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I can now travel to 52 countries.

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Cover of the Black Mountain College Review, Fall 1954.

To see last year’s poster click here.

Bob: You know Andy, I can easily imagine you doing a rug series―large silkscreens of designs from all over the world―Mexico, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iran. Aren’t you tired of Americana? Why not explore other countries? One day you could have factories in Marrakesh, Istanbul, Mexico City, Kabul, Tehran―wherever they make rugs.
Andy: That’s an interesting idea, but I’ve always thought of myself as an American artist.
Bob: Instead of one Factory, you’d have many factories. Instead of one artist, you would be many, many artists.
Andy: If I ever go international, I’d like to do it the American way, like McDonald’s.
Bob: You’d transform your business art into an international brand.
Andy: I don’t think we could sell too many rugs. They look great in windows, but if I started hanging them on the wall, I think I’d stop liking them. Maybe it needs to be something other than rugs.
Bob: Like what?
Andy: Like maybe those camouflage uniforms soldiers wear. They’re more modern.
Bob: Is that how you chose your other icons, like the soup cans and the dollar bills? You started with one thing and then found something like it that you liked better?
Andy: Not really. You can’t live without soup or money or movie stars, not in this country. But a rug? Well, you can take it or leave it. Carpets are more practical. Rugs I like when they’re just hanging in shop windows. What would I look at when I’m coming down Fifth Avenue?
Bob: You could make them really big, even fill the entire gallery wall, like your cow patterns.
Andy: It sounds like an idea you’d like to do.

*A fictional dialogue between Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson from Warhol’s Dream by Saul Anton.

Lars: If man had been physically able to give birth, men would have been better mothers. Girls aren’t cool. They can be pretty or “cute,” and with some serious dieting, even sexy. They can be nice. Dumb, but nice. But who wants “nice”? You want interesting people around you. Has a girl ever introduced you to any new music or recommended a book you didn’t already read in high school? Anything just slightly outside the mainstream? If so, she got it from an ex, her brother, her father. They just pretend. It’s worse here. On the East Side, they know they’re underprivileged. Here they think they have to have an opinion. And intrude on adult conversations…
Erik: Still, girls have to be busy with something, too? At least all the boys have an interest they become absorbed in. If it’s music, a band. If it’s football, it’s something. I don’t know what but there’s something. But what are girls into?
Lars: Horses and menstruation.
Erik: Okay, but not all girls are like that. You’ve got to agree with me on that.
Lars: No. Bullshit. Feeling guilty is slave mentality. Sometimes you have to be Zarathustra. Be mean.

My friend Andrew Sloat is giving a talk at the Apple store in Soho on Wednesday, July 16 at 6:30 as part of the AIGA/Design Remixed series. Come see him and listen to him. He is nice. He is a great graphic designer and makes nice videos like this one. That video made him so famous that everyone wants him to do videos now, even Barack Obama. That video made him so famous that even some French skate crew ripped him off (Click here). The French ripping off Americans? Eh, who would have thought…

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This is how I found the computer desktop the first day of work. Thank you Karen.

Today is exactly two months since I moved to New York. Click here to see a few pictures of what I have been up to; freelance and personal work.

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Sigur Rós - “Gobbledigook” (MP3)

I saw Reprise for the first time about two years ago at the Sundance film festival, and it instantly became my favorite film. Recently it got released in New York and I went to see it today…I can seriously say that it’s one of the most honest and unpretentious movies I have ever seen. Still my favorite film. If you live in New York you should go see it.

The Newborn type monument that a few or my friends worked on to mark Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence received a Clio Silver Award last week in Miami, Florida.

“In the 1960s, regional carriers used sexy stews in hot pants to lure passengers aboard. This one appears to be rolling a joint, although she probably isn’t. “

1. Center for Advanced Visual Studies catalogue 2. Coffee spilled issues 12 and 13 of DOT DOT DOT Magazine 3. Journal of Radical Shimming 4. Loose chapter from E.C. Large’s novel Asleep in the Afternoon 5. Hyphen Press Catalogue & almanack 2008     6. Armory Addendum to Warhol’s Dream 7. Further Postcard 8. The Blind Man issues 1 and 2 and other miscellaneous stuff.

…and I am no longer gonna wear jeans.

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I rarely check myspace. But today when I was looking at it, I randomly clicked on my friend Dane Hansen’s profile and his “About me” section is hilarious.

