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Today is the sixth aniversary of this blog. Thanks to anyone who has commented, linked, or relevantly emailed. This feels like a group page even if no one else has Wiki-like editing powers. OK, enough sloppy sentimentality, let's get back to work.
Update: A longer "looking back" post was written and scrapped as too self-indulgent. The only reason this update is being added is to provide a bit more of a text buffer between the preceding and following images, for design reasons.
MySpace page logo from Neil, excellently interpreting this earlier post. Neil says he'd like to meet fakeisthenewreal.
Update: Neil has revised the page to state that he is fakeisthenewreal and who he'd like to meet is you.
"Big Rock Grid" (audio only) [mp3 removed]
Update: I had a Quicktime .mov with this as a soundtrack but the file size is too large for my lo-fi standards so I pulled it.
Update 2: Here is the screenshot for the .mov. I may put the file back up if I can find a politely amusing way to explain the exorbitant download time.
Update 2: I've edited the .mov [converted to .mp4] to pick up the pace a little bit. I have also made a DVD of this video on a bigger scale that plays on a CRT, so this is a thumbnail version of that with full sound.
"Big Rock Grid" [12 MB .mp4]
thanks to mbs for finding the site full of big rocks (jewel GIFs)
"Steady State Funk" [mp3 removed]
I believe this to be a "killer riff." You could probably dance to it!
Enjoyed the first season of HBO's The Wire (thanks, S), but stopped watching Season 2 partway through the DVD box set. Reasons:
1. Ziggy. (Uggh)
2. The Greek and his crew. So many ominous silences, so much meaningful espresso-sipping.
3. Not enough Omar.
4. Too many characters recycling moves from first season.
5. Stevedore makes philosophical speeches about the decline of unions--eloquent but too writerly to be believed.
6. Last but not least--two union guys want to find out more about the chemicals The Greek is smuggling in shipping containers they handle, so they go to the public library and use Microsoft's Live Search.
Kristin Lucas, Travel Advisory, 2007, lightbox. Featured in a show opening in about an hour at Postmasters, 459 W 19th Street, New York, and running through March 17 (Gallery 1: Eva and Franco Mattes [a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG] are showing "13 Most Beautiful Avatars," and in Gallery 2 it's Lucas, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, and Wolfgang Staehle). The Creeping Unknown is back, but it's OK, it's been normalized.
Update: this image has not been reBlogged or picked up anywhere that I'm aware of. Possibly because it does not "make people feel good" which is an important part of art practice.
The US Senate is still scared of Bush even though the President's popularity numbers are in the low 30s. They can't even muster the votes for a toothless resolution on the Iraq War escalation, despite the clear will of US voters expressed last November. Supporting the troops means getting them out of there, you numbskulls, not letting Bush kill them. I believe I speak for the majority of Americans in saying, I don't trust Bush, why do you? (Answer: smear merchant Karl Rove has pictures of all of them in their underpants.)