Re: FLUXLIST: Art and Economies

2000-05-17 Thread Terrence J Kosick
Terrence writes; It's a game of time. Time is money and it takes time to make art. Independence is bought with obscurity. Face it many artist's are made popular by those who's interests are in trade. Some artits are good at making themselves popular and available to those interests. Others trade

Re: FLUXLIST: exclusive fluxlist izone defrost

2000-05-17 Thread Sol Nte
Hi Brad, * Exclusive Fluxlist Screening * Watch my freezer defrost! http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/defrost.mpeg Great stuff...if you want to make another movie (Defrost II) I've got the props you need ;-) cheers, Sol.

Re: FLUXLIST: Art and Economies

2000-05-17 Thread narvis ...pez
At 09:54 pm -0700 16/5/00, Patricia wrote: So, sometimes I DO need to buy materials. Best, PK sometimes i agree with buy materials too regards ...pez

FLUXLIST: FLUXSTAMP Project

2000-05-17 Thread Patricia
Hi All, I (think) all the fluxstamps are up on the slightly pokey geocities website, in no particular order. By the end of the month I will have them placed, gridded, printed and perforated. http://www.geocities.com/pk_harris/ I've copied this email to some of the many artists and artfans

Re: FLUXLIST: exclusive fluxlist izone defrost

2000-05-17 Thread Patricia
Brad, Very cool!!! I loved this, especially watching it download (65% defrost completed). If you travel and this is a series, mine would be a real "blockbuster." *grin* May I suggest a movie using the Sol Nte knife technique? I plan on doing this myself...wellsoon. Best, PK Sol Nte

Re: FLUXLIST: Art and Economies

2000-05-17 Thread Terrence J Kosick
Terrence writes; Being resourceful is part of the fun. I did a series of large paintings using iron grindings from a nearby brake shop. I used some pickling vinegar to produce a precipitate of iron which imparted rich brown orange hues to the canvas. I used acrylic washes afterwards and later

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread BestPoet
In a message dated 05/17/2000 12:43:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps they were precocious city kids, these particular kids, or maybe as I fear and as the look attested to, they were normal, basic kids with a high level of cynicism and an abnormally low level

FLUXLIST: Fridge Day

2000-05-17 Thread Patricia
According to my inbox, today is Fluxus Fridge Day. Eschew trepidation!!! Watch the video, open that door and do something significant And let everybody know. Exclamation point. Your pard in frost, Prrtisha Patricia wrote: Brad, Very cool!!! I loved this, especially watching it

FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Alex Cook
With all the strong opinions being bandied about artist profits and so forth, is there anyone here who doesn't buy used CD's, especially ones that are labeled as promo cd's not for sale. I had never really thought about it before until I picked up a used Vic Chesnutt CD yesterday, trading in

FLUXLIST: Forbidden Imagination

2000-05-17 Thread Rod Stasick
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Re: FLUXLIST: Spite

2000-05-17 Thread BestPoet
Personally, I believe some of the best art gets done in spite of circumstances, not necessarily because of circumstances. And I think that it's often more interesting to see art that had to claw it's way into existence, instead of art that was coddled and nursed by nannies. It always sounds

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread ddyment
good point alex. columbia house and other record clubs are another addition. the reason they can sell cheaply to you is that the artist receives no royalty whatsoever. (that and selling your address to other companies). yours, dave ps. just saw vic c last night with kristin h. great show. does

Re: FLUXLIST: FLUXSTAMP Project

2000-05-17 Thread allen bukoff
Cool project, Patricia. Thanks for doing this. Correction: the FLUXUS WORKER image is from eryk salvaggio and not allen bukoff Hi All, I (think) all the fluxstamps are up on the slightly pokey geocities website, in no particular order. By the end of the month I will have them placed,

FLUXLIST: [Fwd: autoparts launch]

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Paul
See below. IDEA's "before" show in our new building - due to open as art-media-IT incubator workspace, Spring 2000. There is also a performance - Autoconversion : "A family car transformed into a series of audio CDs by power tools. A durational performance. Spencer HW Marsden with Municipal

Re: FLUXLIST: Vic Chesnutt and the vast music industry shadow govt conspiracy

2000-05-17 Thread Alex Cook
ps. just saw vic c last night with kristin h. great show. does your radio promo have bonus tracks? I bet that was a good show. The CD I picked up is "About to Choke" and it has the same track listing as what is shown on CDNow. Is "The Salesman and Bernadette" any good? Speaking of CDNow, and

Re: FLUXLIST: FLUXSTAMP Project

2000-05-17 Thread Sol Nte
Hi all, I've just asked Patricia to remove the images currently under my name in this project as when I now see them on the screen I feel that they look awful. So please disregard what's there now.Thanks. I have sent replacements. It occurs to me that many of you may in the future or already

FLUXLIST: Nixon's Hund Damenspiel

2000-05-17 Thread Rod Stasick
Well, I gave as much of a description as possible without a detail that would scramble the brain mappings at the end of the "English Version". I'm trying to find the time to do a "Dutch Version" (it'll use the same process, numbers,

