DEDICATED TO: OCCUPY WALL STREET – or OCCU-PIE, as the locals like to call it. whatever you are . . . you’re a NYC phenom . . . and the #1 tourist destination in the city. ha.
“WAKE UP & SMELL THE COFFEE”.
THE DEAD LAPTOP SERIES and other artifacts of the recent present’ – by MICHAEL DINGES
the show runs: OCT 15 – NOV 22, 2011
“NO MAC – GOES TO WASTE”
TEKSERVE – APPLE SPECIALIST – 119 W 23rd St at 6th AVE – NYC
MICHAEL DINGES at the TEKSERVE reception for his in-store exhibit – this past SATURDAY OCT 15, 2011.
MICHAEL DINGES currently resides in OAK PARK, ILLINOIS . . . He spent 20 years as an advertising and editorial illustrator before turning full time to his own artwork. He received his MFA degree from the University of Chicago in 2005. . . his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 1982.
He is the recipient of an Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council, and was awarded a residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program. He has exhibited in both solo and group shows throughout the Midwest, as well as New York, Miami, and Vancouver, B.C.
TEKSERVE is proud to present his first solo show in New York City.
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Data Miner’, Dead Laptop Series, 2008. Engraved Plastic and Acrylic Paint.
Mr. Dinges engraves on the surface of the defunct laptop with a dremel tool and then rubs black acrylic paint into the resultant etching – to highlight it.
all of the artworks, interestingly – are accompanied by brief notes, penned by the artist. the note for this one says:
“Brownian Motion” is a physics term used to describe a particle engaged in a constant, erratic motion.
“Data Mining” is the non-trivial extraction of previously unknown, and potentially useful, information from data.
what I love most – is the super graphic design around – the apple logo !!
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Prana, Not Prana’. Dead Laptop Series, 2008. Engraved Plastic and Acrylic Paint.
so, “IS THE STATE . . . A-OK ?”
good question.
detail, MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Prana, Not Prana.’
again the logo and the drawing around it, as well as the rest of the design, come on, of course !! – is fascinating. this looks to be the ‘Evil Eye’ often found locally – imbedded into the filigree of a hand charm. love the Earth, Water, Fire, Wind fingers.
from the artist note:
Prana is the Sanskrit word for “breath.” It represents the concept of a circulating “vital life force” that is a central tenet in Eastern spirituality.
Can “virtual” relationships meditated through technology sustain us ? How “real” are these connections.
MICHAEL DINGES, engraved defunct laptop – most the laptops also have script around the front edges, as well.
this one says: MINE ALL MINE . . . . !!
there are other works displayed a little further into the store, just above – and in front of the TEKSERVE PRO AV ROOM.
the drawings, which are unique graphite works on large paper – are above the AV ROOM.
this one is a drawing of a vintage vacuum tube, an apt piece for TEKSERVE – as the store is known for its vintage computer, camera, and audio artifacts displayed throughout.
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Sell your time, not your soul’, 2011. graphite on paper.
detail, MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Sell your time, not your soul.’ – vintage vacuum tube.
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Brewing’, 2005. Engraved Coffeemaker and Acrylic Paint.
in front of the AV PRO ROOM – are displays of other “artifacts of the recent present” that Mr. Dinges has engraved into, including a (rotating) antiwar PVC bucket and a metal sundial (“It’s Later Than You Think” (!!) – but my particular fave – is the coffeemaker. though it’s a close call. the PVC bucket spouts – righteous.
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Brewing’ . . . “COOL”.
ya gotta love the red on/off ‘dot’ switch – on the otherwise all white appliance.
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Brewing’ . . . “BE KIND”. (!!)
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Brewing’.
in fact: “BE KIND . . BE MORE POLITE” . . .
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Brewing’.
“SIMPLIFY”.
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Brewing’ ….. classic appliance design, or what ? esp check-out that electric power cord . . in-base.
from the artist note:
How is it that a coffeemaker costs only $10 ?
