Astrid Kruse Jensen, “Constructing a memory”

Adam Jeppesen Saimaa, “JP-Tokyo-02-03-04″

Check out Scurravagas website : http://www.scurravagas.com/

Tom Long

Pat Parra

Bryan Derballa

Yo Imae

Enigma Janitor

Edward Burtynsky

naoya hatakeyama

Great great great article from NYTimes about contemporary female artists in China. Here are a few of them:

Xing Danwen…http://danwen.com/works/uf/index.html

Wu Zetian, China’s first and only female empress.

Cui Xiuwen

Can’t you tell how much fun I was having? This  was the most difficult of the half dozen or so half-marathons I’ve done. I can blame it on the weather, the hilly course for the first 6 miles through Central Park, but the truth is that I wasn’t mentally ready for the race.

Music in my mind: Jello and Silk mixes, Steinski “what does it all mean”, Steve Reich “Drumming”, Brian Eno “Apollo”, D. Bowie “Janine”

Am I surprised that photojournalists were kicked out of Iraq after American military commanders deemed their photos too real or graphic? No. But it is abominable and beyond silly that this day in age, when nearly anyone can buy a digital camera, there are “only half a dozen Western photographers were covering a war in which 150,000 American troops are engaged.” Read this article.

Steve Hoffman in Coney Island

Hiroh Kikai, Tokyo

Hiromi in bloom

Last night at Blue Note we saw Hiromi’s Sonic Bloom staring, a jazz quartet starring Hiromi Uehara. On piano, she’s freakishly fast, scary schizophrenic, and all around super humanly. On the mic, and afterwards  when I talked to her, she’s soft spoken, cute, and aloof.