B E S T P R A C T I C E S

Mugs

2012-02-02T00:07:00.000-08:00

Sierpinski Triangle

2012-01-04T19:08:00.000-08:00

Kodak "Learning to Take Better Pictures"

2012-01-03T15:09:00.000-08:00

Untitled (Marijuana #2, with Gradient)

2011-12-23T13:18:00.000-08:00

Untitled (Marijuana #2, with Gradient)
2011

Weedphot

2011-12-18T20:33:00.001-08:00

Weedphot (Variation with Gradient)
2011

Revolving Paint Dream

2011-12-18T20:28:00.001-08:00

Revolving Paint Dream - Off to Heaven
Creation 018 -1987
Drug heavy, schizo pop-psych rarely discussed masterpiece

Upper Astral

2011-12-11T11:23:00.001-08:00

Upper Astral - Journey to the Edge of the Universe

Videos by VHS Dreams

2011-12-11T11:17:00.000-08:00

Selva Oscura - Breeze

Teams & AyGeeTee - Peace Corps of Mind

Jaws

2011-12-08T22:34:00.000-08:00

Jersey Shore

2011-12-08T14:23:00.001-08:00

Jersey Shore (Barnegat Light)
2011

Sun Araw

2011-12-07T22:23:00.000-08:00

Sun Araw
Live @ the Mahasukha Center
Culver City, Ca
Nov 19 2011

Sneaky Snake

2011-12-07T22:13:00.000-08:00

Live in Jawbone Canyon
October 2011

Vessels (Photographic)

2011-12-06T17:16:00.000-08:00

Vessels (Photographic)

2011

Tom Hall

2011-12-06T15:23:00.000-08:00

from Live @ Sonoptik Presents at the Mahasukha Center, Los Angeles CA
Nov 19, 2011
w/ Sneaky Snake & Sun Araw

Wallpaper #1 (Marijuana)

2011-12-05T22:08:00.001-08:00

Wallpaper #1 (Marijuana)
2011

Sculpture in Reverse

2011-12-05T20:48:00.001-08:00

Sculpture in Reverse

2010

Test Image (Llama)

2011-12-01T17:25:00.001-08:00

Test Image (Llama)
2010

Duppy Gun Productions

2011-12-01T13:47:00.000-08:00

DUPPY GUN PROD. FOUNDED BY C. STALLONES/M.G. GENGRAS IN PORTMORE, JA AND LOS ANGELES, CA, OUTER ORBIT DANCEHALL SELECTIONS

DPY001 FEATURES DAYONE "MULTIPLY" / EARLY ONE "EARTH" + VERSIONS
on 45RPM 12"

DPY001 INCLUDES EITHER DAYONE OR EARLY ONE OVERSIZE NEWSPRINT POSTER

MASTERED, CUT, AND PRESSED AT CAPSULE LABS, LA

"ANOTHER BULLET FROM THE DUPPY GUN!"

Order "Here"

2011-11-30T11:07:00.000-08:00

2011-11-29T12:17:00.001-08:00

Antiquity
2011

CRT Monitors

2011-11-29T12:02:00.001-08:00

John Baldessari regarding teaching, Post-Studio and CalArts

2011-11-28T14:32:00.001-08:00

http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/a-situation-where-art-might-happen-john-baldessari-on-calarts

Quartz Pyramid

2011-11-28T14:18:00.000-08:00

Quartz Pyramid
2011

Alcohol Fire Scan

2011-11-19T01:23:00.000-08:00

Alcohol Fire Scan
2011

Valley of the Sun Publishing - Hypnogogic Sound/Vibration Tape

2011-11-17T00:45:00.000-08:00

Valley of the Sun Publishing - Hypnogogic Sound/Vibration Tape

Dieter Schutz - Voyage

2011-11-17T00:18:00.000-08:00

Dieter Schutz - Voyage - Sky Records - 1985

Click the Exotic Nights link below, then find Exotic Nights in the post download

Exotic Nights

Metal Rouge

2011-11-16T17:51:00.000-08:00

Digital Art Conservation

2011-11-14T12:30:00.000-08:00

Robert Rich & Steve Roach - Strata

2011-11-14T11:53:00.001-08:00

Robert Rich & Steve Roach - Strata - 1990

Meandering, beautiful tonal synths with hand drumming.
Thanks SLX for this and Key West.

