I miss this band… Top ten concerts (and business suits) of all time. Jonathan Demme did the documentary…
Music Break: Talking Heads Girlfriend is Better [Live]
Archives For Thomas
The Germans seem to be the only people who can document James Turrell’s work correctly. This is an excellent tour of his installation in Germany at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and a short overview of The Rodan Crater Project.
This is one of his largest Ganzfeld works named for the “visual effect produced by the phenomenon of perception caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field”. Really disappointing the Guggenheim could not exhibit one of these incredible works for his retrospective in NYC.
The future is here and apparently in San Francisco and Glasshole is now our newest official addition to the English language.
Gary Scteyngart is not a glasshole but a writer for the New Yorker and was awarded a pair of Google Glass’s. This is kind of like giving Woody Allen a pair and turning him loose on the city… but he is one of the first 100 people in NYC who own a pair. He gives a pretty good “normal guy” account of what it means to wear them all day and how it has affected his life in a pretty big way. Hint: You don’t want to give one to your kid and if you do after reading this you can be a proud member of the worse parent of the year club.
“Before I leave, Aray and I have a Google “hangout.” We essentially swap identities. I see what she sees through her Glass, which is me. She sees what I see through my Glass, which is her. We bring our faces closer, as if approaching a mirror, but the feeling is more akin to being trapped in an early Spike Jonze movie or thrust into an unholy Vulcan mind meld.”
via The New Yorker
Classic song and video but still amazing…
Braided Hair music video from 1 Giant Leap, featuring Neneh Cherry, Speech and Ulali.
Long time influential artist and photographer James Welling finally gets the museum survey and book that documents his long amazing career. Interview with him here.
James Welling: Monograph
February 02, 2013 – May 05, 2013
Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
“For over thirty-five years, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs, and continues to be lauded by photographers, artists, and critics for his influence on the contemporary generation of art photographers. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture, and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the artist’s work to date, as well as offering an indispensable resource for those interested in this artist’s remarkable, foundational practice”.