in recent news from our cock

Holy shit!

so we were shopping at Ralphs today, which is a market that i'm slowly beginning to detest more and more, we walk up to the checkout and the dude in front of of us has a bag of dog food. No this isn't just any dog food. It's Old Yeller Brand Dog Food. No seriously. I'm not joking. The salmon and I quickly started making comments as our ears perked up like a foaming dog with a target on its chest. Seriously, OLD YELLER DOG FOOD! the food that gets your dog foaming at the mouth. So after he eats and has to do his deucing bidness, does "putting him out," actually mean of his misery? I mean shite. Read more from that link or this one. wow.



this isn't to mean the weekend wasn't without wonderfull-osity. Yesterday we went down to the LBC (SORRY DEAN!!!) and picked up a & k. We then headed to OCMA for the Birth of Cool: "California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, for it's last weekend (check it at the bottom or link). It consisted of kick ass jazz, and fucking amazing funiture. it also had art by influential california artists of the 60's including Kim Abeles who is an instructor at CSUN and has been interviewed by Dean (Again I'M SORRY!!!) This all despite the fact I've got a bit of a nagging cold. I said a week ago, rain or shine or cold and it didn't rain too much. It was well worth the jaunt. As A took us to a place where she photographed her line of handbags at a midcentury building that was sick and also about half a block down from Killingsworth Architects who designed case study house #12 (thought it's listed as #26 (i'm prolly wrong). Anways, it just so happened that the other shop where she shot her bags, well, the owner was there, by himself, and gave us a tour. Donald "Badass" Gibbs kicked ass. I mean really kicked ass. He was inspirational. Prolly late 60's to early 70's this dude was working on a 3 axis router making geometric designs out of mdf (Medium-density fibreboard). They were friggin awesome. I wish i had photos or could explain them better but i'd definitely buy one if i had the cash. He tooks us all over the place, and it was amazing. he's summited Kilimanjaro, swears, smokes a pipe and calls them TITS, not breasts. We really need to hook up with him to collaborate on projects (no not blow him). The wall of the conference room was covered in all his designs from midcentury to now. I mean he designed the Long Beach Pyramid for chrissake. It turned out to be quite a special day even though i was wiped the fuck out by the time we got home.



aight then, that didn't hurt too much did it boy? BANG!


oct 7, 2007 - jan 6, 2008
October 7, 2007–January 6, 2008
Newport Beach

Birth of the Cool examines the broad cultural zeitgeist of “cool” that influenced the visual arts, graphic and decorative arts, architecture, music, and film produced in California in the 1950s and early 1960s. The widespread influences of such midcentury architects and designers as Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, have been well-documented. Less well-known, however, are the innovations of a group of Hard-Edge painters working during this period including Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Fredrick Hammersley, Helen Lundberg and John McLaughlin, whose work retains a freshness and relevance today. Birth of the Cool revisits this scene, providing a visual and cultural context for West Coast geometric abstract painting within the other dynamic art forms of this time."