images from me to you

I've shot time lapse video shots on trips too (see below), but hours, not days. Although the window cameras I've got going now are going to be 6 months!

I know, I'm on a posting spree today! As a class assignment last fall, maybe October, I had to list a 5 year plan. You list where you want to be in five years then work backwards each step to the present and small things you can do to be there. I need to redo mine because I achieved one of my 5-year goals in the next 6 months or so of writing this:

Teaching full-time in major city.

I had assumed I would start out part time, or one year position, or maybe full time in middle of nowheresville; instead I ended up in a 1+million city within a 4 hour drive of quite a few others: Detroit, Chicago, Louisville, all the C cit in Ohio.

How am I doing in the other areas?

Regular solo shows in established galleries in major cities. ---- I have had several group shows in the last year. I have a solo show to be confirmed at Herron in the Spring. I am applying for more shows, but I'm also working on a new body of work that will be easier to send/show.

Receive regular fellowships/ grants. ---- I have applied for some big ones, missed the deadlines on others, got turned down for one, got one from school for travel in the spring.

Have my work/shows reviewed in major art magazines. ---- Three of the group shows I've been in received a lot of press. I was interviewed in December of 06 on KPCC (Pasadena NPR) radio for a show I was in, it aired with interviews of Danny Devito and the curators of the show, ha! It was also reviewed for Flavorpill LA:

Meanwhile, conceptual conceits find room to flower in both Dylan Palmer's sculptural work and Flounder Lee's personal photographic archives.

This is from The Maine Campus:

Almost as if to contradict Kossy is artist Flounder Lee's work, "All My Photos." Lee presents every image taken over four years - sorted by year - as very small images. At first, the space between the images forms a maze-like pattern between blocks of color. Peering closer, however, reveals a series of miniature images in the order Lee took them.

"There's no editing," Grillo said, explaining how the images we see in photography are the results of vetting by the photographer, to select the "iconic image" that we recognize. Lee's work is a rejection of that, presenting every image Lee took in his attempts to find that elusive, perfect image.

"We get into the shoes of the photographer," Grillo said, "revealing the photographer's eye at the moment of their experience, rather than just one selected piece of it."

So now I need to update this with more 5 year goals and replace getting the job with getting tenure. What are your five year goals?

In the spirit of Books I read, here are blogs I read (I have always hated that read (reed) and read (red) are spelled the same, the English language needs updated to make more sense (cents))


Also In No Particular Order (and only a partial list)
In categories but still not much order

Life
zen habits Not about Zen but about how to declutter your mind, life, and space. Also has good tips on how to do thoughtful things on the cheap.
Lifehacker How-to, programs, hacks, and everything in between.
The Simple Dollar Financial advice for the masses.
Get Rich Slowly


Art
Art Fag City Assorted links and posts about art.
edward_ winkleman very good blog about the art market and such from a gallerist point of view
Improv Everywhere Sort of Jackass meets performance art. In other words, they pull large funny pranks, but they are more thought out than hitting each other in the nuts with a shopping cart.

Assorted
BLDGBLOG
Really amazing conjecture about the future of our world through its buildings.
Dark Roasted Blend Crazy and sometimes amazing photos, illustrations, ads.
spurgeonblog Science and design and such

Maps
If you are a map person these three are wonderful.
strange maps
Cartophilia
The Map Room
GPS Magazine is the source for unbiased GPS related reviews and information.


Photography
(I know it could go under art but these are more specific to photo)
Conscientious The first photography blog I read and still one of my favorites.
i heart photograph Great quirky stuff.
Modern Art Obsession Wall Street Journal says it is the most influential art blog.


I'm missing a ton here and not listing actual friends blogs cause most of them are in my links over to the side here. I'm also not listing any that are only really of local concern.

If you have any I should read, let me know.

PS if you do not have it a MUST HAVE for blog reading is Google Reader (701) that 701 there is the number of unread blog posts I have!
PPS if you blog or really anything of the sort that requires linking and use firefox get make link for context menu driven hyper-linking made easy.

Inspired by Preacher/Lawyer Jed I am going to try to list all the books I read this year. I doubt I'll remember half of them since I didn't keep a list throughout the year, but I'll try. Next year I'll keep up with them!

In no particular order
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Really good and will catch you up on the real history of this hemisphere's inhabitants prior to and partially into European's arrival.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong The name says it all really. Highlights include Helen Keller the communist and Christopher Columbus the hand severer.

A Short History of Nearly Everything Not so much a history of the world, but more a history of how we figured out what we do know about the world with all the ologies in science (and physics!)

Hunters of Dune The first in the series that goes forward Chapterhouse, the book that was Frank Herbert's last. It was also really the first that ended in a cliffhanger. I don't think it lives up to Frank's legacy but it is still pretty good. I really enjoyed the prequels (6 of them). I will read the next one, I mean I've read all 13 of the others!

Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars) One of my MFA advisers gave this to me as my summer reading assignment after I got the job in Indianapolis. It helps demystify the tenure process and talks about it as a political process of give and take. Most important lesson: keep records of everything.

The Grifters Given to me by Joe Fielder (of Radio Free Silver Lake) when I was in the hospital. Good read, especially for someone from LA for a bit of nostalgia about the city.

The Toughest Indian in the World Collection of short stories about American Indians, mostly around Spokane Washington. Some are better than others but none are bad.


Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Gets you to think about subjects in new ways. Seemingly unconnected ideas are pulled together into interesting theories. Statistics has never been so fun!

Echo Park (Harry Bosch) Listened to on the ride from Echo Park to Indianapolis. I'm not big on murder mysteries or anything of the like, but I couldn't resist this when I saw it in a truck stop in Kansas.

So I can't remember any more that I finished

Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies Currently reading this book while researching treaties that I'm shooting. Talks about the treaties from the other side of the table from the white Americans writing the history books. I also have Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800 to read also. And several more that I'm getting too sleepy to link to but I'll list anyway.
Visions of America : landscapes as metaphor in the twentieth century Beardsley, John.
No reservations : Native American history and culture in contemporary art Klein, Richard.
Native to the nation : disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia Cerwonka, Allaine.
American Indian constitutional reform and the rebuilding of Native nations Lemont, Eric D. (Eric David), 1969-
The native tribes of North America : a concise encyclopedia Johnson, Michael, 1937 Apr. 22-

I also started Dry but didn't like it. I might try another of his books though because Racheal has them all.

Keep tabs on your pets, see if they're cheating on you by getting food from all the neighbors! With this fun camera that even does time lapse! I can imagine many possibilities aside from a pet's eye view.

Via Horses Think

After moving from LA one of the things you notice is your friends on TV. Even more than that is the places you visited portrayed as somewhere else. An old abandoned resort by the Salton Sea becomes a bumpin' biker bar in Arizona, your local pub becomes a NYC cowboy bar. Sometimes they get it right, like the laundry mat in Sunset Junction on Shopgirl. See the film Los Angeles Plays Itself if you ever get a chance, it talks all about this stuff.

But the people are still funnier. I've had students randomly pull up my LA friends' photos for use in art projects, twice since I've lived in Indy. Once was Sarah as a glamor girl from an Ad or something, Once was Crystal as a Cyborg (pictured below)


And even though I never saw this on TV it is my friend Jaime Andrews and it is funny.

Google now has it online, but the funny thing is that the pictures seem to be a lot older. They definitely aren't from the day a couple of months ago when I saw the Google Mapping van.
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