screening tonight!

kevin's chin during the barbara hammer screening. she was amazing!

backwards chronological photo essay of the weekend.

so it all starts on friday night. plum-blossoms gallery lovely lovely opening. art was fantastic. then over to elik's opening at the skewville gallery. tres amazing. then all the way to the burg for the parts and labor Aa show at river which was freezing and not my thing musically but fun nonetheless. then clinic escorting. then the so rad 'and so forth' conference. snowball fights, sledding and saturday night brooklyn adventuring antics including a boat visit in the gowanus canal. then sunday conference ending with the barbara hammer screening at UnionDocs www.uniondocs.org. what a weekend. here's the photo essay backwards and via blog. life is good.

the truly awesome david rees.

fantastic panel on satire and politics. david rees is speaking here.

i think i got the best art pants. thanks to kevin for taking the photo.

we all slept in the same art pants.

tree climbing and snow pile diving on dekalb.

my girl rides sleds hard and gets injuries when orion eggs her on. she rode all way down the hill and over the wall--straight 5 or 6 foot drop on her stomach into the pavement with packed trampled on snow. damn girl.

the "finesse" sled at the fort greene park sledding gathering. this was ridiculous. one sled had a lawn chair and one had a baby seat. amazing.

my favorite rambunctious muffin of a friend.

snowball fight break!!! awesome.

visual resistance facilitated a seriously awesome discussion on street art at the seriously awesome AND SO FORTH conference this weekend. www.visualresistance.org

these are the disgusting photos the monks lay out in front of the clinic for women to walk by. these pictures primarily come from photos of miscarriages taken hospital medical waste in the 80's. it's really sickening. none of them have anything to do with abortion.

so a vanload of terrifying ascetic franscican monks shows up to harass women going into the clinic and bring this stuff--note baby starter kit in the back--shampoo & diapers---one time gift only, unfortunately (does not include college tuition or therapist fees for being raised by unprepared or foster parents)

so saturday morning i was escorting at the abortion clinic i escort at. this is the "dragon lady" a terrifying anti. her picture was in tokion lookin gruesome a while ago.

oh beautiful lusting angry youth. live it.

big A little a 

big A little a and parts and labor at "river" in burg. this was thebathroom. it was a wooden platform you walked up steps onto with garbage bags cut into sheets for walls. just you shitting and 150 people. word. dirty. 

people just kept piling the cans up at the opening.  

allie at the elik opening at the skewville gallery. cuuuuuuuuute. this show is so beautiful. elik's work is amazing. 

alex is a monster! monster project opening in the burg. 

this poor bear lost his paw at the jordan isip opening the other night 

i think this is allen st. does anyone know who made this? 

cops harassing a cab driver after the "Quality of Life" screening 

asad's buckets--have been tending to the leak for more than a week now! 

I found this in nolita i think. 

dodgeball is cool when it works

1) are you on dodgeball? get on it! www.dodgeball.com. it's a way to send mass texts. it works most of thetime. add me as your friend! 2) last night i went to the cory arcangel opening at deitch and this guy "jacob" from paper rad did this hilarious and awesome performance which is sorta highlighted here http://www.paperrad.org/ tod took some pics which i hope end up on his rad blog http://suckapants.blogspot.com/ there's music there! 3) then this thing at asterisk--oxford collapse was good 4) barcade for noah's bday. 5) the delancey to see hisham play. now a word about the delancey. FUCK THEM. they have overpriced drinks, attract bridge and tunnel trash, and the band that played before hisham totally sucked. AND we had to wait till like 3am to see him. AND when he finally played, he'd been playing for like half an hour when the bouncers CAME ON THE STAGE and stopped him and sent everyone home. it was totally gross to see these fucking [huge dudes] stopping him. like doesn't the sound guy have a monitor to talk to him through? wtf? boo delancey. overall nice to see peeps and art and music. we're lucky to have so much cultural sensory experience readily available.

Live Arcade Fire from Boston

http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2004/11/live-arcade-fire.htm My friend from summer camp is now making beautiful music recorded at the link above! Buy their record! They're playing in nyc late jan.

world groans. sinking heart.

have you been reading all the stuff in the news about the tsunami? i'm a f*cking wreck at work today. it's so depressing to see all this destruction and loss. and natural disaster tragedy is only exacerbated by the tragedy of wars and military rule. i watched a screening of Witness' documentaries last night (www.witness.org) at UnionDocs www.uniondocs.org. The world is full of sadness and avoidable tragedy.

it was a late night. me & asad. 

awwwwwwwwww. this is now the lisa blog. 

Balis and the lovely Miss Guidetti. New Year's 2005 

WHAT ASAD WROTE TO THE MTA TODAY. YOU SHOULD TOO!

Dear Members of New York City Transit Board, As a longtime rider and lover of the subway system of New York City, which I believe to be the best in the world, I urge you to reject the proposed ban of photography in the subway. The ban is unenforceable due to increasingly miniscule technology, not to mention the fact that many people now have cameras in their cellular phones. Instead, all the ban will achieve would be to further institute an atmosphere of fear and restriction, which I believe is degrading to our society, our democracy. We are the country and city that celebrates, more than any other, personal and collective freedom, of expression and behavior. The vibrant uniqueness and energy of New York City and its residents are the true reason why the world loves and respects us. Let's be true to that legacy. yours sincerely, Asad Raza Department of English New York University Email the MTA here: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/rules/proposed.htm Read more at 3Quarksdaily.com http://www.3quarksdaily.com/

WHY YOU SHOULD VOICE YOUR THOUGHTS TO THE MTA ON THE PROPOSED PHOTO BAN TODAY. (LAST DAY TO DO IT).

God I love Gawker: http://www.gawker.com/news/culture/subway/breaking-suspiciouslybrown-man-spotted-028911.php Breaking: Suspiciously-Brown Man Spotted! By Jessica2 on Culture: Subway An orange-alert reader sends us word of great import: at around 9am-9:10am today i saw a middle eastern man openly video taping inside 53rd St/Lexington train station. He was standing at the end of the platform moving his camera side to side video taping trains and people. An MTA worker was on the way to talk to him when i left. Not the most pleasant thing to see inside your train station. Just wanted to share it. Thank you for reading. Oh my god, A NON-WHITE PERSON?! In the SUBWAY? With a CAMERA? Holy shit, he must be out to do us harm! If homeland security weren't in our white citizens' hands, we'd all be dead by now. Keep New: Posted on: Wed, Jan 5 2005 10:51 AM Updated: Wed, Jan 5 2005 10:53 AM Email This Clip/Blog This

andrew and benjamin liu. i love you guys. this is from a really early d4d event. 

gawker even hurts my feelings sometimes

This is actually pretty funny. As if hipsters are a dying breed..... http://www.gawker.com/news/culture/hipster/for-the-price-of-a-pbr-you-can-save-a-life-028922.php a friend once told me he sent gawker an email from conde nast to let them know it was raining outside so they could oohhh and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhTK at the conde nasty happening he he he. gawker is way addictive.

finally found my ad!

http://www.motorola.com/mdirect/hellomoto/experience/c350/flash/default.shtml so this one time i sold my soul to ogilvy & mather and modeled for motorola for lots of money. finally found the ad! www.ogilvy.com, click on creative, click on motorola icon to the left. i did the c350 campaign. pic below:

here's the ad! 

and later on the street... 

my fave senoritas. 

louis is back from the congo!!!