Homless museum

It all started when I was trying to write about the Homeless Museum. I thought I was doing all right until I came to the word indexical, at which point Berni pointed out that the word was really old, it was like a dinosaur. Realising that she might have a point, I decided to look for another word. Talking some more about the word Index, I said "wasn't that a catalogue shop like Argos?" at which point Berni created the word “Argosical” as an alternative to the word Indexical. From here it was clear that we needed a matrix and that this needed to give birth to the speculative definition. However as Berni pointed out, the Argosical matrix had defiantly not yet been born yet, so we decided that the Pro-lifers would most certainly need to protest against this speculative definition and champion the matrix's right to non existence. Then we realised that we where being silly, so we looked for some kind of fact on the web to give the whole thing a sense of plausibility. After a quick search on google we soon found“This data-mining approach is appropriate for some scientific discovery problems, but scientific understanding often proceeds through a different method”
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very exciting news

I am 254 in the open manifesto. Check it out at www.openmanifesto.com. I am sandwiched between “Art is living tomorrows dreams today” and “Art used to be something that was considered a talent. Now you get pretentious pricks that fill carrier bags full of rubbish and consider it art. Where's the talent in that???”. cooooooooooommmmmmme on!!

No 2 should be painted blue

Came across “A heartbreaking work of staggering genius” the other day at the library. I was aware of the book which had been recommended to me by my old boss. I had even picked it up and given it a go. For some reason the book never clicked, which is strange because it is the kind of book I like. Or perhaps more precisely, its the kind of book I like now. I mean, maybe at the time I was on the cusp of liking it, In other words, I wasn't ready for it. Maybe there is a time and a place. That time and place is tempered by a chain of events. No 2 comes after No 3 or P slides into C? But this presupposes that there must be a correct order in the chain of events to trigger the osmosis or transformation of inert matter into an aesthetic phenomenon!! I don't buy that, but am curious that I found out about the Homeless Museum in the magazine the Believer which I think is an off shoot from mcsweeneys which is the magazine that Eggers edits and design's who is the author of “A Heartbreaking work of staggering genius”? Anyway I think that If you are like me, at least half interested, then check out http://www.believermag.com/issues/200612/?read=article_topol

http://www.atis.net/

It was Alvin straight who made me look at tractors in a new light all be it through the vision of Mr lynch. With an uncomprimising act and vision Mr straight transformed the tractor. As Mr D would say in his creative act "This phenomenon is comparable to a transference from the artist to the spectator in the form of an esthetic osmosis taking place through the inert matter, such as pigment, piano or marble." or of course a Tractor

Life: a users manual

Crazy book, no idea what is going on, reading it out loud in chunks, with chloe. Have been listening back on my new headphones as I walk around the place. up to chapter 5 i think, God bless the mp3 player. Recording makes me think of Llinos tapping her temple. i.e for her its recorded internally. I wonder How much of "Life: a users manual" is a recording of the external and how much is an externalizing of the internal? I think that I am more like a recorder. Is a recorder less creative? whats so good about creativity anyway? How do you record something that doesnt exist yet? In order to record, something has to be played. In order to play you have to create. When life is all play, you can feel free to hit record at any moment? Where is te value in this?

anger is angular!!!