Steven Cooper - Key West Afternoon

2011-11-14T11:03:00.000-08:00

Steven Cooper - Key West Afternoon - Valley of the Sun - 1986

This whole tape is incredible (and impossible to find).
Anything on Valley of the Sun I've found is amazing. Smooth rhythms, sea noises, synth drums, rolling sequences. It's Key West in the year 2144.

Sneaky Snake "The Sprawl"

2011-11-09T08:59:00.000-08:00

Screen Capture Archive Vol. 1

2011-11-09T00:47:00.000-08:00

Libyan State TV newscaster wields pistol

Path of "Levitated Mass"

Kelly Kline

Production Crew

Bird Shit on the Sidewalk

Heart Shaped Ep

Caitlin Ryan & Joey Jeremiah

110 Camera in Haze

Tree in Haze

Oil Spot

Office

Geneva & Emily

Buns of Steel, 1987

Carrizo Plain

Cat Burrito

Deseret

2011-10-20T20:13:00.000-07:00

Shitty Lamp

2011

2011-08-19T16:43:00.000-07:00

www.ianjamesinternetwebsite.com

there's also sweet slow jams

www.sneakysnake.net
www.anaandina.bandcamp.com

Analogue by Ana & Ina

2011-04-28T23:02:00.001-07:00

Just released.
Analogue by Ana & Ina
produced, mixed, recorded by Ashley Hoffman & Ian James
www.complicateddancesteps.com
http://anaandina.bandcamp.com/

Registration contigent upon Status of Forces Agreement

2010-09-25T16:05:00.000-07:00

Off to the DMV in the coming days, found this gem while digging up the necessary pdf's to download. Fascinating.

What was once Tilted Arc

2010-07-08T14:08:00.000-07:00

Three 40 x 12' slabs of Cor-Ten Steel photographed by McKay-Lodge Art Conservation in April 2008. The three pieces once formed Richard Serra's disavowed work "Titled Arc," which sat at 26 Federal Plaza until March 15, 1989 when it was chopped in three and removed in the night.

The slabs sat in a government-owned Brooklyn parking lot for ten years until they were moved

to a Middle River, MD facility for indefinite storage.

Baldessari's House

2010-07-06T19:27:00.000-07:00

I visited Baldessari's retrospective today at LACMA's BCAM. Surprise! The show is amazing. The 70s-era gallery featured a work whose title escapes me and of which I had never seen before. Five individual framed black and white images documented Baldessari throwing colored panels out of a second story window of his home in Santa Monica.

Unfortunately I can't locate the work on the internet, if I find, I will post, but it made me reminisce about the "Los Angeles Artist Tournament of Homes" that Lisa Ohlweiler and I undertook in 2007. We didn't get as deep into the list as I had intended. Artists in Los Angeles, as it were, are hemispherically divided between East and West LA. As Lisa was working on the Westside at the time, we met for lunch and covered what ground we could before getting jammed in rush hour traffic. Below are some photos.

In front of John Baldessari's Home October 2007

Checking the address for Ed Ruscha's Pacific Palisades spot

Ruscha's house? So says USsearch.com

Hanging out outside Chris Burden's gate. No Trespassing!

Lisa runs from the suddenly opening gate

The gate opens

The gate closes

Chris Burden installed in Topanga Canyon

Calibrate and Calibrate Often!

2010-07-04T11:53:00.000-07:00

Monitor Calibration from ASMP dpBestflow on Vimeo.

SUN ARAW/FOOT VILLAGE/ BLISSED OUT/ RUN DMT

2010-06-09T13:47:00.000-07:00

This Friday @ the former International House of Teepee...
or Landslide...
or that hill in Lincoln Heights...
or my house....

