6/27/10

6/26/10

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. —


“Everyone’s worried to death.”

“My wife, she’s good. But with money, she blames on me, I blame on her. It makes your life more of a struggle.”

“I haven’t seen powdered milk since the refugee camps.”

“BP took our life away.”

“I don’t want nobody to have this miserable life.”



Read: Cleanup Hiring Feeds Frustration in Fishing Town by John Leland, NY Times

O BROTHER





Stan Bitters plate with camo/cloudy glaze.
Best coast brother here.

Say it ain't so


NY Times:

"The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate."

6/24/10

INVENTORY BOOKS





Inventory Books is edited by Adam Michaels, designed at Project Projects, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and launched with a party.

Inventory Books Series Launch Party
Sunday, June 27, 2–6 p.m.
186 Orchard St. (bet Houston & Stanton)
New York



Flurry





Buy-it-now: eBay

6/23/10

living up to his own standards

"I don't think the University of Kentucky can be so ostentatiously friendly to the coal industry ... and still be a friend to me and the interests for which I have stood for the last 45 years. ... If they love the coal industry that much, I have to cancel my friendship." —Wendell Berry

Read: Lexington Herald-Leader and/via NY Times

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Wax Poetics #41

Ice-T, Ice Cube, KRS-One, EPMD, DJ Disco Whiz, Grandmixer DXT, Latin Freestyle, Easy Mo Bee, Peanut Butter Wolf, Souls of Mischief, Jimmy Spicer, Vicious Beat Posse, Just-Ice, Mixmaster Gee and the Turntable Orchestra, Spyder D, Guru, Malcolm McLaren, and Chilly B.

6/20/10

STAN



Stan Bitters' own sleeping bags from "The Total Tote Bag Book" over at Wary Meyers.

6/18/10

Brown Family Dairy



Billy Ray will work hard and his farm will earn him a living, and he will be happy and his life will be fulfilled, and he will know a great peace in his soul such as few men have ever known.... There will be dogs, and life will be good.



Read: Billy Ray's Farm by Larry Brown
Watch: documentary by UM Southern Studies Class

via/more: A Modern Dairy Tale [NY Times]

M-O-O-O-O-O-O-D










One thing leads to another over at Haw-Lin.

6/17/10

6/10/10

W/ Stand Up Comedy





ARE WE HAVING FUN YET!?

Opening tonight, June 10th at W/----, “APPLAUSE COPYRIGHT ©1966 BY BRUCE CONNER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” is revisited by Stand Up Comedy. Focusing on one signal, the installation is a relic made to fit the confines of the project site. W/---- as a place for entertainments and openings as recreation, or objects as performance. The audience will often define the space.