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
+
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.