ART HELLO

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2011-06-23T23:45:00.000-07:00

to whom it may concern : jeremyashlyn.com

mysterious bird 2010

2010-01-11T12:35:00.000-08:00

2009-12-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

2009-12-03T02:36:00.001-08:00

joseph cornell
1936
'rose hobart'

facebook

2009-11-25T15:06:00.000-08:00

posted by Kelly Bagwell

posted by Jeremy Ashlyn
"Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

Is bonny and blithe and good and gay"

posted by Kelly Bagwell
"which one are you"

posted by Kelly Bagwell
"it seems we are both friday"

posted by Jeremy Ashlyn
"if we didn't exist in a hologram where time was the measurement of an illusioned movement (caused by light) between the space of two things that actually teeter on the precipice of eternity... wednesday."

posted by Kelly Bagwell
"oh you~"

posted by Jeremy Ashlyn "string theory!"

posted by Jeremy Ashlyn

"Holographic principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity and string theories which states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region — preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon. ..."

posted by Jeremy Ashlyn

The World as a Hologram - UCTV - University of California Television

2009-11-17T00:00:00.001-08:00

"I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention the idea of anarchy to most people they will tell you what a bad idea it is because the biggest gang would just take over. Which is pretty much how I see contemporary society. We live in a badly developed anarchist situation in which the biggest gang has taken over and have declared that it is not an anarchist situation- that it is a capitalist or a communist situation. But I tend to think that anarchy is the most natural form of politics for a human being to actually practice" - alan moore

2009-09-27T01:20:00.000-07:00

what face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

on etsy!

Wendy and Walter

2009-09-25T04:11:00.000-07:00

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos) did the music for a clockwork orange, etc

nice video interview via http://www.newmusicbox.com/

Cindy Sherman's Doll Clothes 1975

2009-09-24T23:40:00.000-07:00

hey neat!

cindy sherman
doll clothes
1975

2009-09-07T20:40:00.000-07:00

I went to ubuweb for a minute and clicked on laurie anderson because anni-from-australia mentioned the name one time.

and, testing out tinygrab

mute / dimensions variable / garage projections / 2007-09

2009-08-27T18:41:00.000-07:00

mute
dimensions variable
garage projections
2007-09
jeremy ashlyn

Office Killer (Cindy Sherman, 1997)

2009-08-20T16:25:00.000-07:00

the lack of 'film stills' available for cindy sherman's 'office killer' forced me to take some of my own. here they are.

right click->view image for full view

'office killer' 1997

2009-08-19T03:49:00.000-07:00

was looking forward to sherman's motion picture debut. that's cindy sherman, fine artist ©. enjoyed the stiff performances, cool feminist overtones, and laughably outdated laptops. the caricatured personalities with bad hair and drawn on eyebrows. i love all that stuff. it's great to see another american filmmaker join ranks with foreign cinema and purposefully, with oddball attitude and humor.

there are no glaring flaws. it just wasn't funny enough. also too short, and changed tone too abruptly to convince me otherwise. it starts backing out halfway through. definitively a well made movie, but it could've used a second draft. my premise was correct. office killer functions as an echo that would later become american psycho.

maybe if it was a musical?

moon face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

2009-08-16T16:56:00.000-07:00

moon face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

available on etsy

charlotte et veronique (all the boys are called patrick)

2009-08-05T16:17:00.000-07:00

stills from jean luc godard's first film (21 min.) made at the age of 27.
written by eric rohmer.

this movie made me want to make new wave comics.

'colgate'

relevant link: first ponytails comic

definitely face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

2009-08-04T19:45:00.000-07:00

definitely face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

available on etsy

can/unwound

2009-08-04T02:58:00.000-07:00

corpse pose sounds like a song on rewind.

track list:
unwound - corpse pose
can - mushroom
unwound - scarlette
can - oh yeah

4 song unwound/can mashup.

straight face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

2009-08-03T19:49:00.000-07:00

straight face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

available on etsy

Art Hello #1

2009-08-02T15:09:00.000-07:00

from Art Hello by Jeremy Ashlyn

this week i am totally ganking a sweet template from this random earthbound site i found in my RSS.

i`m not entirely sure how to fill it up with stuff. let's try though!

projects i am currently working on:

(video) - sequel to mute (link) wherein i add text to copyright free moving images from the prelinger archive. a startling advancement for human civilization. this might turn out to be a few mins longer than i planned
(video) - short (or long) 'video comic' using what rachel shot of actors from the local theatre. i've been running tests with toonit! to see just how i want it. originally intended no filters and naturalistic but i`m questioning that for the footage i have here. animating the word bubbles using animanitee (link). great little animation program.
(audio) - create some noise for a different, third video
(painting) - continuing the 'portraits' series, which i've recently begun putting up on etsy (link)
(comics) - still writing plain old comics that may turn into a short book. well, i am supposed to be doing that..
(written word) - i'd like to finish work on the screenplay with rachel, and develop a new comic with kelly. i already have an idea, it's just a matter of finding the time to get together.
(poems?) - you have got to be kidding me.

Video Games as Art Related

a relentless series of images from the phantasmagorical muscle march, which is only available in japan. there are so many odd things and so many bright colors

Shit I've Created

Selling My Stuff

i've placed some of my paintings on etsy. if anyone knows of a better place to sell FINE ART i would be more than open for suggestions. so far all that's up is from the 'portraits' series i've worked on since late-march.
faces defaced (playfully).

portrait - party face

by jeremyashlyn

07. 27
2009

$50.00 USD

portrait - garbage face

by jeremyashlyn

08. 03
2009

$50.00 USD

portrait - red head

by jeremyashlyn

07. 31
2009

$50.00 USD

portrait - blue mouth

by jeremyashlyn

07. 30
2009

$50.00 USD

portrait - gold face

by jeremyashlyn

07. 29
2009

$50.00 USD

portrait - rainbow face

by jeremyashlyn

07. 28
2009

$50.00 USD

all donations go toward 'get me out of mississippi!' fund.

