Month: May 2011
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In Praise of Gil Scott-Heron
The last two tracks of Kanye’s record brought Gil Scott-Heron back to me. Whatever Kanye wanted that song to mean, to me it’s all about trying to be an artist in the middle of that which is not artful.
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Bill Cunnigham is an Amazing Artist and Bill Cunnigham New York is a Great Film
Shawn-Laree and I saw Bill Cunnigham New York at the Music Box Theater last Friday. Go see it. Bill Cunningham is the greatest living Irish Catholic artist. There is such joy in his work, his methods, and his theory of art. Early on in the film he talks about clothing having "an idea". That's what…
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Amazing Mural at the Zingo Express/ BP Amoco in Knox, Indiana
Whilst traveling back from Wabash over the weekend, we stopped at a BP for gas &etc. Inside was this epic mural of architectural life in Knox, Indiana in the mid-1980s: Here’s some detail, starting with an old school take on the original gas station– “Zingo”, when diesel was 30 cents a gallon: Here’s a look…
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Architecture of Wabash, Indiana
SL and I went to Wabash, Indiana, for a family function over the weekend, and I took some shots of the Wabash, Indiana downtown. Really good stuff.
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In Praise of Invasives
Naturalists like to talk about "invasives" in derisive terms. Here's a snip from the wikipeida entry for the term: They disrupt by dominating a region, wilderness areas, particular habitats, and/or wildland-urban interface land from loss of natural controls (i.e.: predators or herbivores). This includes non-native invasive plant species labeled as exotic pest plants and invasive…