Book of Job

Iona Rozeal Brown Performa 11 Rehearsal

2011-10-31T14:33:00.000-07:00

Martin Cohn : Air Conditioning

2011-10-31T14:31:00.000-07:00

Westway

Elmgreen + Dragset Free Dress Rehearsal

2011-10-31T08:40:00.000-07:00

Joseph cute as ever.

Marina Ambramovic Holloween Party

2011-10-30T19:39:00.001-07:00

Shameless self promotion at Marina's Holloween party.

URS FISCHER at Santos Party House

2011-10-30T19:30:00.001-07:00

Not the last one, but it was pretty good!

Shirin Neshat at Watermill, South Hampton

2011-10-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

2011-10-30T14:16:00.000-07:00

OverRuled

http://11.performa-arts.org/event/shirin-neshat-performa-commission

Last thursday I spent the day with Shirin at the Watermill in South Hamptons watching rehearsals for her upcoming PERFORMA 11 Commission. It was startling and beautiful. Cannot wait for this.

The Feathered Prison Fan

2011-10-30T14:10:00.001-07:00

When Rebecca Horn sat at the table next to me at dinner last night, my hosts gasp that I didnt know who she was. Now, I could never forget.

How could I not know about this?!

NARCISSISM for NAR

2011-10-15T04:30:00.000-07:00

New Shoot of American Fall T-Shirts for NAR

for the handsome Natasha Roozrokh

http://www.myspace.com/natasharoozrokh

Models: Breanna Box, James Hurst and Natasha Roozrokh

October 15, 2011

AUTO-WED

2011-07-14T09:33:00.000-07:00

AUTOwed vending machine spits out 2 plastic rings & 2 buttons #IDO #ESCAPE

Tube on Meth

2011-06-21T09:37:00.000-07:00

How Many People Can You Offend In One Makeup Segment

2011-06-20T00:03:00.000-07:00

I admit, I am creeped out making eye contact with AMI Clubwear Model Ashleigh... even with the protection of my laptop screen.

She proceeds to congratulate herself for having the ideal facial shape (who died and made her the authority on 'ideal beauty'?) According to her, if you have a round, square or heart shaped face, you're DEFICIENT. Tough luck... she means to say you're pretty much born ugly.

No worries, she goes on to say "Looks a little crazy.. ya know.. looks like an Indian clan..." Did you mean looks like war paint? Native Americans, who use war paint, are NOT from India.

Race, Gender, Self-Esteem, Weight... she'll find anyway to make her jab at you. Watch and cringe....

Why? What's happening there?

2011-06-19T23:29:00.000-07:00

Why is every pop song about going to the club?

IF YOU ARE LOST, FIND OUT YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF AT THE CLURRBBB!!!

2011-05-30T02:05:00.000-07:00

At the hollywood castle in Beachwood Canyon, learning that the moat has recently been converted into a salt water pool.

X Ray Vision

2011-05-30T01:50:00.000-07:00

A glimpse into technology, a video of a brief moment where YOU grant all access to the federal government.

The Kills

2011-05-30T01:48:00.000-07:00

The Kills play a live show at the Chateau Marmont garden.

2011-05-30T01:46:00.000-07:00

A video portrait of Ross's run-in with some underage My Chemical Romance fans sleeping on the street the night before their gig at the Hollywood Palladium.

Charlie Chaplin Impersonator

2011-05-30T01:38:00.000-07:00

Met this adorable/aggressive lady at a Karaoke (カラオケ)

Bar in Palm Springs on a wednesday night. Audrey is best known as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator.

This website documents her celebrity encounters and even hosts an letterhead from the City of Hollywood to Audrey http://www.mycharliechaplin.com

Eminem

2011-05-30T01:34:00.000-07:00

One night in Palm Springs.

Light Aslylum

2011-05-30T01:32:00.000-07:00

New music program at Skybar is killing it.

Preview: EMOTICON

2011-05-17T18:26:00.000-07:00

I collected pencil drawings of 'men and women in crisis' from an addictions and recovery program workbook. Ross came over to visit me while I was staying at Brendans in Beachwood Canyon. I pulled out the pictures and asked Ross to do his best to mimic the expressions being represented.

Preview: EMOTICON

2011-05-11T18:04:00.000-07:00

Collected pencil drawings of 'men and women in crisis' from a workbook.

RODARTE Retrospective Preview

2011-03-30T19:34:00.001-07:00

CATHERINE OPIE + RODARTE Collaboration Guinevere van Seenus and Julie Tolentino
Riley Keough

BOY BAND WORLD TOUR 2012!!