This piece asks questions about fair trade, labor practices, and to what degree government will go to maintain predatory capitalism. Our lifestyles are sustained by the availability of cheap goods. Are the everyday objects that populate our lives enabling a dysfunctional relationship with the rest of the world ?
“WAKE UP and SMELL THE COFFEE” . . .
ok. one last look – Lucky 13 !!
MICAEL DINGES, ‘As Luck Would Have It’, Dead Laptop Series, 2008. Engraved Plastic and Acrylic Paint.
from the artist note:
The surrounding text about luck and chance is inspired by Aristotle and I use it in this context to highlight the role of the internet in engendering a climate of agency and opportunity. Luck is an ephemeral and fickle condition and is increased or decreased in proportion to chance. Chance that is dependent on technology can also become an ephemeral and fickle condition.
oh, yeah – tell me about it.
most def: go check out this modern day thinking man’s ‘scrimshaw’ – the show is up for the next 6 weeks.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~DEAD LAP TOPS at TEKSERVE … by MICHAEL DINGES/PIX from the opening. . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 18th, 2011, 8:10pm
MICHAEL DINGES – ‘We are the Saviours of My Life’, the newest in his dremel-tool inscribed . . . DEAD LAPTOP SERIES . . . which will debut along with several other of his engraved ‘dead’ laptops and detailed drawings at a TEKSERVE in-store month-long exhibit opening tomorrow – Saturday, Oct 15, 2011.
ART@TEKSERVE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT the first NYC exhibit of:
‘THE DEAD LAPTOP SERIES & other artifacts of the recent present’ – by MICHAEL DINGES
OPENING RECEPTION – SAT OCT 15, 2011 / noon to 2 PM
the show runs thru NOV 22, 2011
with AN ARTIST’S TALK on: MON, OCT 17 at 6:30 PM
TEKSERVE – APPLE SPECIALIST – 119 West 23rd St at 6th AVE – NYC
“MICHAEL DINGES investigates everything from the second law of thermodynamics to consumer waste in his unique adaptions of scrimshaw. His canvas of choice tends towards objects and materials that we have metaphorically or actually, consigned to the waste heap. The marks he makes on these objects force us to reconsider what we used them for in the first place and whether they’re now devoid of value. Do they disappear just because we threw them away ?” – KEITH RECKER, Hand/Eye Magazine
MICHAEL DINGES, ‘Sampler’, Engraved and Painted Mac Laptop, 2007
in his artist talk on Monday, Oct 17 (6:30 PM) – MICHAEL DINGES, a Chicago-based artist – will discuss the influence of anonymous 18th and 19th century whaling boat, think Moby Dick, sailor hand-etched scrimshaw on whalebone teeth and bone, as well as colonial schoolgirl samplers on his art. an interesting thought: grizzled sailors and young school girls – can you think of any more diverse or opposing spectrum of our early history – whose skilled and highly detailed ‘artifacts’ at first consigned them to the ‘anonymous’ bin of art history, then onto the folk art collections, and now through works like Michael Dinges’ – into the canons of the refined world of contemporary art. what a trip.
and what a trip for these discarded, no longer working tools – of our time !!
as the artist states: “the keyboard represents the alphabet” – and then off we go from schoolgirl ABC samplers “with their embroidered exemplars of virtuous behavior” to the often bawdy sailor-made teeth and bone scribbles, to the present-day with “a compendium of 21st century privacy and environmental concerns and warnings” . . . engaging and informing these dense hand wrought illustrations. . . inscribed into the opaque plastic surface of dead laptops – the “ultimate tool”, well, of this decade anyway (!!) – “which has become our portal to the world functioning simultaneously as our mail drop, music box, photo album and information center.” (TEKSERVE)
“High tech objects can become genuinely obsolete but they leave perhaps a hidden legacy of experience, which is intriguing to me.” ~ MICHAEL DINGES
inscribed on his ‘Sampler’ dead laptop, above – a poignant and direct ode to schoolgirl embroidery:
“I was your treasure chest with buried secrets in my breast . . . now I’m dead and laid to rest.”
