Iconoclastic Incubator
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Angus Fairhurst
(4 October 1966 – 29 March 2008)
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Britart founder Angus Fairhurst found hanged
Lucas said: “Angus was a lovely man. Funny and kind. Very much loved by all his friends. Very much loved by me.” (Guardian)
Hirst pays tribute (BBC)
Witty and perceptive’
“Angus Fairhurst was always deprecating about his own talent,” Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota said.
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sing along here, la la la,
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Hillary’s lunch
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Chelsea’s lunch
Update: found this headline, “Hillary Clinton’s Self-Swiftboating into Irrelevance”
Gif animations by Hans Heiner Buhr and lunch images by Fung-Lin Hall (recycled from “No Camping for Old Men”).
(Heart of the World by Guy Maddin from here)
Footlight from Dziga Vertov and Busby Berkeley 
The Machine Art
John Lurie Strange and Beautiful 
Update: April 1 was Dan Flavin‘s birthday!
Here is “Looking at Flavin’s neon wall sculpture” 
, Minimoma by Craig Robinson
And one more, revisit the Clown Family from previous post.
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High Hopes by Lee Welch (Dublin Artist)
High Hopes was a song by Frank Sinatra, also incidentally used as JFK’s campaign song. (Via)
For All We Know<> <>Lee in animation quicktime
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Loop 3 by Niall de Buitlear
In this series of work the artist has selected various pairs of words with opposite meanings. A thesaurus has been used to build strings of successive synonyms which break down the gap between the pairs of words.
Niall has a great blog, his sculptures here.
Jackie Nickerson’s photographs of Faith (image source)
Green Room 
This hermetically sealed world hearkens back to a time of Thomas Merton, vows of silence, and deep contemplation. Nickerson’s still lives of orderly, empty rooms, and clergy members at work capture the peaceful silence that must echo through those convents and abbeys.(Alicatte Amp)
Ritualistic Faith (more photos by J. Nickerson)
Happy St Patrick’s Day 
(Previous posts on Irish cinema here and here).
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Clouds photos taken last week on our weekly bike ride to garage sales in the neighborhood.
This morning just before uploading these photos above,I found coincidentally more photos of clouds from Matt “Clouds Last Evening”
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Our limo dogs are used to getting attention during the bike-thru garage sale run. Spike (the black one in front) anticipates a stuffed animal for him to play with at home. Spike is not familiar with mega stores like ToyR”Us. He loves to drag these stuffed animals to the yard outside.
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Created a new catogory “Garagesale” to see some of our garage sale collection. (The China is embedded in our homevideo. We did not find the Necktie Skirt by Charles Delray.)
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847.
The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. The history of the invention of the telephone is a confusing mass of claims and counterclaims, further worsened by lawsuits which attempted to resolve the patent claims of individuals. Bell is often credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone, although others provided groundbreaking research and development work and subsequent improvements.
History of Telephone 
Bell wanted “Ahoy” but Edison wanted “Hello”. (From Mamma’s Cradle First Hello)
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My Prostate Belongs to God (image source)
More paintings at his Gallery with great soundtrack from John Lurie’s Strange and Beautiful homepage
John Lurie has been ill for the last many years. He has been exhibiting and selling his paintings. (These paintings have saved his life)
M: People are most familiar with your work as a musician and actor/director. How did you make the leap to visual artist?
JL: I believe you have me mistaken with someone else. I am mostly known for being an excellent dancer, in some neighbourhoods more than others.
Big Heart Music Video by John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards
John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards (Big photo of John included from European Jazz Net)
John Lurie is huge in Russia (A post from two years ago).
Twenty Eght Millimetres at Tate
Lots of nice photos of the exhibit from James Wagner
Like the work of his contemporaries who manipulate assembled elements, what makes it art is both what he picks and what he does with it after its picked. What makes it monumental is its encyclopedic ambition. (James Wagner)
Jan is cocky – he has an unBelgian big mouth (via Belgian art blog – The Low Countries)
There’s also an element of wry humor: look for the half-denuded Koons basketball in a image of the conservation studio. (Flavorpill)
How can we create something new if we don’t go back into time? (The Back Story)
Jan has Manfred Pernice and Peter Friedl in his home.
