MOMO SHOW PALACE

I’m working on a project I can tell you about soon.  To generate designs for it, I’ve snapped together a ‘Maker that combines drawings.  I’ve saved/printed around 200.  I like it because its incomplete, just a sketch.  I could render each form in any color, in or out of focus, with spray gun, torn paper, masked house paint, or just the thin black lines.  See the Drawing ‘Maker working here (it’s large, you’ll need to “zoom-out”).

Javier Abarca is a writer and educator on topics of Graffiti & Post-Graffiti.  His extensive collection of essays at Urbanario.es is a must, and it translates easily with  google translate, (I’m guessing that’s because his use of Spanish is perfect.)

Now you can also explore the English version of the site and rss feed, which he launched last month.  (His English is also perfect.)

Besides writing for books and magazines, Javier gives lectures and workshops (including a permanent workshop in urban art for the Fine Arts Faculty, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: http://apaw.javierabarca.es

(image: Alain Rault & Daniel Buren)

Nelly Duff has a new kind of MOMO edition.  I’ve meticulously cut out 20 collages like I’d used near Bethnal Green Rd in London, and arranged them on distressed wood, to match the color of the original wall, but 1/10 the size.

“Bethnal Green Rd.” 2009, painted acid free paper collage on wood, Edition of 20, 24cm x 30cm signed & numbered on the back.  £ 150 here

I’m over joyed to participate with Add-Art, the Firefox Add-On that replaces online advertising with artwork.  Add-Art works perfectly, I’ve had it installed for a year or so.  Developed in part by the fantastic Mr. Steve Lambert.  Julia Kim is curating this next batch of art due to be updated December 19th, from:

Aaron Peterman Kelli Miller Riah Buchanan MOMO Andrew Derosa Arjen Noordeman & Christie Wright Eltono Zosen Easy install here Info on the show Subterraneans here

Milton Carter makes FOD happen again with friends on this sweet T-shirt.

Drawn by Hope Gangloff, Paul Conrad, Anis Crofts, Michael Williams, Jeremiah Stewart, Derick Holt, Harrison Marshall, Neil Meredith, Nathan Gelgud, John Mathias, Chris Barron, Milton’s Dad, Jason Wyatt Frederick, Mike Reddy, Jonathan Gould, M.Carter, Benjamin Marra, Kim Reinhardt, Caroline Lee, Kirsty Gould, Lina Hellden, and myself.

A sporatic tradition from 1997 and 2003

You can get one here cheap: $25
See other Milton brilliance here, like recent party photos.

I’m leaving for adventures on the road indefinitely.  I imagine it will be like this scene in Never Cry Wolf where Charles Martin Smith runs with wolves & elk.  The plan is light on details, mostly a gut feeling, like the old days.  If you think of a plan, you can email me and I will be sure to consider it, if it involves rigorous adventure or warm weather.

Thanks very much NY, I love you / miss you / can’t fucking believe it / here we go    xxxx

For four years, xhoch4 has designed the bill posters for Ingolstadt Theatre. This year they created an artists series using artworks that had already existed for their their own sake. Funny thing is, one of the plays wound up being Michael Ende’s “MOMO”

Thanks to our friend Boris Schmelter DYSET of DFM & LJDA

After the W/F 2009 New York Fashion Week runway for Y-3 in February, I was invited to work on a shoe.  The idea was: I create paintings on full scale cow hides, and then Y-3 cuts the Hayworth Mid II pattern from the leather, producing a shuffled design I could not have predicted.  This fits with other experiments in chance and automation that I’ve played with lately.

The edition of 350 shoes, includes the “5 Shapes/3520 Artworks” mentioned in a previous post, a custom box, & custom laces.

Its a extreme honor to work with Yohji Yamamoto.  Thanks to his team, Oliver and Chrissa in particular.

At Y-3 stores and http://y-3store.adidas.com

Five shapes, with two sides, on a nail, create 3520 artworks. There are actually 3840 possible combinations, but 320 here are redundant when the smallest shape (the ring) becomes obscured by the two largest (the triangle & swipe). So whether the ring is color or white side up, makes no difference.

You can download a giant version of the image below, by clicking on it.

These shapes were manufactured to my specs by Y-3, to accompany the MOMOxY-3 Hayworth Mid II

This video shows all 3520 variations in seven minutes, no split screen.