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A new one, with a theme song by The Smiths (turn your sound on), using for the first time elements from different shoots and some groovy abstract color. So perhaps this is not much like a Polaroid at all, but I can't think of a good name for these things:
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/guy_cat_pan_disco.html
Drew Gardner and Marianne Shaneen and I stumbled into Galapagos last Sunday to witness the destruction of their front pool by this Japanese performance artist named Teruyuki Tanaka. Even better was the duo smashing rocks in one of the huge mayonnaise vats that are suspended on girders above the main drinking area (the building was a mayonnaise factory). Dressed in white shirts, black slacks, the duo (Tanaka and Tadashi Watanabe) bashed away rocks and bags of cement for over an hour, surprisingly not shaking the whole building to its foundations but providing a fine ambient backdrop to what became an increasingly disinterested (but not uninterested) crowd. There was a video projection of the two of them on a screen toward the front of the bar (which helped keep the fish smell away from the clientele), which I photographed several times and which will probably feature in a future "Flash Polaroid." Get your tickets now!
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/weird.html
I've created a directory for the "Flash Polaroids" and have fixed some glitches in the original file. The files are largish, don't look at it if you have a slow connection. The first one stars my favorite plant. The others were mostly shot in England and Williamsburg.
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/plant_dance.html
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/heathrow.html
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/countryside.html
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/racquelli.html
http://www.arras.net/polaroids/wburg_bridge.html
[Here is a response to my posting of a picture of a hairless cat several months ago (which now ranks on Google?!). As some of you have noted, it wasn't truly "hairless," and David Jordan below explains why the mix-up happened. Below is one of the cats from his site, well worth visiting!]
If you do a search for "hairless cat" on yahoo you come up #5. I run a site for hairless cats and thought I should point out a couple of things for your edification. They are called Sphynx not Sphinx cats. The cat pictured on your page is indeed a Devon Rex or a very poor example of a Sphynx as it has hair. All Sphynx cats are born with a kind of "suede" hair and keep it their whole life. They are not truly a hairless cat. There is one however that was bred from some cats in Hawaii (i forget the name) Anyhow if you want to get some pics of Sphynx cats you can check out our site http://www.hairlesscatbreeders.com and feel free to grab any you wish. I will be updating a few of the kittens tonight. Just a note to educate.
David Jordan
[Not that Slate needs their articles reprinted on blogs, but I thought this was pretty funny, if a bit joeky.]
Joe Lieberman bows out.
By William Saletan, Slate
Say it ain't so, Joe.
Here's Joe Lieberman on TV, quitting the race.
I have such fond memories of Lieberman's campaign. Actually, it was never the Lieberman campaign. It was the Joe campaign. The Web site was www.joe2004.com. The campaign vehicle was the Joemobile. The blog was www.blogforjoe.com. Why the Joe theme? To identify with the average Joe, I suppose. And maybe because the folks at the Lieberman campaign thought the name Lieberman sounded, well, a bit too Joeish.
Joe was the heir apparent, Al Gore's right-hand man. A bit too right-hand, as it turned out. He started out the race with a presumptive seniority that might have been called, in the parlance of his campaign, PrimoJoeniture. But on the stump, voters found him Joematose. He had trouble rustling up Joenations. Antiwar Democrats in Iowa found his support of the Iraq war Joefensive. He went into a Joesdive. He was Joewhere.
In New Hampshire, however, he sensed a Joepening. All those McCain independents could vote in the state's Joepen primary. Joe set up house there and went to work. The crowds welcomed him with Joevations. He surged in the Joevernights. "Joementum!" crowed his campaign. He was Joevial.
Alas, Joeverconfidence felled him. He finished fifth in New Hampshire and was written off. He was Joast. Joadkill. D-Joe-A.
Yet he refused to bow out. The Joe must go on, he vowed. Critics said he was in Joenial, but he flew south, taking his Joe on the road. He faced down his lengthening odds with a certain Joe de vivre. Where would he break through? Joeklahoma? AriJoena? North DaJoeta? New MexiJoe? The Joe Me state?
Alas, he came up empty tonight. Joe-for-7. Joe-miliation.
Joe revoir, Joe. Joerivederci. Hasta Joe Vista. Somewhere conservative Democrats are laughing, and somewhere McCain independents shout. But there is no Joe in Mudville. Joe Lieberman has struck out.
Today was supposed to be the bye bye day for FSC but I haven't finished the Denis Roche "bootleg" which I was hoping would be the last offering here. But I got this email from John Barlow, a writer in Canada, which seemed to succumb to line breaks fairly easily (many of them are his own), and become a nice poem, or perhaps a monologue from a Mac Wellman play. Tonight I'll be at Galapagos watching the "Little Theater" event that I guess is usually held at Tonic.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Barlow
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: DEBATETERFUGE
I swear ( ... ) when Walkerton first hit the news,
on a local broadcast, they called it, with some hesitation,
Watertown, which I still find murkily funny.
