26 Weeks

Well this blog had a good run but I’m in the process of moving it directly over to my my site. For the two people who read this please note the move to here.

John Amazes Again, It Isn’t His Fault Though, It Is Science.

Yester day was the official start to summer and my brother John politely reminded me that the summer solstice is really the end—every day from here on out gets shorter. He is taking summer classes though so while he goes back to work the rest of us get a little longer to enjoy it. With his brief summer vacation he was able to put a sample of the work he did last spring for graduate school.
Here is the link to that site Scribbles
& here is the link that grounds this admiration in science

Learning To Love You More

http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 2000 people have participated in the project

Miss Larn alerted me to this site that has a series of assignments given by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. I love the idea behind the assigments and I’m looking forward to working on this one. recording a guided meditation tape
Take a look around and find an assignment you can work on.

Thanks Lauren for the heads up on this one.

Paris Je T’Aime

Okay So… I went to this movie last night already convinced I’d love it, and I did. It is the type of film everyone needs to see at the end of each Arrondissement I wanted to applaud! While not every performance was stellar you can’t be disappointed, And no matter how jaded or biased you are toward love you are sure to come away smiling. Check it out then make some crepes. Paris…dans l’attente de visiter.

Space Travel/Life Needs Your Help

Please help keep our space station in orbit, The Problem
The Solution

Google Analytics, Spider Bites, & Competitions

Right now in the southern jungles of Mexico there is a fierce competition happening and you the readers of this blog can help turn the tide and enable the underdog a chance for victory. All you have to do is visit neil’s blog poke around for a while tell your friends. The person with the most hits wins. Neil has even promised me monetary compensation should he win, I’ll split the earnings.

A Really Great Photo Shoot

Denis Darzacq

Southern Utah (outstanding natural landscapes)

This last weekend I had the opportunity to join a few friends on a trip to Escalante. the trip was amazing and aside from being really sore and tired this trip goes down as one of the great ones.


What this picture can’t tell you is how tough we actually are, this canyon was 37 miles from the car, filled with snakes spiders & venomous birds, keeper pot holes, loose chock stones, falling trees, and 1,000 other things that were no big deal for us.

photos from Bridgett+Brent

TRASH

It seems like everyday there is a need to empty the trash can at my residence? Which started me thinking about what would happen if the weekly trash disposal service were to stop? It would be frightening—This happened last night and this morning I came across this article in the Times about Napoli’s rubbish problems. It is worth reading.

Criticism for the 337 Project in Salt Lake City

I wish they would change the name of the project to The Shark Sandwich Project, that way all other critics could give it the appropriate two word review it deserves.

I am however impressed with it as a marketing campaign and must give Adam and Dessi Price kudos for that. This was a very nice creative way to get a few thousand people to know about your the upcoming super cool “two-car-garage-passive-solar-urban-living-lofts.” They have said that they wanted to live in a NYC type atmosphere so I guess they decided they would have to build a crack house, kick out all the artist, raise the prices, and let the yuppies move in! congratulations to them again for the completion of the crack house.

BUT! Please spare me the pain of hearing the term artist associated with this project. Of the 140+ people they have labeled artist at most 2 maybe 3 could qualify to be called such. Just as I wouldn’t qualify to be a doctor simply because I walked into a hospital with a stethoscope, so the participants of this project are as far from artist as I am from a doctor—a few more years of dedicated schooling and residency will do them some good.

And Finally My Cry to KEEP UNDERGROUND UNDERGROUND! it just isn’t pretty when one tries to bring it into the light!