Well, the rodeo won out, with Shelter Island viewing coming in on Monday instead of today. We're going to the Bob Martin Agri Center and I'm hoping the sights and scenes will provide much artistic fodder. Artists and writers must get out of the studio and observe, duh... of course you know that, but for me the real treat is in observing and photographing those who dwell outside my comfort zone. ... read more
I recently discovered, via a Facebook friend, UbuWeb.com and Henri Chopin's poetry. This discussion, quoted from ubuweb, just thrills me. You can listen to Chopin by clicking here. go ahead, do it... listen to a Cantata for Two Farts ... read more
Verily I say unto you... anyone can join in an argument of Fluxus Relativity. Therein lies the rub, the point, the purpose, of the Very Fluxus Which We Love. Agree with me not. ... read more
A question, posed by the Demonstrative Fluxus Administrator Cecil Touchon, answered thusly upon the Facebook Fluxus collective: ... read more
In "The Science of Sleep" Gael García Bernal creates a fascinating and - to those of us who live in the Fluxus World - totally understandable vision of of a man's life wherein the dream becomes the reality and the reality contains fragments of truth and lie. Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee. In grade school, now here is the ultimate Fluxus Flashback, Julie Grettum sang "Beautiful Dreamer" as a solo, on stage, must have been around 196, Echols School. The rest of us sang "It's a Grand Old Flag" because it was a high flying flag and forever in peace may she wave. She might be the emblem of the land I love, but she is also the home of the free and the brave. One hand celebrates Woody Guthrie while the other? It rides the City of New Orleans. Julie's mother made pasta, I remember their kitchen and the drying pasta hanging from wooden stands. And her father, Russell, owned warehouses. They smoked Pall Malls. I remember the Art Nouveau box design, the red box. My parents smoked Winstons. Boxes, perhaps then began my fascination with same? ... read more
Fluxus Thoughts on my recent visit to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh: ... read more
After a trip to the hinterlands, The Assemblagist doth bloggeth again. A complete post shall be endured upon the morrow... please retourneth to this place along with us... Welcome me home, oh loved ones. It has been a Museum Time. Went to the Andy Warhol Museum in the 'burgh. More on that adventure coming soon -- ... read more
