New York Report
Last Thursday afternoon I was walking around New York City's chelsea district when I stumbled into a gallery that looked like this!!
It was an installation by assume vivid astro focus and in order to see it correctly you are supposed to put on 3-D glasses. There were all these little hoods hanging off the wall woth holes where you put your head inside. There seemed to be some strange music eminating from behind that wall...I peeked my head inside and you'll never guess what I saw!
It was Brendan! (aka BARR) also known as our co-editore. He had been performing in this room here, surrounded by psychedelic swirls, mirrors, fun fur and flashing lights for over three hours!! I have to say it was really nice. For his finale, he did an acapella cover of a New Order song and it nearly brought me to tears. You know, the one where it goes, "Up, down, turn around, please don't let me hit the ground..." Yeah that one. Good song.
After that I went over to Printed Matter for Chris Johanson's book release party/signing. I got so caught up talking there that I didn't take enough pictures of the event. I hate when I do that. The photo above is a good (albeit blurry) shot of poet/writer/musician Sean Kennerly, who wrote the introduction to Chris' book. This photo was from the performance at the opening when Chris played "jazz" guitar and Sean read excerpts from the intro. Here's an example of Sean's text: "I’m not really sure about all this. Everything then was in some kind of ether, like time wasn’t passing and everyone tried to cancel out their hope, purposely wasting their time and flaunting the complete lack of practical use of all their activities. But secretly we all probably did want to be recognized on some level, recognized at least for not trying to be recognized."
Last night BARR came over to my hotel because he hadn't seen Issue Seven yet. Andrea (Brendan's awesome GF) took photos of us geeking out over the new size. This is a documentation of one of the best things about putting out a magazine. It's like Christmas day, an experience especially wonderful when you have such great friends to spend it with.
It was an installation by assume vivid astro focus and in order to see it correctly you are supposed to put on 3-D glasses. There were all these little hoods hanging off the wall woth holes where you put your head inside. There seemed to be some strange music eminating from behind that wall...I peeked my head inside and you'll never guess what I saw!
It was Brendan! (aka BARR) also known as our co-editore. He had been performing in this room here, surrounded by psychedelic swirls, mirrors, fun fur and flashing lights for over three hours!! I have to say it was really nice. For his finale, he did an acapella cover of a New Order song and it nearly brought me to tears. You know, the one where it goes, "Up, down, turn around, please don't let me hit the ground..." Yeah that one. Good song.
After that I went over to Printed Matter for Chris Johanson's book release party/signing. I got so caught up talking there that I didn't take enough pictures of the event. I hate when I do that. The photo above is a good (albeit blurry) shot of poet/writer/musician Sean Kennerly, who wrote the introduction to Chris' book. This photo was from the performance at the opening when Chris played "jazz" guitar and Sean read excerpts from the intro. Here's an example of Sean's text: "I’m not really sure about all this. Everything then was in some kind of ether, like time wasn’t passing and everyone tried to cancel out their hope, purposely wasting their time and flaunting the complete lack of practical use of all their activities. But secretly we all probably did want to be recognized on some level, recognized at least for not trying to be recognized."
Last night BARR came over to my hotel because he hadn't seen Issue Seven yet. Andrea (Brendan's awesome GF) took photos of us geeking out over the new size. This is a documentation of one of the best things about putting out a magazine. It's like Christmas day, an experience especially wonderful when you have such great friends to spend it with.
posted by Aaron Rose at 7:30 AM
2 Comments:
We like your art very much!
you guys look like creeps.
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