Finished Product

Title: "The Danger in Nature (Watching Growth, The Broken Umbrella, Hanging in There)"
Size: Triptych, Each Panel: 4' Tall x 3' Wide, Overall: 4' Tall x 9' Wide
Medium: Cyanotypes on Canvas

It's great being in the same town as E-Train!

Toronto, Finally

An image from Robert Hengeveld's installation at the UpArt Exhibition, which was housed in the old Gladstone Hotel in the hip west end of Toronto's downtown:

Images from The Leona Drive Project, which was an amazing installation out in the suburbs of Toronto:


Shots from the Toronto Art Fair, which had some really neat art, as well as some decorative shit. Oh well, they occupy different places on the spectrum of making and I guess the latter has a valid purpose:

Above is Allison Schulnik's painting from Mike Weiss gallery^. I love her work.



This is our waitress from a great pub, called the "Imperial Pub". This is the only place I've had 'poutine' (french fries covered with brown gravy and cheese curds) and it is amazing. Also, the bar dog named "MoMo":


Some shots on the go:







Zombies congregating in a park before Toronto's annual Zombie Walk^. It's hard to see, but this zombie's jacket said "Punk is Dead" on the back.

This is looking up at the Ontario College of Art^. It was an amazing building.

A little jazz club we found^.

One & Other Video

Here's a link to a video of highlights from Antony Gormley's One & Other "exhibition" in London this past summer. Really great:

http://www.skyarts.co.uk/video/video-one-other-summer-2009/

Tra La La Dee Da

ComeIntoLand.com recently asked me to be a contributing writer for there website content and my first article on Tania Leshkina's photography is now online:


http://www.comeintoland.com/landlovers/tanialeshkina/

I've thrown some of her photos up on my blog before. If you get a chance, take a read.

Eh, Don'chya'know!

Toronto is great. Lots of running around. Thank gosh for this vacay. Pictures to come when I'm back and settled in the states.

winter's a comin'!

first day with full long-johns on.

tijuana moods

turns me into jelly fo'real.

excerpt: http://alexanderconner.com/ytd.mp3
huge file, but worth the load.

kitchen experiment

Adapted from: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/lentil-sausage-soup-recipe/index.html

Black Bean and Sausage Goulash

Ingredients

* 1 pound dried black beans
* ¾ cup olive oil
* 4 cups diced yellow onions (3 large)
* 4 cups chopped leeks, white and light green parts only (2 leeks)
* 1 tablespoon minced garlic (2 large cloves)
* 1 tablespoon kosher salt
* 1 ½ teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
* 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme leaves
* 1 teaspoon ground cumin
* 3 cups medium diced celery (8 stalks)
* 3 cups medium diced carrots (4 to 6 carrots)
* 48oz Chicken Stock
* ¼ cup tomato paste
* 1 pound sausage (sliced into 1 inch pieces)
* ½ bottle beer

Directions

In a large bowl, cover the beans with boiling water and allow to sit for 15 minutes. Drain.

In a large stockpot over medium heat, heat ½ cup olive oil (reserve ¼ cup) and sauté the onions, leeks, garlic, salt, pepper, thyme, and cumin for 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are translucent and tender. Add the celery and carrots and sauté for another 10 minutes. Add 40oz chicken stock (reserve 8oz.), tomato paste, and drained beans, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer uncovered for 30 minutes. In another pan cook sausage in the ¼ cup reserved olive oil, until browned, then turn off stove. Check beans and add reserved 8oz chicken stock and continue to simmer for another 30 minutes. Check the seasonings. Add the sausage (meat, oil, & drippings) and beer, cover pot, and simmer for another 3 minutes. Turn off stove, and let pot sit with top on for 30 minutes and then eat!

AWESOME!!!

the sun is in my eyes.

Joan walking in the front yard the sun is in my eyes.

Found photo mailed to me by Ms. Sullivan. Reciprocity required.

st(r)uck

bloody nose

an appetizer or aperitif?

to try to contain oneself.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."

A message in a g-chat bottle from SK

LNY and I talked for an hour tonight and he wanted me to send his thug love to everyone.

If you don't understand who LNY is or why he'd send thug love, then don't worry about it.

Hanging Out

Cyanotype on Canvas, 4' Tall x 3' Wide

happy birthday

greatest gift


dogs sniffing other dogs' butts.

my limbo will be a constant awareness of waiting for my film to be developed

more mad decent block party:

I'm into, and I know it's nothing fresh, but de stijl...

^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_De_Keyser^



^http://www.newasshole.com/index.html^



^http://keithjvaradi.com/home.html^


^http://www.pmdemuro.blogspot.com/^

When you call me and I don't pick up, this is where I'm at.

Liter (detail): Ink, Graphite, Colored Pencil, Digital Print, and Tape on Board
11" Tall x 14" Wide
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In the garden: Cyanotype on Canvas
4' Tall x 3' Wide

update

That being said, "We have a house-guest. His name is Ripley. He enjoys sitting on my windowsill and arguing with the birds. He also enjoys staring at my speaker system when music is played loudly. He's my punk rock housemate at the moment. He cut me once. It was nasty, but I deserved it as I was shaking yarn vigorously in his direction."
In the video below you'll see Ripley taking in his surroundings.

Ripley from Alexander Conner on Vimeo.

god bless animals.

You have been here sometime

New Fave Blog. Check it: http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/

oh no

This Brice Marden (entitled "Au Centre"), was heavily damaged while in transit from Moscow to New York. Gagosian, who owns and lent out the work, is suing the art handlers for $3million. I doubt that in five-hundred years, it's loss will create a vast hole in 20th Century Art History. $3million. It's two grey panels. Yeah...

mad decent block party yesterday

past couple of weeks

No Way.

Dwarf Miniature American Horse, "Koda":

bluffing

I got me one of them fancy websites named me.com

http://alexanderconner.com/

out.

fun.

nowayjose

something about feelings.

24-Hour Voicemail!

finally.

it's just about time for me to deteriorate. i can't wait. because then i can begin to build again.

me too.

sleep in exchange for fun

Worth missing my early bedtime for last night: Hop Along played with P.S. Eliot & The Diamond Sea

Let's get ready for the future

Please deny yourself.

Rock.
The kids love it.

Be Contemporary.

The Hegemonic Bar: your infatuation

May, 1968
make a statement
break a statement

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I wish I had more money than I have
and I know that's not punk,
but I need to pay my rent.
and I can't survive without money.
I can't survive without money.
(lyrics by Andrew Jackson Jihad)

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Basekamp tonight was by far the best arts installation I've ever been in\to in Philadelphia in the past year. Anything that could make you drink and forget about getting drunk at the same time is impressive to me.

OMG less than 6minutes until our declaration of independence.

Get ready for it.

would you like to come in?

William Henry Fox Talbot - Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April 1844

William Henry Fox Talbot - Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April 1844, originally uploaded by The Photo History Timeline Collection.

salt salt ruth salt. my new obsession kinda. argh.

open house