after we moved in I waltzed into the El Quixote. It was a bar-restaurant adjacent to the hotel, connected to the lobby by its own door, which made it feel like our bar, as it had been for decades. Dylan Thomas, Terry Southern, Eugene O’Neill and Thomas Wolfe were among those who had raised one too many a glass there.

I was wearing a long rayon navy dress with white polka dots and a straw hat, my East of Eden outfit. At the table to my left, Janis Joplin was holding court with her band. To my far right were Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane, along with members of Country Joe and the Fish. At the last table facing the door was Jimi Hendrix, his head lowered, eating with his hat on, across from a blonde. There were musicians everywhere, sitting before tables laid with mounds of shrimp with green sauce, paella, pitchers of sangria, and bottles of tequila. I stood there amazed, yet I didn’t feel like an intruder. The Chelsea was my home and the El Quixote my bar. There were no security guards, no pervasive sense of privilege.'

Don't you want me BABY?

2012-02-05T08:37:00.000-08:00

Dead To Me - Bangers - Nozzle - Human Project
Mozarts - Swansea - 26 February - £5 adv
Here's a poster that I designed to be screen printed for a gig at the end of Feb.
The face on the left is a drawing of the eighteenth century sculpture by Austrian artist Hans Xaver Messerschmidt which I wrote about on this blog a while back.
You can buy the poster at the gig and probably online somewhere eventually too.
I originally wrote Human League instead of Human Project on the poster - what a bloody crazy mistake.

Miss E

2012-02-05T08:19:00.000-08:00

Sophie Percival is one of my best friends.
She graduated from Chelsea in 2011.
She's the only person I know to have ever recreated Dream Theme Hospital as a performance/interactive installation.
All her photographs are available to buy, you can contact her through her website:
www.sophiepercival.com

QUEENIE

2012-02-05T08:04:00.000-08:00

beetBEATbeetBEAT

2012-02-04T09:11:00.000-08:00

san ya ee vek o vitch

2012-02-04T08:53:00.000-08:00

A Sanja Ivekovic retrospective titled 'Sweet Violence' is on at the MoMA, NY, until 26 March 2012.
I'm pretty excited to have the oppurtunity to go and check it out next week.

Here is an extract from my undergrad dissertation that briefly sums up Ivekovic's work from the 1970s:
'Pretty Vacant: Narcissism and Feminist Activism'
Iveković’s most powerful works address the issue of the representation of women in the ‘public’ sphere and the way that this affects a woman’s behaviour in her ‘private’ life. She demonstrates an acute awareness of the way that mass media and systems of power can manage behaviour and influence identity. As a politicised female artist she harbours a sensitivity to the influx of images from magazines, newspapers and television that confront women daily. Using her own body and life experiences, Iveković shows the viewer how her own identity has been, often unconsciously, defined by these systems of power. She develops her work to show the ambiguity of these prescribed public concepts of what is ‘desirable’ and ‘normal’, thus revealing the subtlety and absurdity of their influence on gender identity. As well as addressing the many influences on the construction of a feminine identity, she confronts the issue of how a woman is then supposed to behave in the ‘public’ sphere and how this can cause anxiety in the ‘private’ life; a continually bouncing reflection. Iveković creates a dialogue between the social and political circumstances of her country and contemporary societal pressures felt by her generation of women, unveiling the inequalities that all women suffer under patriarchal systems of power.
Artworks created by Iveković in the 1970s often subverted the notion of the perfect female by revealing the lack of control that women were asserting over their identity and behaviour. They revealed how a former socialist Yugoslav society, newly saturated with mass media images, celebrity pictures and no exemplary female role models, threatened to produce a generation of unoriginal, narcissistic and idle women. Iveković chose to confront, rather than escape these problems. In playfully conceptual artworks the artist subverts messages from the cosmetic advertisements that visually saturate a woman’s life. She manipulates the intended use of actual beauty products in order to show her condemnation of their identity-forming potential and reveal the absurdity behind a woman’s fascination with such objetcs.

The key to the impact of her work, for me, is the confrontational aspect of her feminism, rather than the escapism I think we see from so many artists today.

JAY CEE SEE

2012-01-30T08:06:00.000-08:00

John Cooper Clark is performing in Swansea at the Gower Heritage Centre in June.

