the winter issue of frieze gave me loads of inspiration. besides the great article on luigi ghirri's work the issue also introduced me to barbara kasten. i find architectural sites captivating.

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i'm currently working with pantyhose as a prop within images. i've been looking at other work utilizing the material to see what's been done before and how i might add to the conversation. senga nengudi's R.S.V.P. I (above) was mentioned to me by a classmate. the blog racing thoughts had a picture of the installation and a quote from moma.org by nengudi about the work:

"I am working with nylon mesh because it relates to the elasticity of the human body,” Nengudi has explained. “From tender, tight beginnings to sagging… The body can only stand so much push and pull until it gives way, never to resume its original shape."

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francesca woodman's retrospective opens in march at the guggenheim here in nyc. the show began its tour at the sf moma in november. i'm eagerly awaiting the opening.

to tide me and you over, friend, photographer, artist, elli chung has created a beautiful little homage to woodman. she's posted her images over at her blog, paris and other places.

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"all other images," frieze's piece on luigi ghirri and his work from the december 2011 issue.

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oh, pioneer

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i cant get viviane sassen's pictures out of my mind since seeing them last month at moma's new photography show. the museum included images from sassen's parasomnia series.

this morning i was thinking about how a photograph can be a sculpture and sassen's images came to mind.

the transformation of her subjects from real, grounded entities to elements in service to the image is striking.

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i just fell a little bit in love with street style again.

everybody street will hopefully show at the seaport museum this winter.

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friends and all around smarty-pantses, hannah jayanti and jeremy haik, are flexing their filmmaking prowess & making a documentary film about the phantom tollbooth.

the project needs your support -- if you are a lover of literature, documentary film, or just plain old creative arts, please take time to visit the project's kick-starter page and donate!

from the website about the film:

The Phantom Tollbooth turns 50 this year, and we've joined Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, Milo and Tock, and a host of authors, critics, teachers and kids, to celebrate the classic 1961 children's book, by making the definitive documentary film about this beloved work of the American imagination.

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seen via hey hot shot.

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when i saw the above copy of a public space at spoonbill & sugartown i purchased the journal immediately. an image of awkward, exhilarating flight covers the journal jacket. about his attempts at flight, tom pope shares from the interior jacket flap:

I guess I can be looked at as the suit-wearing absurdist who makes art fun. The suit is my character. I can bring humor to the art, or I can rule it out. If I rule it out, the viewers will bring in their own anyway. You can't stop humor coming into art. I like the idea of embracing it.

So the idea of scale, of people walking up... if someone came up and joined in that would be extremely exciting. It would make it for me. It's about chance and the idea of possibility--things happening that are out of my control, that I don't know about until the film has been processed.

Once you see the photo, things start falling into place. Then the viewer comes into it and created a narrative: How did I get up there? Am I falling? Am I suspended? Am I defying gravity? I offer the materials, the raw materials. The viewer brings the rest.

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storm king is open from spring to fall. i visited with friends last april.

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balneology: the science of the therapeutic application of baths especially with natural mineral waters.

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this week has been all prep for my departure from nyc for the next month and not nearly enough time in the studio making. i was able to get to the studio for the afternoon yesterday but focused most of my time there writing. i'm researching for a paper on artists who create during, or in response to, personal illness. i'm curious about what that type of work looks like, or if it 'looks like' at all.

there was one photographer i came across in my research whose work surprised and, well, kind of shocked me. mary eleanor browning in the early 1950s photographed her own hysterectomy. while doctors operated on her body, browning photographed the surgery through a mirror placed above the operating table. madness.

an abridged version of the orginal essay by peter palmquist can be found online in the archives of women in photography as well as a few of browning's images.

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