Don Joyce, Negativland Sound Collagist

Interesting guy.

Link to Rolling Stone Article about Don Joyce from 2015

Link to Wikipedia article about Don Joyce.

Sixth Orioles Game of 2017 - el Stinko

I went to the Orioles game against the Indians last night with Karen, Amanda and Mom. What a lousy game. First, a 45-minute rain delay and then a blowout  not really reflected in the score. The Orioles set the American League record at 16 games in which their opponent has scored at least 5 runs two days ago. They have been busy adding to their new record since. If they continue this way for 3 more games, they will have the record for all of baseball, passing the 1924 Philadelphia Phillies record of 20. Go O's!

My record so far this year - Orioles 4, Opponents 2.

Update - They tied the Phillies record on June 23rd but didn't give up 5 runs on the 24th. Darn.

Woman Digs Excitedly Into Ingrown Hair Around Bikini Line Like Grave Robber Pillaging Spoils Of The Dead

PITTSBURGH—Using her fingernail as if it were a heavy iron chisel while digging into the little red bump on the surface of her skin, 29-year-old Mya Landreth excitedly excavated an ingrown hair around her bikini line Monday like a 19th-century grave robber plundering the spoils of the dead, sources confirmed. “Almost there,” said Landreth, a smile reportedly playing across her face as she watched her flesh begin to give way, her index finger expertly scraping at the area as if she were a skilled looter carefully prying open the sealed crypt of a long-dead pharaoh or tribal chieftain to pillage the untold riches that awaited inside. “Got it!” she is said to have cried triumphantly as she hoisted from the depths her prize: a single hair that had once curled in on itself underneath her skin but had now been unearthed from its burial mound and, much like a trove of gold jewelry and loose gemstones that had sat undisturbed for hundreds of years, was now hers for the taking. Seeking to prolong the exhilarating thrill she felt after securing such a precious bounty, Landreth was at press time already scouring other areas of her flesh for a stray pimple or blackhead just as a veteran body snatcher silently hunts under cover of night for the telltale signs of a freshly dug grave.

BMA Exhibit - Off the Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artists' Books

I went to the Baltimore Museum of Art today while Natalie was in Remington picking up a Blue Bag of produce. I wanted to see the exhibit "Off The Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artist's Books" before it closed next week. Really interesting stuff.

From March 12, 2017 — June 25, 2017

The BMA presents more than 130 rarely shown artists’ books and related prints by more than 50 renowned artists, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Grace Hartigan, David Hockney, and Ed Ruscha. Stephen King, Frank O’Hara, and Robert Creeley are among the more than 30 authors represented.

An artist’s book—an artwork conceived of and produced in book form—often reflects the collaborative work of visual artists, writers, printers, and publishers and can vary as widely as artworks in other media. The BMA’s rarely shown collection of artists’ books is presented in 12 thematic groupings of works, such as animals, typography, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky. Among the exhibition highlights are Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1902), Henri Rivière’s Japanese woodcut-inspired images of the French landmark; Bestiary, or The Parade of Orpheus (1911), a book of elaborate animal woodcuts by Raoul Dufy with poems by Guillaume Apollinaire; and Ready for Anything (1958), Joan Miró’s whimsical color woodcuts with text by Paul Éluard. Two other remarkable books are 1¢ Life (1964), 61 vibrant color lithographs by Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and others that accompany poems by Walasse Ting, and The Departure of the Argonaut (1986), a gigantic bound volume with 48 color lithographs by Francesco Clemente and letterpress text by Albert Savinio. More than half of the works have never been exhibited before at the BMA.

The exhibition is the capstone of a collaborative project between the BMA and The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) led by Rena M. Hoisington, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs. Hoisington taught the course “Paper Museums: Exhibiting Artists’ Books at The Baltimore Museum of Art” through JHU’s Program in Museums and Society for 11 undergraduates from JHU, Loyola University Maryland, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. The students helped to determine the checklist and thematic organization of the exhibition as well as write the label texts and blog posts for the books.

For more information about exhibitions, programs, courses, and resources on artists’ books in the Greater Baltimore region, please visit Book Arts Baltimore.

Joan Miro and Paul Eluard. Page from the book "A Toute Epreuve", 1958.

“Salute” (1960), Grace Hartigan, prints/James Schuyler, text.

Dieter Roth "Piccadilly Circus"

Dieter Roth "Piccadilly Circus"

Honfest 2017

Natalie and I went to Honfest on Saturday. Rob Fahey and Whiskey Train played while we were there. They sounded great. We saw Rob Fahey at Sunset Park in Ocean City a few years back but he sounded a lot better this time. I think his throat must have been a little raw back then. Whiskey Train kind of surprised me. I remember them as being a basic boogie-woogie band but they played all kinds of good stuff - Squeeze, REM, Alice in Chains, Cars. I liked the one original they did too.

Natalie brown-bagged a couple of beers and good thing she did. They didn't have anything worth buying. There were lots of Hons of varying degrees of authenticity and your stray native Hampdenite. We stayed a few hours and then headed home. Oh, and it was hot, record breaking hot.

Link to Photos from Honfest 2017

Fifth Orioles Game of 2017 - The Trey Mancini Show

I went to the Orioles game against the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight with Karen, Mom and John. It was the bottom of the ninth and we were down 6 - 2. First, Adam Jones hit a 2 run homer to make it 6 - 4.  Then, with 2 outs, Trey Mancini came up as a pinch hitter. He took the count to 2 - 2 then hit a two run homer to tie the game. In the bottom of the eleventh he did it again, hitting a 3 run homer to win the game. Exciting stuff. My record so far this year, Orioles 4 - Opponents 1.

Photos from the Sun by Patrick Semansky.

Cancer Survivor's Day Celebration

Natalie and I went to the Cancer Survivor's Day Celebration at Columbus Gardens today. This is the  second year in a row we have gone. It's a really nice event. They have guest speakers, a DJ and lots of good food. Some of the doctors, nurses, and other support personnel from all of Medstar Health's cancer facilities attend also. This year Natalie's doctor, Dr. Rao, was there. It was really nice to see her outside a hospital environment. As you can see below, she even got into the photo booth with us. It was also Natalie and Leslie's  58th birthday. Later on we had a nice little party for them at our house.