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Tuesday, January 31, 2006My artistic crisisTwenty years ago I was admitted into the Center for Creative Studies-College of Art and Design. My interest in photography began when my grandfather gave me his cameras and darkroom equipment when I was in the ninth grade in high school. While my peers were doing the things that interest teens, I cloistered myself in the world of darkrooms and viewed the world behind a lens of my creation. I was a geek and a freak for doing so. Adolescence is a cruel period. My hobby became my obsession while I controlled it but as soon as I lost control in art school it became something to grieve about. What kind of career would photography lead to? What kind of unique vision would I develop and be recognized for etc, etc? But the true artistic crisis was the limitations that photography sets. Lack of direction and money contributed as well. My photography evolved from documenting interesting found subject matter to constructing images. But those constructed images still were limited by meerly being a recording of the subject and not an interpretation of my vision. Painting offered more. Student shows infuriated me. Photographers were viewed as second class artists to the painters and sculptures. The automotive graphic designers were destined to have secure careers. And so I began to doubt photography, painting must be the new direction for me. But I can't paint. Never tried it. I am sure to fail at it so I gave up at being artistic for 15 years and tried to be a normal person, pragmatic. And so my crisis is; remain a relatively content normal disengaged person, or fall into an artistic but obsessive, neurotic, manic lifestyle. My crisis not yours. 
Monday, January 30, 2006Artists and Art Blogs and All Things ArtArt Blogs & Websites nationwide NY sex in the studio group (my affectionate name for them) New York
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Who does she think she is fooling? I'm interested in buying some art! Have I told you I'm a millionare!?  ANDREA FRASER Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce Untitled, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Andrea Fraser. The exhibition will be comprised of two works, Untitled, 2003, and DonÕt Postpone Joy, or Collecting Can Be Fun, 1993. Untitled, 2003 was initiated in 2002 when Andrea Fraser approached Friedrich Petzel Gallery to arrange a commission with a private collector on her behalf. The requirements for the commission were to include a sexual encounter between Fraser and a collector, which would be recorded on videotape, with the first exemplar of the edition going to the participating collector. The resulting videotape is a silent, unedited, sixty-minute document shot in a hotel room with a stationary camera and existing lighting. Untitled is a continuation of Fraser's twenty-year examination of the relationships between artists and their patrons. Known for her performances in the form of gallery tours and analyses of collecting by museums, corporate art institutions, and private collectors, Untitled shifts the focus of this investigation from the social and economic conditions of art to a much more personal terrain. The work raises issues regarding the ethical and consensual terms of interpersonal relationships as well as the contractual terms of economic exchange. This exhibition is the United States premiere of Untitled. It was first presented publicly in Andrea Fraser, Works: 1984-2003, a mid-career retrospective organized by the Kunstverein in Hamburg, in the fall of 2003. It is currently on view at the second venue of Fraser's retrospective, the Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg Sweden.
Friday, January 27, 2006Frederick Stanley Haines- His paintingsImpressionist painter 1879-1960 Ontario, Canada. None of these paintings are mine. The piece below sold last December at Joyner Waddington's for $2,990. 
 You wont believe this Margaret! Jeeves just came from the family vault risking life and limb to drop off another Fred Haines painting. I'm sharing it with you and the world for the first time in decades. No museum markings or title but its signed. The mortgage is payed for!!!!
I have a collection of Frederick Stanley Haines paintings. My grandmother said he was "Uncle Fred the famous painter". Very little more was said about him and the paintings. The other day I came across a photograph of him with two other men. The photograph is unlabled but thanks to the internet I am beginning to learn their identities. Fred Haines is on the left I think, Franklin Carmichael is in the middle (probably not) and hopefully I'll learn who the man on the right is.  My father disagrees he swears the man in the middle is his grandfather Bertram. Photos of Franklin Carmichael from the internet:     I always have to walk the streets in a costume (picked up that habit from my grandfather), so I have been putting together a wardrobe of turn of the century fashion like theirs. Feels manly to dress this way.
Thursday, January 26, 2006Paul's JourneyA series of 12 photos that I did for a Center for Creative Studies class in the Spring of 1988. The series earned me a $2,000 scholarship for my sophomore year (paid for the parking tab and a t-shirt). Having a hard time finding the missing photos. Escape  A life to leave, a journey to begin. Obsession  A gift to give, a gift to receive, a fullfillment to realize. Commitment  A promise to keep, a responsibility to endure. Entanglement  Nourishment encircles and threatens to provide. Conception  Amusement succumbs to deliverance. Impediment  Guidance provided, circumstance inevitable. Conclusion  Journey secured, access ruined.
