dibbly!

catscan

2011-11-29T13:00:00.001-08:00

also, this is what happens when you bust out the scanner to document some art while a curious cat is around

remixes

2011-11-29T12:48:00.000-08:00

Each of these is woven from two distinct ink drawings on Japanese paper. CornNUt I feel like we can probably empathize with each other with the OCDness.

Paper Cuts

2011-11-20T13:40:00.000-08:00

“Räume Zwischen Den Symbolen”

"Engulfed In Streaming Radiance", Cut paper, 23 x 23cm, 2011.

"Once in the street he was engulfed in streaming radiance. Outlines did not exist, colors had no substance. Like a woman's wispy dress that has slipped off its hanger, the city shimmered and fell in fantastic folds, not held up by anything, a discarnate iridescence limply suspended in the azure autumnal air. Beyond the nacrine desert of the square, across which a car sped now and then with a new metropolitan trumpeting, great pink edifices loomed, and suddenly a sunbeam, a gleam of glass, would stab him painfully in the pupil. "

-Vladimir Nabokov, King Queen Knave

“Phenomenology Of The Spirit, Page 183" Cut paper, 23x28 cm, 2011.

"The unity of these manifold capacities in the opposite aspect to this universality, the actual individuality. However, to take up again in this way the distinctive actual individualities, and to recount that one man has more inclination for this, another for that, that one has more intelligence than another, all this is much less interesting even than enumerating the species of insects, mosses, etc.; for these give observation the right to take them thus singly and uncomprehendingly, because they being essentially to the element of contingent particularization."

-G.W.F Hegel

"For the Edification Of Beginning" Cut paper, 26 x 23 cm, 2011.

“... there was a church, and a public garden, and a corner pharmacy, and a public convenience with thujas around it, and even a triangular island with a kiosk, at which tram conductors regaled themselves with milk. A multitude of streets diverging in all directions, jumping out from behind corners and skirting the above-mentioned places of prayer and refreshment, turned it all into one of those schematic pictures on which are depicted for the edification of beginning motorists all the elements of the city, all the possibilities for them to collide."

-Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift

"In Contemplation Of The Brandenburg Gate" Cut Paper, 23x23 cm, 2011.

'"Archway,’ uttered the smaller boy with awe. The whole family became absorbed in the contemplation of the Brandenburg Gate. ‘Historical site,’ the bigger boy said. ‘An ancient arch, yes,’ confirmed the father. ‘How shall we wriggle through?’ the bigger boy wondered, fearing for the sides of the bus, ‘it’s a squeeze!’ ‘We did wriggle through,’ the smaller boy whispered with relief. ‘And now this is the Unter,’ cried the mother, ‘time to get off.’ ‘The Unter is such a long, long street,’ said the bigger boy, ‘I saw it on the map.’ ‘This is President Street,’ said the smaller boy dreamily. ‘Shut up, idiot! It’s the Unter Linden.’ Then, in chorus, ‘Unter is long, long, long,’ and a male solo voice, ‘It’s an endless journey.’”

-Vladimir Nabokov, Glory

“Swastikas”, Cut Paper, 28x 23 cm, 2011

( Generated by the overlay of east and west facing swastikas of varying sizes.)

"Thus It Transpired" Cut paper, 15x31cm, 2011.

“Thus it transpired that even Berlin could be mysterious. Within the linden's bloom the streetlight winks. A dark and honeyed hush envelops us. Across the curb one's passing shadow slinks: across a stump a sable ripples thus. The night sky melts to peach beyond that gate. There water gleams, there Venice vaguely shows. Look at that street--it runs to China straight, and yonder star above the Volga glows! Oh, swear to me to put in dreams your trust, and to believe in fantasy alone, and never let your soul in prison rust, nor stretch your arm and say: a wall of stone.”

-Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift

Daniel Cummings at Art Platform LA!

2011-11-20T13:38:00.000-08:00

last one I promise

2011-11-05T09:20:00.000-07:00

This one too. more to come later. . .

microscope paintings

2011-11-05T09:17:00.000-07:00

2011-11-05T09:15:00.000-07:00

These two are both 2 ft sq and on ply wood.

2011-11-05T09:13:00.000-07:00

This one is 2 ft by 2 ft and on the right is detail

2011-11-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

The left one is 4 by 7 inches and the right in about 1 by 2 inches.

