hello

oh man
Light Rain and Freezing Rain
32°F

Feels Like
cold
for some visual entertainment or existential contemplation direct yourself to http://theoryofeverything.yamashita-kobayashi.com/
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i also recommend the movie "TASTE of TEA"
of the same director as "SNAKE SKIN MAN and PEACH HIP GIRL"
another pretty good one



pe

movie marathon + life is great

3 moms, 10 babies, 2 days
in a New Orleans hospital it seems, and at zingmagazine half the nonexistent winter scrooge poop was bagged over 2 days and 10 movies including the unexpectedly complex She's the Man and modern day classics such as Big Daddy and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind



Paola Pivi

a day of niney chronicles, postcards, labels, addresses, familiar names, famous names....
and soon there will be issue 21!!!

sheep heads

these were too good to pass up. if they were mine, i would call them, which one of these is not like the other, and paul bunyan and his cousin sticky. its a rough life being a woodsman.
this is what my weekly virtual tour of austin has brought us here in nyc. i missed the showing of electric apricot over the weekend, but i did see american gangster. its hollywood, denzel, and russell, doin a fine job as usual. i'm sure it doesn't measure up to the mockumental status of the e.a., but well worth the time!
anyway, welcome to winter folks. it snowed at my place this morning!
xoxo
anon y.mous

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend

* Beerfest kinda sucked (most of the time)
* previously posted frog haiku is one of Basho's classics (in english)

Blen Blen Blen

Hey

It's so dark out already
and I wonder how beautiful music played over violent or sad imagery makes for poetic scenes but is the tactic too artistic for the good of a movie, or is that the point???
sorry gtg
[more images to come soon]

some strange things

these are some strange things i found today. but i like them. the two in the middle are by laurent grasso. i'm going to his opening tomorrow night, and so should you! i wonder what he will show????? be there: 814 broadway, 5-9pm....
see if you can find me...
xoxo
Anon Y. Mous

mockumentary extravaganza!!!

this completely made my day!
seriously, if there is only one movie you see for the rest of your life, this might be the one to see.
Electric Apricot.
http://www.electricapricot.com/
thanks to Les Claypool for even attempting this potential act of genious.
sorry jam band fans. anyway, its time you realized the truth.
i'm gonna see it next weekend. maybe i'll see you there. check out zingrecsNY for particulars.....

xoxo
Anon Y. Mous

scrooge poop continued

today i rubbed rubber bands on the new york times

scrooge poop production was accompanied by johnny cash

tres tristes tigres tragan trigo en tres tristes tragos

old pond
a frog jumps into
the sound of water

man, i forgot my battery charger at the office

Happy

scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop scrooge poop

internet addiction

i spent yet another day virtually in austin texas. and with the news on in the background. i tell you, this world is going down the tubes. a kid opened fire on his high school then shot himself, a couple killed a woman after she wouldnt have sex with them, and george bush is still our president. what will it be like when we don't hear his voice coming out of the tv anymore? there is always such hope that things will change with a new election, but will things change? there was a poll taken whose results suggested that hilary clinton was considered the least safe candidate to take care of your children. is that something that we should really be worried about? if i left my hypothetical kids with hilary clinton, i dont think she would do them any harm. in fact, they might even come back a little smarter. seriously people. here i sit blogging away, as i know for sure we all need to get off the internet and start spending more time with real people, friends, family and kids...
anyway enough of my rant. i found the picture above which is great. and one of the artists, wendy tremayne, is collaborator for one of the nation's largest, diy craft and design extravaganza, called swap-o-rama-rama. bless her. those women must have been cold. just like you will be tonight. dont forget to take your airborne, and please use a hanky instead of sneezing and coughing on me in the subway.

Billion Dollar Gravy

blogger's automated dating function is totally blowing my cover
but I still do remember a fun day of spy work and transcribing at zing followed by an investigation of post-halloween missed connections on craigslist, my favorite being:

You and your friend were slices of pizza...

---

Date: 2007-11-01, 10:16PM EDT


You took some pictures of me. I'd like to see them, please. I was the Indian princess...

