Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Here is some serious IA (Installation Art):



or how about this Air Balloon?



oh, and I nearly missed this one...David Icke would love this one


WRONG GALLERY CONTROVERSY AT TATE MODERN
Leave it to the jokers at the Wrong Gallery to revive the old art-world practice of baiting the monarchy in England. The tiny novelty space, which has currently set up shop on the third floor of Tate Modern, is showcasing a painting by New York painter George Condo titled Dreams and Nightmares of the Queen. Part of a suite of nine portraits of Queen Elizabeth II (recently profiled by the New Yorker), the controversial work is a brushy rendering of the monarch as a regal Cabbage Patch doll (Condo had intended to paint Her Majesty in the nude in the style of The Rokeby Venus, but he was warned that nude portraits of the royal family were not allowed in public institutions.) While the royal family has declined to comment, Brendan Kelly of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters has spoken out, describing the Condo portrait as "embarrassingly bad" -- though Andrew James, the society's secretary, was less dismissive, according to the Sunday Times, noting, "It's unsettling, but the picture speaks to you directly."

[Pris]

Posted by ulli (here)
Here is some serious IA (Installation Art):



or how about this Air Balloon?

Yup. I'm all too familiar with this kind of garbàgé.

[eaglespirit]

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post883009

Hi Playdo..Love to You and Family : )

I gotta start calling it Cannabis Oil instead of "pure" hemp oil so as not to confuse...
from the "flowers" not the seeds as Dennis brought out fully!

Ya know..I was driving down rte. 6 here on the Cape heading to the Wampanoag Gathering last weekend and they just literally destroyed about 4 miles of beautiful "high" tree growth about 40 feet wide in the center of this major highway...
gone, decimated.

Stopped at the "main" State Police Building in Bourne at the rotary and asked if they knew what was going on, politely.

They said there was a drainage problem which was causing too many vehicle water slides...
they thought(thought, what thought?)

Felt like screaming, "There are other ways to alleviate this without destruction and death"...but only went on a quieter rock and roll nature spurt...they said we have work to do and needed to be sure to hear the radio...while sliding the counter window shut...thank you have a nice day.
You monkeys on a string

Wanna come help me burn down the local department of transportation buildings that were the leapfrog for MassDOT getting this going and the 'massive' heavy equipment and cutters out there...maybe we can hijack the equipment and take their buildings down with them.
Send me a pm if Ya wanna help : )

......
Hi Violet, Love to You and Family and Whomever Else, cats, dogs, and ducks(oh, that's Ulli : ) and such .

Dan and others are passionate about hemp/weed in other ways than mainstream people are "passionate" about it (that's what I gathered at least, you never know). How (and should we) to deal with the stigma of marginal use of weed in defending it medicinal benefits and easy accessibility for the wide public.

Cannabis Oil from the flower...the good resin stuff...can get it on our west coast
Grow it quietly and make it Yourself(Cannabis Oil from the flower) and
spread it like healing wildfire, baby...healing wildfire : )

[1inMany]

I would help, eaglespirit.

The cinder block wall was coming along nicely. I got a tube of gray goo to fill in the cracks and spaces between the blocks. The problem was that the gray goo started glowing purple. I shoved that layer of wall out away from me to make room for a new layer. And tried the goo again, gray in the tube and started to glow purple. Okay, I understand this is all in my head, but these things that happen in my head are as real as the things that happen outside my head. (I remind myself.)

I don't know what to make of that. But I did remember a time when I was young, probably continued from 3-6 years old, when I constructed a space. It was called pretend then. Lines of reality certainly are not what they used to be.

[ulli]

Our niece Glorianna was hit by a big truck today, she was on her bicycle.
Has exposed fracture among other stuff. Awaiting surgery now.
Poor girl, poor parents...we are all in shock.
She was always very sporty, Central American ping pong champion...

Please send prayers and healing.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Love and Reiki prayers sending to Glorianna. Thank you for the head's up, Ulli.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by Pris (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Isn't this what we've been doing here for ages?
So where will we find the collectors willing to pay us millions?

http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/20...-is-invisible/



New York artist creates 'art' that is invisible and collectors are paying millions
27-year-old artist Lana Newstrom says she is the first artist in the world to create invisible "art." In this documentary we traveled to her empty studio to learn more about Lana and her unusual artistic process.
"Just because you can't see anything, doesn't mean I didn't put hours of work into creating a particular piece"
Lana Newstrom, Artist
"Art is about imagination and that is what my work demands of the people interacting with it. You have to imagine a painting or sculpture is in front of you," says Newstrom.

Paul Rooney, Lana's agent, believes she might be the greatest artist alive working today: "When she describes what you can't see, you begin to realize why one of her invisible works can fetch upwards of a million dollars." said Rooney.

Listen to learn more about Lana Newstrom and her invisible art.

Is everyone actually taking this seriously? Am I 'missing' something here?


