En Seiko Sea Lion M55 med datumvisning från 1964. Automatiskt 24 jewels Seikosha-verk.

Makalöst vacker sunburst-tavla med upphöjda fyrkantiga klossindex och hårkors.

Guldpläterad boett, märkt EGP 20 MCR på sidan av boetten vid kl 6.

Bär förvånansvärt lite spår av användning och enligt förra ägaren hade den legat undang(l)ömd i en låda i 35 år.

Nypolerat glas och rolig guldlänk i rostfritt stål i någon slags mesh-imitation.

Har snabbinställning (selfdater) av datumet som fungerar.

Mäter 35 m.m. (gömd krona).

SÅLD!

M55-Zuschrift heute

“Spezielle knorpelfördende Ernährung usw. und zwei OPs haben mich zurück gebracht. Mein Motto:
Ich gebe niemals auf, höchstens mein Gepäck.”

Na, das is’ doch mal ‘ne Einstellung!!

How Soon is Now?, 2008

Brent Douglas, Let’s get a bit of background here. The bars of color and the use of black gesso go back to 2006. I think you sent to Tokyo a very early piece that utilized bands and the black gesso. In that piece the bands of color were thin lines. A grayish field read as something the lines were sitting on.

Douglas In fact that piece I sent to Tokyo was the very first one made with the black gesso in that manner, diluted and applied very wet. At the time I was trying see how thin I could get the paint. They’re barely more than watercolor consistency. I made two of the same size. I was about to fly to the San Francisco Bay Area to visit Chris Ashley and I was intending to give him one of them. (He now currently has both.) “Cloud Cover” seemed a fitting name for that approach

BH I’m looking at your web page ‘2004~present’. And need to go to ‘Overview’ to see your Black Keys.

The ‘Black Keys’ use the gesso to really solidify the form. And the color over the background creates an ambiguity within a field of different planes. This gets worked out utilizing a number of strategies. Marquee Moon is a really good example of how well the position of the lighter block of acrylic sits. The black doesn’t read as background. And if the presence of the light center band suggests at times ‘bosoming’, or folding back under the pressure of two black areas, it doesn’t. It declares itself.

DW It’s all about the qualities of the surfaces and colors and how they interact with each other. In “The Black Keys” the black is quite strong as a color, but as a physical skin of paint on the surface, it’s very thin, soft, matte, and light-absorbing…and actually rather fragile, too. The areas of color were decided upon after the black was established. They were painted quickly, thinly, but they all have a somewhat glossy sheen. They’re strong colors, but because they’re transparent, they seem thinner and perhaps weaker than the black, but you can see that as a surface they are “on top.” And taken together I hope, as you suggest, that these two overlaid planes of color are totally interdependent.

BH Quite often your paintings, and again, in this period, 2006 on, make use of pencil and color pencil. Sometimes I notice this online. An example might be that a pencil line gets drawn with a ruler. And you use that to begin painting. So one edge will be more squared. The other sometimes slanted.

DW Actually, no. I think what you’re seeing is intentional misregistration of layers of color. I used (and continue to use) tape for the edges. But I have a love/hate relationship with it. I don’t measure and don’t square. It’s all done visually. Layer by layer I adjust the positions of the bars. I also frequently allow the paint to bleed just so. This way of using taped edges is perhaps a stand-in for hand painting them. But I’ve tried to hand paint the edges and it hasn’t felt right. So now I call what I’m doing “soft-core hard edge.” Regarding the colored pencil, I occasionally used it to introduce more color around the edges of the bars, but in a super subtle way. When you get up close to it, “Marquee Moon” has almost the whole rainbow fringing the light blue center band. Unfortunately that detail, like many details in my work, gets lost generally in photography, and completely lost in online images.

BH The recent work, which a sample is up now at M55, seems to be fairly squared. I might be wrong. I have two good jpegs you sent and in Photoshop when I use rulers they come up pretty squared. So what does that mean, you are intuitively squaring at the moment? And what of the ones that have bars that pull down or lift up to one side, can you mention something about that too!