November

It is November now and apparently it's not uncommon for males in Australia to sport a moustache during this special month. Turkey Turkey
Today's activities included stamping, sorting, copying, cutting, etc. but i guess I don't reeeaaly have to write about my daily duties right? can you believe that a Warhol silkscreen sold for over 70 million $$$ at auction earlier this year? or that Another Building by a Noted Modernist Comes Under Threat, This Time in Boston? Travels Abroad Lead to Journeys Within. Times Articles...
Well, I have to go know after my first full day at zing
peace

happy halloween, get a new life.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/450934913.html
the above craigslist posting makes me feel a little better about the thought of trying to find a new place in ny...at least this isn't the only place it gets that crazy.
but it does make me think about what i am about to get myself into....where will i end up tonight?
its halloween after all, so why not just be a different person altogether? i was asked to be part of a project called "Life Exchange". long story short, im about to walk into an apartment, and hand over my keys and life details. i will walk out with the same from someone i dont know. and for one week we will exist in each other's lives as much as possible. i must have lost my mind somewhere along the way...
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3News.php?type=NEWSPRESS#ANC_47
but, i'll let you know how it goes later this week.
until then, happy halloween. (don't eat too much candy though. on the news today, i heard that a small plastic pumpkin full of candy has 8ooo calories!!!)

manic monday

it's almost halloween. time for the absurd and strange. these are things i liked when i saw, and i hope you do too. thanks to those who made these images, kelly lee barrett, doris, and two artists who are as anonymous as i am...
anyway if you are unsure of what to wear this halloween, please please please reconsider the horse's head in a yellow jumpsuit holding a cat. you won't be sorry, i promise.
xoxo

gtg

"themes of the soundtrack to a day of administrative zing work"


interracial love

domestic violence

deception

artillery

star wars

LAST DAY!!!!!

thank you zing. thank you everyone. i've had a great run but this is the end of the road. i'm off to explore other lands.

final, closing image:



all my love,

anon-y-mous

Yo

i delivered a package today and had breakfast for lunch. that was
exciting, daring even?
and it's raining/just wetting outside but not enough to take my broken
umbrella out you know
i also looked at various online arts "publications" some of which have
incredible designs which i will note tomorrow since i don't remember
which ones they were
other cool thangs i came across on my searches include the title
"Smuggling Donkeys" and a Gerhard Richter's satined glass project for
the cathedral in Cologne



thank you,

anonymous

the scanner is dead too

"we cannot tell if the logic board is %100 dead or sporadically dead"

the life of the old apple in the corner was cut short today from irreparable damage to the logic board caused by a series of seizures and/or old age - ?
May it rest in peace with its fellow scanner
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death is only an affirmation of life, a punctuation
a comma? an elipsis? or maybe a period. a question mark
we have an imac

good day,

anonymous

trapped in the closet

i'm writing my blog post from inside the closet today. its my second to last day at zing, and i'm really gonna be sad on thursday. but these god people at zing will not forget me i hope! i'm starting this full time job at an architecture firm next week. the world of full time is a scary scary place i've never been to before. if my life was like "the phantom tollbooth" i'd be driving in a little car from Parttimeinternville to Fulltimeemployee City.

That kind of makes sense if you've read the Phantom Tollbooth. Or am i jumping to Conclusions. HA! I'm such an idiot.

Last blog post next week!!

yours, forever and always,

anonymous

monday

well, i am another year older. another birthday down the tubes....
i can though, highly recommend a new restaurant in brooklyn. monkeytown is a tasty treat, as well as a visual and audio overload. and the folks going into the back performance room for their 12 course meal accompanied by video, music, and performance of some sort were practically quivering with anticipation. check it out.

happy monday.

hola

it's a gray day today but the best of today's pop mexicano is brightening my day for sure. the salmon dance was also amusing, something about swimming against the tide but they're in a fish tank (?)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kJEacTZmd7I
also,
check out the newly revised gordon tapper section on the zingmagazine website
notice the even spacing and bold letters enhancing visual clarity please
have a super weekend,

intern

SCROLL UP!!

i keep making this error today. i only read the last sentence of an email or list or instruction. does this have some sort of cosmic significance? is this a sign? am i only thinking about the ending of things?

whatever.

i'm going to mama mexico restaurant tonight with my parents and cousin, which, if you are unaware, is this mexican restaurant on 101st and broadway that is totally over the top and ridiculous and has a live mariachi band every night. I used to go there with my friends in high school and a little bit in college. i haven't been there in a couple years. i'm real excited.

mostly for pina coladas:



next week is my last week!!!! be prepared for a really emotional sentimental post on tuesday or thursday (i have hardcore separation anxiety).