Places to Move To

berlin
somewhere else in europe
a place where money can go far

Upcoming Stuff

i am in talks (through kelly) with reggie bagwell about getting an art show together. gerald steele and kelly bagwell may be involved, but those facts are nebulous at this time. since jerry lives in hattiesberg it could possibly be held there.
storyboard and dialogue work on screenplay needs to begin soon
GRANTS

End

will you be my friend?

garbage face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

2009-08-01T22:30:00.000-07:00

garbage face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

portrait - garbage face

outtakes : Sky Captain

2009-08-01T21:14:00.000-07:00

of course, if i had a super nice printer this kind of stuff would be out of the computer and hanging on the wall as i finish them.

every single one of these outtakes is more impressive full-size, specfically the third one. click them.

gold face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

2009-07-27T17:03:00.000-07:00

gold face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

available on etsy

sky captain

2009-07-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

sky captain
2009
garage projections
dimensions variable
jeremy ashlyn

lost

2009-07-26T16:51:00.000-07:00

lost
2008-2009
garage projections
dimensions variable
jeremy ashlyn

noise

2009-07-13T22:03:00.000-07:00

-this is a podcast #1

by rachel, kelly and jeremy

some boring words at start of it

-screamo

jeremy ashlyn
screamo
2009
garage projections
dimensions variable

i like when girls do screamo. that is why i originally liked glass candy and the shattered theatre. there is something innate and primal about screaming, like yorda from ico. it is outside of communication. words are lost.

"as clear as an unmuddied lake"

this purity can be misplaced amid the male to female bullshit of everyday life. the style or whatever you want to call it has been co-opted by males and turned aggressive. it is gutteral, literally. screaming.

notice the 'fruits basket' anime poster in the above image. the screaming shatters an otherwise banal existence. nothing can stand in its way. i wanted to put that energy right in the middle of the gallery.

words

-banal

jeremy ashlyn
super banal boring everyday stupid shit
2008-2009
garage projections
dimensions variable

partially a response/documentation of my senior fine arts show, super banal (for short) is full of self-referential naval gazing and other stupid stuff as well as other stuff i would use later use in other stuff.

'g.i.s.m.' at the beginning in a gallery, 3d effects from lo fi sci fi, rachel from laser monster (ha), forest from 'forest', errata from the projection i used in the senior fine arts show, and of course footage from the show itself.

the sound was made using electroplankton.

the past couple weeks i've been filming projections of my videos in the garage. that is what i call my studio. 'the garage'. it sounds french, right?

i went out to the garage and played the videos back and filmed them.

projection.

originally, and this was in 2008, i thought super banal (for short) should be two videos on two monitors, but time and circumstance did not allow and i was unable to show it the correct way. (here is the compromised version.)

to further complicate things i actually chose to show it two different ways this time. the first one is a tight crop of the video on my computer screen with garbled natural sound from the monitor. the second version is wide showing the two videos side by side for the first time, with a bottle of pain pills. you might need those.

the key word is 'iteration'.

related links:

tv/forest
untitled piece in the 301 gallery
screaming

rachel

2009-07-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

please edit this post to contain a word bubble.

tokyo bopper

2009-07-04T09:23:00.000-07:00

really, no idea how i got on the rss feed for this website a couple years ago (looking around for text to cut up and put in poems? possibly), or why this is the first image i felt compelled to repost and share with you.

all sorts of odd, vaguely ms paint images over there to masquerade as fashion with

relevant link: http://tokyobopper.com/

*rachel replies*

"There are a lot of images to be used as inspiration for cowboy costume design.

We should start a blog for the movie project, a place to put these kind of images and production notes."

tv/forest

2009-06-25T19:58:00.000-07:00

jeremy ashlyn
tv 2
2009
garage projections
dimensions variable

jeremy ashlyn
forest
2008-2009
garage projections
dimensions variable

1 old video and 1 new video.

To Do List by Rachel Collier

2009-06-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

No Bra

2009-06-17T03:04:00.000-07:00

click
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george kuchar

2009-06-07T08:43:00.000-07:00

So, the view is obstructed during the video and i was extremely uncomfortable recording any of this. I wish you had been there with me.

-jeremy adds:

"watched this when i woke up, still in bed, laying on my side with the laptop. george IS so cute. lovely shots. the obstructed view didn't bother me at all. thanks for doing it RACHEL."

New Work

2009-06-03T12:35:00.000-07:00

June 03, 2009

My paintings from last month's Barn Show. jeremyashlyn.com

Evil Dead 4

2009-06-01T02:52:00.000-07:00

The new Evil Dead movie is called Drag Me To Hell. If not a literal sequel, it's certainly one in spirit. Essentially 'Evil Dead For Girls', I loved it, and the audience I saw it with were audibly grossed out and laughing in equal measure.

Wendy and Lucy by Kelly Reichardt Edit: Bad Movie AVOID

2009-05-31T00:19:00.000-07:00

Wendy and Lucy, the film you mentioned, is now available to 'watch instantly' on netflix. i put it in the top slot. you're welcome.