ARTS N'CRAFTS
Out of bed into the Shed
To paint the wooden roses red
To ride a rocking quadruped
With a big idea in your head
Form and function in a line
The rudiments of good design
From the oaken leg to the fine wine
To table tops of melamine
There's nothing that you couldn't make
No effect you couldn't fake
A pebble sprayed with metal flake
Would make a precious paperweight
Teddy bears to stuff with stuff
Like nylon mink from a lady's muff
Cotton balls and a powder puff
Pom poms and pocket fluff
Stainless steel and a rock hard aura
The marble glance of a lost explorer
A heavy heart for the love of Nora
Chains of flowers on a draped amphora
Time time time to slay
Each crowded hour of every day
Where indolence is kept at bay
In an arty-crafy kinda way

Menage A Trois!

2012-01-30T05:16:00.000-08:00

Menage a trois can be a combination of basic human liberation from prescribed monogamy - and a feminist nightmare.

In the continuation of rules of 3, here are my un, deux, trois favourite examples of the trio fandango the French do so well.

1. The Swing by Fragonard, 1767

A husband pushes his wife, who is the mistress of the hidden onlooker underneath her, high into the air. She relishes the attention as her slipper flies upwards towards a cupid, in what has been described as 'an orgasmic burst.' A menage a trois in which only the female knows the amount of participants.

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2. 'She Came to stay' by Simone de Beauvoir

>Francoise

>Xavier

>Pierre

One of the most infuriatingly existential novels based on de Beauvoir's real life experiences with her partner Sartre. Jealousy, bohemia, restraint, it's incredible.

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3. Jules et Jim. My favourite Truffaut movie.

An EX tract.

2012-01-30T04:17:00.001-08:00

From the inspring Efterklang film 'An Island' by Vincent Moon

RealityStrikes

2012-01-30T03:14:00.000-08:00

David Gedge sums up perfectly the feeling of 'what the hell am I doing with this person' and 'i can't live without you.'
Wrenching honesty in both. the man is tapped into genius simplicity.

Lab O to ME

2012-01-30T02:03:00.000-08:00

Last month Jamie and I went to Berlin for the sole purpose of visiting the Ramones Museum.
Boy was it worth it!
The Ramones have been my favourite band ever since I was a 13 year old pot washer and the creepy guy who owned the restaurant I worked in gave me a Rocket to Russia CD.
In an act of youthful devotion, inspired by the trip, I decided to get a Ramones tattoo. In an act of romantic devotion I let Jamie design it.

Mystery Queens

2012-01-26T05:30:00.000-08:00

ACE RECORDS RULE!
check 'girls with guitars' - a perfect playlist of 1960s girl garage rock.
psyche.

BNTL

2012-01-26T05:20:00.000-08:00

better late than never?

better never than late!

a really great blog that a couple of friends write for.

check it out here

heyho WHICHWAY togo

2012-01-26T04:37:00.000-08:00

TRANS(ekshewal)ATLANTIC(male)ART

2012-01-18T08:30:00.000-08:00

Here is a sleep mask that I made for my friend Ian.

It started out as mail art then masqueraded as a belated birthday gift.

Technically(teknikjenny) I did not make the sleep mask - Virgin Atlantic airlines did.

I photocopied my hands (in work) then stitched them onto the 'blindfold' (at home), which I had previously painted white.

Then I gave it a lick of varnish - for the good times.

Ian plays in a band called Dead To Me.

You can check them out here:

http://deadtomesf.com/

Good times with GUGGING

2012-01-18T07:30:00.000-08:00

Here is a short article that I wrote for THE GOOD TIMES (16.01.12). A Newspaper filled with only positive stories, self-published by my good friends at the creative agency THE CHURCH OF LONDON.

//Gugging//
Humans have an inherent desire to express themselves. We are makers of many non-functioning yet beautiful things. Whether or not those objects are thought of as ‘art’ is purely subjective. An artist is just someone who has something to say and the desire to communicate.

Europe is leading the way with this approach to communication, via studios and //ateliers// that provide people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities the material and freedom to create daily. One such space is the Gugging ‘House of Artists’ in Austria, which opened in 1981 as the Centre for Art and Psychotherapy. This studio is literally open to all. Though many of the people who use the space do have psychiatric experience, anybody is welcome to use the facilities, and it’s an environment where passion for creation rules over desire for profit.

Gugging is not a space with therapeutic direction and there are no official classes. It is a quiet haven with room to think and the free materials to experiment. For those who have suffered (or are suffering) with a psychiatric disability, the chance to express feelings in a non-literal way can be incredibly liberating.

In a recent interview with the Museum of Everything, the Gugging House of Artists art director and curator Dr. Johann Feilacher described how creativity is essential to a person's wellbeing.

"If you make something - the intention to make art - or not - is of no importance."

