Interesting article on the State of South Florida Condos

© Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times

As Condos Rise in South Florida, Nervous Investors Try to Flee - New York Times

The funny this is that I was on the other side of that condo the other day photographing the mess around there and then I find this article the next day.

Music Video of the Month - Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

Daniel Eatock

When I first started designing my website I wanted a very simple design that would be ultra straight forward and easy to get to the work while not being too showy or flashy. I ended up going with what I thought would be most logical-a menu of chapters on the left with a simple drag out menu that I found online for free and the portfolio on the right. About 6 months after I had launched the website I came across Daniel Eatock and his philosophy of web design was essentially what I has made but even simpler.

Recently Daniel Eatock teamed up with some developers and turned the philosophy of simple web design into a simple web program called indexhibit. It looks so good I may convert my website into that system just because it might be easier to upload images. For more info please read the history of the project notice I am listed in the "Early User List" area and that the software was introduced on 12.03.07 and no thats not the future he is just using the europe date format DD.MM.YY (I always like that formate better because it goes from small to large) Anyway, there is also a good and very funnyvideo lecture posted at the Walker Art Center where he used to work.

ten convenient stores, the book

ten convenient stores, 7"x7" booklet packaged in various convenient store bags, 2005 artist edition of 20, 2005-2006 edition of 100
© Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

So, I have finally updated my website and put pictures up of my "ten convenient stores booklet." When I first made this project I hand produced an artist limited edition of 20 booklets as a zine promotion and a way to reference the Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1967) booklet of Ed Ruscha. At the time I couldn't have imagined that 2 years later I would have one of the pictures for this series hanging next to Ed Ruscha's photograph in an exhibition.

I made a larger edition of 100 booklets and they are for sale for $20 each, if you are interested please contact me via email: me (at) harlanerskine.com

10, ten convenient stores, 7"x7" booklet, 2005 artist edition of 20, 2005-2006 edition of 100
© Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

Page 10-11, '#10535', ten convenient stores, 7"x7" booklet, 2005 artist edition of 20, 2005-2006 edition of 100
© Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

Page 12-13, '#10535' (detail), ten convenient stores, 7"x7" booklet, 2005 artist edition of 20, 2005-2006 edition of 100
© Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

Page 18-19, '#10535', ten convenient stores, 7"x7" booklet, 2005 artist edition of 20, 2005-2006 edition of 100
© Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

Page 20-21, '#10535' (detail), ten convenient stores, 7"x7" booklet, 2005 artist edition of 20, 2005-2006 edition of 100
© Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

Free Gilbert & George artwork from The Guardian (UK)

© Gilbert and George.

From now until Thursday May 10th The Guardian (a UK Newspaper) is offering a free download of the Gilbert and George piece pictured above. There is a full article about the piece on The Guardian's web site here. Also, there is a bunch of videos about the art duo on the Tate website.

New Andreas Gursky work

© Andreas Gursky.

Looks like Andreas Gursky is getting talked a lot about lately. He is showing his new work and I can't wait to see it up close. Here is a nice pdf of his work. I found a good article and exhibition images in a Wallpaper Portfolio. Here is a good blog post with nice detail shots of the new images.

Also check out a haus der kunst translated page
via jm Colberg

If you happen to be in London tonight looks like there is a show up for another few days in London at Sprueth Magers London Gallery and also at White Cube.

He opened a show in New York yesterday. Anyone go? if you did how was it? I need to get up there soon. If you didn't go the show is at:

Matthew Marks
522 West 22nd Street
New York

Andreas Gursky
May 4-June 30, 2007