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Bias

–noun 1. an oblique or diagonal line of direction, esp. across a woven fabric.
2. a particular tendency or inclination, esp. one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice.
3. Statistics. a systematic as opposed to a random distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure.
4. Lawn Bowling. a. a slight bulge or greater weight on one side of the ball or bowl.
b. the curved course made by such a ball when rolled.

5. Electronics. the application of a steady voltage or current to an active device, as a diode or transistor, to produce a desired mode of operation.
6. a high-frequency alternating current applied to the recording head of a tape recorder during recording in order to reduce distortion.
–adjective 7. cut, set, folded, etc., diagonally: This material requires a bias cut.
–adverb 8. in a diagonal manner; obliquely; slantingly: to cut material bias.
–verb (used with object) 9. to cause partiality or favoritism in (a person); influence, esp. unfairly: a tearful plea designed to bias the jury.
10. Electronics. to apply a steady voltage or current to (the input of an active device).
—Idiom11. on the bias, a. in the diagonal direction of the cloth.
b. out of line; slanting.

from dictionary.com

Andres Segovia

Fandanguillo

Composed by Federico Moreno Torroba

Siggi Eggertsson

Amazing work. From Iceland. Check it out


From Arkitip

USING A BMW AS A PAINT BRUSH

from Hypebeast

BBC ICE CREAM

If you don't know BBC/ ICE CREAM is owned by Pharrel Williams(NERD). It is designed by Skate Thing who designs for BAPE, who is incredibly talented and original. They have just put up their latest look book for next spring. The design of it, is super sick. Check it out.

from Hypebeast

Ray Pettibon

One of the champions of Art Making. I love his gradual evolution. His work is far from tidy. His use of language is evasive, in that you don't get it right away. When you read into it, then it becomes funny or fucked up. Ray Pettibon on Supertouch

Robert Frank

This is an excellent example of how to exhibit art on the web
from the NY Times

Imaginary Foundation

These guys had an exhibition in Los Angelos recently. Check out the rest of the photos at The Gluttony.

Happy Thoughts

Chris Johanson, "This Is Where You Are," June 4-Aug. 23, 2003,
at Georg Kargl, Schleifmühlgasse 5, Vienna 1040 Austria 6/5/03

Jason Rhoades, in "Meccatuna," on view Sept. 12-Oct. 25, 2003, at David Zwirner,
525 West 19th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 9/18/03

Santiago Cucullu, "Wiyya to Hell Owwa That," on view May 2-June 14, 2003, at Julia Friedman Gallery,
118 N. Peoria, Chicago, Ill 60607 6/4/03

Vito Acconci, Open Book

For the length of this video Vito Acconci repeats such phrases as, "I'll accept you, I won't shut down, I won't shut you out.... I'm open to you, I'm open to everything.... This is not a trap, we can go inside, yes, come inside...." All the while he abstains, almost entirely, from closing his mouth and lips. After watching the video for a while you can start to understand some of the things he is saying, and his words become strangely genuine because of his committed actions.
BEau Hagberry

In His Own Words

Scouring the mess of You Tube for great wastes of time. Here is an autobiographical sketch of Marcel Duchamp. "Play games, play with Life and you are just as alive or more alive than people who believe in religion or art."
Part I

Part II

PartIII
"The problem was to choose something that wasn't interesting that you did not like or dislike."

The Starfish Surreal

"Women's teeth are objects so charming...that one ought to only see them in a dream or in an instant of love"
Man Ray

Emak Bakia by Man Ray

"Leave me alone (in Basque)
Emak-Bakia shows elements of fluid mechanical motion in parts, rotating artifacts showing his ideas of everyday objects being extended and rendered useless.
Originally a silent film, recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time. The musical reconstruction was by Jacques Guillot.

Emak bakia can also mean "the female [gives] the peace" in Basque. "
from asdmazz
part I

part II

Vito Acconci, Crash

KR

John Cage, Water Walk

Tom Waits, Down by Law

Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni. The film centres on the arrest, incarceration and escape from jail of three men.

Justin Simoni

THE FALL

had to post this too. too amazing

Totally Wired

Better than Elvis, Mark E. Smith, singer of the Fall, has made a lot of albums. His words remind me of Jean Michel Basquiat paintings in a long drawl. He executes words into fine audible sculptures, like "Love All Greed". The phrases drip out out of his mouth like black grease, or laughs while being kicked in the stomach by police. Recent greats like James Murphy and Stephen Malkmus have taken more than just a page from this misanthropic hysteric.

