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The first event that we planned over at The Adventure School got a full page spread in a magazine that dropped yesterday. See our feature inSeattle Metropolitan Magazine

Arcosanti meets Neon factory meets Identity White Cube

Oh, yeah. One more thing. I sort of think that Ratio 3 in San Francisco is my American identity gallery. They were really killing it at NADA this year. Get yer click on if you like fresh contemporary art. I'd never even heard of it before. Big oversight. I'll have to swing by there pretty soon. Their NADA booth was repping the ultra poignant NEON color schema really hard. In particular, I wish I could have taken home a piece by Jonathan Runcio. His pieces of acrylic folded up like so many discarded manuscript pages and screenprinted with magickal colours made me want to live a little longer and a little harder and a little more. The Takeshi Murata video was basicallly breaking my mind with its sheer insane delightfulness. Ben Peterson was getting all Paolo Soleri chic on me and who don't love that wacky architectural dreamweaver/bastard? Also, people still make stripe paintings here in 2006 and . . . THEY STILL LOOOOOK GOOD! Killing it! Thanks Ratio 3 for being around. Also, I guess they rep Ryan McGinley, so I guess maybe I've really been sleeping on this gallery. I don't know. Have any of you actually been there? I guess it's on the corner of 21st and Guerrero in the Mission.Ratio 3: bringing vastness to the mind

Boricua

just some things to mull over

Mad jocking? Disseminate every shade?

Whoa, dude. I'm totally jocking paperrad/ben jones sweet YouTube action right now. But if you're not nerdy enough to look this shit up, whose gonna do it for you except me? So pay attention.

noun
jock
Crotch. Being on someone's jock means trying to get involved with someone for his money or his status etc. The best definition can be found on Ice Cube's "Kill at will" in the full version of the song "Get off my dick and tell yo bitch to come here".

verb
jock
To have sexual intercourse. "Everywhere honey go, cats jock me like WHOA!" -- Black Rob featuring Beanie Sigel, Da Brat, G-Dep, Lil' Cease, The Madd Rapper, Petey Pablo, Puff Daddy, Rah Digga, Shyne (Whoa! (Extended Remix)) [1]
To sweat someone.
To bite (copy) someone. "You're jocking my style, MC's stop jockin my style" Craig Mack (Jockin My Style) [2]
To overly adore.

Ellen and Ben!

So Ellen and Ben read my blog! Who knew? So in honor of them I found this experiment with video feedback featuring music by the band Hella on YouTube. Why? Because Ellen is a big fan of the Sacramento noise band Hella. Actually, they are not a noise band. Actually, they should get a new genre name like Drummerama or Drum Kit Explosion or heartattackman music. Just kidding, Merry Christmas. Also, Ben likes the math book, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Band and that book features an illustration on page 490, (Figure 81) of twelve self-engulfing TV screens. So voila. Also, it's weird that this weekend, TWO people mentioned that book just because it was on the shelf. Weird. There was a computational linguist in my room and he really made me want to read it again, this time with heart.

You read this?

My friend Caralee's band has a new Tour photo Book. Looks pretty cool. Also, I just watched The Squid and The Whale on DVD. When I saw it in the theater I thought it was hilarious. A movie about change and awkwardness and love. But today it was so sad, it made me hate all the characters and doubt the humanity of my whole word. What a difference a year makes? But anyways, here is the link to the XIu Xiu tour book. Xiu Xiu photos

I can't believe this exists and I didn't know about it!

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It's only like one hundred of my favorite things all rolled into one. What is this world coming to?

Flaming Mustache

I took this video outside of the New Art Dealer's Alliance Fair at Art Basel Miami Beach earlier this month. Hella rad. There were hammocks all around it for everyone to flop around on. Picturesque!

Merry Mansion-y Solstice Party

THURSDAY

Art Basel Miami Beach

I am at Art Basel Miami Beach, It is off the chain. For reals, our hotel is on the beach just a few blocks from where we saw Peaches on the beach last night. She performed with JD Samson in her band and it was fucking outta sight. The fashion here is amazing. Also, we believe that there are just a few types of people.

Artists
Rich people
Gallerists
Ballers.

More later. Gotta go to the Botanical Gardens video show.