2011-11-05T08:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some small ones. The really little guy is about 1 inch by 2 but a little under that.

2011-11-05T08:46:00.000-07:00

The top one is 4 by 7 inches.

The next one is roughly 18 by 16 inches.

The last one is 4 by 7 inches.

2011-11-05T08:44:00.000-07:00

This one is about 3 ft by 3 ft.

The Return of Dibbly

2011-11-05T08:38:00.000-07:00

Wasp Nest by Supatra Basham and Sean and Wasp Nest Painting by Sean

Painting is 20 x 24 inches

Hey,

For those who do not know. . . I am a month into getting a MFA at Slade in London. here is what I have been up to so far.

Sean

2011-06-04T22:45:00.000-07:00

firework, ink on panel, 8”x10”

So I was thinking about representation, and I got into the idea of depicting fleeting, but ambiguous, moments. For this piece, I wanted it to physically seem like a heavy object like cast metal, but to depict a very light and momentary subject. The object itself is actually a lightweight panel, and made just using ink.

Oh, this was in the MFA show. More from that soon.

no words

2011-05-13T23:30:00.000-07:00

do something do anything

2011-05-11T13:58:00.000-07:00

Eruption

2011-05-04T16:48:00.000-07:00

ink jet transfer on plaster, 12"x16"x1"

this image in this is actually within the plaster - does that make it a fresco?

I'm blue

2011-05-03T18:46:00.000-07:00

11x14, ink on canvas board

Orera "Krimanchuli"

2011-05-03T17:50:00.000-07:00

This is amazing, especially the drummers voice.

This one is more for real

2011-04-25T21:02:00.001-07:00

what time you ask?

2011-04-25T21:00:00.001-07:00

looks like a pretty sweet supper

2011-04-13T17:42:00.000-07:00

...and also some installs from ACME....

2011-04-12T00:16:00.000-07:00

This show is also in it's last week, they both are open through Saturday here in LA.

some DC SMMOA install shots finally....

2011-04-11T23:33:00.000-07:00

Now that my show's in the last week of it's run I've at last got some install shots for you guys.

Thanks to the museum's photographer Monica Orozco for these great pics!

Oh no

2011-04-11T08:41:00.000-07:00

Ai Weiwei Detained by Chinese Government.

future art school

2011-02-26T15:53:00.001-08:00

Angle Of Incidence

2011-02-17T23:46:00.001-08:00

Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to present, Angle of Incidence: Works byLarry Fink, Alex Prager and J Patrick Walsh III, February 12, 2011 - March 6, 2011.

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 7-10pm. Gallery Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5pm, Weekdays by Appointment.

Though each artist presented vastly differs in approach to their medium of choice, their work explicitly suspends time and form, enabling the viewer access to layered nuances of a moment. The photographs featured in Angle of Incidence take place on the tarmac in close proximity to airplanes that may have just arrived or may soon depart. The potential for movement implied by the planes accentuates a feeling of weight or stillness in the photographs. Conversely, Patrick Walsh’s sculptures of solid wax hint at the changeable nature of their substance.

Fink’s photographs of the Obama family on the presidential campaign trail capture small, transitory gestures and expressions in moments of unexpected Naturalism. Prager’s large photograph, “Kimberly,” has a staged, cinematic quality. The spurious subject of the photograph makes reference to archetypal representations of glamour, much like Fink’s image, “VIP.” However, in Prager’s photograph the emotion of the scene can only be accessed from a structured distance. Walsh’s sculptures are built from cast and melted candles. Layers of striated wax perch upon a metal structure or lie in pieces on the cement floor. The sculptures play with concepts of age and erosion, as well as hand made and industrial processes.

Larry Fink sculpts photographs through his physical relation to the subject, light, and his astuteness and instinct for the moment. Through improvisational reportage, he hunts for the decisive moment and telling gesture. Fink straddles worlds. His subjects range from famous, infamous, to “ordinary.” Though his subjects may differ in their position and appointment in life, Fink’s camera and eye equalize to reveal the visceral, emotional and animal essence of all his subjects. Fink embraces the sensual elements that often hide beneath titles or accouterments. Rather than satirize his subjects by showing what lies behind their persona, he invites us to a state of empathy through his resolute document of the moment.

