My Photo in an Upcoming Group Show
A photo of mine will be part of a group art show later this year. I’ll have more information when it’s available.
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Filtering by Tag: ART
Cronenberg vs Pulp
L: Eastern Promises, director: David Cronenberg, 2007
R: This Is Hardcore/Pulp, art directors: Peter Saville & John Currin, 1998
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Meta L.A.
A storefront in Beverly Hills makes for a meta moment. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Quote of the Day: Picasso (Vague)
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Books I Read: The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint
Although I was aware of Hilma af Klint’s work, I didn’t know much about her until I read The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint by Philipp Deines. The oversized book features five chapters of visual biography of the artist’s life, from her privileged upbringing to her spiritual journey to her secret queerness. I recommend this book to anyone who is an artist, who wants to feel inspired by a woman who wasn’t “discovered” until long after her death.
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Mr. Lynch
David Lynch’s plot at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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What I'm Watching (Marina)
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Books I Read: Why Art?
I adore Why Art? by Eleanor Davis. It’s hard to describe what this book is. A comic book? A book of art? A rumination on why art matters and how it shapes us? It also would make for a great gift. Buy a copy!
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Estate Sale (North Hollywood)
An estate sale at the North Hollywood, Calif., home of the granddaughter of Academy Award-winning production designer William Cameron Menzies. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Black Mamba
A mural of Kobe Bryant on the back of a store in Burbank. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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Triptych of Women
A trio of paintings by Georgia Gardner Gray at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. Follow my Instagram for more.
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A Venn Diagram for a Book Proposal-in-Progress
I made this Venn diagram for a book proposal I’m working on to help me visualize the intersection of ideas.
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Books I Read: 100 Demons
I’ve read Lynda Barry’s One! Hundred! Demons! before, but I wanted to read it again because I find it so inspiring. My first encounters with Barry’s work were with Ernie Pook’s Comeek, and I’ve been a fan ever since. I love One! Hundred! Demons! for a variety of reasons: the work is beautiful, the stories are moving, the message is about persevering regardless of what anyone else’s thinks or what happens to you. My favorite strips in this series are the ones focusing on her childhood, how maligned she was yet kept insisting that she might one day have something to say. I read this slowly so I could savor how precious these artworks are.
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What I'm Watching (Nostalgia)
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Alan Moore Foresees the Future of Pornography
Alan Moore foresees the future of mobile phone pornography in 1982’s The Saga of the Swamp Thing #1, in which a man “looks at his hand” where “something shimmers” and “a blue lady is dancing just for him.”
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Books I Read: A Child's Life and Other Stories
I can’t remember the first time I read A Child’s Life and Other Stories, but it would have been over 20 years ago. The book seared itself into my brain. The art spellbound me, the stories were set in the Bay Area where I had grown up, and the rage and pain of a young person who was neglected at home and acting out sexually and through drugs and alcohol was deeply familiar to me. I could say this book changed my life, but that sounds overdramatic and like a cliche. I will say that when I sat down to reread the book, I wondered if it would have the same effect on me all these years later. And it did. It makes me want to be braver and more reckless and more honest in my own work. And that’s invaluable. Thank you, Phoebe Gloeckner.
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I'm a Ghost
The New York Times Magazine has a fascinating story about ghosting written by Stella Tan and illustrated by Liana Finck. Nota bene: “But those who disappear on their paramours have their reasons for going silent.”
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Munch
A selection of art books for sale at an estate sale. For more of my L.A. photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Books I Read: After land
After Land is an extremely strange book by Chris Taylor. I loved it for the images. It’s haunting and weird and striking. The story is elusive and slippery. If you’re looking for something that’s different, this book is that.
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Books I Read: Can of Worms
Can of Worms by Catherine Doherty is a remarkable semi-autobiographical account of the author’s attempt to track down and reconnect with her birth mother. Unflinching and insistent, it peels back the layers on what happens when the mother-daughter bond goes wrong and the devastating effects on the truth-teller.
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