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Why it's OK for Art and Design to fall in love.
What is art? The eternal debate has taken a new turn in recent years with the relationship between functional design & art.
As we are launching this week an exceptional sale of artist-made outdoor functional objects, we asked Chardonnay Pickard to provide some perspective on art and design collaborations and Astrid de Maismont to give some insight into why we decided to feature one.
Aaron Young, Untitled , 2009. Recycled tire and 24 ct. gold chain. Available here.
How artists and designers collaborate
Chardonnay Pickard is a NY based art and design expert. She previously served as Public Relations Director of the famed, Limoges-based porcelain company, Bernardaud. She currently consults with a wide variety of designers, architects, retailers and manufacturers.
ArtList: So, is it OK for artists to make functional objects?
Chardonnay Pickard: I think that when you ask an artist to collaborate in any kind of product development process with a brand or manufacturer you're going to end up with something fascinating. So much of the way contemporary craft, design and art are segmented seems really silly to me.
My experience has definitely been that artists are designers, designers are artists and so many incredible objects and projects come from the collaboration between the two.
ArtList: What makes a good artist collaboration with a designer?
Chardonnay: Successful artist collaborations are made when the artist and the brand or manufacturer are able to create something wholly different from what either is known for creating without detracting from either of their brands…In many of these partnerships seeing the brand or product through the eyes of the artists helps the brand clarify and enhance its DNA. A lot of european heritage brands are partnering with artists and I think it's reinventing them and enhancing their relevance.
Brito's clutch collaborations with (from left) Carlos Rolón/Dzine, Erik Parker and Kenny Scharf (Wall Street Journal).
ArtList: What kind of recent artist-made objects do you like?
Chardonnay: Apart from Bernardaud's artist-designed porcelain sets, of course, interior designer and art consultant Maria Brito has created some incredible art clutches that I adore with the likes of Trudy Benson, Erika Parker and Kenny Scharf, which are gorgeous.…More than anything, I get excited that art is no longer being seen as something that's unattainable and only for academics and certain people. Art is really something that everyone should be able to enjoy and own and I think the world is recognizing that.
7x7x7 Outdoor Contemporary, by ArtList
Exploring this combination of art and desig, ArtList is excited to present a 7 day sale that will feature 7 functional objects and 7 textiles created by leading contemporary artists and in collaboration with Nathalie Karg / Cumulus Studios. Astrid de Maismont, Head of Curation at ArtList, explains the motivation behind the sale.
ArtList: What is 7x7x7?
Astrid de Maismont: It is a 7 day sale that will feature 7 functional objects and 7 textiles created by leading contemporary artists, in collaboration with Nathalie Karg / Cumulus Studios. From a ping pong table by Tom Burr, to a fountain byRob Pruitt, we are selling functional outdoor objects by some of our favorite contemporary artists, that will add personality to any collector's home just in time for summer.
Rob Pruitt, Untitled, 2008. Tires and electrical pump. Available here.
ArtList: Why do a sale featuring functional objects by artists?
Astrid: We felt that the pieces from this sale blur the distinctions between design and artistic creation, proving that the two fields can collaborate to create playful, interactive pieces. At ArtList, we care about presenting high quality fine art for our collectors. Historically, we have been focusing on unique works of art. However, we liked the idea of artists working under a specific constraint which drives further creativity: Outdoor.
ArtList: Why is "outdoor" such an important element of these works?
Astrid: Today, as a collector, it is difficult if you want to expand your art collection outside. There are design objects but nothing that can act as a direct extension of your indoor collection, nothing functional created by contemporary artists — like a bench, a ping pong table or a swing. These objects offer a unique solution to that problem in that they can serve as either indoor or outdoor additions to a collection.
Tom Burr, Bouncing Balls, 2010. Aluminum, rubber, paint. Available here.
ArtList: Can you tell us about the artists?
We feel strongly for the artist selection and production conducted in collaboration with Nathalie Karg / Cumulus Studios. In our commitment to offering quality for our collectors, we love having works by Ugo Rondinone,Aaron Young, Rob Pruitt, Tom Burr, Neil Beloufa, Liam Gillick, Mark Hagen.
ArtList: Where can these works be purchased?
Astrid: The works are available exclusively on ArtList for a period of 7 days. You can find the details on www.artlist.co/7x7x7 . Get yours in time for the summer! .. and fall in love with them.
Neil Beloufa, Sunset Burger, 2012. Metal, plastic, plexiglass, LED lamp, translucent print. Available here.
Objects for Sale:
A birdbath by Ugo Rondinone
A swing by Aaron Young
A fountain by Rob Pruitt
A ping-pong table by Tom Burr
A lamp by Neil Beloufa
A table by Liam Gillick
A sculpture by Mark Hagen
Kenny Scharf, Object des Floatz, 2012, poly twill textile.Available here.
Textiles for Sale:
Servane Mary
Rob Pruitt
Billy Sullivan
Kenny Scharf
Julia Chiang
More about the sale:
www.artlist.co/7x7x7
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3 Must See Shows
Via the Artlist blog: Art shows you can't miss this week in New York. We pick only three.
1. Yayoi Kusama at David Zwirner
May 9 — June 13
As Yayoi Kusama's Give Me Love exhibition at Zwirner enters its final weeks, it is now perhaps the best time to see the exhibit. Through her work, Kusama offers viewers a playful, fantastical respite from the mundane and ordinary. The highlight of the exhibition that has been gaining incredible attention — Kusama's "Obliteration Room" in which visitors are free to place a series of colored, circle stickers wherever they please — is now at its most colorful and should not be missed.