Alex Prager creates dramatic, brightly colored tableau's depicting posed subjects. Employing artifice as a mechanism, she constructs a world that is familiar, yet unreal. Prager sculpts archetypal characters and premises, referencing movie stills, the American topographics, and fashion photography. The pregnant moments presented in her work suggest deep emotions while remaining impenetrable, insulated by wigs, polyester, and fake eyelashes. It is perhaps this distance between the viewer and the scene that allows for the suspension of disbelief and amplifies emotional intensity, transporting the viewer to uninhabitable moments.

J Patrick Walsh III employs reclaimed wax from candles found in thrift stores in order to construct corporeal geometric sculptures. Like protoliths, the candles are transformed in the studio to become a striated metamorphic solid. Walsh manipulates his material, altering it in form while revealing its essence as a plastic changeable substance. His works reference organic forms, Minimalism, and Pop Art. In his practice Walsh seeks to relate found, fabricated and raw elements to find the place and position where these components can reach a particular harmony. It is the re-contextualization and interaction between these objects that exposes an immediate sense of materiality.

Larry Fink b. 1941 New York, NY; Lives and works in Pennsylvania. Larry Fink has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Musee De La Lausanne Photographie, Belgium; and the Musee De L’Elysee, Switzerland, among many others. He was the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and was also was twice awarded individual photography fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has appeared in a number of publications including Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Detour, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. Fink’s work is in the permanent collection of many institutions including Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Larry Fink has taught at Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, Yale University. He has taught at Bard College since 1988. He has published 13 books of photographs including Social Graces, Boxing, The Forbidden Pictures, and Runway. Larry Fink will be exhibiting his work at LACMA in Larry Fink: Hollywood, 2000–2009, February 13, 2011–April 3, 2011, and Fahey/Klein Gallery The Vanities, February 15- March 8, 2011.

Alex Prager b. 1979 Los Angeles, CA: Lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. Alex Prager’s Selected solo shows include Polyester, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica ;The Big Valley, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; Week-end, Ringcube Gallery, Tokyo; Week-end, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; Week-end, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. Selected group exhibitions include New Photography 2010, MoMA, New York, Put Your Finger on the Button– Women Photographers, New Image Art, Los Angeles;Pro’jekt LA: Facing West – Presented by the Lucie Foundation, Space 15Twenty, Los Angeles; True Self, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York;Slideluck Potshow XIII, Canoe Studios, New York; Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica. Prager has photographed for a number of publications including New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, W, Dazed and Confused, Details, i-D and Tank. She was awarded the Lucie International Photography Award and the London Photographic Award. Prager’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland and Kunsthaus Zurich Museum, Zurich. She has published two books; Polyester, and The Book Of Disquiet. She is represented by M+B Gallery.

J. Patrick Walsh III (JPW3) b.1981 Tallahassee, Florida; Lives and works in Los Angeles. B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Currently JPW3 is seeking his MFA at University of Southern California. Walsh has exhibited and performed at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Queens NY, D'Amelio Terras NY, Elk Gallery NY, Wildness LA, John Connelly Presents NY. He is the Editor of Busters Magazine and performs with the band Wet Ropes.

Dibbly Dabbler DUBKNOWDUB Collective Show LA

2011-02-17T23:42:00.000-08:00

Collective Show Los Angeles

Dibbly Dabbler Daniel Cummings SMMOA

2011-02-17T23:37:00.001-08:00

Daniel Cummings: Recent paintings

Santa Monica Museum Of Art

actual size

2011-02-13T22:48:00.000-08:00

red lights

2011-02-12T15:41:00.000-08:00

also. . .

2011-01-15T22:31:00.000-08:00

better pics of former posts.

other paintings

2011-01-15T22:22:00.001-08:00

20" x 19"

14" x 11"

and a donut

2011-01-10T17:42:00.000-08:00

If you like watching people eat ice cream to rock and roll music then you should look at this. If you don't then I see no point in following this link.
http://hotfudgeandsludge.wordpress.com/

songs

2011-01-09T01:47:00.000-08:00

So the last painting is 4 ft by 4 ft. This post is about these two tracks i found on my folks' computer when i was in DC a few weeks ago. I thought I had lost all traces of the recordings of Tweeter and the Monkey Man a two man blues outfit I was in back in May-June '07. The guy's wife got a job in Seattle and so he moved away and we only had one show. I punched my hand through a tambourine at the show. . . so I guess it was all worth it. Unfortunately, the finished recordings got lost with my hard drive in '08 but I thought you guys might enjoy two of the demos. Happy New Year and love all around!

download both songs here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/eaawgb

painting

2011-01-09T01:40:00.000-08:00

Here is a painting that I let sit over the summer and then the fall and then i finished a month ago.

omg

2010-12-13T11:24:00.000-08:00

when the bass came in on this my jaw dropped. so grimey.

