PEACHES!
01 June 2009
PETE! YOUR FIRED!
I HAVE BEEN BUSY... Twista x Cool Kids x Skooda coming as soon as we're done with the legal shit
And you are... ?
18 February 2009
10 February 2009
CONFECTION, Group show at O.H.W.O.W, Miami
CONFECTION
Charity Bake Sale / Art Exhibition
February 13, 2009
Curated By Pres Rodriguez
O.H.W.O.W
3100 NW 7 Avenue / Miami / Florida / 33127,
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.- Leslie Moak MurrayCharity Bake Sale / Art Exhibition
February 13, 2009
Curated By Pres Rodriguez
O.H.W.O.W
3100 NW 7 Avenue / Miami / Florida / 33127,
Pres Rodriguez brings the local artistic community together in this one-of-a-kind Charity Bake Sale / Art Exhibition to benefit the Daily Bread Food Bank
Jim Drain
Aranzazu Gayoso
Michael Genovese
Jason Hedges
Alvaro Ilizarbe
Susan Lee-Chun
Nick D. Lobo
Justin Long
Lee Materazzi
Hugo Montoya
Bert Rodriguez
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
TM Sisters
Jen Stark
Jonathan Thomas
Kyle Trowbridge
With a slew of surprises in store, this bake sale will be anything but what you have experienced at the local church. Live performances by Waterford Landing, Remote Controllers (DJ Healer and Chris Video) and Dino Felipe. Come one, come all and definitely come hungry!
27 January 2009
22 December 2008
14 December 2008
07 December 2008
Es so se que es....
AWESOME
Jackson, this is what you're going to Oaxaca for right? Link is the picture.
Good Lawd!
I can't decide if this is disgusting, or the most amazing thing on the planet. I guess I'd really like to know if this guy is a complete melvin or someone who is setting the bar for all of us fake-life consumers. Still pretty mind boggling either way.
Link: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all
Stolen from THEBRILLIANCE.com
Congratulations Virgil on all those new endeavors coming up with Pastelle!
12 November 2008
02 November 2008
26 October 2008
29 September 2008
28 September 2008
ALBUM OF THE YEAR. (anti lizard)
do yourself a favor and don't look at that album cover. its very angry, very anti-lizard, paranoid music. probably because he was about to go to prison for a few years (in prison now). anyway, most of the beats sound like john carpenter music. very good.
http://rapidshare.com/files/109722559/Prodigy_-_HNIC_Part_2.zip
bonus quiz:
Q: Who do you think PRODIGY hates more?
a. JEWS
b. COPS
c. BLACKS
d. OBAMA
e. trick question (hate them all)
PS. DON'T VOTE
P.P.S. I spoke to a man from NASA today.
posted by
YUNG NEEDILS
25 September 2008
Seeee... What had happened wuuuzzz...
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with
a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has
had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800
billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be
most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement
in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the
funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in
the names of our close friends because we are constantly under
surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a
reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account
numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@ treasury. gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond
with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect
the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with
a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has
had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800
billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be
most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement
in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the
funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in
the names of our close friends because we are constantly under
surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a
reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account
numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@ treasury. gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond
with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect
the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
23 September 2008
Dzienkuje! Mike Genovese, Chicago
Black Swan Wines present
Live music by Maverick (Blue Line performance artist)
Musical Intermissions by Big Tony Janda
Street food from local Elotes Carts
Live jump rope performances
Saturday, September 27
7-10pm
1552 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
Wicker Park, Chicago
Complimentary wine will be served courtesy of Black Swan Wines of Australia
You MUST be 21 and over to enter. This invite is good for you and one guest and is non-transferable. Black Swan Australian Table Wine, ©2008 Barossa Valley Importers, Healdsburg and Modesto, CA. USA All rights reserved.