On display at 519 West 19th Street, NY, NY.
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2. Mary Weatherford at Brennan & Griffin
May 16 — August 1
The inaugurating exhibition of Brennan & Griffin's new gallery space, Red Hookoffers Weatherford the chance to expand her examination of American landscapes. With this most recent series of paintings, Weatherford abstractly represents the reality of the American landscape, looking to industrial, urban centers (such as the series's namesake Red Hook naeighborhood) as sources of inspiration. She is inspired by landscapes as they are, rather than by a pastoral idealization of them.
On display at 62 Delvan Street, Brooklyn, NY.
(Brennan & Griffin)
3. Niele Toroni at Swiss Institute
June 3 — September 6
The the first institutional solo show of Niele Toroni in New York (and the first show of his in the US in over 25 years) at the Swiss Institute includes both an expansive collection of past works spanning over 50 years of the artist's career and new site-specific pieces, commissioned especially for the exhibition. The show thus offers both a panoramic view of the painter's ouevre while giving visitors a taste of newer work. However, in contrasting the two, the exhibit highlights the meditative consistency that characterizes Toroni's painting.
On display at 18 Wooster Street, New York, NY.
(Contemporary Art Daily)
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Art shows you can't miss this week in New York. We pick only three.
1. Park Seo-bo at Galerie Perrotin
May 28 — July 3
Park Seo-bo, a seminal figure in modern Korean art, often finds himself in the intersection of Western and Eastern expression. After leaving Korea to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, Seo-bo rose to fame in the 1970s as a leading artist in the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement, itself a combination of traditional Korean aesthetics and Western abstraction. In their exhibition of Seo-Bo's minimalist paintings, French Galereie Perrotin highlights the Franco-Korean tensions that characterize not only Seo-Bo's works but Seo-Bo himself.
On display at 909 Madison Avenue, New York, NY.
(Kukje Gallery)
2. Carolyn Salas at Koenig & Clinton
May 28 — July 10
Opening tomorrow, Koenig & Clinton will display a selection of new and past sculptures from Carolyn Salas. The sculptures, both wall-hanging and free standing, illustrate Salas' ability to manipulate raw materials into seemingly tenuously balanced compositions. Her sculptures suggest a lack of stability or potential collapse in their precarious positioning. This balance is a part of Salas' aim to examine "our tendency to feel powerless to confront the crises of our existing surroundings…"
On display at 459 West 19th St, New York, NY.
(Koenig & Clinton)
3. Leon Golub at Hauser & Wirth
May 11 — June 20
This retrospective of the late artist's paintings illustrates Leon Golub's importance as an artist who was able to join the canon of historical painting while also reinvigorating the genre with a sense of modern, impassioned protest. His works depict the historical and political developments of the 1960s, 70s and 80s with an anger towards the social violence of the eras. This survey of Globu's work also offers visitors the chance to examine how the artist's own style evolved through these decades, from his gritty compositions in the 60s to famously aggressive paintings in the 80s.
(Hauser & Wirth)
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Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Today's artist profile focuses on abstract painter, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet. You can read more past profiles on the ArtList blog and browse artwork for sale on ArtList.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet's oeuvre shows an evolving investigation of numerous artistic styles. His paintings shift from minimalistic to impressionistic to monochromatic seamlessly.
For Bernadet this experimentation with differing styles is necessary, if unavoidable. He sees these stylistic shifts as a representation of life's unescapable uncertainty.
Untitled (Figure XXI), 2014
But while Bernadet does not restrict his art to a particular style, he examines each new style he assumes in depth, frequently creating series of works that investigate a single composition or aesthetic.
"I don't feel any certainty about life, so I want my work to reflect that uncertainty. I will never be the kind of artist who does one thing." — Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (W Magazine)
Across styles, his works are further united by their aesthetic totality: Bernadet seeks to create paintings that obscure their own origins. He does not want viewers to discern the origin or seperate elements of the work, but to accept the world wholly, like hearing a burst of music.
Vetiver, 2012 (Karma)
And thus the balanced tension that categorizes Bernadet's art emerges: it is changing yet steadfastly focused, reinvented yet theoretically connected to preceding works.
But perhaps what characterizes Bernadet's work most is an inability to settle. He is a painter continually searching, along with his viewers for answers within art.
"I'm not pretending I'm a Master or a visionary. I'm just searching for something, and I think that's what the viewer and I have in common, in art as in life. That's how we are fragile, humans, and humanists."— Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet in front of one of the paintings from his Vetiver series.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He has had solo exhibits at American Contemporary in New York City, Red Barton in London, Karma in New York City, Casado Santapau in Madrid and Torri in Paris. He has completed residencies with Triangle Arts in Brooklyn, APT Studios in Brooklyn and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
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3 Must See Shows This Week
Our 3 Must See NYC picks of the week are back on the Artlist blog! You can check out more of our past selections as well as artist profiles on our blog or browse artwork for sale on ArtList.
1. Harold Ancart at Clearing
With his paintings, drawings and sculptures, Harold Ancart creates works that exist not only as independent objects but as conscious examinations of the architectural and social spaces in which they are viewed. Ancart has admitted that he likes, "…to envision exhibits not so much as a succession of objects to be looked at, but as tensions created between the various zones of emptiness. Clearing Gallery's solo exhibition of the rising artist offers a profound look into this artistic, spatial investigation.
On view at 396 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.