100

2010-12-11T19:32:00.000-08:00

and the one hundredth post of the year is...

....

.....

dachshunds!!!

good advice from John Cleese

2010-12-10T14:52:00.000-08:00

I like this, and it makes a compelling argument for giving us doors on our studios instead of these poncy curtains. Also, 99th post!!!!

scrambled eggs

2010-12-10T14:51:00.001-08:00

As much as I love Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Fallon is stepping his game up.

the rap

2010-12-05T16:00:00.000-08:00

Go here everybody. . .I recommend fried or fertilized.

http://www.turquoisejeep.com/Turquoise_Jeep_Records/Videos.html

fireworks again

2010-11-17T20:48:00.000-08:00

going from the same image source as this but in a very different medium. Burned and scorched paper, 58x42.

think this will end up as a book

2010-11-12T16:06:00.000-08:00

sneak preview

12x8, burned paper

plume

2010-11-11T18:31:00.000-08:00

burned paper, 38x50

city lights

2010-11-10T15:33:00.000-08:00

acrylic ink, varnish on panel, 10x8

Did a series from this image, will post more soon. Working through photos I took in prep for my lecture the other day, and for open studios. Soon. Soon.

snow white

2010-11-10T14:45:00.000-08:00

remember Alice? Well the same dude just made this. Pretty rad.

i forgot about this one

2010-11-09T02:00:00.001-08:00

diameter of 12 inches

2010-11-09T01:51:00.000-08:00

27 x 33

this is first batch of photos. more to come.

alone again or

2010-11-09T01:45:00.000-08:00

24 x 30
16 x 20

paintings, more

2010-11-09T01:32:00.000-08:00

paintings

2010-11-09T01:29:00.000-08:00

Here are some paintings.

well hey

2010-11-07T14:32:00.000-08:00

photo light robot face says hello

Consuegra/Wintergarten Ltd.

2010-11-03T23:16:00.000-07:00

Upcoming show at Actual Size!

Happy blogiversary!

CONSUEGRA/ WINTERGARTEN LTD.
November 13, 2010 - November 27, 2010

Actual Size is pleased to announce “Consuegra/ Wintergarten Ltd.”, an exhibition of works by Eduardo Consuegra and Wintergarten Ltd.

November 13th, 2010 - November 27th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 13th 7:00-10:00pm
Image Swap: Saturday, November 20th 1:00-4:00pm

Using photographs, posters, and magazines Eduardo Consuegra and Wintergarten Ltd. isolate and recombine imagery, proposing new relations that both reveal and obscure meaning. For “Consuegra/ Wintergarten Ltd.” the artists have created an installation of new work that restricts and re-directs the viewers relation to the work.

Visually grounded in modernist color fields and geometry, Eduardo Consuegra’s works contain printed ephemera that present iconic ads and commercially seductive imagery. Consuegra combines Colombian and North American magazines and posters from the 1970’s and ‘80’s, creating works that simultaneously present and withhold. Intimating the residues of personal consumption, intellectual property and advertisement, his works reflect upon the complex interaction between people and materials. Consuegra’s body of work also includes automatic drawings and paintings that are informed and influenced by an ongoing interest in the life of objects and transference of action and accident into the creation of a completed work.

Wintergarten Ltd. is a Los Angeles-based art collective, which takes its name from the German word for a greenhouse. The group generates work from a growing collection of vernacular photography and printed ephemera acquired from storage unit auctions and estate sales. These deserted photographs are often the artifacts of their previous owners' financial hardship or death. A partial document of systemic economic and individual recession, Wintergarten Ltd. re-contextualizes found imagery into diptychs, installations, artist's books and multiples. Through the curatorial arrangement and physical transformation of images, the artist links photographs into a fictional narrative, mapping an abstract emotional portrait that feels concurrently tentative, immediate, and specific.

To commemorate the exhibition the artists will host a magazine and photograph swap on November 20th. Participants are invited to come to the gallery with old magazines and photographs to trade and exchange with other artists and collectors.