JAMES BARRON of the NEW YORK TIMES started the NYC dialog on the implications – in his advance take on the exhibit:
‘The Laptops Don’t Work, But the Messages Get Through’, posted online in his CITY ROOM post, Oct 10, 2011.
. . . which also includes a really nice slide show of about 5 more of the Michael Dinges embellished laptop ‘message boards’ . . which is way too dry a description, maybe better make that – Ouija boards – and cries of environmental warning – straight from the mouths of the recently discarded past.
and yes, he does have a defunct laptop titled: ‘Ouija Board’ !!
see: “The Laptops Don’t Work…” by JAMES BARRON, NEW YORK TIMES . . .
interestingly a TEKSERVE press release also tells us that CLIVE THOMPSON has written: “Dinges’ work . . . evokes the history of warriors etching their tools to imbue them with mythic dimensions.”
yes, I’ve seen it. Samurai and Arabic warriors among others often commissioned highly regarded artists to inscribe beautifully scripted and fierce fighting words into their sharp master craftsman produced blades; swords, daggers, and knives – to imbue them with . . . power and individuality.
I’m thinking maybe Michael Dinges should set up shop decorating and inscribing NEW laptops – to better prepare our new age corporate warriors and citizen soldiers, not to forget schoolgirls – for battle !!
see: more work by MICHAEL DINGES at his website
MICHAEL DINGES is represented by the PACKER/SCHOPF GALLERY, Chicago, Il.
~DEAD LAPTOPS at TEKSERVE . . . by MICHAEL DINGES |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 14th, 2011, 8:11am
‘MONEYBALL’ – DIRECTED BY BENNETT MILLER
REVIEWED BY NANCY SMITH, OCT 13, 2011
yep, this movie is all its cracked up be, and more.
swift script, great story. beautiful beautiful cinematography and editing. all the actors inhabit their roles, and hold you glued to the screen, whether it’s the star – whose golden boy looks have been toned down somewhat, whether it’s Jonah Hill who doesn’t say much – but cracks you up, or PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – with his authentic meaty freckled forearms – the obstinate bull-headed coach who doesn’t get it – to the sweet little girl, KERRIS DORSEY who plays Brad Pitt’s onscreen daughter – and has to sing out loud – in front of Brad Pit (!!) and a huge film audience – and whose nervousness – seems pretty much – just how you’d feel in that mind boggling situation – and never mind, just 13.
an ode to the underdog . . . to contrarians everywhere . . . to people who just know. . . . when the new game is on, the old game is over. . . way before anyone else has even caught on – that things have changed, big time. it’s not exactly the big win – but that’s also what’s so great about it. its all about the: process, the mind-think that turns big ships – 180 degrees. in the opposite direction.
BRAD PITT – is Billy Beane. besides living in a charmingly underscored small home with ‘souvenir’ plates mounted on the kitchen wall (!!) – and he is hyper – a real speedball. his relentless intensity radiates from the screen. spit that tobacco chaw in the paper cup, boy.
JONAH HILL – I guess I started to love him after his brilliant turn in ‘GET HIM TO THE GREEK’. it’s not easy to be the schlump opposite the golden boys. esp the smart one. the first time he comes onscreen in ‘MONEYBALL’ – is just so kick-ass backwards – it’s exquisite. and way underplayed, too. it’s just great. I nearly fell out of my theater seat from laughing and my next door neighbor had to give me a couple of sharp elbow jabs – to get me to settle down. and all he does is, not much. but that not much – is ALL.
it’s like what we like say in the art world: less is more. He just pops up as part of an ensemble of mid-level suits in an office and the camera actually forgets about him, as it pans to the right. oh, what a sweet directorial move. they cut it, just right. right on the digital dot. cracked me up. right there.
