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That’s Denise Gray at saturday’s MOCA Pervasive Persuasion starring, Gary Baseman, Simone Legno, and Tim Biskup. This was right after our panel discussion. Moderating something like this actually turned out to be easier than I thought. Each introduced themselves and their work and that alone took up a lot of time. They said great things about where they are in their careers, how they sort of got there, and how Murakami influences their work. I think the latter was somewhat important since that’s one of the reasons this event took place. Another reason it took place was that before Murakami’s show even went up, he got together with the folks at Moca and mentioned that he’d like me to be involved with an event. What an honor. So that’s how it all got going. But really, MOCA made it happen. We brainstormed the event, but in the end, they staffed it with an army, and all of the logistics were theirs too. The reason I know they did well was neither I or the artists had anything to stress out about. They absorbed it all and evidently there was a mountain of problems, but we never saw them or noticed them. Well over 400, maybe closer to 500 came through. That’s Simone sitting, Baseman standing, and a huge crowd of attentive listeners. One of the things that we didn’t get to talk about more, and that was on my list of things to talk about was the fact that Los Angeles seems to be a hot place for art right now. Will people look at LA in 20 years and say wow, that’s a huge run of great artists who were working here at the time? Are we in a hot moment? That’s something that would have been nice to talk about since we’re in LA, but maybe it’s old news, and they already know and maybe that’s why they came to hear these three speak. Or maybe it’s something that just has to continue. An hour+ blew by quick, and in the end, I had an arsenal of questions to go. Things got esoteric later in the night. That’s Baseman painting on Oguri, the Butoh dancer. Butoh dancers move slow, and it was funny to see Gary being so patient and painting slowly. Gary ended up with a weird line of paint on his face. He actually painted a character on Oguri’s head. Yeah, it was arty. Piggy back butoh, and that’s Gary painting more. In the end, the crowd respected Butoh, but I think it started with some trepidation. That’s something MOCA should be proud of. While prepping for the event a bit in December, I think we all had skepticism of this part. Tim Biskup did a great job in creating the sound for it, and it meshed perfect. I think Tim’s talent in music is probably well underrated. Tim told me that Oguri spoke with him afterwards and said, “I think we were in the same...
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So you might have noticed that little clock thing on the right side of the blog. It's a clock in 24 hour time, and it's set to PST. The video is neat, at different times of the day it does different things. Last night, it had some girl sleeping. Of course, it has some advertising type of connotations and it'll be up for a bit, until either I get tired of it, or you get tired of it, but for now,...
So you might have noticed that little clock thing on the right side of the blog. It’s a clock in 24 hour time, and it’s set to PST. The video is neat, at different times of the day it does different things. Last night, it had some girl sleeping. Of course, it has some advertising type of connotations and it’ll be up for a bit, until either I get tired of it, or you get tired of it, but for now, it’s pretty cool. This is UNIQLO’s second series of UNIQLOCK. Have a blog? Maybe put it on? The ladies in the videos are wearing outfits from the upcoming season. There’s an alarm function version, and I don’t know how to use that yet, but figure it out and tell me! The music is actually fun, and changes as well. Turn mine up, I chose to start it off to keep your bandwidth healthy. Check out the official websiteUNIQLOCK go to this page
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The first Panel is in an hour and a half, I guess I'm as ready as I'll be. It's tough to do these since, you have to think about a lot of things. Who's talking, who's not talking enough, who talks too much, and how to balance it all. I'm not the best at moderating since I ultimately want to do like Springer and watch two people lift chairs to each other and "Steve" the bouncer come and split them...
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The first Panel is in an hour and a half, I guess I’m as ready as I’ll be. It’s tough to do these since, you have to think about a lot of things. Who’s talking, who’s not talking enough, who talks too much, and how to balance it all. I’m not the best at moderating since I ultimately want to do like Springer and watch two people lift chairs to each other and “Steve” the bouncer come and split them up. So in the civilized world, it can’t be that way, and that’s why it’s hard. Either way, it’ll be fun. Hope it’s fun for me, as it should be fun for everyone else. Say hello, since I’ll probably feel out of place in the second event!
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