Eduardo Consuegra (B. Bogota, Colombia) lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA from Art Center College of Design and a BFA from Universidad De Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. He is represented by Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Consuegra’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Colombia, Italy, The UK, Canada, Mexico and the USA, including: The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Apexart, New York; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.

Wintergarten Ltd. has published two books, “Women: Erotic & Vernacular Photography (Catalog 1, Volume 1)” and “Men: Erotic & Vernacular Photography (Catalog1, Volume 2)”. Exhibitions include; X-Initiative, New York; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.

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btw dudes

2010-11-03T21:28:00.000-07:00

i just looked through the old posts on this blog and found that we decided to make this a collaboblog 2 years ago on october 28 - so happy two year dibbly dibbly fun times. thanks friends and families who have kept on posting whenever they can.

fireworks

2010-11-03T21:23:00.000-07:00

fireworks, graphite and chalk on paper, dimensions roughly 24"x32"

newest addition to the studio

2010-10-27T12:06:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of friend Kevin of Hot Coffee! some sweet studio furniture, formerly of the Renaissance Society. I'm in a painting seminar with Hamza Walker, who is the director of said society, it'll be interesting to see if he recognizes the seats when he comes for a studio visit. Oh yeah and there's some work in the background I haven't posted on here yet, but I'll get to it.

2010-10-24T14:23:00.001-07:00

BLACK AND YELLOW BLACK AND YELLOW

2010-10-22T22:25:00.000-07:00

A little Pittsburgh pride around this season!

I love all the shots by the smokestacks at the Waterfront!
This is off the Black and Yellow mixtape

http://www.zshare.net/audio/81872692ef2fe2ab/

Word

more bad photos of drawings

2010-10-12T23:57:00.000-07:00

More bad pictures of drawings...

It's hard for me to post if I don't do it all in a few hours.

Also, I have a mix for you kids. Once I figure out yousendit.. I'll send it.

2010-10-12T23:35:00.000-07:00

Los Angeles

2010-10-12T23:22:00.000-07:00

I have not had the chance to photograph all of my latest Los Angeles drawings but I thought I should post a bad picture of one with lots of circles in the spirit of Matt's little circles.

this is wonderful

2010-10-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

Hey, what are those things that guy is walking through - oh, just 100 million hand made/painted/fired ceramic sunflower seeds!

Crazy!

The newest Tate Modern Turbine hall installation is by the artist Ai Weiwei, and it is pretty incredible. Weiwei employed 1,600 workers from the traditional porcelain producing city of Jingdezhen who historically made porcelain wares for the Imperial court of China. More from the Guardian here, here and here.

smokey swirly

2010-10-09T20:34:00.000-07:00

42"x42", ink and pencil on paper

movie poster

2010-10-09T19:46:00.001-07:00

Sorry I don't post that much. Suppose I take my time away from the internet lately. Here is a movie poster of one of two short films I am workin on now. It is a ghost story I shot in Nicasio, California. Its good scary farm country. I stared down a lot of cows and filmed a lot of hawks.

longest day

2010-10-09T19:16:00.001-07:00

I made this last weekend very late at night, and only just remembered it was around, and that it was a cover of a song I put on that mix. Perhaps a future Alpaca Beretta jam?

black on black

2010-10-08T20:40:00.000-07:00

18"x14", sumi and varnish on canvas

Ron Artist recap

2010-10-07T10:33:00.001-07:00

Mentioned that show I was in a few weeks ago - follow this link for a bit of a recap, and lots of photos.

nice

2010-10-07T10:31:00.000-07:00

Dilla.

so much paper!

2010-10-04T18:39:00.000-07:00

dibblymixdibbly

2010-10-04T17:18:00.000-07:00

So I didn't make a single track mix like Dan, but instead a playlist of tracks. However, you're gonna have to put them in the right order, because I'm pretty sure they won't just go that way when you download them. Here is the order.

my creator/wye oak
i make windows/forest fire
i wish i knew how it would feel to be free/roots and john legend
it is what it is/skipp coon and mr. nick
so high/french montana feat. curren$y
taxi/ski beatz feat. mos def and whosane
hall&oats/the roots
scheming/slum village feat. dilla, pos, phife
everybody loves the sunshine/seu jorge and almaz
the longest day/megafaun
people, turn around/delta spirit
jealous guy/donny hathaway
someday we'll be together/johnny and jackey
everyday will be like a holiday/william bell
this wind/the tallest man on earth

link!

mixmixmix

2010-10-04T16:15:00.000-07:00

mixmixmixmixmix

http://rapidshare.com/files/430742788/dibblyweekendmixonthefly.mp3

some new jams with some old new and new old

step your game up on all the rest of the mixes!!!!

you don't want my love

2010-10-02T14:24:00.000-07:00

weekend project!

