We’re having a baby! But not just any baby, our baby and it’s a boy. So, we’re calling upon the internet to name our child. Give us all the names you’re not hording for yourselves, but you think are worthy enough to bestow upon our first-born. For now, we’re just calling this little fetus Ted after Ted Nugent. We have absolutely no intention of calling him Ted once he’s breathing air. Ted is a name for stoners, drunks, and men who wear loin cloths - not our boy. So let fly with your Rogers, your Bruces, and your Irwins and we’ll sift through to find the wheat amongst your chaff.

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Might I suggest that they toss in “Britney,” “American Idol,” and “Boobs” if they really want to crank things up a notch?

www.galleryuccs.org.

Most of my writing takes place over there now.

Once I get some time (ha!) this site will be morphing into something else. In the meanwhile, I’ll throw a little something at the Movable Walls every now and again to see what sticks.

A young woman in on of my classes was a good artist, but a mediocre student. She had a tendency toward sporadic attendance and had missed one Friday morning class, returning to school on Monday with apologies for her absence. She began, "I'm sorry I missed class on Friday. I had Anthrax."

I began to think, "Where would she get Anthrax?," "When is she going to tell me the punchline?," and "Is this that 24 hour Anthrax bug that can be remedied with some Nyquil® and good night's rest?"

She then followed that up with a tale of working her waitressing job that Friday night (obviously a quick recovery) where she was picked up by Jim Jarmusch and whisked away to a strip club, where Jim spent the night sucking on cigarettes and contemptuously exhaling streams of smoke while seething, "Corporate strippers."

It's too bad she didn't try to pass that off as a performance. She may have received a better grade in the class.

Move aside Jeff Bezos! I am the god of Amazon! Overnight me a JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank or I shall smite thee mightily!

Since May 2004, the Lab has been bouncing around available store fronts in Belmar with an occasional locally-based show and some innovative programming. Series range from lectures on contemporary art based on discussions with Adam’s Aunt Miriam, to The School of Music Reform in which guest lecturers take different approaches to make the music of contemporary reformers accessible. I am particularly fond of the barbershop quartet singing Björk.

My favorite series is Mixed Taste where “there are two speakers. The first speaks for a half hour on one subject (e.g. T. S. Eliot). They tag. The second speaker discusses a completely unrelated subject (e.g. fresh meat sausage) for the next half hour. Then, there are questions and answers of both at the same time. During the initial talks, the speakers are not allowed to make connections between subjects. During question-and-answer, anything can happen.” What is great is not just that this is programming I would enjoy attending, it’s that a lot of people enjoy attending these lectures. According to Adam, they had to start putting a cap on the number of attendees because they were getting too many people showing up. And it’s not just amazing that people like attending the lectures, it’s that they pay and the Lab has had to implement a cap. For arts programming not located in a major art hub, that is pretty impressive.

Starting September 16, 2006, The Lab will open the doors of its new building designed by Hagy Belzberg of Belzberg Architects of Santa Monica. This will also be the opening day of its inaugural exhibition: Isaac Julienâ??s film installation Fantôme Afrique, co-commissioned with the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Ellipse Foundation in Portugal.

The greater Denver area seems to be experiencing a bit of an arts renaissance lately. Not only will the Lab be opening this year, but there is the new Daniel Liebeskind-designed wing of the Denver Art Museum scheduled to open in October of 2006; the Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver will be erecting a new museum designed by David Adjaye; the Clyfford Still Museum will open its doors in 2009 to house the estate of the abstract expressionist; and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is in the middle of an expansion/renovation and has opened the FAC Modern. Now all it needs it part of the Art Basel franchise to set up camp in Aspen. Who do we talk to about that?

So, I have become a seasoned internet scout. I am on numerous mailing lists, my RSS feeds and podcast subscribtions are legion, and I have become a decent student of how institutions and individuals try to connect to the rest of the world. Specifically I try to pay attention to how museums and galleries promote their exhibitions and programming. There are a handful of institutions that I feel are doing nice things to shake up the traditional notion of how an art institution is supposed to act on the web.