"Creativity is essential - the mental ability which begins in childhood and which everybody has... Today at Gugging, artists do not get any kind of arts education. We simply create a happy environment for them, where they feel well, where we help with their psychological problems and arrange things so that they can make 'art'." //Lotty Sanna//

My good pal Andonis Trattos went all over Europe filiming studios like Gugging.

You can check them out on Vimeo here:

http://vimeo.com/28318418

boys moaning on and on about not crying...

2012-01-18T05:29:00.000-08:00

EVEN LEWSA!

2012-01-18T04:56:00.000-08:00

GRRRLS GETTING LEWWWS

2012-01-18T04:48:00.000-08:00

telemachus[and]eucharis

2011-05-28T03:14:00.000-07:00

In an ad hoc story based on Homeric themes Telemachus (male) became shipwrecked whilst looking for his father:Odysseus. Whilst stranded on Calypso's Island he falls in love with Eucharis (female.) After follying in the bushes Telelmachus must leave Eucharis to fulfill his original duty and find his father. This painting depicts the sorrowful goodbye.

Now I was taught about this image by the amazing queer theorist Satish Padiyar. And whatta one for the guys it is! Fraternal devotion rules over heterosexual desire. He flips the outside world the v and connects their curly brains one last time as she clings to him trying to be all nymphish and sexy in her barely there pinnie. Then zoom - he's using her knee to jerk himself up and outta there.

LOVE SUCKS Eucharis...but there'll be others.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME IM 103[22]

2011-05-20T07:00:00.000-07:00

schoolisboring

2011-05-14T08:47:00.001-07:00

HANS XAVER MESSERSCHMIDT

2011-05-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

HE IS G[O]OD.

Being in considerable pain from an undiagnosed illness (potentially Crohn's) Hans developed the self-medicated strategy of pinching his lower right rib to alleviate the pain away from his digestive system. He then went about expertly creating a collection of sculpted character heads, in marble and bronze, depicting the faces he made in the mirror whilst doing the pinch.

When you think about the eighteenth century world of Rococo pastel violence we're used to seeing, these character busts seem unusually self-expressive before their time.

GOATSHOE

2011-05-14T08:32:00.000-07:00

REVISETHIS

2011-05-14T08:18:00.001-07:00

please and

2011-05-02T02:58:00.000-07:00

here is a stupid little trippy bird I drew and never gave to the person it was intended for even though she gave me a lovely unexpected sequin covered lorry to store pencils.

CHOWDER

2011-05-02T02:48:00.001-07:00

NY

2011-04-18T14:44:00.000-07:00

bangbangbangbangbang
bangbangbangbangbang
bangbangbangbangbang

twr_blc

2011-04-18T14:11:00.000-07:00

\there/is\an/empty\tower/block\in/bow\what/you\can/explore\if/you\like/
[although potentially don't go and explore it because the police set the dogs on some guy i know whilst he was taking photos on the roof the other day and we all know that police dogs, mixed with breaking and entering tower blox, and rooftops = cocktail for diaster]

WOMANHOUSE 1972

2011-04-18T10:48:00.000-07:00

'She cannot take a bath

The tub is lined with fur

200 plastic lipsticks

painted repeated colours

that will not

stain her lips'

Another exploration of women in the domestic sphere - organised by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. The foundations of WOMANHOUSE are based on the relationship between biology and social roles in given rooms within a house.A house is not always a home.

PERFECT NONSENSE

2011-04-18T05:31:00.000-07:00

sometimes good people do weird things.

and that is ok.

SCREWS GET LOOSE

2011-04-18T02:20:00.000-07:00

SCARED E LAY DEE

2011-04-14T08:07:00.000-07:00

sticky black biro with a familiar school smell and no matter how hard you try a lot will go on your hands

identity.shakin

2011-03-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

TITO AND PABLO

2011-03-28T15:25:00.000-07:00

123oclock4oclock[_?_]

2011-03-28T15:17:00.000-07:00

stay tuned to find out who lives in this tweeshit little city

[hermit][shells]

2011-03-28T15:05:00.000-07:00

So far in my independent life I have had three houses.

1.Chad.2.Pal.3.PostSlums.

Here is a memory of the Princess room in the Pal.

jamie&pugs

2011-03-28T08:15:00.000-07:00

PUGS: the moment i wake up,
   before i put on my make up,
   i say a little prayer for you.

JAMIE: whilst combing my hair now,
   and wondering what dress to wear now,
   i say a little prayer for you.

TOGETHER: forever and ever you'll stay in my heart, and
   i will love you.
   forever and ever, we're never apart,
   oh how i love you.
   together forever, that's how it must be,
   to live without you, would only mean
   heartbreak for me.