Re: FLUXLIST: Art and Economies

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
it's the artist who has the satisfaction in the process and the completion. After that, the viewer can make of it anything the viewer wishes. Yeah, like illegal MP3s to be distributed behind the artists' backs via the web. Myke

FLUXLIST: ANNALEE NEWMAN, 1909-2000

2000-05-17 Thread Rod Stasick
ANNALEE NEWMAN, 1909-2000 Annalee Newman, 91, widow of Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman who established the Barnett Newman Foundation after his death, died at home in New York on May 10 = http://rostasi.8m.com http://members.aol.com/huntjerry/index.htm

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
I believe John Lennon was less an hypocrite and more a dreamer and I don't think that's all so bad. It's not bad at all to be a dreamer, however, if you go through life formulating opinions about how you think the world should be and you write globally popular hit songs based upon your

FLUXLIST: Re: [Fwd: autoparts launch]

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Paul
Sorry, should have been Spring 2001. Life's a blur. Chris Paul wrote: See below. IDEA's "before" show in our new building - due to open as art-media-IT incubator workspace, Spring 2000. -- Chris Paul - IDEA @ @ Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Don Boyd
I own two CD,s Mozart and Beethoven. -Don

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
So is there anyone here who refuses to buy used CD's? Myke? I own nearly 1,700 CDs and a great many of them were purchased used. Used CDs do not rob artists. One CD is expected to sell one time. Whatever happens to it after that is irrelevant. As for promo CDs, I have maybe 1 or 2. I don't

FLUXLIST: STAMPS!

2000-05-17 Thread Rod Stasick
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It looks loverly. I'm glad you added an amount. If it's no trouble, could it be changed to "21" (for her age) - I swear, I'll stop bugging you about this and ACTUALLY LEARN how to do it. Thanks again, ME! = http://rostasi.8m.com

Re: FLUXLIST: mp3s

2000-05-17 Thread Rafe127
The art and business of music is changing. May as well change with it... That is, eschew stasis. Check out: http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/34/32/boring.html

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread Kathy Forer
I can't recall anything about him giving up his possessions while being quick to suggest that others give up theirs for the betterment of humanity. Creating a message and an ideology are different things, which is why idealism exists -- to hoist a message high. However, years of uninspired

Re: FLUXLIST: Art and Economies

2000-05-17 Thread Patricia
Correction: I meant the subject, not the incorrigible author. : ) Me Patricia wrote: Another "in" word - intolerable: not to be endured. arghh!!! Let's give the MP3 inquest a rest!!! Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote: Yeah, like

Re: FLUXLIST: stamps

2000-05-17 Thread Roger Stevens
stamps lookngreat congrats, pats isthe numberingquiterightat the bottomof pageone? mr radio

FLUXLIST: Derek's Big Website of Wal-mart Receipts

2000-05-17 Thread Alex Cook
this seems to have a touch of fluxus to it...I love this kind of stuff -Alex Derek's Big Website of Wal-mart Receipts http://lightning.prohosting.com/~receipts/ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

Re: FLUXLIST: Art and Economies

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
I meant the subject, not the incorrigible author. : ) : ) Myke

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
Adam, you've made excellent points. I do not agree with the anarchist statement that "property is theft." Wouldn't theft under anarchic conditions be OK anyway? Myke

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread Kathy Forer
Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote: All well and good, however, I've imagined a world with XYZ and it appeared to me to be quite void of purpose and motivation. But did you write a song which inspired millions?

FLUXLIST: the last of the bombastic, egocentric Imagine posts (hopefully)

2000-05-17 Thread ddyment
yer majesty, if you're troubled about djs and radio stations being so immoral, then don't buy disks at used stores. sounds a little like the term you use to describe lennon; H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.T.E. yours, dd ps. lennon often changed the lyric of Imagine to "i wonder if WE can" when performing the

Re: FLUXLIST: exclusive fluxlist izone defrost

2000-05-17 Thread { brad brace }
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Sol Nte wrote: * Exclusive Fluxlist Screening * Watch my freezer defrost! http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/defrost.mpeg Great stuff...if you want to make another movie (Defrost II) I've got the props you need ;-) Sounds like I might need a long soundtrack for

FLUXLIST: the creative act

2000-05-17 Thread narvis ...pez
"the creative act. "let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity. "to all appearances, the artists acts like a mediumnistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time ans

Re: FLUXLIST: exclusive fluxlist izone defrost

2000-05-17 Thread { brad brace }
It could be a global-warming flux-exhibit! Perhaps all you good Flux-listers might contribute pictures of your own defrosting refrigerator (if only in the interests of ecology); to be compiled into one 'blockbuster' movie. Any format - I'll melt 'em all down! (I've got 40 Mb to burn on this new

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread { brad brace }
I used to get free promo CDs at work. Well, it still happens a little... It was delightful: the CDs that no one else reviewed, wanted, or even listened-to-once appeared in the company 'free-bin.' Inevitably they were "just what I wanted:" usually avant-jazz/experimental. I have a great

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread { brad brace }
I'd __**- * really like to hear Myke's Ymponies now! How 'bout it? :) A little taste? Imagine. /:b

Re: FLUXLIST: Imagine

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
But did you write a song which inspired millions? I wrote an imaginary song which inspired imaginary millions, so... Yes!! Myke