RSVP
Live music by Maverick (Blue Line performance artist)
Musical Intermissions by Big Tony Janda
Street food from local Elotes Carts
Live jump rope performances
Saturday, September 27
7-10pm
1552 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
Wicker Park, Chicago
Complimentary wine will be served courtesy of Black Swan Wines of Australia
You MUST be 21 and over to enter. This invite is good for you and one guest and is non-transferable. Black Swan Australian Table Wine, ©2008 Barossa Valley Importers, Healdsburg and Modesto, CA. USA All rights reserved.
RSVP
22 September 2008
OBAMA V. BARTLET by Aaron Sorkin
BARACK OBAMA knocks on the front door of a 300-year-old New Hampshire farmhouse while his Secret Service detail waits in the driveway. The door opens and OBAMA is standing face to face with former President JED BARTLET.
BARTLET Senator.
OBAMA Mr. President.
BARTLET You seem startled.
OBAMA I didn’t expect you to answer the door yourself.
BARTLET I didn’t expect you to be getting beat by John McCain and a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story, so let’s call it even.
OBAMA Yes, sir.
BARTLET Come on in.
BARTLET leads OBAMA into his study.
BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.
OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.
BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose —
OBAMA Look —
BARTLET — and selling Air Force Two on eBay?
OBAMA Joke all you want, Mr. President, but it worked.
BARTLET Imagine my surprise. What can I do for you, kid?
OBAMA I’m interested in your advice.
BARTLET I can’t give it to you.
OBAMA Why not?
BARTLET I’m supporting McCain.
OBAMA Why?
BARTLET He’s promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my “to do” list.
OBAMA O.K. —
BARTLET And he’s surrounded himself, I think, with the best possible team to get us out of an economic crisis. Why, Sarah Palin just said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” Can you spot the error in that statement?
OBAMA Yes, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren’t funded by taxpayers.
BARTLET Well, at least they are now. Kind of reminds you of the time Bush said that Social Security wasn’t a government program. He was only off by a little — Social Security is the largest government program.
OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.
BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.
OBAMA Which was?
BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.
OBAMA And?
BARTLET I was.
OBAMA I mean, how did you overcome that?
BARTLET I won’t lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.
OBAMA What do you mean?
BARTLET I’m a fictional president. You’re dreaming right now, Senator.
OBAMA I’m asleep?
BARTLET Yes, and you’re losing a ton of white women.
OBAMA Yes, sir.
BARTLET I mean tons.
OBAMA I understand.
BARTLET I didn’t even think there were that many white women.
OBAMA I see the numbers, sir. What do they want from me?
BARTLET I’ve been married to a white woman for 40 years and I still don’t know what she wants from me.
OBAMA How did you do it?
BARTLET Well, I say I’m sorry a lot.
OBAMA I don’t mean your marriage, sir. I mean how did you get America on your side?
BARTLET There again, I didn’t have to be president of America, I just had to be president of the people who watched “The West Wing.”
OBAMA That would make it easier.
BARTLET You’d do very well on NBC. Thursday nights in the old “ER” time slot with “30 Rock” as your lead-in, you’d get seven, seven-five in the demo with a 20, 22 share — you’d be selling $450,000 minutes.
OBAMA What the hell does that mean?
BARTLET TV talk. I thought you’d be interested.
OBAMA I’m not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I’m — wait for it — the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?
BARTLET Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.
OBAMA You’re saying race doesn’t have anything to do with it?
BARTLET I wouldn’t go that far. Brains made me look arrogant but they make you look uppity. Plus, if you had a black daughter —
OBAMA I have two.
BARTLET — who was 17 and pregnant and unmarried and the father was a teenager hoping to launch a rap career with “Thug Life” inked across his chest, you’d come in fifth behind Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and a ficus.
OBAMA You’re not cheering me up.
BARTLET Is that what you came here for?
OBAMA No, but it wouldn’t kill you.
BARTLET Have you tried doing a two-hour special or a really good Christmas show?
OBAMA Sir —
BARTLET Hang on. Home run. Right here. Is there any chance you could get Michelle pregnant before the fall sweeps?
OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?
BARTLET Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know ... I’m a little angry.