Sun Araw
Foot Village
Blissed Out (NYC)
Run DMT (NYC)

9pm
$5

Just announced.

Friday June 11
2939 Johnston St.
Los Angeles, 90031

Advertising

2010-05-31T01:43:00.001-07:00

p.75

p. 73

Advertisements from Playboy Magazine Nov. 1978

Dump.fm

2010-05-26T13:09:00.000-07:00

Real time image posting. Reminds me of chat forums, though the rapid speed creates a free form associative image scroll.

http://dump.fm/chat

The Western Empire

2010-05-26T12:31:00.000-07:00

Found postcard in Malibu grocery store

Display

2010-05-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

23" Apple Cinema Display w/ Profoto
May 2009

Color Spaces and Color Profiles

2010-05-08T19:21:00.000-07:00

all from dpbestflow.org

Standard PortaJib

2010-05-08T17:39:00.001-07:00

Standard PortaJib assembly video
http://www.porta-jib.com/StandardJibBb.mov
The Narration and the Set to this video are fascinating.
I recently operated a PortaJib with a RED camera and with it came a new depth, at least for me,
of the collapse of motion and still photography.

A Jib is a counterweighted boom device that allows the user to fluidly move the camera from a high to low shot vertically or diagonally. It has a long history in cinematography providing the ability to move the camera on an extended arc without the complications or expense of a crane or dolly (though the jib can be mounted atop a dolly and rolled across track). Camera operation oftentimes must be controlled via remote depending on the jib's operating height, as jib arms can be extended to 15+ feet.

2010-04-29T17:19:00.001-07:00

Rolling Stand (Black Solid,Inc.)

Malibu, CA

2010-04-07T00:30:00.000-07:00

Viewing Hood atop Flat File

Culver City, CA

2010-02-27T14:45:00.002-08:00

Make it bigger and shinier

2010-02-23T23:43:00.000-08:00

Desktop screenshot of various Christopher Williams images screenshot and downloaded from www.davidzwirner.com

2010-02-21T19:52:00.000-08:00

Commercial photography non-select
circa 2007

Photography is Dynamic

2010-01-24T21:20:00.000-08:00

Thanks! If you missed, go to the Curio this Sunday Jan 24th

2010-01-20T11:40:00.000-08:00

Holy shit, the show was awesome. Many thanks to JAWS, Sex Worker, Rhelms, & 11hz Robot for playing. I forgot to take pictures as I was wrestling with a busted mixer all night, but it was seriously rad. If you missed it and want to catch JAWS, Sex Worker, and S.S.P.S, as well as Talibam! and M. Geddes Grengas head to the Echo Curio this Sunday January 24th.

This is Saturday! January 16, 2010

2010-01-12T01:18:00.000-08:00

First show of the new year on the hillside atop loosey goosey Los Angeles.

Sex Worker (sf/not not fun)
S.S.P.S. (member of excepter)
JAWS (excepter collaborator)
+ more to come

Saturday January 16
2939 Johnston St. Los Angeles, CA 90031

9pm

Border Monuments

2010-01-05T18:01:00.000-08:00

Monument 102 Coronado, Arizona

Border Monument Fence (wind)

Monument, Yuma, AZ (dematerialized)

Monument 178 (duped and flipped)

Monument & ATV (121 times)

When the U.S. - Mexico Border was agreed to via peace treaty in 1848, the U.S. government annexed 1/3 of Mexican territory and a border was thus "established" along a largely uninhabited and harsh environment. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and, later, the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 (which ceded the rest of what became Arizona & New Mexico to the U.S.) stipulated that a joint American-Mexican survey group would map this new border from the Playas de Tijuana to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The survey itself is incredible in many ways, but as the survey was conducted, granite obelisks were manufactured in the U.S and Mexico and allayed along the border line (determined via astronomical triangulation).

