The real story this Summer has been this “$10,000 bucket” – a quest to f with wheatpaste tools, since actual wheatpasting is tedious. About the only thing keeping me on this ridiculous task (illegally gluing posters of triangles all over New York) is the chance to use ever more ridiculous “vandalism” tools.
Exhibit A:
Fiberglass rig holds 10 gallons of paste, is designed around the (double-wide) 18″ roller, and makes all attempts to center the weight forward to avoid “wheelies”. A center-stand (modified folding chair) keeps the rig stable while parked or pasting.
But the most ridiculous and redesigned is the roller adapter: it snaps on/off instantly & holds wide posters neatly while sending them aloft/finding placement.
A roller delivers paste up high where I like to work. A brush embeds paper in textured walls (like brick). Though I rarely bother with brick, Unger makes these 18′ and 30′ poles with detachable fittings so I can retool in a jiffy. A 3′ wide push-broom cut to 1/3 its weight and size works, and sometimes I prep areas with a drywall knife/scraper. A laundry bag holds posters, & fits onto the bike handle bars and racks with Velcro.
The bucket is just marine fiberglass, “reverse molded” around cardboard covered in foil. Improvements would be a plug/drain at the botom, maybe off a igloo cooler. Currently I pick up the whole bicycle with the $10,000 bucket attached, in order to drain the paste.
I have this hat with a display window. Its very cool, but might not have met with commercial success. The website http://www.photocap.com listed inside does not exist, and I bet Edward R. Beaton (who registered this patent: 5,465,426) doesn’t bother with his P.O Box 220 Folsom CA. 95763-0220 address, also listed inside. I picked mine up at a dollar store. Hats off to Edward Beaton & the future.
Last night I’m in bed, I saw a face. Knowing that is improbable, I recorded my delusion, to share with you.
And here it is, plus “Reality”.
Sam3 and MOMO collaboration at the San Fransisco Exploratorium. Possibly the coolest place on Earth. I remember this contraption from when I was a child!
At Annon Domini
Sam3 had painted frames for his animation all over the gallery walls, running in all directions & then overlapping itself. See animation Exsitu Insitu here More photos here
These markings above storm-drains in the city (might signal the last time they were inspected?) are everywhere, and so good looking… each color separated by loads of time, maybe a year, and happening everywhere in the city constantly! As a kid I used to think DPT really got up with the stencils, I mean I thought that for just like a minute.
“Life Residual stuff is what happens while you’re making other plans stuff.”
I’m currently reading “Outlines of Scepticism” by Sextus Empiricus, written around 100AD. Sextus here is collecting thoughts of Pyrrho of Elis, who was too real to write; he just lived it. Pyrrho developed Scepticism after some exposure to Eastern philosophy, while on adventures with Alexander the Great into India in 327 B.C.
I finished reading “The Triumph of Anti-Art” by Thomas McEvilley, which argues “art as life” overthrew Modernism with Conceptual and Performance Art. Marcel Duchamp pioneered anti-art in 1912 after discovering Scepticism. The art of the 60-70’s that debunked Modernism was informed by Duchamp. The art that debunked Modernism is my favorite sort, and you can draw a precarious line to the present with people like Francis Alys and fellow [street] artists. Precarious, because street rabble don’t trust the capital “A” Art tradition. But it turns out there’s a tradition inside this tradition that doesn’t trust it either.
Currently I have a Canon S80, and enjoy using it. It has the megapixels CCD, LCD monitor, a wheel / 4-way thing, XGA video capture (15 fps), USB 2.0, SD/MMC storage. Lately its been under performing, but that’s after 3 years of heavy use. I took it apart to try and fix something and set the tiny screws in a glass, and then (accidentally) drank them this morning with juice.
The future is now kids. I’ve been building this spacecraft for postering that will rule New York in a few short weeks. Its really cool, like when Montana came out with the Color Donut, people were like “What?!”
I am editing a book… unearthing photos, I found this, from a series I painted in Key West, while I lived in a tent. I know it seems odd, but this one has stayed close to things I do today, & ended up my favorite painting, from when I still made paintings.
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