Arts Administration
or The corporate infiltration and subjugation of freedom of expression
The capitalist-sponsored shift from artist/maker-curated shows to the development of professional curators ignorant of all aspects of art beyond speculative market value has brought about this particular predicament you rightly attribute to a gallery/institution-centric art market. Between oppressive (implicit or explicit) ownership of critical media and the inherent censorship of privatized museum committees, one cannot but despair at such an all-consuming groupthink atmosphere. Our post-industrial shift into the hypercapitalist economy of “knowledge” commodities has resulted in the same art market bubble that the world is suffering from in the realm of real estate. Gallery and museum-fronted hedge funds shall suffer a similar fall.
Meanwhile, the question of recognition and a new establishment must be met with an understanding of the current power structure and the structure of previous social revolutions seen in the era of the poststructuralists. The DIY movement will soon meet some of the requisite instructional/educational criteria. Until co-opted, censored or suppressed, it is precisely these DIY tools of liberation that must be reshaped under a new criteria. Aligning with the trends to unplug, go green and self-sufficient, the art community must reach out with high and even low-tech solutions for navigating and directly communicating with the masses or at least the dying middle class. The political right wing forged a path of success with manipulative tactics of direct mail, spam, blog sites, phone banks, thinktanks and “leadership” programs. We already have blogs, websites, magazines and workshops. What we lack is organization and uniting principles that would come with thinktank fellows.
Re: Thinktanks- A major aspect that seems underplayed in the discussion is art criticism. If no personality or clash of personalities are screaming no one will pay attention. Any press is good press. Noone is talking about any controversial makers, but the Van Gogh and CopBusters makes the local news. Until we can establish more Glen R. Brown, Richard Sennett, Glenn Adamson… there is not enough drama or discussion to demand coverage. Icons make news better than
Re: Leadership Programs – What we have arrived at for training the future curator has become a rotating corporate door training the future CEO/Art Speculator, obviating the necessity of field experience and real knowledge. Arts management produces product Art, concretizing the loose structures imposed by the holistic eye of an art historian and industrializing the maker into the Widget factory worker. Without the monetary reinforcement of public funding innovation slows to a crawl and forces the repetition of historical movements while a wizened avant-garde wastes away among McWaifs.
The question of audience appears central. The elite desire control, the almost elite demand prestige, and the masses demand entertainment and the illusion of status.
How can we reach out from the inherent elitism of educational institutions to a demographic that’s been groomed to be anti-intellectual?
How far do we resort to sensation and commodified subcultures to attract the public?
The unprecedented reach of an online community may facilitate the beginning but a game plan must reach beyond the virtual. Alternative media (YouTube, Democracy Now, LinkTV, Indymedia) offer a unique opportunity to reach a receptive demographic.
As much as I feel that the gallery system stands as the central pillar of the institutional suppression of creativity; I feel we must also examine the hyper-specialization and hierarchical status of Art Education and Arts Administration and accord them their due role in the current debacle.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Reverend Billy Exclusive Interview!
(Excerpts from an exclusive phone interviewer Emmanuel Goldstein conducted with stylist Hal Foster - the man behind the biggest anti-shopping performance artist's coif around, Reverend Billy.) November 4, 2008
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EG: So this whole stop-shopping church thing is simply your elaborate marketing ploy?
HF: That’s right Biff. Without me this phenom known as Reverend Billy would still be out in some virgin forest starving chained to a tree or worse back in the burn treatment center after visiting a place like Bravo 20. You know where I found this guy right? He was on the coast of some godforsaken island just off NY collecting ticks with tweezers mumbling nonsense about some Lab 257, still reeking of Fresh Kills. He was a nobody, goin nowhere but the pen. Look at him now, an ice cream suit out on Fox News preachin the glorious Word of my handiwork.
EG: How did you arrive at such an extreme anti-consumerist ruse? Did you really think it would resonate?
HF: Look, I’m not a smart man but I know you’ve heard of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Dixie Chicks. Protest sells. Big. Things like anti-War or global warming, they’re too big, too cumbersome or too unreliable time-wise. B Hussein Obama could win, I think we’ll give him this one so Palin and Rove can step in permanently. So Gitmo, the Iraq quagmire, like Nam it will end ignominiously. But Christmas keeps coming, birthdays, Hallmark holidays, the shopping that fills the voids in your life don’t even have a real season. These are tried and true American values. Malls are the cathedrals and big boxes private chapels. The economy is contracting because slowing debt growth has finally overtaken perceived growth to burst the bubble. The same recession I saw in the late 80s, larger of course; but I knew I could rely on Greedspan, knew he wouldn’t let me down.
