weblog of the Bachelor Machines and Mechanical Brides
Skull Skates has launched a recording label in support of our amazing amigos the Sorcerers…
Old bro MattO threw them a launch party last friday night, on his birthday, thanks man…
I caught some audio exerpts, dub and thrash examples…
…though the video capture is almost black, listen to the crowd reaction…
I was ridiculously stoked to show some art… All involved thoroughly rule…
Salut, comrades. Rock steady and you don’t stop… - S
Hombre Nathan Jones has posted drawings from his very cool Little Mountain showing last fall, Nuclear Winter…
Variables, by my favourite contemporary ‘patascientific photographer, Jessica Eaton, opening tonight at the LES Gallery…
I discovered just recently that my buddy H.R., who’s been away in Paris the past ten months on an internship, has been going to work each day at this place, the home office/laboratory of Francois Roche and R&Sie(n) Architects… Extraordinary generative strategies for a biophilic architecture… sure hope some of this influence comes back with him, if he ever comes home…
“…where Lewis Carroll used mathematics to confuse a little girl’s perception, such apparatuses, including ‘’bachelor machines,” stretch a line of subjectivization to organize repetitions and anomalies using and developing paradoxes that are able to re-complexify and de-alienate the edges of the truth system, in order to re-invert the logic of meaning and turn it into a vanishing point…“
Bruce Sterling makes a friendly guest appearance on the R&Sie(n) website, contributing some future-fiction based in the Spidernethewood house. He also penned this article for Wired in 2005 on the firm’s chief architect-designer Francois Roche.
Recommended are Sterling’s Viridian Manifesto of 2000, and his classic endo-symbiotic bio-punk Schismatrix of 1986. Amazing stuff; ideas which which will play out for generations.
Some recent works from the constantly evolving artblog of one of my favourite humans: a brilliant wit and polymathic intermedian: artist, photographer, designer, filmmaker, and concrete comedian, Rodney Sanches…
Astounding new work from : Maneater, on Tiny Vices:
Take a moment from your brief eternal life to shudder in the telepresence of Supernatural, 2006…
An interview from 2006 … and another from maybe 2008 …
Someone asked me recently, apropos of nothing, “who is the most famous person who knows you by name, who would recognize you in the street” … Since first seeing her teenage work in Vancouver circa 2003, I’ve believed that one day coming soon, this person would be Aurel Schmidt. Outrageously talented artist, world-class, clear from fifty paces — lucky for everyone she’s in New York now — historians of the present moment, ears up.
Kelly Wallace was one of the first serious artists I connected with in Vancouver, circa ‘93/’94– Kelly’s intensity and rigor considerably influenced my own creative arc, from long summer conversations on the procedural and minimal, and the color yellow, in terse syllables — I’d lost track of him in ‘95, but found his work online again, yesterday — These are his still-incredible drawings - No surprise they’re even more explosively packed with attentive intensity and rigorous labour as I remember their author to exemplify — Great to find you again old buddy — Accept my salutations, comrade, it’s been a long while. Amazing work - SC
Exhilarating discovery of the day: the lettraset drawings of Kelly Mark — so excellent, I knew Donato Mancini couldn’t be the only one … Still squirming in my seat with excitement — I love this kind of stuff — Strong work Kelly, thrilled to find this book “Important Instructions for Saving the World” today at Pulp Fiction… sonorous jets of cheer and glee from this vulture of culture … we diggit:
David Spriggs‘ work keeps getting more and more amazing — and he started at ‘outrageous’ — always ambitious, he’s now working at a scale which befits his subject … check out his incredible new installation, Axis of Power - .. whoah … -
or 2008’s ‘Half Explosion‘
or 2007’s ‘Dark Matter‘
… brilliant technique, extremely cool work… Congratulations, and may ‘reap the whirlwind’ sound a blessing, Mr.Spriggs … mindblowing stuff. Salude.
