September 2004

So tomorrow I’m getting a new stick from the folks at Flowlab. Stoked. I’ll get a review of it here ASAP.

In other news, the Comet wide board (arctic) is rad, I rode it down south, and want to get it in Free Basin at Yerba Buena as soon as humanly possible.

Working on the plan to keep art and track balanced in my life, there’s a new job posting in the media department at UCSD, I would love to be teaching/training down there, and I feel like the experiences I’m having now with the folks at MSAT are really going to work to my advantage.

I’m so very pleased with the progress of my students, and I love asking them questions. It’s so satisfying to have a 9th grader first answer your question with a passive “I don’t know” and then ask a few more questions and come around another way, and deduce the solution.

Very exciting.

Also planning on making another push for the Fulbright to the UAE and Dubai Media City. I have a much better plan this year, and a more developed understanding of my work and how it would promote good feelings and understanding. Sending excerpts of YUK may not have been the best move, as surely it could offend some folks.

Today the 3 drawings were passed back to the students and their favorite single drawing was selected out of the personal coat of arms, avatar, and caricature.

The selected drawings were then posted on the wall, and a semi-circle was formed facing the work. Each student was encouraged to select a drawing from the group and talk about its formal issues, content, and rendering.

Vocabulary:

formal, line-weight, expressive, tight, loose, realistic, abstract, placement, confluence, horizon, perspective, foreground, middleground, background, symbolism, balance.

To close the class, avatar discussions were made public, and we talked about browsing habits and favorites.

So I went to the SFMOMA today, and I really like the Eggleston show, I would like to shoot that transparency and neg film to get such saturated colors…other things I enjoyed seeing was the simple charcoal line drawing on the second floor, and of course the Ducati sport bike in the design show.

Other things, if one is going to do a contemporary installation with paint (i.e. the big burst on the second floor) don’t drip! It looks sloppy and un-considered. Also about P. Rist. It’s weird how her work looks like its from 1998.

I need to figure out a strategy to get in galleries, museums and the like. I’m so very pleased that I have the time to work, train and read this year.

If SF would just stay sunny and warm like the last week for FOREVER, and have more LA/NYC galleries here that aren’t non-profit experimental spaces, and not comercial giants…where are the ones that sell things *AND* are in tune with young artists?

Seems like they’re in LA and NYC only *grrr*

That’s an open call to the galleries in SF…for 49 Geary, get young artists, and don’t send us to the mission…and Mission galleries, sell work!

…getting off the soap box now…

So is this the end? Hardly. We’ve all moved off that strip of Market, but those experiences have shaped all our lives. Eating tuna and ketchup…apartments with no windows, and skating to stay sane.

Here’s the information I have right now.

Ethan is still in SF as well as Jimmy and Dennis. I haven’t heard from or about Chris forever.

Josh has moved with his GF to greener pastures.

Kev is home skating like a champ, making movies and enjoying the Midwest.

I’m finally hitting my stride, making work, training for track, skating, body boarding…Thank you Market Street All-Stars for all the wonderful support and friendship. I wouldn’t have been able to make it without you.

CALIFORNIA!

H Skate is coming, a new art-board keep the eyes peeled for www.hskate.com

It’s been a whlile since I’ve posted.

I’m pleased to report that I finished my first commission ahead of schedule and the piece is hanging up in my room, waiting for me to figure out where to sign it.

In other news, I’ve applied to IPCNY new print show for November, and also will be in the show at teh Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. I would like to show more work there, and eventually move down there.

The image that will be in “Snap to Grid” it’s called “MSAS 2002″.

I’m teaching two days a week at the Marin School of Art and Technology, http://www.envisionschools.org/msat/ and the title of my class is “Tesseract”. I’m really excited that I get to use the curriculum that I developed over the years using the hypercube as a syllabus and the idea of Analogs…in terms of both definitions.

- - - Thank you Merriam Webster - - -
Main Entry: tes�ser�act
Pronunciation: ‘te-s&-”rakt
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek tessares four + aktis ray — more at ACTIN-
: the four-dimensional analogue of a cube

Main Entry: an�a�log
Pronunciation: ‘a-n&l-”og, -”�g
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or being an analogue
2 a : of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities b : of or relating to an analog computer c : being a timepiece having hour and minute hands

Main Entry: 1an�a�logue
Variant(s): or an�a�log /’a-n&l-”og, -”�g/
Function: noun
Etymology: French analogue, from analogue analogous, from Greek analogos
1 : something that is analogous or similar to something else
2 : an organ similar in function to an organ of another animal or plant but different in structure and origin
3 usually analog : a chemical compound that is structurally similar to another but differs slightly in composition (as in the replacement of one atom by an atom of a different element or in the presence of a particular functional group)
4 : a food product made by combining a less expensive food (as soybeans or whitefish) with additives to give the appearance and taste of a more expensive food (as beef or crab)