Jane Benson

Jane Benson, at Thierry Goldberg.

Saw this show last month, shortly before it closed. NYTimes review (scroll to bottom).








Jane Benson.

RELATED: Clyde Du Vernet Hunt.

savers

no hands harvard.

Seventeen people, and not a single hand... maybe the photographer directed them to do that?

Diagnosis: Weirdos.
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Richard Dupont

Richard Dupont, at Lever House.

clown of the corn

corn clown.... it has taken almost five months but i've finally gotten all the photos off my phone. this clown statue was at the halloween corn maze, in which you can get seriously lost.

i'm going to buy a real camera. top choice would be an slr, a nikon d80 or nikon 300, but i'm not ready for that stuff yet and can't afford it anyway... right now a nice point and shoot will be a HUGE technical step up. zoe strauss took a lot of earlier photos with a konica minolta dimage s414, so if a 2003 4-megapixel point and shoot was good enough for her i think i'll be fine.

flickr has been an amazing camera research tool. you can see all the cameras used on flickr, look at the specs, read reviews, and look at all the pictures taken with whatever camera.

i'm definitely getting a canon. these are the ones that look best right now -

a. canon powershot sd1000 digital elph - 7.i megapixel, 3x optical zoom, 2.5 lcd, rechargeable - $179.00

b. canon powershot sd1100 digital elph (the update of the above camera, coming out in march) - 8 mp, 3x oz, 2.5 lcd, rechargeable, image stabilization - $249.00

c. canon powershot sd850 is - 8 mp, 4x oz, 2.5 lcd, rechargeable, image stabilization - $299.00

d. canon powershot sd870 is elph - 8 mp, 3.8 oz, 3x oz, rechargeable, image stabilization - $349.00

Porch Heads

porch heads.


like Devo.


weird things look weirder in the snow.

RELATED: Abraham Lincoln considering naked woman and naked boy, window head. Hit FREAKY and scroll down for lots of freaky stuff.

shocker!

My mom was rowing her little boat in the lake and a lady swam out to admire it, and they recognized each other... my brother and I used to play with her two sons, many summers at the lake. I don't think we've seen each other since I was maybe eleven.

The moms were playing catch up... talking about the boys. One of her sons also became an artist... so I googled him to see if maybe he had any work on-line.

HE'S FAMOUS!!!

doll couple

doll couple

Hoosick Rocks!!!

Hoosick Falls is doing a chair-ity auction of artist-painted rocking chairs... they are in all the windows, and inside shops.




Key Bank.


The blue one is by Roy Egg. He does everything eggs.






The seat says Protect Me From What I Want.


The back says For Grandma Moses.

It says Action Causes More Trouble Than Thought across the top of the front.




For Rent Fo Rent...

I'm excited about this auction... it's in October. All the money goes to cystic fibrosis and to help maintain an old house. There is a massive beech tree in front of that house, it's gorgeous.

Here is my Hoosick Rocks flickr set. Thomas Moses has one, but I haven't seen it yet.

head in window

there is a head in the window.

it's eyes are closed.

J. Massey Rhind

J. Massey Rhind fountain in Albany, NY...

I have to credit Paul DiPasquale, with his Arthur Ashe statue and Neptune statue, for getting me hooked on noticing how wondrous and bizarre public figure sculpture can be.

Gorgeous plaque reads: This Fountain Was Erected By Henry L. King, In Memory Of His Father, Rufus H. King, 1893. J. Massey Rhind, Sculptor.

I ran a 5K in this park on Friday... my time was 24:01, but my sister-in-law beat me by a whole minute.

in a shop window

so freaky. what is it? is this normal?


there are two, here is the other one. her hands are like a mummy's. this is a strange shop... i will have to go back in the daytime.

Uncle Sam

This is the back of a sculpture in Troy, NY. Didn't see any info about who the artist might be, so I'm attributing it to Frank Gehry.

Two plaques at the front of the statue list the name of every individual, club, business, and city official who helped to get the piece made... did I just miss the name of the artist? I definitely looked for it. Maybe the artist relinquished authorship, or maybe the donors are the real artists. Ha ha, I don't think so.


This is the front, it's Uncle Sam! He's all silver metal and facets... kind of like an X-Man, the metal one or the frozen one, or maybe Magneto.





I like this view with the swooshing faceted Gehry cape, over the brickpile, and his top hat.

This is the SECOND strange and wonderful statue I've seen in two weeks; the first was Clyde Du Vernet Hunt's Abraham Lincoln statue, in Bennington VT. That one is probably weirder.

Clyde Du Vernet Hunt

Clyde Du Vernet Hunt's strange statue outside the Bennington Museum. Abraham Lincoln considering naked woman and naked boy.


These pictures with the snow are the best... makes it even weirder.

HOT.

International Alien Society - POWER KAI!

I FOUND IT!!!

I found my photograph of the UFO Space Temple Meteor & Antiques shop that I posted about a couple weeks ago! I googled all the signs that I can read and FORTUNATELY was able to just make out UCHUMURA (space village), in blue characters in the far window.... that was the ticket to the website!


this looks photoshopped... it's NOT. this is an altar inside.




lots of meteor rocks, decorated and displayed like new age scholar's rocks.

(here is my richmond scholar's rock)


also many very old and weird japanese treasures.


early japanese christian and kakure kirishitan (hidden christian) stuff... this place combined christian, buddhist, shinto, and new age space rock worship.

(i have something that i feel like might be a kakure kirishitan piece, i'll photograph and post it later)


some pick-me-up powder you can buy at the shop. they are selling all sorts of "power items", you can see on the website.


This is the UFOjisan! Make sure you check out his drawings of the aliens he's encountered.

Eric Fischl's Arthur Ashe Statue VS. Paul DiPasquale's Arthur Ashe Statue

Eric Fischl's Arthur Ashe Statue. Yes, he is naked, heavily muscled, and about to swing an invisible tennis racket.

VS.

Arthur Ashe, originally uploaded by answermyclone.

Paul DiPasquale's Arthur Ashe Statue.

NO CONTEST!!!

spastic dancer

Was there drooling? Were there farts?