updates

"She took the crowd along."

to here

&

bees dance!

to here
and here
and possibly here

untitled pictures, 2008

Events around New Brunswick

abstraction house

of course this throwing the shoes up onto the wire thing is pretty common,
but I always think, what's it supposed to signify?


TBC....

terry winters-related

Terry Winters has a show up:
Knotted Graphs
Matthew Marks Gallery Nov 6 - Jan 24, 2009

What about the color in these paintings?
Seemed like an interesting flashback to the thin line between light and mud
in the Robert Bordo show at last month...

since I didn't take any pictures, here are some related tissue sample
drawings meticulously noted by an anonymous 20th century
medical student (probably Italian).

nov.20_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _21st

bill straightener (to be installed in laundromat) with compound shape/ compound shape with Relator as Scale Indicator

"covers and citations"

a pretty good survey of them here

Hana Hegerova- (the Czech Edith Piaf) - the first of a series of attempted translations

You Have Where To Go (Pack It Up)

So enough now of your magic- ubiquitous
like dog's wine*.
My juices he would keep sucking, my sun
keep taking-

So that charm of yours,
please pack it up.

What competence, yours, and what a dear host you are-
and I've had enough- so pack it up. So bye, sweetheart.
You have where to go, -
you'll even make of it a career, so pack it up.

You know how to live well, in dreams, desire and feeling.
A few pretty things, then love is but habit,
like buttoning a shirt, and it's a wonder...
But how did you tap into it? What a man!
So go with god, I'm closing up shop, and your Old Spice...
I'll air out.

You know it so well, yes-
your pretty head raised with pride,
what was before isn't, no, but you have to return the key.
Be healthy about it, save yourself now-
with me you're just wasting your time;
I have your school at least - so thanks.

And bye, sweetheart- you have somewhere to go-
and surely, you'll even make a career out of it...


* a type of vine

originally written by Petr Hupka
live version link here

home

guerilla november bring indoors garden

moonbow

Language/ Shadows

One of my favorite pieces in the Ludwig Collection in Budapest.
artist: Peter Türk
Check out the extensive and lofty description of process...this may
have been translated from the original Hungarian by a computer, -
shedding much light upon Hungarian syntax.

Nothing much to say about this stack of bricks seen outside
Mister Minit in Budapest, other than that they were quite beautiful in the dusk...

Tamas Szabo's studio

"sometimes you just need to let the phone keep on ringing..."





this is a guitar body in its infancy


(the circular things are improvised clamps made
from steel rods sharpened at both ends)


...speakers for different ranges...


...EVIL receiver!


chair awaiting reupholstering


note the filmic representation of catching fish...


another really nice fish painting near the music and sleep area

I meant to project this photoscramble on a wall in Budapest
but never got to it so I'm posting it here instead.

Técsői Banda

"The Técső Band – playing the traditional Russian music of the Máramarosians – is one of the best-known bands of the crown town, which lies on the upper part of the river Tisza. The accordionist Jóska Csernavec and his brothers are the descendants of a reputed gypsy dynasty, but the band’s violinists are not family members. Somehow playing violin was not inherited within the family. All of them learnt the musical style from their ancestors. Their diverse repertoire – because of the strong interethnic influence – features local Romanian, Gypsy, Jewish, Russian and Hungarian songs. I made my first recordings with them at the beginning of the 70’s. At that time, the legendary father Jura Csernavec “Manyo” played the violin.

Unfortunately, his virtuoso performance survived only on a single cassette in bad quality. The band often performs on weddings, on funerals, on Christmas and on the fest of “Misána” (sheep clipping). Their instrument kit includes violin, neckwear cimbalom, bajan (that is an accordion with buttons) and drum equipped with cymbal. The drummer uses a plastic sheet called plonka. He operates this by pressing it between his lower denture and his gum, playing tunes or sometimes playing only to enhance the rhythm of the dance.

Present recordings were made on two occasions with two different primates. On the first part of the album, we can hear wedding music on the second part dance music. During the editorial work, my ambition was to have the band record the most interesting pieces in our studio. I was hoping that many others would love the music of the “unknown land” as much as I love them."

- Ferenc Kiss

birds

they made their nest from wet newspapers

Pater Nostra (The Perpetual Elevator)

stills from a video project at the BKV building in Budapest, using
their antique open-construction elevators, which are quite thrilling to ride.
full video coming soon to the youtube channel.

(click to see better resolution)

Events around Budapest

from the top:
1.makeshift sundial
2.specialists are called in to resuscitate an automobile
3.Hungarian door-propping device
4.code for "this parking spot is reserved"
5.green corner
6.handle display
7.handlebar display
8. ?????