-jeremy

Etsy Artist Hine

2009-05-30T11:53:00.000-07:00

functional, non functional, contextual

Nice to see a media artist on etsy who can make money.

Frank Stella - Hard Lines

2009-05-30T01:20:00.000-07:00

"uhh"

it's nice to actually hear an artist talk, and not a magazine, or someone from the year 2009.

i love the free floating shapes

by the end i was feeling a little sick though

bobbyflayometer : "8/10"

-jeremy

*rachel says*

Stella makes his thesis statement as a response to abstract expressionism.
"we (our paintings) got to be more of an illustration of energy than an establishment of real pictorial energy"

I appreciate that he has chosen the word energy in place of "emotion", allowing artmaking to return to a more primitive and essential form of *human* expression. He wants the spirit of his work lives outside the contrived affected world, which i fucking appreciate. That being said, yes jeremy, the bobbyflayometer is a little high in some of these. His ideas about image accessibility are interesting but fail-safe.

for the sake of argument and in defense of abstract expressionism, De Kooning's Excavation is hardly piddling in the corners.

-jeremy says:

"that quote about the corners has become a sort of oft-referenced thing. i've heard it before. it's funny.

i am continuously not liking de kooning.

my favorite part about the interview is the idea of being inaccessible and forcing the viewer out. i had the very same notion during many critiques. taking my self-defeating attitude into consideration i would not necessarily chalk that idea here up to bobby flay and being fail safe. in fact, because of that the score was reduced two points.

my least favorite part is how stella embraces the sort of rivalry between action painting and whatever sort this is here. they exist in the same realm, not even at the ends of the same spectrum, each can contain both ideas. it's like scientists from different fields not getting along or something. it's stupid.

did stella do those black paintings? a quick check of google says yes.

they remind me of dune by david lynch. there is something to these."

aakash nihalani

2009-05-28T23:04:00.000-07:00

Working in New York
Website
His paintings suck but oh well.

Jeremy what do you think of his artist statement?

-jeremy responds:

"some of these i can't understand how they even work!

like this one:

the tape is either slightly transparent in parts or that is a shadow.

very "ontop-ness"

mission statement is ok, but gosh those paintings are *suspiciously* horrible. i mean god damn. just goes to show.

the couple of sewed pieces are alright though."

D.A. Pennebaker's 'Monterey Pop'

2009-05-23T17:04:00.000-07:00

CLICK TO WATCH
(i have not seen it either)

-jeremy

via the auteurs.com

sigmar polke

2009-05-19T19:27:00.000-07:00

polke fails alot, and i like that. the early stuff from the 60's were ripoffs of max ernst collage and at least funny or playful.

whether or not polke is a rip off artist, i can't deny that i see a sort of spiritual successor to ernst and just a much more adventurous and better painter.

this is some of the latest work from 2008 'lens painting' series.

in many ways polke exploits for success that sort of finished, well crafted art world thing (that i hate). but it's alright because we are being fed vitamins.

installation view

screaming

2009-05-17T15:59:00.000-07:00

the new shit

2009-05-17T13:29:00.000-07:00

Blibb Blobb Chiptune Podcast Episode 26 September 23, 2008 (discontinued)

and

there is something about

marilyn manson with video game footage

i don't know what it is

space shuttle and sun, real

2009-05-15T18:13:00.000-07:00

flickr user nasahqphoto

Papergirl (Berlin)

2009-05-13T11:12:00.000-07:00

Papergirl #3 from Papergirl on Vimeo.

Papergirl WEBSITE

The "papers" are not printed or sold or distributed to subscribers.
These acts of public art are a response to Berlin's 2005 revised graffiti laws which equated wheat pasting with spraypainting.

Unfortunately when boys are participating with papergirl, they are called paperboys. nerds.

edit:

-jeremy says,

"this is what i was talking about: give the paintings away! you said,"NOOOOOO" end quote. if i wanted to be part of the papergirls and was called paperboy i would quit that day. maybe start my own papergirl."

zine

2009-05-03T11:08:00.000-07:00

here.

click the image above to see the girlstyle thing

put together using iwork; the fashion newsletter setting

Does Naked Make it Art?

2009-04-28T13:30:00.000-07:00

Naked Festival

click the clothed people to make them naked

Hair Removal and Maintenance - Cosmopolitan Magazine

2009-04-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

Bikini Area

Is it okay to pluck or squeeze an ingrown hair on my bikini line?

How often should I wax?

After waxing, is there a way to get all of my hair to grow back at the same time?

Is it dangerous to dye my pubic hair some crazy color?

Is there a female version of a beard trimmer?

After shaving off my pubic hair, I broke out in a terrible rash. Help!

If I have my period, can I still get a bikini wax?

Can I get a Brazilian wax the day before a big date?

Is getting a Brazilian wax at my local salon risky?

How can I prevent ingrown hairs from cropping up on my bikini line?

There's a line of hair that runs from my belly button to my nether regions. How can I get rid of it?

Underarm/Arm

My arms are superhairy and I hate waxing. What else can I do?

How can I get rid of the ingrown hair in my armpit?

Is it possible to lighten my dark and gray armpit skin?

Shaving

After shaving down there, why does it itch so much?

How do you stop the bleeding from a shaving nick?

I shaved my facial hair. Now I'm paranoid that it'll grow back like a beard. Is this true?

I simply thought these questions were amazing.

George Kuchar!!

2009-04-23T00:05:00.000-07:00

The Kuchar Brothers are presenting new films at one of their home galleries in downtown San Francisco on Friday night.
Amazingly, i will be in town and it is zero stupid dollars to attend.
Why the fuck aren't you here Jeremy??