EG: So you planned for the recession by creating an shopocalyptic profit prophet? Isn’t that cynical and duplicitous to deflate the opposition by grooming a false iconoclast? Wouldn’t it ultimately undermine your hypercapitalist position by exposing the flawed foundation and presenting an alternative?
HF: Nader? Third party politics? You think I’m a lone wolf in this pursuit? It’s simple, divide and conquer. They will never truly organize because they don’t have the capital to counter our assault. So in short, yes it is as much cynical as it is realistically in my best interest. Corporations are people, but are also the modern saintly icons, cardinals and bishops under Pope Media. Who is a better target than the church?
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EG: So this whole stop-shopping church thing is simply your elaborate marketing ploy?
HF: That’s right Biff. Without me this phenom known as Reverend Billy would still be out in some virgin forest starving chained to a tree or worse back in the burn treatment center after visiting a place like Bravo 20. You know where I found this guy right? He was on the coast of some godforsaken island just off NY collecting ticks with tweezers mumbling nonsense about some Lab 257, still reeking of Fresh Kills. He was a nobody, goin nowhere but the pen. Look at him now, an ice cream suit out on Fox News preachin the glorious Word of my handiwork.
EG: How did you arrive at such an extreme anti-consumerist ruse? Did you really think it would resonate?
HF: Look, I’m not a smart man but I know you’ve heard of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Dixie Chicks. Protest sells. Big. Things like anti-War or global warming, they’re too big, too cumbersome or too unreliable time-wise. B Hussein Obama could win, I think we’ll give him this one so Palin and Rove can step in permanently. So Gitmo, the Iraq quagmire, like Nam it will end ignominiously. But Christmas keeps coming, birthdays, Hallmark holidays, the shopping that fills the voids in your life don’t even have a real season. These are tried and true American values. Malls are the cathedrals and big boxes private chapels. The economy is contracting because slowing debt growth has finally overtaken perceived growth to burst the bubble. The same recession I saw in the late 80s, larger of course; but I knew I could rely on Greedspan, knew he wouldn’t let me down.
EG: So you planned for the recession by creating an shopocalyptic profit prophet? Isn’t that cynical and duplicitous to deflate the opposition by grooming a false iconoclast? Wouldn’t it ultimately undermine your hypercapitalist position by exposing the flawed foundation and presenting an alternative?
HF: Nader? Third party politics? You think I’m a lone wolf in this pursuit? It’s simple, divide and conquer. They will never truly organize because they don’t have the capital to counter our assault. So in short, yes it is as much cynical as it is realistically in my best interest. Corporations are people, but are also the modern saintly icons, cardinals and bishops under Pope Media. Who is a better target than the church?
Monday, November 3, 2008
Cruisin the Farmer's Market for Grey Poupon
Making it on Etsy
The notions of overindulgence, undiversified market choice and all-the-eggs-in-one-basket in the approach to the craft market must be discarded. Just as one would buy low and sell high, choose LLC structure to partnership or sole proprietorship, or fail to listen to one’s superiors when they suggest overinvestment in your company’s stock, one must not rely on Ebay-lite for one’s sole income whether it is based in one-of-a-kind craft production or not. However much like the trajectory of sites like Ebay, the star of Etsy will shine brighter until some sunny day when some may find their own gilt pyramid scheme among the genuine articles; that is, if it fails to flicker in the current economic squall.
Umbrage with ‘validation through patronage’ is an easy thing to accept but hard to negotiate. Indeed the dominant cultural model remains material wealth through conformist/non-conformist monetary gain, the unquenchable thirst accompanying the frenzied hypercapitalist (Graham, Hypercapitalism) overconsumption model. Under the specter of unlimited commodification, the notion of inevitable subsumption weighs heavily on all the arts and sciences, intellectual pursuits and especially on the participant/spectator in the disturbing non-site heterotopia (Foucault, Of Other Spaces) that is the system of tubes. The conclusion one must arrive at remains one of “confusion” and “hopeless powerlessness” tempered by the acknowledgement that such “knowledge products” have been sold by mere men.
