i love photoshop
Okay, this is just flat out brilliant. It’s almost as good as Phil Spector’s hair. I love the people who have the time and energy to do this stuff and share it to make the rest of our lives so full.
Just 4 days left; I’m falling behind in e-mail again. Time to go home.
kudos
Finally, folks, some happy news—congrats to artist (and scholar) Roshini Kempadoo for completing her PhD. Go, Ro!!!
in honor of today’s democracy now…
…could this image from last night’s De Beer’s store opening in New York look any more pseudo-colonialist (well, yes, I guess if the woman at right were African)?
And can I just comment, in the midst of Lindsey Lohan mania (she attended the De Beers thing), that Herbie: Fully Loaded is directed by Angela Robinson, a [...]
white people can sure mess up your day
So there I am walking to the post office with a letter for my love, it’s a beautiful warm day, 2½ weeks left in Taos, I’d gotten some work done this morning, I’d just had a good latté, and I’m walking along and there are two teenagers in front of me, a boy and girl, [...]
michael jackson walks
Now, I haven’t kept up with all the details of this one, but, man, don’t all those kids lose.
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- PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35 On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]
- Hank Willis Thomas interview December 4, 2008Check out this interview with Hank Willis Thomas in PhotoEye magazine online, http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/features/2008/12_03_Hank_Willis_Thomas.cfm, in which he talks about his monograph Pitch Blackness.
- Obama at #15 November 24, 2008Poli-Book Best Seller List Based on sales for weeks ending Oct. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008 15. Obama, by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida. (Amistad, $26.95.) Photographs capturing Obama’s 18-month campaign to the presidency. Rankings reflect aggregated sales for the weeks ending October 25 through November 15, 2008 at many thousands of venues where a wide range of [...]
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- Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
- Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008I have a few projects coming up to share with you. I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London. Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]