February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
1 post
01.12.11 (Teen Wolf)
November 2011
6 posts
29.11.11 (Liv)
27.11.11 (It's Nice That No.7)
The new issue of It’s Nice That is out. It features profiles of Taryn Simon and Martin Parr, and interviews with Lernert & Sander, Terry Jones and Benjamin Sommerhalder.
It has been redesigned by Ray O’Meara, And is available here.
06.11.11 (Three instances of classical sculpture...
October 2011
4 posts
31.10.11 (Gran's House)
09.10.11
the recent surge in popularity of phillip kalantzis cope’s aeroplane images as an example of the internet’s terrifying inclination towards ridiculously specific content/themes.
03.10.11 (2)
dirty beaches john maus connan mockasin our kids will never understand is what we need to remember
03.10.11
September 2011
2 posts
29.09.11
Alex Branson’s blog is good I think: http://bransonbransonbranson.tumblr.com/
August 2011
2 posts
1 tag
09.08.2011
On a bus two woman scream at a boy armed with metal and a policeman carries a knife. “The internet has done this maybe,” he says. And then: “Golding was right.”
July 2011
1 post
An update
I interviewed George Lois for It’s Nice That. Excerpts can be found here. I also interviewed Lawrence Weiner who is frighteningly articulate, and who has a voice of such depth it is hard not to consider him maybe drunk.
June 2011
1 post
14.06.2011 (with regret)
oh now I am too old to wear a hooded sweatshirt
May 2011
2 posts
27.05.2011
April 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
2 notes from an interview with Erwin Wurm (edited)
1: At some point during our conversation he mentioned his age. I told him I’d recently worked out he was the same age as my mother but he didn’t hear me and asked me to repeat the question. I asked him whether he thought his work was specific to Austria.
2: I began with the sentence, “A good place to start would be at the beginning,” at which point he said, “exactly,...
January 2011
3 posts
Lines from an interview with Eric Yahnker
‘One challenging thing about drawing so large is that for many of the vertically-oriented drawings in my show, I actually had to draw them sideways because the ceiling height in my studio is a bit low. I didn’t get to see them right side up until they were framed and delivered to the gallery.’
‘My alarm clock is eternally stuck on TI:TS.’
‘In one example, I knew I...
Types of people at the London Art Fair (private...
1: Those ‘humbled’ by ‘all the art in the room’
2: Those walking as if lost, confused re ‘scale’
3: Those well-versed in Gombrich
4: Those with an insane ability to talk fluidly re specific artworks having never previously experienced said artworks
5: Those standing too close to a sculpture by Gerald Laing
6: Those who once assisted Hockney but have since...
Future blog post
‘You’ve Got Mail’ as an example of insane clarity of thought.
December 2010
3 posts
Review
I reviewed 2010 by answering ten 2010-specific questions on It’s Nice That. It may or may not be interesting. http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/3373-alex-moshakis
Ass-rape (recent events)
A kid (~17, maybe) recently told me he was going to ‘ass-rape’ me. He also told me I was ugly, which seemed paradoxical: if I am ugly, why would he want to ‘rape’ me in the ‘ass’? Either way, he wanted to ‘dominate’ me, aggressively.
Last week, a man dressed in head-to-toe navy told me he liked my shoes, that he had a pair himself, and that he was...
Names (?) (?) (?)
‘Hi Wilfred,’ is how I recently started a conversation with the artist Wilford Barrington. His response was glib, understandably, but it seems he has since warmed to me, suggesting that the ‘secret’ to a successful relationship – the sort with legs, that runs and runs – is based on initial mishap. Specifically, mistakes generate immediate shared experience, duo-specific...
November 2010
4 posts
#7
I wrote about Joe Kessler’s Fragments for this month’s Dazed (which is a 3d special, by the way, and deals with ‘radical visions for the future’, features a Daft Punk ‘world exclusive’, and comes complete with TOTALLY RAD 3D GLASSES).
She is probably younger than me
Below is a list of realised or upcoming projects by Lena Dunham (as mentioned in Rebecca Mead’s recent New Yorker article):
‘The Fountain’ An unnamed HBO pilot ‘Tiny Furniture’ ‘Hooker on Campus’ ‘Creative Nonfiction’ ‘The Goldman Girls’ ‘Delusional Downtown Divas’ ‘Dash & Lily’s Book of Dates’...
Loco…
What?
This was on the BBC this morning:
US State papers dating from 1994 released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that, during the Gulf War, the Pentagon toyed with the idea of developing an aphrodisiac bomb that would cause enemy troops to find each other sexually irresistible. An alternative was to make enemy troops sexually attractive to stinging and biting insects and rodents. They also...
October 2010
8 posts
2 tags
Jokes
This week’s School of Life column, written by faculty member Roman Krznaric, both questions the worth of consumption and reveals the act of shopping to be a cure for “boredom, misery, (a) lack of self-worth”.
On the next page, the Lust List features a £149 scarf by Osman, £270 Burberry ‘shades’ and a Hello Tula satchel worth £115.
There are specific ways to travel or there are...
On the bus, these are people I like best:
1. Those obviously in the middle of taking some sort of hugely important call related to family and/or loss, but who, insanely considerate EVEN IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY, talk quietly, calmly, aware of affecting others, at a phonic level far below the expected normal when first presented with the news that little Peaches took the dog out for a walk and lost...
Dream
Part 1: Mariah Carey, smiling (perhaps drunk), leads two horses (also drunk) in circles. Horses may or may not be singing or else it’s Mariah herself.
Part 2: Kitchen wall consists of 30-40 frames containing pictures of Mariah Carey, smiling, with two horses.
Image exists:
H E L L A S
My being half-Greek reveals itself most tellingly in things collected or fetishised, as if ‘stuff’ I’m able to reference tangibly – ‘stuff’ to do with Greece, somehow – either represents or acts as a replacement for the sort of deep, highly patriotic connection I’m supposed to have.
The collection includes, amongst other things: a) Novelty books to do with...
Three conversations, overheard
Girl on Blackberry (?), laughing, perhaps drunk: ‘I just love Michael Cera’s bum.’ Voice at other end: Something like ‘mm-mm’ or ‘uh-huh.’
Girl, post-cry, to companion: ‘I’m a sort of Herzog character.’ Companion: Blank.
Boy, to companion: ‘I have good chi energy.’ Companion: ‘I feel it.’
Plimpton did it
‘The magazine’s first office was located in a small room of the publishing house Les Editions de la Table Ronde. Staff members of The Paris Review were not given keys to the office, so those who worked late would have to climb out of the window, hang from the ledge and jump, often mistaken for burglars by passing gendarmes.’
September 2010
8 posts
#6
Wrote about Dead Ends for the latest issue of Dazed and Confused (which this month has something to do with the exploration of process and technique in fashion, and may well be worth picking up).
Tao Lin on It's Nice That
Alex interviewed Tao Lin. It has “info re ‘autobiographical’ i haven’t said b/f,” says Tao Lin. Read it here.
Riga For Guns
I wrote about Riga and guns for Thought Catalog. Read it here. It seems like this is the only piece of ‘travel writing’ on the site, maybe, and is therefore uncategorizable. It does come complete with this picture of John Rambo though, which is alright.
Pitch 4
An essay to do with offering various religions the chance to “win” me.
Faces