eeleanor

staying positive through winter

2012-01-20T10:55:00.001-08:00

"Thank you, playmate, for such a light-headed snowy morning, you're own body more baubled than a Christmas tree, with more vistas to it than within a kaleidescope. In holiday truth my wonder did seem to rebound upon you, merry, merry, and make you chime."

-John Updike in A Month Of Sundays

twentybelievin

2011-12-30T08:22:00.000-08:00

20 things I did this year:

1. moved all my shit and my cat to a city where I knew 4 people.
2. made new friends
3. got 2 bikes stolen
4. sold my car
5. applied to grad schools
6. got a rad new room-mate
7. made a lot of new work
8. ate so much brunch
9. drank so much midwest beer
10. got stitches twice
11. went on a missed connections date
12. learned how to use photoshop
13. started paying school loans which I will pay for the rest of my life
14. lived for the first time since high school without any mode of personal transportation -it rules
15. got a tattoo
16. stole a handle of whiskey
17. reconnected with some wonderful old friends
18. made some disgusting food
19. watched some babies
20. read all the readings I saved that I didn't read when they were assigned in college

here's to 2012, shit is a blank slate!
always relevant

OH

2011-12-28T23:06:00.000-08:00

statement for "dirty white" arch #1

2011-12-18T18:50:00.000-08:00

evolution of an idea,
screen shots from:
1. selected shorts 2. mean reds 3. too temporary, this is serious
culminating in 4. sequined pit

2011-12-18T10:24:00.000-08:00

Beth and the Naked Arch by Mia

2011-12-17T11:25:00.000-08:00

Castes - 2011
concrete

be cold be frosty be perfect

2011-12-17T11:14:00.000-08:00

also, otisonart.tumblr.com

2011-12-11T17:36:00.000-08:00

2011-12-11T15:45:00.000-08:00

Foot Stone - 2011
concrete, plastic bag, cardboard

2011-12-11T15:23:00.000-08:00

Dirty White Giving Tree - 2011
garbage, paper machee, paint, dirt, Christmas cactus

2011-12-11T15:20:00.000-08:00

Pony Stone (a part apart) - 2011
Paper Machee, plaster, tool dip, my hair

2011-12-11T15:10:00.000-08:00

butt/boobs (for Jake) - 2011
clay and enamel

2011-12-10T23:21:00.000-08:00

Sequined Pit (for Stoned) - 2011
garbage, paper machee, paint, sequins, straight pins

2011-12-10T23:14:00.000-08:00

Club Foot - 2011
garbage, paper machee, heel, glitter

just

2011-12-06T22:23:00.000-08:00

"There is a paradox in the very attempt to understand an unfamiliar art practice, which today is usually initiated through the medium of two-dimensional or screen-based images. Initially you grapple with a nebulous apparition in your mind’s eye, a suspicion that something hovers beyond with no name forthcoming, but this sense of looming ener- gies and meaning often shrinks when you finally inspect the actual artworks, which reveal themselves to consist

of mere objects or gestures, as do all artworks. No matter how powerful the work, you’re tempted to say: “But this is just...” Just an object, just a gesture. It would be a mistake, though, to think that your disillusionment upon scrutiniz- ing the “actual” art is a bad thing. A gap has surely opened in your experience of the work, but art depends on this split between the fragile interiority of speculation and the more public and bodily activity of looking, which partakes of space. Your first impression, rare and valuable as it is, is only richer for the betrayal."

from: Teen Image - Seth Price

its coming

2011-11-24T06:26:00.000-08:00

"This is reality, whether you like it or not. All those frivolities in the summer, the light and the shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is whats underneath. This is the truth."As if we were being punished for loving the loveliness of summer.

-Willa Cather

Too Temporary (Songs From Videos)

2011-11-21T10:25:00.000-08:00

Coming Post Thanksgiving on Audio Cassette Tape:
Too Temporary (Songs From Videos)
A collection of fucked with songs used in past video work, Chopped, Screwed, clipped & looped.
Emotional power hits.

$3 and selects will be recieving one in their Christmas packages.
A piece of ass for Christmas!

