October.31.2008 Looking At The Pacific Coast From a Road in Baja California



This image is taken from the Pacific Coast road in Baja California. It's an amazing landscape, the desert literally runs into the Pacific Ocean.

October.31.2008 Photographs of Tasmania & New South Wales, Australia


I am Australian, as my passport tells me. I don't live there though and there are long stretches of time in between my visits - like many Australians that have flung themselves around the world. However, the landscape is distinctive and unforgettable and my memory reminds me that the light is thin and casts everything in a quite contrasting glow. Growing up in 1980s Tasmania leaves a lastly impression on a bloke.

October.20.2008 From the archives of a renovation

October.20.2008 Andrew Rose Liminal @ The Nu'uanu Gallery



21.10.2008 - 26.11.2008 at the Nu'uanu Gallery in Honululu, HI
Liminal aims to communicate the sense we all often feel of being on the indistinct edge of greater understanding through an allegorically layered visual vocabulary Rose developed while he hiked distant deserts and dense rainforests and surfed lonely coasts and crowded breaks. Rose's subject matter of oceans, shores, clouds, and rain are relative to his water-based materials including gouache, acrylic, and water-color inasmuch as the content is manifested by itself to talk about itself: the subject of water is rendered in water-based media and manipulated to look beautifully fluid, wet, submerged, and misty.

I'm on the rojo magazine mailing list and this came today and I thought it very pleasant.

October.14.2008 Carla Altesor


Here is the invitation for Carla Altesor's next exhibition. If you like subtlety and detail and if you happen to be in Puebla go and check it out.

October.13.2008 A Weekend in Oaxaca











I just spent a weekend in Oaxaca attending the wedding of some friends. Here are some photographs of some things I saw. More to come as the editing process proceeds. Maybe a zine will be produced!

October.6.2008 Book Cover Design



This is a selection of book covers that recently grabbed my attention. They have that thing that only time can give: Patina.

October.1.2008 An Interesting Article About the Mexico City Art Scene


Pablo Vargas Lugo Algunos Eclipses, 2008, Collage on Cardboard, 194 x 136 cm Image courtesy of OMR

Here is a link to an interesting article about one LA critic's whirlwind experience with the Mexico City art scene. Click here.

(If I ever get around to doing that PHD (too many things do to in the meantime) it is going to be about how people 'learn' a new city and how their previous perceptions match their actual experience and how they then carve out paths and individual maps of a city based on their personality and the things that they like. This article is an example of the type of investigation I would do.)

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