2010-10-01T15:18:00.000-07:00

make a mixtape/cd/whatever you want to call it, post it by monday! go!

image: cyanotype by Christian Marlcay

turner nominees

2010-10-01T10:04:00.001-07:00

So they've announced the Turner Prize nominees here - and congratulations to them all. I don't really know the work of Angela de la Cruz or the Otolith Group all that well, but do like Susan Philipsz work. I have a funny story about Dexter Dalwood, the final nominee - who makes great paintings. Last summer when Dan and I went to the Mark Grotjahn opening while we happened to be in England for our cousin Tim's wedding, we did the whole dinner/party after thing - and Dexter was sitting at our table. He was really nice, and very funny - seeing as he posed for this picture with the Whitefish, which was the main course.

First thing I think of when I see his name.

The delicacy of rock n roll

2010-09-28T21:39:00.001-07:00

This might be a strange way to post this, scanning the pages as jpgs, but I wanted the color of the book. This is Dave Hickey, "The Delicacy of Rock n Roll" from Air Guitar. I love this essay, it is awesome, please read it! I know, I know, asking people to read, what am I thinking? Well, it is only six pages, and is really excellent, and I wouldn't do it unless it was worth it. Don't believe me? Screw you! (If you click on the pages they'll get a lot bigger and be easier to read...)

What type are you?

2010-09-28T19:57:00.001-07:00

I'm going away on a road trip soon, so that means a month of no posts and i want to help accomplish this 100 post goal.. so heres another!

http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/

Sister Corita

2010-09-28T19:28:00.000-07:00

A very rare early serigraph by Sister Mary Corita Kent

Sidewalk in Manhattan

2010-09-28T19:20:00.000-07:00

This is another photo in the series of pictures I am taking of oil slicks and reflections.

More Google

2010-09-28T19:02:00.000-07:00

This goes out to Mr. Yellow Dart.

This particular Google was placed on a reproduction of the Capitoline Wolf.

see more googles at:

http://corriesiegel.blogspot.com/

cork print

2010-09-28T14:58:00.000-07:00

In one of my ta's we were teaching woodcuts, and the prof Oli brought a bunch of corks for the students to put on the end of their tools so they wouldn't get all blunt and so they wouldn't inadvertently injure themselves. One thing led to another, and voila, cork prints.

solution to mum's problems

2010-09-28T13:02:00.000-07:00

...and the problems of many others

100 post challenge

2010-09-27T22:08:00.000-07:00

All right peoples, we've had a good summer off here at dibbly. It's been super slow on the posts, no pointing fingers cause we're all guilty. However now that things have picked up I am proposing a challenge, throwing down the gauntlet if you will.
100 posts by the end of the year.
I don't think it's impossible, we did it last year, we're just running a little behind....
But with some hopefully busy months ahead I think we can do it.
To commemorate this event I've decided another Kid Creole and the Coconuts post is in order, this a live one with a whole sassy gay innuendo breakdown in the middle and everything.
Enjoy and keep posting!

Kid Creole & The Coconuts. I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby
Uploaded by capitainfunkk. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.

KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS!!!

2010-09-27T21:22:00.001-07:00

Always been a huge fan of these guys and can't get this song out of my head this week.
And what an awesome video!

KID CREOLE & The Coconuts - Annie ( I`m Not Your D… - MyVideo
My favorite line "If I was in your blood, then you wouldn't be so ugly."!
Fantastic!

Nwa Gezani My Love

2010-09-24T23:45:00.000-07:00

Possibly the best thing ever.
Teletubbies x Gerald Levert x Metroid x South Africa

Off "Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa"

.o.

2010-09-21T23:18:00.000-07:00

Please Remember Everything

2010-09-21T22:52:00.000-07:00

Please Remember Everything

Actual Size Los Angeles

Featuring work from our very own Sean Boylan!

This was my excuse for not rocking out to OJO on Saturday.

draw

2010-09-21T21:33:00.001-07:00

That OJO video is sweet!