2011-03-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

TEXT work

2011-03-28T17:49:00.000-07:00

Mutual Consent: All the things Im into right now

2011-03-23T10:04:00.000-07:00

Femme Fatale and The Exhibitionist

http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/femme-fatale-deluxe-version/id423599398

http://www.the-exhibitionist-journal.com/

Prince Charming

2011-03-21T15:38:00.000-07:00

Good Morning War

2011-03-20T14:03:00.001-07:00

BODY SCANNERS

2011-03-05T15:57:00.000-08:00

ARTIFICIAL PORTRAITURE

2011-03-03T17:24:00.001-08:00

LAZER BEAM

2011-02-23T11:06:00.000-08:00

PRESS PLAY SIMULTANEOUSLY

2011-02-18T13:18:00.000-08:00

PopoMomo Sneak Peak

2011-02-09T13:25:00.000-08:00

Proud to share with you this collaboration coming out next season with PopoMomo and Laena Geronimo of The Like at this incredible location in Bel Air.

2011-02-08T16:57:00.000-08:00

Style In Progress : Adriano Goldschmied

2011-01-31T11:45:00.000-08:00

Check out these images I recently shot for Style in Progress Magazine of the founder of Diesel Jeans the luxury denim market Adriano Goldschmied.

For more images from this article, check out : http://kidviskous.blogspot.com/2010/08/mouthpiece-of-los-angeles-fashion-for.html

[[ Studio Visit ]]

2011-01-30T09:13:00.000-08:00

Preview: patti Patti PATTI

2011-01-24T14:32:00.000-08:00

Preview of FW2011 Popomomo Campaign with Laena Geronimo of The Like (Makeup: Andre Sarmiento)

2011-01-19T10:56:00.000-08:00

2011-01-05T18:06:00.001-08:00

Back 24 work 2011

PT 2 - David

2011-01-05T17:21:00.001-08:00

2011-01-04T13:53:00.001-08:00

On set of director Luke Gilford's 'I Wanna Be A Spanish Teenager' cc: casey spooner

DAVID - Spanish Teenager

2011-01-04T13:22:00.001-08:00

Cheyenne 3-charged (in cocaine bust)

2010-12-29T23:38:00.001-08:00

Fanny and Alexander

2010-12-29T00:37:00.000-08:00

PG-10 REMIX -- SEARCH:

2010-12-28T11:45:00.000-08:00

SEARCH:

'The Beauty Parade'

2010-12-24T21:39:00.000-08:00

Room 4616 Reserved

2010-12-24T21:28:00.000-08:00

'We Took A Family Portrait' Finale

2010-12-24T21:19:00.000-08:00

'Gimme More' Cheesecake

2010-12-24T21:03:00.000-08:00

My HILLS NEIGHBOR BRENDAN VAUGHN

A Unmarked Rave

2010-12-24T20:29:00.001-08:00

One dark and cold night in south Seattle, we walked into a laser lit, sweaty warehouse through the alley of the industrial district. Once after being patted down, we walked into a crowd of teenagers stumbling in their undies and grinding their teeth while the floors rumbled under our feet...

New images from the PHOTO LAB PART 2 on OPENING CEREMONY

2010-12-24T11:30:00.000-08:00

Photo Lab: Job Piston, Part Two

We are pleased to share Part Two of our PHOTO LAB from Monday featuring unpublished, exclusive photos by Los Angeles photographer Job Piston. Piston's second solo show at theSILVERMAN GALLERY in San Francisco opened this week and L.A.'s KHASTOO GALLERY has just announced a limited-edition holiday photogram gift box featuring twelve prints by the artist.

PHOTO LAB is a series that showcases original work by photographers we love. A space for personal work, unpublished archives, works in progress.

More Images at http://ace.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=2321

Review : San Francisco Chronicle by Kimberly Chun

2010-12-23T13:35:00.000-08:00

While working on his BFA at California College of the Arts, photographer Job Piston was known as a portraitist, but his latest work - on display at Silverman Gallery - sees the marked disappearance of the human form. Faces and bodies have given way to places and buildings, as the urban overwhelming of an exploding Taiwanese cityscape is juxtaposed with the lush miniaturized Eden of a familial home.

"That garden has always been a backdrop to my family's photo albums, so the absence of the figure points to the figure, in essence," says Piston, 27, who now lives in Los Angeles. He has foregrounded his own stark, pale body in a manicured backyard in one 2007 photograph. "I feel like the absent figure is the camera - and myself, my own sense of looking, in this body of work."

Piston's series of C-prints and photograms were inspired by the Detroit-reared artist's return to Taiwan, where his mother's family has lived since the 14th century. While helping to move his little brother into his school dorm, Piston rediscovered his grandparents' little farm house, once surrounded by countryside and now in the center of a rapidly sprawling Taichung City.