Well, the town of Wiarton must have an in
you say, on this matter, and it does, in that it has
“Wiarton Willie” who, like Wiarton, has - or, had –
two similar fellows himself, in the form of
two other groundhogs. News broke today that
tragedy befell them though. An underground tunnel
had been constructed between their indoor cage and their
outdoor cage playpen, where they built nests
from straw. So near watertable is this section of Wiarton,
they drowned when their tunnel filled up.
The now deeply troubled groundhog handler
kept this a secret until recently. All these
months the handler's been claiming
to believe only one of the groundhogs at a time was showing
itself. Wiarton town council is furious, and disgusted
that Wiarton Willie has had to sleep
in his tunnel with his two dead companions,
all this time. But the theory was plausible,
and this world is in fact rife with plausible theory
just as poorly construed. In today's
Star, a story arises, How to read the polls. The author
lists off some six polling results,
for Ontario, ranging from dead heat (43-42 for
Liberals) to recent landslide 49-33
but the author then points out that steep
differences in the numbers depends on whether
one reports only the percentage support
from decided polled-folk, or the percentage of all
decided and undecided.
Then the author writes this:
“If we recalculate the results used by Decima
so that they match the method reported by
the others, we find that the Liberals have 39 per cent
of support among decided voters, as
do the Tories.” Though the six polls quoted
were all different, none showed a tie,
among decided; undecided would not effect
the difference between the two “parties”. Incredibly
the author later concludes:
“The more informed the voter, the more likely
that the polls will enlighten rather than confuse
debate.” BOOOOOONNNNEEESSSSSSSSS.HOGGGGGG BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNEESSSSSS.
In a similar moment of unbridled if milder irony,
Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty campaigned
for both the Liberals and the NDP yesterday. Asked
where the money would come from,
for proposals, he said: “If we don't put $3.2 billion into tax cuts
for corporations, and we don't put half a billion
into private schools, if we don't put $400 million
into self-promotional government advertizing,
if we don't put $400 million into private-sector consultants,
if we actually collect unpaid corporate taxes, then we
can actually do something.” All day nursing this information
as I worked, I wondered where to email it.
Local softbrain politics is so passe. So I thought I'd just
send it to you to wonder about, and you can forward it if you wish.
The three newspaper articles mentioned are all from
the Toronto Star, yesterday or today. In the case
of two, I wish to cause the authors no further
embarrassment than their produce already caused.
The third is pretty general anyway. It's just an email. They can delete it.
meneninkenlkniienoinoinlkenlknknenononen ~ end ~ 0 ~
Gary, the white magician of Middle Flarf, has lobbed a few dingleberries at recent events here in Hobbitville.
I still prefer Will & Grace...
Just picked this up on Silliman's Blog -- a link to the National Review, which has a nice Chaucer pastiche about the California elections:
Among us was a TERMINATOR bold,
A player who on many a stage had strold.
Ful big he was of braun, and eke of bone
A manly man, ful wyth testosteroun... &tc. &tc.
Read the rest at:
John Derbyshire on California Recall on National Review Online
A little silliness... Gary Sullivan asked me to write a poem for him to turn into a comic... so I did, a quatrain thing that sort of riffs off of this "Pasha Noise" character I've been using in another poem (for some reason I have a "z" in this instead of an "s" dunno why. The poem also incorporates bits from my MS Word auto-condensation of Kenny Goldsmith's "Soliloquy" and other little chunks of digital detritus to break (I thought) the narrative momentum, but it's interesting to see how Gary attempted to preserve what he could. The colab definitely not the New York School -- it'll probably be quite baffling in the end -- but here's the first page... I think it will be about 4 pages in all. Gary's images are based on a children's book retelling of the Marco Polo story, though of course it has that air of Bollywood about it (not to mention Prince Valient). The big kiss is coming up shortly, stay tuned.
I'm too busy today to post anything more than this photograph of a prehistoric bird. You'll notice that it has a hairless cat (see below) in its beak.
Nothing new today except for this picture of a hairless cat:
[I fixed this Flash file so I'm reposting... here's the original intro... as Derek notes in his comment, the "last guy" is Rafael Barreta-Rivera]
I once made the joke that the Four Horsemen -- the sound poetry group that included Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton and the late bpNichol (who was the last guy again?) -- would be appearing in NY at my digital poetry event. What I really meant was that these guys -- which I found on a Swedish children's site that I highly recommend for adults -- would be appearing. Click away and be treated to a fabulous sound poetry concert in the tradition of the Ursonate and Meredith Monk, with a touch of Steve Reich's Tehillim. (I don't know why I can't make it bigger...)
[Here's a site that lets you download "patriotic" cursors that run on Windows. Someone has to explain to me how some of these are expressions of "patriotism" -- you mean if you're have a flashing speech bubble coming out of your mouth you're not American? But the hard, silent stare makes you a patriot? I'm sure there's a Chomsky one out there with "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in the bubble.]
[This one just came in...]
We knew they were a little batty and wanting in the IQ area, but look at the people who "signed" this thing... Dean Martin? Shazaam?
[My fascination with tasteless political humor is pretty endless, and this site, whitehouse.org, which I feel I should have known about through one of my Canadian connections but, alas, I got it from a Brazilian, lays it on thick. It has a lot of great posters on it that you buy, or just big images to download. The entire poster collection can be found here.]
