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Prairie Horror Bride

2012-01-23T11:56:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to Me

2012-01-10T19:09:00.000-08:00

A Prairie Horror

2011-12-16T17:59:00.000-08:00

Prairie Horror

2011-12-13T11:15:00.000-08:00

Body Count

2011-12-10T19:49:00.000-08:00

Installation images. Exhibition at Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York.

Horror Stories, sneak peak

2011-12-10T18:57:00.000-08:00

Hunger bg

2011-11-07T18:55:00.000-08:00

Art Experience NYC magazine

2011-11-04T21:32:00.000-07:00

Hunger Stills

2011-11-04T13:03:00.000-07:00

Hunger

2011-10-31T20:45:00.000-07:00

Hunger stills

2011-09-30T19:26:00.000-07:00

Better off dead

2011-09-29T18:29:00.000-07:00

hunger

2011-09-18T09:16:00.001-07:00

Prairie Horror

2011-06-23T21:06:00.000-07:00

Prairie Zombies

2011-06-18T20:13:00.001-07:00

zombi

2011-04-30T16:19:00.000-07:00

horrified

2011-04-19T06:13:00.000-07:00

dead of the night

2011-04-02T12:43:00.000-07:00

march2011

2011-03-21T11:03:00.000-07:00

Roselee Goldberg talks at Pace University, Feb 22

2011-02-15T10:29:00.000-08:00

The Fine Arts Department’s Distinguished Lecturer, Spring 2011
Tuesday February 22nd, 3:30 - 4:30pm
Open to the public - please join us!

Roselee Goldberg is the founding director and curator of Performa, a non-profit arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world, which launched New York’s first performance biennial is 2005.
She is an art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art.

Dead of the Night

2010-11-08T21:21:00.000-08:00

Zombie Makeup

2010-10-31T20:24:00.000-07:00

Zombies needed

2010-10-20T14:00:00.000-07:00

Prairie Horror

2010-10-07T15:42:00.000-07:00

Photos by Scott Wachal:

Photos by Derek Brueckner:

Sept10

2010-09-10T07:03:00.000-07:00

ghost

2010-06-04T14:19:00.000-07:00

undead images

2010-06-03T21:00:00.000-07:00

more drawings

2010-06-03T14:51:00.000-07:00

Scream - Body Count Drawing

2010-05-27T13:13:00.000-07:00

drawings, details

2010-05-24T10:37:00.000-07:00

Drawing #7 - House on Sorority Row

2010-05-10T07:06:00.000-07:00

Body Count Drawings

2010-04-13T17:38:00.000-07:00

Field of the Dead and Undead

2010-03-15T13:45:00.001-07:00

Banff

2010-03-03T21:34:00.000-08:00

RedRum 2

2010-01-19T13:58:00.000-08:00

RedRum

2010-01-02T12:28:00.001-08:00

Red Rum Stills

2010-01-01T15:08:00.000-08:00

Sock Monkey

2010-01-01T10:57:00.001-08:00

Buffalo

2009-12-15T17:09:00.000-08:00

Cactus

2009-11-29T18:41:00.000-08:00

Red Rum image

2009-11-29T18:34:00.000-08:00

Zombies vs Vampires Installation

2009-11-18T08:09:00.000-08:00

Zombies vs Vampires

2009-11-11T00:27:00.000-08:00

Jillian Mcdonald, 2009
Photo by Steve Gittins

Graveyard flowers, Arizona

2009-10-13T21:46:00.000-07:00

Bloody / Blood

2008-06-27T14:28:00.000-07:00

Review of a video game (unplayed):
Petri Purho is a computer science student in Helsinki who writes a game every month.
Bloody Zombies is one of them, where your goal is to rescue Barbara from the zombies. Conceptually, a very low resolution horror themed game is at once humourous ("is that an axe or are you happy to see me?") and utterly ridiculous ("is that blood on your head or is that your hat?"). Exercise caution or you might find yourself mistaking the lovely Barbara for a hideous zombie.

the goriest game ever made in glorious 128 x 96 resolution! Fight zombies with your lawn mower! Solve levels with your opponents blood!

Sadly Bloody is only available for PC and/or XBox. Download it if you have one of those systems. Other games include Planet of the Jellies and Crayon Physics. Even their titles are delightful.

In related news, Guthrie Lonergan, a young artist from L.A., invites you to cover any Youtube video in blood - create a horror film from any old clip. The screen shot above is one of my videos, Screen Kiss, raining blood.

Say Something Meaningful

2008-06-23T12:56:00.000-07:00

I don’t expect all advertisements to be truthful or even transparent - no ma’am. I am not easily fooled by animated cars that are made of skin, reflect the landscape, chase down wildcats, and fold into my pocket. Fooled - never; enchanted - absolutely. Jeanne Randolph in Ethics of Luxury: Materialism and Imagination points out smartly that in advertising, “reasoning is assailed by unique rhetorical charms: Cherry, Strawberry, Grape. Three reasons to buy Froot-Loops” (pp 9 - 10).

But who does the MTA think they are kidding? 1,944 people saw something and said something, meaning 1,944 incidents - some percentage of which were non-incidents - were reported and processed and counted. It’s reassuring that there are people watching out for us, or at least themselves, here in the Big Apple. But cradled in this false assurance are only more questions - how many saw and said something the year before this snitch campaign urged commuters to remain ever vigilant? Did any of those sightings and sayings avert disaster, or do we simply have a tiny army (1,944 is not that many in this city) of slightly paranoid individuals who reported suspiciously abandoned plastic bags and soda cans to the already harassed MTA workers? [An asside: I assume they are harassed since they are so nearly impossible to locate when I am lost and need answers to why the L, G, and 7 trains are simultaneously not running, and how I can get home from my stranded position. Far be it from me to criticize the MTA - I know their employees are very hard at work strategically posting informative signs about transit changes in the most clever hiding spots.]

“If you have nothing useful to say, say nothing at all!” - That’s my proposal for next year’s campaign.

Speaking of advertisements, I am mesmerized by the animated ads for the current roster of anxiety drugs - the animations are so inert and relaxing as to lull me into a dreamy state where I do not hear the speedily spoken list of side-effects including death, stroke, and heart attack. I feel the drugged sleep of poppies coming on, à la Dorothy en route to Emerald City. I feel myself slowly curling up on the train tracks with a speeding train hurtling towards me - i’m…just…so….sleepy……
sometimes it is all I can do to change the channel before I start to drool and mumble incoherently.

Artist Justine Cooper, whom I blogged about before, has a great piece called Havidol which is itself an ad campaign for a fictional drug using the methodology, language, and gentle imagery favoured by the pharmaceutical industry. Also check out this group who wants to end such pseudo-educational drug campaigns.

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2008-06-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

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