(not to mention. just change one single letter in his character’s last name, from Brand to Brant – and you got Peter Brant – a big time art world player. . . a little chuckle for the insiders, or what..)
the rest of the hand-picked crew is right on too. from the colorful cast of gritty two-bit characters who play the hard-knock talent scouts, to the first baseball club owner – the small market league owner. no, no and no – but bring in the wins. that’d be the Oakland A’s. to the suave money no problemo – owner of the big market Chicago White Sox. pitch perfect.
in fact, let’s just leave it at that: ‘MONEYBALL’ – is pitch perfect. obstinate, hyper and contrarian . . . just the way we like it.
see: ‘MONEYBALL’ – the official website
~MONEYBALL with BRAD PITT & JONAH HILL |
Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 13th, 2011, 9:57am
‘THE POWDER’ by JOCKO WEYLAND – PUBLISHED 2011 BY DASHWOOD BOOKS
188 pages. soft cover. edition of 500 – $45.
ART DIRECTION & DESIGN BY: HANS SEEGER
JOCKO WEYLAND’S artist book is the latest publication to come up – out of DASHWOOD.
It is “dedicated to the Golden Era of US ski culture in the late 70s and early 80s . . . growing up in Colorado when it was still cool to ski . . . ”
see: ‘THE POWDER’ – DASHWOOD BOOKS
JOCKO WEYLAND recently told me he grew up in Colorado – where his dad, an avid early ski bum – moved his young family – chasing the powder rush . . . and you thought young kick-ass dads just moved their young families to NYC, make that Brooklyn, now – for the art rush . . .
JOCKO sent on a few other powderful words about his new book:
“Definitive depictions from the golden age culled, distilled, and reconfigured into ‘The Powder’ from the pages of ‘The Skier’s Magazine’.
Powder was where it was at, the bible, with luscious color-drenched photographs and advertisements showing the way it looked, what was being done, how it was being done, and where it was being done. From Bridger Bowl. Sun Valley, Squaw, Alta, Jackson Hole and Tuckerman Ravine to Switzerland, Austria, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, the Atlas Mountains and the Cedars of Sinai, when skiing was an unprecedented, untested, and not yet codified phenomena.
The halycon days of long runs and Mach 1 top-to-bottom non-stops, inverted multi-hued aerialists, big face walls with interlocking lines of figure eights seen from afar, solo tracks, or lone skiers breaking away towards unending swaths of untouched virgin snow.
More importantly really, two gloved hands, a bit of pole, and two ski tips bursting out of the snow. Abstract. A tree, some rocks, the sky, spare and minimal. Blue, green, white and blue, elemental compositions with a skier close to absent and just a portion of their head, a glimpse of goggles, a flash of hat.
Could you ski it ? no matter how difficult ?
All aspects of the perfect pastime are represented, encompassing stoner, racer, hot dogger, freestyler, and mountaineers, with mostly anonymous low-profile and boisterous thrill-seeking ski bums mingling with jet-setting socialites. Skiing was downtown then, not uptown, not bourgeois, not declasse. Glades, gates, spread eagles, and of course the lodesar, powder.
An invigorating, constantly changing phase of rapid development full of experimentation and curious offshoots and the literal pushing of boundaries was in full swing.
Wide-open and heterogeneous, that bewitching era was splendidly captured circa 1972-84 and now three decades later its essence and beauty has been purified, synthesized, and sanctified into ‘The Powder’.”
JOCKO WEYLAND is the founder, curator and driving force behind the indie gallery & zine publisher: ELK GALLERY, NYC
~THE POWDER by JOCKO WEYLAND |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 12th, 2011, 6:47am
oops. la la la . . .
PETER SUTHERLAND got a photo of someone in a shopping cart, too . . . !!
it’s in his new limited edition paperback book.
this is the cover of the book – which is really smart, sensitive, inquisitive, and small. pretty much all of 4 x 6 in. – the size 35 mm photos standard print at. it’s got like 40 pages, and it’s really sweet. not to say well, stunningly quiet, beautiful and profound . . . AMERICA. still plenty left – to explore.
the book’s got a nice soft feel to it – it’s bound at the top like a flip book.
titled: ‘Imperial Valley’ – it’s actually a photographic conceptual site specific collaboration between PETER SUTHERLAND and his girlfriend, MAIA RUTH LEE.
the back cover says it all:
Jan – Feb 2011
We set out from Colorado and headed for California with the intention of making sculptures with found junk in the desert. One of the first nights we watched the film “HOBO” (a film about rail riders, directed by John T. Davis) on dvd in a motel room. This was the first Maia had seen of train hoppers.