An excerpt from Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, apparently i did something right by joining their mailing list.

"Please join BRX and the Kuchar Brothers this Friday at 7pm for a screening of recent films. Both George and Mike will be in attendance and will make introductions on the following films:

George Kuchar
JAMBOREE JOURNEY
PORTRAIT OF GENIE

Mike Kuchar
VORTEX
STOLEN SWEETS
TATTLE TALES
WITCHERY

(Approx. program time: 1 Hour)

This event is free and open to the public.

Film makers, Mike Kuchar and brother George Kuchar began making 8mm movies in the 1950's, later switching over to 16mm film production in the 1960's. Film production has been a continuing process for the Kuchars, working both individually, and collaboratively on short motion pictures in film and digital formats."

More information about both artists can be found online:
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/kuchar1.html

edit:

-jeremy says,

"well that is pretty fantastic. if you could get a video camera in there even better. at the very least digital camera."

edit:

-jeremy says,

"hey! i would like to see those george kuchar videos i know that you shot, please"

Leslie and the Lys

2009-04-17T10:37:00.000-07:00

There is some great visual stuff here. She is more interesting than her references to willow.

-jeremy says:

"yeah i remember seeing her on myspace years ago. i wasn't convinced then either. i do share an interest and humor associated with shiny gems and also the gender neutrality of skin-tight body suits on average looking people, but everything else here visually is on adult swim already, aside from the pandering 'dyke-feminism' or whatever; which would be welcomed if i believed it to be true. it is not, and stikes me more like an illustrator drawing on a gameboy to benefit from the 8-bit video game art vogue."

-rachel responds:

Wow, your response is more fresh than the video itself, and you are right about the aesthetics being played out on adult swim. When i say that she is more interesting than her references, i mean that she is a victim of her pseudo-hipster pandering. She has the potential to make a more interesting personal statement if she can get past that whole "dancing is so natural to me because all i do is get drunk with my thousands of friends" thing. That being said, i think there is some dynamic visual layering, especially in the sliding screen transitions. Watching this reminds me that i can do it myself, minus the obnoxious content.

What i appreciate is the technical aspect of the layered animation/live-action flow

-jeremy says:

"if you made it, rachel, it would be a completely different story. (probably)"

2009-04-15T10:38:00.001-07:00

ATTN RACHEL COLLIER

2009-04-11T07:05:00.001-07:00

how is the 'curating' going? if you have to clean that place up it ought to start soon i'd imagine. around next week?

weekend review 3

2009-04-11T06:53:00.001-07:00

another weekend already??

i have 10 canvases prepped and roughly two weeks before the show.

weekend review 2

2009-04-07T02:44:00.000-07:00

uhhhh that was a sorta short week, right there. i didn't do one!

weekend review

2009-03-28T15:13:00.001-07:00

i decided to show a couple of "prototypes",
a couple of things i`m still messing around with

i really want to do more of these broken looking free standing things

try to do this every weekend?

In California

2009-03-27T16:39:00.000-07:00

Featuring new work by emerging artists Rachel Collier and Jeremy Ashlyn

At this time it has been officially requested that Jeremy join Rachel in a good ol' barndoor...

Some ideas for the initial layer: gradation schematic for individual planks, video still caulk transfer, background/foreground assignment (Jeremy provides motherwell style miniature grid as a guide)

Installation 2008 BFA Show

2009-03-26T17:06:00.000-07:00

last thursday

2009-03-23T22:57:00.000-07:00

two music centric

2009-03-17T22:07:00.000-07:00

photo by flickr user vcent

when i use skreemr i always type 'glass candy'. i guess that makes them my favourite band. any song i haven't heard by them is my new favourite thing. hey a good thing about the internet.

enjoy this 40 min playlist brought to you by seeqpod, which may at any time be deleted or lose songs. so, for a limited time only!

covered in bugs is a really great song...

the chameleon
labrea tar pit
johnny are you queer?
covered in bugs
life after sundown
digital versicolor
rolling down the hills
computer love
love love love
brittle women

photo by flickr user THIS/REALLY/HAPPENED/OK

i wanna make more of these.
////

here's another playlist from last year.

runtime 3hrs
(c. nov2007 – nov2008)
started during my final semester of ART SCHOOL.
completed six months after graduating.
'1 year mixtape'.

hello

2009-03-16T14:05:00.000-07:00

this should be a daily/weekly wrapup for events in your life pertaining offhandedly to art with a capital a. which, as i define it, is a combination of at least two lowercase artforms.

i hope you guys will join in with photographs of unfinished paintings, finished paintings, sculpture, videos, music, just plain old photographs, or other stupid shit, etc. if there is an art show you went to or saw online, that would be relevant. indie videogames too. if you wanted to make something great but lacked the wherewithal to do so this might be a place to voice your disappointment.

i don't know!

i can only try to lead by example. note: for some reason i can't make it show the author of each post so if you could sign them, yeah.

re: kelly and rachel

flowers i planted

2009-03-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

thought you might like to see them.

just outside "the studio", which is actually the garage.

2009-03-12T11:06:00.001-07:00

*

2009-03-05T20:07:00.000-08:00

Stills

2009-02-26T21:08:00.000-08:00

the film stills community is probably one of the most interesting things i've found on livejournal.

these images were selected by flickr user ksen. and the original lj post is here.

nothing beats the real thing

2009-02-26T17:03:00.000-08:00

you cant write this. live tv is awesome.

hear...where?

