When In Doubt...

From Wikipedia:
"Oblique Strategies (subtitled 'over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas') is a set of published cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt first published in 1975, and now in its fifth edition. Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation."

"All five editions are now available in Apple's iTunes Appstore, for the iPhone and iPod Touch."

Order the latest deck here.

Online versions here, here, and here.


Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno



Portrait of Eno by Peter Schmidt

Hey. I've been thinking about doing a sort of daily postscript like Dennis Cooper does on his blog. Now that I have time I'm going to try it out. Don't worry, I'll keep it short. Speaking of having time, I got my first unemployment payment. Holy shit! Post your beans and rice recipes in the comments please. Or just send some job listings my way. Yikes! Anyway, I'm on house husband duty so last night I cooked up some quinoa with grilled zucchini from 101 Cookbooks. Pretty good, if I do say so myself, and cheap. In other news, I went running this morning and I think I found a stretch to take care of my sore ankle/calf. That's all for now...

Sour Milk: I didn't even think of trying to track down those inversion goggles. I will get on it and report back.

Arsenio Part 2

Science

Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a 1950 vision experiment.

Caption #3: "Graduate student Fred Snyder falling down after removing special eyeglasses that reverse and invert everything he sees. Immediately before removing glasses he rode a bicycle with perfect control along sidewlk in Central Park at end of 30 day experiment to learn whether vision is a natural function or a process that must be learned."

source:life

Museum Trip

Went to MoMA today with Kelly R. (thanks August!)
Saw the big Martin Kippenberger show and the Tehching Hsieh stuff.
Buzzed through "Tangled Alphabets" and "Compass in Hand".
There's always too much stuff and I can only take so much.

Tried to recreate a Sigmar Polke drawing when we got home.

Later, I was searching the Life Magazine archive for interesting photos.
Found a bunch from April of 1958 that were all related to a fire. (mentioned here)
A couple of them had the caption "Employees moving paintings during the fire."
I thought to myself, "I wonder if Frank O'Hara is in any of these. That would be weird."

Behold!


Detail:

Am I right or am I right?
(Kelly's not convinced.)

Arsenio Part 1

source:life

Important American Drawings Part 1

Original Bad Brains album cover artwork, 1981.
by MiR* aka Dave "Ratcage" Parsons.


Two portraits of the artist:



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