“My name is Dane Hansen and I can be bought easily with money.
For the most part I hold in my poop until I am at work. I do that because I feel like pooping is work, and that I deserve to get paid to do it. Also when I do go poop, I poop exclusively in the handicapped stall. And it’s not because I am handicapped, or that I need to use the handrails; in fact, I avoid the handrails at all costs so that I do not catch handicap. My reason for going in there is the ample seating and legroom. A normal stall does not do me justice. Also the door to the handicap stall opens out, not it. that way you aren’t forced to touch the toilet with your pants. I go swimming every single day. Why? Because it’s way more fun than taking a shower. And when I say swimming I don’t mean swimming laps. In fact I probably don’t know how to swim. I mean splashing and floating and then jumping on the toys as hard as possible. Thats my kind of swimming. I am from Boise, Idaho, but right now I live in Utah at Pizza Manor 3.0 (the third in a long legacy of Pizza Manors) working at Axis41 making Flash. I beat Minesweeper set on “expert” level all the damn time. I would someday like to do a study on Juggalos. I am afraid of other countries. I think that every country except America is a barren post-apocalyptic Soviet Union, amistd a nuclear winter. That doesn’t apply to Japan though. Japan is the future. In Japan, even the quaintest of suburban neighborhoods looks like Times Square on a weekend. I think if I went there I would be a god.”

This will be my home starting 2 June until 1 September.

I saw this on the way home. Today is the hottest day so far. I am ready to make this the best summer, although it will be hard to beat last year’s summer.

Tomorrow I’m gonna ask her if I can clean her desk.

“I stole my sister’s boyfriend. It was all whrilwind, heat and flash. Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road.”

May 10, 2008. Poster by Julian Bittiner.

The AIGA student group at Northern Michigan University labeled me on their web site as “A post modernist designer with some very strong modernist influences” Hmm…labels…

I came across this the other day. Cool.

I went to the SVA tonight for the graphic design and advertising show. The only good part about it was the free coke.

My friend Cameron did a 4×4 painting of my face. What a weirdo. He even got an award for it.

This is how the desk behind me looked like today.

I’m flying to New York tonight and I’m going to miss everyone here in Provo very much. Everyone has been really great and nice to me. Thank you for everything. Goodbye Utah and friends. You will be missed.

I’m done. More pictures here

Today, one of my teachers wanted to go to HFAC with me and see my degree show since he hadn’t seen it yet. As he was flipping through my “Colors” book, he stopped and said “Cowards. They scratched a couple words with a pen!”

Late last year I sent an email to friends, family and associates in Kosova and asked them what three colors represented Kosova best and why. Colors is a book of their opinions. One of the answers in the book was: “Blue, Orange, Purple…I know they sound gay and stupid, but blue is for peace and cool and chill, orange is for the god damn sun : D more seriously though, warm color that goes perfectly with our mentality, and purple for heraldic purposes.”

I had no control over their answers, and I didn’t edit any of them. It’s only fair that way. So apparently when someone was viewing the colors book at my exhibition they scratched the word “God” and “Damn” with a blue pen. Who does that? I am not mad that a page on my book is defaced, I’m just mad that there is narrow minded people out there.

I am perfectly fine with people who are against swearing. I don’t encourage it either, and obviously I didn’t encourage people to use swear words in their answers for this book.

This is my final project in college, I have put one year of work into it and for someone to just go and open my book and scratch certain words with a blue pen is very disrespectful.

Why did I never really pay too much attention to this guy? I have been listening to his stuff a lot this week and it’s so good. Bubble hard in the double R flashin the rings with the window cracked holler back money ain’t a thang.

I have written about the national visual identity on my old blog before. It’s an issue that really interests me. After all I dedicated my final degree show to it. Following the declaration of independence, the Kosova government announced the flag they had picked from over two thousand proposals submitted. Judging by the enormous number of submissions, i thought something good would come up. Unfortunately, what they had come up with was kind of an embarrassment. I am very disappointed.

From over two thousand submissions they picked this flag? Did the other two thousand plus really suck? I imagine there were so many bad submissions, but c’mon I doubt every single one sucked so bad. I am sure there was one, at least one that was a little better than this one they chose.

 The map of Kosova, six stars representing six ethnic communities living in Kosova, european union color palette? reminiscent of the Bosnian flag?…Who are we trying to be? Whose ass are we kissing? I can’t relate to it. Are the stars the best icons to represent these six communities? Do these six communities not have any history that we have to borrow history from the european union in order to create our own identity?

(below the flag of ex Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, current flag of Kosova, communist Albania flag, current Albania flag)

This was such a great opportunity for Kosova to come up with something great. The Kosova government ignored that opportunity. What a shame.

One of my best friends Chris Coy participated in a group exhibition titled Montage: Unmonumental Online at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in February. He is also the featured artist on Ignivomous. He’s got a website full of great work.

Check it here.

Lately, I’m really into taking screen shots from different movies that I like.

“Designing the Star User Interface”