29 Palms pt1

Extraction

Pioneer Town

Delta Fog

traces of Mclaughlin Reserve

McLaughlin Open Pit Mine

http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/McL/index.html
McLaughlin Preserve:

Five ideas for art projects that were either informed and/or inspired during our visit to the McLaughlin Reserve all revolve around areas that I have determined to be interesting and in need of a prolonged intervention. I propose to use photography as my tool of intervention. My five projects are not particularly projects, but instead are areas I could see spending extended periods of time photographing and collecting ideas from. First, the mine, what a site of transformation, overwhelmingly this had to be the first on my list, what more to say; it needs to be surveyed, analyzed and extensively researched. Second and Third, and to continue on with the entropic sensations of containment and release, the tailings pond in addition to the tailing piles, both of which are fascinating reserves of such a magnitude they make you curious to their creation and inspire such awe about how man has gone to such lengths to extract minerals and create such disturbing beauty- how distinctly human or manifest destiny. Fourth, the core shed was quite a fabulous collection of earth; very odd- such a unique preservation of extraction. Fifth and my final is a collection of the plant communities of McLaughlin, achieved through both biking and hiking the lengths of the property I would create an image that renders the particulars of each community.

A Caged Man Breaks Out at Last

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/arts/design/01sont.html

pondering the quarter

cardburg

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/he-is-living-in-a-cardboard-box/

url walkabout

happy sunday - Jesus

Ride

bringing the walls down; don't forget the TP

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/science/earth/26charmin.html

Truncation

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happy late valentines day

valentine day

Friday the 13th

postpopolis

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/postopolis-la.html

self description

-man in black-

fall

the near future?

a thought provoking series....



“ Planners must remember that people need privacy and solitude as well as being around each other. Extreme neighborliness sounds nice in practice, but in some places it just won't work.”

— Zoku
Saving the Suburbs, Part 2

http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/what-will-save-the-suburbs/

co-orbital

The Earth had company this week when an asteroid practically grazed the planet - passing by just 400,000 miles away. That's less than twice the distance of the Earth to the Moon.

The 8-metre-wide rock, known as 2009 BD, is a co-orbital asteroid, which means it orbits the Sun on almost the same plane as Earth does. The coupling offers rare opportunities to discover more about asteroids.

Rather than speeding past fleetingly like most asteroids, co-orbital ones synch up with Earth and perform a spiralling dance around it, sometimes lasting for many months or even years. They are sometimes referred to as second moons, despite their diminutive size.

On average, eight co-orbital asteroids are discovered a year, but 2009 BD is special because, with a tilt of just 1.5 degrees from the Earth-Sun plane, it has one of the most Earth-like orbits of any yet observed, says Paul Chodas of the Near Earth Object project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

bubbling geologic time

A mudpot, mud pool or paint pot is a sort of hot spring or fumarole consisting of a pool of usually bubbling mud.

Mudpots form in high-temperature geothermal areas where water is in short supply. The little water that is available rises to the surface at a spot where the soil is rich in volcanic ash, clay and other fine particulates. The thickness of the mud usually changes along with seasonal changes in the water table.

The mud takes the form of a viscous, often bubbling, slurry. As the boiling mud is often squirted over the brims of the mudpot, a sort of mini-volcano of mud starts to build up, sometimes reaching heights of 3-5 feet. Although mudpots are often called "mud volcanoes", true mud volcanoes are very different in nature.

The mud is generally of white to greyish color, but is sometimes stained with reddish or pink spots from iron compounds. When the slurry is particularly colorful, the feature is then called a "paint pot".

oh such a short time...

Kubler is shaping my time

9 moons on a new moon

10 questions

1. How do we deal with trends?

2. Should you as an artist be aware? How do you self identify?

3. What is the responsibility of the artist? Is there any social responsibility?

4. How do you deal with feeling dumb?

5. How do you overcome a mental block?

6. To what degree is layered meaning important in work and where does that meaning reside?

7. How does craft and technical expertise play into work? And to what degree do you look for it in others work?

8. What is art? How do you distinguish it and to what degree do others influence your opinion?

9. How does your old work inform your new work and to what degree does it have an influence?

10. How do you filter the feedback of others? To what degree do your answers to these questions resonate in your response to others work?

Welcome

Welcome: this is my duration piece for the third week of January.
The piece consist of floor tiles, bike tire, and riding a bike quick enough down the hallway to skid. Variable Dimensions...

Universal Techno Pt.4

blow away

Fluxion- Vibrant Forms

My favorite album of the winter quarter to sit and get creative with:
With each of his Chain Reaction EPs, Fluxion became both increasingly minimal and reliant upon dub-style distortion techniques to bring beauty to the sparse sounds. Where the earlier recordings captured on his Vibrant Forms album found the artist crafting what seemed like ambient techno (while still retaining a dancefloor-style sense of rhythm), his latter recordings compiled here -- along with a handful of previously unreleased tracks on disc one -- show few signs of any dancefloor tendencies. The high-hats suddenly are nowhere to be found, the basslines have become languid, and the songs now rely upon indolent distortion techniques to color what are really little more than simple rhythmic patterns beneath the clouds of darkness and surreal sensation. The music compiled on Vibrant Forms II -- taken primarily from the Prospect and Bipolar Defect EPs -- is nearly torturous in its mesmerizing simplicity. The slow-cycling loops lull the senses while the waves of tweaked tone feel dark and haunting. After listening to Fluxion's preceding work on Vibrant Forms, one finds this album to be even more striking, and discerns how his music steadily decomposes to minimal glimmer and continually slows down its tempo to a lumbering lull over time. Furthermore, the music on Vibrant Forms II becomes increasingly disorientating -- as well as deconstructed -- making it much more difficult to stomach yet also more effective in its alien evocation.

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