Untitled, 2015 (Clearing Gallery)
2. Lisa Ruyter at Eleven Rivington
Beginning today, both of Eleven Rivington's Lower East Side locations have devoted their spaces to a singular exhibition of Lisa Ruyter paintings: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The paintings present recolored and abstracted Depression era photographs, depicting the American Dream at its most desperate. The re-coloration forces a distance between the image — which questions the essence of the American experience — and the viewer — who can therefore examine the American identity within these images while remaining separate from it.
On view at 11 Rivington St & 195 Chrystie St New York NY
Verona, New Jersey. Sewing the edge of an American flag at the Amnin Flag Company, 2011 (Eleven Rivington)
3. Lee Ufan at Pace Gallery
This new solo exhibition of Lee Ufan's work, following his solo show at the Guggenheim and his recent installation at the Château de Versailles, showcase the artists "Relatum" works. The series, which Ufan began creating in 1968, illustrates an intensive investigation of spatial relations and the nature of elements in interaction. This spatial examination is defining of the Japanese artistic movement, Mono-ha (or "School of Things) that Ufan helped to found in the 1960s.
On view at 534 West 25th St, NY, NY.
Relatum - Dialogue, 2008
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Leif Ritchey
The latest subject of our artist profiles is Leif Ritchey, whose paintings combine the texture of fashion with the harmony of music. As always, you can read more past artist profiles on the ArtList blog and browse artwork on ArtList.
The works of Leif Ritchey walk a fine line between fragility and resilience.
Papaya Place, 2014 (ltd gallery)
With his signature process of white impasto, Ritchey creates textured works of paint and fabric with pastel palettes that give these layered, constructed works a deceptively light, delicate facade.
He uses paint to not only create his works but also as a means of adhering textural elements to his canvases, turning his process of construction into a chance for deeper fusion.
"I don't use glue, I use paint. It fuses it. It seeps in. The colors meld. Where one thing begins and another thing ends is a blurring process. A blend from one song to another. The mix."— Leif Ritchey
Ritchy's work is infused with a sense of musicality.
In addition to viewing the elements of his works as separate "songs," he is a member of the band Shades, consistently listens to music while painting and sees his painting process as a mixing of elements, similar to the composition of a song or the curation of music on the radio.
Jasmine, 2014 (ltd gallery)
However, fashion plays into his works as much as musicality. He is, along with his designer wife, a co-founder of the Leif and Tooya Clothing Company. Ritchey sees his fashion line, like his artistic works that often incorporate fabric textures, as a chance to bring the exceptional to quotidian life.
"In both [mine and my wife's] work, we try to tap into the magic of everyday items — to realize magic that's already there." — Leif Ritchey (Paper Magazine)
Ritchey lives and works in New York City. He has had solo shows at the the Jounral Gallery in Brookly, ltd los angeles in Los Angeles, Martos Gallery in New York City and ATM Gallery in Brooklyn. His work has also been exhibited at the Journal Gallery in Brooklyn. He has also shown at Venus over Manhattan in New Yorka nd Jeanroch Dard in Paris.
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Ethan Cook
Our latest artist profile delves into the weavings and paintings of Ethan Cook, who attempts to examine the influence of human error in artistic creation. You can find artworks by Ethan Cook on ArtList and check out past blog posts on the ArtList blog.
Cook began making dyed artworks, comprised of dyed and bleached pieces of canvas, creating a work not by adding elements to canvas but rather by changing what the canvas was itself. The canvas became not only the base for Cook's paintings but also the subject of them.
Cook's investigation of the canvas as both artistic media and subject led him to inquire into its physical construction, with Cook learning to weave and construct canvases himself.
Untitled, 2014 (American Contemporary)
His solo show at American Contemporary last year gave him the chance to exhibit his self-made canvases alongside mechanically constructed ones, onto which he painted.
"I now see the loom as a canvas printer — as with a printer, there is error involved, those errors in the canvas become the gestures and the artist's hand and mark making. I present the pieces I make on the loom sewn together with store bought canvas to highlight these tiny gestures that come out of the weaving process."
— Ethan Cook (Interview Magazine)
This exhibition offered Cook the chance to juxtapose his handcrafted and inherently flawed canvas creations with those produced that were mechanically produced to perfection.
(American Contemporary)
Thus, through his minimalist compositions Cook plays the human against the machine to examine not only the presence of human error, but how we as viewers view and value this trace of humanity in art.
Ethan Cook lives and works in New York City. He had a solo show at American Contemporary in New York City and has also shown at the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, Paul Kasmin at Middlemarch in Brussles, Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles and The Hole in New York City.
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Our latest artist spotlight is on German painter Gerhard Richter. You can read more of our artist profiles on the ArtList blog and browse other artworks for sale on ArtList.
Gerhard Richter's body of artwork represents both the introduction of schisms and the attempt to resolve them. However, this theme of conflict traces back to Richter's early life, before his career as an artist.
Abstract Painting (809–3), 1994 (Courtesy of Tate)
Growing up in Germany in the the 1940s and 50s, Richter's life was subject to the country's Nazi and Communist regimes. But in his artistic training, Richter found a way to bridge the divide imposed by German communism.
Richter studied Socialist Realist painting in Dresden before moving to West Germany, where he studied avant-garde art in Düsseldorf, befriended fellow students Sigmar Polke, Konrad Fischer-Leug and Georg Baselitz and joined Polke's new Capitalist Realist movement.
"I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself."- Gerhard Richter (1978)
In the 60s Richter developed his highly acclaimed Photo-Paintings series, in which he painted over existing photographs, reconciling both the avant-garde and realism of his artistic training, just as his training itself reconciled two sides of a divided Germany.
Richter in the process of applying paint to a photograph.
"Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural — as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting." — Gerhard Richter (1999)
Richter's following series investigated the purity of color, free from purposes outside of itself. His Color Charts pieces broke with his abstractionist works to examine the relations established through the interaction of different, pure colors.
192 Colors, 1966 (Courtesy of Gerard Richter)
Still up until today, Ritcher's work oscillates between avant-garde abstractionism and naturalistic depiction; refraining from fully resolving the divisions he creates within his own body of work.
Gerhard Richter lives and works in Cologne, Germany. His work has set multiple price records at auction and been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Mariam Goodman Gallery in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. He has also participated in the Venice Biennale multiple times. He has been awarded many accolades including the Praemium Imperiale, the Wolf Prize and the Oskar Kokoschka Price.
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The latest of our artist profiles is up on the ArtList blog! You can learn more about or acquire a work by Robert Motherwell on ArtList, or keep up to date with our bi-weekly profiles at the ArtList blog.
Robert Motherwell joined the founders of abstract expressionism in American through a distinctly intellectual and international perspective.
It was in Paris that he was first inspired to become a painter, in Mexico that he completed his first works and in New York that he realized his importance as a distinctly American artist, only after receiving two degrees in philosophy and one in art history.
At Five in the Afternoon, 1949 (Estate of Helen Frankenthaler)
Upon his return to New York in the early 1940s, he became a founding member of the New York School, an artistic movement that united such contemporaries as: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, William de Kooning and Philip Guston.
The New York School fostered the American development of abstract expressionism, which sought to demonstrate both universal emotionality and the individual psyche of artists. With his philosophical, analytical background, Motherwell was especially drawn to the movement defining American art.
"All [American artists] needed was a creative principle, I mean something that would mobilize this capacity to paint in a creative way, and that's what Europe had that we hadn't had; we had always followed in their wake. And I thought of all the possibilities of free association — because I also had a psychoanalytic background and I understood the implications — might be the best chance to really make something entirely new which everybody agreed was the thing to do." — Robert Motherwell
Over the next five decades, Motherwell created over 1,000 works that demonstrated the influences of his past philosophical, psychoanalytical studies and strove to establish their own American voice, independent of established artistic culture.
The Hollow Men no VI, 1983 (Courtesy of Mint Museum)
In the 1980s, Motherwell completed one of his most significant series of drawings and paintings: Hollow Men. With this series, he sought to dispel superficiality in his work and cut through, directly to the genuine.
However, while Motherwell's works were highly conceptual, he believed there was a specific place for analysis in art creation:
"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it." — Robert Motherwell
Motherwell received a B.A. in literature, psychology and philosophy from Stanford University before going on to study philosophy at Harvard University and art history at Columbia University. He served as a professor at Hunter College.
Motherwell has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Paul Kasmin Gallery, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City.
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Continuing our bi-weekly artist posts, our latest profile is on post-conceptual artist Wade Guyton. You can keep up to date with our artist profiles by checking the ArtList blog and learn more about Guyton works at ArtList.co.
Guyton creates paintings without considering himself a painter. In true post-internet fashion, he uses printers, scanners and computers to affect his images, rather than applying ink to canvas by hand.
That's how it started. I was trying to do these stupid marker drawings, something hard-edged and geometric, and I got so bored. It was too much work. I could just type the same thing into the computer, and the printer did a much better job. — Wade Guyton (Interview Magazine)
Guyton creates his own geometric images on his computer or applies geometric markings to a scanned image before printing it onto a canvas that he feeds into his Epson Stylus Pro 9600 (having to fold the canvas in half to fit it into the printer).
Untitled, 2006 (Wade Guyton)
In 2013, Guyton's work was the subject of a solo survey exhibit on the artist. The show included some of Guyton's flame paintings, in which Guyton adorns scanned images of flames with letters and geometrical shapes.
The series demonstrates how technology can contain something as wild powerful as fire, and the tensions this creates between the mechanic and the natural.
Guyton maintains that there is still a space for error and creativity, even when working with machines in the internet age. He preserves the imperfections that his canvases develop from paper jams, ink clogs or from simply being dragged across his studio.
He asserts that there is still space for individuality and human error in the internet age; he gives us hope that we can retain humanity in the face of, and even in conjunction with, technology.
Untitled, 2006 (Courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
He also gives us hope for the future of the art world.
Last year, Guyton tried to torpido his own auction sale by threatening to produce copies of his fire series, in order to dissuade the prospective seller. Guyton is a vocal oponent to the unjust duopoly of the auction house giants; a mission that we at ArtList share in splitting our commission on all sold works 50/50 with artists.
Guyton lives and works in New York City. His work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also been part of two-person exhibitions at the Petzel Gallery in new York, the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna.
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Nirvana Tour Hits Olympia: Inside Kurt Cobain and Tracy Marander's Former Home
Yeuch, I think I'm going to have to apologise immediately; the title today is very 'tabloid expose', how horrible…Read it more that I'm still slightly stunned by good fortune's turns. Genuinely the most important word these past few days has been serendipity — the moments where the world has clunked together like a Lego kit only for me to realize it's a Mona Lisa level of Lego beauty. Tomorrow I'll rewind to Tacoma for a while, there's more to say about the place.
Today though, the day commenced with a well-earned hangover courtesy of Ryan's truly excellent homebrew and when the mist departed and was replaced by scorching heat, I discovered immediately I had at least two layers too many on and that towing 25-30kg of luggage with me was going to add a certain piquant delight to my time in Olympia. The bus network in State of Washington is actually superb. $3 dollars got me from Tacoma to Olympia on the 603 bus from Commerce Street, less than an hour's ride with an extremely cheerful and chatty driver and general comfort. There also turns out to be about three other bus options too.