good news:
i finally found a decent picture of terence koh courtesy of mary barone amongst gigabytes of sculptural documentation
where are all the artist headshots?? i think we're just in denial about the importance of the artist's persona. mr. koh is not though, maybe too conscious even, but whatever.
the weather is nice.
bad news:
iraq is years away from self-reliance.
the eel sushi was rubbery today and Canada Magazine only distributes Canadian magazines :(

halfway there

its wednesday, we're halfway to the weekend. i spent most of my day in virtual austin as usual. and a bit more of it searching for a magazine that once found, of course is completely in french. did i mention i don't speak french? i emailed them in english anyway, we'll see if i even get a response...
but as usual, i have something that is the best thing i saw today(besides an old B52's video...)thank you michael sieben!

Title:Title:Title:Title:Title:Title:Title:Title:Title:Title:

The Great Accomplishment Of The Day is
I sent two sample magazines to bookstores today

I also attempted to make a Knick's joke, unsuccessfully
but i must include my associate's recollection of one:

"Son, if you don't finish your vegetables I will take you to a Knick's game"
you may also support zingmagazine for the same punishment

and www.vvork.com for your enjoyment

PEACE

I really like those drawings below. i'm not sure which zingintern posted that but for the record i think they're awesome.

called and emailed some international bookstores today. some of which are in glasgow, which made me really nostalgic and miss glasgow a lot (i used to live there). i've been thinking more and more about what i'm missing out on by living in new york, and not in a smaller, more accessible community like how it is in glasgow. I just love how all these art students just say, "hey, you guys want to start a drawing club and call it 'draw or die' and then have all kinds of cool events and parties and get together and make really cool art?" and then a group of like, 15 people just say "sure!". i know if i really wanted to there is nothing stopping me from doing something like that in new york, it just feels a bit easier in glasgow where the art school dictates so much of city life. and it helps that the city itself is so small (which in turn can get annoying).

but anyway, i miss glasgow. i even miss the horrible weather (its actually starting to feel like normal glasgow temperature in nyc now. 60 degrees is like summertime weather in scotland...if you're lucky).

this is draw or die:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=157303898

split ends

this is jonathan marshall.this is the best thing i saw all day in austin.i asked him to join zingrecsAUSTIN, and i hope that he does. perhaps he is the kind of guy that knows what is going on in austin and will give up all the secret spots to me, leading zingrecsAUSTIN into mega art empire status. muahaha. and perhaps one day he will see that i have posted his work here. perhaps. or maybe just my loyal fans.

Friday

October 12, 2007

Today I called bookstores in 23 states across the nation excluding Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska (...and others). It's still 9:20am in Honolulu and Jelly's is probably closed. I am posting the tropical state's flag though. Truly riddles with contradiction. I would prefer hibiscus and volcanoes though

Goodbye

photoshop was killing this computer today yo
i had to reboot 5 times maybe
and i'm out of time again
i'll think of cool things to post over
my caramel apple

pace

Hello

I would introduce myself but
I can tell you about the ___ details of my life
like how I'm a 5'6" Jewish pastry chef with brown hair and blue (sometimes) eyes
but that's a lie
and confusing because you don't know what's Jewish.
Today I moved boxes and threw some away.
I also went to the post office and admired past issues of
*ZING MAGAZINE*
then I saw A-Rod at work (not zing)
I will try to be more thorough next time
with added visuals perhaps

good night for now,

intern

junk

by now i'm sure we are all familiar with the genious of Vik Muniz who makes works of art by using everyday objects...like junk.

above is Albanian artist Saimir Strati,another artist using nails and toothpicks! that's some serious attention to detail...

and finally another stroke of genious, Marilyn Minter, who painted that sexy mouth with her FINGERTIPS!!!! no way.

what could you make with all that crap that is collecting dust around your apartment? try it, you just might end up in a gallery...

fire and paper

I was given the best tasks ever today.

First i ran around soho looking for as many match books as i could. This was SO MUCH FUN as i have a ready list in my mind of places with cool match books and friends who have similar lists in their heads, so i had a really good time going from place to place and pretending i was on the Amazing Race and this was my mission.

Next I had to find bookstores around the world that would be candidates for carrying Zing. This was also fun because I emailed an extremely large group of my friends and family who really came through for me. It was also good to get back in touch with them.