[Ok, I'm not sure where this kind of sloganeering is going except... as a critique of sloganeering? It's the first in a long time that I've seen "risque" sex practices associated with un-Puritanical French culture (or berets for that matter)... reminds me of the old -- new? -- days of the pro-choice marches in Washington, circa 1988.]
Masturbate for Peace: Using Masturbation to End War
Though it looks a little dated, below is a list of the 300 words that would most attract the government's attention were they to be used online. I can see some good Flarf poems coming out of this, though the words themselves are not especially resonant (except "Scully").
Darren Wershler-Henry writes about this list: "Back in the Usenet days, many people used to have lists like this attached to the end of every email in the hope of flooding any sort of attempt to monitor email ... Touching, really." Hopefully none of you are President of the Hate Speedbump Illuminati.
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[The images of the Gaudi hotel plans for the WTC site proved to be so popular I had to come up with something good to follow. All I could think of were these photographs I took last month of rats decomposing in the pool of my father's new house. They're not as gruesome as it sounds... some of the pix, in fact, would be worthy of the Hubble telescope.]
[Another one courtesy Darren W=H at alienated.net. He found it here.
[The combined efforts of Laurable and Darren Wershler-Henry give me this story and links about Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's plan to tattoo poems on pigs. Delvoye is the infamous maker of the "Cloaca" machine, which had the ability to digest food and also produce waste, which would drop out the far end of the machine onto a conveyor belt at regular intervals during the day (it was installed at the New Museum here in NY for several months two years ago). He had previously tattooed grown hogs with huge Harley Davidson logos and other designs, which doesn't seem so interesting until you see the photographs, which, in close up, look like the backs of huge, Mark McGwire-size rednecks (pardon the stereotype there). You can buy the book from Yahoo!:
Here's the story on the pig poems, courtesy ananova.com.
Vegetarian artist plans to tattoo piglets with poems
A Belgian animal rights group has protested against the plans of a famous vegetarian artist to tattoo piglets as a piece of art.
Wim Delvoye says he wants to tattoo 23 piglets weighing about 50kg with poems and then exhibit them during a cultural festival in Watou in the summer.
"At the end of the summer the pigs will weigh about 300kg and the poems will have reached a huge size", Mr Delvoye said.
The artist says he wants to protest against the attitude of considering art more and more as a financial investment.
"The value of paintings is rising and so will do the pigs", he said.
Because animal rights group Gaia has protested against the idea, Mr Delvoye has promised to take proper care of the animals.
The tattoo session will be filmed and all the animals will receive sedation before being tattooed.
"They won't feel anything", promised Mr Delvoye. "And we will use cream in the summer to prevent them getting sunburn.
"And after the festival the animals won't go to the butcher. I'm a convinced vegetarian myself and I'm against animals suffering."
Gaia is said to be pleased the artist and organisers of the festival have agreed to a meeting.
[The new addition to this site is courtesy bannerart.org, a site that collects work conforming to webvertising specifications in terms of file size and dimensions. Here's some info on the site, recently revamped. Brandon Barr, who runs the texturl blog (see right), is one of the creators of this site.]
The Banner Art Collective has implemented a new design created by Garrett Lynch. The new design brings a vast number of improvements to the site, which collects and distributes net.art and poetry created according to the limitations of WWW advertising.
The collection is now database driven and easily searchable. Each work is presented on a separate page, and more artist information is featured next to each work. Viewers have always been able to access cut-and-paste html tags to place works from the collection on their own webpages, but now the site also offers users a php-driven script that, when added to any html document, serves randomly changing banners from the collection.
In addition, the new design automates the submission process with an online form which artists can use to easily upload their works to the collection. There are also new frequently updated sections which contain news, links to host and sponsor sites, and links to related research and art projects.
The collection now includes works by:
arte_comprimido (Argentina)
babel (Canada/UK)
Brandon Barr (US)
Ji Bêt (France)
Bruec (US)
Christophe Bruno (France)
Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
Catherine Daly (US)
Tom Dannecker (US)
drivedrive.com
Roberto Echen (Argentina)
Joshua Goldberg (US)
Lee French & Barry Small (UK)
jimpunk (France)
Kanarinka (US)
Tamara Laï (Belgium)
Jessica Loseby (UK)
Garrett Lynch (UK)
Gerhard Mantz (Germany)
Joseph Franklyn McElroy (US)
Millie Niss (US)
Alexandra Reill (Italy)
Michaël Sellum (France)
Antoine Schmitt (France)
Ana Maria Uribe (Argentina)
U.N. Weapons Inspectors Seek Open Access in Iraq
By ASGER JORN
[the latest NYTimes detournement]
Other stuff that I've been up to -- I've recently completed two detournements of NYTIMES webpages using the texts of key Situationist Raoul Vaneigem.
Blair Presents Dossier on Iraq's Biological Weapons (Sept. 24.)
Daschle Denounces Bush Remarks on Iraq as Partisan (Sept. 25)
I hope, when the historians of the future who "leave blanks in their writing... I mean for things they didn't know" (Pound), who most likely be cockroaches and will not know a whole lot about us humans, this series based on the Times will prove a valuable resource.
