Blogging to Be Clutter Free

So I’ve been reading some books about how to become less dependent on objects, and more dependent on life and relationships…Specifically The Artist’s Way and Let Go Of Clutter and I think the Internet holds the key to a clutter free lifestyle. Things that have helped clear my life and open my time. Blogging: WordPress …

Time To Preblog

After reading Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, my aunt Linda’s recent death, and the subsequent re-connection with family, I have been spending much of my energy thinking about cycles, relationships, temporarily, directionality, and scale. Convergence, overlap, pattern, and sequences also draw my attention. I will be releasing my writing in the order it was …

SPUD Local & Organic Delivery is Fantastic

I was first told about SPUD (Small Potatoes Urban Delivery) and their Fresh Harvest Box from a co-worker who has a forty minute commute and picks her son at daycare on the way back home. Her life is hectic and she mentioned that one of her saving graces was not having to go to the …

The “Office” Side of Art

Here are some lecture notes from “All You Wanted to Know About Art” Summer 2003. Keep regular business hours. Size counts. Make mailing list to send stuff to galleries. Create a history of applications. Write thank you notes. Stay in touch with folks who know your work. Layer idea of community and patronage. It’s bigger …

Rhizome 2010 Commission Proposal “Preblog” by Pete Ippel

Preblog: Time capsule to Midwestern Teenage Life Before the World Wide Web – Blogging as a 15-Year-Old and 30-Year-Old at the Same Time San Francisco based artist Pete Ippel travels to rural Illinois to unlock the fire-proof safe that’s been buried in the closet of his childhood home since 1997. Ippel investigates and interprets nearly …

100 Things to Enjoy, 2001

100 Things to Enjoy side view 100 Things to Enjoy top view 100 THings to Enjoy page veiw 100 Things to Enjoy Book Cover 1. Watching a 3am football game at Cornell in the snow and seeing people act like kids again. 2. Hugging Jennifer, putting my nose in her hair and smelling strawberries. 3. …

Revisiting Proposition 8

This was originally posted at three ways to take it in regards to Hip Hop vs. Proposition 8. This is a tough issue to really understand when many are experiencing it *removed* from the locale. As a former New York resident, I had lots of preconceived notions about the policies of California and the “liberals” …