DW Your sense about the square is right: I’m slightly allergic to the long rectangle for the edges of the painting surface. I choose size and scale the same way I figure out the position of the colored bars. It is what feels right to me physically. I’m not sure what it means, but I will say that I have noticed that now more than ever in my life I feel painting, and the paintings, in my body. Just musing more about that here in the moment. Perhaps it has to do with getting a little older, and noticing my family. On one hand there are my children whose bodies are incredibly fresh; they have bounce and resiliency. On the other hand there’s my parents and grandparents. We’ve been overall a pretty healthy bunch until the past several years. I watch my dad, who never took a sick day in his life, now deal with his cancer. I think I’m like him in that I’ve hardly ever had to think about the limits of my body. But now as I imagine what he feels like, I begin to pay more attention.

BH ‘New Drifter’ Black gesso and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 44 inches is a mid scale painting, one of seven currently on show at M55 Long Island. Definitely a body painting, there is this large expanse of yellow, very soft, but strong enough not to go green under the pressure of the background color coming through. Though, of course, the background does come through, however we are still reading yellow, a thin layer of it. The yellow gives off this very even feel. There is a sense of horizontal drag with the color. Some parts you can see the vertical watery slide of the thin veils of gray underneath. Everything feels quiet and there is hum.

You notice though, let’s call it the head area; the top gray has a similar treatment to the yellow. Marks have been neutralized. And while the reading is very soft, the sense is that it’s quite a thick veil, as an illusion. This, to my mind, stops the painting from receding at the top. The bottom gray area feels like it is part of the top gray, as does the just registering gray underneath the yellow. Though now, visually, all the parts of the gray are functioning differently. If we call the bottom part the legs of the painting–or something under the waist, from that horizontal expanse it’s as if you could nearly slip your hand up under that yellow like it were a pane of glass.
Any little secrets?

DW When you refer to the area where “marks have been neutralized” it suggests I was the one who did the neutralizing. In fact that is simply the result of a process I engage. As the pigment is cascaded down the surface hanging on the wall, it thins out and dries more quickly at the top, and tends to striate and gather towards the bottom. This particular process happens early in the overall painting process, and it sets the vertical orientation for the piece from then on, and often presents challenges. As I move forward I respond to the way it “grounds” the piece. And so when you describe the areas in “New Drifter” using bodily terms, it’s not so far off, I guess. I have noticed that this painting for me has a bit of a cruciform operation to it…the verticality of the wash and the horizontal brushing of the yellow bar. It matters immensely to me that one can see evidence of brushing, by the way.

But you might notice I also establish a border just within the edges of the canvas. They’re often subtle, but they’re extremely important related to establishing sense of space. The colored bars invariably break this inner border but never touch the outer edges of the canvas. Sometimes the gray washes do and do not break it. So there is this convergence of the actual edge of the canvas, an articulated but often ghosted interior border, a liquid wash whose edges more or less determine themselves, and finally the edges of the colored bars. And one part of the investigation is the kind of visual energy this all produces. I want the relationships to be elusive. I want the present moment of seeing it to be charged with the possibility of some kind of change in the next present moment of seeing it. I hope for that to activate the sense that you feel yourself seeing. I like to think of those moments as clear, pure, innocent, and solitary. And if you can get to them, then you have, in a way, started an experiential engine for yourself, and your thoughts can begin to move in uniquely personal directions.

My “secret” to share about this piece is anecdotal. Early last spring when the forsythia were blooming here in Pennsylvania I started a much smaller piece that is now abandoned, but maybe served as a study. I was thinking about the forsythia and also the title of a painting by Warren Rohrer called “High Yellow, Revisited.” I was curious about “high” and “yellow” and why those two words put together actually make sense to me. The little painting bothered me and I couldn’t make it work. For my last several shows I’ve done something at the extreme last minute that I call my “go for it” piece and invariably they make the cut. Once I basically have everything finished for a show, I just make a bonus piece under a tight deadline, and I use it as an exercise to be ambitious in some way with a nothing-to-lose attitude. I gave myself less than 48 hours to make “New Drifter,” beginning with stretching it. My goals were: I wanted to be as out of control as possible with the gray wash and I wanted to paint this “high yellow.” The title comes from a song.

