newcleanblog

2012-01-25T07:12:00.002-05:00

to Zoyd

2012-01-18T15:22:00.003-05:00

Elysian

2012-01-13T12:59:00.002-05:00

I got this when I was participating in demonstrations against Nixon, the war, etc. My sister and cousin Eraca were the masterminds of a mission to feed the demonsrtators peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I was 18 and it was the first time 18 year olds had the vote. I used to have a Zippie button also. Nixon was re-elected, the Movement had fragmented into many movements, and all I got was this button.

2012-01-07T05:38:00.000-05:00

Yesterday James Kalm posted his video of Lori's show, with a cameo by Jerry Saltz.

2012-01-05T05:22:00.003-05:00

I was eight years old. It was a new church and I was the first to be baptized there. We had a series of revival meetings that week with a visiting preacher who made a chalk drawing while he preached that illustrated his message somehow. At the end of his sermon there was the altar call. One of the nights I felt I was being called to go forward. My father did the baptism. The water was cold and I was shivering.

2011-12-28T13:44:00.001-05:00

LORI ELLISON at McKENZIE 511 West 25th St. opens Jan. 5, 2012, 6-8pm

2011-12-23T06:27:00.002-05:00

I went for a walk yesterday and took a few cell phone pictures of this building on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street. Until 2001, the Triangle Fire was the second worst disaster in New York City. Workers on the top floors, mostly women, were trapped because the only unlocked exit was blocked by fire. The owners had locked the other exits to prevent workers from stealing. 146 died, 129 were women, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants. Many of them had jumped and were killed when they hit the pavement. The disaster led to legislation for safe working conditions, and the growth of the labor movement.

2011-12-18T15:26:00.000-05:00

another art bum

2011-12-16T11:01:00.002-05:00

Universum.
All turning into One.The entire and whole cosmos of experience
turning into one universe,
a self-inclusive systematic whole,
whose word and image is the Standard Model.Field of reality and province of thought,
set of all known and postulated particles and forces,
Great is your number.
Great is the quantity of your population of elements,
All turning into One
Universe.I was glad when they said unto me,
Let us go into the particle accelerator
and celebrate the mystery of massand smash together subatomic particles flung at astounding speeds
so we can sift through the debris in the quest for
eternity in a yoctosecond,
infinity in one septillionth
of a twinkling of an Eye.

2011-12-03T13:27:00.002-05:00

Figure

2011-12-02T14:57:00.000-05:00

Liberty Plaza is now surrounded by police barricades. A mobile NYPD surveillance tower gives the park a prison camp look. I saw familiar faces, like retired Philadelphia police captain and the man from Queens who wants everyone to move their money out of the big banks. A discussion group was in progress. I was told that Jackson Browne showed up this week and played some songs. The park isn't necessary anymore, I believe, and the movement moves onward. It is still worth visiting.

2011-11-30T17:39:00.000-05:00

profile in discourage

2011-11-30T09:20:00.005-05:00

Maybe organizers for Art Basel Miami Beach, or Miami Basel Art Beach, or whatever it's called, got wind of a rumor of occupation:
http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2011/11/29/occupy-movement-to-take-over-art-basel-miami-beach/#.TtUmgAhtT1w.facebook

2011-11-28T14:20:00.002-05:00

Portrait of my brother, who was never conceived.

2011-11-28T12:54:00.003-05:00

This is the time of year when New York artists and dealers migrate South to suck at the teats of the one percent. You can't be a revolutionary artist and behave that way. Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, I say, put up a tent city and call it Powhidaville and sell your Neo-Outsider art at affordable prices to art lovers of the 99% who want to identify themselves with The Movement.

2011-11-27T17:42:00.001-05:00

self portrait 11 27 11

2011-11-26T14:43:00.001-05:00

2011-11-22T10:42:00.000-05:00

November 15, 2011. After early morning eviction by the NYPD, OWS gathered at Duarte Plaza and waited for permission to enter a walled-in area owned by Trinity Church (a few didn't wait and were arrested). After a judge ruled that the eviction violated a court order, we marched back to Zuccotti.