So i feel like I've had a rewarding day, which definitely helps with the inevitable fate of having my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! NO!!!!! I won't be in next tuesday but i'll post again on thursday with the story. i'm so scared.

untitled

well, today has been a day like most others. virtually searching for art and books and stuff in austin. and really searching for matches in nyc. they are scarce these days what with smoking bans and whatnot....

and tomorrow is a glorious day off. i'm looking forward to sweaty bikram yoga in the morning, a movie in the afternoon, across the universe (i'll let you know how it is next week!), and up to dinosaur bbq in the evening. if you havent been there, its the best bbq in nyc, and sorry mom, but they have the best mac and cheese i have ever put my lips on.

dont forget that this weekend is the jersey city open studios is this weekend. definitely check out waldo lofts and daphne chan studios. they are well worth the trip, among others i'm sure!

xxx
intern

"i will move mountains"

so i kept my word and ended up seeing Fitzcarraldo last week. I still haven't seen that much of Herzog's fiction films (actually only The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser) so its nice to have another film of his in my mind to compare. I kind of wish I could see Fitzcarraldo again, because even though i was aware of its famous backstory of people leaving the set, being injured, threatened, or otherwise made to feel very uncomfortable, I wonder still how much of the real life trauma affected the people on set and Herzog himself. The boat being dragged over the mountain seemed like an accomplishment in a documentary sense more than in a fictional sense. It seemed real. As did the tension between the native Peruvians and the actors. I really wonder what Herzog's intention with this film was from before production. I mean, I thought it was uplifting in a certain sense. The final scene with the opera on the boat going down the Amazon was very positive. But the film is so overwhelmingly negative at times, its kind of hard to distinguish where Herzog wants us to have hope and courage along with Fitzcarraldo and where he wants us to acknowledge that he's a hopeless madman. Maybe he felt like he needed to throw on that ridiculously happy ending because the film was such a disaster in production that he needed to give Fitzcarraldo, and in turn himself and everyone involved, some hope, unlike some of his other films (Kaspar Hauser, Grizzly Man) where the madmen meet tragic deaths. Or maybe it became less about the fact that Fitzcarraldo was "mad" (even though i don't think he's necessarily crazy just because he really really likes opera), or about his character at all, and more about pursuing a dream and pushing it as far as it can go. Therefore the entirety of the experience ends on a hopeful note not because the mission was successful, but because they tried so damn hard.

I don't know. At least Claudia Cardinale is always smiling.

Anyway I think its worth it to see this movie again. I also really need to see more of Herzog's films. I think with each one i see i understand more about the ones i've seen previously.

I do like this picture though:

craft kills

this is the best thing i saw all weekend, even after being at a show i was a part of.....




when i was a kid, my parents were a little bit crunchy and made everything for us, from clothes, to furniture, to food grown in our garden. so naturally, i wanted everything that was mass-produced, branded, and coated in refined sugar. i have since seen a renaissance of DIY in my own life, and this craft kills piece makes my heart melt the same way a rotwieler puppy does. sigh.

it's monday. get crafty.

we got it!!! the apartment is ours!!! i signed the lease yesterday, i hope there are no further problems and that everything else works out okay. so now i've been day dreaming about what furniture i'm going to get. and all my amazing stuff in manhattan mini storage that can finally be put to use. my roommate suggested that we make these (courtesy of the readymade website)

in other news i was in another show last night. this one wasn't as crowded and fun as the one at don pedro's on saturday, but it was still a good time. except my bandmate and i thought it would be a genius idea to cover ourselves in glitter, which is now all over me and will probably still be all over me for a year or something. i keep seeing the glitter on my eyelashes and its freaking me out.

i'm going to go see the helvetica movie after work today i think. or maybe fitzcarraldo.

a place to call home

the apartment battle continues. I'm in the midst of applying for this place in boerum hill (which would be perfect) but there are so many people involved. Myself, my roommate, landlord, broker, listing broker, my parents, roommates parents (mother is a broker too), so everyone is saying different things to each other. I just don't want this to get messy. And i want everyone to be happy. I love this apartment though. And i LOVE the neighborhood. There are so many fantastic antique stores, which is instantly comforting to me (my grandma and aunt own antique stores in virginia). So i just have to cross the street to buy all the furniture i need!!

this restaurant (Jolie, on atlantic ave) would be down the street from the apartment. we had brunch there is was really good.

who "they" want us to be

today i spent the day in virtual austin texas...here comes zingrecs austin!!! there is quite a budding art scene there. so many people wanting collaboration on all levels, and wanting to tell everyone about it....blog blog blog!

