N. Jay Dee.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Franko B #3
A toast to 1977, refernces from the workshop to be made into a video, performance, thing, photograph, nasty intervention... this will be meaningless to everyone but the other participants.
This observation connects numerous references: the date of a Nan Goldin photograph, an observation of a prescribed time period, and therefore a timeline, the act of toasting an event, red wine and other liquids drunk during the three days of this workshop, and a reference to on and off, described in the given text and to the act of switching on and off the lights depending on what was being viewed on screen.
On and off/the screen gave rise also to the opening of the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which shows a dead body in flash photography accompanied by the burning out of the flash bulb, which is referenced in the text by mention of watching a scary movie. (Audio). I also wanted to use something which included Coca-Cola drunk by some of the participants and to a mention of Australia (where one of the group originates). Which led me to the post-apocalyptic narrative of Neville Shute’s motion picture On the Beach, which is set in Australia after a nuclear holocaust destroys the northern hemisphere before it too is destroyed by an impending nuclear winter, and were the survivors follow a cryptic morse code message, believing it to have come from a group of survivors, only to find it is being created by a bottle of Coca-Cola nudged by a breeze against a morse transmitter. The last message seen on the screen of this film is There is Still Time. Brother, seen by a line of survivors waiting to take a suicide liquid.
So , here’s to 1977. (everyone to take a drink)
This observation connects numerous references: the date of a Nan Goldin photograph, an observation of a prescribed time period, and therefore a timeline, the act of toasting an event, red wine and other liquids drunk during the three days of this workshop, and a reference to on and off, described in the given text and to the act of switching on and off the lights depending on what was being viewed on screen.
On and off/the screen gave rise also to the opening of the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which shows a dead body in flash photography accompanied by the burning out of the flash bulb, which is referenced in the text by mention of watching a scary movie. (Audio). I also wanted to use something which included Coca-Cola drunk by some of the participants and to a mention of Australia (where one of the group originates). Which led me to the post-apocalyptic narrative of Neville Shute’s motion picture On the Beach, which is set in Australia after a nuclear holocaust destroys the northern hemisphere before it too is destroyed by an impending nuclear winter, and were the survivors follow a cryptic morse code message, believing it to have come from a group of survivors, only to find it is being created by a bottle of Coca-Cola nudged by a breeze against a morse transmitter. The last message seen on the screen of this film is There is Still Time. Brother, seen by a line of survivors waiting to take a suicide liquid.
So , here’s to 1977. (everyone to take a drink)
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Franko B #2
Talking
Memories
Objects
Tears
Kraftwerk Computer World
Lowsalt, Glasgow
Bad art
Hot Guy
Business & Money
Aileen Campbell
The Grand Canyon
Rain
Cas and 20 years
The Chittendens & Triangle of Need
Coffee
Memories
Objects
Tears
Kraftwerk Computer World
Lowsalt, Glasgow
Bad art
Hot Guy
Business & Money
Aileen Campbell
The Grand Canyon
Rain
Cas and 20 years
The Chittendens & Triangle of Need
Coffee
Monday, 2 March 2009
Day #1 Franko B
After Life, Koreeda Hirokazu
Destricted, Larry Clark
Jack Smith
Nan Goldin
Two Chinese artists
Lots of porn
The importance of the legend
Rednecks
Mona Hatoum (not very good work) Sick (Bob Flannagan) (and his hot brother)
And the ambivalence of the live art circuit and the visual art circuit
The London attitude
Destricted, Larry Clark
Jack Smith
Nan Goldin
Two Chinese artists
Lots of porn
The importance of the legend
Rednecks
Mona Hatoum (not very good work) Sick (Bob Flannagan) (and his hot brother)
And the ambivalence of the live art circuit and the visual art circuit
The London attitude
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Let me start by introducing myself, I am MADAM. BELEN ALEJANDRINA,
CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK. I am writing you
this letter based on the latest development at my bank, which I will
like to bring to your personal edification. I am a top official in
charge of client accounts in (EQUITABLE PCI BANK) which is now BANCO DE
ORO UNIVERSAL BANK inside the Philippines the merger was late 2007.
In 2001, my client was going through a horrendous divorce in the United
States of America and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to
his vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming
predicament, my client came to me with a very brilliant idea. He
transferred some funds, ten million two hundred thousand dollars
($10.2m) to a fixed deposit account in my bank under an alias which only
the two of us knew about as the confidentiality of the matter was
necessary for his protection.
Due to his untimely death in early 2002, the funds have been sitting in
the account ever since and will continue to do so perpetually unless we
do something about it. This is where you come in. I located you through
an agency that helps seek people by their email. My client did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work
of his bank deposit. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that
I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to our
client so that you will be able to receive his funds. I want you to know
that I have had everything planned out so that we can come out
successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin to my client. All that
is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your
Full Names and Address and telephone number so that the attorney can
commence his job.
CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK. I am writing you
this letter based on the latest development at my bank, which I will
like to bring to your personal edification. I am a top official in
charge of client accounts in (EQUITABLE PCI BANK) which is now BANCO DE
ORO UNIVERSAL BANK inside the Philippines the merger was late 2007.
In 2001, my client was going through a horrendous divorce in the United
States of America and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to
his vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming
predicament, my client came to me with a very brilliant idea. He
transferred some funds, ten million two hundred thousand dollars
($10.2m) to a fixed deposit account in my bank under an alias which only
the two of us knew about as the confidentiality of the matter was
necessary for his protection.
Due to his untimely death in early 2002, the funds have been sitting in
the account ever since and will continue to do so perpetually unless we
do something about it. This is where you come in. I located you through
an agency that helps seek people by their email. My client did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work
of his bank deposit. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that
I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to our
client so that you will be able to receive his funds. I want you to know
that I have had everything planned out so that we can come out
successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin to my client. All that
is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your
Full Names and Address and telephone number so that the attorney can
commence his job.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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