Bill Cosby introduces a study about how White and Black children draw (and see) themselves.

Dave Chappelle speaks to James Lipton about the stresses Hollywood exerts, citing his friend Martin Lawrence’s nervous breakdown as an example.

Paul Mooney is asked whether he perceives any real changes in mainstream racial attitude since the sixties.

Might seem a bit hypocritical, hot off the heels of posting 3 video clips of African-American youth dancing to some pretty brutal soundtracks. My only hope is to illustrate my firm belief that amazing things are sometimes borne from horrific lineages, and there is still time and space for constructive, non-defeatist dialogue about America’s racial faultlines.

Incredible dancer, and, as I was lucky enough to talk to him once, a humble soul. This 1982 performance on Top Of The Pops to my favorite Shalamar song is the definition of A+. NASA level.

“People thought a rope was pulling me, they thought that I had, like, oil on the floor, they thought I had wheels on my shoes - people just couldn’t understand what was going on.”

Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications

Jonathan Maghen, Waste Bookmark
Bookmark, offset 1/0, 2 x 5.5 inches
Edition of 11 + 2 proofs, unnumbered
Published by Textfield

Card used by Pressman to indicate any waste, errors, bad sheets, etc., on a printed job to the Bindery; typically made from the waste sheets of other printed jobs. Re-reused as a bookmark; part of an unfinished book, used to bookmark the pages of a finished book.

Needless to say, I’ve got my Spring wardrobe all sorted out.

mosaicism.org by Daniel Ingroff, 4 March — 1 April 2010

Reception on Thursday, March 4th from 6-7:30pm at the library

A work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” — a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet. Made up of three distinct parts: a website, video and display, mosaicism.org investigates both digital and analogue forms of the “picture” by framing some of the aesthetic and emotional assumptions associated with these binaries.

Rafael’s latest piece, and one of my favorites of his.

Open line into times Tic-tac-tic-tac by Manuel Raeder
27th February – 28th March

The relationship between open lines (directions)
and circles (enclosures)
The relationship between time and space
The relationship between movement and position
The relationship between a ray of light and a wall
The relationship between chairs and legs
Tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac-tic

Wee See is a collection of black-and-white animations built from basic shapes — to intrigue both child and parent. As vision develops slowly over the first months of life, Wee See provides surfaces of bold, well-defined artwork to engage a child’s curious mind to bring the screen (and their imagination) to life.

Not the newest, but nevertheless essential reading: “The Courage of the Present,” an op-ed piece by Alain Badiou, originally published in Le Monde, 13 February 2010. Translated by Alberto Toscano.

Read it here and here.

Please Join The USC Roski School of Fine Arts MPAS and MFA Programs for an evening with Vito Acconci this coming Tuesday, February 23, from 6-9pm.

The lecture will be held in the Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery, located at:

I think the creative sphere is still especially clueless about the internet. I figured nearly a decade later, we’d be past rewarding practices that cash in on tired buzzwords and armchair sociology, but, nope.

Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.

via Union Football League / From a left wing.

Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF): Its purpose was to study the effects of space on a multitude of materials.

Every inch of its outside surface was covered with Science. 57 separate experiments, mounted in 86 trays, involving the participation of “more than 200 principal investigators from 33 private companies, 21 universities, seven NASA centers, nine Department of Defense laboratories and eight foreign countries.