News Sites

Here are my favorite daily news sites.

1) Hypebeast
It covers mostly sneakers and clothes. Here you can see the latest in fashion design from all around the world. For example Bape, Nike, Adidas, Vans, BBC, Supra, Undercover, APC, Staple, and so on. They also tend to report on some contemporary artists like KR, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami Although I probably don't buy any of these goods, the pictures and the content are really interesting. The site is very simple, diverse, and exciting.

2) NY Times
The newspaper has been a favorite of mine since University. The writing tends to be a bit more quality and intelligent than the run of the mill local paper. I enjoy their special features, short videos, and their attempts at interactive graphs.

3) The Economist
A fantastic and well written magazine. The vocabulary is the best all around. Their insights include various opinions, which leave the reader to form their own. Their comment section is very easy to use and not hidden like on other sites. I also like their illustrations.

4) Arkitip
Great art magazine and website. Their intelligence section, as far I know, was one of the first to do an apartment style blog, which has various artists and designers. For example, Kevin Lyons, Damon Way, Jeff Staple, Pedro Winter, Undefeated, Evan Hecox, Ari Macropolis, and others. I also like that you can select a see all button which allows you to view all the writers posts in order of time posted. These guys are definitely on the ball as far as elevating the way we get information.

5) Venture Beat
A blog written by Dean Takahashi from the San Jose Mercury News, out of Silicon Valley. The news here is original, and quirky. There are great interviews with all kinds of fascinating people like venture capitalists, game developers, and engineers.

There are many others, but these are the ones I check the most. Do you have any recommendations?

VIET

This is a new shoe designed by Maharishi.

What's Up Rocker

In Passing

For Here or to Go

I just finished reading this. Its a collection of stories written by people who had worked at one time or another in the service industry. The work here is very casual, like you're talking to your friends. It reminded me a lot of Al Burian.

Some examples of the contents:
-the diary of a dishwasher
-a waitress who works at bar during St. Patricks day
-a waitress working at a root beer stand 50 years ago
-a transvestite who tries to get a waitress job at an expensive restaurant
-a black woman working at a restaurant during the Jim Crow Laws period of the south
-a pizza delivery driver
-a pole dancer earning money for college
-an edited employee manual

All edited by Leah Ryan, R.I.P.

Boogie

Ive posted his work before. And he's on the links. But I'll mention him again because I think he's one of the best out there. I like his new photos from Belgrade. I really like no 1, the old lady cutting the piece of meat. I've never seen that before. In no. 4 there is a photo of a bus driver. You see him in the mirror and what's in front of him at the same time. In no.8 I really like the colors with the text and the boys face on the right playing ball. No. 13 with the knives in the corner and sick boy written on the right. I like how you have to read into this one. And no19, the bodies lying around, the play of depth of field. All of these, Quite simply they are sublime. Check it

QUESTION

What do you think is the difference between imagination and reality?

Wonder Showzen

A Boy Named Sue

Definitely one of my favorite songs

Michel Gondry's Feet in Humor

Tom Waits "For No One" Animation

HOKKAIDO

The other week I took a trip up North to Sapporo and Asahikawa for 3 days.

CROSS HOTEL(Hokkaido)

The hotel we stayed at was in downtown Sapporo. The exterior and lobby were well designed. My favorite part was when you pushed the elevator button, a projector projected a blinked image of an arrow on the wall. On the top of the hotel was a large bath with a view of downtown. The room was good, but fairly normal as far as the design, watching TV was the best part of it. The breakfast was quite good.

SOUP CURRY(Hokkaido)

a very famous dish in these parts and tastes amazing.

ASAHIKAWA DOBUTSUEN (Hokkaido)

This is a famous Zoo. About 3 hours by car from Sapporo. This zoo was renovated about 5 years ago when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. The owner of the zoo got together with the staff and tried to think of ways to make it more interesting. The results were pretty good. At times it was more interesting to watch the people get so excited and how almost everyone had a camera. It might be cooler if they gave everyone pencils and paper to try and draw the animals or describe how they move words.

Here is a tunnel you can walk through and see the penguins swim above you.


