Cassette From My Ex Website

There is something almost suffocatingly poignant about this site. I don't know if it's because of the weight of my own nostalgia for the suddenly faraway recent past (1987 was ... 20 years ago?) or the ghosts that linger in each of these accounts.

Cassette From My Ex is here.

ON THE CREATION MUSEUM or "horseshit, horseshit, horseshit"

"And this is, in sum, the Creation Museum. $27 million has purchased the very best monument to an enormous load of horseshit that you could possibly ever hope to see." link here
(via Daring Fireball).

Wait, one more quote, this is too awesome not to echo:

"Not for the Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent Design,” which tries to slip God by as some random designer, who just sort of got the ball rolling by accident. Screw that, pal: The Creation Museum’s God is hands on! "

Banzai Institute?

Digressions on names and work...

Although the Albert Ellis Institute is currently hijacked by a bunch of jerks, I always loved when Albert would refer to his institute. If I had one, what would I call it? What should I call it? The repeated references to the Banzai Institute in all the support materials for Buckaroo Banzai reminded me of this. Steven Solomon Inc. or something is OK, but...

I am currently doing some text stuff, maybe feeling freed by the Bruce Nauman retrospective I saw in Berkeley this year, and also the wonderful
Miranda July (who I was just lucky enough to see do a reading/performance
at the NYPL last night).

Steven Solo or stevensolo is just a moniker of convenience, since I wanted a ".com" and stevensolomon.com is a "17 Year Old Professional Pianist
Jazzing Up Chicago's Music Scene".

Hey, he is a neat doppelganger and I have been following his career (sort of) since I realized he had snagged the domain.

Linking this blog to www.stevensolo.com has had a chilling effect since
the persona connected to the comics-influenced painting has stagnated so
@#$% much.

I will be setting up some satellite identities this next 6 months, maybe
taking a cue from Hokusai. It is time for multiple secret identities,
movement in general. Art making as communication, directness, shedding the
skin, accepting The Me Of Now (Thanks Oblique Strategies).

Breathe...

"Laptop Like You" song

I have jumped on the Jonathan Coulton bandwagon. I _did_ know about him before the NYT article, thanks to Merlin Mann and Ze Frank. But you may
not, go check this article:

But, more importantly, check out his geek love song, "Laptop Like You". I
truly can say that, as an artist, he voiced my deepest emotions concerning
my MacBook Pro.

Go here, scroll to Other Experiments at
the bottom and click "Hear". Then click "Buy"!

NYT Newsriver is baaack! (for awhile anyhow)

Here is a geeky link: http://nytimesriver.com/

This is a revival of Dave Winer's newsriver for the NYT.
If you like it, tell people about it and tell him how cool you think it is
on his comments page, which is at http://scripting.wordpress.com/

All text, in feed order, all links lead to printer friendly versions of the
stories. He just restored it, I have written him like a nut asking for it back after he killed it.

No nonsense and lots of peripheral newsreading. Cool, huh?

It is interesting to see how much more of the paper I check out when it is just a big old text list with links. The NYT podcasts are way more accessible this way as well.

Merlin Redeems TV. Also: The Delmore Effect!

Merlin Mann does a video podcast that is actually good. This is the first interview of The Merlin Show. Mann's interest in creativity and how to get there informs most of his work (with the dark side represented as well).


It is not a coincidence that Paul Sas turned me onto Merlin, since his own work on goal setting and The Delmore Effect is a motherlode of insight.


In his words: "...most people tend to set much more explicit goals for low priority domains than for their most important ambitions. (This lapse is labeled the Delmore Effect, after the failed poet, Delmore Schwartz).


Holy goofing off, Batman, I have to get offline RIGHT NOW!

How Public Do Ya Wanna Be?

I am approaching the revamp of my site with trepidation. It may very well be that going Flickr with images of the work is the easiest way to do it. I hate creating web albums and I hate the way that precreated web albums look.

I did link to my blog from my site under "rant" to continue the EXPERIMENT. There is alot of in vivo desensitization goodness and potential shittiness in going that public.

Writing is one thing, throwing the paintings out into the work, that requires some more testiculartudinous!! "YES, it must be done! Pinky, come, there's work to do!!"

Online portfolio of paintings: http://www.stevensolo.com/cbb.html