By Mark | October 24, 2015
According to the Ann Arbor News, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have completed the review of Beal Construction Services that was initiated with the death last May of Jeremy “Jake” Burd, a construction worker who lost his life in the basement of Ypsilanti’s historic Thompson Block after the floor above him collapsed. […]
Posted in Local Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Beal Construction Services, demolition, JC Beal, Jeremy "Jake" Burd, Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, MIOSHA, Neil Miller, Stewart Beal, Thompson Block, workplace safety |
Just a little more than an hour after Ypsilanti landlord turned real estate developer Stewart Beal took to Facebook to announce that demolition on the Thompson Block’s first floor had begun, word spread by way of social media that one of Beal’s workers had lost his life as the result of a floor collapse. While […]
By Mark | January 4, 2015
This past summer, as I was killing knapwed at Water Street Commons, I had the good fortune of meeting Polly Yates, an artist from England who happened to be spending several weeks in Ypsilanti. After chatting with her a bit about her work, and the several pieces of artwork which have sprung up on Water […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amy Sacksteder, anonymity, art food sex and trauma, artist residency, Call the Midwife, Chicago, collage, eye contact, Facebook, fish and chips, found objects, found photographs, ghosts, grief, interviews, Mark Dickson, midwifery, Neon Heater Gallery, Polly Yates, Roman Susan Gallery, salt and vinegar, sausage, savaloy, Stalin, street food, surveillance culture, Taylor Ervin, Theresa Rickloff, weeding, YardWork, Ypsilanti Art Incubator, Ypsilanti Historical Society |
Since I started interviewing musicians about their favorite vacations, there’s been quite a bit of pressure on me to somehow incorporate visual artists. Well, after thinking about it for the past several months, I came up what I hope is a fruitful new series. It’s called “Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Food, OCD, sex, Uncategorized | Also tagged Allison Schulnik, anal sex, Andre Butzer, art, artists, Batman, butt sex, Catholicism, creative process, dandruff, decay, depression, Desert Island Books, disease, Edgar Allan Poe, editing, fear, flip books, glitter, ground beef drifting at the bottom of a pool, guilt, Hamtramck, Heather Benjamin, Hieronymus Bosch, In Print, interviews, Johnny Apricot, Johnny Fairydust, Johnny FairydustJohn Maggie, Jonathan Rajewski, Jonny Deeper, Kanye West, Keanu Reeves, Keith Richards, Klinger Street Studios, marriage, Matthias Grünewald, Melissa Dettloff, MOCAD, nightmares, Pink Maggie, pizza, poop, pooping, pooping wizard, pooping wizards, Printed Matter, Publican Quality Meats, R. Kelly, shame, snorting the dead, Vault of Midnight, Vinnie Massimino, violent imagery, wastefulness, Work Gallery |
I’m home sick from work today, having succumb to the flu that knocked out everyone else in the family last week. And, as if this weren’t enough, an incredibly heavy object fell onto my left foot last night as I was making my way to the bathroom, causing, among other things, my back to go […]
