Random notes on this piece:
I actually saw it in person (I think. Either I saw this one or one remarkably similar)
Joan Miro is my favorite artist ever
Joan Miro’s first name is pronounced “Yo-Han” (or possibly Yo-Awn.) For years I’ve been pronouncing it “Joan” like Joan Cusack. For years people have treated me like an idiot. Coincidence?
The Last Guardian
I don’t really play videogames anymore (unless freecell and spider solitaire count), but like most nerds there was a time when I played videogames a lot. My era of choice (and really the only era of videogames I got into) was the Saturn/Playstation era. The games on the PS2 in general didn’t really interest me.
The two big exceptions to this however are ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. I could say a lot about the brilliance of these to games but since a lot has already been said about their brilliance already, I will just make one statement: from an artistic standpoint these games represent the absolute pinnacle of the vdeogame media. I look at these two as being the videogame equivolent of Manet’s “Olympia.” In the same way “Olympia” created a dividing line between the old and the modern idea of art in painting, these two games should looked at in the same light for videogames.
That being said, the creators of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus are finally making a new game: The Last Guardian. You better believe I couldn’t be more excited.
Why Kobe is Great
The debate about where Kobe lies in the discussion of who the greatest basketball player of all time is will probably not be resolved aytime soon, but here’s one salvo from the Kobe is the greatest camp: what athlete other than Kobe inspires such in depth psychological profiling? Check out this article by Bill Simmons. These are the kinds of writing that Kobe inspires. Kobe may or may not elevate the level of his teammates, but without question he elevates the level of the sports journalism community.
Why Kobe is Creepy
On the other hand, I can see where people are coming from with the whole Kobe is copying MJ to the point of being super creepy. As of this writing he has MJ’s coach, his triangle offensive, pretty much all his moves, a three-peat, his tounge thing (although not so much anymore), his dunk crown, his fist pump, and I just found out he has hired Jordy’s old trainer Tim Glover. The underbite thing is all him though.
Aoqili Seaweed Soap
I am very vain and very neurotically obsessed with my looks. I randomly discovered this soap some while back and naturally since I’m so vain and neurotic, the idea of a soap that can decrease fat content is extremely intriguing to me. It’s pretty cheap too. I haven’t tried it yet, but I want to and probably will soon. Results will come!
Roger Federer Can’t Lose
A few years ago it seemed like Roger Federer could not be beaten. Now it seems like he just can’t lose. At the French Robin Soderling miraculously takes out Nadal for him and now it has just been announced that Nadal has kindly taken himself out of Wimbeldon. GO TEAM FED!
I wrote a review of the show “Black Market Sugar” about a week ago or so and apparently one of the artists there took great offense to it. So much so that me wrote me a pretty negative message on Myspace. Take a ganders, it’s pretty funny.
Terry Kim:
I read your review.
“Maybe I‘m just real dense” - was the only point in the article where you hit the nail on the head. I did have my face stuffed in a canvas most of the night, but my only memory of you during the show was sipping tequila with your friends at the bar. You never once approached me during or after the show to question the relevance of my painting in regards to the theme of the exhibition. I can only assume you paid the same respects to the rest of the artists before ejaculating your half-informed opinion all over your keyboard. I don’t know much about basketball, but perhaps your words would be more appreciated on that side of the court. You could make cute little notes about the complimenting colors of the opposing teams jerseys and how right at the shot clock, for a moment, the composition of the colors were reminiscent of your favorite Terry Kim painting.
Her name is Bekka Utermohlen, but to you it’s P0PNZ you god-awful hack.
Prince James Alexander Parise
I was gonna invite him to my birthday party, but after reading this I’m starting to reconsider.
FREE AXL (part 2)
Recently a picture surfaced of Derrick Axl Rose throwing gang signs at a college party and there was this big uproar about it. LEAVE AXL ALONE PEOPLE! He scored 36 points in his playoff debut! Keep in mind, that’s 36 fabulous points against the fabulous defense of the fabulous Rondo. Anbody that can do that is not a member of a gang.
Steve Nash on Letterman
David Letterman recently picked up Steve Nash to cover the Finals for him and it’s a pretty brilliant move because Steve Nash is the shit. What he lacks on ball defense he more than makes up for in on camera charisma.
On a side note, Steve Nash has a really rugged cowboy voice. That’s very, very funny to me.
Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert is gay. Shocker I know. Personally I think he sucks at singing, but I have to give him a lot of credit for the way he came out of the closet. It was very dignified. In general, he has handled his sudden fame and various criticisms very well and not without a certain amount of class. He has my respect……. until his album comes out that is.
