Comments on: Hey Jack Kerouac

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:36:18 +0000

http://nytimesshorts.feedroom.com/?fr_story=09a962282e3874a0e73993fd1d91d5235a524d04&rf=bm

By: al

al — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:07:33 +0000

Robert, do you have a link to the Times video? Thanks.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:34:41 +0000

@g: the artist statement is perfect.

I also liked the Times video more than the portraits but the portraits were good I agree.

By: Doktor

Doktor — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:54:16 +0000

although I enjoyed reading about all the “I burned 4 million filmsand 100000 Dollars on this” —I think that it is used as a promotional and hype device is taking away from the work.

But maybe not: if you hold that the artist statement must be:

innocent is just a construction
Love like art CAN be bought.

THEN it makes sense actually.

Apart from that: There’s quite a bunch of photographers who shot a lot. I’ve seen a lot of heavily destilled work and with this amount of shot frames I’m somewhat dissapointed with the final outcome of Ryans work. I see that they didnt select “perfect” images or moments and where more going for the in-between stuff. But i think its still somewhat of a dissapointment.

I personnaly thought that his actors portraits for NYTImes Magazine where stronger

By: g

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:18:08 +0000

Ryan McGiinley’s dream is the dream of reality tv; I wouldn’t call him a poet.

By: Ian Aleksander Adams

Ian Aleksander Adams — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:55:17 +0000

Actually, there are a lot of 20ish year old artists who for the past few years have been producing snapshots of their lives that DO remind me a lot of these images… and one of them, Coley, actually assisted for and modeled in these images.

I remember crashing at coley winston and andrew’s place in brooklyn for a couple weeks. I saw a lot of polaroids and a lot of film (they’re all artists) and I saw a lot of people actually enjoying life as well. It’s not all a dream.

It’s actually weird to me that he required such production to create those images… I’ve seen work that is similar that seems to spring up naturally. Of course, that’s not a negative statement, he’s probably enjoying what he is doing and I’m not sure how I’d use the budget if I had it.