• 1010 WINS – On-Air, Online, On Demand – Odd-Looking ‘Submarine’ Spotted Near Queen Mary 2
  news article links to bloggy for a photo of the revolutionary era submarine
  tags: selfpromotion bloggy

It appears to me that this is another Duke Riley “event”. See my earlier post for more information and compare these photos. The first is from flickr, the second is from WABC.

• Daily Kos: Fox News wins in court
  [old but interesting] In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
  tags: foxnews murdoch newscorp news media

Manuela Leal
Kalashnikov Close-Up, 2007
58 × 78 Inches (4 parts)

I haven’t seen this work in person. I saw it on Manuela Leal’s RSS feed for her website. Yes, I still actually follow via RSS every artist on ArtCat. I have emailed with her about this series of work in the past, and learned a few things about where these come from.

These are color pencil and spray paint on inkjet prints. The images come from various war-related foreign videos on YouTube. I watch the videos and take stills from the computer screen with a digital camera. I then print the images, have layers of spray paint and then color pencils on top… I have been interested in war images and in “rebuilding” images of war and bombed, decimated buildings and places for a while now…</p>

On YouTube, these videos are often posted as “responses” to other videos, as “justifications” (i.e.: a documentary on Croatian concentration camps will be posted in response to a serbian nationalistic video, and a video of a foreign mujahideen on the side of Bosnians torturing Serbian soldiers will be posted in response to a video on the massacre of Bosnians in Srebrenica by Serbs…).

I recognize that detached from language (they are often in languages I cannot understand), these images of war (and often propaganda) are posted, watched and commented on by people to whom images still carry immense urgency and power – they need to be seen…

I would like to know if" art" could still envision another reality, if by “altering” images one can offer the possibility – even if fictional – of change…</blockquote>

• Everything is like a scene from a Bergman film
  awesome essay on Ingmar Bergman by S.T. VanAirsdale of The Reeler
  tags: bergman film

If I could believe that going to a barricade would affect man’s fate in the slightest I would go to that barricade, and quite often I wish that I could, but it would be less than honest to say that I expect to happen upon such a happy ending.

Joan Didion, Morning After The Sixties, 1970

I just finished reading The White Album by Joan Didion. I have read a couple of other books of her essays, and of course I read everything she writes for the New York Review of Books.

• www.myspace.com/cryinglostartwork
  A new project by Pedro Velez for artists who have had a gallery "lose" their work.
  tags: art gallery sleaze fraud

Sarah Braman
Jody Wants to Know More about Lasers, 2007
Plexiglass, furniture, and paint
31 × 36 × 36 inches

Here is another work from the show I mentioned Friday. Sarah is one of the artists who runs the excellent Lower East Side gallery CANADA.

• Metroblogging Pittsburgh: Blogging Can Change The World
  While Barry and James are unlikely to stay always near the top of the DYI heap in terms of web traffic, It’s likely they are close to being the two most important people to have emerged in the art world in the last 25 years. I for one, learned to understa
  tags: selfpromotion bloggy jameswagner
• Summer’s Seven-Day Week – New York Times
  a travel article on skipping Chelsea in August and heading to the Lower East Side to see some bloggy favorites like SUNDAY, Thierry Goldberg, and Jen Bekman
  tags: art travel gallery nyc lowereastside

Carrie Marill
Whooping Crane, Endangered, North America
Kokia Drynarioides, Endangered, USA
Monkey Puzzle, Threatened, South America
Baishanzu Fir, Endangered, China
Brown Pelican, Protected, USA
Eurasian Wryneck, Endangered, Eurasia
Hawaiian Crow, Extinct in Wild, USA
Whiskered Tern, Threatened, Europe
Arizona Leather Flower, Threatened, USA, 2007
Gouache on paper
30 × 22 inches

If you’re reading this right now in Los Angeles, you can head on over to Carrie Marill’s show opening tonight at sixspace. Caryn Coleman of sixpace was cool and together enough to be IMing with me right before the opening, and sent me a link to some images. Having just watched a PBS show about John James Audobon, I was particularly struck by these beautiful images of “gouache-on-paper paintings depicting threatened or endangered flora and fauna existing in an imaginary world.”

I was not surprised to see Walton Ford interviewed on the TV show about Audobon.