2011-11-18T21:44:00.001-08:00

mia ardito

Bazan speaks the truth

2011-11-09T16:52:00.000-08:00

dont let me get in my zone

2011-11-04T10:57:00.000-07:00

Sequined Pit - 2011

Club Foot - 2011

butt/boobs 2011

(sneak peeks)in the works - pony cock, crooked column, and dirty white giving tree + thats my studio space

applying to grad school EAST COAST SEE U AGAIN IN 2012 hopefully

I made my bed

2011-10-11T10:21:00.001-07:00

2011-10-09T14:31:00.000-07:00

dirty white 2011

2011-09-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

2011-08-06T13:04:00.000-07:00

"...there are auteurs in mass culture. Because I've been in fine art too long, I've always had the prejudicial belief that there were no creative voices in mass culture. I was tainted by what the art world thinks ... it's all garbage. But if I look back to the things that really affected me when I was a young person watching television, it's just not true. Somebody made that program. Somebody wrote and directed it, and their subjectivities are apparent. I'm really interested in this."

-Mike Kelley in Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-Chat (1986-2004)

?my artist statement.

it's the end of summer so here's some

HEAVY AIR

:)

2011-06-24T17:12:00.001-07:00

2011-06-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

talking to my brother on the phone

2011-06-14T20:25:00.000-07:00

"you're trying to explain to me that you're not odd when you are"

turning drinking into a studio practice

2011-06-13T17:14:00.001-07:00

DUH

2011-06-08T18:22:00.000-07:00

tiny tattoo for big friends

2011-06-01T20:22:00.000-07:00

good for this

2011-05-29T09:19:00.001-07:00

2011-05-29T08:54:00.001-07:00

the problem of storage, legacy

2011-05-17T18:49:00.000-07:00

"...and there's a table that looks kind of like King Kong took a poop on it..."

my brother describing a piece from my thesis show last year, that is currently a sore in my mom's guest room

2011-05-17T16:55:00.000-07:00

asses to ashes

2011-05-15T13:27:00.001-07:00

2011-05-14T21:34:00.000-07:00

so real

I like this abbreviated quote from Catherine Sullivan

2011-05-10T19:26:00.000-07:00

"there's a kernel of mindlessness that's meant to be scary"

I think a good way to identify the parts I worried are to shallow and why I want them that way

2011-05-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

thoughts on working collectively, to be in a video soon

THE MORE WE WORK TOGETHER

Also, this is a year old now, and I still like it. Success

FLUX

2011-05-01T09:00:00.000-07:00

Up From Down Under...Just A Hop, Skip, And A Jump

hello, goodbye, reading this seemed to center things surprisingly

2011-04-24T15:37:00.000-07:00

all the paper in my trashcan

t&a

2011-04-22T07:53:00.000-07:00

click for a sound clip intro to "so damn omnipresent"

made my bed sludge

a small collection of monologues and stories
finished and ready here:
modeled by Otis

and you can get it by e-mailing me egfarley@gmail.com
$2-5 or really, lets trade

turn on the lights

2011-04-14T21:24:00.000-07:00

BALTIMORE, go to this tomorrow. It's BYOB of course

featuring a monologue by yours truly about dark times

U

2011-04-05T20:25:00.000-07:00

the beginning of my arch. I have to wait till it is a little warmer out because the only way I can finish it is outside on my roof.
excited for fiberglass and resin and a respirator. and spring thank god

messy morning view from bed

sneek peeks

2011-03-19T19:30:00.000-07:00

new video sketch a la Guido Cagnacci

newbookzine

2011-03-16T19:13:00.001-07:00

Selected Monologues will be featured in "GIRLFRIEND"
happening April 15th & 16th
Lumberhaus
Baltimore MD

soonsoonsoon

2011-03-13T12:22:00.000-07:00

mom's dress from the 1998 church production of Godspell in it's most recent appearances and in progress incarnation - sequin nugget is halfway there

fixing my shit so it doesnt stink

2011-02-24T14:54:00.000-08:00

I've been trying out different websites to see which one would be a good one to put all my work on in a way that I can control the layout and is free...
hasn't been working out well, so right now Tumblr will have to do, but I wrote up some descriptions for videos/sculptures

Sweet Spot 2010:
The impossibilities of saying what you truly mean to say, truth comes as lies and lies as truth causing Overlapping and missed connections in relationships; the slow sludge of understanding what you don’t want to admit.

