This invitation tickled me. Mimi designed the whole thing, drawn by hand. It’s in the same aesthetics as the Save-The-Date Poster she and Jordan sent.
Now that you all know the address of the wedding and reception, I’m expecting you all to be there. Kidding.
I liked the invitation so much, that I didn’t send back the RSVP Card. Woops. Mimi shouldn’t have made it so beautiful.
With just some paint, plants, and fabric, good buddy Mariana Blanco of Hoodablah, along with some creative minds like Graham Keegan and Adi Goodrich, put together a great urban intervention with a “good bomb” in the lunch area of an asphalt jungle at Jordan High School, south LA.
What’s a “good bomb”? In Mariana’s words: “We basically are going to take memorial day weekend, while the kids are gone, and volunteers like us are going to transform the lunch area. Then Tuesday, when the students come back, they’ll have a new, exciting lunch area, and we’ll have made their day, if not the rest of the year and more. We are going to film it, and that video will be used to hopefully inspire others to “good bomb” in their own communities.”
Biked down to LACMA with Kevin Biggers at 10:30pm in hopes of catching the midnight passage of Christian Marclay’s 24 movie The Clock. ”It is in effect a clock, but it is made of a 24-hour montage of thousands of time-related scenes from movies and some TV shows, meticulously edited to be shown in “real time”: each scene contains an indication of time (for instance, a timepiece, or a piece of dialogue) that is synchronized to show the actual time.”
Unfortunately, we didn’t arrive until 11:15pm, and by then, the line was all the way onto Wilshire Blvd. We were still standing in line when midnight struck. Within 5 minutes there was a large exodus of spectators. So we stayed and caught the passing of 1am. Needless, we got a lot of scenes from horror movies, bedside nightstand clocks, late night phone calls, etc. What a treat. I was in a trance watching the movie. I highly recommend it to all those who are as deficient of attention as I am.
Around 1:15am, Kevin, Avishay, Marya, Tommy and I walked over to ForYourArt’s new LA gallery space for Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City, “a 24-hour pop up donut shop, giving away donuts from LA’s best known donut shops. Donut and Clock: two round but seemingly unrelated objects that will be synchronized for this 24-hour event.”
They quickly ran out. I only ate half a donut.
This tube came in the mail the other day. Pleasantly surprised to find Michelle and Jordan’s Save-The-Date tucked inside.
The poster is appropriately and delightfully designed for them. Can’t wait for the real invitation to arrive. I’m expecting someone to pop up out of a cake. A chocolate truffle cake. With bacon on top.
It all started on August 5th, 2010, when Glen Phillips (organizer of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time’s Performance and Public Art Festival) and I exchanged correspondences about having Materials & Applications (M&A) submit a proposal to the Getty for a grant to perform Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hemrol, and Eric Orr’s 1968 dry-ice installation “Disappearing Environments”. On January 19th, 2012, after 3 planning sesions, M&A, 40+ participants, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman collaborated to create “Sublime Environments” at Barkar Hanger at the Santa Monica Airport.
The day started with some bagels from Brooklyn Bagels in Historic Filipino Town.
Then we started getting prepped up for the big performance. This included white jump suits, white spray-painted hair, and work gloves.
The dry-ice came in 12”x12” blocks, and delivered in big bins. We were building 9 ziggurats, with 91 blocks each.
The participants were divided into 4 groups, each group building one ziggurat at a time. Tthe first half of the day consisted of building 4 ziggurats. After lunch, the 4 groups proceeded to do another 4 ziggurats. Then, all the participants helped to build the final ziggurat.
Judy Chicago.
Marya Villarin
Nick Rodrigues.
Charlie Peel.
The sublimation of the dry-ice blocks changed throughout the day. As the day got warmer, and the air more moist from the ocean, the fog got thicker. Notice the photos as the day progressed.
The final piece being placed by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman.
At 5:30PM (sunset), participants lit 30-minute road flares, 10 to each ziggurat, to create a red, glowing, emanating environment.
And to think, I had no idea who Judy Chicago was when I first spoke with her on the phone back in August, 2010. She had fans who dressed up like her at the opening. No big deal.
As the night wore on, the ziggurats slowly began to crumble as the blocks sublimated and shrank. And much like the products and monumental things in our lives we treasure, the block will also disappear, without a trace.
i hosted a figure drawing class at Really Awesome Great Experiments. But instead of spending lots of money on a professional nude model, we just all took turns drawing each other, clothed, and swapping public transportation stories, drinking mulled wine and hot toddies.
Really Awesome Great Experiments open with 8 1/2 x 11.
cards by Isis
screen-printed Furoshiki cloth
Donna, the dress-form, showcasing Graham Keegan’s hand-dyed Kikko indigo scarves.
paper lamp shades by Isis.
Tyvek ceiling.
Then off to the Annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride from East Hollywood to Downtown. Then Downtown to a warehouse. with Ben, Marya, and Avishay.
Spent 4 hours at LACMA, 2 of which were spent at the Tim Burton exhibit, which closes on Oct. 31. Go see it.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop _ Resnick Pavilion and Broad Contemporary
As part of Pacific Standard Time, LACMA had an exibit called California Design, 1930-1965: “Living In A Modern Way” by Hodgetts + Fung.
They built the Eames House INSIDE the Resnick. Just like I remembered, when I visited it in 2001
‘Bad Things That Could Happen’
A film using giant props made out of cardboard about bad things that could happen.
‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’
THIS IS IT are a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London.
Although each artist works individually and in a variety of different ways, collectively THIS IS IT aim to create simple, direct pieces with one clear voice.
THIS IS IT are Andy Baker, Laura Bird, Rose Blake, Thomas Bolwell, Daniel Britt, Hugo Donkin, Chan An Gee, Michael Knight, Nicos Livesey, Tom McCaughan, Azusa Nakagawa, Joseph Pelling and Becky Sloan.
