Comments on: The Wednesday Assortment http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:56:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: darkymac http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-14827 darkymac Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:17:20 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-14827 I be too late, as usual, to avoid the ibtm thread-disintegration-into-wierd-sexuality, but Christo argumentation is a hoot. And here's proof that his art is trailblazing. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=scienceNews&imageID=2006-03-17T032923Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-VERBIER-DC.XML I be too late, as usual, to avoid the ibtm thread-disintegration-into-wierd-sexuality, but Christo argumentation is a hoot.

And here’s proof that his art is trailblazing.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=scienceNews&imageID=2006-03-17T032923Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-VERBIER-DC.XML

]]> By: Kathleen http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13599 Kathleen Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:20:15 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13599 Oh! Also please send me some Andy Goldsworthy. Oh! Also please send me some Andy Goldsworthy.

]]> By: Kathleen http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13597 Kathleen Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:15:45 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13597 Oooo! I HATE Burning Man! But I LOVE sheep; please send me some. Oooo! I HATE Burning Man!

But I LOVE sheep; please send me some.

]]> By: tigtog http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13560 tigtog Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:00:40 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13560 Adrienne, just hijacking this thread 'cos the previous one seems to be closed. When J Crowley mentioned <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>, you took it as some sort of BDSM title and said you had no desire to read it. Nooooooooooooooooo! AHT is Patriarchy-Blaming of the finest nutbag-godbags-must-be-fought variety, and is a definite must-read. Adrienne,

just hijacking this thread ‘cos the previous one seems to be closed. When J Crowley mentioned The Handmaid’s Tale, you took it as some sort of BDSM title and said you had no desire to read it.

Nooooooooooooooooo!

AHT is Patriarchy-Blaming of the finest nutbag-godbags-must-be-fought variety, and is a definite must-read.

]]> By: tisha http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13510 tisha Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:04:36 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13510 re: the Pandagon trackback, the "arguments I refuse to engage in" thread on Pandagon is pretty funny! http://pandagon.net/2006/03/01/consistency-is-our-middle-name-that-and-desiree/ re: the Pandagon trackback, the “arguments I refuse to engage in” thread on Pandagon is pretty funny!

http://pandagon.net/2006/03/01/consistency-is-our-middle-name-that-and-desiree/

]]> By: Tony Patti http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13490 Tony Patti Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:08:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13490 Poor Stingray! She never struck me as the kind of person who enjoyed drawing attention to herself. The photo is incredibly beautiful, though, and if you think about it, nobody could ever pass her on the street and identify her from a photo like that, so her privacy is intact. The power of Stingray is all in her incredibly cool personal demeanor, which you can only sense by standing in her general vicinity at Star Death shows. I'm not sure if it is something you see or if it is something you sense. Poor Stingray!

She never struck me as the kind of person who enjoyed drawing attention to herself. The photo is incredibly beautiful, though, and if you think about it, nobody could ever pass her on the street and identify her from a photo like that, so her privacy is intact.

The power of Stingray is all in her incredibly cool personal demeanor, which you can only sense by standing in her general vicinity at Star Death shows. I’m not sure if it is something you see or if it is something you sense.

]]> By: Rhus http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13489 Rhus Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:59:19 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13489 Liz evokes a great image in # 22, starting with: "I say the sheep farmers should have equal time forcing the art world to contemplate and accomodate sheep." <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/albumes/2005/11/20/ovejas/index.html" rel="nofollow">These images</a> might interest you. Sheep farmers say that <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4030969.stm" rel="nofollow">their purpose</a> is <a href="http://www.puentespain.com/Bridges Spain Eletter Selected Travel.htm" rel="nofollow">to keep old routes open,</a> but maybe they could be persuaded to drive their flocks through an art gallery or two. (A lot of homages to patriarchy in El Prado... that might be a little too much iconoclasm, though.) Liz evokes a great image in # 22, starting with:

“I say the sheep farmers should have equal time forcing the art world to contemplate and accomodate sheep.”

These images might interest you. Sheep farmers say that their purpose is to keep old routes open, but maybe they could be persuaded to drive their flocks through an art gallery or two. (A lot of homages to patriarchy in El Prado… that might be a little too much iconoclasm, though.)

]]> By: cinder http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13465 cinder Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:26:40 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13465 I'd never heard of Christo before reading this post, so I checked out his website. I gotta say I find it ridiculously extravagant to spend the kind of money he does on the kind of crap he creates. I am ALL about upsetting people's daily routine and assumptions. The fact that he seeks city permits makes it utterly banal. Illegal public art is thrilling, once it's officially sanctioned it is stripped of any content and becomes just another spectacle. Graffitti, bizarre public performance art, clandestine aesthetic overhauls of public space... I appreciate the spontaneous and unsanctioned reclamation of public space by any means. Once it's permitted it is just absorbed into the frenetic spectacle of contemporary capitalism. It is not capable of challenging anything because it is utterly dependent on it's relationship to capital. Maybe I'm just far too working class to understand the stifling banality of high art... lower class enough to think street art is more relevant than any insitutionally approved garbage. I’d never heard of Christo before reading this post, so I checked out his website. I gotta say I find it ridiculously extravagant to spend the kind of money he does on the kind of crap he creates. I am ALL about upsetting people’s daily routine and assumptions.

The fact that he seeks city permits makes it utterly banal. Illegal public art is thrilling, once it’s officially sanctioned it is stripped of any content and becomes just another spectacle.

Graffitti, bizarre public performance art, clandestine aesthetic overhauls of public space… I appreciate the spontaneous and unsanctioned reclamation of public space by any means. Once it’s permitted it is just absorbed into the frenetic spectacle of contemporary capitalism. It is not capable of challenging anything because it is utterly dependent on it’s relationship to capital.

Maybe I’m just far too working class to understand the stifling banality of high art… lower class enough to think street art is more relevant than any insitutionally approved garbage.

]]> By: zuzu http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13459 zuzu Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:00:41 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13459 <i>Well, I’m sure that if it doesn’t, it’s something else. Like the Lifetime Channel.</i> You can't tell me that <i>Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?</i> isn't art, lady. Well, I’m sure that if it doesn’t, it’s something else. Like the Lifetime Channel.

You can’t tell me that Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? isn’t art, lady.

]]> By: norbizness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13454 norbizness Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:28:31 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/01/the-wednesday-assortment/#comment-13454 Christina: The hell you say. I heard that he's planning to encircle Stonehenge with delicious Christo Sandwiches, now only $6.99 with your choice of one side and a drink, from Bennigan's ("Elevating Humanity Through Mock-Trendy Food") Restaurant. Christina: The hell you say. I heard that he’s planning to encircle Stonehenge with delicious Christo Sandwiches, now only $6.99 with your choice of one side and a drink, from Bennigan’s (”Elevating Humanity Through Mock-Trendy Food”) Restaurant.

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