Greens

Greens
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from a useless blog survey im doing

so my camera and my hard drive have decided that they are not behaving, and not showing up on my desktop, so no new pictures, and my entire music collection is inoperative as well, help?

pot cake is good

Reading this challenge :which encourages people to read 5 books they disagree with in 5 months, i have decided to read the following:

1) Milton Friedman Capitalism and and Freedom
2) Rosseu (sp) The Confessions
3) The Dialectic of Secularism: On Reason and Religion (Ratzinger, et al)
4) Imperial Grunts, Kaplan
5) The Art of War--Sun Tzu

Progress Report:

Goals for 2007

1) Publish 12 articles, online or in print. (work hard on completing after pitching)

4 Published

2) Find 5 Shows

Hulberts Show Done
The Ruscha show, Shows at Sugarbowl and Mosiacs upcoming (which is 4)
waiting responses from Axis.

3) Submit artwork to 6 contests, or the like.

Frameworks, The Flat Show, the Capital City Grant (which is four)

4) Look for Day Job
not done

5) Go to Holden Village in July or August
worried about capital, maybe later

6) Spend time away from Edmonton, but not nessc. in Toronto. (esp. Vancouver)
still waiting

7) read strunk/white, chicago, internalize.
havent done yet

8) continue with the jesus goals.
working on that

9) pay martin off.
payment w, the money in sept

10) try to find my own place
done

11) boyfriend
not done

12) work on being more calm and together]
hospital, etc helped this out

13) pitch WK book, continue on american jesus book
not done

14) be more social.
done

thesis: dancing in lds culture is a unique attempt to control the unruly body, and mantain gender norms.

the lds blog qoutes a history of dancing in an lds context...


My Response:
Being queer at LDS dances, as I was for most of my highschool years was fascianting. The dances seemed to be allowed as a saftey measure. You kids have fun, we know where you are, and we know that instead of drinking or fucking, you are doing something a little off, but nothing truly problematic. It was the beginning of my erotic life and my cultural life though. It was the place where i found that I liked clean cut young men, and that there was subtext that was ignored or avoided by other men (Time Warp, RAsputin, YMCA all come to mind), it was the place where girls would slow dance with me, because it was safe, my body was not unruly (or at least was not unruly to that audience), and that i liked the raccous, the camp, and the over the top more than the traditional. It also taught me how to two step.

The thing that is missed though, is that it was v. perscriptive. Though the LDS church might be more friendly, more celebratory of bodies than other churches, only certain bodies and certain partners were given this privlege. If you grew up believing tht all bodies were dirty, it seems to me coming out was just an acknowldgement that you had failings of flesh, just a bit different.

If you came out as LDS though it was given that you had betrayed your body, the gifts that were given to you as a result of your flesh were corrupted. The tension b/w queer bodies and straight bodies was then incredibly difficult to process. The violence that the LDS church has done to transgender folks is a really good example of this. According to LDS eitology, our bodies are gifts from god and the pleasure we receive from them are equally gifted, but that means that only people who are clearly gender normed follow this.

let me put it this way, if yr god is fully masculine and fully femmine (and mother god is often forgotten in the LDS corpus), you are violating yr own divine nature if you are not fully anything, if you are b/w for any number of reasons. The dancing is a perfect example, dancing is encouraged, loved in the communities, but only if boys dance with girls, if boys dance with boys, then a violation has occured (though i saw girls dancing with girls, which makes me think that the church still cannot handle the idea of womens sexuality and is violently opposed to outssider “male” sexuality

sorry this was so long and i didnt spell check, etc

some photos of a fence

some photos of a fence
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some photos of a fence

some photos of a fence
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose.

some photos of a fence

some photos of a fence
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose.

some photos of a fence

some photos of a fence
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose.

links:

john cage on i have a secret

penn jillette cashes the CATO institutes paycheques

a realy cogent article on inflation, Zimbobwe and the economicso f starvation

maoist interventions with late captial, recently in shanghai, this might be street art parody, as the cultural revloution retreads seem to be popular in europan auctions lately.