The bus station in Olympia has a real convenience about it too, a store owner explained to me that the area around Fourth Avenue is the central shopping area; quite a closely clustered and well-packed set of streets. Olympia lived up to its reputation for having an artistic vibe — antique shops, arts and crafts stores, a couple of record stores, a milkshake bar, relaxed cafes. The proximity of the waters (the Budd Inlet) made for a pleasant hour or so chilling in a park in sunshine looking at the trees lining the hillsides on the other side of the inlet.
So, it had to be done. Walk along Fourth Avenue, cross Plum which is a fairly big road, then Pear Street is next up. Number 114 Pear Street NE being literally one block up and within sight of Fourth Avenue. No prizes for recognizing the photo at head of page.
This is where fate decided to play some games. I was lining up a photo which I never got to take because I noticed this young bloke walking toward the house. Realising he wasn't just another fanatic cult worshipper (like me) and that he actually did mean to be walking toward the front door my gut took over and I hollered. Thus I met Jeff.
Jeff is a student at Evergreen State College and a thoroughly pleasant fella — and Jeff just happens to share 114 Pear Street NE with a number of other student housemates. Hearing what I was up to, about the book and so forth, he was totally wicked and gave me a brief tour in exchange for a copy of the Dark Slivers book. He explained the set up of the house is that its divided into three premises hence when you approach you'll see a series of numbered boxes at the door with the separate entrance to number three being round at the side in a passageway.
The understanding of the flat-mates is that the young couple lived together in one of the front two sections then Cobain moved into the back area accessible via the side doors – the little side section of the house being where he lived for a time.
We sat in the lounge for a while, chatted on a bit, Jeff explained that on February 20 each year the residents are really used to finding gifts and offerings on the front door — there's even one that now has pride of place up on one of the ceiling arches in the lounge. Jeff let me look around, I tried to be considerate of the fact this isn't some museum, nor is it a public space, it's home to people who are as bemused by the twenty-five year old history of the house as I was to be allowed to walk through its front door — not something I'd planned on or even imagined!
Here's perspective; though Cobain recorded at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard, there's no evidence that between January 1994, when he moved in, and his death in April, that he wrote even one song — Do Re Mi may have been recorded that year but there's no evidence whether it was written in those short days too. 114 Pear Street, on the other hand, can be definitely linked to the writing of around 46-50 songs, a full 75% of Cobain's total creations.
That's how significant this house is — its where he writes everything from Smells Like Teen Spirit to early versions of All Apologies, its where he writes the first shot at Big Cheese and probably Beeswax too. Even the Montage of Heck was likely fused together here. It's a surprisingly lovely home. Large windows let a ton of light in, its south facing, plenty of floor space — just a decent place. The present residents have kindly heaped luggage and junk all over the front room to give it that 'Cobain clutter' feel though without the creepy meat collages or the old crosses!
Across the road is the apocryphal Washington State Lottery building that Cobain (and Grohl) used to shoot the windows out of with an air-gun. The flat-mates say that a while back they had a knock on the door and Dave Grohl was stood there with a camcorder and said he was filming a documentary, used to live there and would they mind…? Gee…Did they mind?!
The awareness of the history of Nirvana was heartening, to meet someone and ten minutes later they're mentioning the video experiments Nirvana attempted at Evergreen State College, or the gig at the library, asking questions about Calvin Johnson and K Records — the new generation knows the past history of creativity in the area just fine. Jeff introduced me to the music of Naomi Punk while he was at it:
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I took my leave eventually and headed back toward town; there was no way I was going to make it out to the Evergreen State College, or to Library 4300, so I stuck to town and spent time over at the Capitol Lake Park where Nirvana played support in 1988 to Soundgarden alongside My Name and Swallow. A picturesque place, quite funny imagining grunge bands playing in blissful State of Washington summer on a day like today.
I eventually headed back to the bus station where the lady at the counter laughed openly when I announced my destination — "its not that, I just think your accent is the cutest thing!" Ah bless. Sitting around waiting for the next step on the travels, definitely didn't see much of Olympia but to be fair it's a small centre, I'm unsure what more I needed to see and in that heat the walk to the college would potentially have caused frazzled nastiness and sunstroke. My "Tacoma: Love it or Leave it" t-shirt (worn with pride) was already clinging to me. Plenty of small incident in the next twenty minutes; tragically a genuine moron was riding a bike with his dog in a rucksack on his back when the dog slipped out while they were going up a curb and he proceeded to run over the dog's leg — sad, dog alive but clearly in pain going by the extensive howling. On the other side of me a guy was negotiating to exchange substantial quantities of marijuana in return for some tattoo work from a fella. Life is full of curiosities if one doesn't mind eavesdropping.
And sometimes it bestows real treats, like getting to shoot the breeze with a cool bloke on the sofa in Kurt Cobain's house from spring 1987 until mid-1991. Wow. Day over.
Posted on September 10, 2013 November 17, 2015 Author nsoulsbyCategories Bleach and the Sub Pop Era 1987-1990, Nirvana Maps and Locales
9 thoughts on "Nirvana Tour Hits Olympia: Inside Kurt Cobain and Tracy Marander's Former Home"
Candie Sutton says:
Bravo! Great article! Thank you for loving our little city.
nsoulsby says:
Truly, hand on heart, the North West United States is populated by the friendliest and most selflessly helpful people I've ever met. Americans can get such a kneejerk bad rep abroad but I've always had such excellent experiences with you all – you lot rock! 🙂
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Mitch Holmquist says:
That would be the "Washington State" Lottery Building , I have lot's of interior shots of the two units that Kurt did live in on my facebook page under "Oly Pics"
I'll amend. Cheers fella.
