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avoidance or pure laziness? and... def both.

well for the past week i've done pretty much nothing at all
i did attempt to unsuccessfully get over my jetlag, but that did not quite work either.
i did check in twice a day to see if the jury duty gods would call upon me but i escaped !
of course, then i just think about how i could have stayed in europe to do an offered gig (which would have been nice too)
but then i would have been asked to show up in court if i stayed. murphys law n all.

the problem with laying around and waiting around is it gives one time to think and sometimes too much thinking is bad.
it causes stress and pain but at least i'm able to tell myself that the situation i'm in is no good and it needs to be changed or else i will go crazy emotionally. well, i guess it's one thing to know something and make a mental decision, another thing to actually follow up on it.
in summary the boy i like can no longer be the boy i like cuz he doesnt like me enough.
(ok it's not as simple as that but i don't feel like including all the details).

So then, I need to try and get my ass in gear and book some shoots and distract myself with work n things.
kind of difficult as the one i would rather hang out with is far away but still, i do have my local friends but sometimes my laziness powers overcomes all and i'd much rather sit on my ass at home playing games on the computer and avoiding the world.

With that said, I'm back in Cali and booking shoots. It's gotta be better for me to get out n keep busy!
hmm pretty soon i'm going to have to start this gym thing too...

Todd Schorr, American Surreal Exhibition at San Jose Museum of Art & New Book by Last Gasp

yanked from LaughingSquid

The San Jose Museum of Art has a new exhibition “Todd Schorr: American Surreal” that is a retrospective of the amazing work by Los Angeles based surrealist painter Todd Schorr. The show runs from June 20th through September 16th.

 

Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California’s cartoon-based movement, dubbed “Pop Surrealism,” which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorr’s astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by SJMA’s Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.

On Thursday, July 16th the San Jose Museum of Art is hosting “Todd Schorr Surreal Night”, a panel discussion and book signing with Todd Schorr sponsored by Hi-Fructose.

The exhibition is conjunction with the release of American Surreal: The Art of Todd Schorr, a new book by Last Gasp that also serves as a catalog for the show.

This is the latest collection of paintings by one of contemporary surrealism’s most influential artists. American Surreal picks up where Dreamland, Schorr’s previous bestselling collection of mind-bending paintings, left off. The viewer can look forward to countless hours of eye bulging investigative thought while examining the impeccably rendered subject matter that has become the hallmark of Schorr’s outrageous vision.

One of the seminal figures in what has come to be known as the Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism art movement, Schorr has continually and systematically set the bar ever higher in his quest to bring classic old master painting technique to his pop-culture-infused subject matter. This latest collection continues that journey culminating with the epic masterpiece Ape Worship, included in this volume. Schorr’s paintings are the subject of museum retrospectives in 2009 and 2010, and are highly prized and coveted by collectors the world over. American Surreal is sure to satisfy those with an overly-developed visual appetite.


 

herro belgium

ooh la la
so one day i jumped into a car with mirja 
it was driven by ropemarks 
next to him Chantal played co-pilot
we went to a place in belgium called dendermonde to make some photos.
on the way we found a photographer (patrick ceuppens)


Dendermonde, BE

gotta love the argyle latex !
from vex_clothing