Find out what the name of the mayor of Joplin, Missouri in 1980 was, and
give it that person's surname as a name (this assumes that Joplin had a
mayor in 1980. Maybe it didn't.)
Alternately, you could look for the first name of a McDonalds manager in
Everett, Washington, assuming there's a McDona
{brad brace} writes:
> I'm not a 'photographer' *shudder*
Perhaps that should have been "I'm not a 'photographer' *shutter*"
Adam
> Ken Friedman wrote:
> >Time Travel Piece #1 is essentially
> >a piece that Alan Sonfist did in New York.
Hmm, my intention was that it would be good if someone tried this in the
middle of an art museum or gallery, and only did it for a temporary period
of time. The fun thing would also be makin
Time Travel Piece #1
by Adam Villani, 2000
Designate a 10' by 10' square plot of urbanized land and return it to the
state it was in before humans settled the area. The time travel area should
extend down from the surface into bedrock, and up into the sky. Any changes
in elevation should be corre
> 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
> ps 2: sorry, duchamp again but i wonder if the first piece-piss-art in
> history is his "fountain" (new york, 1917)
I seem to remember that there's some brand of beer from Belgium with a
picture of a little boy peeing on its label. Apparently this is a famous
fountain in the town where the beer
> a piss artist is also someone who isn't very good at doing
> what he does on
> account
> of his/her heavy drinking
>
> as in "pissed" = drunk (in UK)
>
> see also piss elegant meaning naff or pretentious
>
> and piss poor
Sol asked if these constructions were used in other countries. I'm a
> Manzoni, I think, perhaps Piero Manzoni? I found a website
> of the cans
> that included some discussion on the difficulties such
> artwork poses for
> the museum curator. But Manzoni's a conceptual artist, so who knows?
> Maybe the cans are filled with conceptual waste. But I
> believe th
> Though MOMA
> probably won't
> let the Viennese Actionists in. I missed mo***mento's
> post--perhaps it
> was a asciionist event. --rosalie
Don't know about MOMA, but the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) here in
L.A. included some vivid leftovers of the Viennese Actionists' cow-hacking
in
Eryk Salvaggio says:
> Maybe not. Maybe its 138 again.
??? Not sure of this reference, although it could be an oblique reference to
David Hockney's "Pearblossom Highway," which it California State Highway
138.
Adam
> hi adam, thanks a lot. will you allow me to use these 3 items
> referring your name, in my future radio play carnival of
> beliefs. is LL in
> villani, btw, pronounced like spanish LL or normal, english double L?
Sure. Be also sure to credit my friend Mike Benedetti; we came up with thes
> There are some small pieces inspired by Catholicism I think
My friend Mike and I liked coming up with odd Lenten sacrifices. One was
"Wear a suit and tie every day" (we were students and ordinarily wore shorts
and t-shirts). Another was "No direct physical contact with other humans."
Another w
Heiko R. said:
> > > > among others, Einstuerzende Neubauten's F.M. Einheit.
> > > >
> > > any released work with fmeinheit?
> >
> > Yeah, I know they had a disc together called "Merry
> Christmas." Lots of
>
> Btw, they are back on stage, without fm, who left the bauten
> some years ago.
Umm I understand Newton's case, but the Beastie Boys song is 8 years
old... what took him so long?
> On May 9, 2000, award winning jazz and classical flutist and composer,
> James Newton filed suit in U.S. District Court, Central District of
> California, alleging copyright infringement by th
> > Peter Brotzmann's son Caspar has worked with,
> > among others, Einstuerzende Neubauten's F.M. Einheit.
> >
> any released work with fmeinheit?
Yeah, I know they had a disc together called "Merry Christmas." Lots of
distortion and metal and that sort of thing. They performed together a
> Adam, you've made excellent points.
Thanks.
> > I do not agree with the anarchist statement that "property
> is theft."
>
> Wouldn't theft under anarchic conditions be OK anyway?
The idea there is that theft would be meaningless, because there would be no
owners to steal from.
Adam
> Promos by the dozens would come during the week.
This still accomplishes some promotional effect. I can think of several
promo CDs I've bought out of used bins that have then led to my purchase of
new CDs later by the same artist. Considering that the marginal cost of
manufacturing a single CD
Lord Hasenpfeffer said:
> All well and good, however, I've imagined a world with no
> possessions and no
> God and it appeared to me to be quite void of purpose and motivation.
I agree. I (something of a socialist, though not Marxist) had a discussion
with an anarchist friend of mine a while bac
Newsweek had a cover story a couple weeks ago that actually showed a
surprising amount of activism, optimism, and general well-adjustedness
amongst most U.S. teens. My little sister has a 19-year-old friend who just
became a father voluntarily --- in December he became engaged to a girl who
had be
MykeC:
> < known in the
> history of mankind.
So in capitalism, lots of people get rich, but there are some people who end
up destitute. Under communism, everybody ends up kind of uniformly
miserable, but at least nobody's homeless.
I think capitalism does a lot of good (it's why I have a job),
> At 11:31 am +0100 1/5/00, Roger Stevens wrote:
> >Here Comes The Sun
And Lou Reed says, "Who Loves the Sun?"
> ps: bass. alyrio lima
(Chilean Sea) Bass: Patagonian Toothfish.
Adam
> person I should have mentioned is that Robbie Williams is
> from Burslem (one
> of the towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent), apparently he's
> now quite famous
> in other countries (USA etc.) but I don't know how true that
> is..it just
> says that in the papers.