one of my favorite things i saw today made me think again about how impossible it can seem at times to really be individual. how can anyone be unique when we are constantly bombarded by advertisements, images, and sounds(usually linked to loveable pop songs!)telling us what to wear, buy, eat, drink, and think.

artist jeongmee yoon worked on a project in which she photographed young children surrounded by their belongings. check it out to see what kids love. are you surprised?
http://www.studio107.com/artists/Yoon.htm

terri thomas' work is a lovely example of the effects of social conditioning and the desires of girls. does the subconscious love of barbie ever leave us?
http://www.volitant.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=609

and finally, one of my favorite artists who has managed to create a poetic revolution. he is smart, clever, and has a little something to say about getting told what to think and consume. if you miss the point check your vitals please!
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

here's to thinking for yourself,cheers!

we're protected by a web of fairy magic...

thats something i just heard on the tv. i think its from "charmed".

i'm about to go look at an apartment in prospect heights. not really sure what to expect, i just want an apartment already!!!! i want a place to put my rock collection, and a place to watch marathons of planet earth with my friends!!! i sound like all i care about is having a place to be a science nerd, which is partially true.

inside outside

i spent the weekend in jersey city, contemplating the pros and cons of suburban life. i expected the mall,megastores, and yards, but, what i didn't know is that there apparently is a burgeoning community of young emerging artists in jersey city. for just one special month i will be a part of it too, in an exhibition, INSIDE/OUTSIDE.

please please please join us for the opening reception on Sept 28.(i know its not for another week-don't worry, i'll remind you again!)you can find the address on zingrec ny next week....
There are some amazing artists oozing with talent...

the other thing i learned is that jersey city's creativity isn't the only thing that is well fed. it is also a secret home of taste explosion.
la conguita for cafe con leche and empanadas
madame claude's for french deliciousness
and
isabella's makes a mean breakfast burrito

happy monday folks.

i'm not even working today

hey guys!

i'm performing in this really awesome show on the 22nd. i won't tell you which band i'm in because i am an anonymous person.



my friend matt drew this flyer

crash

well, i spent the day today researching art galleries in chicago, and keeping in mind my faithful readers, i had several sites marked to show you. and then my computer crrrrraashhhhed! luckily my entire excel spreadsheet was not lost, but list of sites was. i know, get a tissue. it will be ok.
i did remember one. it is a little unpleasant, but in a good way:
http://www.thomasrobertello.com/

perhaps next time my memory will be better and you will have all kinds of links to check out...

happy wednesday, you're halfway to the weekend!

grandma scruntiny

see this show asap: Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/provoking_magic/

i went to the opening last night and it was fantastic

quote of the day

so we all know last week was a big week for galleries and parties and general nyc mayhem. i stopped by PEER Gallery, and was happy to see so many people i know. two friends and a former teacher of mine had work in the show. so, it is possible: success, fame, and fortune for the young and talented. so here they are, check out their websites and expect to see more....

allen frame:
http://www.gittermangallery.com/html/artistresults.asp?artist=1663

yasutaka kojima
http://www.yasutakakojima.com/index.html

gratiane demoustier
http://www.gratianedemoustier.com/

because its monday, and i'm sure everyone is recovering from a festive weekend, i'd like to leave you with a bit of humor and wisdom....

"I was the first woman to burn my bra--it took the fire department four days to put it out!"
---Dolly Parton

"The biggest sin is sitting on your ass."
---Florynce Kennedy

"It's hard to keep your shirt on when you're getting something off your chest."
---Nipsey Russell

"Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants."
---Andy Warhol

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
---Mahatma Gandhi

"Pleasure is everything.--Diana Vreeland

"It's not the men in my life that counts--it's the life in my men."
--Mae West

happy monday folks

i got a job today! this is kind of like, my first real honest to god full time job ever, so i'm a little nervous. but its exciting. now i just hope i can stand working in midtown.

going to as many gallery openings as possible tonight. will post next week with a list of the ones i liked. if i'm sober enough to remember them all tonight.

for some reason i know about 30 people born in the month of september, and need to get presents for all of them and go to all their birthday parties. this weekend i had three and this coming week i have one and the following week i have two. so now i'm going to be broke and drunk all the time for this whole month. but its a very fun time of year, a lot of reasons to get together with friends and mope over the fact that none of us are going back to school now.

i also really just love fall.

i'm seeing the seventh victim tonight at bam. check it out: http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=145

high on a hill was a lonely goatherd

Julie Andrews is on the ellen show right now, and i just started thinking about how much of a super genius she is. i mean...has anybody seen the muppet show that she guest stars on? she sings this song with kermit (i've watched this episode many times) called "When you were a tadpole and I was a fish" that is the most hilarious and amazing thing i've ever seen. my friends and i used to watch it over and over (i own the muppet show on dvd in case you're wondering) because at the end of singing that song she makes the craziest face i've ever seen. its really really funny. but i don't mean to make fun of her because i really do like her a lot.