I first encountered Border Monument #1 @ Playas de Tijuana while working on the Line Drawing project last year. I've had them on my mind ever since as they serve as facet of the shifting interpretation of what constitutes the border and how it is administered. Initially these monuments, as well as lo-fi markers such as piles of rocks, were placed at rivers, river beds, roads/trails, towns and other locations that either exhibited human traffic or were assumed to see it in the future. They served as markers for travelers and armies to inform that an international border was being crossed. On the American side, information in English annotated the border and listed the various treaty signings, dates, and signatories of both sides. The Mexican side listed identical information in Spanish. The initial number constructed was 88, I believe.

As time passed, more markers were needed and the number tripled. As the politics shifted further, fences were constructed (beginning in the 1960s) and linked the monuments together physically as the chainlinks cut around and over the top of the obelisks. As mapping technologies evolved, some monuments were found to be actually in the U.S. or Mexico up to a mile. In recent years, double and triple layer fences often isolate the monuments inaccessibly in between fences.

As part of my digging into these obelisk markers, I've come across geocaching listservs of users posting images of these monuments for all sorts of reasons, from the political to the touristic. I've been manipulating them and making prints and of course interested in their history and changing role throughout the evolving politics of this particular border.

The border monument @ Playas de Tijuana circa 1900
(caged to prevent vandalism)

The same border monument @ Playas today

2009-08-23T19:20:00.000-07:00

Just keep on doing
whatever it is that you're doing

Lens Color Cast Correction

2009-07-08T16:06:00.000-07:00

House exterior (test)
Malibu, CA

Lens Color Cast is an dilemma specific to digital photography. Digital sensors are incredibly flat and are designed to receive light straight on. In the case of ultra wide angle lenses, light reaches the sensor diagonally and creates wild color casts and flares which are incredibly difficult to fix in Photoshop. Thus to the only way to correct is at the time of shooting by utilizing a particular lens filter that is a combination of diffusion and a translucent diamond pattern that evens out the light coming hitting the sensor. This image is saved in capture software as an adjustment setting and then applied to all related images as a set. A new LCC image must be made everytime the camera is moved into a new lighting scenario.

The images generated for the LCC are thus abstract functionaries of a larger endeavor. The LCC images in this set were all generated from an architecture shoot of the ins and outs of a Malibu beachfront home. Each image relates to one particular setup, such as master bedroom, guest bedroom, office, kitchen, outside patio, front exterior, etc.

House exterior (test)

Malibu, CA

House exterior
Malibu, CA

Stairwell #1 (morning light)
Malibu, CA

Bathroom
Malibu, CA

Living Room
Malibu, CA

Back Patio
Malibu, CA

Stairwell #2 (afternoon light)
Malibu, CA

Sitting Room
Malibu, CA

Breakfast Nook
Malibu, CA

Entry Way
Malibu, CA

Kitchen
Malibu, CA

Dining Room
Malibu, CA

Dining Room (close up)
Malibu, CA

Vote!!! For the International Discourse Coloring Contest

2009-07-08T15:32:00.000-07:00

Vote!!!

by number
via comment (link @ bottom of post)
for your TOP 3

or you can email votes to me @ ianmcjames@gmail.com

Voting closes August 15

note: many images were left unsigned, if one is yours or someone you know
let me know!

image courtesy of tryharder.blogspot.com

the rules as posted within the installation

14

15

51

52(front)

52 (back)

53
with salsa...

100

101

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

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About the International Discourse Coloring Contest
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Executed during CalArts' MFA Graduate Exhibition, "Why Theory," June 20-27 2009.

39 Theorists and Critics from the Pre-Modern, Modern, and early Postmodern era who have been influential upon Art and Aesthetic Discourse were rendered to outline portraits.

Hung on the wall, gallery visitors were encouraged to sit at a kid's school table, color and post them to the bulletin board.

Individually sequenced coloring books were assembled for take away and a small boombox played theory texts on cassette tape, as read by "Vicki," an Apple Speech voice simulator.