LISTEN TO THEIR PODCAST HERE:

http://cooldudesradio.blogspot.com/

SPITZ

2011-03-28T07:51:00.000-07:00

n.paradoxa sept.10

2011-03-28T07:47:00.000-07:00

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN ARTISTS?

>>>http://www.ktpress.co.uk/nparadoxaissue21.pdf<<<

DISSERTATION DAZE

2011-03-28T07:31:00.000-07:00

sharpies
triangles
thermals
lamp

el esdee

2011-03-28T07:09:00.001-07:00

ljubljana

2011-03-20T04:13:00.000-07:00

i visited this bleached and beautiful and bleak city in Jan2011. it was freezing cold. the trains were efficient. the youth culture is neon but the city is quiet. the birthplace of NSK, Laibach and Zizek was an essential place to visit.

CANDYTALKING

2011-03-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

http://adollartwenty.blogspot.com/

rob loves shoes.

SHOEGAZING

2011-03-18T08:50:00.000-07:00

I AM SORRY

2011-03-18T08:36:00.001-07:00

A little bat preserved scared in the Pillai's Gran's house.

After she died I went to her house and could smell the Frakincense of Catholic churches.

I AM GLAD

2011-03-13T03:43:00.000-07:00

Hungarian born artist Endre Tot is the Fluxus King of Xerox.

His ever-optimistic work made in the context of the harshly oppressive 1970s Hungarian art scene shows the necessary switch artists made between painting and conceptual art in a bid to express themselves politically.

Tot was constantly sticking it to the man.

In this piece 'I am glad if I can Xerox' he subversively mocks the joy of being able to use a photocopier - something that was banned in Hungary unless you had 'official' permission.

By the late 70s his application to move to Berlin had been refused by the Hungarian government several times. It wasn't until the Western press picked up on this and covered the story as a political sensation that he was granted the freedom to leave Budapest.

Consequently, when he got to Berlin he graffitied the Wall with this:

'I should be glad if I am allowed to write something on the other side of this wall'

He's Bart Simpson of the Eastern-European conceptual art world.

watchwithmother(lover)

2011-03-13T03:08:00.000-07:00

TALKISCHEAP

2011-03-12T08:26:00.001-08:00

you set in me like a fever waking me at

3 o clock

4 o clock

shivering your name tumbling

between dream and reality

days passing

kaleidoscopic haze

losing track of
which conversations
were real

which
i had imagined

day dreaming sleep walking

consumed by you

kaleidoscope to telescope

fever to flu

reality was always too real
for me

and for you

GOTVITAMINC

2011-03-12T08:20:00.000-08:00

FOR THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

http://gotvitaminc.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html

SANJA INVEKOVIC TRIANGLE

2011-03-12T08:04:00.000-08:00

I am currently ~~not~~ writing my dissertation on Sanja Ivekovic.

She is currently ~~not~~ sitting on a balcony pretending to masturbate whilst drinking whiskey.

Ta2

2011-03-12T08:02:00.001-08:00

A permanent state of transition is man's most notable feature

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

CARGO

2011-03-12T07:58:00.001-08:00

Jamie crunching snails like he's a murderer in a film noir. Trocadero, Paris, 2010.

GREENBEAN

2011-03-12T07:48:00.000-08:00

The ghost of Ursula in her lair of evergreen Swedish woods.

The stillest place on earth.

VALI MYERS

2011-03-12T07:43:00.001-08:00

i sport my shades/i dig bob dylan/i like food/that's not too filling

2011-03-12T06:57:00.000-08:00

The Writer's Song

I did not wish to work

I did not wish to earn

but to curl with my jar

in the sweet sorghum

I laid my mat among the reeds

I could hear the freeman call

oh my life

what does it matter

will the reed cease bending

will the leper turn

I had a horn i did not blow

I had a sake and another

I could hear the freemen

drunk with sky

what matter my cry

will the moon swell

will the flame shy

bonsai bonsai

it is better to write

then die

in the blue crater

set with straw

I could hear

the freemen call

the way is hard

the gate is narrow

what matter I say

with the new mown hay

my pillow

I had a sake and another

I did not care to own nor rove

wrote my name upon the water

nothing but nothing above

bonsai bonsai

it is better to write

then die

a thousand souvenirs

a thousand prayers

set away in earthernware

we draw the jars

from the shelves

drink our parting

from ourselves

so be we king

or be we bum

the reed still whistles

the heart still hums

TICKtockDANDELIONclock

2011-02-28T06:22:00.000-08:00

this place is no different...

