[Danny Himself]

From Saturday's New York Times. I thought this was rather odd and since we have a few arty folks here:

One Suicide, the Other Missing

The filmmaker, Theresa Duncan, 40, who has also drawn attention for her writings on cultural topics, committed suicide in their East Village apartment on July 10, the police said. Her companion, Jeremy Blake, 35, a well-regarded artist known for digital animation that blurs the line between abstract painting and film, has been missing since his clothes were found on a beach in the Rockaways on Tuesday evening, they added.

Found with the clothes was a note that made reference to Ms. Duncan, the police said.

Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the police department, said that Mr. Blake was last seen taking off his clothes and then walking into the water at Beach 102nd Street on Tuesday. Police scuba teams have searched the waters off the beach since then, Mr. Browne added, but have not found a body.

Lance Kinz, a director of the Kinz, Tillou + Feigen gallery, which represented Mr. Blake, said that Mr. Blake and Ms. Duncan had been together for 12 years and were very close. The two collaborated, along with another artist, Karen Kilimnik, on “The History of Glamour,” a 1999 animated film that spoofed the fashion world. The short movie, which Ms. Duncan wrote and directed, was called “gentle” and “very funny” by Stephen Holden of The New York Times in 2001.

Mr. Kinz said that Mr. Blake told him he had discovered Ms. Duncan’s body after she committed suicide. He said he had spoken with Mr. Blake after her death and that, while devastated and grieving, “he seemed to be very much in control and to be coping with it.”

Mr. Blake, whose work has been shown at three Whitney biennials and at a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005, is scheduled to have an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in late October, partly in collaboration with Malcolm McLaren, the musician and designer.

Mr. Kinz said it is unclear whether that show, or another coming up at his gallery, in Chelsea, would open. “There’s some hope that maybe that wasn’t Jeremy going into the water,” he said, “but it’s presumed that he’s gone.”

Ms. Duncan, who was raised in Detroit, became a prominent video-game designer in the late 1990s, making sophisticated story-based CD-ROM games for young girls — an underserved population in a business largely aimed at adolescent boys. She and Mr. Blake had moved to Los Angeles but recently returned to New York, Mr. Kinz said, where she was working on writing and movie projects.

She also maintained a blog called “The Wit of the Staircase,” where she wrote energetically and at length on topics ranging from books to politics to Kate Moss. Her last entry, dated July 10, the day she died, includes a blurry photograph of a woman putting on a mask and quotes the novelist Reynolds Price: “A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens — second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.”

She listed her interests at the site, theresalduncan.typepad.com, as “film, philology, Vietnam War memorabilia, rare and discontinued perfume, book collecting, philately, card and coin tricks, futurism, Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of electricity.”

Mr. Blake, whose work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and several other prominent institutions, began to make a name for himself in the late 1990s with dissolving photographic projections used to create the equivalent of geometric abstract paintings. He called his work “time-based painting.”

The 2005 exhibition in San Francisco was based around the San Jose mansion of Sarah Winchester, the widowed heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, who built a mazelike house with 160 rooms to confuse or ward off the ghosts of shooting victims she believed would haunt her.

In addition to work for galleries, Mr. Blake also created sequences of abstract art for the 2002 movie “Punch-Drunk Love,” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who had seen Mr. Blake’s work in an earlier show in San Francisco while working on the film.

Roberta Smith, writing in The Times about a 2005 exhibition by Mr. Blake in New York, said that his work had “given the stream-of-consciousness narrative, so long a part of modern literature, a time-based visual equivalent” and that he was moving past predecessors like Ed Ruscha, William Eggleston and Raymond Pettibon into new artistic territory.

Also another article from the LA Times tries to explain motives:

http://www.calendarlive.com/gallerie...l-art-features

This is all pretty strange, the stuff about being stalked by scientologists is creepy, knowing that Blake did the artwork for Beck's "Sea Change" album..

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

This is all pretty strange, the stuff about being stalked by scientologists is creepy

there is a very simple fix for this.

you invite them in for cookies and tea.

at about the time that the hallucinogens you've placed in the tea start to work, you begin to extoll on the benefits of Cthulhu worship.

fairly soon, you are no longer being stalked by scientologists and Cthulhu has a few more souls to devour (just make sure you have a few towels ready to mop up all the drool).

win-win imo.

[tesla69]

Its very strange. Blake used to be a roadie for Nation of Ulysses. What this article above doesn't state is Duncan was a investigator of current mind control techniques, which these days is less about control than distruption i.e., just make the target act out so crazy no one will take them seriously. There's some weird stuff going on, not the least is the Dick Cheney essay she never got a chance to post. http://rigint.blogspot.com/

I'm glad I never met her, I think I would have been hopelessly smitten.

[Danny Himself]

I didn't know about that mind control thing. Dang.

[tesla69]

Alex Constantine looks at this in great detail....
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/...im-cownie.html

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by tesla69

Alex Constantine looks at this in great detail....
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/...im-cownie.html

Dang..

[king_buzzo]

that is their problem.

[screamingskull]

Jeremy & Theresa, they were a beautiful couple.

 

 

 

 

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Theresa Duncan was found dead on July 10, 2007; suicide is suspected, but no official cause of death has been confirmed. It is reported she overdosed on Tylenol PM and bourbon.

In February 2007, the couple moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where Blake had a job at Rockstar Games. On July 10, 2007, Blake found Duncan dead, apparently by suicide. On July 17, 2007, Blake was reported missing off New York's Rockaway Beach. According to news accounts, a woman called 911 to report that she saw a man swimming out to sea. Blake's clothes and wallet were reportedly found under the boardwalk at Rockaway's 122nd Street Beach, along with a suicide note that referred to Duncan.
On the morning of Sunday, July 22, 2007, a body thought to be that of Jeremy Blake was discovered 4.5 miles off the coast of Sea Girt, New Jersey (which is 35 miles south of Rockaway Beach). Police announced on July 31, 2007 that they had identified his body.
According to friends and family of the couple along with various news reports, Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan believed that they were being followed and harassed by Scientologists up to the time of their deaths. Blake also included his allegations of harassment by Scientologists and others in a 27-page "chronicle" he prepared for a lawsuit he planned to file.

 

 

[screamingskull]

Jeremy's art

 

 

 

 

[screamingskull]

Theresa's Art

 

[avantgarde1]

man, that's alot sadder than a dead dog in an art exhibit.

[Danny Himself]

Yeah..

Thanks for the pictures, Rosie, very thanks.

[screamingskull]

i just wish i could find more of Theresa's art work on the internet. There's SHIT loads of Jeremy's.
Here's some more

 

 

 

 

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[tesla69]

Here's a roundup of articles for anyone interested

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.c...ncan-and-blake

[TheFoxBen]

Jeremy Blake did some art for my favorite movie (Punch-Drunk Love), I didn't know he was dead... It's sad