“Life art” as in that shit that goes on all around us is sometimes art just by observation and not my ongoing perception, experience and actions within it making me a “Life Artist”… It just so happens as I spent a good portion of yesterday trying to grasp the pretentiousness of someone saying their way…
Author: Varg
Kira “Gutter Gucci” Kaechele’s Life Art Has a Few Awkward Strokes in St. Roch
It was a crunchy breakfast experience this morning when I woke up to read Ariella Cohen’s interview with “St. Roch art impresario” Kirsha Kaechele. It certainly sounds as if Kaechele got into this with the best intentions but didn’t seem committed to the projects long term and, like a girl that dumps her firends the…
‘We Die Only Once…’
App. 10″x7″ Piece commenting on the long arc of life, shortening the distance between the perished and the living. We are all dying, some faster than others but the speration grows smaller with each passing day. Could this be what organized religions speak of as they write of reuniting in afterlives? The catching up of…
O, Ruby Redbird! How I Love You!
[beer snob =”on”] When the Benny the cashier at Sidney’s Wine Cellar first reccomended Shiner’s Ruby Redbird ginger and grapefruit beer to me, I immediately rejected the notion like Parisians rejected the Rite of Spring. But the intense swampiness of last Sunday in the Square had me in an ethereal state of mind so as…
Last Day of Spring on Jax2 or “A Futurist, A Conspiracy Theorist and Skeptic Meet in the Park”
I’ve forsaken Fridays on the Square. Last Summer, I used to make art on Thursdays outside, then spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday also outside selling the art in sweltering, humid conditions. Mondays would find a weakened and weary Varg watching DVDs of The Wire with all the curtains drawn and the AC blasting. Any thought…
Fun With Stormpulse and Hurricanes
Stormpulse.com is a very fun tool for geeking out on Hurricanes, just wanted to share some great finds… 1967 Hurricane Doria I would have hated to be a resident of Virginia Beach as this crazy-ass storm made up her mind. I’m not an expert but there can’t be that many storms to make landfall from…
Welcome to New Orleans Land
Battling to keep the ‘real’ Venice afloat I couldn’t help noticing the many parallels between Venice and New Orleans. Though, our situation doesn’t seem as dire yet. But Venice also faces the problem of a dwindling population and an increasing influx of tourists that locals claim it is incapable of keeping up with. Wouldn’t say…
Sermon of the Afternoon Rain
June 5, 2011 ‘a drizzling, periodic rain’ Gospel: By T.S. Elliot a career writer and poet When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary;…in the mind of the poet…experiences are always forming new wholes… Sermon: All the pieces matter….
Ice Cold Beer From My Ice Cold Dead Hands
Though I am mostly a pinko liberal when it comes to most things government related, I have always made it a point to tout my harshly libertarian views on liquor laws (and, among closer friends, vice laws altogether). I have often wanted to create and propagate a “from my cold dead hands” slogan for those…
China’s Longest Bridge in the World
Say Hello to the future, “longest bridge in the world:” Sorry Causeway, though you are a Modern Marvel…