Comments on: Episode 145: Proximity Magazine/ Spudnik Press

By: Ed Marszewski on PAPERMAG : Bad at Sports

Ed Marszewski on PAPERMAG : Bad at Sports — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:10:20 +0000

[...] has an article by Sean Keenan on BAS friend and guest Ed Marszewski. They discuss Ed’s Proximity Magazine, Lumpen, Select Media Festival, Version, [...]

By: Stuart keeler

Stuart keeler — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:55:06 +0000

Thanks Browder. I was born the same day s Mao, and Richard Nixon…. Go Canada!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:09:21 +0000

Amanda won that race, anyone born on the same day as the Big “o” is one lucky individual.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:42:22 +0000

And I get a birthday with
Ho Chi Minh,
Malcolm X,
Nora Ephron,
Pete Townshend,
Turk Wendell,
Pol Pot,
Carl Akeley,
Grace Jones,
And on May 19th in the year 2161, 8 of the 9 planets will be aligned on same side of sun

By: Amanda Browdowski

Amanda Browdowski — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:07:43 +0000

Did you know I was born the day Mao died….arrgh

Also just a note , did anyone read the NYtimes article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/arts/12nea.html?ex=1213934400&en=a1d9864e3340242a&ei=5070&emc=eta1
fascinating…….

As well as…http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/arts/design/13voge.html?scp=1&sq=jeff koons purchased&st=nyt
Jeff Koons is now an artist AND a collector….artists supporting artists beyond donation and dinner parties.

By: Michael Workman

Michael Workman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:01:48 +0000

Sorry, Richard: I meant to write Grace *Slick,* not Jones. But for some reason I keep imagining you with Grace Jone’s hairdo anyway. Brr.

By: Michael Workman

Michael Workman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:58:25 +0000

Tony-Buckley, eh? Sorry, man.

But if it makes you feel any better, all I got out of the deal was River Phoenix and Keith Moon, both dead of drug overdoses…and Harry Guggenheim. Oh well, fate is cruel.

But it’s a fun game to play anyway.

Chris: Just for fun, Dec 14: Shirley Jackson, Don Hewitt, Patty Duke, and Lee Remnick.

By: Tony Fitzpatrick

Tony Fitzpatrick — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:17:49 +0000

I was born on the same day as William F. Buckley and Charlie Starkweather……..fuck.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:02:01 +0000

Psycho Mary Todd? Ouch that hurts, my British accent might be as authentic sounding as Mr. Van Dyke but you forgot the most important Celeb of Dec 13th. Jamie Fox………

Now I ain’t sayin’ you a gold digger, you got needs
You want a dude to smoke, but he can’t buy weed
You go out to eat, can’t pay, y’all can’t leave
There’s dishes in the back, he gotta roll up his sleeves
But while y’all washin’, watch him
He gon’ make it to a Benz out of that Datsun
He got that ambition, baby look in his eyes

Oh and I was really born on Dec. 14th just the government recorded it the 13th hahaha.

By: Michael Workman

Michael Workman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:46:22 +0000

For whatever reason, I find the following revealing of this whole enterprise…

Those born on the same day as Richard Holland: Christopher Columbus, John Adams, Ezra Pound, Paul Valery, Charles Atlas and Grace Jones

Those born on the same day as Duncan MacKenzie: Joseph Smith, Robert Bly, and Chet Baker.

Then there’s Hudgens: Gustave Flaubert, Heinrich Heine, Christopher Plummer, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Todd Lincoln.

Brian Andrews? Davy Crockett, Robert De Niro (reaaaly?), Mae West ( cooome ooon), Sean Penn, Samuel Goldwyn, V.S. Naipaul and Gary Powers.

Aaaand Browder: Tolstoy, Otis Redding, Michael Keaton and…wait for it…wait for it…yep, Colonel Sanders.

True, every bit of it. Weirdos all.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:10:59 +0000

Don’t call Duncan that. It hurts his feelings…oh wait.

By: Russell Maycumber

Russell Maycumber — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:51:08 +0000

http://www.spcemaker.com? Mrs. Amanda mentioned this website for finding artist in residences could find it right away was looking for a link on here? Lil help? -School of successful failures undergrad here.

By: Michael Workman

Michael Workman — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:39:10 +0000

You’re too kind, Mark. But I will second what you said about Ed and Rachel, they’re doing a great service to the art community by putting Proximity out there. Publishing is very difficult, thankless work, especially in Chicago where there’s no consumer industry support. Everybody should make a donation, financial or otherwise, to keeping it around.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:58:50 +0000

Too bad I never use the “self-correction” possibility so beautifully put in place by Chris — ‘living’ without a ‘u’ and ‘Marzewskis’ without an apostrophe. Sheesh. I may type like shit, but I record even worse. At least I can paint.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:25:15 +0000

Great piece! good luck on your show AB!

I think two of the great treasures you have in Chicago that we didn’t have when I was liviung there are Michael Workman and the Marzewski’s. Good luck with the publication!

By: Ann Onymous

Ann Onymous — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:05:29 +0000

I thought Duncan wanted to harm Mohans.

Nice Bo Didley (sp?) Tribute.