Friday, September 21, 2001
What is the quickest way to clear out the men's room at your office? Say "Nice Dick". Things you are itching to say at work: 'Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed' or 'If I throw a stick, will you leave?' Remember age doesn't always bring wisdom sometimes age just comes alone.

Top Ghetto Drinks (excerpted from somewhere 'List' I think)
Thug Passion -Hennesy and Alize
Colt 45 and Hawaiian Punch
God Father -Amaretto and Scotch
Dirty White Mother-Brandy or Cognac w/Kalhua and Cream
Champipple -Champagne and Ripple
Merlite -Merlot and Sprite
Jolly Rancher -Midori, Chambord, Lemon Juice, Stoli, O.J., Cranberry Juice
Cisco and Old English
Corona w/splash of Grenadine


Whoa, damn! Tell us how you REALLY feel.

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it." -- President John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1961. What are you willing to sacrifice? A recent survey indicated that the gap between the richest and poorest Americans is becoming is even wider. In some ways we're like two separate societies, one that watches its bank account grow and the other that watches a whole lot of wrestling. Go Steve Blackman!

This item strikes me as being a bit strange.

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Thursday, September 20, 2001
The rich dark coffee, warm brown sweetened sienna based liquid waves back and forth as I walk down the street. The steam rises rather artistically above my hustle, and dark rings form and disappear within each gate. The oscillatory window shopper stares at his reflection as the autonomous alternating brain function trigger happy sharp shooter. I imprint data for future paintings, urgency to adapt new work to render context current. Simultaneously I am enveloped by the cavernous shell of the moviehouse. I memorize these visual moments and record the added input of audible blipping, the ambient on off chirping of nonsensical conversation. I feel my brush today is going analog as my canvas is digital, all the while wanting to buy a camera, but does it signal a change? An unwillingness to record automatically the moments that I fear, or love, am repulsed by, uneasy at or unable to. The heinous act of rendering the questions I ask as mere journalism? Where will it steep and swell alarmingly? Where will it burn? Hijacking is a dirty word, traumatic brain Armageddon changes all context. I hear the passing radio signal as it calls for a return to normalcy, and won't you settle for a redefinition of that term? Normalcy. Hauntingly the celluloid film flickers previews a Hollywoodland coming attraction, pass, pass, pass, pass me a big helping of frivolity as abductions and explosions equal hits. I feel the shift underneath my feet and wonder where the platelets will settle. Virtual museum walk throughs occupy computer screens, abandoning space for a table top experience. Where is light and the visual experience therein. Lost hands rise and rotate the clock face, wiping down the hours, closing silver screens. Saturation and clicking of the projector, nostalgia, direction, heyday, Double Indemnity, Metro, Warner's Noir, that which sheds light on, gives illumination to and exposes. Computers, robots, machines stream news that is inescapable, but providing the fibrous connective tissue to primary sources and stories. What was it like last week, what did you do, what will you do and several other vows bear witness to what was and what will be and most importantly what will be forever archived.
8:22 PM :

Wednesday, September 19, 2001
A Homemade Memorial Brings Strangers Together. In New York Galleries A New Concept Remakes The Art.

Music Heals and the Mood Changes.

Suddenly we are asking questions. Building an attack q and a.

9:08 PM :

I want this too, but it's unlikely, given that the nation harbouring a coward now wants to talk and we want to act.

The recent tragedy demolished this city's native sense of invincibility, but to threaten the diversity that is its other signature with sudden requirements of flag and faith only adds another casualty to the list. Working to the bone, surviving in the toughest times, finding friendship in a swarm of 8 million�these are the feats that make a New Yorker. Time was, being a New Yorker was more than American enough. From the Village Voice. This article concerns me.

I grew up in the city, and not that my urban neighborhood was unsafe or dangerous although it had a reputation for being 'bad' tough kids, tough school, the nasty Puerto Rican gang. It's just that growing up in that environment you learn the unwritten rules of survival. Don't mess with me and I won't mess with you, friends are forever, a family, your allies, fuck with me and I will fuck you up. I learned to fight because I had to, I learned because I didn't want to keep getting my ass kicked. I learned that sometimes, a good right hand is the best sort of reasoning. Thugs, cowards, sometimes that's all they understand, and you have to take them down. It's a peculiar feeling, one that I have right now. Damn the bastards, the terrorists that tried to steal our safety, our liberty, our peace. Yea, I got a black eye, but you never caused me to fear you, it won't happen.
12:10 PM :

Monday, September 17, 2001
Question 'Urbanity'. IO_dencies locates urbanity in a field generated by city inhabitants and by the city itself as an emancipated partner. Non-hierachical electronic networks provide experimental fields for other ways of collaborative/ connective ways of dealing with urban forces. This tool reads the forces present in particular urban situations, and offers experimental collaborative interfaces for dealing with these force fields. The aim, however, is not to develop advanced tools for architectural and urban design, but to create events through which it becomes possible to rethink urban planning and construction. By using special tools ("attractors"), Internet users may intervene in these force fields. Every modification in these zones changes the flows, and these interventions are displayed immediately. However, users see not only the changes and consequences of their own interventions, but also the interventions and desired changes effected by other users "working" in the same hypothetical urban area.

Francis Bacon's art has to do with the human body, sex, violence and strong emotions. Usually strong colour staining an unprimed side of canvas, the raw surface provided the right �tooth� for his paint. Usually a figure was established in black and white and the face was handled with an urgent scrumbling effect. Quick brush edits and summary suggest an aggressive often violent handling.'The Mews Studio' in South Kensington, London was Bacon's home and working space for the last thirty years of his life and it was here that Bacon produced some of his best work. Dublin's Hugh Lane Gallery removed the whole of Francis Bacon's chaotic studio in August 1998. A team of archeologists mapped the entire studio space for accurate removal and reconstruction in Dublin. Over 7,000 items were cataloged into a newly designed database which visitors can scan through. Connect contents with creations at The Francis Bacon Image Gallery. Cunty-Web is a study for a web site on Francis Bacon otherwise known as:"an irreverent and levity-laden on-line look at the life and work of that great British artist and outrageous old homosexual, Francis Bacon. Yes, our task here at Cunty is to demythologize the old fag and explore his paintings and his milieu in a spirit of fun!" Don't miss out.

The Virtual Collection is the Museum of Modern Art's online database of work by artists with HIV/AIDS. 3,000 or so high-resolution images of works by 150 artists who have died of AIDS or are living with HIV/AIDS. The purpose is to make available a large body of art that might otherwise be lost or widely dispersed. Artists with work in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art who are also represented in the The Virtual Collection include Joe Brainard, Scott Burton, Keith Haring, Frank Moore, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong.

Words of Art compiled by Robert J. Belton of The Fine Arts Department at Okanagan University College in British Columbia, Canada, is a highly practical on-line glossary of theory and criticism for the visual arts. Hypertext links abound within the lexicon.
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