"The future is we have borders"

2009-05-13T12:18:00.000-07:00

- Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security on the CBC

From Wholphin Issue #3

Debbie Deb// Lookout Weekend

2009-05-06T19:14:00.000-07:00

Debbie Deb's "Lost Weekend" popped up on a random ipod a few weekends ago at our hillside party. The four song ep from '85 is spectacular given her particular sensibilities to vocals paired with instrumentation. It's '80s dance pop of the best psych order. Deb was and still is a hairdresser who still takes the jams on tour every once in awhile. And the cover art.... oh my.

Los Angeles MAY DAY Activities

2009-04-28T12:08:00.001-07:00

THIS DAY LET YOUR WORK BE UNDONE *

CalArts 2009 May Day Program

1. Visiting Artist Panel: Every day May day

Thursday April 30, 7:00 pm in F200
Guest speakers: Harry Gamboa (Artist and CalArts Faculty), Wu Ingrid Tsang (artist and co-founder of Wildness and Imprenta), Delia Herrera (organizer for the Garment Workers' Center), and members of the CalArts Student MayDay Collaboration (see below)

Dinner and wine reception afterwards!

2. Join the CalArts Student May Day Collaboration, May Day DIO (DO IT OURSELVES!)

Say something! Make a sign for the march! Protest Preparations @ Imprenta, Wednesday, April 29th, 6pm
Bring lots of big cardboard, paint, brushes, sticks for holding, and duct tape. 705 S Rampart Blvd, Los Angeles, 90057, 213 382-4207

Meet Friday May 1st from 11:00am to 1:00pm at MacArthur Park (across from Mama's Hot Tamales, 2124 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057), for: DIO protest sign making, Make your own megaphone, Speech Karaoke, Giveaways!

AND THEN MARCH WITH US AT 1PM!

(also starting across from Mama's Hot Tamales)

Contact numbers for May Day and workshops: Carla Herrera-Prats, 212.729.6584; Ashley Hunt, 818.430.9063; Michelle Dizon, 213.265.6128; Jade Thacker, 310.210.9896

*title borrowed from "The Worker's Maypole", by Walter Crane, see below in the May Day Readings and Research List

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Why we think May Day is important:

As you may know, May Day is generally a labor-based holiday, sometimes known as International Workers' Day. It falls on May 1st and, traced back to the mid-19th century, is linked to the struggle for an eight-hour work day, as well as to other workers' struggles. It's meant many things in different places and times since, and in recent years, May Day in the US has increasingly become a day to stage demands for immigrant rights and protesting attacks upon the undocumented. This connection between labor history and immigrant rights was marked most conspicuously by the LAPD attacks on demonstrators, media and bystanders at MacArthur Park on May 1, 2007.
Far from being a coincidence, the growing articulation between labor and immigration raises provocative questions about labor, identity, visibility, freedom of movement, borders and economic and political rights. We could also say that it links class and race in ways that open up their historical implication in one another. Add to this the current crisis of the global financial system, in which labor and migration are bound up, and we can see May Day become an important moment to address, to unpack, to discuss, to speak, to move.
Finally, in Los Angeles, May Day is a major day for organizing and collective demonstration among hundreds of thousands of the city's workers and organizations, for whom these questions are not just matters of political attitude or tendency, but of livelihood, community, fighting against criminalization, exploitation and racism as they impact people's lives in real ways.

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Want to know more? May Day Readings and Research:

Rosa Luxemburg: http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1894/02/may-day.htm

Paris: May 1968 (eye witness account): http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/maya.html

May Day 2007 +: http://www.miwon.org/mayday2007page.html

1968: A Year of Revolution: http://www.marxist.com/1968/

Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, by Arjun Appadurai http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/%7Eholden/MediatedSociety/Readings/2003_04/Appadurai.html

U.N.E.F., Strasbourg, On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy (1966) : http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/4)

T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith, “Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International,” October 79, Winter 1997: http://www.notbored.org/why-art.html

Makenzie Wark, The Hacker Manifesto (on-line): http://www.ludiccrew.org/wark/hackfest/hack_excerpt_2.htm

"The Worker's Maypole" by Walter Crane: http://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/poetry/crane.html

Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON)
http://miwon.org/about_us
http://miwon.org/may_1st_2009

