Just After Ten

"First i would like to say that i do not know alot about gravity and probably alot of things. I am not very well educated on gravity or any thing else really i am in high school and i know this may seem weird but then again you will think wow this seems so simple that it might actually be true. i know that i believe it because it makes so much sense. And i know that there are alot of people that think magnets and gravity are two different things but they are not.

my theory is that there are more than just the north and south pole. we just have not discovered them yet. i do not know how many but i know there are at least two. i think that the only reason we do not know is because the earth's pole is either not attracted to it or repels it. not every pole affects every other pole just some of them. we all have at least one or two at the least poles in us that is why we are connected to the earth. everything has at least one or two maybe more.

the earth and the planets have at least two poles in them. the sun is attracting us and pushing us at the same time. in the center there is a pole pushing us away and on top the pull is attracting us. that is why we do not crash on the sun and do not go away from it. think about the odds that 8 planets just happened to be going the perfect speed and distance from the sun as it went by to stay in orbit for ever there is no way there has to be a force pushing and pulling at the same time(magnets)

all the planets have this. they have poles scattered around also which is what makes us spin. the sun is pulling and pushing different sides making us spin. there is more on this theory that i have"
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21st Century Werewolf Aesthetics

"Warning" sign posted on gate of defunct/abandoned "installation" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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elaine: 8th Sep 2005 - 15:19 GMT
a new slant on installation art - ... with dogs outfits by prada, perhaps

jack: 8th Sep 2005 - 23:52 GMT
elaine, its funny that you should mention prada. i met the women who runs the fashon company, prada.

Answers from the archive

"What would be your advice to young designers?"
"Designers who can´t work with others, whether engineers or other key production people, are lost from the start. Because all those creative ideas will be of no use. Only when I listen to others and take on board their arguments, will they then be willing to accept my arguments. It´s that easy sometimes. I think this is one of the key skills a young designer must have. And of course they need a lot of luck and, in the design field, above all staying power, so they are not blown down by the first wind."- Dieter Rams

Apples in Stereo: The München Sublime

DISTRESS CALL

drifters dialectic

Day 4: The prosecution begins its case. Howard Morgan, a 14-year-old student in Scopes's biology class is on the witness stand:
Q--Did you attend school here at Dayton last year?
A--Yes, sir.
Q--Did you study anything under Prof. Scopes?
A--Yes sir.
Q--Did you study this book, General Science?
A--Yes, sir....
Q--Did he ever undertake to teach you anything about evolution?
A--Yes, sir....
Q--Just state in your own words, Howard, what he taught you and when it was.
A--It was along about the 2d of April.
Q--Of this year?
A--Yes, sir; of this year. He said that the earth was once a hot molten mass too hot for plant or animal life to exist upon it; in the sea the earth cooled off; there was a little germ of one cell organism formed, and this organism kept evolving until it got to be a pretty good-sized animal, and then came on to be a land animal and it kept on evolving, and from this was man.

"Last year a man in South Korea died after spending 50 hours playing an online game."
-From the BBC website

untitled (Ryan's World Proposal)

Update

I have just been awakened by people scraping crusty metal off the walkup staircase. My dream was set in a lush, flat country field containing humanbuilt waterfalls, caves extracted from the earth and turned inside out, historic ruins, and "primitive" monuments. The festivities seemed to follow the logic of a funeral (for me?), and we were all there celebrating with bonfires, and roasts. Rob had just arrived on his bicycle from a race, and Michael dressed in a police uniform. The proceedings seemed to go well, but the scraping metal interrupted a little too soon to know for sure.

The Importance of a Name

Mike Kelley bootleg

http://channel.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2007

I have already repressed the memory of the last post that was deleted

"Objects arise as the figures in the landscape of empire; narratives and actions put them in motion."
- W.J.T. Mitchell "What do pictures want?", The University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London;2005), p. 154.

Copyright-Free, printable, personalizeable blog invitation card

"Let us recall the staged performance of "Storming the Winter Palace" in Petrograd, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, on 7 November 1920. Tens of thousands of workers, soldiers, students and artists worked round the clock, living on kasha (the tasteless wheat porridge), tea and frozen apples, and preparing the performance at the very place where the event "really took place" three years earlier; their work was coordinated by the Army officers, as well as by the avant-garde artists, musicians and directors, from Malevich to Meyerhold. Although this was acting and not "reality," the soldiers and sailors were playing themselves - many of them not only actually participated in the event of 1917, but were also simultaneously involved in the real battles of the Civil War that were raging in the near vicinity of Petrograd, a city under siege and suffering from severe shortages of food. A contemporary commented on the performance: "The future historian will record how, throughout one of the bloodiest and most brutal revolutions, all of Russia was acting"54; and the formalist theoretician Viktor Shklovski noted that "some kind of elemental process is taking place where the living fabric of life is being transformed into the theatrical."
-slavoj zizek "Repeating Lenin"
available: http://www.lacan.com/replenin.htm

"A personality: that is an institution in a single instance."
-Arnold Gehlen "Die Seele im technischen Zeitalter" (Hamburg 1957).

