Installation - Things of my life

Currently, I have an installation up at a friend's office. It is titled 'Things of my life' and is a mish-mash of photographs and different things that I've collected from each of the countries in which I've lived (USA, Australia, Japan, England, & México). If you would like to visit drop me an email and we can arrange something. There will be another 'party' at the office in a week or two, so stay in touch.

Basketball

Every once in a while, on a Saturday morning, I find myself in the Palo Solo pueblito of México City to play basketball. It is an interesting experience to say the least...

Morrisey Concert

Morrissey recently came to México City to give a concert. He sang mostly newer songs, but the bravado and charisma were ever present. It must be an amazing feeling to come to a country like México, which is so far removed from England, and have every one singing along with you! I really enjoyed myself - as did the 10.000 or so others. (I´m including the cups of Coke as México is the number 1 consumer of the high fructose corn syrup drink and was recently named the 2nd fattest country in the world.)

Movies and future posts

The cinema is a magical place. Somewhere whereI can envelope myself in a story and think through a visual medium.

I've recently seen three productions, two of which involve a Méxican touch. The first was the movie Babel (Méxican director, set, actors): I imagine much has been written about this film in the 'blogosphere' (an interesting term in itself), so I'll just mention that it has interesting stories of people in situations where cultural differences are at the forefront of their interactions. The next movie I saw was Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry and starring Gael Garcia Bernal (Méxican-and is on at least five or six covers here in México at the moment). This film showed me the importance of the setting - anybody have a plane ticket to Paris for me and my girlfriend? Lastly, I saw The Departed. This film provided me with enough images of death to last until the new year. I think it added about 100 (maybe more) images of people being shot, tortured, beaten, to my lifetime total of probably over 100,000 seen on the t.v. or silver screen.

In a request to all: I've been doing this blog for a few months now and I have grown attached to it. If you are reading this and you are not me, please leave comment on this post or drop me a line at info {@} jeremyclouser.com and tell me what you think of it.

In the next week or so I will be posting images of a basketball game on a court overlooking makeshift concrete housing next to luxury highrises, images from an exhibtion/installation that I have up at the moment at a friend's architectual office and a report/musings/image(s) from a Morrissey concert that I recently went to. Stay Tuned!

Recent Digital Snaps From D.F.

These are some digital photos taken throughout México City other the past month or so. As you can see I'm fascinated by the urban conversation that is graffiti and stenciling.

Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm Sasnal is one of my favourite artists. I came across his work while I was living in London. His work is to me a mix of playfulness and erudite comment; something that is extremely difficult to do well. His paintings are well out of my price range, but I hope to one day be able to hang one in my house.