Zack Morris
I learned two things watching this: 1. Mark Paul Gosselaar is a lot cooler than I thought (not that I thought he was particularly uncool before or anything) and 2. Jimmy Fallon might be the worst talk show host ever. I new he’d be bad, but this was far below even my very, very modest expectations.
I had a whole bunch of fun. This show had far and away the best crowd at any art show I have been involved in. It was more of a club/low level industry crowd which I have since decided is way more fun than the typical art show crowds. They are prettier, friendlier and generally have a much better appreciation for art. Or at least they are more cool about it. That’s not to say that art show crowds don’t appreciate art (because that’s not true at all) but I think at art shows, since everybody is into art or makes art, they always talk like they want to show that off. I don’t know how many times I get some goon step up to me at an art gallery with his arms folded and start grilling me all business-like about my work like it’s a fucking job interview or something. I hate that.
The babe-watch was very solid. Most were cool too. At least they were cool to me because I’m such a bad ass painter, right? Yeah…… anyways, I think in general I did a pretty good job at talking to people which is very hit and miss for me. I don’t think my networking skills were very good by anybody else’s standards, but I definitely think I’m improving in that regard. The audience was pretty soft here though, so I’m not sure if it’s something I should get too proud of myself about.
Of course since I’m Terry Kim, none of friends or anybody I invited showed up. It kind of bugged me, but I don‘t think I‘m going to dwell on it too much. I’ve pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I’m just not very well liked (and on top of that I straight up suck at inviting people to things) and while that’s pretty unfortunate, I don’t have the time to do anything about it. It would be nice though for somebody to see me when I do well though. My track record for having witnesses at triumphant moments is terrible. I can see why my friends would think I suck.
I think the reception of my work was pretty solid. I got a lot props and a lot of people came to me and said that my work was the best which is always nice to hear. It’s hard for me to say how hard I pwned since I don’t know how well the other artists did. Nobody I invited showed up, so that’s a big negative. On the positive side: I got a lot of people telling me I was the best, I got a lot cards, and people wanted to talk to me all night. Taking into account the fact that I don’t know how the other artists did, on a scale of 1 to 10 I think my pwnage was about a 7.
PWN LEVEL: 7
I’m a big Mingus fan. I did this painting for my show “Neapolitan,” but I never finished it due to time constraints. It’s a cool picture and it would make a cool painting, but honestly I can basically make “cool” paintings in my sleep now. If I’m not challenged by a painting I get pretty bored and not too inclined to finish it.
About like a week ago I posted this here and on my facebook asking people if they thought I should finish it or not. Now, I wasn’t expecting a torrential downfall of opinions, but I got two. TWO! That’s sad even for me. Epic riling-up-the-people fail. Well, maybe 3, but I don’t count Emil’s comment as being an opinion.
However, the two comments came from my friends Layke and Kim and since they are sweeter than than the candy Lamar Odom eats at halftime, I’ll finish it. Just for them. 
Click here to read my Examiner review of the show “Allegedly” now at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.
There are a lot of things I suck at, but apparently getting into shows is not one of them. I have a ton of shows coming up so right now more than ever it’s of the utmost importance that I get my FIERCE! on and jacked up to unreal levels. It’s gonna hot. I even hired a FIERCE!-ness coach. Check out the sidebar for more details.
This was a very early painting I did. I think it was my fourth painting. It was never my intent to be a realistic painter, but I always prescribed to the school of thought that every painter, no matter what style he/she eventually did, should have a solid foundation in realism. On the previous three or so paintings my skill at shading and color selection felt really…….. I don’t know. Erratic? Or inconsistant maybe is a better word. During some moments I felt I could get the shading looking the way I wanted and sometimes the ability would just leave me unexpectedly which was very, very frustrating. I decided to do this painting as sort of homework assignment to get down shading.
I took the image from like GQ or something. I selected it primarily because I thought it would be a challenge. It wasn’t. Whatever problems I was experiencing with shading in the past I guess worked itself out because I basically blew through it with very little trouble. I got pretty bored of painting it after a week or so which is why I never finished it. This began a streak of about four paintings that I left unfinished (I don’t know if it’s by coincidence or not, but these four paintings all have kind of a noir feel going for them.) Of those four this is the only painting that I didn’t destroy. Even though I never really had much of a desire to finish it, since it was so close to being done I felt it would be a shame to destroy it.
During my last show I showed a picture of this piece to a girl I met named Annie and she liked it and said that it looked good unfinished and that I should leave it as is and consider it done. It seemed like a good idea so I decided to fold it into my alphabet series.
