<i>Let's be still, be still for awhile </i><br /><i>There's no place I wanna be</i><br /><i>Lose our way and sit side by side</i><br /><i>Passing time so carelessly, so carelessly <a href="http://www.nme.com/artists/yo-la-tengo/album/summer-sun/12580/track/lets-be-still">(here) </a></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_IDJtO24AK-RoJxe7HjJjZTt4O-1Q1Fuq_qUzEwjj_75aS8K0uwBYTreLZDCh5uRQbiNJtRFYE5vKRUDlH6GVsn1BBc9jH6zKV-Nug1g3aU7lnGqlOsJ1YSIhn5ejIxNiBKh92IktC2U/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEf3KghAlXDqHRAXczoJvj9npEOMHvz0yqBDxFrjZKbIV_jhZ1vEOY4OM67c-w3bfQDqwi2qAsjpUP6DHDcpMilSkX2sQYmZlZCnEnq484L4N9_xr7xEXireOmWKajeadA5iCuICw0UQk/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEf3KghAlXDqHRAXczoJvj9npEOMHvz0yqBDxFrjZKbIV_jhZ1vEOY4OM67c-w3bfQDqwi2qAsjpUP6DHDcpMilSkX2sQYmZlZCnEnq484L4N9_xr7xEXireOmWKajeadA5iCuICw0UQk/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+132.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkMWQ3uxjYBieJwLBP64CW5uzhRtIw60-Mm6Ksd2P5bGQII6uZIWidktd2xawqxbzlBs-i-rWgFjzv1t-dhTrs4uLqyJkGeD1M2Dy-7ZtHNEy-efKymbruNoMHgS_WMeraft1RLSe_gA/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkMWQ3uxjYBieJwLBP64CW5uzhRtIw60-Mm6Ksd2P5bGQII6uZIWidktd2xawqxbzlBs-i-rWgFjzv1t-dhTrs4uLqyJkGeD1M2Dy-7ZtHNEy-efKymbruNoMHgS_WMeraft1RLSe_gA/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+065.jpg" /></a></div><br />  <br /><br /><i>New works: Collected by</i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i><a href="http://www.collectedby.com/"><i>Jason Koharik</i></a></b></span>, <i> </i><br /><i>Opening Reception Nov 9th</i><i><br /></i><br /><br />"All the while, I was continuing to meet people that were interested in design. I would find them some rare or interesting piece, and in many cases, that led me to their homes where I began dressing them, and custom building/designing pieces for them. I do enjoy putting a room together. Finding balance both visually and with their life style and interests. I also get to turn people on to things they would otherwise never consider or designers they are not really aware of.  I am, I suppose, self taught on much of what I do, (metal working, weaving, leather work, sewing, electrical, wood working), mostly out of necessity. I don't know how else to get it done "<br /><i><br /></i><br /><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2012/02/conversation-with-jason-koharik.html"><i>Read a past interview with Jason Koharik here.</i></a><br /><i>all photos by David John </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1a_RAZ1fsbCXC3ZZrXUU_uVwJTEru7uj_pKd0fUIvO79pg4j1Mg3OiWWx_8TpPotjAcZ8efzAuue9ds6LgJHQQ_DX82hyphenhyphenOezFVHw_0hmmyXNteryaVcswZJGPlNcWaI8F04hmEjY1hJA/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+077.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1a_RAZ1fsbCXC3ZZrXUU_uVwJTEru7uj_pKd0fUIvO79pg4j1Mg3OiWWx_8TpPotjAcZ8efzAuue9ds6LgJHQQ_DX82hyphenhyphenOezFVHw_0hmmyXNteryaVcswZJGPlNcWaI8F04hmEjY1hJA/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+077.jpg" /></a><i> </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><i> </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />. . .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbuev5XMZPsOB_6gEzQ691zrF8idha2I6qDc-98p6MufaeZa-24c4QmAV3nVxZrIg5oq6f0YRsia_nMo5jFzfCbqqjLOCLHTRCGWxfU8ZhylZrlg_WQE9Updxni_lHstqGW2C9ChMuzU/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbuev5XMZPsOB_6gEzQ691zrF8idha2I6qDc-98p6MufaeZa-24c4QmAV3nVxZrIg5oq6f0YRsia_nMo5jFzfCbqqjLOCLHTRCGWxfU8ZhylZrlg_WQE9Updxni_lHstqGW2C9ChMuzU/s1600/jason+koharik+set+up+184.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="color: white;">o much of what I do I feel is collecting. Even the way I learn to do it is a collection of mistakes and break </span><br /><br /><br />"So much of what I do I feel is collecting. Even the way I learn to do it is a collection of mistakes and break throughs. Most of my works, paintings, sculptures, are made from materials that have taken 10 -15 years to collect. Examples being: Paintings made from hundreds of used paint stir sticks creating large linear color fields. I have collected what seems like miles of lost or acquired steel and cloth tape measures to weave large canvas inch by inch.<br /><br />Collected by also refers to my love of "hunting". I have a collection of furniture, lighting, designer, rare discoveries, and things that inspire me. Some I reupholster, some I re-purpose. Some are so far gone I turn them into something new. I also collect old scrap leather, a material I am very fond of. I reuse this (hand stitched) on old bent metal chairs to give them a new life. I love to collect the unusual. The pieces passed by because they no longer have a place. Some of them are just better used as something else. Potential energy."   <i>- Jason Koharik</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> --------2 becomes 4-------- </div>

