this makes no sense

Why the "(obey)"? Why the weird highlighting? Why the capitalization? Ads are sometimes the weirdest little pieces of design logic. Who let this out into cyberspace?

Poster Boy

This is the link to the Flickr page for NYC street/subway artist "Poster Boy." I think he plays with advertising in an incredibly clever way. He was supposedly just arrested by NYPD but no one is really sure if it's him or not! Smart guy.

Here's the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/

spring cleaning

i once asked you
to put your lips on burning paper
though dirt was caked on the envelope's curves
but, unfortunately for me
you don't trust organic

although your skin is withering from lack of
action
passion
doesn't matter
to a statue, i suppose
if you remain in the garden at the getty villa
enclosed by tourists with their numb thoughts, their worse visions
no one will ever make you feel

what once was soft
now is lost
our lush youth padded down with missed connections
my dirty sections
of fingernail litter
the floor like life and its spectators
who rip through my spine
and spill out my throat

materialize, won't you
go, fetch your toolkit and disassemble
every syllable
you find appalling
expose to the light any fleeting lovethumps
but it's so cluttered and dank in here
it's only a matter of-
i mean, no one's seen the bottom in years

uhhhhh
all this shitty poetry
none of it is fooling me
just the syntax of a simple fool
and an even sadder vocabulary

won't you,
please,
just scrub this shit clean

someone has got to


- leyla

found

I found this recently on Bleeker Street...I was waiting to cross the street and double-taked.

Although I originally thought differently, I don't think there is a joke here. The creator is actually quite savvy. Mother Mary has been translated into either Kate Moss or Snow White. Caters to its New York audience, don't you think?

JTP's colors

Rauschenberg's White Paintings, 1951

There's something so poetic about these.  It offers us nothing -  no color, no line, no artistic skill, no subject matter - yet it offers us everything: the history of abstraction, the implications of an art object,  the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, even Zen Buddhism.  It's hard for me to qualify the genius of something like this.  If I continue to try, I will just sound more like a crazy kook.  

I know.  Load of bullshit, right? but it's just so beautiful.  

I guess all I can do is share this with you guys and hope that someone else will find it as beautiful as I do.  

cp

photo by seydou keita

found

THIS IS IT

Creative energy makes us feel like we are contributing something beautiful to the world and accomplishing something worthwhile for ourselves. Yet, our creative capacity and free thinking cannot be developed if it is not supported by other creative minds. And what’s equally important in the artistic process is a constant interaction with a variety of artists, and a continuing knowledge of what is happening around us so that our own art can be better informed and dynamic.

We (Carolyn Park and Joelle Te Paske) came to this realization one evening while we were discussing our own artistic endeavors, realizing that we could both benefit from more collaborations and interactions with other musicians, writers, painters, photographers, dancers, poets, etc. Inspired by the artistic collectives of previous generations and our own personal desires for a nurturing and fecund artistic environment, we decided to create an artistic collective to make this happen.

The collective, in our minds, is just this floating mass of energy – noise, lines, sounds, color, words, letters, and movement. It is a free space, in all respects. In order to make it as welcoming and democratic as possible, we have decided that a free-form blog would be the best forum for our artistic interactions.

This is it!

Please feel free to post your own original artwork and ideas onto the site. There are no regulations for it, except that nothing can be taken down from the blog and haters can’t be hatin’ on shit. The blog will be supplemented by a monthly gathering in a tentative space, where all the members and contributors of the blog can meet in person to collaborate on projects and jam and do fun things.