The seals were amazing to watch as they swam under the floor and through a narrow tube to a pool above you. Everyone shouted every time the seals went up


The polar bears were also amazing to watch through a giant window as they bombed into the water with their overweight bodies

RETURN HOME

Wild Thing Eats Table

The typical American diet of cheeseburger, fries, and milk shake
could not even tame this Wild Thing's hunger.

Hiromi Uehara

Hiromi Uehara has become one of my favorite musicians in the Japanese main stream. Her playing style as well as her obvious passion for playing are true inspirations. i saw an interview on television with her childhood piano teacher, whom uses verbal imagery and color definition in her teachings to help her students identify with and express the emotion within a given piece of music. i've heard a rumour that because of this training in childhood Hiromi Uehara has developed a sort of synaesthesic sense, seeing colors as she plays. 

Pie paper from New Zealand looks good.

DELTA

One of the greats. This seasons stussy collection has a bunch of pieces designed by him. Check out this video they made with him

CRYSTAL CASTLES

VANISHED

VERY NICE BOYS AND GIRLS

Megapuss

T-Pain

Barack Obama

I'm really happy to see that he won the election. I don't know a whole lot about him or if he will do a good job and he's definitely got his work cut out for him with the present state of the economy and uneasy foreign relationships. But he's definitely a canary in the mine. Watching his speeches I can feel his passion like that of Dr. King or Malcom X. He has definitely made me more interested in politics and gave people hope that change is possible.

On another note

Recently I've been taking a look at the whole economic crisis so that I can try to understand a little bit as to whats going on. I've found that its really difficult to understand just what it is investors do on Wall St and even worse In some cases a lot of them don't understand what it is they do either. But I've come to a conclusion; that we live in a world of specialized knowledge. In the case of investors, they have a knowledge that people outside their world don't understand. They told people they could make extra money or buy houses more cheaply without them really understanding how.

But is it their fault?

I don't think that's exactly correct. The second conclusion is that we live in an extremely competitive society. For example all of these investment companies are watching each other. They read about each other in the magazines and they know about each other's financial products. They will do whatever it takes to get ahead, even if that means doing something a little shady, like as I said before swindle the general public who are ignorant of what we are actually getting ourselves into.

Should we regulate?

In some cases yes. But another conclusion is that technology and information are moving much faster than the law. In the case of investors who have PHD'S in economics, they are often smarter than the law. In the last decade they have been very good about finding loopholes in the system so they can get those extra dollars. So even if you create a wall, someone will find a way to break it.

We got to know when someone is swindling us. We have to create better ways to see through the bullshit. Hopefully that isn't the case with Obama. He's made big promises and I hope he can achieve them. I really want to see some light prevail in this world.

check out some interesting stories about just how disturbing this crisis is;
"From the midwest to the MTA"
"Taking Hard New Look at Greenspan's Legacy"
and I also recommend the documentary on Enron

The Cruise

This is kind of an older documentary, I saw it first maybe 5 years ago. Its about a tour guide who is obsessed with his city searching for the perfect roof top view. He also made an appearance in Waking LIfe.

Ethan Fowler

Epicly Later'd is one of the best documents of skateboarding I've seen. I've watched almost every episode. I really like how its presents skateboarding as a lifestyle rather than a sport or competition. This episode totally reflects that. There's a point where Chris Pastras is talking about the video tin can folk lore. The goal was just to bomb a few hills, drink some beer, and make the music. This idea really reconates with me cause I think we often take stuff we do way to seriously. Of course we should try and push ourselves or be motivated, but on the otherhand sometimes if we don't try its a hell of a lot more interesting. Anyway, enough of my bullshit.

Roadside Memorials

A little bit of humor for an otherwise tragic scenario can go a long way...

I passed by a roadside Memorial last night, (Halloween) and it occurred to me that it might be the memorial for the cyclist that died in my friends arms. What is most strange for me about seeing this memorial, is that I have crossed paths with this sentient being several times since his sudden, and fatal accident.

First knowledge:

On Facebook, my friend Erin posts, "I can't stop thinking about the man I saw die today"

Second knowledge:

I talk to Erin at a concert, she brings up the fact that she is still very shaken by the experience. I get her story of the accident... she was riding behind him a couple blocks when he collided with a car... she held him, and comforted him until he died.

