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Meat Drawing Corner

We hung some pencil drawings of pork chops and chickens in the corner of our house.  The three up top are chicken and the two below are pork chops.  I made them when I worked for a meat company, with the idea that I'd make them into icons for the website. Porterhouse pork chops. Chicken. I got the thread painting of butterflies and flowering plants from Java Car Service in Greenpoint.  It was late at night.  For $20 they sold it to me along with my ride back to Bushwick.  When they took it off of the wall there was a square behind it.  It was 2006.

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PAINTINGS

Nami and I have been working on some paintings and I wanted to show them to you.  I won't say much more other than to say that they will be exhibited later this year in Brooklyn.  Stay tuned for more details.  Thanks for looking at them, I would love to hear any feedback or thoughts that you have.  You can comment on this here post, or @johnhoppin FORCE This painting depicts a force, represented by the arrow, passing through a boundary, represented by the circle.  There are some markings on the bottom left. MY PHILOSOPHY This painting depicts some of my philosophy, specifically that dualities like Yes and No, Right and Wrong exist as part of the same workflow, that...

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Week In Review: Phants, Clam Pasta, It Can Change, and Bishop

Let's Get A Drink Tonight, It's time for the WEEK IN REVIEW First off, large ups to Steel Phantoms @steelphantoms who just released the Forer EP.  It sounds great and is available for free download on steelphantomsband.com  Here is a photo of clam pasta.  Shoutout: Nami rolled out the pasta.  There is some onion, butter, lemon, and breadcrumbs too: It Can Change, an art project I ran with Anthony Marcellini a few years back, was invited to participate in the 2nd Asian Triennial this October in Manchester UK.  The curator asked me to write a statement and I wrote about it here.    Anthony reminded me of a song I wrote to go inside one of our sculptures called the Orgone...

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Chinatown Journey

   On the advice of my acupuncturist, I went to Kamwo Herbal Pharmacy at 211 Grand Street in Chinatown, near the corner of Mott.  I bought moxa for moxibustion.  The moxa I bought is little cigarette-butt looking pieces of ground mugwort and other herbs that are adhered to the body and burnt to stimulate the nervous system.    It comes in a box with a picture of a happy lady riding a turtle.    When I left Kamwo, I noticed that it was cater-corner to Di Palos, the touristy Little Italy provisions shop that is making a comeback these days.  They have really tasty food but you have to wait in this ungodly line full of people from who knows...

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Rob's Birthday Party

Last night we went to Rob "Bronco" Bryn's birthday party.  You might know Rob from around the way if you've been around North Brooklyn, he is the lead singer in Wild Yaks and wrote and directed a couple of plays.  He turned the ripe old age of 34 yesterday, and we went to Best Pizza to celebrate.  When I first moved to NYC I crashed at Rob's house, smoking Tops roll-ups in a room with seven dead christmas trees February 3rd 2006.  We had a party and burned the trees in an oil drum, flames rose three stories high.  We lived on the fourth floor of the Men's Colony at 119 Ingraham Street, the bathroom in the hall, across the...

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