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Technically, the sub-prime mortgage crisis is a mere symptom/exacerbation of the natural rising debt-sourced market bubble that results from the rising wage gap that occurs when wages trail productivity and naturally result in ballooning unsecured debt, exponential profit and market instability fed by an encouragement of further debt from lowered Fed rates (Batra, Greenspan’s Fraud). Suspicion should arise when a market historically takes a hundred years to reach one thousand yet only one decade to surpass fivefold let alone to subsequently double in less than that. Unfortunately until systemic/regulatory reform takes place, bailouts will only dampen if not exacerbate the deflation and those few whom own will face lower returns while they watch the rest of us fight among the rubbish.
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The Aporia
Talking with the non-superstar veteran studio artists (from painters to jewelers), one encounters not only the indomitable drive to create continuously but also the zeal to subsist however one can. In the end, the artist is far from a capitalist, despite aspirations. Until one can mount the vertical monopoly in the craft world, the field remains a romantic worldview that places what one must do before what one feels/fears the market will bear. For some, one must lose the hand-craft, others the practice itself, still there remains the option of alternate/subsistence income to divide your energies and test your vigilance for the process/action/practice.
Until the States see a necessity for federally-funded individual creativity, the free-thinker will be relegated to an Einstein at the Drive-Thru, and thus consequently will remain light-years behind in innovation and industry, let alone the artworld.
Like litter-on-a-stick, Etsy is indeed a “beacon of hope” in the corporate vacuum, a looming icon of the first step in the establishment of Craft in the public consciousness. The question becomes one of empire or confederation, market or community, didacticism or Greedomics. Only through joint forces with the likes of Adbusters, Reverend Billy and other established counterculture factions will any real progress/effectiveness become visible. If the execs can sell corporate personhood and persecution and effective political action to fundamentalists, surely the pragmatists can realize concerted conscionable sustainability among a small faction of informed citizens.
Act quickly, craft globally.
-Sheldon Marx-Guggenheim
The notions of overindulgence, undiversified market choice and all-the-eggs-in-one-basket in the approach to the craft market must be discarded. Just as one would buy low and sell high, choose LLC structure to partnership or sole proprietorship, or fail to listen to one’s superiors when they suggest overinvestment in your company’s stock, one must not rely on Ebay-lite for one’s sole income whether it is based in one-of-a-kind craft production or not. However much like the trajectory of sites like Ebay, the star of Etsy will shine brighter until some sunny day when some may find their own gilt pyramid scheme among the genuine articles; that is, if it fails to flicker in the current economic squall.
Umbrage with ‘validation through patronage’ is an easy thing to accept but hard to negotiate. Indeed the dominant cultural model remains material wealth through conformist/non-conformist monetary gain, the unquenchable thirst accompanying the frenzied hypercapitalist (Graham, Hypercapitalism) overconsumption model. Under the specter of unlimited commodification, the notion of inevitable subsumption weighs heavily on all the arts and sciences, intellectual pursuits and especially on the participant/spectator in the disturbing non-site heterotopia (Foucault, Of Other Spaces) that is the system of tubes. The conclusion one must arrive at remains one of “confusion” and “hopeless powerlessness” tempered by the acknowledgement that such “knowledge products” have been sold by mere men.
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Technically, the sub-prime mortgage crisis is a mere symptom/exacerbation of the natural rising debt-sourced market bubble that results from the rising wage gap that occurs when wages trail productivity and naturally result in ballooning unsecured debt, exponential profit and market instability fed by an encouragement of further debt from lowered Fed rates (Batra, Greenspan’s Fraud). Suspicion should arise when a market historically takes a hundred years to reach one thousand yet only one decade to surpass fivefold let alone to subsequently double in less than that. Unfortunately until systemic/regulatory reform takes place, bailouts will only dampen if not exacerbate the deflation and those few whom own will face lower returns while they watch the rest of us fight among the rubbish.
-
The Aporia
Talking with the non-superstar veteran studio artists (from painters to jewelers), one encounters not only the indomitable drive to create continuously but also the zeal to subsist however one can. In the end, the artist is far from a capitalist, despite aspirations. Until one can mount the vertical monopoly in the craft world, the field remains a romantic worldview that places what one must do before what one feels/fears the market will bear. For some, one must lose the hand-craft, others the practice itself, still there remains the option of alternate/subsistence income to divide your energies and test your vigilance for the process/action/practice.