Piston's late grandfather built by hand the wall that protects the green enclave from the encroaching concrete, and since his family had started discussing the sale of the house and land to a developer intent on building a condo in its stead, the artist decided to peer closer at both his roots and the shifting topography of the country.

He shot his family's home and garden with his medium-format Pentax 67 and snapped the metropolis' streets, markets and museums with his camera phone. C-prints were made of the former, whereas the latter phone images were sent to a laptop. Then Piston pressed color darkroom paper to the computer screen, exposing the paper to the light.

"I'd think of it as making a fossil of the laptop screen - it's a trace," he says. "There's no material record of the image on laptop, and in a way, it's a stone rubbing of the screen."

The approach came about with Piston's very 21st century explorations in the darkroom. "As a photographer, I'm constantly staring at the screen at photos, but at the same time, I'm checking my Gmail and Facebook - I'm always engaging with the screen," he says. "And I was doing that in my darkroom, on my laptop, making enlargements and updating my Twitter, and I realized I have to close the screen because it was going to expose the film. I'm always looking for happy accidents.

"I'm interested in rubbing the two together, having the analog meet the digital," he adds. "It's like I'm introducing them to each other and having them shake hands." Similarly, the images - one associated with high art, the other with low - get equal play on the walls of the exhibition.

The disappearing rural way of life in Taiwan, one that his family has experienced since the 14th century, mirrors the increasing unavailability of the photographic resources and materials that Piston uses. (At the moment, he was in search of 11-by-14 Fuji Chromogenic matte paper, seemingly unavailable anywhere in the United States.): Both seem to have become more precious amid the rush of development and technology.

"As an artist who likes to work in the darkroom," he says, "I've been watching the obsolescence of analog photography into digital, and I've been thinking about how to have these two opposites meet and have a third new thing.

"I like how it relates to my experiences in Taiwan and seeing the city and the garden and meditating on the relationship."

- Kimberly Chun, 96hours@sfchronicle.com

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Through Jan. 29. Silverman Gallery, 804 Sutter St., S.F. (415) 255-9508. www.silverman-gallery.com.

- Kimberly Chun, 96hours@sfchronicle.com

This article appeared on page G - 14 of the San Francisco Chronicle

New images from the PHOTO LAB PART 1 on OPENING CEREMONY

2010-12-21T13:40:00.000-08:00

In this edition of Photo Lab, Los Angeles photographer Job Piston shares an unpublished series of photograms exclusively with us. These images were made by exposing traditional chromogenic darkroom paper to the light emitted from a laptop. Based on found, cell phone, and digital snapshots, these photograms create a landscape of ephemeral, poetic imagery. Piston's second solo show at the SILVERMAN GALLERY in San Francisco opened this week.

Part two to follow...

PHOTO LAB is a series that showcases original work by photographers we love. A space for personal work, unpublished archives, works in progress.

We Took A Family Portrait / 我們拍了一張全家福

2010-12-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

Job Piston
We Took A Family Portrait / 我們拍了一張全家福
December 17 – January 29th, 2011
Opening reception: December 18th, 5 -7 pm

Silverman Gallery is pleased to present We Took A Family Portrait, an exhibition of new work by Job Piston on view from December 17th through January 29th, 2011.

The artist’s second solo show at the gallery features a series of photograms, C-prints and a text installation based on his recent trip to Taiwan. These disparate elements unfold as a lyrical meditation on autobiography, familial roots, and nationhood, beginning with a series of landscapes of his grandfather’s garden. These stark photographs juxtapose familial roots against the rapidly shifting Taiwanese urban sprawl, while also invoking the legacy of the New Topographics, which Piston subverts with his own affective history. Against these, Piston presents a series of photograms, created by exposing photo paper directly onto the computer screen. This innovative but imprecise process yields images that are ephemeral and poetic, based on cell phone snap shops of the urbanscape. These works play with the notion of the index, both in the process and in their site specificity, while also creating a delicate archive of globalization. This is echoed in the text piece, a found word poem of signs and phrases that combined offer an insightful cross section of a culture in flux.

