I wanted to finally drop you a line to say thank you for putting the TWIG show on-line. it looks great! the tim ebner interview is really great-tim was a teacher of mine in undergrad and grad school, i have always liked him. there was much insight in his interview-and i found it inspiring- thanks for doing what you do. i really enjoyed the interviews-very insightful.

thanks, pam strugar

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real important things made accessible. what can i say?, aside

from a 'big thank you', i say just go on doing what you are

doing. i liked the 'studio visits' part and basically the

whole thing in general. jill's interview has a lot of familiar

dilemnas in them, sort of comforting to stumble upon some

parallelisms despite the distance. i haven't gone through all

the other previous features yet so i'm looking forward to

going through them. it's unfortunate that you could only

feature artists who are locally within your reach. in anycase

you're already doing the global community a big favor by just

setting up this site. may the deity of your choice blees you

more.

kiko escora

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Comments: I think that your article on Rwanda (in C3I) missed the point in a certain respect. The IMF marches in to "Third World" countries and manipulates the economy. Then successful minorites like the Tutsis, whatever their degree of guilt or innocence, could not be position to manipulate governments/financial markets as the statist bankers/Insiders can. They are then blamed for a country's problems, and through "mass action" the middle class, or elites who rival the statist bankers/Insider politicians are eliminated. I am not necessarily suggesting that this genocide was planned, I do not know for sure, but when people are divided against one another the tyrannous agenda of the IMF austerity/globalization. Is this not how manipulation works on a world-wide scale? Other than that disagreement, your article was interesting and disturbing.

Thankyou.

"Earshot"

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I've known Jill quite sometime, in fact I still teach at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture where she taught for a while. I consider Jill to be one of the finest artists and thinkers that LA has ever produced. I admire her greatly and I admire the format and content of your site. You are a great contribution to the art community in general but specifically (in my opinion) much needed in LA. Thanks.

Lisa Adams

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Congratulations! I enjoyed your presentation and the works. The way you oganized the program.I haven't finished reviewing the whole site particulaly the literature part. Good luck.

Aloha, Masami Teraoka

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Re Studio Visit w/Jill Giegerich, great job. I also am skeptical

about the WWW and am happy to find an intelligent informative

art journal. Could totally relate to comments in the interview

about the sorry condition of art students in today's institutions

and COMPLETELY agree that the younger they are the more fucked

up they get. How can you ever get past that debilitating fear if

you come into school in a completely vulnerable position? Here @

Art Center they're starting to take them in way too young for the

purpose of keeping enrollment up. $$$$$$$ We need more teachers

and artists to help out the students and not pretend that they know

what the fuck they're doing all the time. Amazing proposition about

mentoring young artists. Competition is only contributing to the

capitalist mode of production and art as a commodity and is strangling

the artist and contributing to their intense fear. How about a talk

w/ Fred Dewey about the impact of new technologies on art, including

this journal?

THANKS.

Nancy Popp

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Nice to see you providing this kind of attention to local

artists from several different angles. I think you're got

the first good on line art mag since Art Commotion. I plan

to place a mention and a link in our Cool Art Sites section

sometime this month. Congratulations on the good work.

 

Bill Lasarow

ArtScene (http://artscenecal.com)

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Looks and reads great!

Marilu Knode

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the site looks really slick i like the way

you organized it with the different

sections... its is really cool to see a site that is dedicated to art...

I would also like to know when the next

set of works is going to be up because i

dont know if i have to meet anyone at

beefbowl.

Mark D. Sonday

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FANTASTIC JOB.
MOVING IN IMPORTANT DIRECTIONS.
CAUSING RECONSIDERATION OF EXTREME SKEPTICISM OF WWW.
DURANT NEEDS HELP
YOUNG IS DELERIOUS

-STEVEN CRIQUI, LA

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congratulations! 
Just read the Patty Faure interview - outstanding
Also enjoyed Tim Ebner's studio visit.
One suggestion - the downloading may be faster if the images 
were in low res, expandable to high resolution large image as
one chooses. Will look forward to future issues.
-TAK TERAMAYE, LOS ANGELES

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JUST FINISHED MITCHELL AND TIM'S CONVERSATION -I THOUGHT I FINISHED LAST NIGHT BUT THERE WERE MORE PAGES AND THIS TIME I LISTENED TO THE AUDIO. SOMETIMES IT TAKES INFINITE PATIENCE TO LOAD THE AUDIO BUT THE RESULT WAS SENSATIONAL. WITHIN THE LAST WEEK I READ ERIC FISCHL INTERVIEW IN ART IN AMERICA AND NOW TIM EBNER. I COULD ALMOST FEEL THE STRUGGLE WITHIN BOTH ARTISTS. COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE AN INDICTMENT AGAINST THE INSTITUTION (CAL ARTS) NOT RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIAL AND LEAVING EACH ARTIST THROUGH THEIR OWN DETERMINATION TO SOMEHOW COME TO GRIPS WITH WHAT THE INSTITUTION COULD HAVE HELPED EARLY ON? IT TOOK ERIC FISCHL A TRIP TO ROME TO RECONNECT WITH THE PAST AND TIM A COMPLETE TURNAROUND TO FACE HIS OWN ARCHETYPAL DEMONS. OR AM I READING TOO MUCH INTO THIS. At any rate, thanks Mitchell for your masterful interviews both with Patricia and Tim.

-TAK TERAMAYE, LOS ANGELES

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Thanks, I'll be back for more. More on Huebler.

-Randi Ganulin

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GREAT STUFF GUYS--KEEP IT COMING
GREAT SUMAN COMMENTS!!

-LENA GIESEKE

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Congratulations on your new homepage. We thought it looked very impressive
and are looking forward to your new features.
 
-Junko Watanabe, Hara Museum