Category: REPORTS
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1001 FRAMES
We hung 500 photos at our show in February. We sold approx 200 of them. And then 8 months later I went to pick up the rest. This is the trunk but the back seats and front seats were stacked too.
The original idea was to hang 1000 photos. On some retarded math I thought there was enough wall space. There wasn’t.
Because I took so long, of course the frames got buried in art and other things in the basement of the gallery. Here is Fred. He is holding a box of our posters.
The Paperworks guys had a booth at Complexcon. I brought them some zines and some of these framed photos. After it was all done for some reason Mike returned all my stuff to Nick over at Little Big Man Gallery. This bear was in the hallway when I came to pick up.
Quick visit, Nick was busy and had to catch a flight to Paris for a book fair.
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I THINK IT’S LEGIT
I was thinking how I miss shooting black and white film, so peep the cellphone conversions and let me know if you think it’s legit.
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KEY MASTER
Rick Moranis was a G back in the days. G for genius.
I’m realizing that if I want to be a “blogger” then I better start “blogging” every day, probs multiple times a day. Just saying.
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FRIGGIN MOVING FRIGGIN SUCKS
I have to move again. Everything going in storage again. What am I really doing again. I was worried at first, but now I am excited. Sometimes I am too much optimistic and not enough realistic, but I got a car now that is all the way legit and I can be nimble and I can be quick. One bummer thing though is how much stuff I have. I have maybe 10 or more heavy boxes of framed photos. I have at least 20 boxes of books. That’s not counting zines and magazines. Records. Guitars. Bikes. Skateboards. WTF.
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EXTRACTION
HEALTH UPDATE: Okay, quick recap. A few weeks ago I had a bad tooth ache. I read a bunch of stuff online, I bought a bunch of natural products, and boom in 2 days tooth ache gone. I was feeling myself and started eating chocolate and sweets again. Not crazy, but 7-11 mission Kitkat or Reese’s every other day. While still flossing and scrubbing and alkalizing my mouth like a psycho.
And then boom, another tooth ache earlier this week. This one way more hard core then the first. I never felt anything like this. I went through 2 bottles of Advil in 2 days. I couldn’t sleep or eat. I was loading up on supplements hoping my immune system could handle it. But by the end of the week, the whole right side of my face swoll up. I should’ve gotten a selfie but was in too much pain to think to do anything.
I was using this set of natural products : tooth powder, mouthwash, and remineralizer from “Uncle Harry’s” that was the brand name. Super alkalizing for your mouth. Then I noticed my gums were receding crazy rapidly. And that this might be the cause of my pain. Maybe the gum line receded past the root of the tooth and there is just an exposed nerve? I was still studying a bunch and I came across info that your mouth can actually be too alkaline!? And that also you can be over brushing and over flossing?! I think both of these things led to my gums being all fucked up.
Anyways, my face got crazy. Here’s a weird thing, true story. My dentist office called me. They are like “Hey man, you are due for an appointment.” I actually answered the phone and was all, “Nah I’m good”. But within 24 hours of that phone call is when my face starting puffing out. So I called them back and was like “Guess what?”.
So I went in and she said that I have an infection. She didn’t say anything about receding gums or over flossing. She said, “We should’ve fixed this a year ago when I told you to.” The option is still the same, but now the time is more more crucial. I need to decide to extract it or root canal it. If I wait too long to decide, it will be past the point of root canal. But at that point, it will also make the extraction a lot harder to do because there will be less tooth to work with.
She gave me a prescription for antibiotics. I feel way better. It has been a few days. I also got a different herbal tooth powder that my mouth seems to like but is super messy.
According to this book I am reading, you can reverse tooth decay and the author is adamant about not getting extractions and not getting root canals at all. All the reviews are the same. People saying their dentist said “Extraction”, but they read the book and followed the directions perfectly and now the new xray says no extraction and the dentist is like, “Whaaaat”.
I think I can do it, but then I already had a couple sugary things yesterday and today. Not candy though. Rice pudding and some power bars. I been having massive sugar cravings. I thought it was maybe because I haven’t had any in about a week. I read that since I am on antibiotics, and that it is killing all the bad bacteria as well as all the good bacteria, the guys that are left like the yeast and the bugs have a free reign of terror on my body and they are the ones craving the sugar. They have hooked into my spine and are telling my brain to get them sugar. The cravings have been subsided with yogurt and apple cider vinegar but still yikes.
Anyways, for the most part I have stuck to the diet of no gluten, grains, or sugar. Lots of healthy fats. There is a very long list food protocol and it’s expensive and strict. I want to commit to it. Or should I just pull that tooth? I would just pull it because I have had 2 other root canals that both fell apart and led to pain and extraction anyways. But I want to keep the teeth I have. So… I will commit. And I want you to commit with me. Deal? Deal.
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TRASH CAN MAN
Last night this criminal was found hiding in trash can. K-9 unit be sniffing everything. Busted.
Speaking of trash cans, I just deleted all the insta feed on this blog. The double dipping was confusing you and me both.
2 random old friends from way random eras in my life both told me within the last couple of days that I should work up this site and restart the podcast. All those 100s of other ideas I keep playing with, delete them all. Just work on this blog at night and Hamburger Eyes during the day. Go solo was the message I was getting. I started picking up what they were putting down. I started smelling what they were stepping in.
Stay tuned for more “reporting”.
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NUT MUNCHERS
They are everywhere. All high off dem nuts.
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KICKING IT
I kicked this box. It was not hollow.
I still ride my bike everyday.
Lurking here at night is chill.
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2 NU 1S
I was sitting at my table at the SF Art Book Fair a few months ago when I overheard 2 photographers talking about another photographer. One of them asked, “When is he going to graduate from making zines?” and I am guessing that translates to something like, “When is he going to make an important book, or have an important gallery show, or do some important commercial work?..”
This is what I am supposed to be doing is how I feel about it. If they had asked me.
I have probably mentioned Daido’s quote on this blog already but here it is again. He said, “My work isn’t finished until it is on the printed page.” This wraps up the whole topic for me.
I got 2 new zines and they will be free. Actually all my zines from now on will be free, edition of 50, and will ship with orders from – http://zinekong.com
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NUGGS
I like riding my bike from my house to the beach via the LA River bike trail.
I hope my hair doesn’t come off like this. I don’t think it does. My mom wants me to cut it, but maybe she would like it more if it looked like this. I can’t grow a goatee though. Even if I could grow the hair, I just couldn’t get myself to cut out a goatee. Unless maybe I was doing some sort of costume but I can’t even think of a character that has this facial hair, it’s like I blanked them all out of my memory.
This is right by my house. I see cars all the time, but I never see people.
I wanted at least one of these basketballs. But then was feeling like what if this isn’t a pile of garbage and people are just waiting for the moving truck to pull up.
This is from when I was in New York last month. I smoked a bunch of weed with my brother. I don’t know if you can tell in the photo but that’s a gigantic nug. I hardly smoked in my 30s and now 40s, maybe once or twice a year only, but in my 20s I was an addict. Recently I been having cravings, like maybe it is time to reunite with the plant allies. Everyone I know is holding, and I put the word out on the streets. No one has come through yet..