How have I not been following this tumblr:
I have gotten some ridiculous request/feedback while working freelance…this site makes me feel less alone.
Collaborative piece I made last week for my Installation class. We had to do something site specific. This is all made from 3 spools of nylon string, most of the piece is all one continual piece of string. Definitely my favorite project of the class!
very cool, Alan, how did you stake it down?
Thanks! We just used 2” fence staples, wasn’t sure how well they’d secure it but, its still up after about a week, and pretty taught!
This piece focused on the use of multiples to create an installation. I used about 1000 flexible straws. This was the only piece that actually cost me money to make the whole semester! I hated it in class when people were complaining about how they’re pieces weren’t how they really wanted them because they ‘couldn’t afford’ the materials. I am really happy with my pieces and they didn’t cost me shit! Thats just a poor excuse. But anywho the straws are hot glued to the window at different points and then picked up on the other side of the window so it looks like they flow through the window. They come out of hole in the wall very tightly woven together, and ‘explode’ as they move outside.
That is awesome dude! Nice work.
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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Banksy (via ambivalence) (via wreckandsalvage)
I’ve seen this pop up a few times now. I resisted reposting it, because everyone is reposting it, but it just makes too much sense. Gotta plaster in on my webspace too.
(via boringloser)
To all you vegetarians / Vegans...
http://www.livescience.com/health/091119-lab-meat.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+(LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed)&utm_content=Google+Reader
How would you feel about eating lab grown meat?
How do they decide?
Yesterday my Wii came. It was ordered from dell.com and delivered by UPS. No signature needed, it was on my doorstep when I came home.
Today, my Beatles Rock Band bundle was to be delivered. It was ordered from dell.com and delivered by UPS. Apparently, I need to sign for it so I only got a note on my door saying I have to sign.
What gives?
Also, FedEx delivered my John Lennon guitar controller without signing for it. As excited as I am by the fact that it’s here, I can’t do anything with it without the game bundle…
What makes it so that you have to sign for a package rather than them being able to leave it?
Several years back when I ordered my Power Mac ($2800 value) UPS left that on my door step in the middle of winter. I had a book from amazon come the same week and UPS would not leave it without a signature.
Zach Galifianakis takes Conan O’Brien Between Two Ferns - This is probably my favorite one to date.
They premiered this last Tuesday at UCB LA!
Even though some homes in Detroit literally sell for $1, we’re still surprised to see how little an entire stadium fetches. In this case it’s the famous Pontiac
Silverdome Detroit News:
Nearly 25 years after taxpayers spent $55.7 million building the Pontiac Silverdome and a year after a $20 million sale fell through, city officials have sold the arena once called the most desirable property in Oakland County.
this is what one calls a “neighborhood watch criminals break in and take stuff”
