I know, it breaks my philosophy about what should be posted, but seeing as how only 2 or so people actually look at this thing, here are pictures of Kojak the Cat. Not pictured is his new friend Dame Judy Dench, but that will come in time.

He got his nickname for always being on the case and investigating EVERYTHING. Including the fridge:

Here’s a rare moment: Kojak NOT chasing something

And here he is making up for waking us up in the middle of the night biting our hair:

Been playing around with time-lapse photos from our offices up on the 10th floor on 53rd between 5th and 6th.

The corner of 53rd and 5th: click
The view north (larger movie — I suggest right-clicking and saving target as): click

I just finished helping get together a new section for the MoMA Teen site, Red Studio, that highlights work by the students in the summer program. I didn’t do any of the flasher bits on the site, but helped get the video compressed and into a Flash player, among other HTML smashing.
http://redstudio.moma.org/in_the_making

The Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com) is hosting an amazing street art show this weekend in the city. Here are some photos from the opening that I was lucky enough to sneak into thanks to a friend at Cabinet magazine (so subscribe, please — http://cabinetmagazine.org). The photos REALLY don’t do it justice, but click below to see some snapshots.

MoMA is having a site-specific work in January and February by Doug Aitken, and I’ve been helping with getting some stuff online. Below is the trailer for the piece, which includes Seu Jorge and a skinny white kid who used to drum in the L train platform and now is on the OC (huh?). More info here: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2007/Aitken.html

So now I am the face of MoMA’s “Gallery Talks” in our most recent brochure. Autographs are no longer free, people — I gots star power.

Just got a piece published on MonkeyBicycle.net, http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/Hart/text.html, an ode to my first New York apartment. Not mentioned is the time when the sweatshop next door caught on fire. Incidentally, the sweatshop has flipped and is now high-priced condos.

You know that sense of annoyance you get when you spend a lot of money on a present for a child or cat and they enjoy the box more? My girlfriend may be feeling it now when she brought home the Greatest Thing Ever from the free bookpile at work: Duncan’s Ritual of Freemasonry! Better (possibly) than any Christmas gift!

Freemasons, besides being a guaranteed chuckle for me, have some hilarious illustrations. Check out the gilded cover and Figure below!

So if you see me on the street, give me the Real Grip, My Mark Master Mason!

I’ve been busy at work helping to get a site together (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Manet/index.htm) for a show up at MoMA. Here’s a contemporary re-interpretation of the piece:

Apple Pickin’! Click on the little sobrinita for more

If you haven’t seen startastory.com before, you should. A website by some lads in England based on collaborative projects, it has fun little things people can do and share. One of the newer activities is a Flowchart Adventure. Here’s mine:
http://www.startastory.com/project/flowchartadventure/illustrated24.html

I’ve been submitting (and getting rejected by) McSweeney’s Lists. A LOT. Here’s one of my favorites (Note: The MOMH is a beguiling entry in the Denny’s menu). Marite gets credit for some of the better ones here.
ANAGRAMS OF “Moons Over My Hammy”

Have Mommy or My Son
Om, My Shaven Room
Mommy Has Very Moron
Oh My! Save My Mormon!
Rhyme Soon, Mayo (MVM)
Savor My Memo, My Hon
MMM! Yo-yo Harms Oven
O Ron! Shave My Mom!
Mr. Mom Moves On My Hay
Very Moosen Money Sham
Nemoy: Savory Hommy
My Homo Raven, Sommy
Mommy’s on Yam Hover
Roy, My Mom’s Ham Oven
Rove: Nosy Mommy Ham
Vary Me My Homos, Mon!

So one of the things I do at work is walk people around the museum and tell them stuff.
Here’s a picture of me working my mojo:

However, when I do this, I channel the spirit of Randy “Macho Man” Savage:

Funny article about the man born as Randy Poffo: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52287

The George Plimpton Project (http://plimptonproject.org/) is holding a haiku contest on the subject of George. I entered a couple of haikus based on the time I found the book Paper Lion (read it!) in an airport shop in Guatemala City. It was (if I remember correctly) literally the only English book in any of the shops.

They’re finalists in the contest! $200 up for grabs and bragging rights. Here they are:

> A Guatemalan
> Airport, a lone book, tattered,
> George as a Lion

> A distant airport
> Shop, A single English book
> George in a jersey

Yeah, not fine literature, but you try working the word Guatemala into a haiku.

I thought this picture from Yahoo news could be the funniest thing of the day:

But then my friend Nini took it one step further:

Death to Imperialist cereals!

of predictable graphic design? You decide as you check out the ads for the two 9/11 related specials, both advertised in the Sunday Times, both appearing at 8 PM on 9/10, only 10 pages apart.

Among the “It’s been 5 years, please be fearful” coverage, here’s a neat little chart from Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html) of what is more likely to kill you than terrorism based on statistics from 1995-2005. Go get those hernia checks.

So after a few unfruitful attempts at submitting lists, I finally got a piece up on McSweeney’s:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/8/23hart.html