Not counting our first impromptu showing at Arles last month, STRANGELANDS is our collective first foray into the real world. We're all basically strangers, most of us never having met off of the internet. Greg Flanders summed it up like this: STRANGELANDS is a collaborative effort by an international team ...
In the last few blog posts I tried to describe what Alex and I were up to all month for strange.rs. He does a much better job of it here. Yeah, that's my voice in there. The one speaking proper English... Everybody loves Alex ...
law 20, crime 20,
copulation 30,
LOVE — 50.
Forget overlay. Love never won yet… since platitude was an overnight scratch,
if you can get 3/5 on cliche,
put down everything you’ve got.
The World on its Side mini-project grew out of a chat Alex and I were having about Los Angeles. Strange.rs is an international collective, so we knew we couldn't tackle an LA theme literally. We needed to find another way in. The mood of a Bukowski or Fante novel seemed an interesting way ...
"Los Angeles is a volcano, spilling wreckage and desire in ever widening circles over a denuded countryside." Mike Davis, City of Quartz The strange.rs site has been live for a month and a half now. We're all still getting the hang of working together, vetting ideas and concepts, and agreeing on ways to ...
The strange.rs site is now live. 2009 was a pretty rough year, this is one of the bright spots. A collaborative edit to commemorate the launch is now up on the site. The teaser trailer below. And don't forget to meet all the strange.rs in the portfolio section.