Paintings: The Big Ones

Recently realized that I hadn’t officially posted final pics of my two big paintings. They were done over the last two or so months and are both wall-size (at least: Brooklyn apartment wall-size), which is a challenge with quick-drying acrylics. If I had a studio space to let oil paint dry, I might change mediums [...]

Art News: Anticipating Desire

by Mark Fullmer Anyone know where my installation’s supposed to go?” “Seth might.” “Which one’s Seth? Hi. Are you Seth? Are you Seth?” “Seth’s in the bathtub.” “Installing his piece.” “It’s about Dylan Thomas.” “Who used to live here.” This is three o’clock on a Friday afternoon in Suite 1024 of the Hotel Chelsea which [...]

Film: Just One Thing (A Brooklyn Short)

I first saw Mark perform this piece as a one-off at Penny’s – a hurdy-gurdy holy roller that literally had the crowd holding their breath until he erupted, at the final blue-faced moment, into a trumpeted “Saints Go Marching In”. Seeing it again now, stripped of the stage and without redemption, “Just One Thing” reminds [...]

Video: The Long Version (No Sexy Regrets)

First and final take, recorded with Joe Yoga, Rachel Rabbit, Mark Fullmer, Bat Matthews, and Michelle Leona on July 4th, 2010. Video courtesy of a telephone. Also: new facebook page here!

Shark (Process)

Figure 1: Social Obligations (6′x5′, acrylic on canvas)

Group Show w/ Courage @ Chelsea Hotel

About a month from today I will be part of a massively collaborative pop-up art show at the Chelsea Hotel – where Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious, Robert Mapplethorpe, and (briefly) Tom Waits &c. lived! – and will be using the opportunity to finally show [...]

Painting: Progress (2)

Photo via Rachel @ BeautifulShit.org

Painting: Progress

bookshelf porn

John Waters says “if you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em.” I agree, and always make a beeline for the bookshelves when I’m in someone’s apartment. I used to subconsciously curate my bookshelves for this eventuality before I worked in publishing, but since I’ve been in the biz for [...]

a day in the life (1991)

A new decade, a different direction; experiments with cursive and “British humor”. Hit play and then click somewhere outside of the slideshow to read sans buttons etc:

Race Car Magic (1990)

The thrilling follow-up to The Monsters (1988) Hit play and then click somewhere outside of the slideshow to read sans buttons etc:

the monsters (1988)

By a young Nick Courage, working under the first of many surnames. Hit play and then click somewhere outside of the slideshow to read sans buttons etc:

Henhouse Letters (poetry/video)

While I was avoiding hungry vendor stares at the NYC Zine Fest last summer, Rachel – again – was being an admirable astronaut on spaceship earth and making awesome finds. Can’t remember the provenance of this poem either (outside of “from an egg”). If it’s from you, holla at your boy.

addiction (poetry/video)

Rachel bought a cigarette shaped poem from a vending machine at NYC Zine Fest last summer. We can’t remember provenance outside of that since it’s been so long (if it’s you, let us know) – but it was worth the wait!

sea chantey (pastiche)

An ancient one-track/one-take favorite (talked about in AMR Podcast #8 alongside “Fierce Love”, if you’re hungry for context, and played on that old, broken junior guitar Bat and me used to have). Lyrics also included @ that link. And as long as this is a thing, I’m cobbling together these YouTube videos from the extreme [...]