Which Way Is the Front Line From Here


This weekend I watched the emotional HBO Documentary by Sebastian Junger  about the late Tim Hetherington who was his partner in making the academy award nominated documentary Restrepo.  I can not adequately express how beautiful, raw and inspiring Which Way Is the Front Line From Here- Life and Time of Tim Hethertington  is and if you aren’t familiar with the work of photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who died in Syria on assignment, I strongly urge you to watch this film. It reveals a man who wasn’t just a documenter, but a humanitarian, on a quest to create a bridge from man to man, story to truth. _65350877_hetherington_hbo

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Tim Hetherington, Untitled, Liberia, 2005

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Tim Hetherington, Untitled, 1999–2003
From the series Inner Light: Portraits of the Blind, Sierra Leone 1999-2003.

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Tim Hetherington, Untitled, Liberia, 2003

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Tim Hetherington, Murphy Sleeping, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008

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Tim Hetherington, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008

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Tim Hetherington, Man’s Eden, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008 
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 Tim Hetherington’s last photograph. Taken April 20, 2011, in Misrata, Libya.
Check out more of Tim Hetherington’s work HERE & Watch the trailer for the documentary below.
I have no desire to be a kind of war firefighter flying from war zone to war zone. I have no … really I don’t really care about photography. I have no interest in photography per se. I’m interested in reaching people with ideas and engaging them with views of the world. - Tim Hetherington

Wonder Pop


I was terribly sick all last week so when on Friday I finally started feeling like myself again, I headed straight to the Met for Friday Late Nights. With no agenda but to spend some time with art and civilization, I stumbled into a William Eggleston exhibition that I didn’t know about. Although I have no idea how I hadn’t heard about it sooner (seeing how he is my favorite color photographer and all), it was an incredible surprise. After days spent in bed delirious feeling so grey, Eggleston’s vibrant photographs filled my evening with color at last. 

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William Eggleston, Untitled 1973William_Eggleston

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William Eggleston, Scott, Mississippi 1993

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William Eggleston, Untitled from Troubled Waters 1972eggleston_shoes_under_bedWilliam Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee 1972

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William Eggleston, Memphis 1972
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William Eggleston, Untitled 1972

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William Eggleston, Memphis 1970guide_jWilliam Eggleston, Downtown Morton, Mississippi 1969

The way I have always looked at it is the world is in color. And there’s nothing we can do about that.William Eggleston

ALSO BE SURE TO ENTER BY APRIL 19 TO WIN MY APRIL GIVEAWAY BY TELLING ME YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST OR PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE COMMENT SECTION HERE!

An April Giveaway!


The past couple months I’ve received quite the spike in readers so I decided to put a little something special together as a way to say Thank You to all the *new & veteran* readers out there. I am  so happy you are here!  I want to learn more about the kind of work ya’ll love looking at, so for the first time ever.. I am introducing… 
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peace and paradise.


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Michael Lundgren, Untitled from Transfigurations 

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Michael Lundgren, Untitled from Transfigurations 

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Michael Lundgren, Untitled from Transfigurations 

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. Jack Kerouac

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I am looking forward to hearing Jen Davis give an artist lecture tonight at ICP. 


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Jen Davis, Obstruction 2002

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Jen Davis, Ethereal 2003

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Jen Davis, Untitled No. 36 2010

Jen Davis’s Artist Website Here. 

 

 

 

all of the lights.


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James Welling, 0870, 2009 from Glass House SeriesJames Welling

James Welling, 8067, 2008 from Glass House Series
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James Welling, 0775, 2006 from Glass House Series

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James Welling, 4531, 2007 from Glass House Series

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James Welling, 6236, 2008 from Glass House Series
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James Welling, 0818, 2006 from Glass House Series

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James Welling, 6063, 2008  from Glass House Series

James Welling’s Artist Website Here

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Yes, We’re Sinking: A Post-It Remix by HITrecord.


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Cindy Sherman on the cover of Garage, Spring/Summer 2013. Source. allen highline
Allen Rupersberg, You & Me 2013 @ the Highline till Feb. 28. Source. 

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Mel Bochner, Quotation Piece: There is a Labyrinth 1971 Artist Website Here. 

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Carlos Amorales, Black Clouds 2012 @ El Paso Art Museum,  but currently on view at Phoenix Art Museum. 
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Number 67 on this list of 100 museums to visit before you die. tumblr_mhrzjzjNTQ1qbaxzvo1_500source.

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lovely cat eye vintage glasses. Purchase. 

