Anodyne
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
 
"UWTI is 'the 3x leveraged high-risk abstract synthetic derivative of the month for beginners right now,' Rogozinski said."
- posted by cjb @ 7:07 AM
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
 

Velazquez, View of the Garden of the Villa Medici, 1634.  Coll. Museo del Prado.



JW, The Drain, 1989

One doesn't depend on the other -- the depictive arts don't work like that -- but I can't believe that the symmetry in the figures' poses, the frontality of that big black hole & the greenery all around is total coincidence, either.  Thierry de Duve links The Drain to Cezanne's Le Pont de Maincy (1879-00) (that hole, again! That foreground stone that seems to float free, "unanchored" in front of the picture surface!) so maybe that's another echo, too.
- posted by cjb @ 9:46 PM
 

F.H. Varley, Untitled (Figures by a Fire), c. 1925. Lithograph.  Don't know the full story on this -- small pre-1950 Canadian print works usually = Christmas Card, but even if so, this one's beautiful.
- posted by cjb @ 6:57 PM
 

The author and his spirit animal. Photo credit: "Flash" Fulford
- posted by cjb @ 11:44 AM
Saturday, March 26, 2016
 
"My favorite scene in the movie is one where I'm stuck in traffic, and 'Maggot Brain' (by the band Funkadelic) is playing, and you see the light change over the mountains. That's Los Angeles, right? It's a combination of public space and private space, something that could make you miserable but if the music's right it doesn't make you miserable at all."
- posted by cjb @ 10:46 AM
Friday, March 25, 2016
 



More double self portraits

Q: You wouldn't hybridize--
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Double self-portrait

I never dreamt that I would get to be
the creature that I always meant to be
but somehow in spite of dreams 
I thought you'd be sitting somewhere here with me
- posted by cjb @ 10:45 PM
 

"He was supposed to be marmalade striped but the dying company they sent the model to fucked it up and Postgate and Firmin just rolled with it."
- posted by cjb @ 2:15 PM
Thursday, March 24, 2016
 

This seems like information better unshared with a snoopy autodidact.

"Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the processes of extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and re-producing it or reproducing anything based on the extracted information. The process often involves disassembling something (a mechanical device, electronic component, computer program, or biological, chemical, or organic matter) and analyzing its components and workings in detail."
- posted by cjb @ 11:54 AM
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
 



Vancouver, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 8:15 PM
 

Kate's Magnolia, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 7:53 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016
 

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Thursday, March 17, 2016
 
That Giorgio Agamben essay cited below, "The Assistants" (in Profanations, Zone Books, 2015), is one of the best theoretical texts I have read, a short exegesis of some motifs in Kafka also totally relevant to the photographs that appear here from time to time.
- posted by cjb @ 10:39 PM
 

Diagonal Composition, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 8:52 PM
 

Little Creatures, 2016

After Agamben on Kafka's "assistants," Wall's double Odradek, my friend Evan Lee's boxes and ginsengs, and Rose T. Cat's various friends & associates.
- posted by cjb @ 8:41 PM
 

Remnant Fence, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 8:21 PM
 

Street View magnolia research, 2016, of a moment in August 2015, though some viewers may also be reminded of a moment in 2010, or four earlier moments the same year.
- posted by cjb @ 12:43 AM
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
 

Baldwin Magnolia, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 11:51 PM
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
 

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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
 

- posted by cjb @ 9:28 PM
 
Anodyne Inc.

I don't post that much here anymore about real-life Anodyne Inc., but am pleased to report that one of the portfolio's holdings gained 40% in the last few days, finally exceeding my estimate of intrinsic value, and was sold.  To put this in perspective, this is the equivalent of a extra week of receipts in the shop, and from reading and thinking, to boot! My thanks to Mr. Charlie Munger (for the courage of one's convictions) & Ms. Sylvia Grace Borda, whose frustration with the suspects originally made me go take a closer look at them, only to realize they were a/ publicly traded, and, b/ significantly undervalued.
- posted by cjb @ 7:21 PM
 
"New competitive environments create dire consequences for many of those who fail to normalize behavior."
- posted by cjb @ 8:36 AM
Monday, March 07, 2016
 

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Eldorado Wash, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 9:03 PM
Sunday, March 06, 2016
 

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Chocolate Factory Cactus Garden (2), 2016
- posted by cjb @ 9:01 PM
 

Edge of a wash, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 2:07 PM
Saturday, March 05, 2016
 
 
Pop quiz!

You're a newspaper of record, with about a thousand words available to devote to visual art on the weekend.  Should you:

1.  Profile a local indigenous artist whose work is currently included in a group exhibition at a prominent private collection, or,

2.  Profile the collection's owner's biography, thoughts & feelings, business advice, etc., etc. etc., while mentioning the local indigenous artist only in passing?
- posted by cjb @ 6:54 PM
 

Below Whitney Mesa, Henderson, NV, 2016

But now I want only the discretion of realism
I can't say it any more clearly than this.

(My adversary R., not wrong)
- posted by cjb @ 9:05 AM

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