Good advice from Wesley

http://wesleyham.com/

Over at Mull It Over, our friend Wesley gives some great advice to all recent MFA grads. I wish someone had said this to me when I finished:

JC: One piece of advice to recent photography graduates?
WH: Go to Mexico, or somewhere cheap where you can decompress from school. Seriously, take some time to reflect on what was bullshit and what was real from what you learned in school. Then, get busy. Do whatever it takes to learn as much as possible as fast as possible. Make a 5 year plan, visualize yourself in the future and come up with a real plan to make it there. Also, try to work for free as little as possible. People will exploit free labor. 

If you're not learning something in an internship or assistantship, bounce. If you are teaching your boss, bounce. Also, fight for the time to make your own work. Don’t spend your life helping other people make their work…

Fantastic Nobodies

The Fantastic Nobodies at Andrew Edlin Gallery, 2012.

It is still an unholy collaboration: The art-jock, the wild-man and the poet.

Octopus Prints

Printing real tentacles with squid ink was stinky and gross- especially when 

the tentacles stuck to the paper. I kinda can't wait to do it again. I love the immediacy 

of it, and can't help but imaging a wall drawing or wallpaper.

January Aura

The ambitious energizer and the sensitive homebody.

Allison and I had our auras read in Chinatown yesterday. It was pretty spot on. 

She is all up in that root chakra, and I am stuck in the head chakra. 

Also, they are beautiful.

DAVID BYRNE YOUNG HOTTIE

Psychedelic Traveling Cat

The grand return of Stevie Nicks to her Brooklyn home was a free-form affair.

I Eat Electricity

From the back room gallery at Andrea Rosen ...