{"id":1032,"date":"2003-08-13T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/junk_drawer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:45:30","slug":"junk_drawer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/junk_drawer\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Drawer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been menaing to write more about the many exciting or at least mildly amusing things going on lately, but it&#8217;s been hard to gather the will to sit and concentrate on the blogging thing. Here are a bunch of quick links that I\u2019ve been meaning to pepper throughout a series of scintillating posts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Junk Drawer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"My hero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ps1.org\/cut\/press\/chantry.html\">Art Chantry, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1<\/a> is an incredible restrospective of the work of my all-time <a title=\"Art Chantry Saved My Life\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2001\/08\/art_chantry_sav.html\">favorite designer<\/a>, now showing at <a title=\"Not MOMA, thank god\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ps1.org\">P.S. 1<\/a>. I can\u2019t rave about this enough. The work is fun enough to look at in reproduction, but he does so much with materials and printing tricks that seeing the stuff in person is about a million times cooler. (And they\u2019re using the same title for the exhibit as I did for a <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/13\/the_idol_speaks\/\">fictional exhibit<\/a> years ago. but I\u2019m not bitter.)<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of P.S. 1, I\u2019d like to point out that it\u2019s not the same place as <a title=\"Performance Space 122\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ps122.org\">P.S. 122<\/a> in the East Village. You really ought to check out what&#8217;s going on at P.S. 122, because they put on tons of great theater and dance and performance and such, and it&#8217;s their ticket prices are great for what you get. More on this later, because I\u2019m starting to work on a number of projects with them.<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of great stuff at P.S. 122, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwoodbury.com\">Heather Woodbury<\/a> is kicking off their new season in September with her one-woman, eight-installment, 100+-character show, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwoodbury.com\/works_scrapbook_we.php\">What Ever<\/a>.<\/i> You really ought to check out her web site, where you can listen to streaming audio of entire acts of the show, so go and whet your appetite.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"So hot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flamingfire.com\">Flaming Fire<\/a> were one of the guest acts in the <a title=\"Are they not men?\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/devolution.html\">Devo Tribute Show<\/a> I saw last week. They were pretty exciting, and the lead singer was pretty hot, but you <i>must<\/i> check out their site to see the progress they\u2019re making on their project to have artists illustrate every single verse of the Bible (1079 illustrations complete; 35586 remaining).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Those glasses shouldn't be fooling anyone, Clark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findcliches.com\/comicbook.htm\">The Grand List of Comic Book Cliches<\/a> is funny because it\u2019s true.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typophile.com\/smallerpicture\">Typophile: The Smaller Picture<\/a> is a project that\u2019s building a typeface via collaborative effort over the internet one pixel at a time. (Thanks, <a title=\"Useless! Worthless! Insipid!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epenthesis.org\">Mike<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bio and stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.renabranstengallery.com\/barbier.html\">Gilles Barbier<\/a> is the artist of a fantastic, witty sculptural installation called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/Magazine\/people\/wrobinson\/robinson6-17-16.asp\">L\u2019Hospice<\/a><\/i> that depicts elderly superheroes loafing around in a nursing home. (Better pictures halfway down <a title=\"Art Basel Miami\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulwhkan.com\/abm\/abm021206\/\">this page<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been menaing to write more about the many exciting or at least mildly amusing things going on lately, but it&#8217;s been hard to gather the will to sit and concentrate on the blogging thing. Here are a bunch of quick links that I\u2019ve been meaning to pepper throughout a series of scintillating posts&#8230; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/junk_drawer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Junk Drawer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultracultural","category-ultrarandom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76932,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/76932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}