2009-02-24T21:14:00.001-08:00

OPENTAPE	Nixtape	Herschel's Mixtape
elliot.fm	Teh Jamz	Tina's Roadtrip Mix
Better Than Your Mom	ferry.fm · scare your girlfriend	Carapace'Noise
Flayks Tape	Folk	Another List
Its Ladies Time Mix	punkassjim	Wobine's mind
Songs I Like	OMGWTFBBQMIX	Scores

the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) shut down Muxtape last year. immediately there was an open source version in opentape. all you really need to do is click this link for peachtapes which collects a few of them together.

also, i am linking to hearwhere hearwhere hearwhere
hearwhere
hearwhere

maybe someone will take me to a show.

disney face

2009-02-23T11:12:00.000-08:00

i painted leah's face at the magic kingdom on our second day at disney world.
there is a deep and unfulfilled desire within me to paint on everyone's face and
draw all over their clothes. in the future, these acts of graffiti will
be recognized as such.

more to come.

Video Sketchbook

2009-02-21T22:08:00.000-08:00

What's it Mean? - 10 seconds

WATCH
(Adobe Flash streaming)

Garbage - 34 seconds

WATCH
(Adobe Flash streaming)

Car Window- 12 seconds

WATCH
(Adobe Flash streaming)

w/o subtitles - 5 minutes

Shot and edited in response to Anni Hryckiewicz. The project was abandoned for various reasons.

WATCH
(Adobe Flash streaming)

Garbage 2 - 30 seconds

WATCH
(Adobe Flash Streaming)

ruth root

2009-02-20T12:49:00.000-08:00

painted on thin aluminum sheets and hung flush to the wall.
see more images here
born 1967 chicago
1993 saic mfa
lives in nyc

if i were to curate this show there would be people playing retro video games projected sporadically throughout.

update:
found moments after previous post...

Retrospective

2009-02-18T20:18:00.000-08:00

Following Rachel's lead I made a sort of Painting Retrospective within the context of ponytails http://ponytailscomics.com/ right or wrong that's where they belong

YOU SHOULD PROBABLY TRY

2009-02-15T05:50:00.000-08:00

just because.

Toshio Iwai's Otocky

2009-02-14T15:50:00.000-08:00

rachel and kelly, you know toshio iwai from the Nintendo DS musical toy/instrument Electroplankton. iwai is also responsible for the new electronic instrument produced by Yamaha called Tenori-On. that link takes you to a presentation by iwai.

today i played his first interactive piece 1987's Otocky. it was originally made to be played on an expansion bay that clamped onto the nintendo entertainment system. i am not overestimating when i say it is glorious.

Deloris and James

2009-02-10T06:49:00.000-08:00

Phew. I am finally finished with my first comic.

Age: 28 years

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tatsumi

2009-02-06T05:12:00.000-08:00

i hate to post stuff other people have already posted about, and thus recycle the boring internet. this seemed worth repeating however. in japan yoshihiro tatsumi's latest comic the 800 page autobiography called "a drifting life" is just finishing up it's run. thanks to the success of his 3 books released stateside by drawn and quarterly and adrian tomine, we will be getting this latest work in just a couple months. ah. i get it now. it was all a marketing ploy. oh well.

here is an excerpt.

if you want to read the rest of the preview here it is

The James Kalm Report Recent Gallery -- Linkdump for Projectors

2009-01-26T01:20:00.000-08:00

'james kalm' goes around new york to gallery openings with a handheld video camera. more immediate than magazines. you might want to watch a few.

Peter Doig New Paintings at GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE

Wednesday at 10:35 am

Paul Laffoley The Sixties at KENT

January 16 at 4:08 pm

Ray Rapp I Spy at BLACK & WHITE GALLERY

January 13 at 11:50 am

Joyce Pensato The Studio Visit

January 8 at 1:29 pm

Joyce Pensato at FRIEDRICH PETZEL

January 6 at 11:32 am

2008 Year End Update Part II

January 1 at 4:44 pm

2008 Year End Update Part I

December 29 at 11:04 am

Leon Golub Did it at RONALD FELDMAN

December 25 at 11:25 am

Jim Dine Hot Dreams at PACEWILDENSTEIN

December 20 at 3:14 pm

Matthew Blackwell Whoop Em Up Cindy at EDWARD THORP GALLERY

December 17 at 2:17 pm

crossposted from friendfeed

kelly here's some (free games)

2009-01-19T18:22:00.000-08:00

hey, you remember when video games and comic books and cartoons were looked upon as poor? what a long time ago.

kelly, here's some freeware indie games as per our discussion the other night we got drunk.

(click images)

rescue the beagles

knytt stories -- and original knytt

soundless mountain 2

kung fu 2

cactus arcade

gravity bone

crayon physics demo

cave story

d. duck 2

bonesaw

you might also want to purchase these for wii:

cave story

world of goo

video

2009-01-18T01:43:00.000-08:00

new video added to the website
glitch # 2 - 2 1/2 minutes

-- incidental music by takagi masakatsu

WATCH
(Adobe Flash streaming)

Tears of the Black Tiger ^-.-^

2009-01-09T10:31:00.000-08:00

in the "perfect version" of Tears of the Black Tiger, explain briefly 10-15 scenes or set pieces that you believe happen and what they look like.

you can respond here or keep it to yourself, but when you are done at least say so.

the idea is to map out the peaks of a good film, something to thread a story through.

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Kelly Reichardt by Gus Van Sant

2009-01-08T15:17:00.000-08:00

Michelle Williams as Wendy. Still from Wendy and Lucy, 2008. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.