Flea Market On a Spring Day

July 10th, 2004

From Lil' Knowles

From Our Readers

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/arts/design/05cott.html?_r=1

"We still love K.D. & her music
But we still love beef
She hasn't taken away our freedom of choice!
Why should we take away hers?"
(demonstration sign as composed by Lang supporter in Consort, Alberta, 1990; image found in Tony Godfrey "Conceptual Art" Phaidon Press; 1998; p. 349)

"Here the focus turns to the curious problem of presence-absence, which haunts research on systems of significations. A system or sub-system, whether of objects or words, both is and is not self-sufficient. It is self sufficient; it is complete whole. Each element refers to all others. It looks as full as an egg. Look at it a bit longer and a bit more closely: see, it empties itself. A host of questions, posed technically by linguists and tragically by philosophers, now arises. We ask: Who? For whom? Why? How? The system is not self-sufficient. This 'whole' is partial and open. It refers to 'something else': purpose on the on hand, and the 'subject', on the other, and beyond these two terms lies the totality and the meaning. (,,,)"
_ Henri Lefebvre, "Preface to the study of the Habitat of the 'Pavillon'" in "Lefebvre: Key Writings" (Continuum; NY, London; 2003) p. 132.

Lil Babylon

Vito Acconci speaking to Hans Ulrich Obrist: "...I paid attention to phrases like, "A person who lives by the sword dies by the sword." In other words, if a project starts out as private, it ends private; if something is meant to be public, it better start at least as a semi-public project. Now, one is private, and two is a couple, a mirror image, but three is a crowd; three spoils the couple, so it must be the beginning of public..."

Four more days of Questioning

http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/soo.htm

Deterritorialized Hot Melt

Who Knew?

''Given two things that resemble one another to any chosen degree, but one of them a work of art and the other an ordinary object, what accounts for this difference in status?''

-Arthur C. Clarke

Interview from above

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador U.S. actress Angelina Jolie whispers to U.S. actor Brad Pitt during the "A New Mindset for the UN" session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland January 26, 2006.

Summary of reasons why an artist run centre stamp series is essential

I) Art is an important part of ___________________ identity.
II) Contemporary art is vital to ___________________'s international reputation.
III) Artist-Run Centres(or artist led centres) are integral to contemporary ___________________ art.
IIII) Contemporary art has been neglected in ___________________ postage.

Day 12

"A biennial is a glimpse of a transnational utopia."

Arthur C. Clarke

proposal for painting exhibition

"A collective biography, if written in the way one would describe an individual, always seems to describe a baby-being. Something born, with no prior experience. Collective efforts thus appear to the uninitiated as infantile, unformed, goofy creatures."
- V.I. Lenin

The $8,000 Tandem

"Collaboration: A late twentieth century euphemism for artists working creatively together.

Collaboration: An early twentieth century euphemism for so called enemies working creatively together."

Paul Sullivan, Exit Review, Static-ops, 2003.

Day 11

"... Down into the earth where dead men go I would go soon and maybe come out of it again in some healthy way, free and innocent of all human perplexity. I would perhaps be the chill of an April wind, an essential part of some indomitable river or be personally concerned in the ageless perfection of some rank mountain bearing down upon the mind by occupying forever a position in the blue easy distance. Or perhaps a smaller thing like movement in the grass on an unbearable breathless yellow day, some hidden creature going about its business - I might well be responsible for that or for some part of it. Or even those unaccountable distinctions that make an evening recognizable from its own morning, the smells and sounds and sights of the perfected and matured essences of the day, these might not be innocent of my meddling and my abiding presence. (...)
"Or perhaps I would be an influence that prevails in water, something sea-borne and far away, some certain arrangement of sun, light and water unknown and unbeheld, something far-from-usual. There are in the great world whirls of fluid and vaporous existences obtaining in their own unpassing time, unwatched and uninterpreted, valid only in their essential un-understanding mystery, justified only in their eyeless and mindless immeasurability, unassailable in their actual abstraction; of the inner quality of such a thing I might well in my own time be the true quintessential pith. I might belong to a lonely shore or be the agony of the sea when it bursts upon it in despair."
-Flann O'Brien, "The Third Policeman" (1967).

"If it's construed as art in your mind, then keep it on your property."

David Cassivi, Windsor City Council

PROTOTYPE

The Demise of Something Worth Pursuing

"Does this mean that you have produced somthing of note??? HOpe all is well,, Happy New Year and keep on growing in your art. Alexx"

Take my shoes off

"Dame Nature is a gentlewoman. No guide's fee will obtain you her favor, no abrupt demand; hardly will she bear questioning, or direct, curious gazing at her beauty."
-Frederick Law Olmstead, from 'Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England', 1852.