BH “How Soon is Now?” 44 x 54 inches, 2008 has two horizontal bars that run pretty close. We are not talking subdued color here. It’s loud. But it’s ‘nature’ loud. But still you have this very synthetic space thing happening. The bars roll. They have the feeling that they roll around each other. Is that meant to happen? Batteries included?

DW The way I experience those bars is that they press toward each other, and compete to push forward. They’re of almost equal value and chroma. I’m glad you picked up on a nature reference, albeit very generalized. But they could just as easily be racing stripes. The whole thing to me feels speedy and compressed.

Installation View M55 Long Island

For å få til et vellykket stempel med Konad så er det en ting som er viktig, forberedelsene. Noen synes det kan virke klissete og føle seg klossete når de driver på men jeg tror at om man bare forbereder seg nok så går det bra. Og vips så er du hektet!

Når jeg skal lage et avtrykk på neglen min så legger jeg evt. vanlig underlakk, farge og overlakk. Dette må tørke godt før du begynner på stemplingen. Så legger jeg frem alt jeg trenger av utstyr også det jeg eventuelt kan få bruk for. (Se bilde under) Jeg bruker neglelakkfjerner med aceton på platen, de sier at det gjør platene renere også slipper du å få oljete bildeplater hvor lakken ikke fester seg. Noen neglelakkefjernere inneholder jo olje som er bra for neglene, men altså ikke platene. Før jeg setter i gang så drar jeg paden med neglelakkfjerner en gang over det stempelet jeg skal bruke i tilfelle jeg har vært borti det med fingrene og lagt igjen litt fingermerker og fett.

Så legg på ønsket farge av spesiallakken på ønsket motiv og pass på at lakken synker ned i motivet, skrap av overflødig lakk med skrapen. Noen har metall på skrapen sin og er misfornøyd fordi den kan lage riper i bildeplatene. Jeg har hørt noen bruke tykke kredittkort/medlemskort som de ikke trenger lenger til å skrape med og synes det fungerer også. Mine er i helplast og jeg har altså ikke det problemet. Jeg overfører motivet fra platen til stemplet ved å rulle det med et jevnt press over motivet, samme metode for å overføre fra stempel til negl. Men husk å sjekke motivet før du setter det på neglen og om du er fornøyd. Avslutt med overlakk når motivet er helt tørt. Påfør den med lett hånd og ikke dra over motivet mer enn en gang.

Mellom hver stempling rengjører du alt med neglelakkfjerner.

I dag prøvde jeg meg på å stemple med to farger i samme trykk, jeg er ikke 100% fornøyd med resultatet men øving gjør mester. Dessuten er det gøy!

Dette er som sagt veldig morsomt, det blir fint og er vanedannende. Anbefales!

Ich muss ja gestehen, dass ich gerne ein iPhone hätte – allerdings nur ohne Vertrag und ohne SIM-Lock. Demletzt trat ja wieder das Gerücht auf ein iPhone nano käme zum Weihnachtsgeschäft auf den Markt. Mein gutes altes M55 war ja bereits schon vor einem Jahr alt und langsam aber sicher hat die Tastatur Alterserscheinungen. Darum kam mir beim Aufkommen des iPhone nano Gerüchts der Gedanke, ob ich es theoretisch mit der Tastatur noch bis Weihnachten aushalten könne…da ich tatsächlich die Chance für ein SIM-Lock freies iPhone nano gewünscht gesehen habe.

Deshalb habe ich mal bei meiner verlässlichen Quelle bzgl. iPhone-Fragen nachgehakt, die Antwort lautete:

In Sachen iPhone nano kann ich dir im Moment nur soviel sagen, dass momentan noch keine größeren neuen Bestelltung von Seiten Apples eingegangen sind. Ansonsten hätte ich dich darüber informiert…
Jedoch kann ich ohnehin nur davon abraten dein M55 abzuschaffen. Nach wie vor betrachte ich dieses Handy als DAS Handy schlechthin. Das bislang von niemandem auch nur annähernd erreicht wurde….