In Saecula Saeculorum says:
'gifts and offerings on the front door' – Wow, so strange, but I guess people leaving flowers at graves is the same; the dead (probably) won't appreciate it, it's more to make the living feel better? Trying to imagine who'd do that, 'kids' – so I thought of me as a teenager & I'd've probably done the same with Jim Morrison's grave, or if he'd had a house nearby (in England, lol.) Thanks for sharing your experience ❤ I love vicarious travel! & was a major Nirvana /Cobain fan. Still am, but.. so long ago, & it'll always be tinged with that cloud. Olympia's way sunnier, & 'posher', than I'd envisaged; I forget how big, open, America is, different. *Asked in an interview, jokingly, what if their child 'ends up a total square?' Kurt'd quipped back "Then we'll send her to Olympia."
https://www.spin.com/featured/our-december-1992-cover-story-family-values/
Superb quote! Love it. 🙂 And hey, I'd be intrigued to hear about your experiences of Olympia and beyond – you've been up that way?
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September 11. . . VA Tech . . . Columbine . . . Hurricane Katrina . . . physical assault . . . traumatic events that change lives. Educational professionals face difficult challenges in meeting the learning needs of children who have experienced trauma, whatever the scale of event. Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma offers wisdom born of experience as well as insights acquired through years of study. Authors contributing to this text share their experiences in the aftermath of tragedy and describe helpful approaches for reclaiming school after trauma interrupts the lives of students, faculty, and school communities.
Great book to help understand your own reactions in the aftermath of trauma, but also to help others, especially our surviving children. I wish I had it a year ago when we first returned to school at Sandy Hook.


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About Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is a popular restaurant group that employs more than 8,000 people in the UK. Their team includes around 7,000 restaurant staff, who are paid fortnightly, and another 1,000 centralised staff, who are paid monthly.
Payroll manager Tracy Summers and her four-person team is responsible for making sure everyone receives their wages, bonuses and expenses on time.
Pizza Hut's challenge
Tracy's team are always looking for ways they can improve the service they provide, by enhancing employee experiences and delivering crucial data to senior management faster.
For example, they wanted to provide executives with quicker access to labour cost information, so they could understand the impact on cashflow sooner. They also wanted to give employees easier access to their pay information – payslips, P45s, etc – via an online portal.
The team, already under pressure from existing demands, had limited time to look at new solutions, however. So, Tracy and her team called in their payroll systems provider Zellis to see if they could suggest changes that would improve efficiency, save time and, in turn, free them up to focus on projects that could help them achieve their objectives.
The Zellis solution
"We didn't know exactly what was possible but Zellis offered to conduct a health check on our current system, so we asked them in to carry out a review," explains Tracy.
After observing how the Pizza Hut team were using their payroll systems, Zellis recommended three changes that would speed up their processes.
Firstly, because the business has a high turnover of restaurant staff, 'housekeeping' measures would ensure time wasn't spent checking the records of people who no longer worked in the business.
Secondly, payroll processing would be uploaded to Zellis' servers in the cloud, taking away the need to bounce data back and forth between Pizza Hut systems and Zellis systems.
Finally, records would be processed concurrently, rather than consecutively. Zellis would update the system so five streams of pay, bonuses and expenses data could run simultaneously.
Pizza Hut asked Zellis to proceed, but the payroll team were cautious initially: "There was a nervousness as problems with payroll can have a big impact on businesses like Pizza Hut. But as soon as we saw the positive impact this was having, we gained confidence and asked them to push on," says Tracy.
As a result of the work, Pizza Hut has reduced the amount of time it spends on payroll processing by 82 per cent.
"Instead of finishing our processing halfway through a Tuesday, we're already moving on to other things on a Monday – and that's been significant. It has reduced the pressure on our team and allowed them to take on tasks that make a big difference to the business," Explains Tracy
The team can now provide senior management with important payroll data within a couple of hours. This is giving key decision makers access to information on the cost of labour, company expenses and cashflow – allowing them to react faster.
The time-saving has also allowed the team to work with Zellis on other projects, such as deploying an online employee portal. Employees can now access their pay information at any time and payroll staff have more time to handle any questions or requests that staff have.
"It's amazing that something that started out as essentially a time-saving project has actually helped us to achieve some significant company objectives. It has had such a big impact on our organisation and the service we provide to employees," Tracy said.
"And we're not done yet. We now have an appetite to find ways to speed processes up further, become even more efficient and continue to improve the way we work."
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"Beat the Belt" restored
Work began June 19 on the iconic LaCasse painting at Micro Center
Posted on: 21 June 2017
By: mholbrow
1. Tuesday, June 20: Artist Bernard LaCasse assists restorers who started work the previous day on his "Beat the Belt" mural. LaCasse stands second from right, wearing a red cap. Beside him, wearing a blue-striped apron, is Cambridge Arts Council Director Rika Smith McNally. A team from the organization assists.
2. Friday, June 30: Restoration completed. A public celebration of the project will soon take place -- date to be announced.
June 20: Work is under way to restore "Beat the Belt", the 75-foot-long mural on the side of the Micro Center building at 730 Memorial Drive. Artist Bernie LaCasse joins art conservators and volunteers to re-do the scene, which has graced the side of the Micro Center building at 730 Memorial Drive since the 1980s.
