sometimes people give me things they made

http://www.coldbacon.com/books.html
http://www.clamormagazine.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TRUEMOTION
http://youworkforthem.com/product.php?sku=P0617
http://colorstripping.joshuadavis.com
http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/animalbreeder/prodserv.html
http://phenixrising.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/fivesimplesteps_1.jpg
http://cool.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/06fivesimplesteps_1.jpg

i asked nikola to give me this:
http://nakituminayashi.com/buythisbook/
but who knows whether he will.
either way, the text is here:
http://nakituminayashi.com/1/

I'm going to eat at the local chinese buffet with a free meal coupon
that my wife gave me. It's the card that they stamp every time you
eat there, and then when it fills up, you get a free meal. Hers was
full, so she gave it to me, which was nice of her. I'm on page 142
of Paul Klee's first Bauhaus teaching notebook (The Thinking Eye), so
I'll be reading that. I usually start off with hot & sour soup with
those cruncy things and a dumpling in the soup. Then if they have
thai curry chicken on the buffet, that's usually all I'll eat. There
are two of these restaurants (Asiana Grand Buffet) in the area, and
the one far away from our house always has the thai curry chicken,
but the one closest to our house doesn't always have it. Also, the
sushi bar at the other one is better, but the drive is kind of a pain.

How about y'all? What are you up to today? When I come back from
the restaurant, I'll check this thread. I wonder who will post and
what they will say?

If you're too cool to just post mundane stuff, I totally understand.
Or maybe you respect the stated boundaries and goals of the rhizome
list, and you limit your onlist dialogue to matters pertaining to
art, culture, and media. Seems kind of socialized and safe to me,
but it takes a village to raise a child, and I respect that. What?
You say you can't post a reply because you're currently working on a
net art project that facilitates and foregrounds the use of digital
networks to connect people in intimate, meaningful, day-to-day ways?
Rock on! What? Why don't I save these mundane personal details for
my BLOG? Don't even go there girlfriend because I am already three
steps ahead of you. (I'm not sure what that last sentence means, but
I like the sound of it.)

I'll be back in a couple of hours to check on this thread and let
y'all know how my meal went.

yours truly,
curt

Comments

, Nad

Curt,

are you sure that reading Paul Klee's first Bauhaus teaching notebook
and eating sweet and sour soup at a time is a good idea?

nad

, annie abrahams

>
>
> How about y'all? What are you up to today? When I come back from
> the restaurant, I'll check this thread. I wonder who will post and
> what they will say?
>

My day is allmost finished.
Before sleeping I will probably finish David Graeber's "Toward an
Anthropological Theory of Value". http://forum.readingbetween.org/


bises
Annie

, Corey Eiseman

Hey Curt. I ain't too cool for school, girlfriend! Today I've been
working as usual on some commercial projects, trying to pay the bills,
trying to get organized. I recently hired a new employee. After working
for myself / by myself for the last four years, it's very weird having
to get back into being a manager, training and working with a (small)
team. It's a totally different dynamic.

Tonight my wife and I will be going to a Marriage and Parenting class
group we've been taking Tuesday nights. It's a ten week deal, tonight
will be week four. It's pretty cool because it includes free child watch
and dinner, so if nothing else it's kind of a much needed date night for us.

After that I hope to have enough time and energy to make some art
tonight. At a minimum I'd like to work on the next installment of my
perpetual canvas blog, and if I can keep the momentum going maybe make
some contributions to kollabor8. I'd also like to collect my thoughts to
contribute to the thread about the code repository on Rhizome because I
think it's a great idea.

Hope you enjoy your chinese food! Word.

Corey

, curt cloninger

OK. I'm back. Thanks to everybody who replied on and offlist. It
was a good lunch overall. I actually missed lunch, and was charged
for dinner, and my free meal coupon was only good for lunch, so I had
to pay money. But that's OK because I still have my free lunch
coupon for later, plus I got a new stamp on my new free lunch coupon.

I finished an essay by Michael Meridith in which he more or less
offhandedly described the concept behind an art project I had begun
planning months ago, so that was really strange.

Then I read a print out of this post:
http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/archives20060101.shtml#104664
So even when I'm offline I'm reading online text, which is really sad
and nerdy.

Then I read more in Klee. It is slow going but so amazing. He's
talking about perceptual perspective from his own personal systematic
perspective. There is the idea of asymmetrical balance in modern
graphic design. Symmetrical balance is too static, and asymmetry is
too chaotic, so you skew the symmetry, and then bring it back into
asymmetrical balance. Klee proposes to do this with perspective,
representing up to six different perspectives in a single
composition, and then synthesizing them into what he calls "a single
median collective viewpoint." It's like some kooky minimalist
post-analytical cubism synthesized with Klee's understanding of
appearance, essence, growth/history/life, gravity, and always the
spiritual "quality" of color.

They didn't have the thai curry, but the hot and sour soup was
especially good. I almost braved a Hawaian sushi roll but decided
against it. About halfway through my meal this guy with a very
annoying voice and his parents sat down. He was maybe in his 50s and
his parents seemed old. He was from New York and was visiting his
parents who are evidently down here in a retirement home. He talked
about how all presidents throughout history have been crooks, how he
doesn't trust the media, how even the programmers at Microsoft
couldn't solve a coding problem he had come across. Then when his
father got up and tottered off toward the mongolian grill area, this
guy and his mom talked about how when you pick up the portable phone
off the stand, you don't have to press "on." That actually turns it
off. It's only when you pick the phone up away from the stand that
you have to press "on." This guy was frustrated that his father
couldn't understand how it worked. I've hung up on people a lot
myself making that same mistake. Eventually, I had to put my fingers
in my ears to focus on the Klee. It was like Woody Allen in Annie
Hall standing behind that pseudo-McLuhan expert in the movie line.

Honestly, because of my little Rhizome social experiment, the lunch
was kind of a McLuhan-esque experience ("in the electric age we wear
all mankind as our skin"), and not as relaxing as it normally would
have been. I am not perpetually conscious of the instantaneous,
"primitive" (McLuhan's term) time field that the network creates, but
having positioned myself "between posts" on the network made me feel
inordinately exposed. I was on the grid. But I got my narcissistic
bloggin' fix via rhizome raw, and I'm apparently none the worse for
it.

And what blog entry would be complete without some "currently
listening to" data? On the way home I listened to the last half of
Bowie's Heroes, and then to some Brian Jonestown Massacre. Current
Mood: Full of Chinese food. Someone should do a net art project
where they make up abstract emoticons for extremely specific moods
like "full of chinese food," "girlfriend just dumped me," "three days
on a mescalin bender," etc.

Keep those cards and letters coming.

curt

, ryan griffis

Angie Waller's got something close…
http://www.couchprojects.com/clipfm.html

On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Curt Cloninger wrote:

> Someone should do a net art project where they make up abstract
> emoticons for extremely specific moods like "full of chinese food,"
> "girlfriend just dumped me," "three days on a mescalin bender," etc.

, Eric Dymond

Minerva Cuevas has an older project, Mejor Veda Corp., where I requested a package from the web site (free art).
http://www.irational.org/mvc/english.html
It came about 6 months later (that was at least 5 years ago), the cool orange box is still sitting unopened and on display.
Resisting the temptation to open it was one of the better parts of the experience.
I posted a few photos of the package (still unopened)
at:
http://www.edymond.com/minerva.htm