First experience:

Walking back to the car from the Boulder Theater I stopped at a roadside memorial that was marked by, among other things, a bike completely painted white. I like public memorials so I stopped, and slowly the idea of this memorial being for the same person that Erin saw die crept into my thoughts. I sat down spent and some time with this site... I was taken by how this person's life and death, even without knowing each other had continuously crossed my path over the past couple months. I took out a black sharpie and wrote on the all white bike:

R.I.P. I knew of you, even before seeing this beauty

I sprinkled some dirt over the sprockets, attached my sharpie the break cable, and left two smokes to be shared.

Shukou Tsuchiya

i stumbled upon Shukou Tsuchiya's work during a translation project i was working on. Consequently, all of the concentration i had previously vested in translation was suddenly held hostage to the work on his website.

His work reminds me of a quote from the film deity Stanley Kubrick;

"It is no longer our job to create new things, rather it is to make existing things look better"

Unfortunately, some of his most impressive work was done for the promotional uses of major corporations, of which i do not care to make this blog a venue to promote. 

Excluding the above, here are some of my favorites:

The Bookshelf Curator

The other night i watched a documentary on television about a man whom has made it his profession to organize, create, reshape, and give meaning to bookshelves. 

He (apologies, i missed his name) travels around Japan to different venues having, or wanting, bookshelves in order to give to them a particular meaning decided by the venues owner or by himself; perhaps to increase sales, perhaps to create a mood, perhaps to encourage. 

As an example, he was hired by a wedding ceremony hall to design a bookshelf with the hopes of evoking a mood of love, matrimony, togetherness, in the participants and guests. The bookshelf was divided into sections, each section given a different theme determined by a different quote ranging from such people as Nietzsche to Bob Dylan. The quotes were then used as a basis in choosing books, ranging from philosophy to manga, to be placed in representation of the quote and its theme.

For me his story is rather inspiring, to see someone surviving, thriving, off such a subtle and original artistic venture. 

Extreme care and thought given to the beauty of the normally overlooked.

On the bridge

I stand on a bridge
over the busy traffic
of a four lane street
on the right hand side
two men are playing the drums
on the left
a man is playing his sax to the sounds that surround him
in the middle a workman blows some leaves
here is a great concert of the city:

the cars hum
the vans buzz
the bikes rumble
the sax player bops
the drummers bap
the workman blows
the car honks
the taxi hits
the car
an accident occurs
the traffic stops
but the beat goes on

Sun set

The sun begins to set
I follow the scales of a trumpet player
into the setting sun

Yoyogi Park

Crows caw
People laugh
Drunkers chuckle
One of them gives
his friend a haircut
standing up
bicycles race past
helicopters fly
over head
birds chirp
children run and play
in red and blue
the sun shines
in cool air
motorcycles buzz past
children scream
crows caw
a young girl laughs at her dad
the soft wind blows
a picnic is had
a crow invades
people are peaceful
here
they come and go
or they pass by
I wait for the drift

Game Center

"Experience what it is like to be Rambo. Press the trigger and kill the enemy. 1 credit to continue. 2 to start."

Shibuya Station

I get off the train and pass through the gate. Some women are checking out the flower shop of pinks, yellows, greens. purples, oranges, and reds . A woman makes juice at a drink stand for a man in a black suit. An officer gives directions to an old woman. A worker from a drink company is fixing a vending machine. A man with an apron repairs worn out shoes while the customers watch. All the while hundred of people walk past me in geta, high heels, sneakers, dress shoes, and boots.

The Restaurant

When I enter, two couples are already seated. Music comes from the kitchen. It sounds like the Beatles, but I'm pretty sure its Indian. A motorcycle buzzes by. High heels clack on the floor. The table across from me speaks loud enough for everyone in the room to here, but I understand only few words. Other tables speak in soft voices. I hear the munching of naan. I sit near the door. I see the reflection of paper lanterns reflecting in the window. I bump the table with my elbow. Lights intermittently flash past the front of the store. Spoons tap porcelain bowls. The shadow of my hand hits the page. The sink in the kitchen spits hot scolding water. A pan rattles on a cook's table. Various conversations phase in and out over the soft spell of Indian rhythms. The panand mushroom curry here is excellent.

Airport

Old Stapleton airport goes parkside community.