2011-02-28T06:21:00.000-08:00

A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.
A COLLAGE BASED ON SLOVAKIAN LANDART.

a brooch to break your heart

2010-09-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

SOLD. one from a series of brooches i made when i was 18 and heartbroken.
my head felt like the scramble of wire and my heart felt like the broken glass.
it was an obvious concept and it's an impractical wear.

because oi am a broken record

2010-09-24T10:04:00.000-07:00

I only like this drawing because of the cubist rose.
I wish the bird wasn't on it.
Which kind reflects the concept of the image as an illustration for Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose.
Beauty prevails and devotion is forgotten.
It's a cruel world.

GOOD TIMES FOR A CHANGE

2010-09-24T10:02:00.001-07:00

The best shot of my favourite subject: my best friend the composer Anna Rose Carter.

It was good what we did yesterday

2010-09-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

and i'd do it once again.
the fact that you are married only proves you're my best friend.

saint moustache

2010-09-24T09:58:00.000-07:00

hiding his moose tash
a saintly life drawing from when I used to draw life

please leave us alone howard

2010-09-24T09:55:00.000-07:00

A NEW PERV!

2010-09-24T09:45:00.001-07:00

shadows

2010-09-24T09:41:00.000-07:00

FEMME

2010-09-24T09:38:00.000-07:00

I GO TO BAKERIES ALL DAY LONG

2010-09-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

THERE'S A LACK OF SWEETNESS IN MY LIFE.

wilderoses|thornypetals

2010-09-24T09:33:00.001-07:00

I went to Paris and visited Oscar Wilde's grave.
I saw a man draw on it with an orange highlighter.

NECK

2010-09-24T09:28:00.000-07:00

thend.

2010-09-15T11:21:00.001-07:00

FML

2010-09-15T11:17:00.000-07:00

purple rhinestone eagle

2010-09-05T07:36:00.000-07:00

Here is a flyer I designed for the second Sister Party event of year hosted by my good friend Joan sexy Jones...

Now everybody buy a bottle of cherry lambrini and attend!

COP A BERG

2010-09-02T15:13:00.001-07:00

This is a drawing I was asked to do about 3 months ago and have only just got round to scanning in and sorting out. It's to accompany a film festival review in a magazine. Oo la la.

HEZ

2010-08-26T09:45:00.001-07:00

birdbutt

2010-08-26T09:40:00.000-07:00

Here is a drawing

What I drew

What my friend Anna

Turned into a tattoo

NEWYoiK

2010-08-26T02:29:00.000-07:00

I took a little vacation to New York to hang out with my friend Ella.
We saw a lot but this is what I saw that I liked the most.

The Kiki Smith exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum.
This photograph of a burger on a baby by Dash Snow.

BOOwho

2010-08-26T01:46:00.001-07:00

I have been drawingdrawingdrawing and have lots to scan in but alas I have no scanner in Swansea for it is in London.
Sometimes life presents these problems.
So...here is a screen print of one of my drawings that Shelley made at her screen printing class the other day...

streethawker.wordpress.com
(check her awesome post on bikini kill.)

On the topic of blogs here is another excellent one from my all time favourite band ssssnakes (http://www.ssssnakes-rule.blogspot.com/)

The last blog-to-plug is one by my incredibly awkward and most beloved friend Amy Wolfe who has a brain like no other - http://www.amykatewolfe.blogspot.com/

paint3

2010-08-03T05:16:00.000-07:00

do you have nothing better to do...

2010-08-03T04:53:00.001-07:00

thantakephotosoftheflowers?
NO.it's the summer holidays.

I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW I CAME HERE

2010-08-01T09:22:00.001-07:00

littlefucks

2010-08-01T09:19:00.001-07:00

This is what happens when you buy a new pack of felt tips.

DUCKTOOTH

2010-07-25T15:30:00.000-07:00

Once i was a telephone
a telephone a melephone
he said who
she said why
he said hello
she said bye.

июль

2010-07-16T03:11:00.000-07:00

this month jamie and i have an exhibition on in the upstairs gallery of noah's yard in swansea. i'm pretty sure it's open now so go check it out!

pandj

2010-07-16T03:10:00.000-07:00

CATMAN CRETIN

2010-07-16T03:05:00.000-07:00

there's no stopping the cretins from hopping, you gotta keep it beating for all the hopping cretins.
CRETIN! CRETIN!

i'm gonna go for a whirl with my cretin girl, my feet won't stop doing the cretin hop!!

NeW tAtToO

2010-07-10T06:05:00.000-07:00

pictures for mouse ears

2010-07-06T02:24:00.001-07:00