2011-11-22T10:38:00.001-05:00

Occupy Colonial Williamsburg
Occupy Wall Street

2011-11-20T12:59:00.003-05:00

variations on a theme

2011-11-05T11:07:00.001-04:00

2011-11-04T00:06:00.025-04:00

What have we come to see here?
What has attracted us, we tourists and onlookers?
A spectacle?
Guerrilla theater on a global stage?

Liberated Zuccotti Park has become more like a street fair.
This "WE OCCUPY" sign is a painting on canvas. I asked if it was for sale and was told No. But one of the men holding it gave me his card and said he has similar paintings that he is selling.

Other items on display were more clearly merchandise. I bought a button and a refrigerator magnet with the Alternative Economy symbol from this couple, but I was really paying them to take their picture. They said they commute some distance. A few weeks ago they might have been selling I Heart NY shirts or 9/11 souvenirs in front of the World Trade Center. Maybe its not official OWS merch, but its an independent business that is as legitimate as anything I've ever done to make a living.

There are also more experimental approaches toward an evolution of a new economy beyond capitalism. Time's Up, the "NYC Direct Action Environmental Organization," rode in with bicycle-powered generators after OWS generators were confiscated by the City.
A store that seems inspired by the San Francisco Diggers. OWS is very much a grandchild of the Diggers, and could be understood as having set up up a free frame of reference that anyone can step through (read Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan, if you haven't already).

The original American counter culture is the indigenous culture of Turtle Island, represented here by the American Indian Movement, which was started in 1968 (Read In The Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen, if you haven't already). I asked this gentleman if I could take pictures. I like this slice of bread with OWS written on it. This is where I took a picture of the mandalic AIM logo that was the starting point of a piece I'm making.

If the piece I'm making turns out I want to give it away.

Do you want it?

2011-11-02T14:53:00.002-04:00

update

2011-11-02T10:16:00.004-04:00

You
create your own religion,
create your own logos, and
write your word of a god, and
imagine you are the image of a god
you imagine you
Are.

2011-11-02T09:30:00.003-04:00

Ideograms at Occupy Wall Street on the American Indian Movement table, Liberty Park yesterday.

2011-10-31T04:52:00.002-04:00

2011-10-30T14:41:00.000-04:00

2011-10-26T19:02:00.002-04:00

2011-10-25T05:12:00.002-04:00

arachnosolar

2011-10-22T15:48:00.001-04:00

Cosmoctopod

2011-10-21T11:26:00.001-04:00

tin wheel on canvas panel

2011-10-19T16:25:00.002-04:00

That piece I blogged has been published by Alliance for Progressive Values:

http://apvonlineblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/we-cant-avoid-change-by-
lawrence-swan/

Their blog is worth looking at.

