Another great line-up this morning.  Today’s
panel includes Chris Silva, Caryn from Sixspace, Kelly Burns, Jace, Ignorancia,
Crackrock Bestamaxx and Amir from beautiful/decay magazine. 

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Favorite Event of 2003:

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most amazing lady in the whole wide world .. Fucking up my part of the
Betamaxxx.CAS$HRULEZ exxxhibition ( aLLLthough the other 4 members of Beta

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Baschz . Nanda . Phet and Rocz kiLLLed it anywayz ..

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/>Chris Silva: The
coolest, strangest thing was being given an href="http://chrissilva.com/Shows/Page/PageOpenStudio.htm">empty storefront
in the middle of downtown Chicago for the entire month of April. I collaborated
with my friend Mike Genovese and the public got to watch us work, the animals in
the art zoo. We probably watched them more than anything though.

/>Jace: My trip in Madagascar

Caryn (from href="http://www.sixspace.com">Sixspace Gallery in Los Angeles):
Mark Ryden’s 40th birthday gala (Jan), The Stray Show Art Fair in
Chicago (May), Laura Owens show at MOCA, getting my dog (May), meeting Mike Watt
(Sept), and celebrating my five-year wedding anniversary (Dec.)

/>Amir (from beautiful/decay
magazine): Lari Pittman opening in LA

Kelly
Burns (I NY): I won’t lie… I NY
book launch at the New Museum was my favorite event of 2003. Aside from that-
the opening of a group show at Longstreet Workshops in London, featuring 5 up
and coming Brits: Peter Walsh, Gabrielle Le Cocq, Mark Emblem, Joey Sharp,
Andrew Gardiner.

Favorite Artist of 2003:

Crackrock:
MF Doom and his 55 aliases

/>Chris: I have a renewed appreciation for Twist. I’m having some
struggles with direction, and being very critical of doing the same sort of
thing over and over again approach, but I don’t feel that it’s overly strategic
on his part. It seems really authentic and soulful, and that’s encouraged me to
ease up on myself when I catch myself automatically drawing my birds and
such.

Jace: Alexone

Caryn: Tie: href="http://www.camillerosegarcia.org/">Camille Rose Garcia and href="http://www.carnegieinternational.org/html/art/currin.htm">John
Currin

Amir: href="http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1996/Articles0796/LPit
tman.html">Lari Pittman

Ignorancia: Thomas Campbell
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Kelly: 1.) Peter Walsh - multi-media concept artist, forever
pushing you to re-examine what you think you know. 2.) Gabrielle Le Cocq - video
artist. Her latest (and most brilliant) video “Straight out of Brompton” debuted
at the Longstreet show. Remember these names… they’re going to be huge.
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Favorite New Artist of 2003 (an artist who you did not know of last year):

Crackrock: Theres this new organization (i dont even
think they have a name yet ) that reaLLLy blew my mind away this year with aLLL
kinds of strange actions .. they kinda use the paterns that exist in society
(not even on some fuck the world type.a thing .. its way more positve and
constructive ) and re-arange them using various kinds of self created
iconographic items and evertything eLLLse actuaLLy .. iam sure they wiLLL take
the world by storm.

Chris: Laura Owens, href="http://www.newimageartgallery.com/yormickreuss.html">Chris Reuss,
Calma.

Jace: freaklub

Caryn: href="http://www.rachellsumpter.com/">Rachell Sumpter

/>Amir: Eli
Sudbrack

Ignorancia: href="http://www.thelondonpolice.com">The London Police

/>Kelly: href="http://www.flashartonline.com/issues/231international/donovan.asp">Tara
Donovan- She had a great show at ACE Gallery in New York, March 2003.
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Favorite Piece of Art of 2003:

Crackrock: that must bee
the picture of saddam with the wild hair and the beard ..

Chris:
Chris Reuss -“Fuck the laws”

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/>Jace: One steel sculpture from Lichtenstein, it’s not new but it
impressed me a lot.

Caryn: Camille Rose Garcia “Blood of the
Lamb”

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/>Caryn: Honorable mentions: Rich Colman’s Untitled 8 feet drawings, href="http://www.sixspace.com/gallery/drawing2003/imx/lrg/cb-
proudofyou.jpg">Clayton Brothers “I Am Proud of You Today,” and Seonna
Hong’s “Bulldozer” on wood.