Mean Reds 2010:
Irma Thomas moans the intro of “Wish Somebody Would Care” in loop in the background while Girl in foreground writhes and half-assedly feigns exposure to a computer camera.

Bridge over troubled waters + don’t you (video loop)- 2009:
A monument & a plea

Trash flows + no friends (video loop) - 2010:
When the disregarded extras in life overwhelm and become the substance.
Too Temporary, This is serious (2011) A Collection of shorts highlighting small steps in self-realization, or small steps forward in the name of greater self-awareness and confidence including:
1. Recognition and glorification of name (Making Them Sing My Praises)
2. Practice in building a thicker skin (Crust Development)
3. Acceptance and understanding of the past and it’s failures (A Woof Without a Foot & Karaoke Goodbye)
4. An embrace of the imperfect “NOW” (Nobody Does It Like Me)
5. Finally, a hopeful look ahead to the unexplored and somewhat scary wonders of the world (Re-reading my favorite love poem, Since Feeling Is First)
Unset – 2010 A study on the difficulties and shades of ambivalence upon leaving was once considered home.

2011-02-22T08:55:00.000-08:00

Attaining Small Perfections - 2011
Baskerville Font , Chicago Reader

creating a studio practic begins with lemons

2011-02-13T19:21:00.000-08:00

2011-01-22T11:56:00.001-08:00

IM NOT SURE HOW THIS HAPPENED BUT I THINK I HAVE A 5 YEAR PLAN

[redacted]

2011-01-21T07:44:00.000-08:00

I started reading all the assigned readings I saved from last year that I never read, I feel like a finally stepped out of whatever mind fog grip I'd been in

it was a cold night, -3 this morning,

trying to fight the inevitable moving blues

--=+

2011-01-12T20:46:00.000-08:00

teach me how to duggie

2011-01-10T15:20:00.000-08:00

its about to get thesis switched in here
object making restart

2011-01-06T21:57:00.000-08:00

BETTER THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED

also, i've been looking through mike kelley piece titles:

“More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid”
ditto

& found out today while trying to get some stitches that i can never go back to a patient first because i owe them $200 from when i got swimmers ear in baltimore from taking too many baths. who knew!

new year really begins in a week.

short shorts

2011-01-03T21:16:00.000-08:00

So this is the assortment of crazy i've been "working on" for the past 5 months...I guess it's as done as it'll ever be until I obtain final cut. I also finished my scarf for Chicago.....these were the two things I told myself to finish before I started packing
2 weeks! fuck!

also, i think it's time for sculptures again.

Too Temporary, This is Serious - 2010
an assortment of shorts

Too Temporary, This is Serious from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

engulfed

2011-01-01T17:11:00.001-08:00

Fade to White from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

twenty-zen

2010-12-31T12:47:00.000-08:00

if years were measured in line graphs, this year was shaped like a check mark, here's to a new year that is upwards diagonal to the right.

Follow your dreams, to the max! Amen.

merry

2010-12-27T18:16:00.000-08:00

I just ordered this with my gift card
very excited

shitless

2010-12-20T07:57:00.000-08:00

here's an excerpt from a Fresh Air Interview w/ Jay-Z

I feel like the videos I've made recently are a lot like this

cocky crotch grabbing

GROSS: Can I ask you a question you might find weird - but since part of your goal in the book is to kind of explain your generation and explain the music to people. You know how a lot of hip-hop artists, when they're on stage, they kind of like, grab their crotch?

(Soundbite of laughter)

JAY-Z: Yeah. I have a great explanation for that.

GROSS: Yeah, like how did that start? Like, who started that, and why is that?

JAY-Z: Well, a lot a times in hip-hop - like in rock 'n' roll, you'll have bands who tour the world. They get in vans and they tour the world, and they do rinky-dink clubs. And they get bottles thrown at them and, you know, until they hone their craft, until they become, you know, rock stars.

