F O O L

"Why can’t we see our fortunancy,
living as legends have lived."













Come along Fool
A direct hit of the senses
you are disconnected
It’s not that it’s bad…
it’s not that it’s death
It’s just that it is on the tip of your tongue,
and you're so silent
















Wanting to live and laugh all the time
Sitting alone with you tea and your crime
Children with kids, and people with parents
Anywhich way there’s no past and no presence
When the day comes and all of them bums
Will reveal enchanting persons Come along...




images.
1. alex pinna, via wright auctions.
2. hedi slimane diary.

lyrics by chan marshall, fool







F O O L






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Michael Smoler

“bodies and celestial backdrops coalesce
as if made up of the very substance of the universe itself”

via light and wire gallery














Michael Smoler
the Universe is Part of Ourselves....

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Light & Wire Gallery presents an exhibition of new and recent collages by Los Angeles-based artist Michael Smoler. The exhibition, 'the universe is part of ourselves' will display twenty-six works from an on-going series of collages that combine reprinted Hubble images of the cosmos with such things as historical figures, animals and other iconic elements.

The collages are accompanied by a serialized poem entitled this here and now, written by the poet Lisa Johns for the occasion of this exhibition.







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new
book:
Brion
Nuda
Rosch

"In my work, I’m identifying very mundane shapes and ridiculous things as monuments,
not to downplay the importance of existing monuments, just that when you visit a monument you have your own meaning and understanding, you only take a very small part away with you. The person or event that it represents is far too large and infinite to take away the complete meaning. And often monuments are visited in short spans of time—
drive six hours, get out look, back into the car type of thing.
Art is viewed in a similar way—minus the drive. My monuments are void of meaning.
I don’t know if there’s a way that could be somewhat political. "

-Brion Nuda Rosch

Brion Nuda Rosch’s works—consisting of collages, paintings, installations, social projects and video—are inviting yet unpredictable.

Through basic maskings, removals, and additions, he plumbs the profundity of placing one idea upon another, producing results not unlike a warm, soft chuckle. Rosch’s works function as signposts and touchstones of his own investigation into his singular understanding of the world.

"My monuments are void of meaning.
I don’t know if there’s a way that could be somewhat political."

8 x 9.5 in., 90 pages,
Full-color offset printing100lb matte text / soft 120lb cover,
Perfect-boundReleased
March 2010

Limited run of 1000

go to little paper planes here.






,

jazz
flutes
&
hot
summer
days.


































jazz flutes
and
jock straps,
and
and beach reading.



1. Herbie Mann, for your listening pleasure. here and here.
2. Robert Mapplethorpe, 1971, leather jock strap, photo collage. via 16 miles...
3. Kink, magazine here.... thank you paco and manolo...








holiday weekend.

erik blum


erik bluhm
c/o david patton gallery

"Erik Bluhm's work explores the conception of intentional communities and collectives and the perception of these social and artistic families and creative movements. Examples of these groups would range from Germanic turn-of-the-century back-to-nature movements to various post-war Southern Californian forms of alternative living and belief systems (natural foods, communal living histories and East-meets-West religious movements). As a founder of The West Coast New Energy Encounter Group, a subset of the greater New Energy movement, Bluhm and his colleagues have presented musical performances, theatre, films and other cooperative productions that both display and explore aspects and histories of collaborative movements and groups."