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[2006-01-15 03:43:18 +0000 UTC]
"James Koehnline"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 2069; Deviations: 983; Watchers: 513
Watching: 61; Pageviews: 119316; Comments Made: 6919; Friends: 61
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: GoyaFavorite TV shows: The Prisoner, Arrested Development, Daily Show, Colbert Report
Favorite bands / musical artists: America's troubador, Steve Earle
Favorite writers: Norfolk, Borges, Eco, Pynchon, Flann O'Brien, Beckett, D.F.Wallace, Stephenson, Delany, etc...
Tools of the Trade: CS6, C4D, Poser, iMac, Wacom tablet, Epson R2400 printer, etc...
Other Interests: Post-carbon, post-capitalist economics, object-oriented ontology, sociology of the Internet, visualizing complexity, atheism, metaphor and analogy, embodied mind, play, present shock, nanotechnology, molecular biology, anarchism, interstellar migration
# About me
Current Residence: Seattle, WA, USALibrary Worker, AFCME Local 2083, AFL-CIO.
Associated with Autonomedia Publishing Collective since 1990.
Drawing, painting and printmaking from 1971 to 1985. Cut and paste collage from 1985 to 1995.
Digital art since 1996. dA since 2006.
In the beginning I was heavily influenced by my father's Max Ernst collection and his art library with its focus on surrealism, then by Franklin Rosemont's Chicago Surrealist group, starting with the fabulous international exhibition they mounted in Chicago in 1976. Studied art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Columbia College, Chicago, where I met artist, teacher, critic and radio personality, Harry Bouras. Studied with Harry privately. Started the alternative gallery, Axe Street Arena with six friends in 1985 on the top floor of a big old former department store in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Through a show I curated there with my friend Ron Sakolsky, I connected with anarchist poet-philosopher, Hakim Bey, and began a long series of collaborations with him and the Autonomedia publishing collective in New York. In 1991 I moved to Seattle with my not-yet wife, Andrea Frank, and did the first of many CD covers for Bill Laswell. In 1992 I initiated the Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints, now in its 24th annual edition. I came to deviantART in 2006, took over running the SurrealArts club for a year, then started the Lost Book Club here, which was a great experience. Lost Books has been given new life on Facebook by some of my old partners-in-crime, and has really taken off. In the last few years I've been laying low, working a straight job, being a father, reading and studying, and making art here and there. I think I've got a new burst of creative work coming on, so I'm updating my page here.
2016 Update: In Dec. 2015 I turned 60. I am now afforded full license to be a Crank!*
Thanks to all who take a look. I sometimes post on facebook. I have two or three personal Web sites, all terrible messes that I have not looked at in years, literally, so this is really the place to see the most of my art. Always willing to consider licencing work for reproduction (fees from zero to several thousand dollars, depending who you are and what you want to do with it). I also do commissioned work, when I feel like it.
*crank: a small device that makes revolutions
# Comments
Comments: 1161
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Thanks for the favorite. It's much appreciated.
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stumbled across your gorgeous cover on Gone to Croatan at a lit table in NYC, and endeavored to find you and your work virtually. its brilliant!
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Fantastic gallery James, your collage is a wellspring of imagination.
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hi. Yesterday I made โโa spontaneous working ..
hope're not mad, I use your skeletons....
[link]
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Your webcam image inspired the following thoughts and memories, and a sort of continuation of my plugs for obscure books:
"And now I shall unclasp a secret book
and to your dark and quick concieving discontents
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous." [Wm Shakespeare]
The book is SECONDS, by David Ely. It starts like this: [link] . Saul Bass was one of the great title sequence geniuses of the mid 20th century; the man who did the fabulous and justly famous titles for A Walk On The Wild Side [link] , in those leisurely days of cinema when 'credits' were shorter and appeared before the start of the film.
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I so enjoyed 'Leaf' that it led me to investigate Youtube clips related to Danielowski's The House Of Leaves. This is just one of a staggering number of clips seemingly spawned by this bizarre book [link] .
What exactly is The Navidson Record? [link] .
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looks not very comfortable, your webcamshout X)))
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[link]
This creative work
I saw it once...
I liked this work very much, but I forgot the name that holds
I returned to the Internet to search for it and found it
I would like to send you greetings
Of the Kingdom of Morocco
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Your Collaborative Efforts have been Featured at The SOB Workshop
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James,
You and Your Group Have Been Featured
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Hi! I've used your image in a post in my blog, see here:
[link]
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Hello. I was wondering about Lost Books. I read your post about not being here for the foreseeable future, so I'd like to ask for when you next log in, would you be so kind as to submit my latest work to the gallery?
Thanks!
Gerard.
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Dedicated to you, the Clubยดs 5th anniversary [link]
All the best!
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Your work is amazing, a prime example of the ideas discussed in T.A.Z. put into visually artistic form. Fascinating.
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I have featured your amazing work here [link]
I hope that is OK with you.
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james thanks for remembering...i thought something happened to you...have you read the contract...were making your art the cover of the book!!!!
G
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Sorry old friend. Life is hard, and I have no time or space to work, etc. I sent large file as requested but haven't seen contract. What do I do next?
James
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dear james,
i understand my friend, you can share with me whatever problems you have, i am a close friend right? you have taught me secrets i never knew and ive learned much from you, you are always and will be my mentor!!!1
i will forward to hector that you submitted the high res file...i'll tell him to send you via email the contract and then an actual contract from the publisher will be sent to you...
i miss your art and your presence old friend...please come back to us...
G
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Dear james the club is missing you my friend and so do i
G
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i am more into tradtional collage not digital but you have done it right and i am sooo down. well done. i like your work.
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..many thanks for the favs James - hope things are looking up for you.
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You've got a very nice gallery.
I'm glad, I've come across it.
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...many thanks for the favs , James -- hope things have smoothed down for you and yours of late - sounds like you've been through a rough patch.
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Just getting rougher, but we'll make it. Always a pleasure to see your photos. You've truly got a great eye for found art.
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...you'll make it ! .... quite appreciate your comment.
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Hi James and thanks so much for the 
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Hi James, great gallery, I'm indeed impressed by your work, hope to see more coming although there is already much worth many more sights to come. I'll be stopping by here and than
Greetings from Hamburg
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SEE WHO YOUR SECRET LOVE IS FOR VALENTINES. I JUST FOUND OUT MINE.
CLICK HERE TO FIND YOURS
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LOL everyone should see this ... it's HILARIOUS just Click here
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Hey. this person wrote something about you in their blog.. CLICK HERE
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Hi James,
I'm currently planning a conference, and I'm looking for some one to design the poster/flyer. I really like the Stanford cognitive science/humanities poster, and I was wondering if you knew who designed it? I don't sign into Deviant Art often, so please email me at jmartin805@gmail.com.
Best wishes,
Jason
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Hi James ! Thanks for adding my painting 'Starchild' to your faves!
BTW I like your webcam!
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