Entries from July 2004

Friday, July 30th, 2004

Asylums, death and your frozen head

I happened across this site a couple years ago, and thought of it again today when I was painfully bored of everything else: Dark Passage. I highly recommend “hospital hopscotch” and reading all the way through “The Hospital of Seven Teeth” for a truly creepy experience.
When you get to the end, learn more about [...]

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

Digital vs. Analog (kinda)

I guess this is the gist of my thesis in broad terms. I’ve been trying to narrow it down with the whole “reproduction of art” focus, but so much of what I read explodes my thinking out into cultural, visual, and material studies (of which I know nothing).
While I have been thinking [...]

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

Kay’s solo print show

My dear friend Kay will have a show up at the Northwest Print Council Gallery in the Pearl District (Portland). Here’s the announcement and a couple images, the first of which I proudly own:
Kay Logan Solo Exhibition
Recent Etchings & Woodblock Prints
Tuesday August 3rd to Saturday August 28th
PAN Gallery
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Kay Logan’s Recent Etchings & Woodblock Prints [...]

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

Last Week

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

Media Life

When discussing the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 with my sister today, debating the term “documentary” (I get the impression that this is happening a lot right now, although with my lack of television I’ve been out of the loop), my sister mentioned that she had recently read a list of suspicious elements in the Nick Berg [...]

Friday, July 2nd, 2004

How to Draw a Bunny

My friend Lisa is better at keeping up with her blog, of which I am sometimes a part.
As she mentioned, we went to the Ray Johnson documentary “How to Draw a Bunny” at the Alamo downtown. Favorite moments left out of her list are the difficulties in purchasing a work from Johnson. RJ encouraged [...]