Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Katrina Moorehead at Inman Gallery and Partying at the Lawndale MoMa

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Matthew Drutt of Artpace, Blaffer director Claudia Shmuckli,
Glasstire's Bill Davenport and Meisterschülerin Francesca Fuchs


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nuée ardente, 2009
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dude, that cell phone pic of that drawing is totally not going to come out
nuée ardente (red), 2009




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BBAP President Elaine Bradford and the Lawndale's Dennis Nance, energized


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downstairs


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the look of a long night (Kent Dorn and his cute girlfriend)


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upstairs


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can you see catwalk model-for-a-night Katy Heinlein?





Katrina Moorehead
a darkling plain

Inman Gallery
through June 5, 2009


Lawndale Modern Market is every spring, you already missed it!

A/V Swap Poster Contest




A/V Swap Poster Contest
Juried by Monica Danna, Houstonist Arts Editor, Social Media & eMarketing Manager and the {cosmo}Politician

Due Date May 27th, 2009

Enter your design for a chance to be the face of the A/V Swap, a film/audio collaborative swap during the summer of 2009.

Images should be 11 x 17 and vector based. Don’t hold anything back; we want to see forward thinking graphic design!

Submit your design by Wednesday, May 27th to sean [at] theavswap.com. Please attach a 10 KB image.

Win free tickets to A/V Swap events, entrance for 2 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and 2 free passes to a film at the River Oaks Theatre.




A/V Swap 2009
Houston, Texas

Creative filmmakers submit a short movie without a soundtrack and musicians submit a soundtrack without a movie.

We’ll play matchmaker and trade each film and soundtrack.

Each musician will receive a film and every filmmaker a soundtrack.

Then you make a new composition to go with your movie or song. It’s that easy!



Info Session: Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Spacetaker, Winter Street Studios, 2101 Winter St. Houston, TX 77007
Come hear about the A/V Swap, learn about digital filmmaking and recording with Sharad Patel

First deadline: Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Antidote Coffee, 729 Studewood St. Houston, TX 77007
Turn in your original film or soundtrack; you will receive your assignment within four days

Second Deadline: Monday, July 20th, 2009
Final collaborative films due



Format for the first deadline: Films and music should be at least 1 minute in duration and less than 7 minutes.

For video please provide at least 640 X 480 pixel size on a data DVD in Quicktime PNG or Quicktime photo JPEG. Please try to avoid NTSC DVD or MPEGs.

For audio please provide WAV or AIF files, please avoid MP3s to ensure best quality.

Format for the second deadline: Please drop off films formatted to play on any DVD player.



Every film in the A/V Swap will be played on the big screen in August and the Best Of screening will be held in September 2009.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Houstonist Photo of the Day

Orange Bike

Orange Bike
SMercury98

This Orange Bike was taken with a Holga camera.

via Houstonist

Good Deal from HAA!!!



via Bill Davenport at Glasstire:

The Houston Art Alliance has announced an open, national call for video for a video art collection to be shown at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. HAA will purchase!!??!!! existing video art works to create a time-based art collection reflecting the "freshness and energy" of Houston's answer to the Pompidou center. Those interested may also contact Carole Anne Meehan, Civic Art + Design Senior Project Manager, at caroleanne [at] haatx.comThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for more information.

Everybody's Doing It


Funny Surls!

Surls

Aspen Times
"An Unpolished Beauty"


Former denizen of the Lawndale's heady years gets the mile high ball licker treatment
(notice the pinkie; firmly not in the air)

Pics from Heimir Björgúlfsson at CTRL

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Björgúlfsson's menagerie


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Lone Star, 2008


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Correlation to Size Disappear, 2009


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Jake Jones installation


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JJ vid


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enjoyin' it


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cut up Cremaster 3 and silent films


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(half of) Silver Is To Speak II



Heimir Björgúlfsson
STORIES OF EVENTS
or Arctic Tropic Trash Soundtracks
+
Jones
CTRL Gallery
through May 30, 2009

A Letter I Just Sent

In response to THIS, I had a moment to contact THIS GUY.
If you have a moment, send a quick note!



Hello Mr. Bohack,

Thank you for including graffiti in the organized crime bill. It is good to know that someone in our state legislature believes like I do, that teenagers should be given a chance to become hardened criminals in as many ways as possible. We all know that only drug dealers and violent teenagers get the chance to meet and greet the members of our prison gangs at such a formative age, and you thankfully have provided another avenue for our youngsters to become criminal elements of our society earlier and easier than ever.

I for one look forward to throwing away the key whenever I am on a jury in Texas, and I hope to one day send your own son or his friends to jail over the objections of your highly paid lawyers.

Thank you for all you've done to equate spray paint with violent organized crime.

Sincerely,

Mr. James Browning

Rabea Ballin at Joan Wich Gallery

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Michael Kahlil Taylor scoping it out


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Hi Rabea!


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Wayne Gilbert of G Gallery and Greg Carter of UPPA Crust Collective


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ominous lavender sky




Rabea Ballin
Fresh

Joan Wich
through May 23, 2009


Art Dealer Schmealers



Hundreds claim to be victims of Houston high-society couple


remix of a KHOU article

It’s an alleged crime that netted $3.5 million.

Jerry Hart appeared many times on TV promoting upcoming art and antique sales and in 1999 giving insight into art theft. “Invariably there are thefts of art and art objects every day,” said Hart during one TV appearance. The auction house thrived for years. The Harts enjoyed a sterling reputation among the rich and not so rich who all trusted the Harts to sell their valuables.

The Harts, until recently, used to live in a $1.5 million home in a West Houston neighborhood, complete with private lakes and tree lined streets. Cynthia Jones says she was a victim, and she confronted Jerry Hart. “He was teary-eyed. We were teary-eyed. And I said, ‘Jerry, you knew you were going to file for bankruptcy when you came out to my house.’ And he said, ‘yes I did,’” said Jones.


It wasn’t until another victim, who expected a $100,000 for a painting, tipped the Harris County DA that something wasn’t right. An investigation led to felony charges of theft, money laundering and now, the Hart’s have reached a plea deal on a charge of “misapplication of fiduciary property.”

The Hart’s attorneys would not comment other than to say the Harts were sloppy bookkeepers and didn’t even use a computer.

Dumbasses.

Pics from Patrick Renner at Poissant Gallery

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Patrick Renner


Patrick Renner
lorem ipsum

Poissant Gallery
through may 23, 2009


Sunday, April 26, 2009

looking for things that are lame

kinda hilarious


New TV show looking for 18-23yr olds who think things are lame


Reply to: job-78rpx-1130599740@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-04-19, 10:38PM CDT


Hello,

We are looking for young folks view of what is lame. It could be anything from you hate a certain thing about society, a person, place or something in your life that you have always thought was lame and would love to see someone rip on it.

Please send a description of what it is, a picture, and maybe some info about yourself.

  • Compensation: 500