Yes, "Millennium" was a hit in
One opinion:
Cypress, CA
9:38 A.M.
Comfortable, cool, and in the mid-60s.
Overcast, even light, no wind.
A second opinion:
Mostly Cloudy
Temp: 63°F
Wind: 6 mph
Dewpoint: 57°F
Rel. Humidity: 81%
Visibility: 4 miles
Barometer: 29.96 inches
Sunrise: 6:06 am
Sunset: 7:33 pm
Adam
Patricia:
> Well, I live in Pacific Grove and we've got, well, a lot of
> butterflies...so
> take that!!!
I'm from Long Beach, where we have a giant ocean liner
(http://www.trainholidays.com/pages/queenmry.htm), a giant blue pyramid
(http://www.longbeachstate.com/local/facilities/pyramid.html),
> >so I received the reply
> >before I saw the e-mail he was replying to
>
> Spooky, eh?
Causation is for suckers.
Adam
One of the characters in the Mortal Kombat video game is Johnny Cage. There
are certain aleatoric elements to the game.
Adam
While we're on the subject of Pop Art,
For a while around 1965-1966 or so, all of the Marvel Comics had a "Marvel
POP ART Productions" logo in the upper-left-hand corner box. I think this
was a great reversal... Pop artists were taking Marvel's bread-and-butter
and presenting it as Pop Art, so Ma
> look at it slowly and savor the contents.
> I don't dare get rid of the LPs which I too have on CD simply because
> of the artwork - however, I don't believe the artwork gives legitimacy
> to the music it wraps - unless you're talking legal legitimacy in the
> sense that an LP has big artwork and a homemade cassette copy of said
> LP does
> Music with no accompanying artwork. Hmmm...
> Didn't The Beatles attempt that once?
Christian Marclay once released the "Album Without a Cover," which came with
instructions that one was not to put it in a cover. The idea was that the
record would change over time as it accumulated dust and sc
> What did the original cover art for "Eine Kleine Knachtmusik"
> look like?
I think it was one of those Roger Dean Yes-style prog paintings of dragons
and wizards and stuff.
Even in his day, I think Mozart had a publisher. And his music wouldn't have
survived if it hadn't been written down on p
> > There's also talk about the virtual as well as real elimination of
> > the jewel box -- this new "simplicity" crossed with a
> technologically
>
> Do you want this ? Elimination of LP covers etc, THINGS, I liked them.
I agree, Heiko. My band has plenty of recordings, many of which are on
> I think most people in the UK can understand American accents
> okay. We are
> exposed
> to a wide variety of Americanese on British TV.
OK, that's what I figured.
I've read in some places that a U.S. Southern accent, or, more specifically,
one from the back woods of the Appalachian Mountains
> Of course, on the same day you can sit on the beach and see the snowy
> mountains. But it's not the same.
Hence phenomena liek KROQ's "Surf 'n' Ski Report."
Adam
> Then the whole
> thing ground to a halt when not only could I not find a
> madrone tree, but I
> didn't even know what it was.
If I remember correctly from 6th grade camp, a madrone is a local
(California) tree with distinctive red bark, part of the chaparral
vegetation. I don't think it's ve
> it was tricky making Sir Paul left-handed.
Good job there.
> 4. Drive your automobile in downtown Los Angeles...
>
> This is plainly silly because, and shoot me down in flames if
> I'm wrong, they don't have snow in L.A. And even if they do, I bet they
> don't have enough snow to warrant p
One of the cool things about the weather in Los Angeles is that snow in the
winter is a purely optional affair. It never (OK, I heard it snowed in 1935
or something) snows in the city, but the local mountains, not 30 minutes
away from some parts of the city, always get a good complement of snow in
> > also, i think the violin smashing piece is as wonderful
> > today as when originally performed.
>
> I saw this first in L'age d'or by Bunuel. Hendrix, the Who
> come to mind.
That kinda thing always peeved me off. The occasional guitar-burning by
Hendrix is all right, but Townshend smashin
> No desire to salt anyone's wounds, here,
> and Haider is an unfortunately familiar political type
> (in U$A we have many like him: the last governor of california,
> the current mayor of new york, USW), but
> "ethnic cleansing" is a Czech invention.
> If we "are" our national histories, then
>
> If anyone else on the list has ever built their own
> instruments I'd like to
> hear about it.
In my band Stale Urine I had/have the percussionist job, and mostly out of
necessity I would have to scrounge up new instruments any time the band put
on a show. Mostly this was bottles, wastebaskets
> Not as
> crowded as California.
Actually, Florida's population density is slightly higher than California's
[220.5 people/sq. mile vs. 187.5 people/sq. mile, 1990 census]. But
California's population is concentrated in several very large metropolitan
areas with a lot of basically uninhabited t
> >on at least one famous symposium with Fluxus), and his work is often
> >autodestructive ... there is in this destructiveness of the
> object, event,
> >etc. and joy connected to potlach like gift giving ...
I've long thought it might be fun to get a painting displayed somewhere on a
canvas th
> I'm more interested in trying to figure out what the
> difference is between
> "Dada" (the 1916 "art movement") and DADA (the Detroit Auto Dealers
> Association). Does anyone know?
For that matter, why was the National Association of Theatre Owners (you can
find their sticker on the window
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