"This bit of satire was lost on many readers and listeners, which Kelly explained (in an article translated from French) may have been partly due to the fluid definition of what constitutes art:
In the arts, there is much room for interpretation and we thought it would be interesting to push the idea to the extreme ... the invisible art.
Kelly believes that the number of people who read the post alone without listening to the accompanying audio likely helped push the joke a bit further than was intended:
People read on the Internet so quickly that many did not taken the time to check if it was true or not. We encourage people to listen to the audio, because that is where lies the joke. After listening, people will have a hard time believing it's true."


http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/newstrom.asp

I can dig it. Why not? There's room enough in the world for all types of creativity and who's to say any idea is not creative and an art within itself. It reminds me of John Cage's 4'33":

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA

[Stephanie]

Posted by ulli (here)
Our niece Glorianna was hit by a big truck today, she was on her bicycle.
Has exposed fracture among other stuff. Awaiting surgery now.
Poor girl, poor parents...we are all in shock.
She was always very sporty, Central American ping pong champion...

Please send prayers and healing.

Soft, soothing light, and warm, healing love for you, Glorianna.
Blessings and love to you and all the family.

[Pris]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)

Posted by Pris (here)
Is everyone actually taking this seriously? Am I 'missing' something here?


"This bit of satire was lost on many readers and listeners, which Kelly explained (in an article translated from French) may have been partly due to the fluid definition of what constitutes art:
In the arts, there is much room for interpretation and we thought it would be interesting to push the idea to the extreme ... the invisible art.
Kelly believes that the number of people who read the post alone without listening to the accompanying audio likely helped push the joke a bit further than was intended:
People read on the Internet so quickly that many did not taken the time to check if it was true or not. We encourage people to listen to the audio, because that is where lies the joke. After listening, people will have a hard time believing it's true."


http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/newstrom.asp

I can dig it. Why not? There's room enough in the world for all types of creativity and who's to say any idea is not creative and an art within itself. It reminds me of John Cage's 4'33":

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA

You guys are hopeless. That's just as bad as:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY

[araucaria]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
I can dig it. Why not? There's room enough in the world for all types of creativity and who's to say any idea is not creative and an art within itself. It reminds me of John Cage's 4'33":

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA

The comparison with John Cage is very interesting. Someone once said that music is about changing the quality of the silence. John Cage’s silence focuses on the distracting parasitical elements of a concert setting – all the things one tries to eliminate from the experience: people coughing and sneezing, visual distractions and so on – the background noise that music is usually working against. The conductor mopping his brow became a moment of hilarity, another distraction in what was otherwise a serious piece. I for one don’t find this a particularly successful piece of music, although admittedly someone had to try it on. This is self-conscious music (music on music) and has nothing to do with the experience of real silence in nature. Like watching a Buddhist monk meditating instead of meditating yourself. The musical equivalent of Piero Manzoni’s Merda d'artista: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_****

A better equivalent in the art world might be what the cleaning woman saw after she binned a trashy Damien Hirst installation: a nice clean gallery: but she was the only one who really got to enjoy it. This light show is the equivalent of a full-length John Cage concert: 4’33”, 19’47”, 9’11”, and after the interval a Mahlerian-length work in 66’6”. You might find yourself listening to a riot in the middle, or total silence by the end when everyone has walked out. In other words, this sort of thing works once, very briefly: it’s a gimmick. Yet what we get is the exact opposite of a one-off: it’s mass production. Andy Warhole (deliberate misspelling) said:

When Picasso died I read in a magazine that he had made four thousand masterpieces in his lifetime and I thought, “Gee, I could do that in a day”… with my technique… And they’d all be masterpieces because they’d all be the same painting.

If you mechanize Piero Manzoni’s alchemy, you get Wim Delovye’s Cloaca, a fully operational artificial digestive system or ‘poo machine’:
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/05...m-delvoye.html
http://vimeo.com/45127139

This machine will convert food, including gourmet meals, into faeces, it’s not garbage going in, but it’s all garbage coming out. What is wrong with this accurate depiction of our present society? It totally misses the whole purpose of eating in the first place: to produce energy to operate an organism that will then go and do hopefully interesting and useful things. Where does the energy go? It is simply volatilized, siphoned off by some invisible parasite – presumably producing physical heat, and an insidious mental drowsiness in the viewers dutifully trooping past. This is literally when, to use the common abbreviation, the SHTF

In ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ Walter Benjamin explains how the work of art has lost the aura of the unique object originally serving a ritual purpose:

an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for example, one can make any number of prints; to ask for the 'authentic' print makes no sense. But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice - politics.

http://www.berk-edu.com/VisualStudie...production.pdf

Hence creativity today is stuck between a rock (ritual) and a hard place (politics) – between the uniqueness venerated by religion (bordering on fetishism and idolatry) and the miraculous, economic and economical multiplication of technology expensively selling a cheapened form of religion for the masses – I say religion because it tends back towards the veneration of uniqueness in the shape of an ever-dwindling elite. The creative oasis we have made on this thread and this forum produces a reversal of both these configurations. Against the god of uniqueness, we propose multiple uniquenesses – many very different contributors working together towards something that is not already established on a pedestal, but still in the process of creation. To do this, we tame technology because we all use the same keyboards and other hardware, but it never comes out the same twice (or if it does, alarm bells start ringing). And we don’t need or want any ‘professional artists’ interfering with that process. We are all artists, and all means every single one of us, including humans

I used the word ‘alchemy’ just now: we are talking about liberating the spirit in matter, as opposed to an alternative agenda seeking to imprison the spirit in matter. “In stercore invenitur – In the dirt we will find it; the lapis (the stone), or the philosophical gold.”
http://paulijungunusmundus.eu/hknw/h..._man_p1a_e.htm

[Pris]

Hey, araucaria! Why not do an analysis of 'Nyan Cat 10 hours'?