• The Walker Art Center
  • I have long been a fan of the Walker’s attention to the needs of its audience. Their curatorial work, programming, and visiting lecturers have been a great boon to the Minneapolis area for years. Yet, they have always been distinctly aware of their influence outside of the frozen tundra of Minnesota. They now have regularly updated blogs discussing exhibitions, ideas, and events. In addition to their podcasts and archived lectures (most of these are poorly recorded, but informative), they also offer the option of calling up information on your cell phone where you can listen to Jasper Johns, Sarah Sze, or Kara Walker discuss their work. You may then pretend to have a conversation with them to impress your friends. “So, Kara, how are you? Yeah, I’m doing great. I’m here with some friends looking at your piece. Could you tell them a little bit about it? Great. You’re the best!” You then hand the phone to your friend.
• The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts / Contemporary Museum St. Louis
  • These two institutions share the same roof, some of the same ideologies, and a blog. I like their blog because the whole staff contributes (save the janitors, however, I think they should let the janitors blog). It helps to make transparent the inner-workings of a quality museum. If you do find yourself visiting the Pulitzer Foundation, be prepared for no wall text (I really like that), and creepy guards disguised as art students who silently follow you around (I don’t like that).
• Mixed Greens Gallery
  • I think that Mixed Greens is one of the few NYC galleries that tries to step out of the footprint of how NYC galleries typically act. They publish their own online magazine, blog, and allow you to create your own online collection of art.
• The Drama
  • According to their site “The Drama magazine is published four times a year and strives to provide an honest and considerate perspective on the ever-evolving world of contemporary art.” So technically they aren’t a museum or gallery, but I like what they’re doing. They are a DIY art publisher, putting out their friends’ work. I think my favorite (from what I’ve seen which is not much) is the Branch Gallery Coloring Book. Brilliant.

There are a number of others that I hope to highlight a little later. But right now, I’ve got to get my house in sellable condition. We’re moving to Colorado! Yee-haw!

YARD SALE, a short documentary from my friend Brad Barber, will have its Los Angeles premiere at the DGA theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday April 18th at 7:30pm. So for those of you who are in LA, you can't pass it up because admission is free. It is being shown as part of the USC First Look program. Call ahead for reservations: 213-740-1153.

A second screening will be held at the Norris Cinema Theatre on USC campus on Saturday, April 22nd, 11:00am.

For more details, visit the YARD SALE website.

This will be the last New Music Friday I’ll be doing on this site. Calm down, calm down, both of you. I know that you, as my faithful readers, will forge ahead and find your way through the blossoming musical landscape without me as your trusty guide. Why, if you just turn around, chances are your hipster neighbor just started up his own MP3 blog yesterday and he can easily fill my shoes. Besides, I just started doing this as a fluke and for fun. I’d much rather refocus myself on making art. So the two of you who were coming to the site for a few choice tunes will now have to turn to one of the thousands of other sites out there offering the same thing. But first, on to the music!

The Red Bennies have been kicking around the Salt Lake Valley for the last decade. Starting off as a mëtälësqüe band, they eventually morphed into the Foreigner/James Chance/garage band that they now are. With Dave Payne (son of Marvin Payne of “Saturday’s Warrior” fame, for all your Mormons out there) as their fearless leader they have crafted some tunes that I can get behind. Their earlier music reminded me of the disaffected youth band I saw playing next to the Lutheran church at the Corn Festival in Mitchell, SD. Now Red Bennies are producing music that has the comfortable nostalgia of early Police, Journey, and the Sex Pistols while still laying claim to their own sound. It took some time, but it was worth it

Recommended Tracks:

• I’m Coming Home
• Rocks in Your Mouth
• Shake It Off (New Years Concert)
• The Sun’s Going Down
• Downtown
• There are also scads of other Red Bennies downloads at Rest 30 Records.

Alright, I had my skeptical moments. Time after time I used Blingo to search and never did I feel a sliver of luck. But today I won! Yesseree, I won a $10 iTunes gift certificate.

I would like to thank Josh for introducing me to Blingo (but since he won an accompanying iTunes certificate, that should be thanks enough). If you haven't signed up for Blingo yet, search results and prizes await. If you sign up as my friend and win something, then I win something too. It's symbiotic.

In 1978, a small band was emerging from a Madrid high school. Influenced by the robo-synth sounds of Devo, Alex y Los Drugos (a.k.a. Holoplástico) created manifesto driven organ music. They later settled on the name El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados, suited up with safety suits and googles, and polished up their best robot dance moves to take the Spanish synth-pop scene by storm.

El Aviador Dro underwent a number of personnel changes over the years, but they are still alive and kicking today. Next week, Omega Point Records will release El Aviador Dro’s first official album in the US, ¡Eléctrico! - The Best of Aviador Dro 1978-2006.

