FLUXLIST: Leonardo's backwards writing
Leonardo was ambidextrous. He wrote and drew equally well with either hand. His writing was mirror writing. This is not necessarily a symptom of dyslexia. All letters and words were correct and in proper order. Leonardo's notebooks and research papers were written backwards to encode and protect the infirmation. His correspondence and public material was written forwards, easily readable by anyone. -- Ken Friedman --
FLUXLIST: Explanations
That last "da pomes" post was about Roger Stevens' project on Fluxlist poetry. Roger compiled posts from various folks, poetry, you know, and stuff like that and published it. My quote about Bruce Conner was about attempting to do things differently, like, sideways. Lines, stuff, turn it around, know what I mean. Try that, with a piece of lined paper. You could do that, I know you could. Substance? Don't know, you work that out, eh? Work on your sense of humour. It's a fun exercise. Smile. Fluxus is Watching You.
Re: FLUXLIST: ON THE WAY.......
In a message dated 06/28/2000 8:15:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Cease practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself. Body and mind of themselves will drop away and your original face will be manifest. -- Dogen (1200-1253) >> Could you please repeat that without pursuing words?
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
In a message dated 06/28/2000 10:03:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > >>>“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.” > >>>Bruce Conner >> 21st Century update: When people give you a sheet of white paper for your printer, make it landscape. Hmmm. Just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? BP
Re: FLUXLIST: Seven Telephone Events
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ken Friedman wrote: > These events are copyright (c) Fluxus 1967, 1975, and copyright (c) Ken > Friedman 1967, 1975, 1979, 1992, 2000. All rights reserved. Permission is > granted to reproduce or perform these events provided that credit is given > and copyright is acknowledged. Obscene Event Officiously and tediously document for the sake-of-documenting 'art' for the sake of documenting and blindly 'legitimatizing' the pseudo expert practice of 'official artists.' Make more vicious empty circles; hung-up. (no c) /:b
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
> >>>If they give you lined paper, write the other way. > >>>Bruce Conner > > >they may be trying to be helpful > > Don't do it! REVOLT!! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
FLUXLIST: da pomes
There once was a poet named Stevens Whose publishings exceeded evens the wildest dreams of contributors reams of poetical insights and leavin's Brings tears to mine eyes this package of tries of divine words and lovely poetics Your efforts do credit And we're in you're debit Oh Shit, you did a great job, you sillygoof, Ain't You the Best I Love It Bless, PK
FLUXLIST: LIVE INTERACTIVE SOUND EVENT ((NOW!!!))
ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM http://alternativemuseum.org/tam_monitor Live Webcast Events - LIVE! INTERACTIVE WEBCAST EVENT! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28. 2000 ( - 2400 CET) "DIALTONE" -by TAMAS SZAKAL(digital sound artist from Germany)of CONTOUR.NET DIALTONE is a net audio installation exposing the physical and virtual space of the internet and attempting to open this hybrid space for sounds and noises by using simple telecomunication instruments like telephones and answering machines. This audio interface between telephone network and the internet explores how interaction and compression changes audio in a network. The installation connects the venue to our telecommunication network through sound and vision. 3 answering machines recieve 3 minute sound samples from all around the world. People transmit audio tracks with simple telephones by dialing one of the 3 "sound servers" and uploading nioses, words, or music. The machines are connected to an audio mixer and a to an amplifier for performing and installing the audio network live. Visitors in the venue mix the uploaded samples and work with the content of the system. 3 cameras capture the displays of the answering machines which are projected back into the space for a phisical and for a virtual audience - live at the gallery (pavillon crescendo / Leipzig) and on http://contour.net/dialtone/
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
due to some problems with server today-- am not sure if brief note re the connor quote came through it was to suggest that connor wrote as he did as an action against conformity and authority that is, he notes that "they" gave him the lined (or as it is also called "ruled") paper-- meaning that some kind of authority is "ordering" the structure of the communication, the writing in response, connor writes "against the grain" as a sign of his refusal and resistance to this "ordering"
RE: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V1 #357
> I have heard that an exclusive diet of Kaopectate will have > you shitting > porcelain turds inside of a week. But I must say I've never tried it. Last year for medical reasons I had a barium enema and lower gastrointestinal x-rays. For a couple of days afterwards, everything that came out of my butt was completely white --- it was as if white paint (and later, white-painted stools) were coming out of my butt. Pretty amazing. BTW, the medical problem turned out not to be too bad. Adam
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
Isn't that a form of dislexia? I thought I had read that Leonardo did that at places in his sketchbooks, and that the experts said it was from dislexia. My father can do that as well. He doesn't have dislexia, but does have a photographic memory, and is blind in one eye since birth, so I guess it has to do with the brain being able to process visual information differently from the rest, possibly to compensate for a disability. though it sounds like more of an asset to me than a liability. Best regards, Alex ann wrote: >I used to write with equal facility backwards or forwards, infact, if . What does this mean? I've always wondered-- >Does anyone else do this? > >AK > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
