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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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Louis Hernandez

Flommist Louis Herdandez is obsessed with going Bauhaus and becoming The Machine. Preferably a drill press.

Louis Hernandez
Sun 4 Feb 2018

panem et circenses lii

YOU’RE IN­VIT­ED TO take a knee as you ob­serve glad­i­a­tors in the Col­i­se­um throw match­es as com­mand­ed by their own­ers WHILE YOU EN­JOY the

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Louis Hernandez
Sun 28 Jan 2018

a conversation

“Strug­gle is beau­ti­ful. There’s an hon­esty there. Is that ab­surd?” Ad­ver­si­ty tem­pers the spir­it. “Lucky us …” De­bat­able. “Tell me about it,

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Louis Hernandez
Fri 19 Jan 2018

leivencustler

A col­league of mine once said:  “Drop­ping out of art school is kind of like grad­u­at­ing from it …” While I would nev­er en­cour­age anyone

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Louis Hernandez
Mon 8 Jan 2018

a community that teaches and sustains itself

I’m sick of see­ing us all get tak­en for a ride by a sys­tem that doesn’t val­ue our work. That doesn’t val­ue you. I

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Louis Hernandez
Fri 15 Dec 2017

a call to mobilize: we’re up to book burning 2.0

“Don’t ask for guar­an­tees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, per­son, ma­chine, or li­brary. Do your own bit

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Louis Hernandez
Wed 6 Dec 2017

hero dotus

“Very few things hap­pen at the right time, and the rest do not hap­pen at all. The con­sci­en­tious his­to­ri­an will cor­rect these

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Louis Hernandez
Thu 2 Nov 2017

days lived

Re­mem­brance is the most sa­cred rit­u­al that hu­mans hon­or each oth­er with.  Dur­ing these ob­ser­va­tions, pic­tures be­come price­less, mem­o­ries move moun­tains, and candles

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Louis Hernandez
Thu 10 Aug 2017

red dawn ruined my breakfust

It’s so odd to fear Nu­clear War again. The whole event played-out like a scene from a Jer­ry Bruck­heimer film. Scene: INT.

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Louis Hernandez
Wed 9 Aug 2017

book marked

S’hhh? S’and? S’from? Drop Cap is­sues. I near­ly dropped the book when I saw this.  The Barnes & No­ble Col­lectible Edi­tions have lovely

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Louis Hernandez
Thu 3 Aug 2017

wear wool

Star­ry-eyed Orsi­no type now cast­ing the part of his own per­son­al Ho­r­a­tio.  Must have a lit­er­ary quote handy at all times and

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Louis Hernandez
Sun 21 May 2017

making something

I’m feel­ing melan­choly to­day. I just read a re­jec­tion let­ter. An 8.5 x 11″ piece of white linen pa­per has mea­sured the

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Louis Hernandez
Sat 22 Apr 2017

propping up mondrian, home intruder

“Your work is some­thing con­nect­ed deeply to who you are, its not a sep­a­rate com­part­ment in your life … it’s your vo­ca­tion.”  —Robert

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Louis Hernandez
Sun 22 Jan 2017

‘an important business matter’

I take great so­lace in the fact that my im­mor­tal cred­i­tors will out­live me. My Bank­ing Obit­u­ary will read: Here lies cred­it score

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Louis Hernandez
Tue 22 Nov 2016

up the fwy from sfmoma: manetti shrem

“The qual­i­ty of light which is so char­ac­ter­is­tic of the Cen­tral Val­ley be­came a very im­por­tant fac­tor.” —Roland Pe­ter­son On Sun­day, 13

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Louis Hernandez
Sat 19 Nov 2016

pacifist

I am in con­stant search of a mid­dle path I see both sides I sym­pa­thize with their fears I hear their cheers but do not

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Louis Hernandez
Tue 20 Sep 2016

no world mindset

Lon­don fog was Lon­don smog. Cal­i­for­nia dreamin’ turned out to be a gold­en trip. Rocky Moun­tain high was le­gal. A New York Minute is currently

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Louis Hernandez
Sat 3 Sep 2016

george washington, jedi

I’m pret­ty sure pub­lic school only taught me his­tor­i­cal mythol­o­gy.  I cer­tain­ly don’t blame my teach­ers, they meant well and any hard

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Louis Hernandez
Wed 24 Aug 2016

american neo noir, film festival, grandma

What has flom­mist flim­mak­er Rose Men­don­ca been up to?  Well, her neo noir opus, Laun­dro­mat (2015), was re­cent­ly added to the Newark International

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Louis Hernandez
Sun 26 Jun 2016

confessions of a lazy sociopath

I have this dream gig planned. You see, quite some time ago I re­al­ized that I was help­less­ly lazy. Not stu­pid, mind you, just lazy.

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Louis Hernandez
Mon 20 Jun 2016

germ-phobic asshat

My life is a se­ries of awk­ward mo­ments. Where oth­ers, es­pe­cial­ly my younger coun­ter­parts, shy away from ten­sion and em­bar­rass­ment, I hang

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Louis Hernandez
Wed 25 May 2016

scoops

I used to col­lect laun­dry mea­sur­ing scoops back when I was a kid.  Some­thing about their translu­cent plas­tics and pleas­ant ol­fac­to­ry essence appealed

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Louis Hernandez
Fri 22 Apr 2016

grassroots flomm: the 4.23 lineup

What is FLOMM to me? text­book an­swer:     It is the cul­mi­na­tion of de­sign his­to­ry.  Be­yond, it’s me go­ing to a par­ty that I

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Louis Hernandez
Tue 29 Mar 2016

analog hybrid thing

Is this a thing?   I go to car wash­es and “grok” it.  How can soap have so many col­ors? Some­one fold­ed a

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Louis Hernandez
Sat 9 Jan 2016

i’m that graphic designer

I’m that guy. I live in small bor­ing mo­ments. I ex­plore me­nial tasks like laun­dry and crafts with ela­tion. I love work, any work. 

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Louis Hernandez
Sat 12 Dec 2015

finish what you started

The best ar­gu­ment against cen­sor­ship: ‘A de­nial of free­dom on the queasy grounds that men are not fit for free­dom … is

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