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Well, I guess I am finished with the timepiece project. I'm not so good with keeping to a fixed schedule. I missed a couple of days, and I discontinued the project while I was in Chicago the past couple of days. Now I need to have two rolls of film developed. What happens then? Do I send them somewhere? Should I hide them somewhere and let everyone find them? Or mail one photo to everybody on the list? I saw a screening of Tarkowsky's "The Sacrafice." In it, a line that is of particular interest to us (and I paraphrase here): "If only a person would perform the same task at the same time every day, the world would be changed." While in Chicago, I visited the Contempoary Museum of Art where I went through an exhibit of works by Tom Friedman. Wow. I won't go into great detail (maybe later, if anyone is interested), but I was amazed by some (many?) of his works, some of which seemed to be pure Fluxus anti-art. One piece was called "Curse" and it was an eleven-inch sphere of air on top a pedestal that was cursed by a witch. Another piece, displayed on the floor in a glass case, was a piece of paper about 3 foot square in which (as stated on the title plaque) every word of the English language was written. There was also a huge exhibit of works by Sol LeWitt, a name I've often read of, but I have never really seen much of his work. Now I have seen a lot of his work. Huge works involving geometric shapes and lines that would fill up an entire wall. His works played with an architectual precision of pure form and shape. I am glad my first exposure to his work was of so much stuff that would have been missing something if I had flipped through a book on him (there were also about 2 dozen books of his work on display under glass). Other things in Chicago: Harold's Chicken! Fred Anderson! Kevin Drumm! Edith Frost! A protest march for afforible housing with 5 effigies! Seeing the hatching egg sculpture in Hyde Park again (I used to walk by it everyday on my way to classes: It is called "Bird of Peace" or something, but it will always be the hatching egg sculpture to me)! Being awarded "Dog of the Day" by a homie on the El for lending him my pen (I wore this honor like a badge)! Searching for a copy of Charlie Christian's "Live at Carnigie Hall" and not finding it at 4 record stores! Looking for a copy of Nancy Cunard's biography at 4 bookstores and not finding it! Seeing how much my old neighborhood has changed in 7 years! Listening to my cousin tell stories of my grandfather (who died when I was 4 or 5) who owned a fish store in Brooklyn NY! Having a friend borrow a rare Romanian LP by Iancu Dumitrescu that I was able to tape a copy! Oh well. I'm back in Texas now. -Josh Ronsen http://www.nd.org/jronsen --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.
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hi patricia, i sent yesterday's post from a high school down the road that has a fabulous computer lab (macintoch) and is run by an old friend of mine, tom. well tom has been helping me with my scanning and sending since our first fluxlist i-zone project way back in december i think. now this is always a fun time as there are some very bright teenagers who are always hanging out there as tom is something of a pied piper. now this is a busy place so i try not to be too troublesome. sothe i-zones and other things copied and sent don't have all the placement and design that one might wish for. in the timepiece my image on the screen is too large. when i sent i-zones to sol he very brilliantly made them a proper size and also left the larger image which i like very much. how all this is done is most mysterious to me as my computer knowledge is very limited, even after watching it done at the school with tom. so this is a long winded explaination of what's going on with my timepiece and i hope it is possible for you to adjust the image the way sol does. if not i will return to the school and ask tom to fix it. the young people at the lab were very interested in what we are doing. so that was fun because they really liked the idea. TTYL, carol :) On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Carol Starr wrote: > http://laplaza.org/~datastar/TIMEPIECE.html > > hi patricia, > here is my timepiece at last. > bests,c :) > > carol starr > taos, new mexico, usa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
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> Patricia Harris wrote: > >One image, same thing, or words or painting or drawing or >whatever at the same time every day from the 10th of July ' til >the 31st - I started this on Saturday! A photo out of my front porch in the morning. I have three pictures! I started early b/c I will be leaving for Chicago at the end of the month... Routine, I'm awful at routine. We will see how often I will be able to keep this up. My wife has this awful auto-focus, auto-flash camera. My first morning to take a photo, there was a squirrel running across a telephone line that was in the shot! Of course, the awful camera wouldn't take a picture just then b/c of the auto-flash, which cannot be turned off. Oh well, maybe I will be able to catch another squirrel later in the month. I've always been fascinated by photo-a-day (or month) projects. I have always wished that I started a project like this 20 years ago, or was the subject of such a project. Anyways, now I am finally doing one! -Josh Ronsen http://www.nd.org/jronsen
