Sex & Fury
December 5, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Spike Jonze GAP Advertisement, 2005
October 19, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Garry Winogrand, 1981
July 28, 2009 at 4:18 am
How did she end up hosting this show? I’ve been watching some of these interviews in this interesting series and she’s straight up crazy. I love how obvious it is that he thinks she’s a huge idiot.
“How do you respond to the now tiresome phrase, snapshot aesthetic?”
“That’s another stupidity. You know the people who use the term, they’re referring to photographs where they believe that they’re loosely organized — or whatever you wanna call it, whatever terms you like — or casually made. Now the fact is that very snapshot that they’re talking about — they’re talking about the family snapshot picture, which is one of the most precisely made pictures — they don’t even know the meaning of the term they’re using. It’s an extremely precisely made photograph: y’know, everyone’s fifteen feet away, and they’re smiling, and the sun is over their shoulder — that’s when the picture is taken. It’s one of the most carefully made photographs that ever happens. They’re just dumb. They misunderstand the idea.”
Ooh, he’s so good!
Dan Flavin + Kelly Rowland
July 17, 2009 at 12:18 am
So I guess in 2007 Kelly Rowland filmed her music video “Work” on a set that suspiciously looked a lot like a Dan Flavin installation. Turns out the video was filmed in Los Angeles, when Dan Flavin: A Retrospective was on tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Dan Flavin Estate didn’t think the video was too cute, demanding that it be pulled from YouTube. It’s still there, but now you just can’t embed it, which doesn’t actually stop anyone from finding embeddable links from obscure French websites. ArtNet reported about it here
Pass This On
July 1, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Pierre Pinoncelli et l’urinoir de Marcel Duchamp
June 24, 2009 at 11:04 am