Until the States see a necessity for federally-funded individual creativity, the free-thinker will be relegated to an Einstein at the Drive-Thru, and thus consequently will remain light-years behind in innovation and industry, let alone the artworld.
Like litter-on-a-stick, Etsy is indeed a “beacon of hope” in the corporate vacuum, a looming icon of the first step in the establishment of Craft in the public consciousness. The question becomes one of empire or confederation, market or community, didacticism or Greedomics. Only through joint forces with the likes of Adbusters, Reverend Billy and other established counterculture factions will any real progress/effectiveness become visible. If the execs can sell corporate personhood and persecution and effective political action to fundamentalists, surely the pragmatists can realize concerted conscionable sustainability among a small faction of informed citizens.
Act quickly, craft globally.
-Sheldon Marx-Guggenheim
Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
My kind of loyalty is loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, to care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags - that is a loyalty of unreason, [it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.]
Howard Zinn quoting Mark Twain
He obviously voted for Change. Treasonous Change.
A thousand points of light. Stay the course.
-Rob E. Lee
Howard Zinn quoting Mark Twain
He obviously voted for Change. Treasonous Change.
A thousand points of light. Stay the course.
-Rob E. Lee
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Long Live the Dead Crafts
Response to Dysfunctional Craft
Isn’t the traditional purpose of craftsmanship is to provide the best possible function, durability, etc, without revealing the hand of the craftsman or the infrastructure of manufacture? As mechanical inventions of man supplanted or distanced the direct physical manipulation the economic factor of replaced workers resulted in the class-based reactionary Luddites. Today you have the current China price due to imperialist actions of conglomerate manufacturers and thus are witnessing a similar revolt in the form of the bourgeois DIY movement and the soon-to-be fully co-opted and incorporated “organic” and “green” consumption trends.
So, when one espouses the Marxist notion of all things being reduced to capital, I can’t argue with that. What I do question is the primacy of capital over emotion in the cost-value analysis of items for consumption. On a similar vein, the low retention rate in the crafts-artisan field, I would argue, remains the same across the board no matter the major. I certainly know plenty of English and Philosophy majors who work their share of McJobs. Certainly the decimation of the public funding of the arts would play some small part in such an American travesty.
Regarding the question of the death of “craft,” I would propose the sublimation a necessity for basic survival. As the modernist project failed to distill each subdivision into an essence and return the overly-specialized parts into some form of larger truth, I would propose that within the Culture War – specifically the War on the NEA – the divided Arts are facing the real threat of annihilation and those surviving on the poisoned breast of privatization and the wizened teat of evil big government have no choice but to regroup, strategorize and attack. Hopefully these are the seeds of a new front.
Personally my view of craft is supplementary, simply the optimization of the stated function of the object or creation. Moreover, I would suggest that it is not craft itself that has changed, but the function of craft, specifically the ends one seeks to achieve using craft as much as form.
Industrialization aside, the strata of the standard of living and the perceptions of class have remained constant and have thus always informed the public consciousness of consumption; therefore, when it is proposed that one must manufacture or starve I cringe. Oppositional thought patterns rarely find solutions, so I must implore a European path that requires public funding, namely educational and political solutions to educational and political problems. We certainly wouldn’t be where we are today without the GI bill.
I do enjoy the equivalence of the lone maker with the likes of Target. Should they both be using Chinese children or prison labor? I certainly think so, but for different reasons. Without a “personal vision,” wouldn’t you be making something that’s already been made? Wouldn’t innovation require a fresh set of eyes with which one reformulates given components? Wouldn’t those eyes have some history of their own from which they would pull, since they may have been born at night, but not last night?
Long Live the Dead Crafts.
Captain Ludd "The Gouger"
Isn’t the traditional purpose of craftsmanship is to provide the best possible function, durability, etc, without revealing the hand of the craftsman or the infrastructure of manufacture? As mechanical inventions of man supplanted or distanced the direct physical manipulation the economic factor of replaced workers resulted in the class-based reactionary Luddites. Today you have the current China price due to imperialist actions of conglomerate manufacturers and thus are witnessing a similar revolt in the form of the bourgeois DIY movement and the soon-to-be fully co-opted and incorporated “organic” and “green” consumption trends.
