Re: FLUXLIST: How to find Time

2000-08-23 Thread ann klefstad
> Sol Nte wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I know many of you work full-time at a job other than as an artist and yet > > still find the time to work to a significant degree as artists. Often for > > those of us interested in the avant-garde making a living from our artistic > > interests is not an

FLUXLIST: Fwd: Your Time Saver Newsletter: Issue 1

2000-08-23 Thread Kathy Forer
--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:19:29 -0800 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] () Subject: Your Time Saver Newsletter: Issue 1 ===Time=Money ~~~THE TIMESAVER NEWSLETTER ~~~ Your Bi-Monthly Time Manage

Re: FLUXLIST: How to find Time

2000-08-23 Thread Carol Star
hi devon, congratulations on going to calarts,definitely the school of choice today. am i on thelist for your mailing? i don't remember if i sent my address. and i think patricia has a good idea, we could send stamps or money for your project. and what clock??? bye, c :) Patricia wrote: > > D

FLUXLIST: Art School

2000-08-23 Thread Eryk Salvaggio
The Best Advice for American Art Students: Get the hell out of art school, as fast as you can. Art Majors making art is like Poli Sci Majors getting elected. Find something you love that can influence your art- thats why I am going to school for psychology/comparative religion with a minor in m

FLUXLIST: Time and lost time

2000-08-23 Thread Sol Nte
Hi all, Well, it seems I'm not getting a few Fluxlist posts as I've just read the many useful reply to my question at our archive. In case there is a list tech problem could others please visit the archive over the next couple of days to check that they're getting all the posts appearing there..

FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread Reed Altemus
AK Professionalism is an anathema. Wearing the trappings of an artist is an anathema. Fluxus Art Amusement is 100% amusement exactly half of the time. The most interesting history of Fluxus is the history which starts with Maciunas and Flynt and ends with mail art, which is an avocation. The most

FLUXLIST: thoughts to ponder when experiencing 'down time' at work

2000-08-23 Thread aliceklar
eric a loves to play with anything and everything that anyone would say. oh woe is me another one from e should i delete and miss another to be dissed or read and sigh another negative vibe koo koo kee chew __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread meryl
My, my, my, my, my, my, oh my, but I quite agree. I am an x-art student and can say with some authority, art students are useless (with some exceptions-Devon). I was a lousy student (mostly due to my excessive alcohol and chemical intake that made actually attending classes quite a bother). My pr

Re: FLUXLIST: Art School

2000-08-23 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
The great Jazz musician Ornette Coleman said: artists don't need to go to art school, they need to go to business school dbc (sadly, i did not follow his advice)

Re: FLUXLIST: Art School

2000-08-23 Thread Reed Altemus
Nor I to my great detriment earlier in life. RA David Baptiste Chirot wrote: > The great Jazz musician Ornette Coleman said: artists don't > need to go to art school, they need to go to business school > > dbc > > (sadly, i did not follow his advice)

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread Reed Altemus
Badgergirl Yes, I guess I flamed a bit there. I probably won't leave the list since I've been on it for three years and to hear validating input from you was just OK. The combination of Ken leaving the list due to harrassment from Eric Anderson and his coterie and the various academic/profession

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread Eryk Salvaggio
Art students have some hope, they're just misdirected idealists. They'll succeed when they quit being art students and just realize they were never better artists than they were when they were five and did the stuff that seemed to make sense in a weird way. Like my first fluxus artifact, age 1

Re: FLUXLIST: How to find Time

2000-08-23 Thread R.Mutt
At 09:14 p.m. 22/08/00 -0700, you wrote: hi fellows ! what i prefer ... dayjob in the afternoon-evening (if you don't have another alternative), *art-making* in the night and late night 'til 5a.m. or 7a.m. or ... , sleeping in the morning, letting the ph

FLUXLIST: Calling PK Harris

2000-08-23 Thread allen bukoff
Patricia, I'm sitting on a T-1 line at a Kinko's at 799 Lighthouse in Monterey...that should be almost ground zero for where you are. Run down here and visit me. I should be here until 4 or 5 pm your time. Allen

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread Reed Altemus
Eryk I recently recounted the first occurance of a mail art nature in my life. I was in fifth grade at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. My teacher's name was Mrs. Lively. One day after a party I launched a helium balloon from the window of a second story room with a note asking whoev

Re: FLUXLIST: Art School

2000-08-23 Thread Carol Star
and sadly neither did i. carol :) David Baptiste Chirot wrote: > > The great Jazz musician Ornette Coleman said: artists don't > need to go to art school, they need to go to business school > > dbc > > (sadly, i did not follow his advice)