George Free wrote: > I believe someone else posted this quotation. As for myself, I don't get it. > Lined paper is a useful technology which I find helpful. I also find it > helpful when people write from left to right, though thoughtful alternatives > can be stimulating ;-) I used to write with equal facility backwards or forwards, infact, if I was taking notes or something, not really looking at what I was writing, I would be surprised sometimes to realize that I was writing backwards. Also, in life drawing classes I would often notice (only when people would point it out, oddly) that I had done a mirror image of the pose--there the model would be, in 20 drawings, facing left, and in mine she'd be reversed. Because I never cultivated this tendency--in fact, I always chose to write the normal way, it was only when I wasn't paying attention that it happened the other way--gradually I lost the tendency. I can still write backwards or draw backwards, but it takes some effort. I was cheered, however, when the other day, when I was transferring an image from a maquette to a wall, I did it backward without thinking. What does this mean? I've always wondered-- Does anyone else do this? AK
Re: FLUXLIST: "botticelli's venus...
At 10:01 am +0100 28/6/00, Roger Stevens wrote: >pez says... > >>coats to shore on the half-shell. sexual love is >>a deep sea diving the timeless and elemental . > > >may the fish be with you i think so
Re: FLUXLIST: ON THE WAY.......
Champoy: thank you--this brought to mind these: He who walks in hiddenness Has light to guide him In all his acts. --Chuang Tzu he who walks with his house on his head is heaven he who walks with his house on his head is heaven he who walks with his house on his head --Charles Olson On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, CHAMPOY wrote: > > > > Cease practice based on intellectual > > understanding, pursuing words and following > after > speech, and learn the backward step > that turns > your light inwardly to illuminate > yourself. > Body and mind of themselves will drop > away and > your original face will be manifest. > > > -- Dogen (1200-1253) > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ >
FLUXLIST: ON THE WAY.......
Cease practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself. Body and mind of themselves will drop away and your original face will be manifest. -- Dogen (1200-1253) __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: FLUXLIST: RE: melancholy
on the way to supermarket-- saw a melon collie inside-- a sale on melon but no collie weed On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Ronsen, Josh wrote: > > brad brace writes: > > > >in the cynical 00's melancholy itself becomes a kind of > >commodity > > I can get some for you at wholesale prices... > > -Josh Ronsen > http://www.nd.org/jronsen > > > > > > > >
FLUXLIST: Seven Telephone Events
Seven telephone events ... four from the 1960s, two from the 1970s, one from the 1990s. Ken Friedman -- Telephone Car Event Hide a normal desk telephone and a bell in your car or in any car. At an unexpected moment, ring the bell. Answer the phone and start talking. This piece may be varied by using a suitcase, on a street corner, in a restaurant, under a table, etc. 1967 First performed in San Francisco, California with Steve Abrams. This piece was originally titled Telecar. -- Telephone Clock Telephone someone. Announce the time. 1967 First realized in San Francisco, California in February, 1967. -- Telephone Event Take a standard desk telephone to someone's door. Ring the bell. When someone comes to the door, hand the phone to them, saying, "It's for you." 1967 First realized in San Francisco, California in February, 1967. -- Telephone for You Take a standard desk telephone with you in a car. Drive up to people, handing the phone out through the window, saying, "It's for you." This piece may also be performed using a suitcase or briefcase in unexpected situations, in an elevator, on a street corner, in a restaurant, etc. 1967 First performed during the Aktual/Keeping Together Manifestation, March 1967. Originally titled Telephone for Steve Abrams. -- In One Year and Out the Other On New Year's Eve, make a telephone call from one time zone to another so that you are conducting a conversation between people located in two years. 1975 I first performed this event on New Year's Eve 1975-1976, calling from Springfield, Ohio forward to Dick Higgins, Christo, and Nam June Paik in New York, then back to Tom Garver and Natasha Nicholson in California. I have celebrated this work annually since then, frequently calling Tom Garver, Peter Frank, Newton and Helen Harrison, Abraham Friedman and Dick Higgins. For New Year's of 1992-1993 I used telefax for the first time in performing this work. I sent telefax messages with the score to Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo, Peter Frank, Abraham and Shirley Friedman, Dick Higgins, Hong Hee Kim-Cheon, Choong-Sup and Yeong Lim, Karen and David Moss. -- Three Texts for Jim Pallas Evidence. Piety. Perseverance. 1979 First performed in 1979 during preparations for the Phone Event during the month of January, 1989, organized by Jim Pallas in Detroit, Michigan. -- Bird Call Make a telephone call to a bird. If you do not know a bird who has a telephone, make a telephone call in which you make bird noises. 1992 First realized with a telephone call to Jack Ox's parakeet, Dwight, then living in Cologne. -- These events are copyright (c) Fluxus 1967, 1975, and copyright (c) Ken Friedman 1967, 1975, 1979, 1992, 2000. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce or perform these events provided that credit is given and copyright is acknowledged. --
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
>>>If they give you lined paper, write the other way. >>>Bruce Conner they may be trying to be helpful
FLUXLIST: Re:digress V1 #357
champoy you might consider suppositories laced with coloured dye or would that be cheating?
