Great idea for a collaborative project, Ann!
One of my all time favorite books (I'm not kidding) is ROADSIDE AMERICA ...
a fun, well written, well photographed, Art Guys-ish book about all the
quirky roadside attractions and oddball places in the USA. It vibrates my
fluxus tuning fork. If you don't have a copy RUN OUT and get one right
now. These guys also have a cool website <www.roadsideamerica.com>...but I
don't love it as much as the book. Roadside America was part of the
inspiration for the self-conscious creation of the Fluxus Indian Museum (in
my hometown of Coon Rapids, Iowa...a town that every harvesting season is
home to the world's largest corn-cob pile ...and there's an eight foot tall
fiberglass revolving ear of corn on the town's roadside welcome sign...).
So I think some of what you are suggesting, Ann, has already been done (at
least for USA) in this Roadside America book. It would make it more
interesting and engaging to us/FLUXLIST if the descriptions/photos came
from us, but maybe there's some other spin or angle we could put on it,
too, to make it more of a contribution. Maybe sharpen it up and make it
much more fluxian (not all the places in the Roadside America book ring my
Fluxus tuning fork). It would probably be a nightmare to try to create at a
good mutually-agreed-upon definition of what a naturally occurring "Fluxian
transformed, transformative, transformational site" is, however. No?
Allen (I have a hard time keeping it simple) Bukoff
>All of us must know of similarly Fluxian transformed,
>transformative, transformational sites. You know what they are. Could someone
>(please not me or if so not til fall) be a compiler of short (pref around 300
>words, no more than 500) essays or lists or descriptions on such places
>contributed by all, and then published by burning a CD and or in paper?
>Perhaps
>some illustrations (izone photos? Polaroids? Prints? drawings? etc?) could go
>with?