Director Kelly Reichardt first gained widespread notice with her 2006 film Old Joy, a paean to post–9/11 political and personal miasma played out in the campfire conversations and road-trip recollections of two longtime friends in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Together they drive into the wilderness, get lost, find the hot spring they’ve been looking for, and return to Portland. What this threadbare narrative really underscores is the unspoken impossibility of their reconnection. Wendy and Lucy, Reichardt’s latest, debuts on December 10 at Film Forum in New York. Centered around the escalating hardships of Wendy (played by Michelle Williams; Lucy is her dog) whose car breaks down in a rural Oregon town en route to a well-paying summer job, the film shows how seemingly minor setbacks can lead to devastation. Reichardt’s other films include her 1994 debut River of Grass and several short films: Ode, Then a Year, and Travis. Currently a visiting assistant professor at Bard College, she lives in New York City. Revered auteur Gus Van Sant met with Reichardt this July in Portland to discuss the joys and hardships of filming on the cheap, local hot springs, and Wendy and Lucy.read the rest

worst list

2008-10-12T03:49:00.000-07:00

according to cnn data polls the state of Idaho contains the least amount of people who support barack obama and in my scientific view is therefore The Worst Place in the U.S.
only 26% of the population of Idaho are not hate mongers
second worst place in the u.s. is Wyoming with only 28% who do not wish to "kill him"
third worst is Utah, with 29% tragically
-the list
4th worst Kansas 31%
5th worst is a tie between Oklahamo and Nebraska 34%
7th worst Alabama 36%
8th worst is a four way tie between South Carolina, Alaska, Texas and Arizona 38%

Mississippi is surprisingly only the 12th worst place to be in the u.s. (out of 50) tying 3 others for
12th worst - South Dakota, Tennessee, and Georgia at a pathetic 39%.

i`ll stop there because once you get into the 40% range it's less horrifically lopsided and maybe the unexpected torrent of booing would be less likely to erupt. so now you know which states are the worst and to what degree you should avoid them.

i am warily pleased that mississippi falls toward the bottom of that spectrum, and if it could only be raised a point might be removed altogether from this, the worst list.

The Man Who Fell To Earth

2008-09-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

2008-09-13T21:07:00.001-07:00

my bloody valentine

2008-09-10T23:12:00.000-07:00

from wikipedia:

"My Bloody Valentine played the Roundhouse in 2008. John Moore reviewed the concert in his Blog where the comments unanimously agreed that it was the loudest live concert they ever heard. One visitor comments he saw a 130 dB volume on the mixing desk, another visitor comments he saw 132 dB at one moment, both louder than the Loudest band in the world record before the Guinness Book of World Records discontinued the category."

glitch

2008-09-09T22:45:00.000-07:00

added a new video to the website
you can view it by clicking here or on either image

etsy

2008-09-09T02:29:00.000-07:00

I've added an etsy account http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6166367 my first

for which to slowly integrate into my site jeremyashlyn.com

in the miso soup

2008-09-07T18:35:00.000-07:00

damn! in the miso soup by ryu murakami might as well be called 'the rape and murder of japan'. i have never felt so confident halfway through a book before it changed into pretty much the most fucked up thing ever. i absolutely did not see it coming, although i should have. i`m not sure i want to read Piercing now.

Jim Anchower's Hard Rockin' Homepage

2008-09-06T23:08:00.000-07:00

Jim Anchower's Hard Rockin' Homepage

Jim Anchower

Herbert Kornfeld

cover

2008-09-05T22:09:00.000-07:00

i ordered ryu murakami's Piercing for 7 dollars,
shipping included, from amazon.com today
which generated a sort of curiosity about which
cover i will get

well, here they are

i hope it is not the last one

i am really liking ryu murakami

2008-09-04T23:48:00.000-07:00

not takashi murakami.

and not haruki murakami.

ryu murakami.

ONN

2008-09-04T22:41:00.000-07:00

Old, Grizzled Third-Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain

(into it)

2008-09-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art -- link

the extreme opposite of "intuit art" would be designing the shit out of something
so that the actual process of creation would be an elaborate ritual, unimportant.
every facet of said creation would be based on the prevailing common
expectations of the day as if market tested to death, and in the end would
probably trumpet basic conservative values.

at what point does something like the following work by kumi yamashita,
which would not be considered "intuit art", stop being poetic?

the answer is never.

those are made out of metal and not paper. just btw.

there is definitely something exciting about this piece however! of course! specifically,
the way information is stored on the contours of the material. if read this way, the
faces explain the original idea. paper-->cast shadows-->make face.

the piece itself is simple follow through. we are not seeing an idea happen.
if that is something you are interested in.

OpenTape

2008-09-03T21:59:00.000-07:00

http://opentape.fm/

"Opentape is not affiliated with Muxtape"

"One week after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) successfully shut down Muxtape, a new service very similar to the now defunct service has launched. The biggest difference between Muxtape and OpenTape is that OpenTape makes the users host their mixtapes on their own servers or bandwidth, instead of a central location.

OpenTape is a free, open source technology that allows users to host their own mixtapes over the Internet.

"Sharing your musical tastes should be fun and easy," the Opentape web site says. "We believe there is no reason it has to end with the shutdown of a single site, so we've created a free tool to make this possible."

Unlike Muxtape, the RIAA will have thousands of targets to go after if they try to stop people from offering their mix tracks, instead of one central target. But the service has lost some of its appeal because OpenTape users are unable to try and discover mixtapes that have been made by other users."

sexist!

