politics – IT IN Place http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:02:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.15 Greetings From England http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/07/04/greetings-from-england/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:44:25 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3241
A heart stencil from the found Left Bank Paris card. UU wishing the ugly American a happy birthday from London.

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Further Forward http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/01/23/further-forward/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:50:07 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=2597

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It snowed and so the world looked better already. I went to see the inauguration at Monkeytown and Obama gave a great speech and the world looked better still. So I went to 17 Frost to try and make the installation look a little better too.

I was also struck at how Cheney in a wheel chair seemed to channel Barrymore as Mr. Potter in Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life:
The abomination of the last eight years gives way to the ObamaNation seeking inspiration.

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Made this little gif to cheer myself off to the polls. History awaits.

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Hanging Myself http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/23/me_hanging_myself_right_now/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:52:25 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/me_hanging_myself_right_now.html studyinjoyce.jpg
Not funny really in this time of Infinite Jests, but maybe it is really exactly how I feel. I mean in the sense of eternal return, or Metampsychosis, or however you spell it and whatever Joyce was talking about…. I’m hanging the show. I feel like a worker… in the Marxist sense of that word: working on the ladders with the back into it. I mean to say that hanging a book is a physical act. I’ve been training for it like a boxer at the gym.. but my fucking thumbs are still weak for the push pins and the map pins and the pins and needles and needles and pins…..feel like a carpenter… feel like Christ crucified… stigmata on my thumb. LOL. music here is some odd Brian Wilson post Smile mid mad period song. Fucking lovely and perfect fit for my raw time lapse. More to come…

]]> Black Water http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/10/30/black_water/ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/10/black_water.html treecrate.jpg
Is Blackwater just another name for oil?

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Pax Perspective Quilt http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/06/28/pax_perspective_quilt/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:20:59 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/06/pax_perspective_quilt.html brooklypax.jpg
Been sewing canvas and steatching canvas and editing vids and contemplating peace and perspective… now I’m turning my thoughts to cogs and cog repair.
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Brown Ain't No Place For White Shoes http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/06/19/brown_aint_no_place_for_white_shoes/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:13:33 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/06/brown_aint_no_place_for_white_shoes.html
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Been on some sort of reunion vibe these last few months… some sort of black sheep returneth trip or what have you. So in keeping with that mode, I went for a little dumpling picknick with one of my favorite Alums of old Camp Bruno and we blathered for a long time and drank beer from paper bags in the park while the chinese kids played handball and layed out a pang thud thud pang soundtrack in the summer night.

Earlier, I had a near religious experience (not only was someone sky writing x and y all over brooklyn, but…) when I crossed Manhattan bridge by foot, the light came behind the brooklyn in such a way that it cast a magnificent reverse gothic arch shadow across the flaming sunset water… the key hole arches both cut out in fire on the water. It was only there for about sixty seconds, but good shit it was glorious and luckily I was on a nikon safari. New York is just a magnificent place sometimes and its filled with people that you know and love, but didn’t know were living so close to you. One big urban reunion project.
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Kodachrome Nikon Daze http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/06/13/kodachrome_nikon_daze/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:20:26 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/06/kodachrome_nikon_daze.html
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the animated bunny is from Brian Raszka for The Library Project. The first image is of my archive under my house in CT where all the old days are stored… outdoors… it’s a long story… you should read the old days of the blog, etc…. anyways I made that shit to last and last they shall and fuck time and fuck space and rain and….

gee don’t I sound like king lear?

Well a house devided, etc.

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Another Green World http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/06/03/another_green_world-2/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:52:49 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/06/another_green_world-2.html windowshade.jpg
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The Queen fled the Kingdom for a Baby Shower on the Shores of ManHat. So the King/fool had art classes mit kinder… I guess you’d call it Kinder Garten…. or kids in the garden… and we are stardust, we are golden and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.

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Free Cash http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/06/01/free_cash/ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:57:37 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/06/free_cash.html hellmoney.gif
animated Hell Money essay from the same time as the slide sheet I sent to Dadi Wirz. I just reunited all my hell money. That should be good luck right? Maybe now I should burn it?

