Activitystory: » art http://activitystory.com/blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:21:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dear Whoever Wrote that Hokum about Art http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/06/04/dear-whoever-wrote-that-hokum-about-art/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2010/06/04/dear-whoever-wrote-that-hokum-about-art/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:09:31 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=705 A nice response to the “Art or Hokum?” editorial that ran in the Post-Standard on the eve of Yoko Ono’s initial show at the Everson. The tone of the Post Standard piece is hilarious– the frequency of “mockingly verbatim” quotes from the museum reeks of the hackery that is now only (well, mostly) evidenced in user comments posted to the Post-Standard on stories dealing with politics or race.

Lennon, from the Hotel Syracuse.

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YouTube – My Generation live in Lyon, Feb 15 2007.

In late 2006, I sold my Mexican Fender Starburst Jazz Bass to an artist in New York. He didn’t care that I didn’t have an amp for him to test it on, and told me he needed it for an art installation in Lyon about the Who. He neglected to mention that the bass would be destroyed– he must not have known that I’d have given him a discount for that.

Incidentally, the artist, Christoph Draeger, created a series of works about disasters like plane crashes. One of his works features a plane crash that happened in the early 60s about a block from my apartment, where he bought the bass from me.

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Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

NuFormer’s 3-D Building Projections. via MeFi.

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Everytime I see CYOA as an acronym, I think of teaching i312. Man, I miss that.

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This looks like a pretty amazing installation– Lever House, at 390 Park Ave, was just a few buildings away from where I first worked in NYC (which I came to refer to as “Dark Tower”). I often sat a cross this building and just stared at it over my food-cart lunch. If I were there now, I’d have something to read.

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1975 – 1979 | The Movie title stills collection. With loglines!

]]> http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/09/10/1975-%e2%80%93-1979-the-movie-title-stills-collection/feed/ 0 We pushed the clichés to the limit http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/06/26/we-pushed-the-cliches-to-the-limit/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2009/06/26/we-pushed-the-cliches-to-the-limit/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:09:04 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=579 The two students, from the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, were handed their €5,000 cheque, which was later blocked by Paris Match.

via Student hoax wins magazine’s top prize – Europe, World – The Independent.

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dome book

Documentation of Complete Publications in PDF form.

via ManyStuff.org

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I got painted by someone I’ve never met. I think she did a great job– from this image. Details here:  SEND ME YOUR HEAD.

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I could look at these all day.

via MetaFilter.

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