2008-09-03T21:38:00.001-07:00

wynne greenwood never added me as a friend on myspace. however rachel was added, much later, after i linked to it.

again joseph nothing has new songs on the myspace. don't listen

light

2008-08-24T21:22:00.000-07:00

a comment on digg:

"had to look it up, but light travels about 186,282 miles per second (yeah outrun that). There are 31,536,000 seconds in a 365 day year. If you multiply that together you get about 5,874,589,152,000 miles light would travel per year in a straight line! (a light year)

Now if you REALLY wanna get into it, multiply 5,874,589,152,000 miles a year by 230,000,000 (light years away) and you have the distance to that image: 1,351,155,504,960,000,000,000 miles away"

GET YOUR WAR ON.

2008-08-19T15:21:00.000-07:00

posting stuff on art blog.

i wish that second video wasn't still totally sexist and fucking heteronormative in more ways than that term describes. and all the people are ugly. oh well.

the arcade

2008-08-18T22:13:00.000-07:00

Stephen Hawking

2008-08-15T03:08:00.000-07:00

a 5 minute audio excerpt from a lecture by Stephen Hawking

-and-

Bike Game

2008-08-12T21:52:00.000-07:00

Kenji Eno

2008-08-09T13:39:00.000-07:00

An excerpt from an interview with Kenji Eno, musician, creator of D2, and former boss of Fumito Ueda. Ueda went on to produce games with a definite artistic bent such as Shadow of the Colossus and the Georgio de Chirico inspired Ico. The full 1up interview

Kenji Eno: Usually, mahjong games let you strip a girl if you win the game. The girl has to take off her shirt or whatever, and that was the main concept of most mahjong games. But in my mahjong game, I created it so whenever an oyaji -- the Japanese term for a dirty, middle-aged bastard -- tries to do something bad to a girl, you go and play mahjong to save this girl. So I flipped the whole concept of mahjong games.

1up: Short Warp [A different game] came packaged with a free condom. Were you trying to get gamers to have more sex? Because when we see used copies in stores, the condom is always unused and unopened.

KE: That's sad. [Laughs] This game was made when I was almost on the edge. My mental status was getting very unbalanced, so I wanted to balance myself back by creating a game like this. I was thinking, "If I'm going to create a game like this, I should do something really crazy." And that's how I came up with the idea of this game, and that's why I included a condom. However, I had to make it limited because the packaging was expensive because it came packed with a condom, so the physical dimensions of the package got thicker, and there weren't any packages like that. So the manufacturing fee jumped up, and condoms weren't cheap either, so it was expensive to manufacture the games. If I manufactured too many units, I was going to be deep in the red. So I only made 10,000 copies, and I hand-numbered all of the packages myself.

1UP: Your puzzle game Flopon World seemed flat-out bizarre, especially its packaging. You must've been responsible for that, right?

KE: I basically put bullshit all over that manual. We were explaining things like where the company is, and I had this beautiful picture of Mt. Fuji, and then there's a bullet train and there's like a temple, and I was like, "This is my company." And there were character introductions, and I put stuff like, "This guy's dad is a sumo wrestler and his mom is a ninja." So just, like, total bullshit in the manual.

1UP: D was the game that made Warp famous. Were you trying to push the boundaries and preconceptions of game storylines with its cannibalism theme?

KE: There's a crazy story behind this. When I was first making D, it had no story. The game was already almost completed, so to put a story in the game, I had to insert it as flashbacks. While I was doing that, I wanted to do some kind of a trick. Back in those days, you weren't allowed to make any violent games -- like, stabbing people inside the game was taboo -- so you weren't allowed to do that. D has cannibalism, which was a total taboo back in the day!

But I wanted to put this in the game, so what I did was I didn't show anyone else in the company those scenes; I was hiding them until the very end. You submit the master, and they check the master and approve the master and put a sticker on it, and this gets sent to the U.S. to get printed. There was a penalty you had to pay if you're late in submitting the master, but you'd also have to deliver it by hand. So, knowing this, I submitted it late on purpose. I submitted a clean one and got it approved. Then I had to bring it to America. So on the plane, I switched the discs and submitted it to 3DO, and it got manufactured like that.

1UP: It's amazing how well the whole game holds together, considering that the storyline and the cut-scenes were like afterthoughts.

KE: There were three phases to D's development. At first, it was just an adventure game. Then I decided to insert a story and turn it into D and make the story that it was Dracula, and this is where the story appeared. But then I thought, "This won't sell; this is too boring," so I put in the third phase, which was violence.

Real Sound: The Wind's Regret

Saturn/Dreamcast, 1997/1999 | Publisher: Sega

Kenji Eno defied fan expectations with this daring adventure game devoid of onscreen visuals, forcing players to carefully listen to dialogue, music, and audio clues in order to solve a melancholy, romance-tinged mystery. A later Dreamcast rerelease added a visual element to the experience: Eno's own photography provided soothing, abstract backgrounds. Real Sound was envisioned as a franchise -- although a sequel was announced, it was never produced.

1UP: After D, you surprised Warp's fans by creating an offbeat Sega Saturn adventure game, Real Sound.

KE: Oh, that's a funky game.

1UP: Yeah, not only was it funky, it was also a game without any visuals. What inspired it, and how did you get Sega to publish it?

KE: After I released D, people were always expecting more CG graphics from me, and I got tired of that. I didn't want people to think that they could predict what Warp would do next. Also, I had a chance to visit people who are visually disabled, and I learned that there are blind people who play action games. Of course, they're not able to have the full experience, and they're kind of trying to force themselves to be able to play, but they're making the effort. So I thought that if you turn off the monitor, both of you are just hearing the game. So after you finish the game, you can have an equal conversation about it with a blind person. That's an inspiration behind this game as well.