My Photographs Paul's Journey- A series I did in 1988. Uncannily prophetic autobiography for the model. Photography Websites Photographers
Tuesday, January 24, 2006Frederick Stanley Haines"Uncle Fred"  Canadian painter 1879-1960
 1879-1960One of Ontario's outstanding artists and teachers, Haines was born in Meaford. In 1896 he moved to Toronto where he attended the Central Ontario School of Art. He later studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Working in the realistic style as painter, etcher, and printmaker, he tended to specialize in idealized Ontario pastoral landscapes. In 1928 he was appointed a curator at the Art Gallery of Toronto (Art Gallery of Ontario). As Principal of the Ontario College of Art, 1933-1953, he introduced a separate workshop for advanced students and an open studio where students could watch Haines resolve his own artistic problems in painting. I just found a photo of him in my grandmother's box of old photos. The man on the left looks like Fred Haines, the man in the middle I'm told is my great-grandfather Bertram and the man on the right is still unidentified.
at Waddingtons
If you know any art, music, theatre blogs, etc focusing on the Detroit scene please drop a comment.
 Need more fixes. Hanging my collection of winter landscapes in the winter time was the wrong idea.
Sunday, January 22, 2006The Loss of Sexual InnocenceThe movie, The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999), features vignettes of the director Mike Figgis' sexual awakening over a lifetime with an intriguing depiction of the Adam and Eve mythology.  The Garden of Eden, a tonalist-surrealist rendering.  Self-aware African Adam suggesting the evolutionary concept of an African human origin rather then a biblical concept.  Caucasin Eve who fails to make eye contact with the viewer suggesting a lack of awareness (of God) and troubling racial purity connotations. Adam and Eve are created seperate of each other contradicting the myth. They then explore their Eden.  And their humanity.  Eve discovers the fig tree and the snake due to natural needs to perserve self not in contempt of God's commandment.  Both Adam and Eve become sick from the fruit of the fig tree, Adam looks upon God either for mercy or out of contempt.  Eve inititiates the first sexual act after waking up from the sickness caused by eating the fruit. Another act of self-preservation or consciousness of sin?  Christianity's enforcers expel Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden rather then voluntary abandonment. 
The movie The Loss of Sexual Innocence got me thinking about the idea of Eve being evicted from Eden and thrust into contempory society. She would still be learning about her humanity and probably be afraid of the world like a feral child. The photographer Charlie White captures the Domestic Eve strikingly well. 
Saturday, January 21, 20069 Songs The gates of Hell have been opened fully thanks to the outrageous sinfullness featured in The Brown Bunny in 2004, explicit fellatio! Pray for mankind. Now the evil within has released 9 Songs (2005), an evil sure to bring forth judgment day and our demise.Explicit fellatio with testicle licking! Evil in our world has increased a thousand fold. Explicit cunnilingus too!! The evil has spread to your children. Actual ejaculation of vile male semen brought forth by a graceful ladies hand!!! Our progeny are damned. Uncensored penetration of a woman's sacredness by the wicked wicked pallus (safely wrapped though) and outside the blessed sacrament of marriage!!!! Earth will be obilterated in the next 30 seconds. I liked it. Brings back fond memories of experiencing it all for the first time. Margo Stilley and Kieran O'Brien commit the sinfullness Netflix IMDB "Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall--London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages (familiar to anyone who's ever been in love) unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs." -IMDBX-rated sinful images of 9 songs available at www.celebritymoviearchive.com Prayer gifts for Margo Stilley's soul can be made to my paypal account.  A generous prayer gift will save her soul faster. DVD features the music of; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand and Michael Nyman
Thursday, January 19, 2006Candy Another 20 something woman has decided to explore her sexuality and share it with all of us on the web. Possibly our computer monitors transmit signals that cause us to lose our inhibitions. Or maybe the internet is a vast conspiracy by Satan's minions to damn us to Hell. I like her personal transformation from an average looking woman to a feminine-masculaine archetype complete with tattoos resembling ovaries on her abdomin. Will her lifestory become a tragic comedy or a liberated ideal? Feminism Without Clothes She also explores menstruation at See Candy Bleed Websites contain nudity My favorite Candy photos  more girls girls girls
Wednesday, January 11, 2006Frederick Stanley Haines- my collectionI was looking at the painting that hangs on the wall of my "library" and noticed it was by Fred Haines. It has always been there and I don't notice it anymore. Thanks to the internet I learn that he is semi famous in Canada. I also remember that I have more of his pieces in my attic. Maybe I'm sitting on an art goldmine! Anyway the painting below is titled "Winter" and is an oil on board and was exhibited at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1938. I think my grandmother bought it at the exhibition for $60 as is marked on the frame. The painting has been past from relative to relative ever since. I'll post the rest of my "unknown art collection" once I get them out of the attic. None of these pieces are for sale. "Winter" 12 X 14 on board Only cost $50 in 1938!  Untitled and no markings but signed 16 X 20 on masonite This two dimensional painting gives the impression of three dimensions in low viewing light conditions. You could almost walk into the painting between the trees on the right or crawl into the cavity in the tree trunk.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006The Art Parade
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