GATHERING STICKS

My sister is planning a little installation for her final review in December. She wants to build a teepee for people to sit in before they look at her watercolors. We drove out to Bedford to collect tree branches from our grandparent's back woods. They treated us to homemade beef stew and corn bread. It was a foggy day. We saw fourteen turkeys.

I will post an update once she builds the teepee and wraps it in plaid fabric.

CREATION/DESTRUCTION

PIETER HUGO: THE HYENA & OTHER MEN

Pieter Hugo is a remarkable photographer from South Africa. LOOK: www.pieterhugo.com.

BARBARA BOSWORTH - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

The Live Sand Oak, 8x10

The Common Pear, 8x10

This morning Shane and I had a nice conversation about the influential presence of trees. The Gaelic druids believed that trees were spirits, and each tree had its own unique power. You can't blame 'em, as trees are some of the largest living things on the planet. So in photo class today, we looked at the National Champion series by Barbara Bosworth. All these trees are deemed by the American Forest's National Register of Big Trees, as the largest tree of its species. The tragic fact that I learned while researching the project was that many of these champions are often stripped of their title due to death by fire, disease or pests. According to sources, only three of these beauties remain from the original list taken in 1940.

RUSSELL DRISCH

CREWCUTS

The thing about J. Crew is that they have no shame.

The catalog comes every month to my apartment for someone who doesn't live here anymore and we always revel at the children. Dressed - really, honestly - like little adults. It's bothersome. Rodney says that's how he'd dress his children.

I'd make them drag the Christmas tree up the mountain, too.

CONVERSATION

B: "Look at Thompson's campaign poster for Aspen sheriff in 1970"

A: "I think Gregory Blake must have drops of his blood."

FART SCHOOL

acrylic, ink, sandpaper, magazine 

Freud would have a field day with this. 

ART SHAMAN CLEMENTE

Francisco Clemente with Alighiero e Boetti, Afghanistan 1974

I just learned that art in the seventies happened like vagabonding:

"stoned-soul picnics in 1970s Kabul and the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion of 1979; of vibrant, easy-to-plunder craft traditions – embroidery, paper-making, miniaturists for hire – in Pakistan and India, before their emergence as political minefields and global giants; of long walks through the labyrinthine kasbah in Cairo, of taking tea with Paul Bowles in Tangiers"
-Brooks Adams

I want to take tea with Paul Bowles in Morocco.

LATE NIGHT NUANCES

I don't write songs,
let alone have six strings on my guitar, but I record a lot of
improvisations. I've got over a hundred of these silly things now.
"This is How My Head Feels"

SEAN LOVES VIMEO PROJECTS

So recently I've gotten into Vimeo, which is a really cool video sharing community. It's pretty much a hip YouTube with good video quality. But the creators are really into having users create projects for other users to make videos for. One of their ongoing series is called, the "5x5 Vignette." Where you edit together 5 clips, 5 seconds each. The clips can be related in someway, or heck, completely unrelated. After watching other people's 5x5s, I decided to make my own.

Check other 5x5 videos from the official vimeo channel here.