A Co-OP Art Museum/Gallery? In Anaheim? Wow. Art Gallery & Performance Space -- AAA Electra 99
The So and So's button-o-matic project is simply about cheaply (50 cents each) dispensing artist-designed buttons.
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At the The Kids Are Bored website, you can find electronic music playing near you. Think of it as a free electronic music arts calander.
danish soundscapes combines a couple photographs with an ambient looping track of sound. Thus the term 'soundscape'.
I went through and experienced a couple of the soundscapes and then I started thinking how this was so different:
It isn't music. It is ambient sound, from the web.
This isn't programmed or 'sugarized' or made to sound any better or worse. It is just pure.. occuring sound; and I think that is why it is so amazingly relaxing and experience-worthy. To me, normally occuring sound has so much more exitement in it than programmed music. True, modern/classical composers can cook up a spicey mix of intelligent melodies and contrasts...
but the interaction of sounds in the real world just seems so much more exciting.
In the case of Narleskov / Pine Forest you hear birds speaking back and forth, the light sound of horn in the background and the sound of the wind soothing through the trees. Except for the bird, the car in the distance and the wind have no idea they are interacting audibly with each other; but they are.
Thats why I love it.
Daang. There is a World Beard and Moustache Championship that has been running since 1990 and it travels the world like the olympics. wow.
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Here is a Star Trek Apartment on Ebay. Wow.
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Wooden Mirror came out wayy back in 1999 but it is still very very cool.
Here is an Animated Population Pyramid for United States, showing the population of ages for the United States for future and past years. Wow.
In 2059, there are going to be a LOT of older ladies on the earth. I hope they still have Matlock and Macguyver reruns going.
Here's a great short film about dead reletionships: How to tell your reletionship is dead in 90 seconds
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To my memory, I haven't painted in about 4 years; I can't remember finishing a painting either.
So, encouraged by several of my art friends I've been meeting with recently, tonight I painted.
The painting has two people on it:
A boy and a girl. Each of them has a comic-bubble above their heads. The girl is saying "KOREA!" and the boy is saying "RUSSIA$". No big deep explanation here except for the fact that I've been learning a lot about reletionships lately, especially male/female reletionships.
Why Korea and Russia? Names of countries hold so much information. Economies, peoples, cultures. I wanted a word that had a lot behind it. These two people are talking to each other and both saying something very important. I'm not making this up!
I remember my parents always encouraging me to make art: my mom keeps little pieces of art I've made in her desk and my dad has kept old canvases I've painted on. I remember selling graffiti drawings of people's names in junior high for money. (I would take the $2.50 or $5 and buy those personal pan pizzas. Who says artists aren't inspired by hunger?)
The painting in small: about 1 foot by 2 feet. I painted with acrylics and a sharpie marker. The neat thing about this project is that I made the canvas frame from scratch as well as stretched the canvas over the frame; then painted on it.. So I made everything. It was very satisfying; somewhat like my mom's slow-cooked crockpot dinners; only art doesen't go in your stomach: it goes in your mind and ...soul?
I'd love to hear your comments!
MORE...Zug has a great article called "The Turnpike Prank: Avoiding Tolls On The Massachusetts Turnpike". The author pay the toll with Orange, Indian Rupees as well as 2 stickers of 50-cent. Because, you know, 2 stickers of 50 Cent equal one dollar.
A great qoute:
Last night I dreamt I lived at a hair salon/house. One of my friends there dreadlocked my hair with blue goop.
(I look in a mirror) "Oh No!"
"What?!" She said.
"It is blue! Will it stay blue?!"
She paused. "Of course. I can change it."
"Um.. yeah. I have a job interview tomorrow."
She had at least 6 bottles of hair mud with her. "It's ok. You can choose between any of these. They are only $2 a piece."
I worked for an indian couple who kept baking sweet iced rolls. In the back of my head I thought "It isn't just the sweet iced rolls that bring the business".
During this time I supposely was training my mind in Kung Fu. At the end of the dream, I remember listening to a spooky voiceover talking about how I "was never seen again..." and watching myself float from the back yard's shed (holding my wallet in my right hand) , through the back yard (and as I floated through the yard, I remember seeing large black briefcases like the elevator bomb used in the matrix- I knew the house was going to be totalled. I wanted to get out of there in time.) After the back yard, I slowly floated through the house and as I put my foot on the bottom doorframe of the front door, everything turned white and I saw small particles fly in front of me as I jumped through the front door.
Later the voiceover said:
"Charles was never seen again..."
Next I remember watching some kind of weird Dr. Seuess commercial with a family of skinny animal things that were shaved and had long noses.
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