So Sega was asking for exclusive rights to the game, and I said, "OK, if you'll donate a thousand Saturns to blind people, then I'll donate a thousand games along with the Saturns." And my condition was that if Sega would go for this idea, I would make that game Sega exclusive. So, that's how this happened. It's been several years now, and of course the contract probably isn't valid anymore, but the reason that I haven't done anything with this game is that I made this promise with Sega back in the day.

1UP: After Enemy Zero, you ported Real Sound to Dreamcast, this time adding visual elements of your photography -- and, weirdly enough, packing a bag of "herb seeds" into each game case. Why seeds, and do you think they'll still grow if we plant them now?

KE: The main reason for including seeds was that Real Sound is a love story, and it's a game that has a totally different concept from my former games, like horror games or the smaller titles, so I wanted people to understand the atmosphere of the game. So I thought that if I included these flower seeds, then that would pass on the image and give the user an idea of what kind of game it is without even explaining the story and all that. That's one of the reasons that I decided to do this. And, also, another reason is that I felt like I wanted the users to grow and support the game.

[SEGA fired all third party producers, so Eno was out of a job] I was talking to Joichi, and he was explaining everything he was doing, and he just said, "All right, why don't we work together now?" And that was very rare timing for me because I had no contracts at the time. Like, usually, even when one of my Sega projects got canceled or whatever, I had other contracts going on, so it was very rare where I had a spot where nothing was going on. But that was the very rare spot that I had, and that was the very day that Sega told me the news, so I just decided to do it. And I was feeling that I wanted to get away from games a little bit because, since I was 18, I'd been creating games full time, and I wanted to see what's out there, in the world outside of the game industry, so I thought this was a good chance. That's why I stopped making games.

1UP: During this time, you were focusing on web design, ringtones, vending machines, and other technologies. What are some of your accomplishments during this time that people in the West probably aren't aware of? You showed me your viral [Japanese candy brand] Pinky website, but what are some of the other cool things that you've done?

KE: The first thing that I did -- and probably the biggest thing I did -- was create the system where you could buy a Coke from a Coca-Cola vending machine using your cellphone. And I made a lot of things, like stuff for [Japanese cellphone operator] NTT DoCoMo, and marketing for cigarettes, and I also concept designed a trendy hotel with a hot spring. Then I did the concept design for a restaurant. I did 20 to 30 projects. So my position is a creative producer; I'm usually the person who comes up with the concept of the project, or the creation. I did a lot of random things, but the center-point, the backbone of all this, is communication. Like, the design for communication and interface. So, when I was working on the hot-spring concept, I thought, "How would the people working there and the customers communicate?" I designed the concept for the communication interface in all of these projects.

1UP: One of your animators on Enemy Zero was a young guy named Fumito Ueda, who most people know as being the creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Did you see his potential, you know, for the future when you worked with him on Enemy Zero?

KE: At the very beginning, he didn't pass the application process at Warp. But I still remember the work that he submitted; it was about a dog running in the rain. His technology as an animator, as a CG artist, wasn't that great, but his ideas and his concepts really struck me, so even though he originally wasn't on the hiring list, I handpicked him because I saw his potential. Not potential as a graphic artist, but his design and concepts struck me, so that's why I picked him out.

New Images from Heavy Rain

2008-08-07T03:16:00.000-07:00

click to enlarge

HOUSE SHOW (RACHEL POST)

2008-08-05T19:04:00.000-07:00

New Work:

New Work by Annie Mayo:

ART HELLO

mysterious bird 2010

facebook

Wendy and Walter

Cindy Sherman's Doll Clothes 1975

mute / dimensions variable / garage projections / 2007-09

Office Killer (Cindy Sherman, 1997)

'office killer' 1997

moon face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

charlotte et veronique (all the boys are called patrick)

definitely face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

can/unwound

straight face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

Art Hello #1

Video Games as Art Related

Shit I've Created

Selling My Stuff

Places to Move To

Upcoming Stuff

End

garbage face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

outtakes : Sky Captain

gold face / 8 x 10 inches / mixed media on panel / 2009

sky captain

lost

noise

rachel

tokyo bopper

tv/forest

To Do List by Rachel Collier

No Bra

george kuchar

New Work

Evil Dead 4

Wendy and Lucy by Kelly Reichardt Edit: Bad Movie AVOID

Etsy Artist *Hine*

Frank Stella - Hard Lines

aakash nihalani

D.A. Pennebaker's 'Monterey Pop'

sigmar polke

screaming

the new shit

space shuttle and sun, real

Papergirl (Berlin)

zine

Does Naked Make it Art?

Hair Removal and Maintenance - Cosmopolitan Magazine

George Kuchar!!

Leslie and the Lys

ATTN RACHEL COLLIER

weekend review 3

weekend review 2

weekend review

In California

Installation 2008 BFA Show

last thursday

two music centric

hello

flowers i planted

*

Stills

nothing beats the real thing

hear...where?

disney face

Video Sketchbook

ruth root

Retrospective

YOU SHOULD PROBABLY TRY

Toshio Iwai's Otocky

Deloris and James

tatsumi

The James Kalm Report Recent Gallery -- Linkdump for Projectors

kelly here's some (free games)

video

Tears of the Black Tiger ^-.-^

Kelly Reichardt by Gus Van Sant

worst list

The Man Who Fell To Earth

my bloody valentine

glitch

Etsy Artist Hine