"The mural has already been repainted once, with the help of the artist," said Rika Smith McNally, Director of Art Conservation for the Cambridge Arts Council, as her crew of staffers and volunteers mounted ladders to restore the surface and renew the colors. The work celebrates the power of ordinary people to make a difference, she said.
LaCasse already took part in an earlier preservation effort in 1995, doing much of the repainting himself. In the current 2017 project, staff from the Cambridge Arts Council will be at work on the mural most days between 10 and 4 p.m. through at least June 27, depending on weather. Spectators are welcome to stop by to watch or ask questions.
The giant scene shown on the wall celebrates the triumph of people over machines. It depicts the successful effort of neighborhood residents like Ansti Benfield of Cambridge, beginning back in the 1960s, to block construction of the proposed Inner Belt Highway, which would have been an extension of Route I-95.
According to the 2012 article in ArchitectureBoston cited above, the highway project was first proposed in 1948. It gathered steam officially during the 'sixties, but citizens began banding together to save their homes, neighborhoods, and open spaces.
Cambridge was the first municipality to organize resistance to the massive multi-lane highway project. To duck a stretch of I-93, the route had been laid out in a way that would have displaced the Brookline/Elm Street neighborhoods and split Cambridge in half. But sixties protesters from Brookline, Boston, and Somerville joined those of other threatened cities in a coalition that extended all the way up to governor Francis Sargent and finally brought the project to a stop in 1970.
"We've been monitoring the mural since 2000; there has been a good deal of fading and flaking, and there was damage from the bike rack and from the litter of leaves, snow, and broken glass that accumulated along the bottom," Ms. McNally said. An anti-ultraviolet coating is being added to combat further fading after the repainting is done.
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Stan Lee To Return As A Kid In A New Animated Series
The Amazing Stan, it is!
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Stan Lee might no longer be with us, but a new animated series called The Amazing Stan intends to keep his legacy alive by showing the legend as a child.
According to CNet, the animated series shows the world through the eyes of a fictionalized version of Stan Lee as a modern-day kid.
Lee's character has been described as a constant dreamer, who along with his friends learns to take risks, explore new ideas and never give up.
The show is said to have something for everyone who loved Stan. However, there's no information yet on the show's cast or release date.
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Colorado Collections Connection Forum: The Process of Audio Digitization -- Now What?
A Library Linked-Data How-to for your digital audio objects.
The Library of Congress MARC21 replacement called BIBFRAME is a linked data vocabulary along with other ontologies like Schema.org. This presentation will demonstrate a few projects that use digital audio objects using an open-source project called the semantic server, created and actively developed by Jeremy Nelson, for a pilot BIBFRAME catalog called Bibcat being developed under contract with the Library and Congress and for Colorado College's Music Library Reserves. Finally, you'll receive more information about using these technologies for your institution.
Now that you have your digital audio files, either born-digital or digitalized from analog sources, is just the first step to providing long-term access and preservation of your valuable digital asset. The popular open-source digital repository platform Fedora Commons, used extensively by such institutions as Stanford and Columbia Universities and the Smithsonian, recently released a new version that besides providing for the preservation of your audio digital object now offers a much more flexible and richer method of describing your object for long-term access by implementing a technology called linked data.
Fedora Commons is a widely supported open-source digital repository platform that started as a project from MIT but now is managed and sponsored by the non-profit Duraspace Foundation that also sponsors the other popular open-source digital repository DSpace.
Islandora is an open-source Drupal front-end to Fedora.
Hydra is an open-source Ruby-on-Rails front-end to Fedora.
What are the other choices for preservation and access for your digital audio objects?
BAD! You can always fall-back to the time-honored but risky and unsafe method storing your audio files on a shared hard-drive.
BETTER! use a cloud drive such as Google Drive, Amazon's Glacier, Dropbox, or Microsoft Azure to store your digital objects.
The Semantic Server is an open-source REST API wrapper that for managing RDF entities stored as subject graphs. The current iteration uses Fedora 4 as a subject linked-data store and binary preservation store while providing expanded and enriched search of these RDF entities through Elastic Search supported by an HTTP SPARQL endpoint using Blazegraph.
Blazegraph is an open-source (with commercial support options), ultra-scalable, high-performance graph database with support for the Blueprints and RDF/SPARQL APIs.
The Semantic Server is an open-source REST API wrapper that for managing RDF entities stored as subject graphs.
To describe the Freddie Blevins oral history from Colorado College's collection of interviews with women from the Western Slope, a simple RDF metadata graph of this audio object is presented at the right. https://digitalcc.coloradocollege.edu/islandora/object/coccc:2478 at this IRI (International Resource Identifier). IRIs identifies a resource with URLs being the most common form of an IRI.
A relationship between the subject and object is called a property.
A predicate must be an IRI.
The Library of Congress MARC21 replacement is BIBFRAME, a linked-data vocabulary for describing bibliographic information for physical and digital objects. BIBFRAME contains a type of audio creative Work with specific predicates and suggest values for objects for describing digital sound within a bibliographic context.
Libraries, Museums, and Memory Institutions MUST become the trusted authoritative source of their RDF metadata graphs! Moving into a publisher role - like describing your audio objects to insure long-term durability and access - is becoming easier with cloud services. The vision of the Semantic Server is enabling the convergence of the traditional ILS/Discovery Layer/etc., digital repository, and institutional knowledge management systems into a dynamic and evolving catalog for institutions that persists and grows over decades.
Schema.org is a linked-data vocabulary comes out of a collaboration between technology companies (Google, Microsoft, Yandex) to describe "things" on the web.
To organize our application we created classes and their properties using Schema.org. This makes it easy for our staff to control and organize playlists and upload them to the College's learning management system "Canvas".