In hip-hop, the music leads first. So usually, you have a hit record. And then you throw this person on stage who has never been on stage before, you know, because the music leads. So they don't have any experience on how to perform in front of people, hold the mic, you know, all these different things that you need to know as a performer.

So when you get up there, you feel naked, right? So when you feel naked, what's the first thing you do? You cover yourself. So that bravado is an act of, I am so nervous right now, and Im scared to death. Im going to act so tough that I'm going to hide it. And I have to grab, you know, my crotch. That's just what happens.

GROSS: I thought it was kind of the opposite, like this stuff is so good...

(Soundbite of laughter)

GROSS: ...I'm going to show off. No?

JAY-Z: That's, that's what - yeah, they want, that's what we want you to believe.

(Soundbite of laughter)

JAY-Z: But the reality is, and no one else will admit to this - well, maybe they will - is youre on stage in front of - now with summer jams and things like that, people are getting put on stage in front of 50,000 people with a record that's a radio hit, and they've never performed before. It's going to be a disaster nine times out of 10.

GROSS: So do you feel like you were on stage before you were prepared for it? Probably not, because you did parties before that. You had experience.

JAY-Z: Exactly. I kind of went through a rock 'n' roll stage. You know, I kind of was doing parties and learning to perform. The first show I ever did, I just forgot the words. I stood there, and I tried to pass the mic to Damon Dash, who I co-founded Roc-A-Fella with. I gave him the mic - like, here. He was like man, I don't rap.

(Soundbite of laughter)

JAY-Z: I just didn't know what to do. I was like, in shock.

GROSS: But really - like, you've done the crotch thing too, right?

JAY-Z: Of course.

2010-12-14T20:47:00.001-08:00

intimate grapefruit

moving to Chicago in a month

2010-12-12T14:13:00.000-08:00

I am

i want this

2010-12-06T21:27:00.000-08:00

time lapse video camera
because all i really want to do is watch my plants grow
paint dry
things rot
dust accumulate
cheese age
ankles sag
&
boobs sag
flowers die

so cool!

so many weirder time lapse weed videos

2010-11-30T20:49:00.000-08:00

shits, giggles, open ended plans

2010-11-29T17:23:00.000-08:00

There is something about brown

2010-11-27T09:42:00.000-08:00

MORRIS LOUIS

a month of fridays

2010-11-26T21:23:00.000-08:00

improved

2010-11-21T15:40:00.000-08:00

pretending to have my own real website
folio updated, professional

egfarley.tumblr.com

faux arrogance

2010-11-20T15:44:00.000-08:00

last night i realized i'd been wearing my underwear inside out all day, this morning my multi-vitamin made me puke up a pancake, and tonight I wandered around my old high school like a moron

two too relevant peeks from "ill"

Making them sing my praises from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

crust development from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

almost forgot

2010-11-17T20:49:00.001-08:00

about these gems

fucking forever and endless shit, best of 2008

bulk

2010-11-14T20:01:00.000-08:00

pipedreams edit

2010-10-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

In March I'll be going to the Vermont Studio Center for a one month residency!

a room, a studio, a meditation house? Im really excited,

and Vermont apparently doesn't have billboards, good or bad?

I love this video so much right now:

also, coming soon - too temporary "ill" will be a long format video instead of a CD/booklet, it is coming along nicely, lots of things in the works and coming up so check back

2010-10-25T17:56:00.000-07:00

enuf is enough

post #101 sneek peek

2010-10-14T10:44:00.000-07:00

Too Temporary is coming out with "ILL", a CD/book featuring 10 new monologues, manipulations, and sound collages + accompanying visual collages & photographs

ILL will be for sale for $10 at the WICV booth at MICA's art market, as well as some other special things in the works

here's a sneek peek of the front and back cover of ILL

since feeling is first

2010-10-04T21:30:00.001-07:00

re-reading my favorite love poem that i forgot about for a long time

from up and down

2010-10-03T09:41:00.000-07:00

jolted children from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

horns from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

2010-09-21T14:51:00.001-07:00

Making Them Sing My Praises

2010-09-21T03:53:00.001-07:00

eat my guts from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

2010-09-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

usher jesus

2010-09-19T19:51:00.001-07:00

pitcher of pbr 666

FOR SALE

2010-09-18T16:30:00.000-07:00

HELLO FACES GOODBYE FACES
(Follow up to Peanut Butter or Coffee?)