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread meryl
Reed (and anyone else) Was that flaming? Nah, I don't think so. It was justifiable venting. Very healthy really, good way to avoid ulcers and other nasty aesthetic blocks. You're right though, people (Americans in particular)are taught very early on that pleasure is "bad" and that self indulge

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread Reed Altemus
meryl wrote: > You're right though, people (Americans in particular)are taught very early > on that pleasure is "bad" and that self indulgence is always a sign of > weakness. All the flux artists I know of (particularly those most active in > the 50s and 60s) seemed to understand this or faked

Re: FLUXLIST: Art School

2000-08-23 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
happily, though, i did not go to art school "I told my dad I stopped raising Cain and he called me a quitter" pearl of wisdom on a Matchbook (of Proverbs), courtesy Winston Racing Team I do not seek, I find--Picasso "I'm R

Re: FLUXLIST: Professionalism

2000-08-23 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
Actually I think Americans think of hedonism as a sign of strength: look at Our Leader, good ol' Bill-- Do What Thou Wilt--sounds great in theory, but in practise can prove to put it at its most absolutely milquetoast mildest--"a bummer, man" Back in the good o

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: havanna

2000-08-23 Thread Carol Star
hi david, i am so glad that you are going to be there, hope you will tell all about it. are you going to mexico first? senseless that the usa still has an imbargo on cuba. bye, carol :) David Baptiste Chirot wrote: > > hullo carol-- > > Oh I am glad you mailed your mask--am Clemente's a

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: fluxpunk

2000-08-23 Thread Devon Paulson
OH, I get it. Joke's on me. disco >From: Terrence Kosick Terrencce writes; > >i was being a 'flux punk' get it? > >arf arf > >T. > >Devon Paulson wrote: > > > Steady, man! > > > > disco > > > > >From: Terrence Kosick > > > > > >Terrence writes; > > > > > >i hate fluxlist! you know nothing of me!

Re: FLUXLIST: How to find Time

2000-08-23 Thread Devon Paulson
The clock that I used in my Timepiece photos. I photoed a clock everyday at 5:17 pm where ever I was. I actually have a book of stamps, so that's not the problem. But you kids are sweet, thanx. I scrapped enough money together to make five so I'll send those out tommarrow. By the weekend I shou

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: havanna

2000-08-23 Thread jaymarvin1
I don't mean to jump in, but I've been to Cuba, and it's great! You'll love it. The people are cool. The art is great! Jay Marvin WLS Radio Chicago http://www.punkblood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi david, > i am so glad that you are going to be there, hope you will tell all about it. >

Re: FLUXLIST: Calling PK Harris

2000-08-23 Thread Patricia
I visited with Allen Bukoff, well, just *ran* down there as it were, and, now I have a severe identity problem, as does he..h, perhaps if we had signs.. http://www.geocities.com/pk_harris/NotAllenBukoff.html I am not Allen Bukoff, I am not Allen Bukoff, I am not z

FLUXLIST: Fluxus, Dada, Art Sale and More!!!

2000-08-23 Thread Patricia
Saturday, August 26, 2000 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Modern Realism Gallery & Archives 263 8th Avenue, between California and Clemente Streets San Francisco, California 415/831-5345 (Modern Realism Gallery has been listed annually in Art in America's Guide to Museums and Galleries since 1982. The Jo

Re: FLUXLIST: Art School

2000-08-23 Thread Patricia
Okay, I confess, I went to business school before I went to art school. However, there are ways, to go to "art school" and there are ways. Going to a.s. bought me 8 years of time to use the facilities; the kilns, the huge printing presses, the acid baths, the darkrooms, the computers, the materia

Re: FLUXLIST: How to find Time

2000-08-23 Thread Patricia
Oh, post your address and be done with it. I have some free stamps. Use the extra bucks to take your girlfriend out to dinner. Make it a fluxus meal and let us know the menu, huh? Contrary to previous posts, you are not going to your grave, you are going to art school and you are bright, and

FLUXLIST: Vegan Fluxus Events for RA

2000-08-23 Thread Eryk Salvaggio
VEGAN VAUDEVILLE (FOR REED ALTEMUS) 1. Abandon animal products. 2. Lose half of your weight. 3. Lose half of your remaining weight. 4. Continue wearing the same sized pants. - FLUXUS FOR VEGANISM 1. Perform any given fluxus piece. 2. Replace all nouns with "Tofu" or "Soy."