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May 31, 2008
Today I thought something worth blogging would happen. I had my camera all day.
I was thinking i would post something very witty or a grand event would occur.
I took a picture of my backyard, nothing very interesting happened today.
But it was a nice day in LA. 99 days left, they will all count, maybe i will be back after that???
If so it will be 199 or 299 or 399.
We will see?
I have too say, Honeyee without Hiroshi is not the same for me...
Yes i said it, i like seeing where he has been, what he has got, etc....
Honeyee has been a part of my life since it was started. I am happy 2 still be a involved.
Thanks
Paul
Cultural Recycling
May 27, 2008
"Are we reduced to either the nostalgia for the past or nostalgia for the future.”
TAZ or The Temporal Autonomous Zone, Hakim Bey
"Some enchanted evening, the future is called the past.”
Louis Aragon
A decade of zeros???
It is our very own interesting time.
But all times are interesting; it is just that this one seems too be happening faster than the rest.
The glow of devises and screens brings data so fast, but can we actually see it? Can we live it? How will we digest it? Or will we just learn to forget it? All those zeros and ones have come too be our time. A decade of everything and nothing.
Our present decade, the one that shall be known in the future as the ’00’s, will have no concrete name or catchy title. Will we to become generation zero? A demographic of complete variable and so many directions that nothing will be obvious? A mutation of such great scale that everything is a mixture of past creations, multiples that are one and many at the same time.
I would of thought will all of the uber-smart marketing people around this problem would have been solved with easy on a conference call. Maybe there was a calI, I was just not told of it yet??? Through out most of the twentieth century the numeric signifiers of decades past bring back memories of movements and events gone past, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, etc... What will the era of double zeros bring??? How will movement in any direction or directions mark or unmark itself? Will it be time, capital or technology? What shall become known as the particle of moving force in our time? Possibly a history will evolve combining all three, maybe a new synthesis of measure with something else mixed in just for fun.
A bastard epoch of the 21st century will become a common memory as we all look back and laugh (or cry).
History has possibly ended, but time has not. What will our language become? What will our new dialogue be? Are we in a state of eternal reoccurrence, or will we be able too define a contemporary now that is not the comfort or the past, or with in the tease of the future. We need a now that is not fleeting like the words that I have just written.
Today corporate culture is in disarray. An economic abyss looms. Our environment might not survive the pressure of the earth and its rapidly expanding and shifting population.
A bigger world on a smaller planet. Nowhere too run, nowhere to hide.
All those zeros and ones have come too be “our time” a time of data.
This decade of everything and nothing will all be happening in a past?
A past that will happen again sometime very soon.
As Alice said, "Jam yesterday or jam tomorrow but never jam today”.
MATTHEW BARNEY: Ren, and a full moon
May 21, 2008
On May 18th 2008 a full moon was witnessed.
On May 18th 2008, Matthew Barney presented us with Ren in Norwalk, Ca.
Righteous Kill
May 17, 2008
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino... Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol... A collaboration like no one has ever witnessed….
This is it… the iconic “Righteous Kill” movie poster created by Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol before it hits the streets.
Keep an eye out for an SA Studios / Righteous Kill Downtown LA Experience. Word is out, this is going to be a historical tribute to SA Studios’ two favorite actors, De Niro and Pacino. The “Righteous Kill” experience is set to open up in August 2008 right next door to the “The Last laugh” Mister Cartoon’s & Estevan Oriol’s retail spaces along side the Upper Playground retail space located on 6th and Los Angeles Streets in Downtown Los Angeles
Also in August 2008, SA Studios and Righteous Kill in collaboration with Upper Playground will release “Righteous Kill” limited edition merchandise and lithographs signed by the designers of the “Righteous Kill” iconic artwork, Mister Cartoon & Estevan Oriol.
The upcoming feature film from Overture Films, “Righteous Kill” starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, will be in theaters 09-12-08
Cable 8 (Nike Sportswear) and NSW...
May 16, 2008
At the Cable 8 space I saw a new beginning. A collection of clothing inspired by sport but designed for everyday life. Nike Sportswear and its capsule collection NSW have been melded into a hybrid line of contemporary gear that is moving towards the future of clothing, material, design and process, while still keeping its heritage in mind. Beijing and Nike Sportswear will both evolve into new zones at a fast pace.
It was interesting to witness first hand a great past, present and future in both a country and brand. This trip will not be forgotten anytime soon.
Art prices are determined by the meeting of real or induced scarcity with pure, irrational desire, and nothing is more manipulable than desire." Robert Hughes
May 3, 2008
The recipe for a record price: auction house hype, media frenzy, and billionaire buyers.
For ten years Jasper Johns held the title of the world’s most expensive living artist; in the last year the accolade has been claimed by Damien Hirst and now belongs to Jeff Koons.
New York collector Adam Lindemann sold their Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) by Jeff Koons at Sotheby’s in New York last November for $23.6m. It currently holds the auction record for the most expensive work by a living artist. It was bought by Larry Gagosian bidding on behalf of Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk
