THEME Magazine & PARIS/LA

THEME is a magazine I've discovered recently after doing a couple articles for them. Each issue is themed and curated by killer people; it's a real pretty print magazine too. Hisham Bharoocha curated this one about "music community" and for it I profiled Lucky Dragons. They posted it on-line too so more people can see the article:

http://www.thememagazine.com/stories/hawks-and-sparrows/

Also did a piece about photographer Mickey Smith for the issue coming after this one...they matched us up for the "collections" issue to talk about the role books play in the art world. Check this mag out if you get a chance because it's one of the more interesting glossies out there at the moment.

PARIS/LA is another magazine I'm jazzed up about. Their bent is on the overlap between Paris and LA, this coming from one of the previous editors at Purple. So you know it's looking good! Each edition comes wrapped in a poster. In this Summer issue I was lucky enough to have interviewed Dorothy Iannone.

Nice Bookstore!

Ow-Wow, publisher of awesome art catalogues such as that from the New York Minute group show that was at MACRO Rome, has a new 150-square foot shop that looks totally awesome! Check it out!! I kinda can't believe how amazing it is. Can't wait to go:

	227 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014 Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 8pm http: //www.oh-wow.com/

The New Everyday Life

I just got back from the desert after a very successful first session of The New Everyday Life. Here is a photo of the compound next to headquarters where some of the action went down. Wells' bus full of leather goods was pretty dang inspiring, as was his two pens full of Nubian and Pygmy goats. I am SO getting a pair of goats someday. Katie's rather strong herbal beers were ultra delicious. We tried bottles of Ginger and Honey Basil. Chantal made us fish tacos to munch while meditating upon our huge bonfire out on BLM land next to her veggie diesel Vanagon, and Andrea gave us a tour of her newest knitted works that will soon ship to Sadie Coles. I taught Japanese stab stitch, pamplet stitch, and long stitch. So it was a weekend full of art and inspiration.

I feel confident we will plan another session. Here is the itinerary Andrea cooked up for this first series, and this will be the site where we hopefully post some of the photos taken of the work sessions. So check back here for updates:

http://www.highdeserttestsites.com/

Significant Objects

There is this website I discovered recently when I was invited by The Believer to make a little story about an object to raise money for a good cause. They attach stories to thrift store objects to auction them off on E-Bay. It's a lot of fun:

http://significantobjects.com/tag/believer/

Totally Rules

Mt. Fuji General Store

If you are ever in Joshua Tree and want to check out a great venture, please visit and support My. Fuji General Store. I think soon enough Mt. Fuji will carry my books; it makes me happy to know there is a great indie book spot out in the Morongo Basin.

http://web.mac.com/chandoyle/Site/Mt.Fuji.html

CLICK ON THIS

http://bjorncopeland.com/

Mi amigo Bjorn tiene un nuevo website. Es muy elegante.

2 Los Angeles Events

Hi friends,

I'll be in LA for these two events, one on January 22nd at Las Cienegas Projects and one on January 28th at Family Books. It would be great to see you at one or both!

Here's the link to the Family listing, flyer to come:

http://www.familylosangeles.com/events/index.html

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Here's the release with info about the Las Cienegas Projects show.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DANTE BREBNER AND MARCOS ROSALES IN COLLABORATION WITH FRANCIS COY
ISMAEL DE ANDA
TRINIE DALTON
January 23 - February 20, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 23, 7-10 pm

Las Cienegas Projects is extremely pleased to announce 3 new exhibitions and a series of events including Dante Brebner and Marcos Rosales in collaboration with Francis Coy: In the Interim Lies the Darkness (Main Gallery), Ismael de Anda: Shag Quixote (Project Space), and Trinie Dalton’s Zine Workshop / Slide Talk / Exhibition (Back Room).

Back Room
TRINIE DALTON
Zine/Bookmaking Workshop, Slide Talk and Exhibition

Las Cienegas Projects is excited to welcome writer, editor and artist Trinie Dalton for a series of events including a slide talk, zine/bookmaking workshop and an exhibition curated by Dalton showcasing its results. The talk will be divided into 3 parts, covering Bruno Munari’s Xerografia project, Copy Art, and the History of Zines. For the workshop, Las Cienegas Projects has invited several Los Angeles-based artists to participate, and has additionally left open several slots to the public.

Dalton is perhaps most recognized for the publication she co-edited, Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, an assortment of drawing works by 35 visual artists in repsonse to a selection of high school notes passed by students and confiscated by Dalton during her days as a substitute teacher--when she often secretly delighted in reading them or applauded their creativity—and distributed to the artists who then responded in drawing form, incorporating pieces of text and doodles from the original notes. NPR’s Ketzel Levine noted “I am strangely mesmerized by this cross between a high school kid’s notebook and a 21st century pen and ink retrospective”.

Trinie Dalton has authored, curated, and/or co-edited five books: Wide Eyed (Akashic), A Unicorn Is Born (Abrams), Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney's), Mythtym (Picturebox), and Sweet Tomb (Madras Press). Her art books are often accompanied by visual art and exhibitions surrounding issues of art + text. Dalton makes zines and handmade books, curating shows around them. For her Werewolf Express, she curated part of "Zines Unbound: Werewolves, Kults, and Sarcastic Hippies" at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center. For Mythtym, she has been presenting lectures on topics such as mirrors in horror and the history of photocopy art. She recently has done slide talk/workshops at the Observatory in Brooklyn and at Deitch Projects as part of the PIG Sunday School curated by Gelatin. A paper based on her slide talk/workshop for Las Cienegas Projects will publish in French in Les Editions Particules, and in English in X-Tra.

Slide talk: Friday, January 22, 8pm. Open to the public (free, limited seating
available)
Workshop*: Friday, January 22, 5pm-10pm (by reservation only; includes slide talk)
Exhibition: Opening reception: Saturday, January 23, 7-10pm
*For further workshop information or to make a reservation, please contact Amy Thoner at 213.595.8017

Las Cienegas Projects is a new artist-run project space and gallery focusing on large-scale, collaborative and project-based artworks by a broad range of local, national and international emerging and mid-career artists. For further information and press materials, please contact LCP Co-director Amy Thoner at lascienegasprojects@gmail.com or 213.595.8017

http://lascienegasprojects.wordpress.com/

The Tanners by Robert Walser

I was lucky enough to review the newly translated Robert Walser novel recently. It is his first novel, and I'd totally recommend it as a starting point into Walser's oeuvre.

http://bookforum.com/review/4865

Rupert reads

My dear friend Rupert is reading Monday night and she wants to invite people to Capricious. So come say hi if you want, it'll be a tea party too!

Wieden+Kennedy Storytime

Oh! There is one more thing I wanted to tell you about---then I will shut up about my news and post some other things.

Wieden+Kennedy started a radio program and one segment called Storytime focuses on short stories. Seems like a fun idea; you can listen to stories on podcast...Here is a link to the one I did with them, "Frog Hole '08" dedicated to my favorite frog pond in the Catskills. This talented sound engineer, Jason Roark, laid a frog-chirp soundtrack behind the reading and I really like what he did!

http://www.wk.com/wke/show/storytime/episode/1

Good looking lit journals

I'm not planning on posting each time I have fiction coming out in a journal, so don't worry! But there are two upcoming that I'm pretty excited about.

The Lifted Brow is from Australia:

http://www.theliftedbrow.com/

and Here and Noun is from Canada:

ttp://www.hereandnoun.com/

What journals are you into these days? I'm on a quest to discover the good new ones...

Sweet Tomb reading at Supermachine!

Please join me at Supermachine Reading Series, hosted by Ben Fama. Friday, December 11th at 8pm.

http://supermachinepoetry.com/

I'm reading to celebrate the release of Sweet Tomb and the publisher, Sumanth, is traveling in from Boston to read with me. It should be an interesting event!