These are my top ten favorite movie musicals of all time:

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Little Shop of Horrors
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Funny Face
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Carousel
Oliver!
South Pacific
Swing Time

awkward moments

well once again, i spent a serious amount of time googling today. funny, there was a time in my life when i couldn't imagine using the word "googling."i must be getting old, as there must be some kids out there who can't remember not using it. maybe i am in denial of almost-turning-30 -anxiety. crap.
anyway in my googling today, i came across another moment worth sharing. this is the best picture i've seen all day. its absurd. its hilarious. its awwwkward....

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/tags/photography

besides that, my big news is that a few colleagues and myself are headed upstate for the weekend to a grassroots arts and film festival turned mtv plug.i would love to invite you all, you, my fiercely loyal fans, but who are we kidding? you're not about to get in a car to drive to rome, ny, this fine labor day weekend! but i promise to return next week and tell you all about it. maybe there will even be pictures to prove it! of course none of me, or i wouldn't be anonymous anymore, would i? how awkward it would be then seeing each other on the train, or in the street. you knowing who i am, me having no idea you know anything about me...
happy labor day folks.

Even though i fight it with all my might, i always tend to be slightly controlled by my inner hypochondriac. this whole summer so far has been punctuated by a series of not even mildly serious but annoying health problems...leading up to the inevitable fate of getting my wisdom teeth removed. Here is a story from yesterday:

I had an oral surgeon appointment at 9 am, which was already difficult because i had seen my friends' band play the night before (www.myspace.com/redsailsband...check them out), and i was hungover enough to have a rough time getting out of bed. So i'm in the office (which is in a hilarious art deco building on 57th and madison, i felt really cool entering, like i was back in time, ignoring the fact that i was only going to the oral surgeon) and this lady's like, "your insurance won't cover this" and i was like "what?" and she was like "its gonna cost you $300 dollars for a consultation" and i was like "oh...great". So i finish filling out all this information and then finally (its now 9:45...cause the insurance problem set me back) the nurse says "Right this way." So i follow her into a teeny tiny consultation room (after an x-ray from a monster sci-fi machine) that has shelves with all these tempting books with titles like "Largely Deformed Tumors of the Face" and "Guide to Impactions" and i'm like, "shit...damn...what am i getting myself into". I sit down on the dentist chair and she leans it back so i'm comfortable and says, "the doctor will be in in a minute". So i just sit and think about how it would feel to wake up from anaesthesia in the middle of getting your wisdom teeth out, and eventually i kind of drift off not noticing that i've kind of curled up in the dentist chair and fallen asleep. At one point i jolt awake because the nurse has come back in but only to retrieve a skull from on top of the bookshelf (with great difficulty because its jaw had come disconnected and was lost somewhere). apparently the doctor wanted to demonstrate to another patient what would happen after too many facial procedures or something. So she leaves and i wait some more and of course fall asleep again until i get jolted awake again by a voice saying "hello!". I look up and there's the doctor who's like, a 6'7" Scandinavian giant, and i really hope he didn't see me sleeping. he's like "okay lets see whats going on here and looks at my teeth and he says "yep! all four need to come out!" He gives me this prepared speech about what the procedure entails of and i just nod my head still half asleep. Then he leaves and i'm like, "that was it?" i look at my watch and its 10:45, which means i was asleep for at least 45 minutes. So i go out to pay for it to this little room with an equally little man who writes me prescriptions for premedication and pain relief and stuff and gives me a twenty minute speil about what i'll feel after the procedure...and a scary scary cost estimate...and there are pictures on the wall of barry manilow and some other hilarious looking people. I finally leave, back through the crazy art deco lobby, and its now almost 11:30, and i feel like i just had some kafka/david lynch mega super surreal weird dream experience. and then i go to the japanese pastry store on 49th just to get some of that out of my head (only i also thought it was all hilarious).

so...basically if this was the consultation i am really really scared for the procedure.