Job Piston was born in 1983, and received his MFA from UCLA. His work has been exhibited extensively, including at The San Francisco Arts Commission; Spinello Gallery, Miami; Artist Space, New York and MAK Center, Los Angeles. He has been reviewed in Artforum and Frieze, and most recently was included in the group exhibition, Wild Thing at Roberts & Tilton. Piston currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

More information at http://www.silverman-gallery.com/exhibition/view/1954

A Fire In My Belly by David Wojnarowicz

2010-12-17T10:09:00.000-08:00

As Ants Crawl Over Crucifix, Dead Artist Is Assailed Again

New York Times by Holland Cotter

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/arts/design/11ants.html?ref=design

On Sale Now: Limited Edition Box Set by Job Piston

2010-12-10T18:01:00.000-08:00

Khastoo Gallery is pleased to announce:

A limited edition holiday photogram gift box by artist Job Piston

Inside the box are twelve unique photogram prints by the artist, each depicting an installation shot of the twelve exhibitions and projects at Khastoo Gallery to date. Beginning with the inaugural exhibition, "The Crack-Up," from November 2008, all the way up to the current exhibition by Dan Shaw-Town, this archive of the gallery programming is transformed by the artist into the perfect collectible item. The photograms are made by exposing chromogenic paper to a laptop still, producing an image without the use of an enlarger. The resulting prints, 8 x 10 inches each, provide a fresh perspective on artifacts, temporality, and exhibition documentation.

The box set will be produced in an edition of 12; each edition includes 12 prints (of the 12 different shows at Khastoo) and is priced at $500. Because of the photogram process, there are slight variations to each print and so every set is unique.

Job Piston is a recent graduate of the MFA program at UCLA and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist has exhibited at Artist's Space, New York and Mak Center, Los Angeles and he will soon open his second solo presentation at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco on December 17, 2010.

http://www.khastoo.com

PREVIEW: SOLO EXHIBITION WITH SILVERMAN GALLERY, Steam Locomotive

2010-12-09T11:26:00.000-08:00

One Grandpa Fixes Up Another

I found these two steam locomotives on display while wandering through
a park outside one of the old congress building where Chiang Kai-Shek
would rule over Taiwan. I was particularly excited to see that a
placard displayed old photographs of the locomotives under a clear
shield, left out to bake in the sun day after day after day. I took a
few pictures of that. I turn around after looking at the images to
find a tiny toy replica of a steam locomotive, chained to a tree, for
children to ride on. I took a few pictures of it as well.

Article 1:

Sparks Fly over the "Resurrection" of Taiwan's Steam Locomotives
http://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/show_issue.php?id=199958805032E.TXT&table=2&h1=About%20Taiwan&h2=Trends

Article 2:
http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xitem=610&ctnode=1346&mp=9

"CK101 was one of several CK100-class locos built in Japan in 1916.
Only eight of them were made, and all of them were shipped to Taiwan
between 1917 and 1919, when the island was under Japanese rule. These
eight locomotives were assigned code numbers ranging from CK101 to
CK108, based on the order of their arrival, and when the Japanese left
in 1945, they continued to haul passenger and freight traffic here."

According the what I recall from the placard, these trains were used
by Chiang Kai-Shek to travel across the country during the first years
under Republic of China rule.

I also love the introduction to this article....
'Once upon a time, steam trains carried people away to start their
careers, endure separation from lovers, or be reunited with their
families. In recent years, some of Taiwan's old steam locomotives have
been brought out of retirement and put to work again, this time
hauling loads of nostalgia.'

PREVIEW: CASEY SPOONER - SPANISH TEENAGER

2010-12-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

Collaboration with Casey Sooner and Director Luke Gilford - I WANT TO BE A SPANISH TEENAGER

Photo Stills by JOB PISTON

The Man With a Movie Camera

2010-12-08T10:04:00.001-08:00

David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly

2010-12-08T10:00:00.000-08:00

10 Second Talent

2010-11-17T10:31:00.001-08:00

Dancers

2010-11-17T10:28:00.001-08:00

Preview: CASEY SPOONER / LUKE GILFORD Video. Photos by JOB PISTON

2010-11-16T15:28:00.000-08:00

Preview of the Casey Spooner Solo Project directed by Luke Gilford, produced by NOWNESS and LOGAN TV

Photographs by Job Piston

Check out a few preview images and an interview that were published on IMAGINE FASHION of Casey Spooner's first solo project post Fischerspooner

http://imaginefashion.com/news/2010/11/16/a-new-solo-foot-forward

First listen of SPANISH TEENAGER by Tareq

http://www.arjanwrites.com/arjanwrites/2010/09/first-listen-casey-spooner-feat-jake-shears-spanish-teenager-tareq-remix.html

Bitter in the Tongue

2010-11-10T17:16:00.000-08:00

What was it like to grow up Asian in America?

'I didn't grow up Asian in America'

What was it like to look Asian in America while you were not raised Asian in America?

'I came to the United States in 1975. In a matter of days, I became no longer a little girl but became a symbol of something I had no idea what it entailed, what it meant. That symbol was that I was now an Asian person in America.