L

2011-10-17T16:22:00.001-04:00

WELCOME TO THE NEW PARADIGM

OWS banner in Washington Square Park, October 15

2011-10-17T06:26:00.009-04:00

Whenever I've gone down to Zuccotti Park I've found a remarkable variety of viewpoints. One might wonder what they all have in common. I believe capitalism is destroying itself and the people in the streets today are refusing to be the victims. Free market fundamentalism is delusional utopianism, at best. At worst, it's just propaganda to justify the widening gap between rich and poor. The system isn't working. The economy is collapsing in Europe and here, people are angry and they are asserting that rule by the 1% wealthiest is unacceptable. We claim the 1% have been making the decisions, as well as accumulating the wealth. We want to spread the wealth and democratize America. As to who should decide what a just society entails -- who would decide in a "democracy?" -- this is an experiment in participatory democracy. The governments have failed and the free market has failed. Who do you think should decide? I don't understand what some people have against this.
Specific institutions were named in the NY march I was involved in - Chase and Citibank -- and the specific goal was to advocate the mass closing of accounts in the big banks and moving of money to credit unions and regional banks. The movement's ideas and goals have seemed formless because it is in creative flux and considering the alternatives. I imagine it will break into many subgroups with competing agenda, but that is good. A multiplicity of interests is how democracy works. Social media has been central to the new democracy movements and has been the means to organizing and coordinating activities. Videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and elsewhere contribute to spreading the message. On October 15 global protests hit 950 cities in 82 countries.
I am a philosophical utopian but I think a practical grassroots politics aimed at transforming the parties we have is the best course. The Democratic party should be democratized and become a party for the people. Obama should fire Geithner and other financial industry creeps who share responsibility for the destruction of the economy. But that might not be enough, because the situation in this country could suddenly change in ways we can't anticipate right now. We know that the world economy is at a critical phase and the powers-that-be seem to be at a complete loss as to what to do, or are paralyzed by electoral politics. The movement is a mass response to a crisis in capitalism that is analogous, and probably related to, the crisis that bought about the collapse of communism twenty years ago. Its a mass response that appears to me to indicate a collective willingness to change things, because change is necessary and unavoidable. What I find at Zuccotti Liberty is a lot of individuals looking for community, and that is the definition of democracy.
Those quaint old documents from 200 years ago assert that people are right to rise up and change their governments, and create governments that serve them. Even most people who claim to be against government turn out to receive some kind of service or even assistance from government they don't want to lose, but we also see that the corporate state has been in the service of the 1%. We recognize that the time of change is here. We agree creativity is necessary, collective creativity, and the old ideologies and parties are inadequate, and that's why the alternative movements are looking for common ground. And they really are. We can't avoid change, I don't know if we will like what we get, but change is coming.
God save us.

2011-10-13T07:15:00.003-04:00

pretty flower

2011-10-13T06:57:00.001-04:00

Listening to some of the people at Occupy Wall Street.

2011-10-13T06:55:00.001-04:00

2011-10-09T07:42:00.002-04:00

Prelude to the afternoon pro-democracy parade to Wall Street. Scenes from Zuccotti Park. Before the October 5 march (although I wouldn't really call it marching) I got away from the speeches at Foley Square and strolled through Zuccotti Park, where the vanguard was encamped. There was a variety of participants.

2011-10-08T12:06:00.000-04:00

Get up, get down, there's revolution in this town.
We are the 99%.
Banks got bailed out, we got sold out.
Tell me what democracy looks like,
this is what democracy looks like.