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"Viewers were free <i><b>to further transform the spaces</b></i> by scratching, writing, and marking the pristine yet vulnerable material with whatever was at hand, leaving individual traces that were soon subsumed into the accumulated mass of marks that the space became."<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1MIapEcsnSgXfqjuI8Efd3ksnwfJsnp8M9UaEM93MrIij-KezUgvhXhSSa89KpjFvCT4tDSb-FQS0WkS3FDPbB4FriibOJ7CUHjAU3oq9c5C4nJsQaT66GcR4OEfrgXexci5nSMAXa_s/s1600/755120a84fafe37c567bdf786afdb08b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1MIapEcsnSgXfqjuI8Efd3ksnwfJsnp8M9UaEM93MrIij-KezUgvhXhSSa89KpjFvCT4tDSb-FQS0WkS3FDPbB4FriibOJ7CUHjAU3oq9c5C4nJsQaT66GcR4OEfrgXexci5nSMAXa_s/s1600/755120a84fafe37c567bdf786afdb08b.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i><b>Rudolf Stingel</b></i><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><i>October 16 - December 22, 2012 </i></span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><i>4 rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris </i></span><br /><br />Central to <i><b>Rudolf Stingel's oeuvre is the passage of time rendered palpable</b></i>, together with the expansion of the vocabulary of painting and its perception: from the abstract tulle silver paintings of the 1990s to the carpet installations that aestheticized both the surface of spaces and visitors' traces; from the series of melancholic self-portraits to the latest gold studio-floor paintings.<br /><br />Casting and plating large sections of graffiti-covered Celotex insulation panels, Stingel has produced opulent paintings that both <span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>celebrate and memorialize the passage of time.</b></i></span> The original panels for these paintings come from the environmental installations of his mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Whitney Museum in New York in 2007. In each of these renowned participatory works, Stingel transformed the exhibition space by covering the walls in a layer of reflective aluminum-faced insulation material. Viewers were free to further transform the spaces by scratching, writing, and marking the pristine yet vulnerable material with whatever was at hand, leaving individual traces that were soon subsumed into the accumulated mass of marks that the space became. The new works are selected fragments of those inscribed walls cast in copper via a process that captures even the most delicate surface detail. The cast base is then electroplated with gold, transforming the random inscriptions alchemically and permanently into something new and shamelessly beautiful.<a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/rudolf-stingel--october-16-0012/exhibition-images"><i> (text images taken from here)</i></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>1-----leads ----2---and eventually --- 3</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />

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"It is more just the small things, like that candelabra that I got from <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2012/02/conversation-with-blackman-cruz_04.html">Adam Blackman of Blackman Cruz, </a>the half moon. I love just the fact that I could change anything here at any moment. For me a beautiful object is like, I love that chair, and if I found a different one, then I would put it in my store, and let someone else love it.<br /><br />That is the idea of the store. I mean I know it is probably smarter, or more marketable, to say “We sell California mid-century modern; Come here for that.” But I am looking to see where this goes and I like change, I really do.... <i><b>  </b><b>I like feeling things. So physical things are there for a moment, but they could go away at any time</b>."  - Coryander Friend, set designer</i><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgzN74dcB6HiPDAK5vlh9zQM-V7NTUGHxX_kdZFzn-sxYeRvcfbEDqPJSPmhXZ-xjWnK1HnqAEiYANUolyXvQbefH1NLEyNzgM9r_rRzp5O4XpEBi1qkLFtD7Bvf5lUWtAHPByWwKu24/s1600/2+Freunde-von-Freunden_Coryander-Friend_H_06-461x692.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgzN74dcB6HiPDAK5vlh9zQM-V7NTUGHxX_kdZFzn-sxYeRvcfbEDqPJSPmhXZ-xjWnK1HnqAEiYANUolyXvQbefH1NLEyNzgM9r_rRzp5O4XpEBi1qkLFtD7Bvf5lUWtAHPByWwKu24/s1600/2+Freunde-von-Freunden_Coryander-Friend_H_06-461x692.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Earlier this summer, I worked on a story for Berlin-based magazine,<b> Freunde von Freunden</b>. I'm honored to have worked with <i><b><a href="http://www.danieltrese.com/">Daniel Trese</a></b></i> the photographer on this story.  Daniel and I spent the early morning up in Laurel Canyon with Coryander Friend, while the intense summer sun slowly came to full force. Thank you to Coryander for welcoming us into your home.<br /><br />The full interview and photographs can be seen <a href="http://www.freundevonfreunden.com/interviews/coryander-friend/">here</a><i>.