OBAMA What would you do?
BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!
OBAMA Good to get that off your chest?
BARTLET Am I keeping you from something?
OBAMA Well, it’s not as if I didn’t know all of that and it took you like 20 minutes to say.
BARTLET I know, I have a problem, but admitting it is the first step.
OBAMA What’s the second step?
BARTLET I don’t care.
OBAMA So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?
BARTLET No. You’re elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week of your campaign, followed — granted, inexplicably — by the worst week of your campaign. And you’re still in a statistical dead heat. You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.
OBAMA Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the show and your people were down and frustrated? You’d give them a pep talk and then you’d always end it with something. What was it ...?
BARTLET “Break’s over.”
BARTLET Senator.
OBAMA Mr. President.
BARTLET You seem startled.
OBAMA I didn’t expect you to answer the door yourself.
BARTLET I didn’t expect you to be getting beat by John McCain and a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story, so let’s call it even.
OBAMA Yes, sir.
BARTLET Come on in.
BARTLET leads OBAMA into his study.
BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.
OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.
BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose —
OBAMA Look —
BARTLET — and selling Air Force Two on eBay?
OBAMA Joke all you want, Mr. President, but it worked.
BARTLET Imagine my surprise. What can I do for you, kid?
OBAMA I’m interested in your advice.
BARTLET I can’t give it to you.
OBAMA Why not?
BARTLET I’m supporting McCain.
OBAMA Why?
BARTLET He’s promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my “to do” list.
OBAMA O.K. —
BARTLET And he’s surrounded himself, I think, with the best possible team to get us out of an economic crisis. Why, Sarah Palin just said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” Can you spot the error in that statement?
OBAMA Yes, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren’t funded by taxpayers.
BARTLET Well, at least they are now. Kind of reminds you of the time Bush said that Social Security wasn’t a government program. He was only off by a little — Social Security is the largest government program.
OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.
BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.
OBAMA Which was?
BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.
OBAMA And?
BARTLET I was.
OBAMA I mean, how did you overcome that?
BARTLET I won’t lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.
OBAMA What do you mean?
BARTLET I’m a fictional president. You’re dreaming right now, Senator.
OBAMA I’m asleep?
BARTLET Yes, and you’re losing a ton of white women.
OBAMA Yes, sir.
BARTLET I mean tons.
OBAMA I understand.
BARTLET I didn’t even think there were that many white women.
OBAMA I see the numbers, sir. What do they want from me?
BARTLET I’ve been married to a white woman for 40 years and I still don’t know what she wants from me.
OBAMA How did you do it?
BARTLET Well, I say I’m sorry a lot.
OBAMA I don’t mean your marriage, sir. I mean how did you get America on your side?
BARTLET There again, I didn’t have to be president of America, I just had to be president of the people who watched “The West Wing.”
OBAMA That would make it easier.
BARTLET You’d do very well on NBC. Thursday nights in the old “ER” time slot with “30 Rock” as your lead-in, you’d get seven, seven-five in the demo with a 20, 22 share — you’d be selling $450,000 minutes.
OBAMA What the hell does that mean?
BARTLET TV talk. I thought you’d be interested.
OBAMA I’m not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I’m — wait for it — the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?
BARTLET Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.
OBAMA You’re saying race doesn’t have anything to do with it?
BARTLET I wouldn’t go that far. Brains made me look arrogant but they make you look uppity. Plus, if you had a black daughter —
OBAMA I have two.
BARTLET — who was 17 and pregnant and unmarried and the father was a teenager hoping to launch a rap career with “Thug Life” inked across his chest, you’d come in fifth behind Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and a ficus.
OBAMA You’re not cheering me up.
BARTLET Is that what you came here for?
OBAMA No, but it wouldn’t kill you.
BARTLET Have you tried doing a two-hour special or a really good Christmas show?
OBAMA Sir —
BARTLET Hang on. Home run. Right here. Is there any chance you could get Michelle pregnant before the fall sweeps?
OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?
