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Sweet Meat

Sweet Meat by Jasmin Schuller

The Color of Commercialism

Thank you Mr Baldessari – - but I wonder if somewhere between perky and cheese is the new american peach? cheese? photograph ©emilie baltz 2010, American Dream series

Sometimes We Go On Camera

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No Amount of Carrots Will Help Your Love Life

I am sitting under these quotes tonight. After reading this and this. Purposefully, I placed both of the above to the right of this: Why the disparate combo? I am currently researching aphrodisiacs for an exhibition and suddenly wonder….is sexual desire part of immaterial or, perhaps more specifically, non-material culture? From a curatorial perspective, my [...]

Image, Influence and Love in the Age of Billboards

Between the years of 2008-2010 my father sent out one handmade postcard a month to a group of 30 people around the world using the US Postal Service. He used different means of capturing the images: 35mm film, pinholes and medium format cameras, then printed each image by hand and pasted a 250 word short [...]

On Multiple Hats, Success & the Non-Linear virtual organization of Science.

An overly complicated headline to showcase the amount of websites in science. Below are 2 email signatures of brilliant, wildly successful scientists who dabble in the arts. Hervé This’, the father of Molecular Gastronomy. Natalie Jeremijenko, Founder X-Design Lab, artist, biologist, activist Proving once again my theory that it is better to keep multiple pots [...]

Dance and Drawing. And more on the space in between.

Choreographer Pina Bausch’s Vollmond ran a few weeks ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I attended on a less-than-cold Fall evening, privy to this pseudo-epilogue of performance that created more atmospheric nostalgia for the now deceased Bausch than it did raise an ovation for the content itself. In truth, Bausch’s Tantztheater always bordered life [...]

Space In Between

A friend of mine wrote this once. It makes me think that relationships are perhaps more about the space in between than together. I’ve combined it with a series of images I made in Puerto Rico in 2005. I. They arrived midday and ate crackers on the sidewalk. Five young men paced around, trading tobacco [...]

On Female Domesticity

Stylist, Elle Kunnos. Photography, Tim Wilson. Art Direction & Model, Emilie Baltz.

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welcome to the empire. these are the musings of a girl in brooklyn with dreams of conquering the world. her name is emilie baltz. hello. nice to meet you. please stay tuned.