TAO LIN | BLOG

5/16/10

new art & gallery show

most of these will be at hiding gallery 5/21, click them to view titles/larger, go here to view 'even larger'

normally attentive/loving parent temporarily ‘distracted’ by ‘marital problems combined with “vague existential despair”’ as its young child looks toward it with vague, complex, vicarious intentions involving (to different degrees and among other things) approval, comfort, pride, concern, love, fear at a mixed-species skate park that ‘just opened’

middle-aged bluefin tuna ‘squandering’ its life-savings, risking its life ‘big time,’ & abandoning a ‘very successful’ career in ‘the arts’ (via ‘abandoning life’) to ‘parachute amidst mountains deforested & painted neon colors by an unrelated ‘middle-aged bluefin tuna with a “very successful” career in “the arts”’ because it ‘honestly didn’t know what else to do with its life,’ according to the 260-word New York Times obituary of it published two days after this photograph

2x hamster swimming at ~4:30 am in the giant swimming pool (~5% pictured) of the mansion they’ve been ‘squatting’ (to some degree of the conventional slang-meaning of the word) in for 13 weeks (after escaping from a 10-gallon fishtank in an adjacent mansion’s 8-year-old girl’s 1st-floor bedroom) because due to their size they can ‘pretty easily’ hide whenever they ‘sense’ that a human being is near and also the new mansion has no cats or dogs and is ‘very messy, with “piles of clothes” “in range” in almost every room and hallway’ and there seems to always be fresh Wendy’s or Arby’s leftovers in the private movie theatre in the basement where also it’s almost always dark to a degree that you can’t see a hamster even if it’s ‘walking around’ idly’

'early 20s' hamster staring at [unknown], not aware that it's ~75" away from an 'early 20s' bluefin tuna that's also staring at [unknown], though a different '[unknown]'

gigantic satanic hamster 'very happily' flying onto an 'unsuspecting treetop' after using an unknown but probably 'very large' amount of amphetamines on itself to relieve boredom/despair

financially desperate tree doing a 'quadruple kickflip' off a cliff into a 5000+ foot gorge to retain its nike, fritos, and redbull sponsorships

upside-down cross staring at a tree in 'vaguely sarcastic' disbelief for something to do on april 12, 2009 at 2:34 a.m.

banana jumping in swimming pool with 'bored'/'vaguely distracted' facial expression

happy hamster ‘unwittingly’ leaving its hamster friend in a state of ‘severe depression’

29 Comments:

blaise larmee said...: i like these a lot; 2:22 AM
abrupt said...: i feel your work looks much more pleasing to the eye when done with physical media rather than ms paint.; 6:39 AM
steve roggenbuck said...: i agree with "abrupt." i really like this presentation of your work; 12:00 PM
thomas said...: omg i love art; 1:06 PM
Anonymous said...: very nice. i think i would definitely buy one of these if it was on a t-shirt. i appreciate art most in t-shirt form.; 3:36 PM
stephen said...: re: t-shirts: tao, u ever consider doing threadless? my friend sonmi does that. http://www.threadless.com; 3:46 PM
Jordan Castro said...: i like the art you've been making

have heard positive things from 2x friend in physical reality

good job; 3:53 PM
Tao Lin said...: @blaise sweet
@abrupt sweet, me too, to some degree
@steve sweet
@thomas damn
@anonymous sweet
@stephen haven't yet, if someone wants to do that they can do that and give me like 50% of profits or something
@jordan sweet; 7:46 PM
Erik Stinson said...: tao, do u feel u live the satanic lifestyle; 3:58 AM
Tao Lin said...: i don't know; 4:52 AM
andy.riverbed said...: 5/21 is my bday. good luck selling stuff. i need money to move to boston in september.; 6:31 PM
vainlikeyou said...: good job tao; 10:29 AM
Zach Powers said...: "middle-aged bluefin tuna" represents a degree of brilliance.; 2:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Tao, ever smoked weed and then wrote or read? Would like to read that.; 4:08 PM
andy.riverbed said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6:27 PM
andy.riverbed said...: i had a typo :(

jaja, and now i don't wanna retype everything i had.

i've been doing drawing of popcorn, maybe you might like them: http://andyriverbed.tumblr.com/; 6:29 PM
andy.riverbed said...: and another one! ftw.; 6:29 PM
lorrie said...: the swimming pool ones are sweet.; 7:57 PM
girl the wonder jean jesus said...: i am sick of jesus and satan.; 4:09 AM
girl the wonder jean birthday said...: if i was famous i would write a song about you and make money off of it to buy your merch.; 4:26 AM
Anonymous said...: really feel you shouldnt have deleted the jamie sterns party blog. also feel that you should blog more. inactivity is affecting the muumuu house writers badly, in my view. unless this is part of a plan in building up anticipation for upcoming releases.; 3:56 PM
Tao Lin said...: bros...; 4:54 PM
andrew worthington said...: word.; 5:49 PM
Anonymous said...: tao man you gotta blog more or release some new writing or i don't know. just give us something. we don't want to forget and move on or something; 3:52 AM
andrew worthington said...: yeah tao seriously i mean its been almost eight months since your last book and three months until your new book. feel like whatever.; 10:59 AM
Jake Fournier said...: art show was cool. trampoline. did your pieces sell?; 5:10 PM
Tao Lin said...: 'dunno' if things sold

seems like no

i think there was a rumor that all my art had 'sold out' though

like, every piece had sold to someone

seems unsubstantiated

think people 'had to' approach the curator in order to purchase something

someone told me someone was 'giving' my art 'the finger' as another person photographed them; 7:04 AM
Sewon said...: I just really like that banana one. He looks so confused.; 6:22 PM
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