A few days later in Slab City we meet Possom and Phantom, two rail riders who were passing through. They were just like the dudes in the film and Maia was excited. They wanted to school us on train hopping, and told us we could follow them for three weeks and we would know everything about rail riding. They also told Maia, “It’s easy for cute gals to make money by wavin’ signs, you know, all you would need is a pet.. like a duck or somethin’.
You can make like $500 a day.”
The next day at a desolate gas station in Mojave, two twenty-something girls were sitting on the pavement raving about a friend who had just been spotted and arrested. They were rail riders and one of the girls was holding a duck. We had never heard or seen a person holding a duck before, especially in the middle of nowhere . . .
Peter Sutherland is a great storyteller.
Imperial Valley – by Peter Sutherland and Maia Ruth Lee
All images by Peter and Maia
Designed by Maia
Printed in Seoul Korea
Edition of 300
available from: DASHWOOD BOOKS – for $5
DASHWOOD BOOKS, open to the public since 2005, is located at 33 Bond St. between Lafayette and the Bowery.
It is New York City’s only independent book store devoted solely to photography.
see: petersutherland.tumblr.com
see: maiaruthlee.tumblr.com
~IMPERIAL VALLEY by PETER SUTHERLAND + MAIA RUTH LEE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2011, 6:53pm
FOR SALE – FROM ARTLOVERSNEWYORK – “We CURATE – You COLLECT”. . .
OLEK STREET CROCHET SLAMMED SHOPPING CART + ATTACHED BEAU PAINTED STREET TAG CANVAS
this trademark OLEK camo crochet slam is done on her trademark metal grocery store shopping cart. It was re-claimed from the streets, this summer (2011), from a homeless hard-core hoarder, o.k. a bum – with an eye for art !! who calls Tompkins Square Park home. it shows its street colors proudly, the stitches are slightly stringy at the edges, and it has a patina of slight wear and tear, o.k. the yarn has a slightly grimy feel – from being exposed to the elements. but it doesn’t look – like for that long. like they say in the antiquities biz – dude, that’s how you know – it’s the real deal.
P-A-T-I-N-A.
I think its fair to consider the “UR ART HERE” patterned into the crochet – on the front of the cart – a bonafide OLEK signature. and nope, HESH doesn’t come with the cart – but if ur nice – we can get him to deliver it !!
the BEAU street tag canvas is attached to the cart – with large stringed loops. It is obviously signed: “BEAU” and you also get: “FREE!” – !!
it looks to be a fairly recent attachment – in fact, it looks brand new.
two, TWO NYC street tags – for the price of one. now, that’s what we call a NYC – COMBO !!
here’s a close-up on the loops of string that attach the BEAU FREE! canvas to the OLEK shopping cart.
the BEAU FREE! – part of the equation, how it got there – is still unknown . . . but will most likely unravel – in time.
so you get to own a real-time art world narrative – make that: mystery – as well.
call in the – street art history detectives.
YOU CAN PURCHASE THIS PIECE DIRECTLY THRU ARTLOVERS, just hit the NANCY SMITH: contact at the top of the left hand margin – of our home page / nsmith0014@aol.com
YOU can find our online gallery archives on our: “IF I HAD $200” page.
YES, we will consider any serious offers. we are in it – for the a-c-t-i-o-n !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC SEPT 2011.
~FOR SALE: OLEK + BEAU – STREET ART COMBO – $3,000 |
Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 9th, 2011, 9:47am
yep. who else.
HESH was the lucky last man – in the short chain – of street savvy downtown denizens – who saved a well-worn OLEK street cart – from a Tompkins Square park bum. (that’s a hardcore park down, and we mean down, on the Lower East Side)
and yes !! it says: UR ART HERE – in the front.
street legend goes that: the original and unknown finders had to rip-off a local supermarket for another unadorned cart – to get the hard-core street hoarder, with an eye for art – to do the trade !!
of course, what also makes it so unique, is the brand-new looking BEAU street canvas painting – attached with yarn stitched loops – to one side.
no word yet, on that story.
close-up: BEAU . . . FREE !