2011-10-05T06:57:00.003-04:00

I am participating in the march today in support of Occupy Wall Street.
I have visited Liberty Plaza twice while the protestors have been there. The first time was on September 20, a weekday morning when it was raining. I didn't know where they were and I walked on Wall Street and around the NYSE. There were temporary police fences everywhere, on all the sidewalks, to limit where you can walk, and probably make marches impossible, and there were a lot of cops. I didn't see any protestors on Wall Street itself, which is a highly secured area all the time,especially in the past ten years. I walked up Broadway a couple of blocks past Trinity Church to the park that has the tall, orange Mark de Suvero sculpture. I finally saw the activists standing in a huddle together under plastic sheets chanting and apparently having a meeting, or listening to someone make a speech or lead a pep rally. I wasn't really expecting to see a tent city like from the 30s, but this looked humorous and sad, and not at all like a promising beginning of a grassroots pro-democracy movement to challenge the Corporate State. There were some people holding signs on the sidewalk. I had an impression was that there were crunchies and crusties about, but I didn't really investigate. The protestors were outnumbered by the police. I walked up to Vesey and had breakfast at the Stage Door Deli. I was surprised they remembered me there. The guy who took my order berated me for saying "scrambled eggs with bacon and potatoes and toast." I had forgotten the protocol. "You're supposed to say, 'scrambled eggs all the way.'"
I worked at the Borders bookstore between Pine and Wall Street until I was laid off in 2009 in one of their first rounds of dumping supervisors and managers to delay the inevitable bankruptcy of that badly managed company. I was still working there during the crash of 2008 and I wrote a satirical poem called The Financial 911 Was An Inside Job http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duwa17J9Vk0 I also worked at the Borders at 5 World Trade Center, across the street from Stage Door, until the attacks. I was the opening manager that morning and was responsible, with another manager and a security guard, for evacuating the store. I wrote about that also: http://panicinzerodecade.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-immensity-of-it-hasnt-hit-me-yet.html I often ate breakfast at Stage Door and often ate lunch in Liberty Park Plaza, before its name was changed to that of the CEO of the real estate company that owns the park. There were food carts there, and one in particular (Sam?) that had the best falafels. Except for a couple of miserable years at the Park Avenue store, I worked at Borders in Lower Manhattan for the greater part of what I call the Zero Decade and that neighborhood feels like home.
After breakfast I stopped at J&R Music and bought The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday, because lately I've been listening to 1967 psychedelic music. Sometimes I vary my listening and put on something from 66 or 68. Clearly I carry much interest and fondness for that decade, and look for something in that time that could be useful to a country whose soul has been trapped in a hole at Ground Zero, buried under the debris of the financial crash engineered by the lords of Wall Street. Clearly I wished for a movement something like the Arab Spring, or something like Paris in May 68, or even a slight shift toward a rational and just economic policy. Clearly I wanted to feel younger than yesterday. Occupy Wall Street seemed to have dwindled down to that group standing in the rain. Maybe more commute from the outer boroughs and Jersey when there is to be a confrontation with the police.
Maybe it was pretty much over.
I went down again Friday, the 30th. It was a much nicer day and I wanted to go in the afternoon and see what was happening. Then I read on Twitter a rumor that Radiohead was going to be there and play at 4:30. I thought that was unlikely, but I knew the rumor would guarantee a crowd. I took my camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntnWXL7xX5s&feature=channel_video_title There certainly was more people than my last visit. Zuccotti Park was packed. I walked past the sign holders facing Broadway and around to the south side of the park and then into the multitude. It was obvious that Radiohead or anyone else was not going to be playing because there was no sound system. No microphone, no PA. There was a part of the crowd that was more densely packed and where collective attention was directed to some activity that I couldn't see. I never did get into the center of the knot of people that seemed to be the source of occasional messages that were shouted. I couldn't hear very well what was shouted, but people closer to the source passed it on by shouting it again, and people farther away repeated the shout. This must be the group shouting I took for chanting when I first visited. I always hate chanting at protest marches. The one exception was in Cleveland when we chanted "Bullshit!" to Reagan when he was campaigning for re-election. This wasn't really like chanting slogans. They were repeating a longer message, phrase by phrase, shouting each phrase to pass it on. I still misunderstood and took this for a kind of indoctrination practice, that "they" were teaching the doctrine of the movement. People around me were repeating the phrases and I thought, I can't do this. What if the next phrase is "Get the Jews" or "Kill the infidels" or "Ron Paul For President?" But some of these messages were not political statements but simple instructions to "Move back", because they were getting crushed by the crowd pressing in, or "Sit down." I later read that this was how they ran their General Assemblies, and carried on group discussions and made collective decisions. I ran into Adam, a former co-worker from the Wall Street store, and now also jobless. He had hoped to see Radiohead, but heard it was a hoax. We decided to hang out together and look around. It was unlike any demonstration I'd ever been to. Whatever was going on in that place that issued the messages, there didn't seem to be any leadership or program. The Radiohead rumor had motivated many, like Adam, who already were curious about the movement, to get downtown and see what was going on. I began to worry about it getting as crowded as a Yankees parade. Those crowds are scary. It seemed like it would grow bigger and bigger into the evening. It also seemed like no one knew what would happen, and that anything could happen. There were a couple of drum circles, a guy playing a saxophone,and the woman with the sign that read, "I said LISTEN, not LOOK." She was naked and mute. There were other geezers my age and older, but it was mostly young, but a variety of youth. Yuppie and hippie and worker. The excitement rose when a black man with a megaphone and a message arrived leading a coalition of the Transit Workers Union. "We are here with you! We are here for you!" Well good, I thought. Its the least they could do after we walked to work every day of their last strike. I thought they were going to take control and organize the crowd, but that didn't happen. I walked around Liberty Park (forget Zuccotti) and was sure this was the real thing, much more than rain-soaked hippies and activists. This is the populist movement the Tea Party claimed to be. Something is happening, a movement is starting right here, and no one knows what its going to be. After a little over an hour there it was time to go home and make supper.
I wasn't there for the Brooklyn Bridge march and the mass arrest of over 700 people who had transgressed into lanes meant for machines. I have been in a few big demonstrations in New York and have seen how efficiently the NYPD herds crowds away from some places and into others. I have little doubt that they could have kept these people out of the car lanes. But, if it was unnecessary, it seemed dumb, because the arrests would draw media attention and probably attract greater numbers. Sure enough, the mainstream media have started covering it.
We'll see about today's march. MoveOn is joining, and more unions will add their ranks. I just heard the NYU faculty have signed their support. The movement is now occupying other cities and the message has become viral in the global village. The message, despite what you have been told, is simple, its for a democratic America and against the Corporate State. Maybe this movement will be manipulated or co-opted by the unions, or the Democrats, or the Libertarians, or the truthers or worse. I'm sure it will not be all we hope it will be, and it might be another one of those things we'll forget about by December. But it looks like a nice day for a walk downtown.