(Then there is Peter Fried a Vermont artist – googled him by mistake)
Art, he explains, ” creates a mold for thought”—a cute formulation, though not very satisfying. Like his installation, it slights the roles in art of sensation and emotion. In any language, Denkmal 11 is over-thought and under-felt: De Cock’s mold is hollow. (Villagevoice-Daniel Kunitz)
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Google Banksy Rat
Rat Dude is on sale.
Before Banksy there was Blek Le Rat
I am Blek le Rat. I am a French graffiti artist. I was one of the first artists to use stencils for an artistic purpose in Paris in the beginning of the 1980s—in ‘81 exactly. At first, I put rats and I made them run along the wall. I wanted to do a rat invasion. I put thousands all over Paris.
Between me and my heart there is nobody – Blek Le Rat on youtube
It is worth noting that the Rat Brigade did not discriminate on the basis of species.
Monkey on high bike 
The above image from A Speculative History of Rat patrol
Chinese New Year Rat 
Chinese New Year 4706, which begins Thursday, is the Year of the Rat, which holds a place of honor as the first creature in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese lunar calendar.
Porcile and Earthly Delight – last Chinese New Year post
Update:Not everyone is celebrating New Year in China
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Santa Barbara 
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More images from Speron Westwater
James Kalm Video of the opening
Jane Birkin 
We are still in the city and don’t call it Frisco. After Capp Street of David Ireland let’s zigzag to the Tenderloin Bush St and visit Jurgen Trautwein, a transplant from Germany. Like the consolidation work that David Ireland did for Capp Street apartment, Jurgen’s apartment is another pulsating piece of life as art, a place of magic and transformation. Jurgen has redesigned his homepage and is introducing new works including many ongoing interactive web projects. Take part, eat the heart and drink the wholly JT Wine.
JTWine randam samples:
Paper Ware Full Body Armor<> <> Movie Machine – Sleep of Reason Variations (click on the left column)
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For the International Geographic painting series I’m using found maps of the world as a two dimensional stage to populate them with immediate, essential, sparsely colored line figurations, acting out fragments of enigmatic dramas in an universe of maximum misunderstanding.
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The Stone of Folly
Mindbombs (WHY WAR animations)
The NIESATT installations
an evolving drawing & multimedia hybridization project:
NIESATT is a neologism consistent of two German words, nie (never) and satt (full, enough, satisfied).
If NIESATT is read backwards and the double T substituted with a D it reads Dasein (being in this world or exercising being).
(For years I’ve been wondering what NIESATT meant.)
Wordabout (blog) – A project exploring perception and work process of blind artists with developmental disabilities working at Creativity Explored in San Francisco.
Out of my mind drawings by Jurgen Trautwein
My drawings are raw thought. I draw what I observe about the human folly I experience in my San Francisco Tenderloin neighborhood and beyond. The Tenderlonians appear like an order of humans very much on the edge of existence.
“I’m being and seeing myself, seeing me see myself”. Paul Valery
Art is not a career to me, it’s a life in the realm of ideas, which are not necessarily monetary or consumable.
Blood Dots and Rain over Ireland 
1994
David Ireland has been a familiar figure in the West Coast art scene for three decades. Not focusing on a career in art until reaching his 40s, he spent his earlier years seeking out an array of experiences. After earning a B.A. in Industrial Design and Printmaking, Ireland lived in Asia, Europe and Africa. He pursued work in numerous professions, most notably serving as an African safari guide during the 1960s and early ’70s. Soon after completing graduate work at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, he purchased a house at 500 Capp Street, in the city’s not-yet-gentrified Mission District. (via)
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Monochromes and Architecture (from the Art of Memory)
Kenneth Baker on Capp Street Debacle
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The above two photos taken from magazine clips I saved from long ago.
The top right image is the exterior of Ireland’s house in San Francisco.
This article was written by John Ashbery. He wrote,
Ireland soon realized that this would be no ordinary restoration job–“consolidation” is the word he prefers to use.
“Slowly I progressed, as an artist, and I reached a philosophical point where I realized that the lively presence I was looking for in my paintings was here on the walls, as I stripped away and cleaned off the surfaces.”
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