COREY SMITH

[colleenmccandless]

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of a podcast that has made me happy to be myself for a lot of years. Thank you, Superego. Tits up, America. #imawoman #gosuperego (at Largo at the Coronet)

[paulftompkins]

Night night, Superego. Night night.

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When my now fiancé (@need2destroy) and I moved in together we had the luck to drive across country, just the two of us, to our new home. A road trip to our life together.

On our way in to our new home on the East Coast we listened to Superego, all of it up to that, point and over and over. I learned that the person I love had the same sense of humor that I do and since then we’ve tried to support the doctors in anyway we can.

Last night we celebrated an anniversary of our own with the doctors at Largo. One year ago we moved West and while it was a difficult decision one thing kept ringing beneficial.

“Well at least we will be able to see Superego live.” She said.

It made a great difference to how we felt about the decision. Weight had been lifted and our excitement grew for what was new and awaiting us just by thinking of that.

Doctors, you are the best dream of comedy in my eyes. Good friends making one another laugh and in turn making the world laugh, together. You’ve brought me and mine good humor to stave off strife, bits to play out and lifelong memories made not soon forgotten.

Superego sometimes feels like a very special secret and as it diminishes it will still retain every laugh it has given and compound until the correction “I’m a woman.” is last uttered.

The Superego Clinic for Analytical Studies worked for me.

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sky is exploding

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Some people have cool stuff in their notebooks. I have nightmare ramblings.

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the work in progress.

months of studying colors.

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Works in progress. 2015.

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I made a thing.

Tom Sachs Studio Palette Based on the film COLORS by Van & Casey Neistat 2048 x 2048

Krylon Industrial Banner Safety Red

Benjamin Moore Impervex LATEX High Gloss Metal and Wood Enamel Brilliant Red 309 20 (McDonalds Red)

CON ED Barricade Orange

HERMÉS Orange

Golden Acrylics Diarylide Yellow Golden # 1147-6 SERIES 6 (Kodak Yellow)

Golden Acrylics C.P. Cadmium Yellow Medium Golden # 1130-6 SERIES 7 (McDonalds Yellow)

Olive Drab (OD 7)

Benjamin Moore Impervex LATEX High Gloss Metal and Wood Enamel Classic Navy 309 35

NYPD Police Barricade Blue

Gulf Porshe 917 Blue

Tiffany Blue

Benjamin Moore Impervex LATEX High Gloss Metal and Wood Enamel Black 309 80

Photocopier Black

Benjamin Moore Decorators White (Flat)

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temporary office desk

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VLOG_003:  32° 44' 24.0576'' N 117° 9' 32.5836'' W

A portrait of Dil the Rottweiler/Corgi. A short lazy Sunday afternoon in Balboa Park reclining and a very interesting confrontation.

Music by João Neves https://soundcloud.com/floppycircus

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the inevitable conclusion

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eradicate free time

do more

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need2destroy

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Swing and a miss there Apple Maps.

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VLOG_002: Del Mar Beach

It rained in California. Most specifically at Del Mar Dog Beach. 

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STRUCTURE_001

"Ten Bullets for WSJ." (2011). TOM SACHS; "TEN BULLETS FOR WSJ." (2011), KRINK, GRAPHITE, PHOTOCOPY, KAPTON TAPE AND SCOTCH TAPE ON PAPER, 14.25" X 16"

I wasn’t always aware of Tom Sachs’ work. I sort of fell into it upon seeing the exhibition “Space Program” which occurred in 2007 at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. Sachs has made a true cult out of cargo cult. 

But the output isn’t the only part of the art. Sachs has created a process that itself is a work of art. One that aligns with my ideals for process and one I grapple with when working on projects with or in the vicinity of others.

NASA Knife (2007), TOM SACHS; SPYDERCO DELICA 4 KNIFE, LG OPEN 7-1/8″, LG CLOSED 4-1/4″

When I first saw Sachs’ customized Spyderco Delica 4 NASA knives they immediately touched a part of me. The concepts behind the art and the process simply fit in my understanding of working and creating.

I like to be meticulous in word and creation. I like to live in organization so that I can jump on to creation at a moments notice. I like to show where I fucked up and how I can learn to be better at it. The mistakes make up the humanity. Without it, precision becomes the norm and the mundane.

There’s a David Lynch quote from a TIME Magazine piece about him in October 1990.

“My Father’s friend Toby told me that in order to get one hour of good painting done, you need four hours of uninterrupted time. You don’t just ‘start painting’. You have to sit for a while and get some sort of mental idea in order to go and make the right moves.”

I liked this idea but I’m calling bullshit on it. Set up so you can go at any moment. Minimize the time to completion. Make the idea. Set your process. Refine later or not at all. Simply complete.

Work within a set of rules and move forward.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire, “La Bégueule” (1772)

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Tenacity Prayer

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Ray Kroc. The founder of McDonalds.