So, when one espouses the Marxist notion of all things being reduced to capital, I can’t argue with that. What I do question is the primacy of capital over emotion in the cost-value analysis of items for consumption. On a similar vein, the low retention rate in the crafts-artisan field, I would argue, remains the same across the board no matter the major. I certainly know plenty of English and Philosophy majors who work their share of McJobs. Certainly the decimation of the public funding of the arts would play some small part in such an American travesty.
Regarding the question of the death of “craft,” I would propose the sublimation a necessity for basic survival. As the modernist project failed to distill each subdivision into an essence and return the overly-specialized parts into some form of larger truth, I would propose that within the Culture War – specifically the War on the NEA – the divided Arts are facing the real threat of annihilation and those surviving on the poisoned breast of privatization and the wizened teat of evil big government have no choice but to regroup, strategorize and attack. Hopefully these are the seeds of a new front.
Personally my view of craft is supplementary, simply the optimization of the stated function of the object or creation. Moreover, I would suggest that it is not craft itself that has changed, but the function of craft, specifically the ends one seeks to achieve using craft as much as form.
Industrialization aside, the strata of the standard of living and the perceptions of class have remained constant and have thus always informed the public consciousness of consumption; therefore, when it is proposed that one must manufacture or starve I cringe. Oppositional thought patterns rarely find solutions, so I must implore a European path that requires public funding, namely educational and political solutions to educational and political problems. We certainly wouldn’t be where we are today without the GI bill.
I do enjoy the equivalence of the lone maker with the likes of Target. Should they both be using Chinese children or prison labor? I certainly think so, but for different reasons. Without a “personal vision,” wouldn’t you be making something that’s already been made? Wouldn’t innovation require a fresh set of eyes with which one reformulates given components? Wouldn’t those eyes have some history of their own from which they would pull, since they may have been born at night, but not last night?
Long Live the Dead Crafts.
Captain Ludd "The Gouger"
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Grey Ghost of G Gordon Liddy
Sorry for the delay folks, but after my appendix burst, my car burnt through the overpass and a minor spot on my lung, I am alive and kickin, ready for another shout out into cyberspace.
The boric acid is on back order and I can't stop making coffins.
I was able to compile a new reading list for those who like to wear glasses:
- Dolores Hayden's A Field Guide to Sprawl
supplying the political clout of vocabulary to join the long fight against Category-killers and LULUs
- George Lakoff's Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea
providing the foundational argumentational framework that after thirty years will bring this nation back to the progressive center where it belongs
- Vandana Shiva's Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
educating the westerner on the actions of government and corpratocracy, the rise of a fundamentalist pseudoscience that has invaded international intellectual property right law
- Elaine Scarry's On Beauty and Being Just
fantastic treatise dismissing the defamation of beauty and balance
- Jim Sheeler's Final Salute
heart-wrenching accounts of the infamous "knock at the door" experienced by over four thousand families thus far
You'll find it quite an enlightening set of reading if not altogether uplifting.
Toodles.
-Gildenstern
Friday, April 11, 2008
Dearest Kimball
The brevity, clarity and audacity displayed in your solitary tome to expose the Pinko art historians for what they really are, is indeed an inspiration.
To insinuate that artists like Courbet would have any evil misguided socialist ambitions is indeed monstrous and an outright inflammatory assertion too heinous to discuss further.
Indeed artists and art historians alike must know their place. If they were meant to have political assertions their maker would have guided them toward politics.
Art itself must remain cloistered in the galleries and on rugs, placemats, and napkins or else it would not be art. It becomes fancy litter that must be burnt.
I demand we Cleanse the Arts of all political implication. The danger of Creativity is real. And the Enemy shall use it against us. Convince us they are one of us and subvert Our glorious Mono-culture.
This degradation that is Multiculturalism must be abolished for it threatens the sovereignty of Our Leader, especially in these times of War.
This fraud that is perpetrated on the unwitting public cannot go Unchallenged, Unexamined, or Unpunished.
You gave them the vote and they take the minds of our children, Warping their brains, Washing them with the Stench of Feminism they call "Free-Thinking."
I stand before you on the Front Lines of Our War. Our Culture War and I COMMAND you.
DOWN WITH ART.
WE SHALL PREVAIL.
I SEE THEIR PYRE FORMING BEFORE ME.
GLORIOUS FLAMES SHALL CLEANSE THEM ALL.
PURITY THROUGH FIRE.
God said somewhere, "To err is human, to gird the vacuum of Art is Divine."