Re: FLUXLIST: "botticelli's venus...
pez says... >coats to shore on the half-shell. sexual love is >a deep sea diving the timeless and elemental . may the fish be with you
Re: FLUXLIST: My Blue Poop
Terrence writes; Very clever passing note for art school. Blue poop beats beets. ;-) T. James Smith wrote: > I am a lurker, but Champoy's post prompted me to write. I have just > recently graduated University in May 2000. In one of my final courses, > entitled "Experimental Concepts," we were asked to develop a project > centered around time--specifically we were to create a piece that would be > clearly affect by time. I purchased an enormous blue cake--frosting & > bread, everything was blue--horrifically radioactive blue. At critique I > served the cake, along with blue punch. After everyone was finished, I > passed out self-addressed (addressed to me) postcards with simply "Yes" or > "No." I asked them to let me know if they were "affected" by my > piece--hence the "Yes" or "No." The postcards served as documentation & > even exist as another piece unto itself. It was most exciting, and fun for > me. > > I think projects such as these give new meaning to Art Movement. > > Enjoy, > James > > -- > >From: CHAMPOY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V1 #357 > >Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2000, 4:36 AM > > > > > > > i'm trying to make artworks out of my feces by trying > > to eat different kinds of foods and drinking some > > edible coloringsany suggestions what other kinds > > of food that i might eat to produce such a very > > interesting effect on my feces. > > > > -champoy hate > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > > http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Conner Quote
Terrence writes; Ever seen vertical lined (japanese) paper? I wanted some the moment i saw it. Just for the reason it jared my cultural perception/preconceptions. T. I will be out of my mind from 06/25/2000 until 07/05/2000. I will respond to your message when I return. Please call Dr. Cooper 604-733-5995 if you need my immediate attention. George Free wrote: I believe someone else posted this quotation. As for myself, I don't get it. Lined paper is a useful technology which I find helpful. I also find it helpful when people write from left to right, though thoughtful alternatives can be stimulating ;-) >George wrote: > >> >>If they give you lined paper, write the other way. >>Bruce Conner >> >> > >This is my favorite quote ever. I can't believe that you wrote it. I live by >this quote. >Thanks for letting me know it was Bruce Conner who said or wrote it. I >remember it from the front page of "Fahrenheit 451" by Bradbary. >Anyways, thanx again George, that made my night. > >ac > >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: stamps (for fluxlist?)
Terrence writes; I almost forgot about this. Personalized stamps. I wonder of the many clever ways this can be utilized? This might be a fun way of getting some good publicity by jamin` with the post's latest thang. Just what are the costs and the restrictions? T. artnatural. I will be out of my mind from 06/25/2000 until 07/05/2000. I will respond to your message when I return. Please call Dr. Cooper 604-733-5995 if you need my immediate attention. Carol Starr wrote: hi PK, in today's nytimes.com wonderful, as i told kiku this morning, don't you love it? best, Carol :) :) :) CALGARY JOURNAL Topple the Queen! Enthrone Yourself on a Stamp For Canadians tired of airbrushed photos of the queen on their stamps, Canada Post suggests the 21st-century alternative: personalize your postage with a photo of the new baby or the loyal dog. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/062700canada-journal.html carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