Recommended Tracks:

• Nuclear Si
• Amor Industrial
• Vivir Para Morir (Live)
• Laser (Quicktime Movie / 40MB)

Matt and Bubba Kadan, founding members of Bedhead, didn’t take the disbanding of their seminal band lying down. They got up and formed The New Year with Chris Brokaw (Codeine) on drums, Mike Donofrio (Saturnine) on bass, and Peter Schmidt on guitar. They took some of the tunes they planned on using for the next Bedhead record that would never be, and headed to the studio.

The result is a couple of records that bear a few songs that are a bit more upbeat than what you would expect from members of Bedhead and Codeine. Oh, the trademark snooze-core is still there — the vocals are still bored and the music plods, but in a good way. These guys have honed prescription drug induced daydreaming and messy morning hair rock to a fuzzy-around-the-edges-and-drool-on-the-pillow point.

Recommended Tracks:

• Chinese Handcuffs
• Disease
• Gasoline
• Reconstruction
• Newness Ends
• Great Expectations / Live in San Francisco
• More listening at MySpace.com

In his decision, judge Louis L. Stanton of U.S. District Court found that Niagara was indeed a "transformative use" of Blanch's photograph. "The paintingâ??s use does not 'supersede' or duplicate the objective of the original," the judge wrote, "but uses it as raw material in a novel way to create new information, new esthetics and new insights. Such use, whether successful or not artistically, is transformative."

[. . .]

Blanch, a 20-year veteran of the photo world -- she started out as an assistant for Richard Avedon, and in 1998 published Italian Men: Love & Sex, a book of interviews and photographs -- told Artnet News that she had discovered Koonsâ?? use of her image by accident, during a visit to his 2002 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. "At first I was flattered," she said. She soon came to a different conclusion after thinking about the situation. "I really believe that if the person is living, you have to ask permission!"

I just don't know that I agree with Blanch's assertion that if I'm going to use a source material from someone living, that I need to send them a note to make sure it's OK. As long as I'm not forging an artist's work as my own, I see it as fair use of the public domain. I'm inclined to side with the judge who stated that if a work is used "in a novel way to create new information, new esthetics and new insights. Such use, whether successful or not artistically, is transformative." This could, of course, raise the corpse of the discussion on Nike appropriating Minor Threat's album cover for their skate tour. However, in that case, I don't see Nike as trying to create a new esthetic or insight; only usurping the existing esthetic and information for their purposes.

I feel as though the grey area didn't shrink so much as it just shifted a bit in its seat.

I first heard Young People on a college radio station in Chicago a couple of years ago. I don’t recall if the band was playing live in the studio or not. I just remember turning to my wife and commenting how the singer sounded like a really bad Erin McKeown. I then stumbled upon Young People later and became enamored with that same bad Erin McKeown voice. Sadly nothing new has emerged from the bi-coastal trio in the last few years.

The three members come from experimental music and dance backgrounds. When they first got together in L.A., they fully-intended to be a country band, but that schema was quickly reformatted when they realized that something else was coming out of them. That something was good. Still retaining some country flavor, there was a less-structured element that prevailed in their songs. Distorted dirge-like hymns and tumbling Appalachian ditties are the result.

Recommended Listening:

• Ne’er Do Well
• El Paso
• Ron Jeremy
• Collection

Update 01.30.06: According to the Too Pure website Young People has paired down to a duo and is ready to release some new material. “The first Too Pure release for this year is brought to you by new signing Young People. The six track EP Five Sunsets In Four Days is available from January 30 from good record stores and of course, our very own Too Pure Shop (which is obviously also a good record store)… The impending album All At Once is due for release in March.

My friend Brad Barber's documentary short entitled Yard Sale will be premiering in competition at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, UT this weekend. Since I designed the documentary's site for him (which I just finished a few days ago), he sent me an advance copy so I could see what the film was about.

It's a nice little piece. However, I am biased since I'm his friend and I love yard sales. I recommend checking it out if you're bumming around Park City during this next week. You can also view the trailer on the site.

Struggling to shed excessive sentimental mementos while preserving family history, the filmmaker considers broader issues of attachment, home movies, and first-time fatherhood. By exploring the eclectic, bizarre collage of discarded family belongings at yard sales, he attempts to clarify what's really worth holding on to.

Screenings will be held:

• Sunday January 22, 2006 at 5:00 pm
• Wednesday January 25, 2006 at 3:30pm.

All screenings will be paired with the documentary Forgiving Dr. Mengele and will take place at:

Treasure Mountain Inn (TMI)
255 Main Street
Park City, Utah 84060

• www.slamdance.com
• www.yardsalemovie.org