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Jon Jon Here
After the wayward rambling of Mr. Finkelstein I must implore the reader to explore the reader before the reader is sore. This sort of a reader must enjoy verbal gerbilizings and wanton craftwork. I digress.
I recently explored two pamphlets of the right wing of literati of the Arts and Crafts War, namely, Metcalf's "Evolutionary Biology and Its Implications For Craft", and Jivan Astfalck's "Jewellery Art as a Fine Art Practice." Indeed with any war truth is the first casualty and the Arts and Crafts War remains no different.
With the exploration of cultural mores inherent in human nature one must jump to the unenviable conclusion of craft as a sympathetic trade. When coupled with the proclaimed genetic/evolutionary based differences referenced between men and women as hunter vs gatherer, this trade of sympathy grows bosoms. (A fitting counterpoint to another essay in the book Objects and Meaning, titled "Beyond the Binary") Why men should aspire to women's work I may never understand.
I read the title of the flyer with the preconception that the argument would be substantially evolutionarily based, i.e. on tool development and usage thus an easy argument for the development of utilitarian craft. Only to find damaged brain discussions without a discussion on plasticity, an evolutionary case for sleaze and a craft-based panacea for the salvation of our rotten society. Looking beyond the discursive nature of the text, I was continually delighted by the contempt or distortion for artistic conceit or content.
Turning to Astfalck's article in New Directions in Jewellery, I had found my Claudius to drink the poison. Beyond the misprint in the title, the complete subjugation of jewelry as an hierarchical subcategory beneath a larger Fine Art world could only leave one mute and funny in the head. When Fine Art subsumed the wearable and even the framed conceptual object my neighbors complained about the "awful wretching next door. Sounds like he's got a mountain lion with a hairball." Such gore I had not seen since Calder fed Sam Kramer to his hogs. The insinuation of the relegation of pure utility to the workman and as inappropriate for the artist churns the stomach of any well known crafter. Had Jivan not heard of Dali? Dada? Cage? Kinkade? Rauschenberg? Indeed Astfalck had drawn the line in the sand. And he has claimed Craftasia for FineLand.
Every artist may show good craft; indeed, I do bite my thumb sir.
The Red Coats of Craft shall prevail! May the savages of the Fine Arts drown in a shallow grave. (Leave the hammer, take the cannoli.)
Friday, March 28, 2008
Robert Finkelstein Reporting
That's correct. I am now standing at ground zero of what can only be described as the apotheosis of skullduggery and the epitome of a post-modern solypsis for Craftisans and Artisans alike.
Without further adieu, I bring you the Word from the mouth of Prometheus:
My fellow Craftisans, I come to you today not as a leader, a uniter or even a prophet as some have claimed.
But I see my brothers and sisters suffer under the unskilled hand of the Enemy.
I see their eyes weep and I hear their nashing of teeth. And I say NO MORE.
NO longer shall the strong of skill suffer the weak.
NO longer shall the washcloth be stained while the canvas runs free.
NO longer shall we tolerate the aesthetic ignorance that threatens our way of life.
I say NO MORE.
So in the spirit of Kropotkin I call upon my brothers and sisters to rise up.
RISE and sing your praise.
RISE and sing the song of freedom.
RISE and throw aside the shackles money, fame and fortune.
RISE and embrace the future.
RISE and embrace your BRAND.
I call on you now to open your checkbooks and write yourself a check. It could be a little, it could be a lot. Sign your blank checks and send them...
A more moving performance I could not imagine. As The Reverend wiped the torrent from his brow, His eyes glowed as neon in the Cave. Shining the light of revelation upon the eager listener. Once a broken man, I emerged born anew, awash with spirit, squinting in the rush hour traffic, blinded by vision.
I bear witness to the glory of Craft and the wickedness of artistic Conceit.
I imbue the life around me with the commitment of sympathy... currency.
I think I left my checkbook at the gas station.
-RFinkelstein-
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Inception
Howdy all.
I began this project with high hopes. The infusion of politics with personal adornment and object-making seemed fertile ground for blogerific pontification. Regardless, the best laid plans are but a gadfly away from chaos. Have no fear, a solution for the future of this fickle jargon-packed dialogue has been reached.
Inspired by the DIC (Do It in China) movement, I am handing the reigns to my apprentice who is still recovering from SARS. After losing his toy factory back home, Jon will have plenty of time on his hands to do this blog justice or more accurately justiblog.
Aloha.
Cut to Jon on camera one.
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