I guess that makes it: a street – combo !!
and better to be re-claimed, than trashed or taken by the cops.
it was now – safe. up on the roof. downtown New York City.
NYC, Manhattan – Fall/autumn 2011 skyline, below 14th St. – looking west north.
. . . just as night closes in.
proud OLEK/BEAU final re-claimer and saver, curator: HESH shares the unique sight on the unique night – with artlovers’ contributing creative editor – Kate Cerigo.
with them, JAKE.
JAKE gave an impromptu recital, and it was sweet indeed. up on the roof . . . with the night coming on.
summer just about to turn to fall.
yes. even in the big Apple we feel the seasons, change. and life progresses accordingly.
p.s. HESH curated the ‘graf’ work on the roof terrace walls.
this night, up on the roof – made super special – by the OLEK/BEAU artwork – at hand. up close and personal.
and a nice, super satisfying shared sense of something ephemeral and beautiful, and yet completely of its time – having been saved – from street erosion or even worse, confiscation by cop.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC. SEPT 20, 2011.
~HESH SCORES A RE-CLAIMED OLEK CART . . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 7th, 2011, 10:10am
this late summer going into Fall 2011 – on the venerable Chelsea corner of 10th Ave and 24th St . . . .
you could catch a . . . psychedelic-hued camo-patterned street crocheted shopping cart by OLEK.
it said: UR ART HERE – on one side.
making one pause: put your art in here. . . . and contribute to the street par-tay ?
or this being Chelsea: your art is commercial – so it belongs in a shopping cart ?
or even worse: your art – belongs in the ‘bin’. ha.
while the other side was pure camouflage-riff.
in fact I think I’ve seen the yarn she uses. it’s readily available in the big craft shops that dot the tri-state area.
the mass-produced, and cheap, pop-colored synthetic yarn comes already pre-patterned to produce a camo effect as you knit or crochet, merrily along.
it was attached to a traffic pole by a cheap ‘bike’ lock – by its handlebar.
yep, that’s crochet-slammed, not knitted. look at the stitches.
the cart – had no interior handi-work . . . last time I was in the area – it was still there.
I hear OLEK gets really pissed off – if you remove her ‘public’ art. so be warned, she looks like a feisty one.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC. SEPT 15, 2011
OLEK / AGATA OLEKSIAK born April 5, 1978, (an Aires – I just knew it !!) . . . is a Polish-born artist, specializing in fiber arts, installation, and street art. lucky for us, she is currently NYC-based.
yep, she’s up on: WIKIPEDIA, if you want to know more.
PHOTO SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
she also maintains a colorful up-to-date website, which currently features video of her latest crochet slam: the cube at ASTOR PLACE.
see: OLEK – the official website.
yeah, go back and watch it !! super stealth, or what.
it’s interesting to note for all ya hard core crafties – the large crochet piece, which was already pre-assembled before it went up over the cube – is based on a traditional quilt pattern, also the simplest and most elemental of knit or crochet blanket/afghan patterns, which is simply to build up attached squares of equal dimension. the better to work – upon your lap.
the video has close-ups on OLEK and her trusty crochet hook – at work.
the piece seems to have a lettered border – but its impossible to decipher the words – from the video.
plus note her leather jacket – it has custom-crocheted long sleeves in a great vertical stripe pattern.
the finished crochet-slammed cube.
wow. they were able to get that up – with no one stopping them.
note: the sweet ‘street’ video – was produced by embrown23. whoever . . . nice job.
the cube crochet slam – went up this past Monday Oct 3, 2011.
I heard from sources on the street – it was already down by the very next day.
taken down by who – that’s the interesting question. I’m thinking the authorities, but nobody knows.
p.s. at the very bottom of her website – home page – it states:
all works produced with “Red Heart” – a widely available, and cheap commercial brand of synthetic yarn.
