So today has been the day of the web’s big SOPA/PIPA blackout protest. I do not black out erasing.org. The extent of my participation is a lunch-break impulse to post the above picture of Ellsworth Kelly’s 2010 relief “Black Curve Diagonal” on erasing.tumblr.com. An egregious co-opting and misuse of art on my part, but to me somehow it looks correct for the occasion. And now I am cross-posting it here. Forgive me, Ellsworth Kelly, wherever you are.
Erased de Kooning Drawing and the White Paintings sort of make Rauschenberg the patron saint of my poor erasing.tumblr.com collection. Am up to 174 pieces since January. (Very unprolific for an art Tumblr, I know.) Wish I could buy all of them.
I have become grateful to Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook for making me feel that running erasing.org, a mere blog, a “web journal” in a previous life, with an actual domain name and paid web hosting and FTP access and a PHP/MySQL-based content management system, is some kind of quaint old-fashioned analog-technology hobby. — Damn, I’ve been spending way too much time online. I need to unplug for a while, get back to basics, you know, read a book, go for a walk, post something on my blog.
Many months
1. RSS, erasing.org feed. — 2. erasingist, erasing.org feed for Tumblr. — 3. erasing.tumblr.com, Tumblr art blog. — 4. Flickr. — 5. Twitter.
I’m Scott David Herman, I’m an American living in Canada, and I’ve been running erasing.org since 1999.
The expatriate life is very glamorous. I live and work on the fifth floor of a mid-rise glass-and-concrete ant farm situated in the abandoned ruins of downtown Hamilton, that legendary city many call the most beautiful smoke-spewing slag heap in all of Southern Ontario.
I enjoy staring into open books, mentally rotating Shakespeare’s skeleton, stacking objects in my quote-unquote office, and chopping at the Parnassian permafrost in the company of my wife Laura.
You can email me at scott at erasing.org.