tragedy is everywhere

greece is burning. owen wilson tried to commit suicide. and couples everywhere are buying into the consuming process of living happily ever after, starting with feeding their guests gourmet appetizers at hundreds of dollars per head. im sure among gazillions of other awful things happening in the world. a friend emailed me yesterday and wrote that the amazing thing about having international friends is that in a world full of photographers, inundated with visual stimulation to the point that it all becomes meaningless, we still have our voices. all we can do to change the demise of the world as we know it, is share what is going on in our separate countries, neighborhoods,and lives. we can bring the world together one conversation at a time, whether with words or images.
while all this is going on, i quietly googled for six hours today. i came across a few things that are worth sharing so check it out.greece, blind artists,and a couple of galleries dedicated to emerging artists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/europe/27cnd-greece.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/389

http://blindatthemuseum.com/wingwall.html

http://www.artistsai.org/cuchifritos/Exhibits/current.html

http://www.sundaynyc.com/future.html

last day

Today I spent my last day as a zing intern organizing itty bitty plastic letters. I got a real job, so now I have to do that five days a week instead of the internship here. The job is not exciting. It has nothing to do with art, which is awfully disappointing. That's right, I'm using my $40,000 master's degree in arts journalism to be a proofreader for a real estate marketing company. Kill me now. But none of the magazines and galleries I applied to gave me a single response, so at this point I need to take any job that's offered 'cuz I've got bills to pay :(

Well it's been fun. Hopefully I will be able to help out with projects from time to time.

On the plus side, there's a party at the Chelsea Museum tonight. One last time to take advantage of my press pass.

dime bags of helvetica

all the letters came today and the office kind of looks like a drug den in that all the little white letters are in these small clear plastic bags and organized throughout the room. i'm real excited to start making these bulletins. i LOVE organizing things and putting things together in a certain order. i'm kind of ridiculous in that way.

yesterday my friends and i had "superfriends wednesday" again (miraculously a large group of my friends don't have work on wednesdays...including me, so we all get together and go on an adventure). yesterday we got kind of a late start but it was still action packed. i got my ear pierced then we went to Babycakes NYC where we got gluten-free red velvet cupcakes (http://www.babycakesnyc.com/), then we went for a massive walk through the lower east side and chinatown, then went back and walked across the williamsburg bridge and went to the Bedford Cheese Shop (http://www.bedfordcheeseshop.com/) where we sampled a large variety of cheeses including THE BEST CHEESE ON THE PLANET only i'm forgetting what it was called.

so that was superfriends for this week. here is one thing we noticed:

im getting old, but staying lucky

today i woke up in a malaise at yet another strangely cloudy, too cold august day. i had to put a scarf on for crying out loud. yesterday i saw (well, first i heard them) a group of teenage girls in the throws of a hummer-limo ride around nyc. their excitement could not be contained. they yelled and squealed at every person within a 20 mile radius of the over extravagentsicklyhugemonster of a vehicle. today i wondered what happened to that feeling inside me, if it ever existed at all. i must be getting old.
i just saw an article and pictures about some iraq veterans who have been permanently physically disfigured by their experience there. lets all just take a minute, to remember how lucky we are to be living a pretty comfortable life, and that there are people out there who aren't so lucky.when will the madness end? how many people are going to die before the end?
there must be a connection between those girls in the limo and the war but, i wonder if they ever think about life outside the tinted windows?
i may not be riding around in an suv limo, but even on these ugly cloudy days, it could be worse....

strangers

this morning i was asked to research an art critic for biographical info, so into google i dove. this is one of my favorite things. digging up things about people i've never met. usually it is someone i'm about to consider a potential coupling with, so the first date can be probed for lies and surprises. this time a potential professional aquaintance. i found the bio as usual, an episode of CSI (that i think didn't actually belong to him), and a picture of his back as he looked out over the balcony of his waitlisted rent controlled apt., and another picture of him on an art magazine site. finally! i knew what this person looked like. different than i expected though. anyway, i'm on my way to lunch, and out of the corner of my eye, i spotted him across the street smoking a cigarette! no way i thought. this never happens. i felt like a bonafide spy. alas, i could not say hello, as that would break all the modern social norms of networking and professionalism. maybe one day he will think it's a funny story...

really quick post!! really really quick!!! anna wants to leave!!!!

happy birthday to two zing interns who have the same birthday!! and three people at zing are leos which is very interesting. here is our horoscope for the day:

- This is a time to be very objective and cautious. This is also a time to buy property or to start your own business. It is time to build toward the future, establish new foundations for yourself and to assume important responsibilities. A very different path may be opening up to you now with slow but steady progress assured. Good Karma comes your way now.

new look

Today I spent a few hours trying to find an html tutorial for blogger, so I could make this blog personalized and pretty. But the only thing I could find was a tutorial for making and inserting a customized header. So instead I just picked a prettier template that blogger already offers and fiddled with the colors. I also added a new feature to the sidebar: CD, movie, and book recommendations. Hopefully those will continue to be updated every week.