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/02/local/me-mayday2

http://www.struggle.ws/anarchism/writers/ramor/berlinMAYDAY.html

http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/MayDay.html

Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los Angeles: http://www.chirla.org/

1992 LA Rebellion: http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_1_la.html

May Day '02 in Paris: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/world/anti-le-pen-protests-draw-a-million-into-streets-in-france.html

Christmas Decorations// Model 91 & Dino Felipe

2009-04-28T11:06:00.000-07:00

In my post-thesis comedown I've been digging around in a lot of music stuff. I've been obsessed with Dino Felipe's "No Fun Demo," which I'll post soon, but that led me into Nick Forte and into Christmas Decorations. CD's 2002 album "Model 91" has a post-rock feel, but one that's not necessarily icy. The quiet guitar reverberations have been sticking with me for days. I read someone describing it as punk structurally, but ambient in practice. Check it out.

Christmas Decorations-Model 91

more info from kranky:
The exploded view, deadpan pop of Model 91 marked the recorded debut of the Brooklyn, NY duo Christmas Decorations.

Using vocals, guitar, bass guitar, low budget digital sequencers, and melodica Christmas Decorations recorded Model 91 in Spring 2002 with engineer Charles Burst and Mitch Rackin. The 13 tracks veer from claustrophobic to expansive and can be choppy or mesmerizing. Christmas Decorations take a succinct, direct approach to song structure and instrumentation while experimenting with mood and melody.

The band is made up of Steve Silverstein, who has played improv rock under the pseudonym Madam Estrella, written for Tape Op and other fanzines and done free lance recording, and Nick Forte, who was a member of the hardcore band Rorschach, the electro-schizo hardcore band Computer Cougar and Beautiful Skin. Model 91 also features guest vocals by Rob Christiansen (Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers, ex-Eggs and the man who recorded the first Labradford album) and Fender Rhodes Piano by engineer Charles Burst.

And Dino Felipe's "No Fun Demo" here

Throbbing Gristle + Derek Jarman = Terrifying Bliss

2009-04-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

Last night @ the Montalban brains were rearranged as Throbbing Gristle played a live soundtrack to the Derek Jarman super 8 montage film "In the Shadow of the Sun." TG scored the original soundtrack in 1980 and it's amazing and linked below, but the live version accompanied by the big screen was incomparable. After the hour long film ended the lights came up and the band performed a nerve fraying version of "Persuasion" and got the fuck out.

IN the Shadow of the Sun

"Line Drawing (as of March 2, 2009)"/ MFA Thesis Exhibition

2009-04-01T22:08:00.000-07:00

It's happening. My MFA thesis show. More info to come, but if you're in the relative space and have the time....

Line Drawing

(as of March 2, 2009)

An MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 13-17, 2009

Reception April 16/ 9-midnite

D301/ CalArts

24700 McBean Parkway

Valencia, CA 91355

South (Left/ Playas de Tijuana, Mexico D.F.) and North (Right/ Border Field State Park, CA)
Video stills from the video work, "Line Drawing (as of March 2, 2009)
12'00", 2 channel HD Video
March 2009

As installed @ CalArts
April 13-17, 2009

2009-02-10T01:28:00.001-08:00

Academic Art
January 2009

City
January 2009

2009-02-06T15:18:00.001-08:00

How an Epson v750 scanner reads a blank sheet of film
January 2009

2008-12-19T19:48:00.000-08:00

i miss the summer

Energy Transfer Device

2008-12-17T17:46:00.000-08:00

Energy Transfer Device
Edited digital video documentation of a mixed media sculpture
box fans, zip ties, metal clips, nylon rope, extension cords, wood, repeat cycle timer, power strip
October 2008

Four Chinese-made Lasko-brand box fans purchased from Bed Bath & Beyond.com, bound in compass formation. The work is suspended by nylon rope and it's power conduit, an extension cord.