I symbolised everything that America felt about... this country's involvement with [Asia in 1975.] There was also this history about Asians in America that i had no idea about...

What am I? What am I but a reflection of other peoples... projection. This cannot be the sum of who I am.'

What's fascinating to me about this woman, who gets all A's is that she becomes the brain. She's expect to be cut off from her body and she's the smartest girl in high school ... Then she gets to college and is taught Multi-Culturalism, the thing she is the supposed embodiment of and though she has been taught to be a brilliant student and is one, none of what she is taught as her experience is accurate to her.

So she is taking classes called Alienation/Alien Nation ....

When we meet her half way thru the book, she is dressed all in black, in bizarre make up,
half transvestite as a man. In other words she becomes the reflect of what people believe this iconic figure to be.

Half Dragon Lady
Half Masculine
Half Technician
Strange Encounter

Her only model for what she could beProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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s her Gay uncle. Because during this period, he was in hiding. This is what she knows. How to be in hiding.

'Here is essential a character who is, if you met her in life, you'd say:
I know why you are different. Its because of the color of your skin. Its because you're Asian.

But for this little girl this is not the reason why she felt so alienated from her family, her town. To me its that interplay that is fascinating. She is the opposite of everything you would imagine or expect.

What you think you know is wrong.'

We don't have a definition for what it means to be young and different. Whether that difference is Gay, or American Indian, or Asian or African American or a religious difference. If you grow up different, you have to learn a whole vocabulary of how to live and that vocabulary, that glossary has never been made available.

'A vocabulary of difference.'

after midnight ...

2010-11-07T02:59:00.000-08:00

Vulnerability and doubt are easier preached than to practice.

GUARDIAN

2010-11-06T19:08:00.001-07:00

CHINESE ARTIST SAYS POLICE HAVE TOLD HIM TO REMAIL AT HOME UNTIL SUNDAY NIGHT, THE DAY OF A PARTY OT MARK HIS STUDIO'S DEMOLITION

Transgender George Washington player a fascinating, inspiring story

2010-11-05T10:03:00.001-07:00

Allums will be the first publicly transgender person to play Division I college basketball

Here Here Here

2010-11-05T09:59:00.000-07:00

Shooting from zarteknoepft on Vimeo.

HOME / WERK IT

2010-11-04T23:08:00.000-07:00

Laptop photogram and chromogenic print

ROSS : Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry III

2010-11-03T19:03:00.000-07:00

ROSS : Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry III

2010-11-03T18:46:00.000-07:00

ROSS : Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry I

2010-11-03T18:28:00.000-07:00

PAY PAL 4 SALE

2010-11-03T12:25:00.000-07:00

JSTCHILLIN

A Collaboration between Melissa Sachs and Cameron Soren

http://jstchillin.org/

Until Nov 15

COASTAL

2010-11-03T12:16:00.000-07:00

$harK FIN$ 2

2010-11-02T14:43:00.000-07:00

FISH OVARIES

2010-11-02T14:41:00.000-07:00

DUCK DUCK GOOSE

2010-11-02T14:39:00.000-07:00

MEETING

2010-11-02T14:38:00.000-07:00

$HARK FIN$

2010-11-02T14:35:00.000-07:00

TOP OF TALLEST BUILDING IN THE EAST

2010-11-02T14:30:00.000-07:00

CONRAD

2010-11-02T14:29:00.000-07:00

SCREENSHOT

2010-11-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

WHITE GLOBE

2010-11-02T14:23:00.000-07:00

BENCH

2010-11-02T14:12:00.001-07:00

PINK BUS

2010-11-02T14:04:00.001-07:00

SOFT DRINKS

2010-11-02T14:03:00.001-07:00

HEAT-SENSITIVE IMAGE

2010-11-02T13:13:00.000-07:00

FIRE EXTINGUISHER

2010-11-02T13:12:00.000-07:00

WORK

2010-11-02T12:54:00.000-07:00

GOODS

2010-11-02T12:48:00.000-07:00

CYRSTAL

2010-11-02T12:45:00.000-07:00

Curtain

2010-11-02T12:44:00.000-07:00

Dining Room

2010-11-02T12:43:00.000-07:00

Police HQ

2010-11-02T12:26:00.000-07:00

Pillars

2010-11-02T12:25:00.000-07:00

PRICE IMPOSSIBLE

2010-11-02T12:22:00.000-07:00

billboard 1

2010-11-02T12:20:00.000-07:00

Mummy

2010-11-02T12:17:00.000-07:00

rest stop

2010-11-02T12:16:00.001-07:00

Cityscape 5

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