2011-10-04T08:22:00.000-04:00

2011-10-02T23:19:00.003-04:00

2011-10-01T18:10:00.002-04:00

Lori gets into Serra at Gagosian.

2011-10-01T18:09:00.000-04:00

I visited the occupation at Liberty Plaza yesterday. I ran into Adam Morris, a friend and former co-worker from Borders, and we hung out for awhile and made wisecracks. It has the potential to get really interesting this weekend. Its like what the Tea Party claims to be, a grassroots uprising.

2011-09-29T08:11:00.000-04:00

Lars and Lori show

2011-09-28T16:21:00.002-04:00

2011-09-27T16:36:00.001-04:00

2011-09-25T13:49:00.002-04:00

2011-09-19T10:51:00.001-04:00

speechless 1 and 2

2011-09-17T08:50:00.001-04:00

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2011-09-13T08:06:00.002-04:00

panic in zero decade

2011-09-11T07:21:00.001-04:00

You've read it before. http://panicinzerodecade.blogspot.com/

allegory of the cave

2011-09-07T17:04:00.001-04:00

questioning the ontological privilege of established reality.

2011-09-06T05:58:00.000-04:00

hinged panel with word games

2011-09-06T05:52:00.000-04:00

word game drawings

buried alive in the big hole

2011-09-04T12:25:00.001-04:00

I linked to Dahlia Lithwick's piece in Slate about Cheney's book on
Facebook:

"As John Adams famously put it, the United States was intended to be a
government of laws, not of men. Dick Cheney is living proof that if we
are not brave enough to enforce our laws, we will forever be at the
mercy of a handful of men."

"He interpreted our apathy as resounding applause," Lucy commented.

"There wasn't complete apathy, although many of "us" who were and are
opposed are sunk in despair. And the so-called Libertarians (Ron and
Rand) are not the solution, by any means,"
I replied.

Dick Cheney would never tell the truth, no matter how many times he was
water-boarded, I wisecracked.

Joshua: "Yeah, but it'd be fun trying."

LS: "It is a guilty pleasure to think so, Joshua. Or maybe not so
guilty. It would have the usefulness of proving that torture doesn't
work, but that is already known. The liquidation of Osama bin Laden was
also a guilty pleasure, but wouldn't it have been a bigger propaganda
coup for The American Way if he had been brought to trial? Of course,
that isn't really the American Way, anyway."

Dick Cheney might not even know what the truth is anymore.

He wouldn't be alone. I shared an Alexander Cockburn piece from
Counterpunch that attacks the conspiracy theories of the 9/11 "truth
movement," the truthers. A debate followed. Arguing about 9/11
conspiracy theories heats me up. Everyone should doubt any official
narrative, but not all alternative narratives are likely. I have always
believed that Osama bin Laden sponsored the 2001 attacks. There was
intelligence warning of an attack that the White House apparently
ignored. I don't know why. I don't know why they thought it would be a
good idea to start a war in Iraq. I don't know why they thought the tax
cuts on the wealthy were such a good idea they kept them in place while
spending trillions of dollars on two wars, as well as on the perpetual
"war on terror."

