Thursday, September 06, 2007
Has It Really Been This Long?
All sorts of neat things have gone on the last few months.
The Bicycle Film Festival came to LA. It was awesome. We threw a block party that rocked LA's Bicycle District. The Bicycle Bell Ensemble played. I wrote an article about the BFF for the Dazed and Confused blog.
I've been making 'smocks' for Andrea Zittel's Smock Shop. There is an east coast opening at Susan Inglett Gallery tomorrow night, which I am sadly missing for lack of funds. Clearly I haven't made enough smocks. It's just that things move a lot slower when you're hand stitching each piece.
I also made a shirt for the Fuck Yeah Fest's T-Shirt Project. 60 artists were given an XL white t-shirt to use as a canvas. 60 kids under 22 were supposed to wear these 60 shirts for the length of the festival - 5pm to midnight. 30 kids on each day. Jeremy and Claire Weiss were supposed to take before and after photo's of the kids in the t-shirts.
I made mine a mixture of spray painted stencil work, water soluble crayons, water color paints, washable markers, and pens.
The idea was that whoever got to wear my shirt would have a key part in the creation of it since the way (and how much) they would sweat while dancing or doing whatever at the Fuck Yeah Fest would affect the way the water colors, markers, crayons and pens morphed and bled around the spray painted stencil work.
I'm not sure what the results were since I haven't been able to reach anyone at Fuck Yeah about what happened to the shirt or the photo's.
It's only been a couple weeks, but still, it's been a couple weeks.
I'm impatiently curious since it was designed to not be finished until after the shows, and I didn't get to see it after the shows.
The Bicycle Film Festival came to LA. It was awesome. We threw a block party that rocked LA's Bicycle District. The Bicycle Bell Ensemble played. I wrote an article about the BFF for the Dazed and Confused blog.
I've been making 'smocks' for Andrea Zittel's Smock Shop. There is an east coast opening at Susan Inglett Gallery tomorrow night, which I am sadly missing for lack of funds. Clearly I haven't made enough smocks. It's just that things move a lot slower when you're hand stitching each piece.
I also made a shirt for the Fuck Yeah Fest's T-Shirt Project. 60 artists were given an XL white t-shirt to use as a canvas. 60 kids under 22 were supposed to wear these 60 shirts for the length of the festival - 5pm to midnight. 30 kids on each day. Jeremy and Claire Weiss were supposed to take before and after photo's of the kids in the t-shirts.
I made mine a mixture of spray painted stencil work, water soluble crayons, water color paints, washable markers, and pens.
The idea was that whoever got to wear my shirt would have a key part in the creation of it since the way (and how much) they would sweat while dancing or doing whatever at the Fuck Yeah Fest would affect the way the water colors, markers, crayons and pens morphed and bled around the spray painted stencil work.
I'm not sure what the results were since I haven't been able to reach anyone at Fuck Yeah about what happened to the shirt or the photo's.
It's only been a couple weeks, but still, it's been a couple weeks.
I'm impatiently curious since it was designed to not be finished until after the shows, and I didn't get to see it after the shows.
# posted by Red Riding Hood : 10:15 PM