BARTLET Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know ... I’m a little angry.
OBAMA What would you do?
BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!
OBAMA Good to get that off your chest?
BARTLET Am I keeping you from something?
OBAMA Well, it’s not as if I didn’t know all of that and it took you like 20 minutes to say.
BARTLET I know, I have a problem, but admitting it is the first step.
OBAMA What’s the second step?
BARTLET I don’t care.
OBAMA So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?
BARTLET No. You’re elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week of your campaign, followed — granted, inexplicably — by the worst week of your campaign. And you’re still in a statistical dead heat. You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.
OBAMA Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the show and your people were down and frustrated? You’d give them a pep talk and then you’d always end it with something. What was it ...?
BARTLET “Break’s over.”
04 September 2008
"McCain 08---Doesn't everybody love tits and guns?"
Fuck it... I like this bitch. You wanna draw a line in the sand for the upcoming revolution? Cool... We get the cities, and Bitches like these can move out to Alaska... Keep popping out trashy, illiterate children that they brainwash into believing that the neo-cons care about something other than how much money you're making for them... When Obama gets assassinated, Bitches like this better have some real remote property because the rest of the world isn't ever going to forgive your manipulative, deceitful rhetoric. The price of freedom is death.... But we're taking you with us Judas.
31 August 2008
SWING YA RAG
T.I. is back with perhaps the best product placement track of 4Q 2008, the Swizz Beats produced "Swing Ya Rag". Its a great match, pairing the bankable thug appeal of T.I. (presumably not T.I.P.) with such mainstay fashion brands as Louis Vuitton and Gucci. In this video by the seemingly intrusive Rollingout.com, T.I. explains the inspiration behind the track and reveals a few different ways to accessorize with your new Louis or Gucci Rag™. If you want the mp3 it you can easily find it on iTunes or any other downloading service.
Buy your Gucci Rags™ here:
Bluefly.com
I might cop this Dior Rag™.
BABA BRENDAN
Buy your Gucci Rags™ here:
Bluefly.com
I might cop this Dior Rag™.
BABA BRENDAN
24 August 2008
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08 May 2008
03 May 2008
02 May 2008
Orphan Works Bill
Get ready to get scared... You ready to pay Microsoft and Google 1 dollar for every piece of art you create?
http://www.petitiononline.com/dAvsOW/
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_information.mp3
http://www.petitiononline.com/dAvsOW/
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_information.mp3
30 April 2008
FOX HAT
Wiley is back, this time he decided he wanted to make a Bodyrox sounding British club track because nobody cares about grime anymore. I like it.
This video is amusing for a few reasons, including the following:
1. looks like most of the budget went to manufacture fox masks
2. toyota corollas
3. amusing to see people other than myself eat trash
4. i can imagine some of these scenes enacted in my alley
BRENDAN
This video is amusing for a few reasons, including the following:
1. looks like most of the budget went to manufacture fox masks
2. toyota corollas
3. amusing to see people other than myself eat trash
4. i can imagine some of these scenes enacted in my alley
BRENDAN
05 April 2008
Sorry Mike
This show opened last night... I missed it, but you should go check it out...
Michael Genovese
“We All We Got…”
Packer-Schopf Gallery
Layers of neon pink and green paper painted with bold letters are plastered over
the gallery wall like flyers that accumulate on urban buildings or discount signs at
grocery stores. These attention-grabbing colors, created from unmixed sign paint, draw
the viewer to concise yet open-ended, multilingual thoughts about society. Zora Neale
Hurston’s observation, “All my skin folk ain’t all my kin folk,” and the artist’s own
mantra, “We all we got,” are written in Korean, Urdu, German, French, Spanish, Polish,
and Bosnian on these humble posters. In the engravings displayed nearby, the two quotes
reappear alongside further social commentary and unknown names tangled within
baroque patterning. Where the signs are bright, outgoing, spontaneous, and fragile, the
intricate engravings on tar-colored sign substrate are dark, inward, laborious, and
relatively permanent. While the signs evoke grassroots advertising, the engravings evoke
dangerous and secret forms of expression, such as scratchings on trains and buses, in
bathroom stalls, or on desks at the back of a classroom. Executed during his residency at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (January 15–February 24, 2008), these textbased
works draw on familiar modes of communication encountered at stores or on the
street in order to capture contemporary voices.
