21 posts from July 2009

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

I've gotten back some responses, some personal criticism...I blanked out their names with xxx...

"Pete, you were very bold to say those things...but your ideas are tainted. " -xxx

"I'm surprised how far out of context one can drag Kierkegaard, that poor little whelp. Preaching the (Christian?) gospel of brotherly love implies that it?s ok to compromise ideals and sag under pressure? Or that there is no such thing as a lived ideology? Or that the very existence of art is a myth?

I appreciate your bizarre-to-the-point-of-surreal rant Pete, but I personally disagree with nearly every line. If you want to be famous, please be famous, but there are rewards beyond money and fame. Anyway, as the nature of art is rather subjective, I thought I?d throw my voice out as the yin to the yang.

(one of many artists slightly less hip than Pete) (one purist)

PS. No offense to the sellouts on this list (you rat bastards)

PPS. Pete, if you do get famous, will you please hire me to roll out the red carpet? Oh man I need the cash." -xxx

"Pete, I echo xxx in saying that you are not reading our emails carefully enough. I never implied that SFAI is inherently superior to the Academy of Art or that we are better than their students. I LOVE my students at the Academy - they are intelligent, motivated, creative, funny and they GET TO CLASS ON TIME even at 8*&%$&30 in the morning!

My feeling has always been and is stronger now that SFAI and AAU serve different populations with different goals and needs, as evidenced by their clear mission statements. I admire AAU's clear and successful goal of turning out students who have strong, professional, commercial portfolios and who understand how to enter the job market. I also completely and fully appreciate that SFAI deliberately does NOT focus on money and jobs but provides a kind of sacred space for considering art as a special historical, philosophical and intellectual entity.

This idea may have only been applied to the field of art for the last century or two but thinking, FOR THINKING'S SAKE, is much older indeed. It may seem a bit foolish, but this is not a mere indulgence; it is essential to the well being of a society to have places that examine society itself from a critical, intellectual viewpoint, free (somewhat) from the constraints of the market." -xxx

"Doesn't the the very concept of hypocrisy ("falseness") imply some "truth", some "authenticity", that the "hypocrite" doesn't live up to? i thought we were supposed to have debunked such models of "ideals" already." -xxx

"I want whatever job pete has that he has time to write these six page emails. i don't even have time to read them. " -xxx

I thought the previous quote was ridiculous because both of my emails were created after 6:30 pm (work finishes at five PM), remember?

"Pete, Are the people at the Art Academy REALLY as fun and hip as we are? Do you mean- the Academy of Real Estate, I mean of Art University?" -xxx

"Dearest Darling Pete, I don't think you are reading my posts very carefully... there is a lot less judgment there than you seem to infer. Love right back," -xxx

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Likes

• Sound of texture


• Eating shit (falling skateboarding) Story/Scars


• Sense of wonder


• Meeting people


• Identifying friends


• United community, like runners


• You know who isn't a skater by their "air"


• Finding new spots to skate


• Doing things you've never done before


• Putting the deck together with custom grip tape


• Unit of time as one skateboard (for me 3-8 months)


• Sound of skateboards while you build one

Dislikes

• Stigma attached


• Harassment by police/security guards


• Eating shit (falling skateboarding) and getting hurt


• Commodification of athletes


• Injuries


• Time commitments

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Likes

• Sound of texture


• Eating shit (falling skateboarding) Story/Scars


• Sense of wonder


• Meeting people


• Identifying friends


• United community, like runners


• You know who isn't a skater by their "air"


• Finding new spots to skate


• Doing things you've never done before


• Putting the deck together with custom grip tape


• Unit of time as one skateboard (for me 3-8 months


• Sound of skateboards while you build one

Dislikes

• Stigma attached


• Harassment by police/security guards


• Eating shit (falling skateboarding) and getting hurt


• Commodification of athletes


• Injuries


• Time commitments

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Likes

• Sound of texture


• Eating shit (falling skateboarding) Story/Scars


• Sense of wonder


• Meeting people


• Identifying friends


• United community, like runners


• You know who isn't a skater by their "air"


• Finding new spots to skate


• Doing things you've never done before


• Putting the deck together with custom grip tape


• Unit of time as one skateboard (for me 3-8 months


• Sound of skateboards while you build one

Dislikes

• Stigma attached


• Harassment by police/security guards


• Eating shit (falling skateboarding) and getting hurt


• Commodification of athletes


• Injuries


• Time commitments

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Here are some lecture notes from "All You Wanted to Know About Art" Summer 2003.