</i><br /><br />With a background in poetry and art from the Buddhist-inspired Naropa University, Coryander Friend has<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b> a natural ability to sense and feel her surroundings, and then translate them into the physical world. </b></span></i>The day we sat in her Laurel Canyon home, she told me “It’s energy, it’s just energy and we are hit with so much information, that to me, the space around me, the space that I can control, is important to me psychologically, it keeps me sane.” <br /><br />In addition to working as a set/production designer with film directors <a href="http://vimeo.com/38205735"><i><b>Mike Mills (Beginners)</b></i></a> and Errol Morris, Coryander has recently opened Storefront LA, a gallery and vintage store in a warehouse district in Los Angeles, while she also just launched her line of jumpsuits called Parachute. Storefront will allow her to offer her flea market finds and the works from the community of furniture designers, artists, potters and storytellers she surrounds herself with.<br /><br /><i>- David John</i> <br /><b><a href="http://www.freundevonfreunden.com/interviews/coryander-friend/"><i>read entire interview here on FvF </i></a></b><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3jEC232fFJfVt9KSuCuJE0orCplXABHBNiVSHrRwJ6vJOR6o1P2jsaiMT3NAh80SOeVVEYmb2sB0wFf3s32uDmMEqb1JlJDhry_7fT7Q3-_MpFzLabUvTgcvROBnmnHaMgS7ulP2BTGk/s1600/Freunde-von-Freunden_Coryander-Friend_H_20-930x619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3jEC232fFJfVt9KSuCuJE0orCplXABHBNiVSHrRwJ6vJOR6o1P2jsaiMT3NAh80SOeVVEYmb2sB0wFf3s32uDmMEqb1JlJDhry_7fT7Q3-_MpFzLabUvTgcvROBnmnHaMgS7ulP2BTGk/s640/Freunde-von-Freunden_Coryander-Friend_H_20-930x619.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i> </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i><b>Do objects allow you to feel? </b></i><br /><br />Coryander: Yeah, (big exhale) big time. That’s really how I feel. I mean it’s weird, but how something is placed in a room is really how I communicate with the room. It’s hard for me to be in places that there is a bad spatial scenario happening. It’s energy, it’s just energy. We are hit with so much information, that to me, the space around me, the space that I can control, is important to me psychologically. It keeps me sane.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjviZeNtfaaPL1SMzburSBv5PM1RlSxwW5I7Xptf_lA16txqzqBbxl142P65hNIh1XHd6bCwUDbxFpdxZabXlGNsEgGF3BA-hBqBS5uPZ21tWImiIrsqdDp9ITIaysmLpNwIEb6w6G6c_s/s1600/2Freunde-von-Freunden_Coryander-Friend_H_24-461x692.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjviZeNtfaaPL1SMzburSBv5PM1RlSxwW5I7Xptf_lA16txqzqBbxl142P65hNIh1XHd6bCwUDbxFpdxZabXlGNsEgGF3BA-hBqBS5uPZ21tWImiIrsqdDp9ITIaysmLpNwIEb6w6G6c_s/s1600/2Freunde-von-Freunden_Coryander-Friend_H_24-461x692.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><i>(excerpt from the FVF interview)</i><b> </b><br /><br /><i><b>Did you collaborate with the set design on Beginners, or were those your visions?</b></i><br /><br />It was very much a collaboration between Shane, Mike, and myself. Because the story was so personal, we ended up going to his sister’s house and his house, picking Mike’s parent’s actual furniture that they had collected, including art, books. Really the whole thing. Then we pulled a lot from my house, because we really didn’t have a lot of money. So we were like let’s take this from real life. Mike and I were neighbors at the time in Silver Lake, so we were shooting all in our neighborhood. I would literally just walk to the set. and we were shooting in a house right between our two houses. I would have to run back to my house and think, what would Hal have in his house that I have in my house (laughing). And so it was really organic.<br /><br /><i><b>Did he rent the home for the shoot? </b></i><br /><br />The one that he shot that was Oliver’s house was a neighbor’s house that he rented for the location. The house we shot for two weeks in, which was the house where Hal grew up, that was a Neutra house in Griffith Park. It’s where they shot L.A. Confidential and lots of other films. It’s an amazing place.<br /><br /><i><b>It was really an incredible film, I was surprised by how much I felt it. </b></i><br /><br />Yeah, it was really heartfelt and Mike put a lot into it. He had lots of references for us to watch different movies, of course Woody Allen’s Manhattan. He is so well thought out, he had a book put together of visuals that he had been working on for two years that we all poured through, with colors, everything. Everything in that movie was so thought out and I was so pleased that people really got it. I wasn’t sure that they would actually understand it, because the aesthetic was so personal. It flowed together in our minds, but I really did not know if people would get it. I had no idea that it would be so successful.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">------------------</div>

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