Paul C.

@clrksn

Mediocre amateur bass player. Dog dad, cat servant. Generation Jones. John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® winner. Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA.

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Paul C.@clrksn· 20d

Check out this cool laminated prayer card that came with my pre-ordered Creekbed Carter Hogan CD. creekbedcarter.bandcamp.com/album/peasan...

Two sides of a prayer card. One side shows Creekbed Carter Hogan in a cowboy hat and angel wings pouring mustard on a hot dog held up by the devil. The devil is laying on the ground and Hogan is holding them down with one of their cowboy boots. The other side of the card says "Take time for prayer: 'Give me that hot dog!' Amen."

Paul C.@clrksn· 26d

Funny how that happens.

A black cat lays in the middle of a large beige dog bed.

Paul C.@clrksn· Jul 7

Star Wars

Paul C.@clrksn· Jul 4

Kona wishes you a happy #Caturday

A black cat sits on the arm of a porch chair and looks up and to the right.

Paul C.@clrksn· Jun 21

Five string electric cello!

Paul C.@clrksn· Jun 21

Christopher Hoffman played a fascimating solo cello set at Berlin in Minneapolis Saturday night, mostly playing selections from his new album, Rex: christopherhoffman.bandcamp.com/album/rex

Paul C.@clrksn· Jun 20

Cameron Kinghorn, who I had never heard before, was tremendous tonight at Berlin in Minneapolis performing soul and R&B along with some of his original compositions. Aby Wolf joined for a couple of songs, and his band included the amazing Kavyesh Kaviraj on keyboards.

Aby Wolf sings while Cameron Kinghorn plays trumpet onstage at the Berlin club in Minneapolis.

Paul C.@clrksn· Jun 18

The Santa Fe Opera House (which is the most beautiful place to see a concert ever) is supported by cables.

The Santa Fe Opera House, looking down toward the stage from the right.

Paul C.@clrksn· Jun 16

My favorite Music for 18 Musicians recording is the original ECM version, but I want to give a shout out to Erik Hall's 2020 solo re-interpretation. erikhall.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

Cover of the 1978 ECM recording of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians.

Cover of Erik Hall's 2020 version of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians.

Paul C.@clrksn· May 29

Seriously, though, if I could afford it, I’d buy one of these things in an instant. I think it looks great and the interior is incredible.

Paul C.@clrksn· May 24

I made the mistake of holding one of these ridiculous overpriced things in my hand and now my credit card is in extreme danger.

A sexy picture of a Teenage Engineering TP-7 portable audio recorder.

Paul C.@clrksn· May 21

Dry Cleaning bypassed Minnesota on this tour so I traveled to San Francisco to see them. No regrets.

Paul C.@clrksn· May 10

A Diab DS-101 computer from the 80s on display at the New Museum in NYC. Why can't we have sick looking computers like this anymore?

Photo of a Diab DS-101 minicomputer from the 80s, which is composed of three dark gray boxes stacked on top of a black base. The top box has a cassette mechanism and a floppy disk drive.

Richard Hamilton
b. 1922, London, UK
d. 2011, Northend, UK
Diab DS-101 Computer, 1985-89
Minicomputer
Tate. Presented by Eddie Thordèn 1996, T07124
Although Richard Hamilton is often remembered as a visionary early Pop artist, his enduring preoccupation with consumerism, design, and technology proved to be a powerful creative catalyst across the artist's versatile sixty-plus-year career. As a participant in London's Independent Group in the 1950s, he devoted equal attention to glossy US magazines and dense cybernetic theory. Like Marcel Duchamp, with whom he struck up a close friendship, Hamilton was keenly attentive to the seductive charge of industrially manufactured commodities, and his work frequently investigates the constitutive role of desire in structuring the visual field. In paintings like Hommage à Chrysler Corp. (1957) and Hers is a lush situation (1958), erotic body parts and automobile parts become confused and commingled

As a teenager during World War II, Hamilton worked as an engineering draftsman designing tools for mass production, and he returned to industrial design throughout his life as a source of inspiration.

