zelle

"For artists who must start over each day without any assurance that the success or failure of the previous day's work will reliably indicate what comes next, possibility is the product of intuition, trial and error, and an instinctive trust in the voice that says Yes or No to each option that presents itself."

"But while aesthetic prognosticators are prone to declaring certain artistic practices obsolete based on their waning power in a given period, artists, whatever their public positions might be, seldom write off any possibility once and for all. On the contrary, the ability to see fresh opportunity in neglected or abandoned models is one of the basic ingredients of innovation."
Robert Storr Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

among wolves-back catalog

beechfields record label (http://www.thebeechfields.com) has released "in the beginning" a collection of unreleased songs from baltimore based band "among wolves". i have collaborated with billy wolves of the band in the past, designing the album cover for their 2007 self-titled album as well as the cover image for this release. this collection is available for free download (donation) on the label's website under digital-only downloads. please visit the site they support local music in the baltimore area and allow artists to create the music that they want.

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tangles

this "takes its place in a stream of some hundreds of paintings and exists for itself alone as well as in the context of the rest of the work."
quote by marcia hafif from "after the end of art" by arthur c. danto (1997)
http://www.rockycanonicaisstillalive.com

chickens

today, 29 july, i passed two chickens strutting around on a residential front lawn on my way to school. i grew up in the country but i can honestly say that i had never seen that before.