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Hi Josh, Welcome back!!! > What happens then? Do I send them somewhere? Should I hide them somewhere and let >everyone find them? Or mail one photo to everybody on the list? Not a bad idea, hmight be interesting for me to gather them and mail 1 day of each persons life as a group to each of those on the list...h. Or I might do online animations, still not sure. Anyway, I shall do an *official post* with instrux and info on where to mail. I must confess that my original inspiration of photographing a tube of "Rembrandt" (art, see, get it) toothpaste each day to portray the entropy of my month was immediately thwarted when the toothpaste tube refused to collapse. This resulted in several days of frustration and an ensuing half hour or more at Long's Drug Store, ripping open toothpaste boxes surreptitiously trying to find a tube that actually would show wearall of the good titles like "anti-aging toothpaste" etc. were noncollapsible ones. (There is, I am sure, a stocking clerk at Long's that wonders what exactly transpired). Finally, I found several cast out tubes of "Gleem" on the bottom shelves. Since I had to venture to Ventura that weekend, I shot approximately 5 shots on one morning with help from a friend who was "dressing up" the shooting with toothpaste drips, etc. Ah, now I've confessed. I feel much better now. > There was also a huge exhibit of works by Sol LeWitt, a name I've often read of, but >I have never really seen much of his work. Now I have seen a lot of his work. Huge >works involving geometric shapes and lines that would fill up an entire wall. His >works played with an architectual precision of pure form and shape. I am glad my >first exposure to his work was of so much stuff that would have been missing >something if I had flipped through a book on him (there were also about 2 dozen books >of his work on display under glass). LeWitt was the major show at SFMOMA a couple of months back. After checking out some of the 3 story wall paintings, I asked one of the guards how long it took his crew to paint them. He said, "Too long, too long." > > > Other things in Chicago: Harold's Chicken! Fred Anderson! Kevin Drumm! Edith Frost! >A protest march for afforible housing with 5 effigies! Seeing the hatching egg >sculpture in Hyde Park again (I used to walk by it everyday on my way to classes: It >is called "Bird of Peace" or something, but it will always be the hatching egg >sculpture to me)! Being awarded "Dog of the Day" by a homie on the El for lending him >my pen (I wore this honor like a badge)! Searching for a copy of Charlie Christian's >"Live at Carnigie Hall" and not finding it at 4 record stores! Looking for a copy of >Nancy Cunard's biography at 4 bookstores and not finding it! Seeing how much my old >neighborhood has changed in 7 years! Listening to my cousin tell stories of my >grandfather (who died when I was 4 or 5) who owned a fish store in Brooklyn NY! >Having a friend borrow a rare Romanian LP by Iancu Dumitrescu that I was able to tape >a copy! The above much better than museums, yes? I like the egg sculpture, all round and friendly and understanding. Bests, Your pard in art, PK
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Carol: Absolutely wonderful!! Yes I can adjust the images, but probably not the way Sol does, he's way beyond me in computer skills. Again, your work is super. Best, PK Carol Starr wrote: > hi patricia, > i sent yesterday's post from a high school down the road that has a > fabulous computer lab (macintoch) and is run by an old friend of mine, > tom. well tom has been helping me with my scanning and sending since our > first fluxlist i-zone project way back in december i think. > now this is always a fun time as there are some very bright teenagers who > are always hanging out there as tom is something of a pied piper. now this > is a busy place so i try not to be too troublesome. sothe i-zones and > other things copied and sent don't have all the placement and design that > one might wish for. in the timepiece my image on the screen is too large. > when i sent i-zones to sol he very brilliantly made them a proper size and > also left the larger image which i like very much. how all this is done is > most mysterious to me as my computer knowledge is very limited, even after > watching it done at the school with tom. > so this is a long winded explaination of what's going on with my timepiece > and i hope it is possible for you to adjust the image the way sol does. if > not i will return to the school and ask tom to fix it. > the young people at the lab were very interested in what we are doing. so > that was fun because they really liked the idea. > TTYL, carol :) > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Carol Starr wrote: > > > http://laplaza.org/~datastar/TIMEPIECE.html > > > > hi patricia, > > here is my timepiece at last. > > bests,c :) > > > > carol starr > > taos, new mexico, usa > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >
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I'm not at all good at routine, eitherso I kind of like this discipline orientation just to see how I do...thought about doing my dishrack as a method to get self to do dishes, but then, what if the dishrack never changed? I'm not using a fancy camera, just the izone. Maybe we should call this 1/3 of 9 1/2 weeks. Btw, I got your story and enjoyed it. I am altering it today - who do I send it to, was it Alex Cook? If so, Alex, what is your address? Do we keep documentation on this? Does it go back to you, Josh, at the end? Best, PK "Ronsen, Josh" wrote: > > Patricia Harris wrote: > > > >One image, same thing, or words or painting or drawing or > >whatever at the same time every day from the 10th of July ' til > >the 31st - > > I started this on Saturday! A photo out of my front porch in the morning. I > have three pictures! I started early b/c I will be leaving for Chicago at > the end of the month... > > Routine, I'm awful at routine. We will see how often I will be able to keep > this up. My wife has this awful auto-focus, auto-flash camera. My first > morning to take a photo, there was a squirrel running across a telephone > line that was in the shot! Of course, the awful camera wouldn't take a > picture just then b/c of the auto-flash, which cannot be turned off. > > Oh well, maybe I will be able to catch another squirrel later in the month. > > I've always been fascinated by photo-a-day (or month) projects. I have > always wished that I started a project like this 20 years ago, or was the > subject of such a project. Anyways, now I am finally doing one! > > -Josh Ronsen > http://www.nd.org/jronsen
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If it is me, my address is Alex V. Cook 318 W 7th St #509 Kansas City, MO 64105 actually, that's my address even if it isn't me -Alex, possibly not me >Btw, I got your story and enjoyed it. I am altering it today - who do I >send >it to, was it Alex Cook? If so, Alex, what is your address? Do we keep >documentation on this? Does it go back to you, Josh, at the end? > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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routine: re out in or : re in out out in re in out re in re out out re in the elements are the same; what is new is the order of their arrangement --Pascal --dbchirot
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IT IS NOT ALEX IT IS ME, ME, ME, ME! Devon Paulson 2021 S. Alameda St. Ste. 5 Los Angeles, CA 90058 I get it next then I send it to who ever wants it. > >actually, that's my address even if it isn't me >-Alex, possibly not me > > >>Btw, I got your story and enjoyed it. I am altering it today - who do I >>send >>it to, was it Alex Cook? If so, Alex, what is your address? Do we keep >>documentation on this? Does it go back to you, Josh, at the end? >> > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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Ooops, of course it's you, it's just that Alex sounds so much like Devon, Robert sounds like Josh, Guess it depends on your accent. Okay, I'll send it to you tomorrow after I alter it tonight (which I hate to do, because it's a steamy treat, mind you). Then you can send it to Alex, 'kay? shhh. Everything is all better now. Best, PK Devon Paulson wrote: > IT IS NOT ALEX IT IS ME, ME, ME, ME! > > Devon Paulson > 2021 S. Alameda St. Ste. 5 > Los Angeles, CA 90058 > > I get it next then I send it to who ever wants it. > > > > >actually, that's my address even if it isn't me > >-Alex, possibly not me > > > > > >>Btw, I got your story and enjoyed it. I am altering it today - who do I > >>send > >>it to, was it Alex Cook? If so, Alex, what is your address? Do we keep > >>documentation on this? Does it go back to you, Josh, at the end? > >> > > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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Alright, I'm feeling much better now. All calm and soothed. thanks disco >Alex sounds so much like Devon, >Robert sounds like Josh, >Guess it depends on your accent. > >Okay, I'll send it to you tomorrow after I alter it tonight (which I hate >to >do, because it's a steamy treat, mind you). Then you can send it to Alex, >'kay? shhh. Everything is all better now. > >Best, >PK > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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It's in the mail to you already, all colored up and altered and such. Lady Chamomile Devon Paulson wrote: > Alright, I'm feeling much better now. All calm and soothed. > thanks > disco > > >Alex sounds so much like Devon, > >Robert sounds like Josh, > >Guess it depends on your accent. > > > >Okay, I'll send it to you tomorrow after I alter it tonight (which I hate > >to > >do, because it's a steamy treat, mind you). Then you can send it to Alex, > >'kay? shhh. Everything is all better now. > > > >Best, > >PK > > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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> >It's in the mail to you already, all colored up and altered and such. > >Lady Chamomile Thanx, disco Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