Summertime is so slow. There's not enough to do here.

P.S. Go see Ratatouille. It's really good!



I want some sushi!

why i love new york

i had one of those mornings today that made me love this city.

i applied for work/trade yoga classes at Bikram Yoga NYC (http://www.bikramyoganyc.com/). what can be better than sweating and stretching in exchange for meeting some great down to earth yoga fanatics?

then i was off to report on exhibitions in chelsea. i had a few shows in mind i wanted to see, and stumbled upon a real gem. hopefully you are reading this today, and will get yourself to these galleries first thing in the morning tomorrow since a lot of them are ending soon....
if you don't see anything else this month go see "A Vicious Undertow" by Jesper Just at Perry Rubenstein Gallery (http://www.perryrubenstein.com/). i said go. NOW.
also, "June Bride" at Yossi Milo Gallery (http://www.yossimilo.com/) is a poignant look at that special moment...
you have a little more time to bask in the summer road trip feel of "Easy Rider: Road Trip through America" at Yancey Richardson Gallery (http://www.yanceyrichardson.com) until sept 8.
thats all for now folks, so get off your couch.

i don't usually do this but...

...a kind of sleazy dude just said the weirdest/cutest/funniest thing to me. I was walking back after dropping a package off and concentrating on sending a very important text message (with my eyes glued to the phone screen) when this dude says, "you keep walking like that you're gonna walk into a wall and smash your gorgeous face!" I usually keep a straight face when this kind of thing happens and walk on (as would be expected) but i thought it was so funny and weird that I laughed and said something like, "nice."

anyway...just got back from san fran which was a bit of a fiasco (apartment hunting can be a little rough) but i had a great time. I spent most of my time in the mission but i also looked in sunset and a few other places close to golden gate park.
My favorite things that i did/saw are:
- Green Apple books (in richmond. also cool japanese supply stores there)
- store: "stumasa" (http://www.stumasa.com/) in sunset. so many amazing products. and they make custom cabinets. and they are really good at gift wrapping.
- botanical gardens in golden gate park
- bars: "phone booth" (http://www.yelp.com/biz/gj3JIPaE066SP8wJ2bcmRA) and "elbo room" (http://www.elbo.com/) in the mission
- store: 24th St. Cheese Co. in Nob Hill (and farmers market in Nob Hill is nearby and really awesome. they had a live jug band.)
- restaurant: "foreign cinema" (http://www.foreigncinema.com/home.html) in the mission. they show movies in the courtyard. the food is really really good.

so...we'll see where i end up! but of any other place in this country that i could live in (besides nyc), this would be it by far.

Life as art

I spent the day researching how life and art are intertwined(...which couldn't be better since i try my best to live my life as an art project...)in "The Accidental Masterpiece,On the Art of Life and Vice Versa" by Michael Kimmelman. A must read, my favorite quote is that "life makes sense not when reason tells you that everything is as it should be. Life makes sense when some imponderable and apparently random event confirms your most irrational prejudices about the world." More on irrationality next time....

ummmm

I spent the majority of today setting up a facebook account for zingmagazine! Fun! So anyone who's reading this: if you're on facebook, then search for us and add us to your friends. The "name" is Zing Magazine. As of this moment, we only have two friends. Sad...

I also made a button ad for Spine & Sports Medicine, to go on our website. I'm just that talented. Ummm that's about it for today. Sorry for such a boring entry. It's been a slow day.

the west coast is calling...

I leave for San Francisco tomorrow. nothing else new to report except i am hopelessly lost with this apartment search. not many people are getting back to me, its pretty frustrating. i just have to keep refreshing craigslist over and over and over....

but some of these places look really neat. i'm not really sure why but so many of the ones i've looked at in the mission have the same green paint on the walls. and fireplaces. check it out:





wish me luck!! speak to you all zing readers next week!