Grabbed this while in the parking garage for the art store. Just going to the art store is the most arty thing I’ve done lately. Sadly, no big bodies of work to speak of yet. I’ve been spending all my time working at the day job (no choice on that one and I like the work) and the night job (more and more reluctantly).

I’ve come to some conclusions about how I’m spending my life and I’m taking steps to alter it to be more focused on what I really want (sounds generic, I know). Probably not very drastic by some people’s definition but it certainly is to me. I’ll write about them as things start to manifest and I have more understanding of their effects.

From: artforum.com / critics’ picks.

Though “Monochroma” is strictly limited to heads and necks, taken as a group, the series conveys a surprisingly fluid motion: The arch of a truncated shoulder and the smooth curve of a cheek morph easily into elegant abstraction. While the subject matter flirts with lulling viewers into an unconscious appreciation of violence, Batura evades this trick and instead carves out a nuanced if queasy place where pathos resides side by side with harmony, historic ideals of beauty are part and parcel with contemporary images of suffering, and the tension between attraction and revulsion remains pragmatically taut.

Not only can you the see the events more clearly, you can start to make out emotions as well. Just horrible.

And come on, you’d have to be crazy to think that the shots actually came from the book repository. The location of the shot and the direction JFK’s head reacts to the shot clearly makes the origin of the shot perpendicular to the side of the car.

I know, it’s old news

via BB

Tierra died on Wednesday of this week.

She had a big impact that Elizabeth and I will not soon forget.

She was a beautiful girl.

My favorite:

15. It doesn’t work

(via kottke.org)

I listened to some of the speeches from the RNC on my way home from work today and was totally outraged at most of the claims. Dispassionate fact checking always hits the spot.

Last time (second of two visits) we sat in this little hallway near the men’s room. My girlfriend saw a man’s penis in front of a urinal. I saw a man cranking out a hot one in the stall.

I think he would have given Andy Rooney (RIP) a run for his money. Dave’s beard is way cooler than Andy’s eyebrows.