[araucaria]

Posted by Pris (here)
Hey, araucaria! Why not do an analysis of 'Nyan Cat 10 hours'?

Yes, you do that. I recommend you view it at least five times so as not to miss anything.

[eaglespirit]

Posted by ulli (here)
Our niece Glorianna was hit by a big truck today, she was on her bicycle.
Has exposed fracture among other stuff. Awaiting surgery now.
Poor girl, poor parents...we are all in shock.
She was always very sporty, Central American ping pong champion...

Please send prayers and healing.

Sending the "Highest Healing Light and Energy" ..We can deliver for Your Loving niece Glorianna!

[Carmody]

Posted by SamwiseTheBrave (here)

Posted by meeradas (here)
'The pitchforks are coming'

Memo: From Nick Hanauer
To: My Fellow Zillionaires
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...ts-108014.html

Great article. I especially love the title!

I'm currently writing a song that is about the destruction of small family farms and the rise of Capitalism. Part of the chorus is "And the pitchforks and the torches are coming after you..."

Pitchforks and torches are symbolic of revolution and sovereignty, and as a part-time farmer, I'm all for it.

Now with video.

Nick's talk is pretty innocent, though. It has no mention of secret societies, black ops, fascism running in the backdrop, etc.

He does touch on the point that such inequality that exists today can only exist in a totalitarian system. That through all points in known history, any idea of recorded or known history.. that such inequality has only been capable of existing in a system that has open totalitarianism, ie, overt force used on the public.

He states and it is true that no system in all of human history, can in, any way whatsoever, survive what is going on in the USA right now. That it is death on wheels and in greased form, coming at high speed out of the barrel of a gun, right at the USA, right now, and it (the USA as most know it) cannot survive.

What has happened in the US is this black ops secret society system is in existence, hiding from the public eye, in the backdrop. Nick does not cover that it is a planned and executed take down. a FORCED and enforced take down via secret societies and black ops, tied to fascist origins ---- from hundreds of years back.

It is a turning point. It is a forced meeting with an ending. Society will die, or it will flip, but there will be no middle ground. That....... is the enforced fulcrum and lever.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8

[ulli]

Gloriana will be ok. Thanks for all your good wishes. She had one surgery last night at the local hospital,
and will be transferred to San Jose' s brand new trauma unit today, for more surgery.
Two broken bones in her legs, the splinters were removed last night.

She was on a bicycle, when a car suddenly swerved in front of her. To avoid it, she served, too, and this black truck ran right over her, breaking her leg.
Apart from that double fracture and a lot of bruises she is fine and her pretty face without a scratch.
No head trauma.
She is lucky to have survived that. There's talk of a miracle.

[Dennis Leahy]

Gloriana, heal up quickly, and heal up perfectly. Maybe someday I'll get to play ping-pong against you, and I don't want you to have any excuses. :~) [I would probably be lucky to score a single point.]

Well, the porcupine's luck ran out last night or early this morning, as his lifeless body was sitting on the edge of the road this morning. The area (though it has been logged), is about as close to wilderness as it gets within city limits. There are black bear, and reports of lynx and cougar in the area, along with deer, coyotes, fox, porcupines, skunk and other critters. They rebuilt/repaired the road and made a single underpass for a hiking trail, and it would have been good if they had included several other "nature tunnels" beneath the road for migrating animals and animals that simply want to cross through the area now bisected by a road. Death is a harsh sentence for being slow and wanting to cross the road.

[donk]

I never heard this song before yesterday, I couldn't believe the lyrics I was hearing over the radio:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hc16Y9fiCvQ

[ulli]

Thanks, Dennis.
Here is a photo of Gloriana and her sister Mariela from 12 years ago, when they were still playing Ping Pong championships.
http://wvw.nacion.com/viva/2002/enero/28/soc1.html

[1inMany]

I found the John Cage performance to be an exercise in being present in the Here and Now. Admittedly, the first time I saw the blank wall of invisible art I was amazed that people paid to stare at that. However, I can see now that one draw to this sort of thing is that these people might desparately need a moment when the stimuli around and inside them are silenced. You never know, someone might have had a profound spiritual experience as a result.

As the John Cage piece progressed, I found myself engrossed in the energy, which became stronger and "louder."

Thanks for exposing me to something new

[Krist]

Ulli ,prayers and healing on the way.
Oh! maybe a little late.