Digitalism

So music is a big part of my life and I just found out about this band called Digitalism.

They are really keeping me from jumping off a bridge right now.

^I have a video in the middle, if you click it will link you, I don't know why it isn't showing up^

Venture to the New York Armory Show

So day before yesterday Chris Miller took the class to New York to see the Armory show. My day started at 6am getting ready to go and get to the bus by 7. I didn't sleep at all on the way down but I hijacked my roommates ipod and uploaded some new music. I had downloaded Digitalism's album Idealism and I am really feeling it. I listened to that the whole way down. When we got to the Armory show I began exploring on my own. Over all I found more stuff with interesting construction methods that were worth noting more so than the work.

Photo of elegantly discrete wire neon tie
Photo of nylon(?) tube suspension
Beautiful C bend
Nice 90° tube bending
This was likely one of the most skill dependent sculptures at the show which is why I took so many images of it. Of course blogger wont flip my images around...

Pretty arm joint.


We did a project EXACTLY like this in neon, I guess were all big time artists...
This was awesome, bent nails to spell out a phrase.


I love modern black men in classical poses, it is a beautiful juxtaposition. Again the image is on its side.

Nothing special about this piece but the neon was very dim which was interesting, they likely didn't pump it with neon.
Into making chandeliers right now, interesting find. I found a more interesting one at the Whitney but there were no pictures there =(.
Interesting similarly to the modern black male

Of interest , maybe one of the most interesting stand alone sculptures at the show.
I took a picture of this because the bending was BEAUTIFUL and it raised the question of whether or not these artists were benders or had their bending commissioned by neon sign benders. Tracy Emin is the name of the artist and I looked her up online and she is in fact a bender (I believe). That was very cool to figure out.Wim Botha with a bust made of books, quite interesting.

Same artist, wooden pelican.
Grayson Perry, I love texture and I love the red orange yellow color of rust. Interesting design, lovely patina, very cool piece.
Matt Keegan, simple construction, interesting design. I should have taken a picture of the supporting structure in the back.
Nice use of neon and reflection, piece not too exciting. Miri Segal
Cool use of neon, freehand neon bending or the appearances of that. Peter Friedl

After the armory show I went to my favorite place to eat in the city, Rickshaw Dumpling Bar!
I wanted a picture of me in front, my friend didn't realize the sign should have been in the picture...
We tried again and people were waiting to cross in front, he decided it was a good time to snap the picture as i was berating him.
Across the street we ran into a Jesus lover. He wanted to make sure my thumb was up

Once it was confirmed I was thumbs up for Jesus we got his signature white toothed smile.
Once we had lunch it was off to the Whitney. This was outside, a huge birds nest.

Charles Simonds - Dwellings, Interesting concept present in the stairwell of the Whitney.


Thats it for the art, no more pictures could be taken in the Whitney, although there wasn't too much there to see worth photographing.

On the way back we told jokes and scary stories, the red light was the one used for scary stories, we had a blue light for jokes. Some one got in the way but that is Max Davis telling a scary story.
We got back pretty late and I just passed out when I got home.

Condor Leather Jacket

Over the summer a kid named Ben Domby came to Alfred for Alfred Summer Glass. He had pretty much all his own gear which included his own leather fire jacket that was personalized with his name on the back. His name was on all his stuff but it was just his initials in an interesting graphic. The b and the d were together and geometric, the bd looked like an x with a line on either side making the b and d. After seeing that I was interested in getting my own and personalizing it.

I have been shopping around for a while. I noticed the ones in the hot shop (and it seems the foundry as well) have these nice air vents in the arm pit area for increased air flow. I looked around in a couple stores and they only had expensive boring looking ones that didn't fit well. I went into the hot shop the other day and found the brand to be Condor. I think I will need to order it offline, but soon I will have a sick Condor vented jacket!

BATTLE ICE!

Battle Ice was amazing! I had so much fun and dealt so much damage. Sophomores came out on top, I believe this to be because I stayed on defense for majority of the game. After the game I continually wished I was drunk for it A) Because it would have been more fun and B) So I couldn't fell how sore my bruised and battered body was.

The game transpired with the Juniors being knocked out first. There was an attempt to have Sophomores removed from the game first but the score was being incorrectly viewed. Next out were the Freshmen and finally the Seniors (who were the real cheaters not the Sophomores).

A few days after Battle Ice there were portraits taken by Liz Perone of some of the battle icer's wounds. Mine is shown above, my wounds had mostly healed, but the marking of a champion still lingered on my chest with game ball in hand.

Some action shots:

Ticonderoga Pencils

Up until recently I have fucking hated pencils. Regular pencils were annoying and tough for me to hold and write with. Mechanical pencils always broke when I was writing with them and you always run out of lead. But I found through Fred Tschida these large Ticonderoga Pencils. He uses them because like me he breaks mechanical pencils and regular pencils are just stupid. These pencils were designed for children beginning to write. For whatever reason it increases the legibility of my writing ten fold. I guess I never really graduated from beginner pencils... I'm doing more sketching now and liking the way they look, thank god for Ticonderoga pencils!