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dubya thinks its a good idea to autograph american flags for austrians.
burn baby burn
The following year, Osterhout put together his first-ever band, Purple Geezus, and enlisted the Workdogs as his rhythm section. Williams joined up soon after. Not long after the group's debut, Osterhout, along with writer/scenester Carlo McCormick, conceived their own religious sect, which they named the Church of the Little Green Man. With Osterhout at the pulpit, the Dogs became his musical henchmen and Williams the church organist. "Choir rehearsal is something the public will never know about," says Williams. "It was an event that only the inner circle of the church and the Workdogs will ever know about -- the creation of the rhythm and the state of mind that had to be archived by the participants before the rites could take place."as much of an american flag enthusiast as i am, i also withhold the right to use it for artistic purpose. the above post describes the admittance ritual of burning a dollar bill to get into the church of the little green man services. i recall one occasion that small fabric american flags were substituted. i believe that was during the bush 1 administrations first attempt at getting a constitutional amendment which would have made such practice illegal.
The Weekly Sunday night services quickly drew a large congregation, who burned a buck for admission. Fervent worshipers also turned out for Purple Geezus and Workdogs shows on other nights of the week. Their reputations grew, and though Purple Geezus eventually fizzled, Osterhout remained a Workdogs admirer. "I really like their whole concept of the rhythm section being the front people, having the traditional 'front people' being expendable, that the Workdogs are a rhythm section for hire, approaching it as a conceptual art piece, rather than a typical band with 'Let's get a record out, go on tour and get famous, those kind of things, they don't have any of that. They continue to play and stay at the same conceptual level -- it's amazing to me that those guys still do it with such consistency."
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bob vila on shipping container housing
from the fab prefab message board
american fine arts - if culture means anything
curated by james fuentes, essay by jackie mcallister
zingmagazine issue 19
genesis / suppers ready / shepperton 1973 from 16mm / 23:00 min. classic spooky gabriel!
paint it black with killer cans
via zars
vz sent this one in for dr aw. ash pencils
deck demo / filmed and posted by ed t. staring bill and joe and the doomed deck
MMW GAD
k bighair from dallas has a DIY shipping container project going on down in kerrville texas and has photo documented it here. she has been posting frequently on the fab-prefab container-bay message board. asking smart questions and offering good answers to other's questions. on this recent thread fellow board participant and admitted architect gregory la vardera chases her off with this hot new new topic :
Why do Containers attract DIY?
Why, like rats to a meat truck, do containers attract DIYs? Really there is nothing different about this than any kind of construction, heavy or light. Yet people seem to have some sort of regard for regular construction which keeps most people away and hiring contractors, some sort of regard that they don't have for working with a container.
Honestly, having looked at them very closely there is nothing different about building a house from a container than there is from steel. Yet I don't see anybody asking "how many bolts do I need on that beam to create a moment connection to that column.." Its like nobody would ever ask that - like its considered the domain of some kind of mystical expert, yet containers are wide open to anybody with a blow torch and some balls. Frankly you are in much deeper sh-t if you think you are going to mess with a container than you are with structural steel. There are lots of resources out there for working with structural steel. Books, industry standards, classes at universities and community colleges. Of course there are no resources on building with containers because its all "brand new". But that does not mean that working with them is any simpler or easier than any other type of construction.
All that means is you have to make it up yourself as you go along, which answers my question I suppose. A DIYer would really love doing that! But at least hire yourself an engineer if you are not sure its going to stand up.
All I can say is go for it, and don't screw up so badly that you make tough for others that may follow being a little bit more methodical and thorough.
this family snap shot scan just in from my brother. we are trailer folks. left to right. uncle al's trailer, aunt juanita, cousin paul, me, cousin steve, uncle al, brother john and i dont know what hes driving. visiting us in dallas '62ish enroute to his management level assignment with the park service at death valley national park in nevada..
revamped wtc memorial design
ck berryman / originator of the teddy bear. this drawing made gift to my grandmother as a child on a visit to her aunt in washington dc in 1912. berryman and the aunt both worked in the us patent office at the time.
glenn gould you tube proformances :
Lois Marshall sings strauss's cancillie w/ glenn gould in accompaniment.
plays aria from the goldberg variations
A short segment from "Glenn Gould's Toronto," a long-unavailable film from the late 1970s produced for the CBC. He talks about the new CN Tower, about how Toro ... (more)
Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould play the 3rd movement (Adagio cantabile — Allegro vivace) of Ludwig van Beethoven's Cello Sonata No 3 in A major, Op. 69.
four 1920's or 1930's initiation photographs
I've been writing love songs all my life, never rocking the boat. There were years that I paid no attention to the political process, times I never voted. The closest I came to writing music with any social and political connotation was "What the World Needs Now is Love." When that song was written 40 years ago, it was an important song.
And, now, it is a thousand times more so.
But starting with the 2000 election, things for me began to change. I watched as Bush basically stole the election, and other terrible situations occurred; and by the time 9/11 hit, I didn't feel like writing love songs.
dukesfest '06
Earlier in my life there seemed to be unlimited possibilities, but my mind was closed. Now, years later and with an open mind, possibilities no longer interest me. I seem content to be continually rearranging the same furniture in the same room. My concern at times is nothing more than establishing a series of practical conditions that will enable me to work. For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue. . . . He was on the second floor and we were looking out the window, and he said, “What about the man on the street?” At that moment . . . Jackson Pollock was crossing the street. The crazy artist of my generation was crossing the street at that moment.
If a man teaches composition in a university, how can he not be a composer? He has worked hard, learned his craft. Ergo, he is a composer. A professional. Like a doctor. But there is that doctor who opens you up, does exactly the right thing, closes you up—and you die. He failed to take the chance that might have saved you. Art is a crucial, dangerous operation we perform on ourselves. Unless we take a chance, we die in art.
Polyphony sucks.
Because I’m Jewish, I do not identify with, say, Western civilization music. In other words, when Bach gives us a diminished fourth, I cannot respond that the diminished fourth means, O God. . . . What are our morals in music? Our moral in music is nineteenth-century German music, isn’t it? I do think about that, and I do think about the fact that I want to be the first great composer that is Jewish.