Steve Or Steven Read Stuff

New Kittinfish Mountain Album!

Steve Or Steven Read — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:24 +0000

Ambient layers from the past and future are presented to you by Kittinfish Mountain. I personally think it's here now because maybe the world was gonna end this year or perhaps because Walt Disney was theorized by Buckminster Fuller's pet chimp to be the inventor of the modern dog. This album reminds me of the last time I plugged my plastic cotton gin website into my iGenital app and the sparks flew right into the face of space future one. Well I'm not really a music critic so put down your gosh darned Cuisinart ________ Humanoid and enjoy the last days of terra earth firma by listening to this great work of music called Progress in Retrograde. I think my favorite is the final epic track Omnimover Deluxe.

Jesse Wiedel Stuff

Steve Or Steven Read — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:20:43 +0000

Been meaning to post about the California artist Jesse Wiedel who paints like a madman. Awesome-ness! My brother and I each own a painting of his (the two shown above from 2007). He has shown in many galleries across the US of A. No, his work actually IS the US of A. Lots of beautiful west coast color/light, frantic dreamlike states of wonder and fright, mythologies mashed up, falling on their ass, cultural wastelands shown for half price. My favorite pieces of his are small, quick, flexible, fairly ill, impossibly conceived. The one I purchased (from Show Cave in LA) was from a series about Kris Kristofferson songs. Jesus was a Capricorn, the first painting, is a very famous song of his. Let me give it a try: Kris and presumably Rita Coolidge have been spending lots of time in shitty hotel rooms out west and things are starting to go wrong... Kris has miraculously transformed into the capricorn-jesus-goat-fish but the wine-milk suckled from god Zeus is instead mother's milk painfully provided through the sins of the sexual-devil-monster-mary Rita who is walking on water. Let us now take nourishment from this scene. Formally I love the spatial composition, feeling loosely over-composed, with a beautiful palette and varietal paint handling, what is not to like here? The other painting we got is from a series involving trailer parks, urban decay, bored/crazed meth heads. What is going here? Perhaps the residents are merely practicing martial arts. We don't know. Maybe we don't want to know.

Reflection Collection

Steve Or Steven Read — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:27:51 +0000

Found a couple photography projects with similarity (and vast difference) to one of my own projects entitled eBayTV so check 'em all out! Sublime, Sublime. Two of these three collected dots were found already connected over at Michael Day's Tumblr.

Laura Splan has a project called Mirror, Mirror from 2010 where she collected photos from eBay which contained mirrors for sale. Her website has a gallery of them, while selected photos have been printed into a book currently on exhibit and for sale through the SFMOMA Shadows$hop project.

Penelope Umbrico's project For Sale/TVs From Craigslist (2009) collects the photography of sellers who were caught using their flash on a blank TV screen. Her rigorous process continues as she exhibits prints while posting them for sale on Craigslist, taking into account the television's original locality and price.

New Old Gadget Happy Joy Goodness

Steve Or Steven Read — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:56:09 +0000

Jonas Damon has some beautiful tech-minimal designs in particular I love (and purchased one of) his Numbers LED alarm clock. The CRT iPad Enclosure almost makes me want to buy an iPad just for displaying some super slick static.

Yury of Banana Design Labs has placed a miniature fireplace inside a miniature TV. And it costs less than $20. Tell me why you would NOT want to add this to your gadget/art collection?!

Paul of SOFTOFT TECHECH has sired Sir Sampleton ... "A musical instrument app for your iPhone that's simple enough for children, but with enough features to also be useful to musicians and producers." And it costs less than $3. Tell me why you would NOT want to add this to your IPHONEONE?!

Eric of Mini Organ has made a book with MBP and also a sound archive containing nothing but vintage toy electronic instruments!

Michale Molero built a tabletop mini-arcade machine out of a Meggy Jr. System. Found this here at Evil's Lab. Totally inspired! And flattered that he demoed his "Meggycade Jr" unit with my Super Monkey Kong game.

Some Really Great Augustan Stuff n' Links

Steve Or Steven Read — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:58 +0000

Have been spending plenty o' time lately at the Militant Esthetix website which contains the writings and art of Ben Watson and Esther Leslie from the University of Kingdom. DADA, appliances, Situationism, kaiser rolls, Disney, Zappa, Adorno, Zappa ... this is precisely where I've been coming from, this is it.

A friend, upon eyeballing one of my facebook mobile uploads, suggested that I submit to the Street Mattress project. I was very pleased when they accepted my photo graph which was snapped a few feet away from my front door. This project has been going for nearly a decade I believe and has over 20,000 submitted photos.

My brother did gived me a link to Peter Mendelsund and his Jacket Mechanical blog. Wonderful book cover designer. And look - MIA's new shitfuck MAYA album/cover didn't just simultaneously ripoff 69% of 'web 2.0' artists, it ripped him. Oh well. Anybody who designs "War and Peace" jackets is a friend of mine.

Just LUV this 787 Cliparts piece made by web 2.0 artist Oliver Laric. Its a few years old now (a lifetime in net years) but I hadn't seen it in awhile and well its fast and just great and you might like it too? Loops beautifully too.

I like this web art work 69% more than any other: Ying Yangerz by Milton Melvin Croissant III (yes his real name). He told me: "it's just christian rock/folk and death metal teens caught in the struggle for balance. one of the bands is called Morbid Anal Fog!"

[UPDATE: I like Ying Yangerz 86% more than any other web art work ever made.]

A video by AIDS-3D called Forever Heat Death which has been stuck like a broken record in my head ever since seeing it. Stuck like a dirty CD. Awesome. (made a video around the same time which coincidentally visits similar future pasts simultaneously)

Just released is a new musically performative electronic art object by Tristan Perich called 1-bit Symphony. Buy 1t n0w!