Kelly: A piece by Peter Walsh
from the Longstreet show.

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Favorite New Product of 2003:

Crackrock: My favourite
new product for 2003 is without a doubt the very limited ( only 19 pair made yet
!! ) Red,Yellow & Green edition of the Nike Mudfoot .. available in the 2 most
obscure sweatshops on this side of the river kwai. (for more information email
info@beinghunted.com )

Jace: My new gouzou’s book of
course!

Caryn: The Fooderator…it eliminates food!

/>Amir: ICHAT

Ignorancia: Philp Frost?s Arkitp dc
shoes

Kelly: Sonicare tooth brush.

Favorite Toy of 2003:

Chris: I’m currently enjoying the scroll saw that was
recently handed down to me by Juan Chavez. My new studio space is sort of a toy
too.

Jace: Can’t stand toys

Caryn: my
iBook

Amir: No toys..i’m over it

Favorite CD of 2003:

Crackrock: PsykicFrendzNetwork Greatesthits.voL55 (
available for only 5 euros through info@gpfo.org ) .. or that track with the
monkey

Chris: Cat Power - Moon Pix

Jace:
Best of de Patrick Sebastien (a great french singer !),
pffffffffffffffffff   ffffffff!

Caryn: Interpol - Turn on
the Bright Lights

Amir: Decemberists

/>Ignorancia: Keziah Jones/Black Orpheus

Kelly:
Underworld, AHundredDaysOff.

Favorite Website of 2003

/>Crackrock: http://www.gpfo.org they put a
smile on my face everytime aLLL da time .. that whole website was created in
microsoft outlook exxxpress ( a worlds exxxclusive i think )

/>Chris: I can’t front. I love watching the graffiti writers bitch at
each other in the 12 Ounce Prophet forums. It’s hilarious.

/>Jace: Ekosystem

/>Caryn: sixspace.com, href="http://www.blogging.la">blogging.la, and href="http://www.eonline.com">eonline.com

Amir: href="http://www.designiskinky.net">Design is kinky

/>Ignorancia: www.mackaoui.com


Kelly: href="http://www.alllooksame.com">alllooksame.com - not for the stuff they
sell, but for the “look same” quiz.

What do you most want for Christmas?

Crackrock: The entire profit of the IKEA christmas
jamboree

Chris: An all expenses paid world tour, oh yeah,
and peace on Earth.

Jace: A new computer (can you really do
that for me ???)

Caryn: I want to relax and sleep a lot.
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Amir: A new girlfriend

Ignorancia: Rest and
sleep a litle more (on Oct21 my second girl was born)

Kelly:
A unanimous and gleeful, world-wide decision to implement the abolition of
Christmas.

What is your New Year’s wish?

Crackrock:
Thats a secret .. if you talk about shit like that it doesnt happen
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Chris: For people to keep buying my artwork so I can pay back
all of the money I owe my parents and keep the bills paid..

Jace: 
To keep my freedom way of life

Caryn: No more drama!
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Amir: Meet more vegan girls

Kelly: Less
working the shit jobs that are slowly dismantling my soul- more working on the
production of art and books.

Ignorancia: That people all
around the world made conscious of necesity to preserve the nature

How will you be spending the Holiday’s this year? / What will you be doing for New Years Eve?

Crackrock: holidays :: plannig and taking care of
business .. NYE: puLLing the heist of the century

Chris:
Preparing for the apocalypse again I suppose.

Jace: For
new years we will probably eat on the beach and have a bath in the sea at 12
(the water is 28? here)

Caryn: In Florida for Xmas and Los
Angeles with friends for New Years…with a little mayhem in-between.

/>Amir: Working on the new issue of beautiful/decay magaine on xmas and
baby sit drunkards on new years

Ignorancia: with my two
girls Mariana and Gabriela and my wife Monica (and her parents and mines,......
probably i?m gonna be dj?ing in some friend house

Kelly:
Getting a slice at the pizza box on Bleecker. Have a beautiful time,
everyone.