Since I posted those big loose drawings, I thought I'd post a small version of where they originated, because it is really the exact opposite. I was doing this kinda crazy thing, projecting old silk screen transparencies of images which were bitmapped (so they had a dot pattern) and then tracing them. I did several small ones, then did a bigger one, which was the same size as those looser ink drawings below. The big one took a week. This is one of the smaller ones that prefigured the larger drawing, which took a couple days.

This is pencil on newsprint, and is about 18x24. (of interest to the family, ie the largest audience for this blog, the pencil I used is one I got from Grandma Miriam when I was at UCL and it apparently used to be our Grandfather's. No real significance to that in terms of the subject of the drawing, it just had the right kind of lead, but its a nifty thing.)

OJO LIVE

2010-09-21T16:51:00.000-07:00

Friends of the dibbly family, OJO performing "La Bolsa Blanca" live this past Saturday.
I missed the intro and my dancing was getting a bit rowdier by the end, but good times!

lightworks: Part 7: CHI

2010-09-20T21:56:00.001-07:00

I took these on the way home from installing at Noble and Superior - thought they were pretty fun.

plumes/poplars

2010-09-20T21:46:00.000-07:00

Been a while since a post on here, but I needed the semester to start so I could get back in the swing of things. I finished a big drawing, but it is kind of impossible to take a picture of. However, you can see it in person starting this weekend at Noble and Superior Projects in the show Ron Artist MVP - I'd encourage following that link and reading about it, since it's going to be pretty funny, and the art looks good.

These were quick sumi ink drawings that then reminded me of Monet's poplars, which made me laugh.

shrub

2010-08-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

in the vein of the lawn mower dan posted...

blog looks weird, I was messing with the format and couldn't get it to go back. will try again soon.

swirl

2010-07-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

From a concert at an outdoor garden party in Pittsburgh at the home of Colin Baxter.

omgeez

2010-06-28T10:14:00.000-07:00

Bout to clean out the basement for Dad. Holy Crap. Something definitely just moved over in the corner.

thought on the mic straight up

2010-06-26T16:16:00.000-07:00

also genius

2010-06-07T13:45:00.001-07:00

yeah.

genius

2010-06-05T15:01:00.000-07:00

wait for it....

rock drop

2010-05-28T18:11:00.002-07:00

good splash

jaw drop

2010-05-28T18:11:00.001-07:00

wearing shoes and drinkin' booze it goes against the bible...

2010-05-28T18:02:00.000-07:00

I'm back in Pittsburgh this week, and have been uncovering some nifty bits of family history. Since it is somewhat related to something I posted earlier, about the Welcome Week Boat Race I figured I'd include it here, cause it's kind of interesting.

This photo is the only existing photo of my great grandfather Joel Davis. (Hint: He's the one with the arrow pointing at him...)

At the time he was a coal miner, in the Vesta mine, which was actually a series of mines in Washington County, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. (That link is to an amazing list of miners who were injured or killed in that mine, with lots of detail as to how it all happened.) The mine originally opened in 1898, but by 1907 was owned by Jones and Laughlin, one of the steel companies operating mills in Pittsburgh. At that time it was the largest mine in the world, as this article attests:

What I found pretty interesting was the fact that the coal powered steamboat my great uncle Buck was driving in the races I mentioned before was owned by Jones and Laughlin. Also, back in the day when my Dad worked in the steel mills for a few summers when he was in college, he worked in a Jones and Laughlin mill shoveling coke - coke that probably came from the Vesta Mine. Now certainly my great grandfather wasn't still in the mine when my Dad was working in the mill, and was actually working on the river boats when my great uncle was driving them, but it is still an interesting connection between all these different generations of the family.

That brings me back to the boat races - Dad was googlin' around and found this pretty sweet site, which includes photographs of the races, detailed accounts of what happened in the race in the lithograph (one of the boats' coal feeding mechanisms broke in the middle of the race and they had to manually shovel it) and a play-by-play style recording from a 78 record of the whole thing, with interviews afterward. Check that out here. I'ma probably have to write a song about it.

Oh this post is titled as it is because many of the details about my great grandfather were sandwiched between the pages of "The Family Bible" given to him and my great grandmother Emma Mae in 1908 when they were married.

shutterbug

2010-05-28T09:52:00.000-07:00

this is mostly for the rad stripes on the car, and the giant stack of red cups.