CONDITIONS
Here are some snaps from the Los Angeles show “Work In Progress” at Blythe Projects in Culver City, held in collaboration with MOCA Los Angeles and The Masses.
The show ran from January 23rd to February 25th 2010 and featured work, besides my own, by artists John Andolsek and Mark Schoening in addition to new work by sculptor Anthony James, paintings by multidisciplinary artist JK5 and video art by filmmaker and Masses founder Matt Amato.
My section consisted of images from my ongoing photographic project “CONDITIONS” as well as footage from an unfinished short film, “COME TO HARM” which will premiere in 2011.
Click here for more info on CONDITIONS:
www.blytheprojects.net/borkur
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FELL ASLEEP AND WOKE UP IN A ROBERT PALMER VIDEO.
LENNY IS LIKE A RADIOHEAD ALBUM.
This is Björn, my Los Angeles hero and savior. He lives in Highland Park with his dog, Lenny. Björn says Lenny is like a Radiohead album. At first you don't like it and think it's an abomination, then you slowly get used to it and eventually it consumes you and fills you with an overpowering feeling of love. Below is a picture of the nasty looking Lenny (black) posing with his very own, absurdly cute french bulldog, Moog (white). You can guess who gets all the pussy. Oh, and Lenny actually attacks postal workers. Highly resentful of authority, I think the uniform sets him off. Not surprisingly, he and Björn get along swimmingly.
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“I DON’T KNOW IF YOU REALIZE THIS, BUT YOU KINDA STAND OUT…”
I’m about to go on another Nikita shoot (www.nikitaclothing.com). Don’t know where we’re going yet, but here are some snaps from the last summer shoot. It was the 7th shoot I’ve done with them and I love those weird, intense trips we take. Usually Rúnar & Heiða, who run the company, throw a dart at a world map and off we go. This time they were aiming for The Bahamas and the dart hit Tampa. So we went to Miami.
One day we were shooting in what we thought was this really picturesque area: run down houses, all painted in pastels and lined up along massive, wide streets. We parked the cars and started shooting on a street corner. After a while I realized certain cars were cruising by us veeeery slowly with alarming regularity. I was starting to feel a little apprehensive when a police car drove up and asked us where we were from.
"I don't know if you realize this, but you kinda stand out."
Waving around expensive electronics while hanging out with a bunch of cute girls, who are feverishly dancing to gangster rap while simultaneously peeling off their clothes on a street corner in one of Miami's roughest ghettos was not his idea of blending in, apparently.
He told us there had been 5 armed robberies that same morning in that same neighborhood and we'd be well advised to get the hell out of there, fast.
"Welcome to America," he added sarcastically before driving off.
So we drove off to the Fashion District, where the girls could dance without being shot and raped.
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Who? Me? Model?
We spotted Tashauna on Hallandale Beach while shooting swimwear for the Nikita streetwear collection SS/2010. She was there with her girlfriend and her girlfriend’s mom and immediately caught our eyes. She’s from Jamaica, but lives in Liberty City in Miami, a seriously dodgy area that we had been politely escorted out of a few days earlier by the police, who were afraid we'd be murdered. Stupid tourists. She’d never modeled before and looks like she could kick your butt. Or bust a cap in your ass.
