Recently by Sena

I saw John F Carpenter and the Pines a rockin and a rollin at Sin-é last night. Check out his super sexy vocals at http://www.ilistentojohn.com or go hear them live at Southpaw on October 14th

I went to go see Reverend Billy and his church of stop shopping last night for a little 9/11 sermon. His enthousiastic choir sang out against consumerism and current American politics with enough zeal to make this jaded New Yorker blush. Reverend Billy is a New York Icon and a performance artist who carries on like a televangelist. Last night in additiopn to the counter culture fight songs, we heard from senatorial candidate, Jonathan Tasini, and Governor candidate, Malachy McCourt. both giving us their alternative views about how to veer this political disaster off course. and of course, reminding us to VOTE

Reading Nylon usually makes me want to perform hiri kiri for not being über famous at 24, but you gotta hand it to Rebecca Turbow, her clothes are super cool.

A cross between Judy Jetson, baby-doll bumpkins, 50's housewives and a flower, Turbow makes her Safe Cloting line out of soft, snuggly materials and sothing colors, often with protective features like a tummy pouches and knee pads.

Also check out Shabd Simon Alexander's new line lederhosen

Artist/Inventor Bruce Shapiro uses his home-made motion machines to manipulate materials making morphing art.


Shapiro, both excited by the possibillites of robotics as a new art form, and disapointed by the expense deterent, has spent the last 15 years building his art machines out of inexpensive or free materials and publishes both the projects and workshops on his website. His works deal with the fluidity of time it takes to make a project and often the final product is the process itelf, putting the art machine creating the work in progress on display. His mediums are also time based and efemeral materials, such as eggs, sand, bubbles and wind.

I know how extremely difficult it is to find affordable studio space in the city, so this summer i did a residency program in Elk Horn, Iowa. In exchance fot helping build studios and a gallery at The General Store, I received room and board, studio space to work on a project, and a show when my project was completed. Check out my installation "Insideouthouse"

The General Store Gallery and Residency Program will be accepting applications for next summer's program in all mediums (fine art, music, film, writting, etc...) in the fall and winter. We will have a website up in the next few months with details about how to apply, or look for a link through my website http://www.senaclaracreston.com

you can read more of robert sergal's comics at http://www.idiotcomics.com/ and http://www.robertsergel.com/indexx.html

ummmmmmm... it is rumored that scientists in shandong china have succeeded in controlling mouses impulses by stimmulating micro-electrodes in their brains. I couldn't find much, just variations on this arcticle in ananova

Brooklyn Artist and inventor Heather Dewey-Hagborg explains her recent project on "Emergence," the principal where the acts of the group or flock are undeterminable by the actions of an individual within the group. Heather made 10 autonomous robots and gave them a few simple instructions such as "seek light" and "avoid obsticles" and observed how the simple robots seemed to form complex anthropomorphic relatinships with one another, without communicating. you can see her site and watch the video or watch a shorter version on you tube

Savior Scraps, a brooklyn artists collective that creates projects with all donated material, has made a rustic log cabin and store in the middle of Secret Project Robot, a Williamsberg gallery. The pieces for sale are small art pieces and hand crafted clothes, jewelery and furniture

I got this email about a child that was lost in a Tsunami, pleading help with her to be re-united with her parents, but according to snopes, the girl's identity was discovered a few days later, and she was reunited with her relatives. I guess it doesn't hurt to fact check these things, but it also doesn't hurt to take the time to do what you can to help.

For all you guys looking to make moral purchases, Cambodia has amazing labor laws, such as 40 hr work weeks,unions, mandatory overtime, proper lighting and ventilation, 16 year age minimum, some health benefis and A 44 DAY PAID VACATION. Check out is episode of "This American Life" episode at htp://www.thislife.org
episode 303 in the 2005 archive "David and Goliath"

check out the armory show, most of it's a garbage dump but there are a few gems, and worth a few hours of your sunny day, check out the goat and sheep video at peer 50. if you can't pay the $20 to get in just stand outside and ask someone exiting for their wristband. they come off preety easily and the guards can't tell the difference

Don't be sad Steven, it's not going to get easier, but maybe it can get better.
I'm sick of this constant work/fear cycle also. I have the dream blue colar job that makes a enough and I only have to work two days a week, "New York City bartender with 5 years club experience", so I theoretically have a lot of time to make art, but it's still a constant compromise that I have to justify. I don't make "small women's works on paper" and am a little insulted by the idea. I want to make huge installations using multiple mediums that I have to buy, work in a studio that's larger then 4'x5', go to the darkroom, buy a computer, use a scanner. All that costs more money then I can make in two days, and how long can I do these jobs. five years? ten years? and then what? I apply for grants, but so do hundreds of others.