The attacks left a big hole. We are at the bottom of the hole. The Bush
administration buried us in that hole. We elected a Democrat we hoped
would start digging us out. Republicans seem to want us to stay there
so Obama will lose the 2012 election, so they block all attempts to
rescue us. We know the Republicans can't help us because all they offer
is to make the tax cuts permanent, and to further deregulate the
financial institutions that crashed the economy in 2008. Obama
compromises too much. Maybe a black president has no power because
white politicians will exploit white racism to prevent change. Maybe
Obama knows this and that is why he is too conservative and too
compromising to dig us out. Even if he was white the Republicans would
work to make him fail and, therefore, make the country fail.
Because, even if the country fails as a whole, the rich will build
their mansions on top of the the mountain of shit the rest of us are
buried under.

liberty

2011-09-04T11:19:00.001-04:00

Yesterday Lori, Jimmy Blackford and I took a two hour sail boat trip on
the Hudson River and around a famous landmark.

2011-09-03T07:14:00.000-04:00

3 meetings

2011-09-03T07:06:00.001-04:00

shine on

2011-09-01T23:20:00.001-04:00

weekend with Irene

2011-09-01T23:06:00.001-04:00

8/26

I am very concerned that this hurricane will be almost as fearsome as that earthquake was.

I grew up in South Florida. In the sixties the newspapers published hurricane tracking maps. You tracked the hurricanes by listening for the coordinates on a transistor radio and sticking map pins in the map. I think it made it feel you had some power and control over the scary chaos around you if you could track its progress. And it was fun. Its useful to know that you in the eye and its not safe to come out. Now I look at satellite videos of the crazy beautiful storm to rise above it all.

Panic video-renting in Williamsburg. In the other stores people line up with 8 packs of small bottles of spring water and chips. Its almost as bad as last minute Christmas shopping, except the panic is worse at Christmas.

August 28, morning

Wind and rain coming from the east. Ceiling leaking on that side. I guess its here.

Nothing you can do until its over, and its barely begun.

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!"

I hope nobody's cock drown'd

‎"At 800 AM EDT the center of Hurricane Irene was located by an Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft and NOAA Doppler radar near latitude 40.3 North, longitude 74.1 West or about 40 miles south-southwest of New York City. Irene is moving toward the north-northeast near 25 MPH and this motion with a continued gradual increase in forward speed is expected during the next day or so." forecast.weather.gov

I feel all the information from satellites and computers is telling me less than I used to get with a transistor radio and a paper tracking map from the Palm Beach Post.

August 30, 5:30 AM, morning after the storm, I see Orion and Sirius out the kitchen window.

the past week

2011-09-01T22:44:00.001-04:00

2011-08-27T07:46:00.001-04:00

From Discovery News:
"Astronomers have found the remains of a once massive star, now transformed into a solid diamond five times bigger than earth."

Astronomers have discovered a planet made of diamond. The people who live on the diamond planet treasure shit above all other things. Not just human and animal excrement but also dead, rotting vegetation, and industrial waste. Industry on this planet is simple and green, although very sophisticated, a very advanced, eco-technological way of life. The "waste products" resulting from all production are really byproducts that have their own uses. Earth people didn't treasure their shit. "Shit," for them, was a dirty word. They had an abundance of shit and were sick of it.
Diamond people considered shit a gift, but earth people (aka shit people) refused to give any, and didn't want any given to them. They valued diamonds, which used to be relatively rare on earth. Being greedy creatures who don't give a shit, the shit planet straightaway invaded the diamond planet and plundered it, while refusing to take any shit from its inhabitants. When the alien diamonds flooded the market all diamonds lost most of their value and the market crashed and the stupid shits were in deep, well, you know.