To better record language that is alive, Genovese created this set of signs and engravings
in collaboration with visitors and staff at the MCA. Avoiding static dictionary definitions,
he enlisted native speakers at the museum to translate the phrases he ultimately painted
on neon posters. Likewise, the intricate engravings produced during this residency were
built up from messages carved by museumgoers. Because of his insistence on a human
element in his work, Genovese’s interaction with everyday life as art has a sincerity that
is lacking in the innovative contributions of Marcel Duchamp and Pop Art to this terrain.
While Duchamp appropriated ordinary objects, Genovese, informed by his prior career as
a specialty sign painter and sign contractor, creates his pieces with his own hands. While
Pop artists tended to aestheticize the vernacular, Genovese’s work is grounded more in a
collaborative process than in an aesthetic. Genovese effectively resurrects Josef Beuys’
conception of “social sculpture”—whereby social interaction is a work of art and every
person is an artist—without the utopian promise Beuys championed. Though his works
often involve painting, then, it is clear that Genovese’s medium is not strictly paint, nor is
it simply industrial sign materials; he also works with the abstract media of language and
human interaction.
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Aron Packer
Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake
Chicago, IL 60607
312.226.8984
http://www.aronpacker.com
Michael Genovese
“We All We Got…”
Packer-Schopf Gallery
Layers of neon pink and green paper painted with bold letters are plastered over
the gallery wall like flyers that accumulate on urban buildings or discount signs at
grocery stores. These attention-grabbing colors, created from unmixed sign paint, draw
the viewer to concise yet open-ended, multilingual thoughts about society. Zora Neale
Hurston’s observation, “All my skin folk ain’t all my kin folk,” and the artist’s own
mantra, “We all we got,” are written in Korean, Urdu, German, French, Spanish, Polish,
and Bosnian on these humble posters. In the engravings displayed nearby, the two quotes
reappear alongside further social commentary and unknown names tangled within
baroque patterning. Where the signs are bright, outgoing, spontaneous, and fragile, the
intricate engravings on tar-colored sign substrate are dark, inward, laborious, and
relatively permanent. While the signs evoke grassroots advertising, the engravings evoke
dangerous and secret forms of expression, such as scratchings on trains and buses, in
bathroom stalls, or on desks at the back of a classroom. Executed during his residency at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (January 15–February 24, 2008), these textbased
works draw on familiar modes of communication encountered at stores or on the
street in order to capture contemporary voices.
To better record language that is alive, Genovese created this set of signs and engravings
in collaboration with visitors and staff at the MCA. Avoiding static dictionary definitions,
he enlisted native speakers at the museum to translate the phrases he ultimately painted
on neon posters. Likewise, the intricate engravings produced during this residency were
built up from messages carved by museumgoers. Because of his insistence on a human
element in his work, Genovese’s interaction with everyday life as art has a sincerity that
is lacking in the innovative contributions of Marcel Duchamp and Pop Art to this terrain.
While Duchamp appropriated ordinary objects, Genovese, informed by his prior career as
a specialty sign painter and sign contractor, creates his pieces with his own hands. While
Pop artists tended to aestheticize the vernacular, Genovese’s work is grounded more in a
collaborative process than in an aesthetic. Genovese effectively resurrects Josef Beuys’
conception of “social sculpture”—whereby social interaction is a work of art and every
person is an artist—without the utopian promise Beuys championed. Though his works
often involve painting, then, it is clear that Genovese’s medium is not strictly paint, nor is
it simply industrial sign materials; he also works with the abstract media of language and
human interaction.
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Aron Packer
Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake
Chicago, IL 60607
312.226.8984
http://www.aronpacker.com
04 April 2008
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