Schade.

Well, ketika saya jalan-jalan ke sebuah mall elektronik di bandung. melirik seoonggok hp secend yang dipajang di etalasenya… wah dibenak saya (wah itu siemens tuh, cobain ah… beli..)…

akhirnya terbelilah sudah siemens yang kumaksud, seri m55 yang bisa GPRS. Uang yang kukeluarkan sebesar 300 ribu sudah terdapat hp+charger+kabel data bluetech (bukan kabel data aslinya) yang bisa sekaligus jadi charger.

pertama-tama saya buka ubuntu ku yang lucu dan imut. Kali ini saya menggunakan kartu indosat m3, silahkan untuk kartu yang lainnya bisa dicoba tinggal diganti parameternya saja . ok… colokin hpnya dengan kabel datanya kemudian langsung buka terminal dan mengetikkan perintah :

awangga@awangga:~$sudo wvdialconf

setelah itu saya edit wvdial.conf nya sama seperti saya menset modem sebelumnya,tapi setelah dipanggil wvdial ko ngga jalan… malah jadi aneh…. serching searcing lagi… walah walah ternyata dari hasil serchingku di milis ubuntu-id sususan wvdial.conf ternyata berbeda dengan settingannku… akhir ku ikuti saja. saya coba ganti wvdial.conf nya dengan perintah

awangga@awangga:~$sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf

menjadi seperti ini :

[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
init1 = ATZ
Init2 = AT+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”WWW.M3-ACCESS.NET“
Stupid Mode = yes
Modem Type = USB Modem
Phone = *99***1#
New PPPD = yes
ISDN = 0
Username = indosat
Password = indosat
Baud = 115000

alhasil setelah dipanggil kembali, dengan perintah :

awangga@awangga:~$sudo wvdial

berjalan sempurna dan lancar…..alhamdulillah…

silahkan mencoba untuk tipe siemens nya ya….

legenda:

hijau : parameter yang bisa diganti tergantung operator

merah : perintah terminal

biru : isi dari sebuah file

Sinoć naobećavaše da će snijeg, maltene, u zraku hvatati, a jutros ga zgrnuše sa ceste na trotuar. Tako da ste se mogli sa autom vozati po cestama do mile volje, ako ste ga uopšte oslobodili snijega. A tramvaj… hehe… Koji ba tramvaj…

Simboličnih 2° C.

I JA TEBI komentarišem komentar:

Anonymous reknu, novembera 14-og, 2007 u 18:51

muke muško nagovorit da nesto uradi…..
kad se date nagovorit, patite sa nama… da VI, MUŠKARCI, i jedan vaš predstavnik, niste tako nagovorljivi i slabi, mi bismo svi ćejfili, al jok….

zato zasluga za ovaj svijet ide fifti-fifti nama i vama…

Fetva je izrečena – počni se iskupljati muškom svijetu… Trošiš vrijeme polemišući…  Kraj priče.

• Mudrost dana: Ne psuj nikom ništa, biće ti žao kad taj neko umre…

…in memoriam…

Tužno me je posmatrao dok sam uživao u zvuku 3D zvuka novog mobitela. Onako odbačen, dok mu slike prošlosti prolaze ispred kamere (koju nema), sjećao se kako sam isto ovako bio sretan kad sam njega kupio…

Ali, hebat ga!
Nokia N73 2 GB Music Edition – može svašta što onaj gore nije mogo. Liči na onaj što Osman Semiragić ima – vidi ovdje Semiragićev.

A evo i vidi mog:

Uglavnom… dobar mobitel.

Da ne bi zli glasovi rekli da sam pare za novi mobitel uzo iz blagajne MZ Mokrinje, evo dokaz:

Šalim se, ne morate ovo gledati, priznajem ukro sam pare…

 St. Edoxin el Mokrinjski, mobilan u službi naroda.