2011-08-26T09:36:00.001-04:00

I want to go back to sleep, but I can't, even though I only slept maybe three hours and it is still dark. Now that I briefly surfaced from bitter dreams and got a peek of the world I can't sleep anymore because the terrible light of reality is blazing on me.
When Lori is awake and we've had breakfast she will go on Facebook, so early morning or late night is when I do most of my social networking. So I open the box of faces and they look up at me like flowers at the sun and send me their prayers, thoughts, positive thoughts and vibrations, hopes for the best, sympathy, compassion, faith, and loving emoticons. I welcome them all. <3 <3 <3
Later, maybe, its waiting rooms, maybe with a TV on one of those court room shows where the working poor seek justice in front of a national audience of unfortunates trapped in waiting rooms and living rooms with no exit.

At home I keep checking online news to see if things will get worse. Maybe Hurricane Irene will come and blow out our windows and soak our art. Maybe Rick Perry will become president and take away our Medicaid.
Life has become an unending storm watch.

yesterday

2011-08-24T07:54:00.000-04:00

Yesterday, about an hour before that big tremor, we learned that my wife has cancer. She had a biopsy on some breast lumps last week and the doctor called her. We learn more Thursday. She has surgery in ten days.

2011-08-24T07:19:00.001-04:00

2011-08-23T20:25:00.000-04:00

valentine: Lars and Lori: VALENTINE is pleased to present new work by Lori Ellison and Lars Swan.

P lease join us for the opening on September 9t...

complaint to God

2011-08-23T20:19:00.001-04:00

Today we learned that Lori has cancer. About an hour later there was an
earthquake. The ground feels very unstable today.

Class War game

2011-08-07T10:20:00.001-04:00

2. The rules of the game are written by the winner.

2011-08-07T09:29:00.003-04:00

Interrogate the Darkness (A Future Guilt)

2011-07-13T23:52:00.000-04:00

2011-07-06T17:20:00.003-04:00

gouache on canvas board

2011-06-30T05:49:00.002-04:00

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2011-06-11T12:57:00.002-04:00

Study for something

2011-06-09T18:48:00.001-04:00

Social revolution in Social Media art? Barbara Pollack writes about the a show I was in last year in an article in Art News. I'm not mentioned, but I'm in good company. Nice pictures of Hrag and An, Man Bartlett, and Jen Dalton's piece.The true story is in my videos, of course http://www.youtube.com/user/newcleanwars?feature=mhee#p/u/4/CwSnbJ7QJDA

2011-06-05T06:04:00.002-04:00

2011-05-29T10:59:00.002-04:00

2011-05-25T14:03:00.003-04:00

2011-05-23T13:56:00.000-04:00

2011-05-21T19:58:00.000-04:00

2011-05-20T10:39:00.001-04:00

2011-05-19T13:13:00.003-04:00

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2011-05-18T16:03:00.001-04:00

May 1, 2011

2011-05-07T09:10:00.001-04:00

Osama Bin Laden is dead
they shot him in the head

They flew a copter to his place
and blew off half his face

He was the leader of Al Qaeda
now he looks like a smashed tomata

2011-05-02T09:05:00.001-04:00

I think bin Laden stated that the purpose of the attack was to lure the US into a war in Afghanistan. The war in Iraq was a bonus. If any "closure," whatever that means, is possible, it would include ending those wars. I'm not rejoicing Osama bin Laden's death, but I'm not mourning, either.

2011-04-17T08:53:00.002-04:00

2011-04-16T20:58:00.005-04:00

2011-04-13T22:21:00.001-04:00

sketch

2011-04-13T21:27:00.003-04:00

house of god

2011-04-13T12:51:00.002-04:00

sketch for star

2011-04-12T14:31:00.001-04:00

Folded triangle. Cardboard, about 91/2 inches wide.

2011-04-11T09:40:00.000-04:00

2011-04-03T14:57:00.003-04:00

yellow octangle

2011-03-30T11:05:00.002-04:00

2011-03-28T14:42:00.003-04:00

Ink on primed canvas.

2011-03-28T14:40:00.003-04:00

Don Juan in Heck.