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29 April 2010
new domain test.
15 April 2009
wolf & pig.
06 November 2008
photography exhibit.
25 September 2008
First United Methodist Church Dallas Adverts.
06 September 2008
representing the underachiever.
02 July 2008
italy 2008.
03 April 2008
the science journal nature.
Congratulations, Courtney! I'm so proud of ya!!! I normally don't condone the use of the lens flare filter in Photoshop, but in this case, it's quite apropos. Great work.31 March 2008
j. scott slagle album release.
I'm pleased to help spread the news about my friend Scott Slagle's newly recorded album "like dreams..." His *new* website is here.30 March 2008
unveiled.
05 January 2008
dog walking.
01 January 2008
happy 2008.
13 December 2007
time piece.
14 November 2007
mark allen miller, painter.
mark allen miller does some really cool paintings with what appears to be spray paint and stencils, as well a bit of collage. refreshingly clean, graphically rich and colorfully daring, the pieces on his site feel very now.long time, no blog.
14 September 2007
neo rauch auction listing.
18 July 2007
"Fiddler on the Roof" at First Church July 20-22
24 June 2007
toronto photos.
12 June 2007
gay bomb.
08 June 2007
what the world eats.
fascinating photo essay. i love that they included the cost of the food per week. however, i cannot understand how a family of four in Bargteheide, Germany can spend $500.07 on food in a week and not weigh 500 pounds a piece... that is a TON of food. of course, those boys will probably end up 6'12" tall, but geez! the piece shows that we all have so much in common... after all, we all gotta eat!07 June 2007
london 2012 logo.
i honestly can not understand how people could be so fervently opposed to a piece of graphic art, but here it is. what the logo does, as any truly contemporary work does, is hold a mirror up to the culture it was created within. the vehemently negative responses to the logo clearly reflect a closed-minded, unimaginative public, who balks at anything out of the mainstream and who cannot tolerate imagery that doesn't "LOOK LIKE SOMETHING". the instantaneous response that the logo "looks like someone doing a sex act" shows that the general public is STILL made uneasy by the concept of abstraction and cannot engage with something unless it "LOOKS LIKE _____" (insert banal, generic and symetrical object here.)the architectural community has been forever changed by the likes of frank gehry, zaha hadid and daniel libeskind -- with their "decontructivist" (or whatever -ism, with which they are now associated) work, and their work is still disliked by the majority of a public who cannot get past the fact that there are no fluted columns or dentil mouldings. "good god! it doesn't look like the pantheon... it can't be a good building!"
i'm disappointed that culturally we are not more sophisticated. while not suggesting that we ignore issues like this (the debate's passionate rhetoric has been fascinating), i wish the dialogue were more than the low-brow school-yard diatribes that have flooded the blogs since the unveiling. whining that "it just sucks" is not a statement with any value and fails to help the debate.
04 June 2007
updates at the unbuilt gallery.
fabulous new posts by n_ at the unbuilt gallery from last saturday's porchtime. though the chimenea never burned, the funky silver flame balls that Mr. Mayes left with the house kept the night aglow.29 May 2007
the unbuilt gallery.
I'm proud to announce the grand opening of "the unbuilt gallery" -- a collaborative photo essay blog. Participants include: Nathan Nichols, Courtney Hodges and Patrick Winn. We all have such unique visual languages and this is an effort to expose the nuances of each. Stay tuned for updates and special exhibits!07 May 2007
knitta Handarbeiten.
I cannot express fervently enough my love for this idea! Previous posts on this-here blog have disclosed my love of street art with emphatic applause for categorically non-destructive graffiti. Knitta is a group of women who create urban art with their handiwork. Retro in one sense -- I suppose counter-culture is another way to describe it, since women under 70 knitting is anything but usual. They sell it best by exclaiming themselves as "a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles on easy nights to public monuments and utility poles on more ambitious outings." Terrific!02 May 2007
crossroads 5 helps raise $12,000 for charity.
"The sanctuary of First United Methodist Church was filled with the rhythm and sounds of a benefit concert presented by the Music and Arts Department of FUMC. Subtitled “A Salute To Service,” the show honored the hundreds of volunteers whose hard work and dedication enables Crossroads Community Services to provide assistance to many thousands of our neighbors-in-need in the Metroplex, among numerous other service projects locally, nationally, and internationally. However, as the night progressed, it became clear that the gift was a blessing not only to those who received, but also to those who gave.Under Dana Effler’s capable direction, the performance was a joyous celebration. Traditional and more contemporary gospel music was energetically performed by the Chancel Choir, the Variations youth choir, and more than fifteen instrumentalists. The more than 900 concert goers were treated to Old Country Church by the "Crossroads Five," an all-male a’ cappella ensemble which delighted the audience with barbershop quartet-type harmonies and soul aplenty. The Chancel Choir followed with Old Time Religion Medley, rendered with the swagger and sway that have been the song’s trademark for over a century." [full story here & photos here]
12 April 2007
the heilocentric pantheon.
Perhaps the last chord in Durufle's Requiem that happens to be a sustained 7th chord is more literally celestial than figurative?"That’s one of the startling things about this. If I wrote the simplified Bode formula down on a piece of paper and showed it to music theorists, they would ask: “Why are you showing us a formula from the overtone series…?” [...] Bode’s Law gives a series of orbital ratios which are mathematically identical to intervals in musical theory. They’re primarily variations on what we call the 7th chord: C, E, G, B-flat. Bode’s predicted ratio between Earth and Mars, for instance, is the same as the 5:8 musical ratio between E and C."
the heliocentric pantheon.
20 February 2007
la chute.
Denis Darzacq has taken photos of people seemingly levitating before deserted urban backdrops. I'm not sure if I really want to know what it feels like to do this -- the bruises beneath their clothes as a result of this process are surely ever present. But the effect is mystifying... and the mystery is amplified by the stark streetscapes they inhabit, as there appear to be no witnesses - except the camera - to the acts caught by the lens. The unwillingness of the human brain to accept such a possibility of floating bodies charges each image with surreal beauty."When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns to control his trajectory..."
06 February 2007
todd hido photographer.
the "homes at night" series got my attention... this guy is really good at night photography. i have tried with mixed results, but this guy is a master. they all have a painterly quality about them -- the results of long exposure times. the light that you cannot see with your eyes that is there bouncing around against things -- the lens sees it.25 January 2007
sketchbook pages launched.
ok, since i promised patrick that i would do this, here it is. eventually there will be a link from the index page on redblank, but until then, it will be a phantom page. i'm still trying to figure out a system that will allow easy updates, but for now, the autoviewer export plugin for picasa is quite dandy. see what you think. drop me a line. frequent updates promised. out.16 January 2007
new wallpaper.
14 January 2007
redblank photo gallery update.
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