Ad Reinhardt

I'm reading this book right now that's a bunch of Ad Reinhardt interviews and writings. It's called Art as Art, and Ad is pretty much one of the craziest dudes ever.

"The nature of art has not to do with the nature of perception or with the nature of light or with the nature of space or with the nature of time or with the nature of mankind or with the nature of the universe or with the nature of creation or with the nature of nature."

So what the fuck, Ad?

"The one reality of art is just the reality of art, not the reality of reality, just the life of art not the life of life, just the nature of art not the nature of nature, just the humanity of art not the humanity of humanity, just the religion of art not the religion of religion, just the universe of art not the universe of the universe."

Oh ok Ad.

So anyway, I'm gonna post some rough photos of my summer project soon.

I'm tired of cross-promotions.

yeeeaaaahhh..

It's even got 2 staples.


Steve and Charlie Preview:

PENETRATION

Long time no post. I'm working on a few things right now, one of them is a new collaborative zine called, Penetration. We're going to take turns doing the cover.


I did the first cover:

Source Decay Retrospective

For those of you who are unable to get to the library and pick one up each month, here's a few of scans of what Source Decay looks like. I think I'm going to take a break on Source Decay for the summer, but I will be back in the fall for the next school year. Although, I might start a new zine for all the summer students, so keep. Your eyes. Open.

Covers and backs of issues 1 and 3 (I don't know why I scanned them out of order):


Covers and backs of issues 4 and 2:


Issue 1 insides:


Issues 4 (top) and 1 (bottom) insides:


Issue 4 insides:

Whirling Hall of Knives

Just two recent sketches...I didn't realize they had the same composition before. School's out on Monday. Finally. My friend Andrés has some sweet new paintings on his site, and he put up his performance about cocaine.

Washin' Sane

Today I tried an experiment (I guess). I wanted to silkscreen some Aladdin Sane dollar bills. I went to the bank and got $30 of one dollar bills. I planned to make a 4 color print: pink skin, orange hair, red lightning bolt with the blue highlight. The registration was pretty impossible (for me at least) since the bills are so small. I printed the pink skin first and out of those only 20 were registered correctly enough to continue with the other colors. By the end I only had 10 acceptable bills, and I decided to do the blue lightning streak by hand. It came out decent enough, and besides, I'm going to spend them anyway. I hope they find good homes.

On a side note, the hot water in my building was nonexistent last night. Coincidentally, I desperately needed a shower and decided to suck it up and take one. I think it was the coldest shower I've ever taken and the water was probably the temperature of a natural spring. You know the ones where water bubbles up from the sand in a river? Yeah those ones. The hot water is back today, and I now have a new appreciation for hot water after cursing out the soap for not rinsing off my body fast enough. Oh the minor inconveniences of post-modern living.