In the latter half of the 1980s, he designed the Diab DS-101 Computer (1985-89), included in this exhibition, which consists of three silver blocks, each containing the hardware for a specific category of functions, stacked vertically on top of a black base. Remarkably, the sleek, minimal computer appears at home both in the gallery and among today's electronic devices—a testament not only to Hamilton's acute design sense but also to his foresight in challenging strict divisions between art and design, high culture and mass culture, aesthetic value and consumer utility. JM

Paul C.@clrksn· May 5

Optimal positioning to maximize solar absorption. #Corgi

Winston, a tri-color Pembroke Welsh Corgi, is laying on a wood floor positioned carefully in a bright sun beam.

Paul C.@clrksn· May 2

This is straight up rage bait for graphic designers.

A neon sign spells out C O F F E E with the letters stacked vertically

Paul C.@clrksn· May 1

Resistance merch! At the airport.

Photo of a gray sweatshirt with the words “Minnesota Strong” printed on it. Available for purchase at the Minneapolis airport.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 26

Dan Lawonn, amazing as always, during the second @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social album release show at the Parkway on April 25.

Musician Dan Lawonn playing a red guitar onstage under dramatic red and blue lights.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 25

@jeremymessersmith.bsky.social and band onstage at the Parkway tonight. An energetic and heartfelt show. The crowd was rocking and so was the band.

Jeremy Messersmith and band onstage at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 17

I hear you.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 11

Cover of the Minutemen album Double Nickels on the Dime

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 10

Emma Swift at Turf Club Thursday night, paying homage to a local deity.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 9

This guy's either having the best day ever or the worst day ever.

Chubby hirsute bearded gent wearing glasses, dirty khakis and an open short sleeved shirt. His hands are raised to shoulder height and he is listing to one side, as if dancing or trying not to fall over.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 3

Photo of the earth taken by Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon.

Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways,
I'll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 2

You can tell that Sexworld Santa has seen some twisted shit. www.k-bid.com/auction/6365...

Santa Claus figure with a haunted look in their eyes, offered in the Sexworld store closing auction.

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 2

I'm still thinking about this art by Yang Yongliang I saw Tuesday at Minneapolis Institute of Art.

$Yang Yongliang Chinese, born 1980 Herding Horses, 2011 Giclee print on fine Art paper On loan from Yang Yongliang EL2026.26.2 Drawing on the long artistic tradition of imperial horse imagery, Yang Yongliang situates ancient-style herders and eight horses within a ruined contemporary landscape. What first appears like a classical panorama dissolves into collapsed earth, dead trees, abandoned cars, and mountains built from stacked high-rises and industrial structures. The ancient symbolism of the "Eight Steeds"-once associated with imperial virtue and talent recruitment-is hollowed out and reconfigured as a scene of cultural dislocation. The work exposes the impossibility of transplanting traditional ideals into a fractured modern environment, turning the noble horse into an emblem of displacement and loss.$

Detail from Yang Yongliang's print titled Herding Horses

Yang Yongliang's print titled Herding Horses

Paul C.@clrksn· Apr 2

Marked safe.

Am I a Tech Bro? NOT A TECH BRO with a 6% agreement with tech bro ideas

Paul C.@clrksn· Mar 29

If you see this post a concert photo you took if you'd like.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor onstage at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul, November 2024.

Paul C.@clrksn· Mar 29

Colin Meloy did a show at the Fitzgerald Friday night. His set included a Replacements and a Richard Thompson cover. It was a fun show. The audience was basically all fans, and he knew it.

Paul C.@clrksn· Mar 28

OMG, I’m in love!

Truffle Fries, an absolutely adorable 10 week old puppy.

Paul C.@clrksn· Mar 21

Oh, did you want to use this sink? Sorry, occupied. #caturday