The player here is Veho because I burnt most of my megs at vimeo. Nice thing about Veoh is that you can play the vid full screen and it allows you to run longish vids with fairly high rez. I con’t much like the player bar at thebottom, but it’s servicable for todays blog diptyque.

The Video is from today when I dropped the dog off to cut a summer trim (and stop the pant pant) I went walkabout to the park and museum and Library (there to check on possibly showing the Library Project collabs… got to contact the currator). I found the Technology Share Fair for Brooklyn Schools while walking the halls of Brooklyn Museum… I ran into Cash while wanting something to quench my thirst. He offered up lemon ginger ale… it has been the basis of my ever evolving liquids all day (adding coke and lemon juice and wine sorbet and only leaving it for Miller Time).

The music here is from Dave Chapelle’s Block Party CD (from Brooklyn Public Library) and is Mos Def and posse. Bill Batson gave me Mos Def shirt years ago when the Queen kicked me out of the Kingdom and had me Siddhartha sleeping on couches without clothes or money. I always wore it with pride… but am only learning why now. Mos Def is most def…. Busy Bee me. No sleep in Brooklyn.

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Zarathustra's Secret Garden http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/05/23/zarathustras_secret_garden/ Wed, 23 May 2007 08:29:03 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/05/zarathustras_secret_garden.html zarathustrasgarden.jpg
A vlog fooling with painting and Lou Reed and Bowie and thoughts on upcoming Royal Wylds music Video for Kimbo and some documentationof my work next to Crista Grauer’s at Artflux last week and just, you know, loving spring in Beautiful Sugar Mountain Brooklyn.

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Drunken Boat http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/05/20/drunken_boat/ Sun, 20 May 2007 13:10:45 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/05/drunken_boat.html
freeworld.jpgOh the honey and the wine and women and song did pour fourth from the mouth of a yellow whale, where I crashed upon the shore of some magnificent island populated by circe and her two sisters yin and yang. It was like the crystal noise from Zimmerman’s lyre and moaning of monica. There were the hebrews and the Romans and Celtic tribe as well, but I walked with silk guns and white arab charger to unite the world on one great drunken boat

or: I went eating and wine tasting at Tribecca festival. If you want to be treated well in life, I suggest you roll with beautiful Korean women, you’d be surprised what people will give you for free, just because of those lovely smiling eyes. Then off to the temple on the mount for Noahs Barmitzvah… havanagela and MORE wine and food and dancing of the horah and on and on. You cant make this sort of stuff up. It is just wild eyed JOY…. Be Attitude and Beat Less.
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This is Harry Twep… an Id character that I drew on a retreat when I was maybe thirteen years old, or so… ironic…. My mom scanned it for a my fortieth birthday card. She’s some kind of witch or something… I mean that in a good way.

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Another Green World http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/04/03/another_green_world/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:05:19 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/04/another_green_world.html
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Another vlog while I scan and scan. This remix has a lot of Goddard clips and a Brian Eno mash up. The drawing is a finish of a Carloine VK start from The Library Project. Stangely today Moby Dick came on TCM. I missed, however, Orson’s Sermon.

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Persia Major http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/02/08/persia_major/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:25:20 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=891 assass.jpg
Last night I dreamt that I was Dick Cheney’s house guest. He was very solicitous and kept apologizing that his other guests were all from the Heritage Foundation, or some other right wing think tank. He would say: “I really wanted to make sure that there would be some liberals here too, but it just worked out this way. I don’t want you to think I only socialize with conservatives. I have all sorts of friends.”
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I told him it was not a problem and he shouldn’t worry about it, but all through the dream he kept coming up to me to make sure I had found the food, or the bar, or whatever and apologizing about all the conservative guests. It was then that I knew, he only ever had conservative guests to his house and that apologizing about it was his way of making me feel awkward and an outsider, but he did it so subtly and with such a smile on his face, that it almost amused me.
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