END OF FALL HARVEST

Haven't posted in awhile because I've been busy with babiez like THIS ONE:

"Me 'N My County-Fair-Prize-Sized Carrot"
(more at Cook Student Organic Farm)

FAMILY FAMILY TREE (ONE YEAR AGO)

took me awhile to get through this roll...

DORA THE SEXEDPLORER

Dora's second mutation towards becoming a Bratz Doll.
Discuss.

COMBAT PAPER

The story of the soldier, the Marine, the men and the women and the journeys within the military service in a time of war is the basis for this project. The goal is to utilize art as a means to help veterans reconcile their personal experiences as well as challenge the traditional narrative surrounding service, honor and the military culture.

Through papermaking workshops veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beat and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experiences as a soldier in war.

Combat Paper Project

I got to work with these folks (headed by Drew Cameron and Drew Matott) at Rutgers in the fall of 2008 and meant to write something up on it forever, but didn't until now. It's a really amazing project and it's also been interesting to see how papermaking has shifted from being a "craft" to actually being considered a form of art. Typically, papermaking hasn't been considered much an art in itself, but rather just a step in the process of printmaking or a craft, like knitting. But initiatives such as Combat Paper show how much you can do with paper itself.

The video is a clip from a longer documentary that filmmaker Sara Nesson has been working on the past few years.

2,191 DAYS AND COUNTING

"2,191 Days and Counting" is a three week art exhibition, from March 5th - March 22nd, held at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn. All proceeds from art sales will be going to the Winter Soldier project of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), which collects soldiers' firsthand accounts of wartime experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. An opening reception with the artists, including Jim Nachtwey, Joyce Kozloff, Joan Snyder, David Opdyke, Martha Rosler, Steve McCurry and Joy Garnett, will take place on Saturday, March 7th at 6PM, and for $10 at the door you may enjoy gourmet food, beverages and performances, including IVAW members speaking about the Winter Soldier project. As the nation nears the six-year anniversary of the wars, IVAW hopes to expose true narratives while encouraging debate aimed at ending these wars.

2,191 Days and Counting: a benefit exhibition for the Iraq Veterans Against the War
Thursday, March 5th through Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Reception and performance: Saturday, March 7th, 6-10 PM
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street; DUMBO, Brooklyn 11201
(718) 666-3049
$10 donation at the door
ivawbenefit@gmail.com
www.2191daysandcounting.com

CALL FOR SALON SUBMISSIONS
Call for artists to donate a work of art to a benefit exhibition for the Iraq Veterans Against the War. We are dedicating one wall of the space for a floor to ceiling installation. Space is limited to the first 100 works submitted. The exhibition will run from Thursday March 5th through Sunday March 22nd, 2009 @ The Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo opening with an evening of celebration and performance Saturday March 7th, 2009 6pm-10pm

JPEG SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

1) The artwork should address the narrative of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2) Dimensions no larger than 8 ½ x 11" (framing is optional and the responsibility of the artist).
3) Jpegs must be submitted: please send them to: IVAWbenefit@gmail.com The subject line should read SALON. The jpegs should be no smaller than 1024x768 pixels and no larger than 1620x1080 pixels (@72 dpi).
4) Jpegs should be named as follows: lastname_firstinitial_01.jpg
5) In the body of the email specify the title, date, medium and materials used. Underneath the details of the work(s) please include your contact information.

Artworks will be on sale for $100 each for the duration of the exhibition.
All proceeds will benefit IVAW's Winter Soldier Project which collects soldiers' firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while providing legal and mental health support.
Drop Off Artists in the New York metropolitan area are to drop off their works at Powerhouse on Tuesday March 2nd between 10am - 6pm. Shipping Artists outside the New York metropolitan area will be responsible for their own shipping. De-installation will take place on Monday March 23rd.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Maya Joseph-Goteiner & Chere Krakovsky, Benefit Exhibition Organizers

ALWAYS USE PROTECTION

FINGER CONDOMS
For your handy needs.

I work at The Brodsky Center with the papermaking studio which involves constantly getting soaked (we wear rainboots and floor-length vinyl aprons when we work). I was burning paper edges today and my clumsy hands got burnt on a Dremel burner tool (seriously hot shit), NOT something you ever want to do. But I had to keep working for the next few hours, and Lisa at the center introduced me to the amazing FINGER COTS (or finger condoms, more appropriately). You can find them at drugstores. I never like to advertise products, but this is seriously brilliant for dealing with burns/cuts on your fingers if you need to keep doing something involving lots of water and still want to be able to have a good amount of control with your hands (papermaking, photo darkroom, screenprinting, dishes, shower, rowboatin', canoin', kayakin', water balloon fight, rainstorm thumb wars...).

SCAN UR SOUL

The real me.

PERSONAL SPACE

This is the magic happening.

JUDGEMENT DAY: HELLO KITTY

The Ultimate Insult to Thai Masculinity

Headline: "To Punish Thai Police, a Hello Kitty Armband"

Apparently this is old news. But it's new news to me.
I wonder if there are any Asian pop culture/gender studies people out there...

ELLEN KOOI PHOTOGRAPHY

My friend Anne introduced me to Ellen Kooi's work awhile back.
I really love how haunting and beautiful all of her photographs are, like dark children's stories that seem a little too foreboding for real children to handle.

Ellen Kooi is a photographer in the Netherlands.
(Amanda, go find her)
http://www.ellenkooi.nl/Ellenkooi.htm

OBAMESSIAH?

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
--Frederick Douglass 1857

While it's certainly history, real change has always come from people pressuring those in power. Don't you forget it.

PALIN'S CLOSET

Alaskan Wunderland, 2005

FAMILY FAMILY TREE

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