Wednesday Work: Hilary White

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Hilary White. Big deal round Fishtown this winter, with a beautfiul showing at Part Time Studios. 2D - 3D. Currently with work at Sweet Jane Vintage. Invigorating in person - so you should go.

Sweet Jane Vintage/ 1820 E. Passyunk Ave., Philly, PA 19148/Tues-Sat 12-8, Sun 12-6.

PS. Images look better when you click on them, than they do in the body of the post.

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DEFY MONDAY: In LOVE...with water towers

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The way to work can DEFY Monday too! I am lucky enough to ride my bike past this water tower everyday on my way to the office and everyday I enjoy it. All the history and industry and manmade relics, all long since forgotten, serve to create a very malleable landscape full of very real potential. This side of the city feels accessible to my hard work, I could nail a board here, tie a rope there, and put a fresh coat of paint on half of that, and viola! (yaknowhatimean?)

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A bit of real time surrealism? Eye-candy for sure. They make my day dream heart beats fast. Whether it be items from the top self of the refrigerator, or an alien space ship,

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A little bit of photographic history, are you familiar with Bernd and Hilla Becher? They loved water towers too, traveling the German countryside archiving German water towers and industrial buildings, in the 1980s.

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On another note....caught in holiday-going-back-home traffice on I-76E, I got to thinking - wouldn't it be mad style-points for our everyday existence if they outfitted all those construction, commercial lawn mowing, etc. machines to look like gaint insects, or dinosaurs, or something of the like? I want magic, people, magic in my everyday life.

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And did you hear? They're experimenting with wind power made from flying kites! Yessss!

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Okay, enough from me - go DEFY MONDAY!

Wednesday Work: Jean-Michel Basquiat

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So Shepard Fairey came to Philadelphia to art-up our local coffee shop. (Magnifique iced coffee if anyone is looking.)






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As we sip the delicious brew, sitting on that stoop right there on the right with our pups, I couldn't stop thinking about Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Fairey started with OBEY in the 1990s, after a stint in the BFA program at RISD.



Basquit died an international art star from a drug overdose on my seventh birthday in August 1988.

But before that he became known for his "political-poetical" grafitti in NYC in the early 1980s after droppping out of HS in 1979. He tagged under the name SAMO.





















Connected romantically to an early version of Madonna, Basquit worked collaboratively with Andy Warhol, and would often work on his paintings in Armani suits, later appearing in public in the same paint splattered $1000 suits.



You can read more about Basquit here, and see more of his work here and here.