When activated, the fan blades draw air in, and through each other, causing the work to spin. The resulting circular wind pattern generates no wind, but charges the rope and extension cord with kinetic energy due to increasing tension. This tension eventually becomes too great for the fans to overcome and the work reaches stasis, at which point a repeat cycle timer cuts the power and the work spins backwards until all the rope & cord energy is released. The timer restarts the process a few minutes later.

Due to the stress upon the extension cord, the cord degrades and fails during the course of a day and must be replaced.

This work and its materials were procured, assembled, exhibited, documented, disassembled and returned during October 2008.

As installed at the CalArts MFA Mid-Residency Exhibition
October 24, 2008

2008-11-25T19:56:00.000-08:00

I was there because I was afraid, I moved the camera because I didn't want to miss it
Minuteman II ICBM test
Vandenberg AFB

August 2008

Found sky image
August 2008

Found youtube video of earlier Minuteman test launch

Nite Jewel

2008-11-13T15:12:00.000-08:00

Nite Jewel's video for "Artificial Intelligence"
by Travis Peterson
Keep your eye out for dayglo projectiles

ps. Nite Jewel is on tour with Deerhunter & Times New Viking starting this Friday

Obstruction #4 (Prism)

2008-11-10T11:54:00.001-08:00

Obstruction #4 (Prism)
September 2008

Roll

2008-11-07T14:18:00.000-08:00

Border work

2008-11-05T22:34:00.000-08:00

2008-10-12T13:55:00.000-07:00

Yes, Charlie
August, 2008

Untitled, or Not Yet w/ pc speakers
October, 2008

Crapi Apartments
Overland Blvd.
October, 2008

2008-09-11T00:12:00.000-07:00

M.G's Cooler

More new work

2008-09-02T11:12:00.000-07:00

Magenta Pop

Red & Green

Carpet Sample

Memory

Frame

Much thanks to Laurence at L O Z for posting my work. She has a great blog, by the way, check it out.

Six Eye & Light Failure

2008-08-07T12:24:00.000-07:00

Six Eye
July 2008

Light Failure
July 2008

Summersville

2008-07-02T13:28:00.000-07:00

my apologies for the long break in posting. Here's some older work I've been sifting. I'll also be keeping a more standard work archive through an uber page: http://ianjazzyjames.uber.com

Studio installation
March 2008

Wind Gust I

March, 2008

Wind Gust II

March 2008

Dry Lake Installation
March 2008

For Richard
March 2008

A Metaphor for a Land Form Constructed from a Variety of Photographic Papers Exposed to Ambient Light and Processed

April 2008

Images from the Products work

Monument
January 2008

Lighter
January 2008

Ticket
January 2008

Art History (for Alex Klein)
January 2008

Specific Landscapes

Stevenson Ranch, CA study
October, 2007

Along California Highway 58 (study)
October 2007

Near Vasquez Rocks, CA
November 2007

Specific Lamppost

Installation at Deborah Page Gallery
Santa Monica, California
August 2007

P U
August 2007

Snowfield
March 2007

Montana
March 2007

Elements of Physical Change
Installation at Compact/Space
Los Angeles, California
July 2006

I'll post actual new stuff in the next day or so.

reHappening: "Easy" by Allan Kaprow

2008-04-15T10:22:00.000-07:00

As I may have mentioned, art schools and institutions across Los Angeles have been recreating/reinventing many of Allan Kaprow's Happenings as part of MOCA's exhibition, "Allan Kaprow: Art as Life." At CalArts, we'll be reinventing Kaprow's "Publicity" on May 4th at Vasquez Rocks near Palmdale. Below are a few images from the rendition of "Easy," which was staged at Vasquez on March 8 and involved finding rocks in a dry stream bed, pouring water over them and carrying them down the stream bed until dry.

Preparing the erosion device

John Barlog walking up stream with his wet rock.

Liz with rock, in mid-step.

Process, Processors

2008-04-13T21:20:00.000-07:00

I've been making all these pictures lately (and sculpture, as well) of photography's function, particularly in the landscape. I know why I'm making them to a degree, but this unfailing motivation is strange.
A few are posted here from the Nevada-Utah Spring Break road trip. I brought along a few boxes of various sized photo paper and added it to the landscape (not permanently, i clean up nice).