In order to reduce any copyright issues, the website requires an ID number and password for only the enrolled students in the specific music course. No one else is allowed access to the Mp3 recordings and even once the student is no longer enrolled in the class, they won't have access to the playlists anymore.
Allowing multiple people to use the a playlist at the same time.
In the fall of 2014, Aaron Schmidt of Influx Library User Interface Design and I were awarded a contract with the Library of Congress for a BIBFRAME Search and Display Systems that resulted in BIBCAT - a BIBFRAME Catalog - a lightweight catalog web application that uses the backend BIBFRAME Datastore. Check out the current pilot that is loaded with sample datasets from the Library of Congress (original records were generated from MARC records related to the subjects, "Mark Twain" and "Bible") at bibcat.org.
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Josh Tranks's 'Shadow of the Colossus' Hires Writer
Posted January 10th, 2013 by Ben Silverio
Seven months ago, 'Chronicle' director Josh Trank signed on to direct a film adaptation of 'Shadow of the Colossus'. Since then, while Trank was busy securing a date for his reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise, this video game project laid dormant and Sony searched for the writer. Now, it looks like a writer has finally joined the fray.
According to /Film, Seth Lochhead has been attached to have another go at Justin Marks' 2009 script. The new young writer is best known for writing the script for 'Hanna', the 2011 fairy tale action thriller starring Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett. In fact, that's Lochhead's only produced screenplay, but he's been working on the Michael Bay-produced 'The Governess' for Warner Bros. and an adaptation of the book 'The Age of Miracles' for River Road Entertainment. With some dabblings in fantastical elements, this green writer may find himself in familiar territory.
The story follows a young man named Wander who ventures into a forbidden land on horseback to bring back his dead lover by summoning a demon who can wake the dead and defeating 16 colossi that dominate the mystical place. 'Shadow of the Colossus' is widely cited as an influential title in the video game industry because of it's minimalist landscape designs, immersive gameplay, and emotional journey, besides the strong narrative arc and powerful visual effects.
Trank is supposed to be working on 'The Red Star' as his next film, and with 'Fantastic Four' coming up in 2015, that'll probably begin pre-production sooner rather than later, so it's still unclear when work on 'Shadow of the Colossus' is set to begin. At least Lochhead has some time to work on his draft of the script that way.
What do you think about the writer that Sony and Trank found for 'Shadow of the Colossus'? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Ben F. Silverio received a degree from Drexel University in the Screenwriting and Playwriting Program with a minor in Television Production. While at Drexel, Ben co-founded and co-hosted a film review show called The Pretentious Film Majors, which has evolved into a multi-format form of entertainment including blogs, podcasts on iTunes, articles in the school paper, and a potential tv show. Now armed with an extremely expensive piece of paper, Ben can begin climbing the treacherous ladder of the entertainment industry, which he hopes to do while streaming WWE wrestling matches, reading Marvel comics, and blogging about the excessive amount of movies and tv shows that he watches, all on the iPhone that is permanently attached to his hand.
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Я создал страницу index.html, в которой сделал форму для заполнения (логин, пароль). Данный через action form отправляются cервлету. Вопрос: Как мне перебросить пользователя на другую страницу html, при этом вставляя данные из переменных сервлета?

A: У HttpServletRequest есть метод getRequestDispatcher(String path) - реализованный из интерфейса ServletRequest, который возвращает объект RequestDispatcher, у которого в свою очередь есть: public void forward(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response);
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The benefits of cross training will be on show in the Sydney 10: on Saturday morning when star triathletes take on some of Australia's finest distance runners at Sydney Olympic Athletic Centre.
In a coup for organisers of the race, Jamie Turner's elite triathlon squad will use the event as a final hitout before most of his group head overseas to race the US and European summer triathlon season.
US Olympian Gwen Jorgensen, who has spent the summer training with Turner at Wollongong, provided the shock last year when her strength told in the final few kilometres and she finished too strongly for Aussie star Eloise Wellings.
Her time of 32min21secs was a race record, but Wellings has been in hot form of late with a world championship 5000m qualifier of 15min16secs at Box Hill track last month and a debut win in the half marathon in Japan in early February.
With the race doubling as the Australian road running championship, the running fraternity also boasts Queensland's Clare Geraghty and world cross country representative Bridey Delaney in the field.
But Jorgensen will have plenty of support as well with Chilean Olympic triathlete Barbara Riveros, Canadian Sarah-Anne Brault and young Aussie Charlotte McShane also entered.
It's a similar story in the men's event with Olympic triathletes Courtney Atkinson, Brendan Sexton and young guns Jake Birtwistle and Aaron Royle all going head-to-head with Victorian Liam Adams, who was seventh in the Commonwealth Games marathon last year.
Adams will have a number of handy young distance runners pushing him as well with Ballarat-based Tasmanian Stewie McSweyn and Victorian Jack Rayner in the field.
For race organiser Scott Westcott, the influx of triathletes has been a godsend for the race, particularly with several big-name Australians currently in the US.
"Jamie Turner's attracted a lot of internationals to his stables and his squad now is just amazing," Westcott said.
"He's done it hard through the years and now he's ended up with the best triathlete squad in the world, so we are just lucky that the timing of our event and distance is a perfect hitout for them.
The Sydney 10: is open to all standards of runners and Westcott expects this year to be on a par with last year's field of around 1200.
"We think it's a bit of a hidden gem, but we are pretty confident that numbers will grow as people hear about it," Westcott said.
The main race starts on Saturday at 7.45am.