~OLEK/UR ART HERE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 7th, 2011, 8:44am
DEDICATED TO: STEVE JOBS (1955-2011) – who passed away yesterday, Oct 5, 2011. R.I.P.
ATO ROBERTS, son of RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN put up a small selection of his father’s work – at the SPUR TREE LOUNGE on Orchard Street, in the Lower East Side – this past summer.
bye the way, great food, really nice drinks. good vibes. a really nice time – every time I’ve been there.
see: SPUR TREE LOUNGE
that’s his celebrated dad, RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN, on the left, with pals in Jamaica.
RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN, born 1942 in Kingston, Jamaica – passed away a few years back. he is a well known artist in his native homeland of Jamaica. his biggest claim to fame internationally . . . he played PEDRO in the break-out Reggae flick – ‘THE HARDER THEY COME’ (1972) – which starred JIMMY CLIFF.
RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN, ‘IMMORTALITY’.
this drawing, now a poster – is based on his last drawing: a mystical Egyptian-inspired self-portrait titled: ‘Immortality’.
amen.
detail, RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN, ‘Immortality’.
drawing by RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN.
~ CHURCH TRIUMPHANT ~
~ “DANIEL IN THE LION’S DEN” ~
drawing by RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN.
~ CHURCH TRIUMPHANT ~
~ “CHANTING BRETHERN” ~
drawing by RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN.
~ CHURCH TRIUMPHANT ~
~ “NOT FAR AWAY” ~
detail, RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN, “NOT FAR AWAY”.
drawing by RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN.
~ CHURCH TRIUMPHANT ~
~ “PRINCE EMANUEL” ~
ATO ROBERTS who curated the show of his father’s work, and HESH who brought me there. in front of the RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN drawing: “PRINCE EMANUEL”.
what’s this?
HESH pulled out a rough digital print-out of a piece by – “G”.
(speed) portraits – based on photographs, of: JOSH HARRIS, JOSH HARRIS and HESH !!
the young artist known as “G” is also into drawing the chicks – on the scene – and that fingerprint oblong box – sort of in the center – is the new signature he is experimenting with . . . as opposed to the standard artist signature.
outside on Orchard St. – artist MARCUS BURROWES . . .
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC. AUGUST 1, 2011.
~RAS DANIEL HEARTMAN . . . IMMORTALITY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 6th, 2011, 11:39am
GEORGE HARRISON on his English estate FRIAR PARK in 1975.
PHOTO: TERRY O’NEILL/Getty Images/THE NEW YORK TIMES
GEORGE HARRISON is the subject of a new documentary directed by MARTIN SCORSESE, ‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World’ – which will be screened in 2 parts – on HBO this WED and THURS – OCT 5 and 6, 2011.
DAVE ITZKOFF of the THE NEW YORK TIMES, wrote an intriguing advance article on the flick – published last weekend, Sunday Sept 25, 2011.
One of the things I found most interesting, was to learn – what an archivist – George Harrison was. He actually maintained “fully packed suitcases from trips abroad that he kept as time capsules.” (!!)
as well, apparently the film’s production team, lead by key production man NIGEL SINCLAIR, who also worked on Scorsese’s brilliant and moving BOB DYLAN ode, ‘No Direction Home’ – “sought out archival footage, while producers conducted interviews with longtime Beatles associates like the bassist and visual artist KLAUS VOORMAN, who designed the cover of ‘Revolver’; the photographer ASTRID KIRCHHERR, who took many of the earliest photos of the band; and the producer PHIL SPECTOR, who in 2009 was sentenced to 19 years to life for the murder of the actress Lana Clarkson.”
“Asked how the meeting with Mr. Spector was arranged, Mr. Sinclair said, ‘We were able to capture that interview before he was no longer available to us, which is a very euphemistic way of saying it, isn’t it ?'”
read the article for yourself, here: GEORGE HARRISON, ‘Within Him, Without Him’ – THE NEW YORK TIMES
~ooooh for HBO. . . GEORGE HARRISON |
Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2011, 7:23am
