Wise Woods
The other day I had new mad craving for the fresh air, so I wandered straight into the woods at a particularly deep looking spot off one regular path I walk to class. Soggy leaves and fallen trees...
View ArticleTo Have and To Hoard
I am a bum with a soft spot for lost things. Lost things to make other things with. I believe in second lives, third lives even; an object’s character comes from age and use. Like an old fork, faded...
View ArticleElectric Feels
I wouldn’t consider myself a proponent of the electronic music scene. It takes a specific time, place, and mood to get me into most of the dubstep and livetronica that’s being tossed across airwaves at...
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Meditation on “Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea, Which at Twenty...
I open my eyes to a courtyard of tan brick walls and a tan brick floor, and there are Spanish words being tossed around and to my surprise I catch a few of them – mostly names – “Gala” … “el Mar...
View ArticleFood for Thought
Once upon a time this is how I cooked: look in fridge, see all the colors vegging – red green yellow pep, translucent white onions, sunset tomato, garlic (also white ish), earthy orange carrots, more...
View ArticleSolar Engineers Without Shoes
Every Thursday I go see the Penny Stamps lecture series at the Michigan Theatre – partially because attendance is mandatory for all Art & Design students, but also because it’s really great and the...
View ArticleBandits
They made a mountain out of dirt, crumble slopes to flat plateau with tread prints all around but no machines in sight – and there it sat, fenced in setting, hard from all the chills and locked up so...
View ArticleWhat’s an Art?
What is light – is color, weight – is thought – is fire licking a dry log – is bug crawling up stalk – is hexagon in bee hives – is replication – geometry – smell of bacon, lingers all day – is the...
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The Empire Stares Back
I had this dream the other night which began with me talking to James Elkins, an art historian kind of guy with frameless glasses and big interested eyes that are very aware of themselves, and in fact...
View ArticleLaunch
This weekend was a big deal for all of the seniors in the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, marking the sporadic openings of a citywide exhibition titled Launch, which showcases the thesis work...
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On Summer and Transformation and Vision
First: Hello again to this small pocket of the ever-vasting Internet and you wonderful people who actually read these things – it’s good to be back (on campus, in classes, to not spending eight hours a...
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ONLY ROCK CAN SAVE US
Do you like music? How ’bout small local venues that let emerging artists of all kinds show and play their work? Yes? I thought so. This Friday, September the 19th, The Yellow Barn is hosting a show to...
View ArticleTHINGS HAPPENING
so guys this is coming a little late, but something happened in Ann Arbor a few weeks ago and now I’m feeling the need to write about it as others have written about it and should be – a progressive...
View ArticleElectric Feels in the D
This weekend I attended Dlectricity – a sprawling festival exhibition of Art and Light installed within Midtown Detroit, along Woodward Ave. starting at Kirby and stretching down past the Museum of...
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Tomaselli Time
Last week’s visitor at the Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series was an artist named Fred Tomaselli. His work includes installations with fans and paper cups in grids, lines and designs made from rows of...
View ArticleTenet Returns
Well hey they done it again - on Saturday the 25th day of October the movers and groovers of this so-called Tenet Collective went and struck these Kerrytown Streets once more, Mr. Leg Champii and all...
View ArticleQuietly Shakin Things Up
After a short hiatus from this here blog scene (for which I apologize, I’d retreated into the depths of my mind for the month due to anxieties and lack of sleep) I return to transpose the latest...
View ArticleTo Show or not to Show
Every year, the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design has a juried exhibition of artwork created by its loyal undergraduate students. The stakes are high; two participants whose work is deemed “best in...
View ArticleA Hooliganniversary
A lot has happened in the past year: students have come and gone, landmark restaurants and stores snuffed out, butt scandals passed over social media and other such occurrences of utmost importance....
View ArticleRead to ME
As an avid reader of words, I constantly find myself marking up and dog-earing pages of whatever six or seven books I happen to be perusing at any given time. I justify the destruction unleashed upon...
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