(Shaq and Lebron getting ready for my show)
I finally finished my Press Release. It feels pretty good although the third paragraph is a little long.
Press Release for “Re-Inventing the Wheel”
Acclaimed underground artist Terry Kim will hosting his fifth solo show, “Re-Inventing the Wheel” at the ARTery Gallery. Both praised and criticized for his heavy use of pop/mainstream imagery in his hyper stylized portrait and figurative paintings, Terry’s artwork has always blurred the lines between the avante guarde and mainstream. With “Re-Inventing the Wheel,” Terry Kim looks to shatter it with a dynamic new collection of paintings that seamlessly blend fashionable imagery of beautiful women with bold color fields and minimalist composition.
The centerpiece for “Re-Inventing the Wheel” however, will not be the artwork, but a spoken word set that will be performed at the opening reception and filmed for an upcoming documentary. The performance, aptly titled “Re-Inventing the Wheel,” will be a unique blend of stand up comedy, personal stories and a Q/A session that will give a unique insight into the mind of a talented young artist with pretty ridiculous ambitions.
Shaq and Lebron are laughing and discussing how great my show will be. They don’t want to invite Kobe though. 
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Terry Kim was born and raised in Orange County. He began exhibiting his work publicly in 2005 and has since appeared in numerous shows in the Orange County and LA area. Growing up he always had a real knack for painting and drawing, and although he never cared much for doing either activity, he did enjoy being better than other people at it so he kept it up just enough to keep improving. He hated doing schoolwork which in part led to his decision to skip university or art school.. He took up painting at the age of 20 initially as a roundabout way to get into filmmaking and because he had nothing better to do. He taught himself how to paint by copying pictures from fashion magazines because it was cheaper than hiring a model and he was reading them anyway. His initial plan was to learn to be a crack realist and then transition to more abstract/non-representational work seeing as he doesn’t really like realistic artwork and loves abstract/non representational art (Joan Miro in particularly.) When he started exhibiting paintings of his early fashion picture copies however, his style really caught on. He hated this at first, but when he started seeing that his work was appealing to very wide number of people from the very artsy to people who couldn‘t really care less about art, he became very intrigued with the potential of the style he created.
“Re-Inventing the Wheel” 9/5-9/18 @ The ARTery
Opening Reception: September 5th 6:00-10:00 PM
Closing Reception: September 18th 6:00-10:00 PM
The ARTery Gallery @ The LAB
2930 Bristol St, Costa Mesa, Ca
Located Behind Urban Outfitters
Day 25 (Only Sexy People Apply)
Day 26 (Composition in Blue and Orange)
Day 29 (Guess Who’s Lotioning Up For My Show?)
Day 30 (Re-Inventing the Wheel)
I like Adrian Wojnarowski?
The Lakers are up 2-0. I’m probably gonna cry if they win (I want to say “when they win” but I don’t want to jinx it.) Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports is becoming one of favorite sports writers in an interesting twist of fate because I used to really hate him. This is probably because he’s not writing too many anti-Kobe articles anymore. Yeah I’m biased as shit, but in my defense, even when he wote blistering diatribes crucifying the Artist Formerly Known as The Ocho, I always respected his writing ability which has always been top notch. This probably why I still read every article he wrote even though they were blasphemous. He recently wrote some great articles about Shaq’s pettiness and Pau’s not-softness that you should check out.
John Hollinger has a good article?
I normally hate John Hollinger but this article is great. After reading it I understand more where he’s coming from. I’d hate Kobe too if everytime I said X basketball player had a good game I got The Laker Nation flooding my inbox calling me an X player dick rider. I also thought it was hilarious that after the Magic beat the Cavs he got more mail from Laker fans dogging on Lebronze.
Lebronze!
On a funny note, I call Lebron Lebronze because of he always seems to come in third in world competition. Seeing as how the Nuggets were eliminated before the Craboliers, Lebronze came in third again.
The Mighty Fed!
Roger Federer finally won the French and I couldn’t be happier. In my opinion this victory should easily make him the greatest of all time and it kind of bugs me that it’s still up for debate. Think about it: 14 titles, career grand slam, 20 straight semi-finals (17 of which were finals appearances), 237 (i think) weeks at number 1. That’s easily better than Sampras. Don’t even bring up Rod Laver. Rod Laver was definately more dominant for his time, but that was a long time ago. If they played today at their primes, it would be over in straights. Bringing up his shaky record against Nadal is valid, but during his prime The Mighty Fed only played Nadal on clay. Nadal couldn’t even meet him on the hard courts. Hell, he couldn’t even meet him at this year’s French.
I think now that he has the monkey off his back he’ll start playing more like The Mighty Fed of old, instead of The Mighty Old Fed.
