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November 12, 2005

 

over, but still open

Here I sit in the Taxidermy Gallery, keeping the public face wide open and smiling, though covered in three weeks of beard and the half-lidded eyes of a man who is finally able to relax. Yesterday was the culmination of two months of work, all wrapped up in a day which I had ostensibly taken off to relax before the show, but ended up running around all day, putting out fires or...
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November 09, 2005

 

how to become vaguely self-important

Art continues unabated. After the Friday afternoon pandemonium, we quickly righted ourselves, like good Christian folk do. We aren't any of those three descriptors, but we are always striving. So the very first place we went, we ordered frames, offered to us at a cheaper price than we would have paid in Chicago, not even factoring in the gas, which would have been kind of a bite out of our financial ass....
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November 03, 2005

 

our great adventures in art (have been cancelled)

Ha Ha, just kidding. Of course I'm gonna talk about it some more. This gallery show is taking over my brain. I have to worry about stuff like distributing postcards and whether we'll get enough (ie, any) coverage and never mind the whole perseveration over whether people will like the stuff, let alone buy some. Everything is pretty much done. We just have to assemble the frames, get some last minute replacement...
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October 30, 2005

 

and this is the last thing i say about it until the point at which i loudly complain about it

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Finding Home - New and recent photography by Harold Sipe and Christopher Sebela Opening Reception: Friday, Nov 11th 7-10pm The Taxidermy Gallery 1229 Union Ave. (The West Bottoms) Kansas City, MO 64101 website: http://www.luckysipe.com/findinghome/ Show Statement On paper, or in idle thoughts, the road is a long, winding solution. Travel can be leisurely escape, philosophical release or simple salvation. We abandon everything and everyone familiar, but the same-old, same-old...
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October 24, 2005

 

Finding Home

It's all happening......
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October 04, 2005

 

city visible: revealed!

The show is down, the glitter has blown away, the phone has stopped ringing off the hook and the non-stop parade of limousines, cocaine and photo groupies is coming to a slow grinding halt. So now it can be revealed, here's the photos from my part of the City Visible show. There's some big doings afoot, which will make these affordable and ownable for you, the art-frenzied public. But until then, enjoy,...
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September 16, 2005

 

city visible: tonight

Buzz Gallery presents: City:Visible Photo essays on urban space Interpreting the work of Italo Calvino Sept 9th to Oct. 3rd Artists Reception Friday, September 16th, 2005, 7-10pm Mama Buzz Café and Buzz Gallery 2316 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland This event is free With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities,...
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September 12, 2005

 

preemptive strike

Maybe it's a tad early, but confirmation came in on Friday that my friend Harold and I will have a gallery show at the Taxidermy Gallery (down in the Bottoms in the old post office) the second week of November. Since this is likely to occupy a good deal of my time between now and then, I'm sure I'll be rambling about it incessantly, but I'm in need of something to blog,...
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September 08, 2005

 

"i wish i could be everywhere that awt is being made"

Here's the tenative line-up for my part of the City Visible show, wrought all tiny. Bicycle (with shadow) and yellow legal pad (beneath pen and cell phone) are separate installation pieces which can be seen by appointment in the dining room gallery. If you're in Oakland and you've got money for art, go buy some. If not, I'll be shamelessly peddling some here after the fact. Everybody wins....
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August 16, 2005

 

Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says

Buzz Gallery presents: City:Visible Photo essays on urban space Interpreting the work of Italo Calvino Sept 9th to Oct. 3rd Artists Reception Friday, September 16th, 2005, 7-10pm Mama Buzz Café and Buzz Gallery 2316 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland This event is free With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear....
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February 01, 2004

 

aesthetic apparatus

fucking off to bed now....
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December 27, 2003

 

thoughtpaper

because absolutely no one in their right mind demanded it, wallpaper: 1024 x 768...
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November 21, 2003

 

blink

Simon Boswell's digital video installation, part of the ICA's whatdoyouwanttodowithit? festival, is an audio-visual exhibition of portraits of celebrities, blinking....
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November 05, 2003

   


October 23, 2003

 

timmy fisher

My friend Timmy, he makes the art....
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October 21, 2003

   


September 26, 2003

   


August 26, 2003

 

hector casanova

wow....
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August 14, 2003

   


 

• Sérigraphie Populaire •

Hey there ! We are young, sexy and famous. You need our posters. They will make u popular, impress your associates and get you LAID. (Selling them will also allow us to eat and eating is FUN, FUN, FUN!) Polls have shown that both sexes are equally impressed and turned on by screened concert posters. You will be be the hippest hipster on your block. Wear your boho status on your...
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August 13, 2003

   


August 05, 2003

 

28mm

28mm.org: an online photography magazine...
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July 31, 2003

   


   


July 24, 2003

 

Codex Seraphinianus

"It is the Codex Seraphinianus, perpetrated by Luigi Serafini in 1981 and since published in a number of different countries. I cannot say "translated into a number of different languages" since the text is written in a wholly imaginary language, which must remain untranslatable. Imaginary as well is the world depicted in the lavish illustrations — not just the cities, dress, and customs of beings which are themselves bizarre variations on the...
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July 21, 2003

 

Matt Dye

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July 11, 2003

   


July 10, 2003

 

arturo herrera

In Almost Home, Arturo Herrera invites the viewer of his website project to become a player in an ersatz game that involves such fundamentals, albeit now couched in the vocabulary of childhood fantasy. The spectator is offered the option of creating diptychs to his or her own taste from the hundred collages which constitute the storehouse or deck in Herrera's singular pack of cards."Almost Home" invites the spectator to participate in...
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July 08, 2003

 

charles burns' altoid ads

ads disguised as comics // print & billboard ads...
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July 07, 2003

 

misprinted type

your weakness is fear....
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July 06, 2003

   


 

jay ryan

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June 19, 2003

 

kirsten ulve

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June 16, 2003

 

tim biedron

paintingsdrawingstattoos...
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June 13, 2003

 

gregory crewdson

Crewdson's photos look like movie stills and are made like movies, with a load of technicians and complicated sets mostly shot with real people in Lee, Mass. Greg has somehow convinced this little blue collar tract to get into the act. It's Crewdson's own Art Habitat....
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June 09, 2003

 

thoughtpeach: fridge magnet poetry

Courtesy Kelly Sue's tumorphone....
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June 07, 2003

 

murder explained

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May 15, 2003

 

leonard freed

google says...
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April 24, 2003

 

art o mat

Maxwell located a recently-banned cigarette machine and convinced (some even say harassed) Clark to use it to vend his artwork. In June 1997, the first Art*o*mat was installed with 12 of his other paintings. It first sold Clark's black & white photographs for $1.00 each....
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March 19, 2003

 

natural car alarms

"They’re all real birds," Katchadourian says of her Natural Car Alarms. "They are all a little bit re-edited so that I could... get this patterning to work. And they are -- like car alarms -- quite loud, quite shrill." She tells Karr she built the hardware for her alarms from car stereos and microprocessor chips. She got the basic bird sounds from the Macauley Library of Natural Sounds at Cornell University. Her...
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