 Bedroom Buckyball, ink on cut paper, map pins, 80" X 75"
it looks like wallpaper.
Here's a closeup of another piece, which hopefully shows that the paper is pinned up with little map pins, and doesn't sit completely flat on the wall. The idea is, it looks like wallpaper from a few feet back (some people thought painted fresco) but it's really completely flimsy and portable, and can be taken down and stored in a 9" X 12" envelope. Yes, it's nerdy: like the physics teacher you described throwing a stuffed buckyball at dozing students. That's exactly the vibe I'm after.
tom ...you are SOOOO ridiculous! why on earth do you want to fit it in a 9x12" envelope? are you going to mail it to yourself? "yay! here's my buckyball again!" are you going to carry it with you everywhere like your favorite toy and pin it up in every guest or hotel room you sleep in? throw a hissy fit if you forget to bring it with you? hahaha. i'm teasing... i love it!
after lugging a lifetime of unsold sculpture and paintings around for a lifetime the 9x12s are starting to sound cumbersome too. cd files may be an option for a while. better yet lets make jim store it all here. by ther way stork, in preperation for a move to germany just willed me three tubs of cassettes.
Nice piece Tom. May I have one to store in my file cabinet?
I'll mail it to you. Some assembly required.
If you send me one I will glue it to my wall.
Now, that's commitment!
did you know 25 year old cassettes dont work. highlites include 45 "seven second delay" (aka ken and andy show) recordings / over a hundred tapes off wfmu sound board of live shows etc / radio archival oddities : side a) hucksters, propogandists, mad daddy, phychedelics and war B) the heart of dixie, eskimo takje overs and fmy says goodbye in '69 / The hounds pledge premium : doggy style tape / jacob aranza's backward masking unmasked ()backward satanic messages of rock and roll exposed / weill's " a collectors 3 penny opera (historic german recordings including lotte lenya, bertold brecht and otto klemper / astrid gilberto / the baroque chello / glen goulds bqch preludes fughettas and fuges / larry adler inconcert ( harmonica player) / orson wells's "i know what it's like to be young(but I dont know what it's like to be old) / the buckley roast featuring henry kissinger, mike wallace, wm rusher, stanton evans w/ wfb reply / amy allison and the maudlins / brave combo / burrows at the kubuki theater in sf 1983 / mag fileds 69 love songs / pretty things (some one stop me) and a million rejects including elvis costello's complete works
Tom, this looks great, super 3-D, looks like it pops off the wall!
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Bedroom Buckyball, ink on cut paper, map pins, 80" X 75"
- tom moody 12-01-2002 7:32 am
it looks like wallpaper.
- pamela 12-02-2002 2:10 am
Here's a closeup of another piece, which hopefully shows that the paper is pinned up with little map pins, and doesn't sit completely flat on the wall. The idea is, it looks like wallpaper from a few feet back (some people thought painted fresco) but it's really completely flimsy and portable, and can be taken down and stored in a 9" X 12" envelope. Yes, it's nerdy: like the physics teacher you described throwing a stuffed buckyball at dozing students. That's exactly the vibe I'm after.
- tom moody 12-02-2002 2:29 am
tom ...you are SOOOO ridiculous! why on earth do you want to fit it in a 9x12" envelope? are you going to mail it to yourself? "yay! here's my buckyball again!" are you going to carry it with you everywhere like your favorite toy and pin it up in every guest or hotel room you sleep in? throw a hissy fit if you forget to bring it with you? hahaha. i'm teasing... i love it!
- pamela 12-03-2002 8:43 pm
after lugging a lifetime of unsold sculpture and paintings around for a lifetime the 9x12s are starting to sound cumbersome too. cd files may be an option for a while. better yet lets make jim store it all here. by ther way stork, in preperation for a move to germany just willed me three tubs of cassettes.
- bill 12-04-2002 1:47 am
Nice piece Tom. May I have one to store in my file cabinet?
- sarah 12-05-2002 12:09 am
I'll mail it to you. Some assembly required.
- tom moody 12-05-2002 12:20 am
If you send me one I will glue it to my wall.
- sarah 12-05-2002 12:24 am
Now, that's commitment!
- tom moody 12-05-2002 12:39 am
did you know 25 year old cassettes dont work. highlites include 45 "seven second delay" (aka ken and andy show) recordings / over a hundred tapes off wfmu sound board of live shows etc / radio archival oddities : side a) hucksters, propogandists, mad daddy, phychedelics and war B) the heart of dixie, eskimo takje overs and fmy says goodbye in '69 / The hounds pledge premium : doggy style tape / jacob aranza's backward masking unmasked ()backward satanic messages of rock and roll exposed / weill's " a collectors 3 penny opera (historic german recordings including lotte lenya, bertold brecht and otto klemper / astrid gilberto / the baroque chello / glen goulds bqch preludes fughettas and fuges / larry adler inconcert ( harmonica player) / orson wells's "i know what it's like to be young(but I dont know what it's like to be old) / the buckley roast featuring henry kissinger, mike wallace, wm rusher, stanton evans w/ wfb reply / amy allison and the maudlins / brave combo / burrows at the kubuki theater in sf 1983 / mag fileds 69 love songs / pretty things (some one stop me) and a million rejects including elvis costello's complete works
- bill 12-05-2002 1:42 am
Tom, this looks great, super 3-D, looks like it pops off the wall!
- anonymous (guest) 12-06-2002 8:50 pm