Andrew Schroeder

Waiting is the period we endure until the expected happens. We wait for all sorts of things: the bus, dinner, colleagues who are late for a meeting, the rain to stop, etc. Waiting is built into our social lives. And our waiting behavior is influenced by a fair number of variables. There isn’t a prescribed method for waiting, and yet waiting in certain contexts tends toward a similar pattern of group impatience leading to aggressive strategies that are meant to better position the waiting individual for the event.

Via The New Shelton wet/dry

Actually, when the hate mail came in we took a perverse pleasure in trying to find the worst. I found it funny because I had never been as passionate about anything as some of these people were about their puppet show hosts. In fact, when we changed the color of the jumpsuit, we’d get death threats. On the internet, that’s entirely commonplace, but back then, remember, people were taking pen in hand, purchasing stationary and stamps for those death threats! That’s commitment.

-Mike Nelson VIA

Andy Warhol's Archive - via bad banana

What you should do is get a box for a month, and drop everything in it and at the end of the month lock it up. Then date it and send it over to New Jersey. You should try to keep track of it, but if you cant and you lose it, that’s fine, because its one less thing to think about, another load off your mind.

-Andy Warhol from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) 1975

via pablogt

So many years will be spent searching, studying, classifying, before my life is secured, carefully arranged and labelled in a safe place – secure against theft, fire and nuclear war – from whence it will be possible to take it out and assemble it at any point. Then, being thus assured of never dying, I may finally rest.

- Christian Boltanski from Research and Presentation of All That Remains of My Childhood 1944-150

My relationship with photography is flatlining. I’ll never get it to do what I want it to do, nor will it ever push me forward in that “career-like” direction. While I was browsing through blogs, I came across this post at Mrs. Deane’s “Nothing is too amazing to be true” about new brutalist photography.

I couldn’t agree more. The idea that “photography is not meant to produce meanings” is something I buy whole heartedly.

Combine this with the Dogme 95 manifesto and the thought of making art again doesn’t seem so horrifying.

Man oh man.

How could a 15 foot tall fiber glass statue of an Egyptian anubis possibly look out of place in Minnesota? Huh?

I’m exceptionally excited to report that one of my photographs will be published in the upcoming issue of 1110. Thank you, Eireann!