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Up and Running…

andrew — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:53:04 +0000

Justin Lentz

During the avalanche of work yesterday, my friend in Los Angeles – Justin Lentz, sent me this great photograph from a photo shoot he was conducting. I’m excited to see the actual photographs that will emerge from his working process… but this iPhone image has me captivated right now. This little juicy tidbit reminds me of a recent blog post about photography as a lifestyle vs. photography as a strict, project based discipline. Personally, I love it when artists using photography are able to blend it into their practices as a human being… not simply running through the parameters of a project outline. (I will photograph X in X style until someone pays attention to how great thousands of images of X are)

It is only Wednesday and I feel completely drained. This week has been an energy vampire of unrivaled proportions. (Speaking of vampires, I find this article about fried blood on the menu in Chad really disturbing).

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On a separate note: I am finally going to break down and check out the “Quick and the Dead” exhibition at the Walker Art Center this weekend. Perhaps then, I will finally be able to see which ideas in conceptual art are officially DEAD and which ones the Walker has decided are ALIVE. Remember – ideas are just objects.

Introduction

andrew — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:49:00 +0000

The best way to begin this blog is by pointing out that I, Andrew Michael Schroeder, do not enjoy blogs. Perhaps it is my interest in Foucault and Bentham’s Panopticon that makes me distrust the blog format. (Do I really need to mirror my existence with a digital record?) Or maybe I’m just way to old to actually do this well. But, for all intensive purposes, I have never been interested in perpetually displaying my thoughts/ideas/actions in a digital format – until early this morning when I realized that I have lost one of my sketchbooks.

I am an analog kind of guy. Although I admire the digital existence (Hey! Save a tree), The physical nuances of a good piece of paper and some graphite sticks known as pencils will never be matched by the blogosphere.

However, that lost sketchbook is grating on me. And that is why I am here, typing in 12 pt Courier/Courier New. I need an open format that allows me to share my ideas and not freak out when I accidentally leave a Moleskine on the #24 Metro-Transit bus.

With this blog I hope to actually present my viewpoints on various topics of interest: specifically, conceptual approaches to art, architecture, urbanism, and also the constructions of the dialog of space and place which seem to shape my life so exquisitely.