Fuji Matte 11x14 held between two telephone poles

The Enola Gay's hangar, Wendover , Utah. Photographic paper scattered.

Photographic paper plugs a hole in the Spiral Jetty

Great Salt Flats, Utah

Great Salt Flats, Utah

I have more to say about these, as well as more to post, but i'm exhausted from being awake for a day and a half working and building a landslide of exposed and process photo paper (i'll post those images, too).

Alas, but isn't romance more exciting
Great Salt Lake, Utah

CalArts Open Studios 2008

2008-04-02T19:09:00.000-07:00

All the MFA students open their studios for the yearly helluva'it.
There'll be performances by Jason Grier/ Supercreep and Julia Holter (www.humanearmusic.com)
As well as 65 graduate art students showing art in every conceivable media (maybe no '80s primary colored rebar sculpture, sorry).
Check out the site with clickable work from everyone.
www.calartsopenstudios.info

Road

2008-03-23T14:49:00.000-07:00

I'm heading northeast tonight, through Nevada and into Salt Lake-area Utah. The last trip I took of this open-ended kind was through southeastern and then into the central western section of Nevada around last Thanksgiving. This was before I began making the "Obstruction" images and was my last attempts at the landscape images I had been making for the previous few years. Here's a few that work for me, but also serve as a reminder of how things have changed in my work, and what i'm essentially trying to avoid.

Obstruction #3

2008-03-22T21:12:00.000-07:00

Sweater over the camera, forget what you know.

Kaprow tonight

2008-03-22T17:04:00.000-07:00

Real quick, the Allan Kaprow show opens tonight at MOCA @ the Geffen Contemporary. Besides being the originator of the Happenings, Kaprow was a celebrated writer, educator (CalArts, UCSD), and overall wiseguy. As part of the show, area museums, art schools, high schools, and independent groups have been restaging some of Kaprow's Happenings. Through CalArts we've already restaged "Scales," "Burbank," and "Easy." We'll be recreating Kaprow's "Publicity" in May at Vasquez Rocks, south of Palmdale.
While everyone may have some familiarity with Kaprow or the concept of the Happenings, it's his writings and thoughts on art and production that really astound me.
Here's a really great interview with him: http://www.jca-online.com/kaprow.html
I encourage everyone to seek out "Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life" by Allan Kaprow, as it contains some of his most celebrated writings. I was particularly astounded by "The legacy of Jackson Pollock" and "The Education of the Un-artist I-III." Completely amazing.

Here's the MOCA site for the show: http://www.moca.org/kaprow

Canon Elph Flowershot

2008-03-19T11:47:00.000-07:00

Fractal Topography

2008-03-12T17:08:00.000-07:00

Installation shots of my CalArts MFA1 show, "Fractal Topography," which ran from February 16-22, 2008 in the Main Gallery at California Institute of the Arts. Much thanks to Calvin Lee for most of the documentation.

The Main Gallery, wrapped in cloth.

Installation shot of the north side of the gallery ("the gallery"). Collective installation title: "Elements of Fractal Topography."

Installation detail of bombed out (drano bomb/ example here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-huQD_Snk&feature=related ), overturned filing cabinet, stuffed with photo paper (mostly Fuji Crystal Archive of varying sizes).

Installation detail of the mountain range, "Elements of Fractal Topography (minor elements of elevation).

Rear view.

Shadow interplay of works contained within the south gallery.

South gallery ("the studio") installation shots below:

This is completely unrelated, but I saw John Maus this weekend at Tiny Creatures. He was fresh outta SXSW and back into the town. Here's an old video from the "Songs" album.

Execution

2007-12-06T14:34:00.001-08:00

This blog exists to flesh out my artwork production, provide a forum regarding art of all media, and to insinuate a dialogue about these topics. Imagery, music, text all together. The first set of images that I'm posting were produced in the last few days and are my attempts to antagonize the photograph. They're my initial steps in working with this concept.

Obstruction #1

Obstruction #2