don't worry mom, everything is just fine,

just another uplifting week here with BBC Scotland

okra love

new york

on december fifteenth, i am going to new york

a really nice project my friend paul sent me

blot out the sun

some from a series by the starn brothers,

who also did the big bambu on the roof of the metropolitan museum in new york right now.

i would love i would love i would love to go see that.

all sickies hang in there

no, maam

magic

remember in grade k/1/2 when you would all gather around parachute-like tarp, in all its rainbow glory, each holding onto the edge, and whip it up, lift it quickly above your heads, then quickly, quickly, behind you to the ground. sitting on it, trapping the air into a dome above you all. a magical, impenetrable tent of laughter, story telling, and coloured light.

on lightness and being

i have been thinking a lot about light and shadow (any artists you can think of would be kindly appreciated)

Olafur Eliasson came to me in a stumbling moment of library synastry. I was standing in front of several Tracy Emin monographs, trying to grapple with a difficult feeling (that I think I like some of the work Tracy Emin makes.) When just to the left floated a book Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned. For now three projects to share,

beauty (1993)

Notion Motion (2005)

and Your Sun Machine (1997)

jan dibbets

we all know i have a thing for dutch conceptual artists, including (but not exclusively)

perspective correction (all 1968)

landscapes and dutch mountains

beautiful skill and time consuming drawings of interior architecture, like modern homes or cathedrals

read only

if at least at some point in your life, you were

completely obsessed with star wars,

source, source,

matters of consequence

old favourites are still relevant;

Your Gay Neighbors from Artists Against 8 on Vimeo.

or a more aggressive tactic

there is also, the new campaign front at fckh8.com;

FCKH8.com Straight Talk About Gay Marriage from FCKH8.com on Vimeo.

on my mind;

some stuff i will see

please exit through the gift shop;

much has been said about banksy; so much so, that i will refrain from adding much here,

accept to say that i still will watch this film,

i have heard good things. also, i am just plain curious,

a hundred million hand painted porcelain sunflower seeds

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, i have been in the turbine hall over a handful of times but NEVER during an installation, and i am so beyond words excited to see this next month;

BUT I also just heard that the public has been banned from walking on it due to concerns that dust from the porcelain may be a health hazard....

heartbreak

heartbreak

heartbroken;

will keep you posted. i mean really,

life is never guaranteed to be safe

over your cities grass will grow

"the bible is always talking about destruction,

over your cities grass will grow"

anselm kiefer, anselm kiefer, anselm kiefer

he has a show on in newcastle right now and i refuse to leave this continent until i've seen it,

but, amazingly, in the meantime i got to see this amazing documentary on his time in Barjac on a big screen last Thursday

LIVING IN THE UK/A BIG CITY IS AWESOME

it contains very little dialogue or information and very many long slow shots and

is very breathtaking, very beautiful, and was very successful at peaking my interest

you can watch four clips from it here, but promise me you'll watch the whole thing soon

thereTHERE

the most wonderful thing arrived in the mail today,

yes, a lot.

let's watch this

these sentences comment on art, but are not art

SOL LEWITT - SENTENCES ON CONCEPTUAL ART

perpetual motion - le mouvement perpetuel

because a cat always lands on its feet, but also

bread always lands butter-side-down

(at first i thought this was a real cat i nearly died (somehow this was really exciting and not negative or awful)

this guy

I can't tell if I find this artwork hilarious or not. this guy plus me,

one-on-one, half an hour, tomorrow. I will be extra charming. Maybe we will be best friends.

Archery Influencing Style at Some Point in the Future, 2009

Dandy Outlaws Gesturing by a Fallen Tree (Nightvision), 2009

designated place for fun

fall colours

It's always good to have an act, an image,

I mean really, those socks

homemade by ikea

ikea has released a book called Homemade is Best

I know. this makes no sense. BUT, it happens to be a book with thirty cake and cookie recipes,

and no text. just beautiful photos inspired by japanese minimalism.

EAT YOUR HEART OUT:

i found this through this blog i sometimes love/hate; Things Organized Neatly

Box Piece, Yoko Ono

oh you,

I want to do a piece where I go to the Alps and talk to a mountain. The mountain will talk of

things which are necessary and always true, and I shall talk of things which are sometimes,

accidentally true.

this video is really nice

the sooner the better

THIS GENTLE HEARTBREAK

was the first thing on my news feed when I opened my computer this morning

thanks andrew, andrew, andrew,

i exist on a plane of delight

on letter writing

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if you live in halifax (ns) and you enjoy writing, reading or listening,

you should without a doubt be attending and partaking in the wonderful project that is

The Allan Street Reading Series, operating one Wednesday of every month at 7pm.

most recently, their theme was letter writing, for which Alison Creba (of city mail,

another fantastic Halifax project you should partake in) wrote this wonderful little piece

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oh, you know, there has been much conversation around my envelopes these days,

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artist On Kawara,

and projects I Got Up, I Am Still Alive, I Went

iv//

The New York Correspondence School