Archive for January 2006
Can’t resist the fascination….
Humans are the fuckin weirdest animals on the planet; witness: http://www.beedogs.com/
Look away of you dare!
Four facts and a hint…
(all facts art related)
1. On Saturday my friend Zeena came to my studio, marking the first visit I’ve had there in years that wasn’t someone modeling for me or helping me move things. She helped me want to make more things.
2. On monday I went to the French embassy to see Richard Foreman honored for his contribution to the culture of France. He got a medal, and I got the idea that I could make a new installation by staging one of his notebooks.
3. Last night I went with waltzingtree to see The Downtown Show atThe Grey Gallery filled with art from the a crucial part of my life, that will never make it into MOMA, thank god.
4. Today I go to Rutgers to appear on a panel on “Photography and Utopia” with Joel Sternfeld, Deb Willis and Justine Kurland.
hint: I haven’t been posting which genereally means that I haven’t been reading because there’s just too much going moment to moment.
It’s all in the timing….
Last night is the night Santino should have gone Barvarian: I like the idea of a figure skater with “Auf Weidersien” on her tush.
And in related thoughts:
Andrae: what’s with the black mask? No one told you about Catwoman flopping?
Kara: Start packing now : single sleeves killed Lupe and they will kill you.
Emmet: You are now free to hang out with some people as relaxed as you, like Britain’s royal family.
What is the “Tootie”? Is Eve Ensler writing some monologues for it?
Another brilliant idea…
…of mine that will probably get made by someone else and make them a millionaire.
I hate the explanitory text in museums. I hate wall labels and they way that they encourage people to avoid having a direct experience with the work. So today, while looking at the ups label on a box from amazon (futiley tring to peel it off actually, but that’s another story), i thought:”What if instead of wall labels museums had bar codes? Codes that could be read by some sort of PDA device that you could elect to carry around or not. When you wanted to know more about the piece use your bar code reader and boom, the information would come up on your screen. You could program not only the languageyou got the information in but the depth of information. Like viewing a movie with or without the commentary track. The bar codes could be placed on some unobtrusive part of the wall, the baseboard perhaps.
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