• Keep regular business hours.

Size counts.

Make mailing list to send stuff to galleries.

Create a history of applications.

Write thank you notes.

Stay in touch with folks who know your work.

Layer idea of community and patronage. It's bigger than just a purchase.

Encourage a personal relationship with the artist.

Take the lead.

Make slides and color printouts of your work to send in to galleries.

Send the best slides, rather than the best work, and send prints also.

Send in accompanying list with with a paragraph about each slide, still, or video.

Make sure your "First name, Last name" Internet search is good.

If not, clean it up and if no hits, sign up for sites or make your own.

Increase name hits, your name is very valuable.

Art in America annual guide shows places to sell art.

SFMOMA has groups exhibition spaces.

Work first on the long list of CV.

Don't be "over exposed".

Don't give different prices, have consistency.

Think about supply and demand, career level.

Size is the only objective pricing strategy, bigger is more.

Visit galleries to do research on art pricing in your community.

Art commissions: consultants charge 25%, galleries 50%, non-profits 10%.

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Mary Douglas book ---> Dirt

*It's all about the venue/gallery/rave/etc. if you're comfortable.

Chris Watson---->Caberet Voltaire from the 70's
Touch label
Protools, cubase *logic* Max

(chaotic chemistry)

Pierre Henry "death"
1963 Variations for a door and a sign
Music Concrete
Music out of Anerexia 1 or 2 sources
"We liked raves before they became full of suburban drug addicts"

Francisco Lopez - blindfolded audience
Limitations of technology make things seem like a better idea.

cut/pitch shift
Backwards/forwards
It's about source
Clip, glitch
peak
Look to get out of rhythm more

Dada smitrerland teens
Next synths
Roland sampler

Toured with Bjork

Make one song out of an object (Neil Diamond, not a musician, an entertainer)

Copyright law ---> no such words as "new"
Be inspiring and make free things

Negative land ---> Folk music of now. Music is far more efficient the new "word of mouth"

It's not about the world it's about me. Future physical in London

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

...with Kevin on the new Montgomery ledge, but before that we went out to Lori's and I had Chili Cheese Fries and a Coke. I am getting soft in the middle. I talked with Tizz today I'm so very excited that she's coming to visit me here in San Fran. I read a lot today of the Borden Book, re-set up my accounts at hypermodern.net and looked for more jobs. I got about 5 leads and tomorrow I'm headed out to Ripon and I'll get footage and things, then work all Monday & Tuesday.

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Performance art acts as a memory the moment the performance is over. The user takes a memory away along with pamphlet, but in the case of "Free memory" The user takes away a physical memory which they can continually interact with.

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Things are getting better people are dropping out of classes, Betsy gave me a ride up to campus today. Big digger skateboarding and same elbow, then SF Jam on the doggie. P.S. got modem installed, need phone card.

Originally published at Hypermodern - Pete Ippel 1999-2009. You can comment here or there.

Checked out some contemporary art Moca Schlammer and Performance 1949-1979 then called people on the phone. Talked to Mr. Deneault, DB Tried Natalie W got to talk with Carlan and also Francisco and Katie & Sarah Pierson and left a message for Les.

I met a guy who skates down the hall Kevin, he gave be an old desk but it's ugly and white, I may get rid of it. Anywho, I talked to him a bit and baked bread. Tomorrow I'm watching the Simpsons with Becky and her BF and some other dude. Tomorrow I'm gonna hit the ol farmers market. Today I almost at a worm. NASTY.