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Mark Hartman, Untitled 2012. Artist Website Here. Yoko Ono

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& the best super bowl ad goes too..(not only incredible photography but a beautiful message minus the whole buy our truck thing.) Read about it HERE.

Global Grove


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Nam June Paik, ElectroSymbio-Phonics for Phoenix, 1992. On view at the Phoenix Art Museum.

The moment I first saw  Nam June Paik’s, ElectroSymbio-Phonics at the Phoenix Art Museum and learned that it was originally commissioned and installed in the Phoenix Sun’s Arena.. I instantly fell in love with the pioneer of video art.  I am very eager to get myself over to Washington D.C. to experience the Smithsonian’s monumental exhibition, Nam June Paik: Global Visionary. The Smithsonian has on view over 140 of Paik’s most pivotal works, from their newly acquired Nam June Paik Archive, as well as borrowed works from public and private collections. It looks like a substantially impressive exhibition and I look forward to experiencing it.

Check out a photo gallery & review Here & if your in the area go see it before it closes August 11.

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top: Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S. 1995   bottom: Nam June Paik, TV Garden 1974-2000. [photo credit: Chang W.Lee/NYTs]

Also, check out the Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer an invention that Paik claimed..

will enable us to shape the TV screen canvas
as precisely as Leonardo
as freely as Picasso
as colorfully as Renoir
as profoundly as Mondrian
as violently as Pollock
and as lyrically as Jasper Johns.

look out, see in.


A year ago, I could never  have dreamed where I would be sitting today.. it just proves that if you make positive changes and believe in yourself, anything can happen.  Today is for reflection & contemplation, tomorrow for renewal, second chances and great beginnings.  

[Here's some blog highlights from 2012]

Favorite exhibitions of 2012: 

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Maurizo Cattelan: All @ the Guggenheim (My Post HERE.)

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Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective @ the Tate Modern & The Whitney.

(My Post on Both Exhibitions HERE, HERE,  HERE +HERE )

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Glen Ligon: America Retrospective seen @ The Fort Worth Modern. (My post HERE)

Places traveled in 2012. 

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Paris, France: Me in front of the Louvre and the clock inside the Musee Orsay

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London and Oxford: My message on the wall in front of Abbey Road Studios and the tree of Christ Church College, Oxford

 (Post HERE.)

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Brazil: Louise Bourgeois, Spider 1996 @ the MAM in Sao Paulo and a Self-Portrait @ a Sao Paulo Gallery.  (Post HERE.)

Favorite art seen in  2012:

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Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs 1965 @ the Centre Pompidou & John Chamberlain, Frostydickfantasy 2008 @ the Seagram Building. (Post HERE.)

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Christain Marclay, The Clock 2010 @ The Lincoln Center & Wall of Text from SMoCA’s “This is  Present from a Small Distant World.” (Post HERE.)

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Self Portrait- Through Tomas Saraceno, Cloud City on the roof of the Met & Stefan Sagmeister, Happiness Instructional Card Dispenser, 2012 @ the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (Post HEREHERE)

Top Posts:

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1. Oh, It’s a Rock. (Post HERE.) 2. The New Aesthetic (Post HERE.)  3. The Canon. (Post HERE.)

Other Highlights:

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I worked on Matthew Moore’s solo exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum and got my name published in a book for the first time. 

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I welcomed my brother home from the war. (Post HERE.)

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I enjoyed watching The Artist is Present: Marina Abramovic and Gregory Crewdon:  Brief Encounters. (Post HERE.)

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I moved from Arizona to Texas then on to New York City. 

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I started Graduate School and spent most of my days inside a library. 

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& most importantly, I have continued to do what makes me happiest, capturing and exploring the world through my camera lens. (More Posts HERE.)

I just want to say Thank You to those who read. 2012 was the best yet here @ thedreambeing. As I begin my third year of publishing this site I know it is only going to be another promising year full of art, adventures and dreaming big. Cheers!

 

Frankenstorm


I received a text this morning from a dear friend wondering if I was alright.. “because you aren’t blogging.”  This made me smile, because my friends realize how important this blog is to me,  even in the midst of a massive natural disaster. I survived my first hurricane, though my apartment didn’t fare so well. My buildings first floor is completely flooded and we won’t have power for a week. For now I am crashing on friends couches. I am lucky though because there are so many people up here who have it much, much worse. I plan on taking advantage of this extra break from school and my friends HBO but I can’t wait till I am back to my own computer and can share with ya’ll my trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil last week. Until then.. 

Jennifer Johnson, Abandoned Couch 2008 artistwebsite.

Abandoned Couches, 2009 found on flickr here. 

Waltar, 132 North Avenue 56, Highland Park 2008 moreimages.