Had a great chat with emma the other night, some how we got to talking about drawing and mark making and also meaning and the ability to judge or interprete what somebody has created. Emma explained that everybody makes or shares the same experience of feelings and that these feelings can be represented by certain marks. For example a jagged line represents anger and swirrley ones joy etc... anyway for some reason I suggested that the interpretation of this language was based not on whhaat someone was feeling but based on what our preconceptions of what certain marks mean. I suggested that If she asked me to draw what I thought anger was I would not come up with jagged lines. Thats because you know what the marks are ment to represent and are doing something different in order to be difficult!! I agreed with her but said what does it mean when somebody does not make the marks that are given as the marks for that particular feeling. I suggested that the reason that the jagged marks was suggestive of anger was based on a collective agrement to what anger was and that the jagged lines of anger in themeselves where not indicative of anger any more than swirrly or curved lines expressed calm. I suggested that the interpretation was a collective agreement based on feelings, at this point Emma said she would prove that everyone in the bar would draw jagged lines for anger, I thought that an experiement was a great idea. Its strange how some chats generate work/collaboration and envolve the public so natuarally, dont you think? So anyway Emma goes off to collect the data from around the bar, in the form of drawings, and dave starts to record it on his digital camera. A short while later, Emma is back with her findings, and sure enough all the drawings lean towards the angular to describe anger. At this point Dave and i have entered into a conversation with two blokes on the next table. One of the two, an Irishman asks to see my rendition of Anger. Looking at my handiwork he proclaims loudly that that is not Anger, he asks "that is what you think of when you are Angry? I wouldnt want you around in a fight!!!.

don't worry be happy!!

OK so I was thinking about what Dave had written on his blog, about the book 'Independents day', you see, he had written down a passage from the book which, If I remember rightly had ended with an image of a neon sign, a sign that simply read “NO”. Now Dave was some how struck with this sign in relation to his work. It jumped up at him as it where, and like all good work, Dave's thoughts on the subject had made me stop look and listen. So there I was the other night, just about to go out, when suddenly, I started thinking about the neon “No” sign again. It must have popped into my head just as I had picked up Chloe's copy of “They Called Her Styrene” by Ed Ruscha. I flicked through the pages. Looking at the pictures printed on the page, one after the other, I was struck with the relentlessness of it all, I mean, I had no idea what it was all about or how Ruscha had come to arrive at drawing and painting words, but for some reason, I was interested. I mean, they had something, what that something was I was not sure of yet, but it had hooked me and I wanted to think and write about it. So I turned to Chloe and told her that I was going to take the book with us around to Becca and Chris's, you see we had been invited to go around there for a drink, so anyway Chloe immediately says “no”, and I am like, “but I am an artist (said for effect!!) and I need to work, this is work, you are stopping an artist from working!! To which Chloe replied “you are not taking that book around to Becca and Chris's it would be rude”, “But they won't mind” I said “and even if they did, screw it, that's what its all about isn't it? Strike while the Iron is hot and all that? Never mind being rude, Its about making the work, no matter what, and I can't believe that you would be happy that my work was being stopped or that you would want to stop it” to which she repeated “It would be rude to take that book around to Becca and Chris's, and yes I am quite happy about it” At this point I was like “I see, that's Interesting” you see I had suddenly caught sight of another thought, I mean another idea had sprung into my head and I was like “A-HA!! you have just given me an idea” and Chloe said “see I inspire you to work!!”

this is your project

o.k so we were going to make a post, in the watershed, i was banging these metal keys with all my heart...
what is a post?
excuse me what is a post?
I dont know i am sorry
thats o.k
you know what a post is?
well........
o.k so a post is a note on my blog
i seeeeeeeeeeeeee
right so we were trying to get somewhere.......
pardon?
what where we trying to do?...
were!!!! what where?...
not where, were!!
anyway i am going out for a cigarette..
who was that?
who was it......
right, o.k we really must get on with this, erm wow you are right what if there was somebody or something that could type as fast as everyone...
i am sure there is, they don't type with one finger
i use two fingers to type!!!
do you, you use more than two fingers,
this is boring now, no one wants to read this shit!!!!!
you would be suprised......
really?
stop it!!!!!!
o.k its no ones fault we must really finish this post
are we having an argument?
what do i say?
don't you want to write down whats on that piece of paper?
yes yes yes thats how should end this post, with the very thing that started it in the first place
go for it........

it is the third party that demands the spliting of the singular into a duality. This is an economic function.
yeah?
you might want to put a capitol,
al, capital I,
I lad, thats it!!

llinos ollie wahnei steff untitled person