Did you take your vitamins today?
All images by James Chiang
http://www.jameschiang.com
Represented by Jennifer Hutz, NYC
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E C H’s Daoust 301’s with clear 280cm TUUK holders. 30+ years later I still prefer to skate with the same TUUK’s on Nike Quest 1’s (designed by Mark Ford.) There’s something about the shape and feel that was perfect from the beginning. Shout out to my good friend and fellow hockey nutter Christopher Kern.
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Are you kidding me… you shot the Stanley Cup… the holy grail of holy grails. You’re a hockey fan? Are you sure you’re not Canadian?
James
Grew up in Boston idolizing Gerry Cheevers, Bobby Orr and playing hockey since I was 3. We were the perennial state champs for years and then one day played the Canadian Girls Team in the equivalent of our league for an exhibition match, and were duly slayed 8-2.
I am most definitely not Canadian.
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Congratulations to E C H for her official appointment by Will Mosgrove as an Adjunct Professor of Photography in the MFA Program at AAU.
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Kinesthesia in SOMA at 7AM. An homage to Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Forbidden Colours. Special shout out to Lisa Oropallo at Digitas for her transparency and wit.
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A perspective of linear form vocabulary in the underbelly of the grandstands at Sears Point. Shout out to the brilliant Henrik Lenberg.
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A Lace Letter begets a Ukrainian Unicorn. Constructed with vintage Lanvin jewelry that was subjected to a chemical patina in effort to to yield the verdigris. The horn was snapped at the tip with 350lbs of countervalent force and painted with lacquer. It resides wadded in a corner of a cold atelier in Ohio. Shout out to Chris Austopchuk and Yelena Deyneko at Sony for calling out the letter.
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Congratulations to all of our students and now friends and colleagues in the Spring 2012 Ideation & Presentation MFA class. It’s been an honor to work with all of you. Special thanks to the peerless Josh Kirschenbaum (far right) for positively blowing our minds as guest speaker in the last class. Shout out to Wilson Lee for the great class portrait.
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E C H procurement of our favorite mango mochi at Hui Lau Shan Hong Kong in the Outer Richmond.
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NGT Motorsport GT3 Cup Car at Laguna Seca yesterday for the ALMS race.
Special wishes to Tim Bergmeister for quick and healthy recovery.
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Special shout out and thank you to the talented, thoughtful Beks Opperman and Stephen Kenn. Here is a truly inspiring process video they made in conjunction with Process Creative that I shared in class as an example of not only great visual storytelling, but also having a salient, heartfelt message. These folks are very sincere, risk-embracing, and deserve every bit of support and hard won success they have and will continue to earn each step of the way.
Beks Opperman
Working in the design world can be a bit disheartening sometimes. Ok, a LOT of the time. You think of an idea, you work out all the potential problems, you make it and put it out there and wait to see if people want to buy it. And then sometimes they DO in fact buy it, and then you ship out your heart and soul (sometimes known as a lovingly crafted sofa) to that person. And then, most of the time, you don’t ever hear from that person who now owns a piece of your heart. And that’s ok. Its expected even. But then sometimes you DO hear back from a customer. And sometimes they are really cool, and really like the sofa that they purchased from you. Such a time happened to Stephen recently. He got a very kind email from a one Professor James Chiang. James is a photographer and a professor at a university in San Francisco. He sent us the above photo of the piece in his place, featuring his dog Noi. Thank you James, you’ve helped to keep the artist-demons at bay for a while.
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SE DC 24” & 26” Quadangles. Shout out to Booby Lukacz, J Webb, Brian Reilly, Wei Lam, Spencer Betts & Dave Mills- aka the BMX Bozos.
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Yesterday bore witness to a Summit of the Minds. Will Mosgrove legend and one in the making, E C H.
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A deistic macro cosmogony, impo le; the Sword Nothung yielding promise of an ordered universe. If you don’t know what that means, as I do not, please ask the roguish genius veritas that is Simon Carr, one of my earliest mentors.
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Encaustic, acrylic, calcium carbonate, dust, dirt, detritus. Loaded with smooth quarry stones from Lake Erie, heat-gunned at 537 degrees centigrade and set on fire. The self immolating lengths any self-respecting boot needs to go through these days before ever taking their first step.
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E C H in the Heartland of America. (That being Ohio.) Shout out to Courtaney Wilson and Steven Walter who are moving to Columbus tomorrow. See you guys there in the fall.
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