cell phone photography quarterly release by

MIA ARDITO
JAKE DIBELER
MATTHEW FOX
ELEANOR FARLEY
ANN GREENE KELLY
BETH FORSYTHE PAKRADOONI

HELLO FACES, GOODBYE FACES features 24 full color pages + an introduction by MATTHEW FOX

excerpt from the introduction:

"Cellphone pictures are snapped alone under cover of night in congested megalopolitain streets, at malls, in the bong reflection and in the mandorla of the kitchen fluorescent. But they are shared in the spirit of companionship, to maintain the hope, humor, and imaginative alertness that is becoming increasingly necessary in a world that is experienced in illimitable, unintelligible thimblefuls."

Only 10 Copies available, $10 each - e-mail egfarley@gmail.com to order

huh?

2010-09-14T14:22:00.000-07:00

The Summer's Over Friends, Thank God

2010-09-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

Here are some various shorts I pooped together in the past few months, thought they fit well together, some are remnants from other stuff, some not - it's like video quilting
Also, if you want more from where that came from, check out:
egfarley.tumblr.com

Summer Shorts from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

Coming Soon:

2010-09-01T12:47:00.000-07:00

CATTY CATHY, in 3-d, not about you, all about me
here's some hints

what am i doing, oh that's right

2010-09-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

goodbye baltimore,

time to find a new home

new slice of what turned out to be a good summer

2010-08-15T18:09:00.000-07:00

2 more weeks of Baltimore, and Im gonna get real weird with it

Unset from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

Unset - 2010

Things to come

2010-08-06T16:27:00.000-07:00

TakeOFF and Departure

You're just a shadow of a puppet

"limpit skimpit" or "who's got my underwear?"

fade into the whiteness

+ too temporary prime time

Moonstruck

Graduation Speech

leftovers from the 4th

2010-07-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

no flag from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

sea shells

2010-06-21T17:58:00.000-07:00

woman blues from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

upcoming noise

2010-06-13T19:28:00.000-07:00

making a dirty rug

two similar stills out of many

trying

independent dance from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

Over and Out

2010-06-13T18:16:00.000-07:00

up to no good, body pillows

full room

good morning

trash flows, too much on my plate, no friends, solo acts

THIS SATURDAY

2010-05-07T09:12:00.000-07:00

EXPANDED

featuring:

Nick Peelor

Isaac Diebboll

Benjamin Briere

Eleanor Farley

Krista Martin

Neil Sanzgiri

Ian Cox

Kat Schneider

Kelly Marburger

Betty Roytburd

Morgan Frailey

Hannah Mandel

Dylan Conner

Cait Carouge

Ryan Soper

Sean Bennett

Max Guy

Colin Van Winkle

COME SATURDAY AT 7!

Trinacria is catering!

getting there

2010-04-26T04:39:00.001-07:00

break your heart from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

oh my

2010-03-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

sneak peek, half a semester to go, dragging my heels, debuting the ipod nano cam

time for trash

2010-03-24T09:24:00.000-07:00

rivers and tides & too much ketchup

all downhill from here

2010-03-07T13:03:00.000-08:00

how low from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

no friends from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

rocks and roll

2010-02-24T18:33:00.000-08:00

small things

2010-02-18T11:15:00.000-08:00

sneakin' peeks

2010-02-10T10:57:00.000-08:00

no friends sketch from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

dilbert tries to be young again

2010-01-28T12:26:00.000-08:00

Dilbert tries to be young again from Eleanor Farley on Vimeo.

Mashups

2010-01-19T09:13:00.000-08:00

I'm working on making something out of all these shorts - some sculptures some text some etc
here are stills of videos that correspond with other stills of videos

here are some musical mashups:

Absorb the Lipgloss
Party and Bullshit in the USA
Blame it on the POP
I Wanna Believe With Somebody
(ha) Somewhere Out There