paying protection money to prevent being harmed in prison, not to other convicts, but to the state, says how high that is as a priotry. (nytimes link)


French, 1690, 9 feetx6feetx7 feet.

post apoclyptic images of the 180 near Berkley, melted (this overpass has been destroyed 4 times in 25 years)


photo by lacy atkins for the sf gate

ecudaor is going all tits up

erowid scans and hots the golden guide to hallucengic drugs

sony celebrates the launch of p3 with a decapitated goats and topless girls with grapes

high times, hard times a show of late modernist abstract paintings, made more often by women and visible minorties, and v. much conceptually present, seems to be of the recent flurry of discussion of what abstraction, and esp non objective paitning means now, this is one of my favourites, because it pushes what painting and drawing are, with location, hanging, material, and othr concerns. the link is to the staltz review, which is solid. (the review also features a bemused review of the latest bjork improablity)


Howardina Pindell, Untitled, 1967-1970 (grid, intervention w. the wall, found or semi found objects, its andre all over again)


Still from the Good Old Naughty Days, a colelction of 19th Century photographic and filmed pornography

the AFA defines sexual orientation for the rest of us, in oppostion to having it be a protected class in federal legislation

soviet stills of how to eat healthy, they all look oddly like outerbridge, and are also uncanny, in what is left unsaid about information control in the USSR

I WANT A YURT


i have been unable to write about andrew wrights photos of water, because i find them so powerful, and lorna says that they are techincally brilliant, they are on at the peak gallery on qsw, and i really want to see them (i think its partly the northern romanticism that rosenblum talked about in historical essay taht marked its history from Fredrich to Rothko, and also the implicit danger, they are of the niagra gorge and he needed a police escort)


Standing Wave 7 - (2007) digital print on Kodak Ultra Endura Paper size 50”x74”
this is one of them

100 000 images of glass art.



From Post Secret

harpers closing up loopholes that allow dodgers resisters to find saftey.

all rich white guys look teh same (camera man cheat notes, from the republican debates

footage of a porn star having her mouth, tits, ass, cunt, and fist enshrined in latex.

fantastic interview with Martin Parr, about his new show at Hasted in New York, about European Colour Photographers from teh 70s, with some pretty fucking spectaclur images.

the loc has a blog

I love the colours, the slightly blurred edges, and the intensity of certain tones that Polaroid cameras provide. The cool tones in these photos are ones that the camera and film lavishes attention on. The beige and brown of snow, the green of weeds choking a water pipe, the unique teal of northen British Columbian lakes, ferns and grass against tile or stucco. I wanted to amplify the nature of the medium, to show these colours off as best as I can. The prints intergral white frame is twinned by the wooden shadowbox. Putting a number of these shadow boxes on the white walls of the axis cafe will provide a kind of third frame, all of that white collapsing into colour.


12 images:

Greenery, Parking Lot, Prince Rupert
Boston Ferns, Ft Sask, Alberta
Snow Mountain, Millwoods Town Center, Edmonton
Skeena River Detail, near Terrace, BC
Hay and Straw, Farmfair, 2007, Edmonton
Siberian Carregana, 99th and 104thm Ft Sask
Bridge over the Skeena, Mntns, etc, near Prince Rupert
Long Grass and Mosiac, Burrard and Davies, Vancouver
Fogged Window, with Finger Mark, Pat and Rays, Toronto
9 Power Lines, 99th Ave, Edmonton
Shed Boards, Ft Sask
Painted and Now Peeling Fiberglass, Location unknown

CW MCCauls best of has that wondeful place where my love of kitsch, long narratives, general strangeness, and hard adherence to themes moves in time. he did convoy, and i am not sure if the album is any good, but dammit its fun

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

eros blog featured one of my photos

Roger Lass' "Four letters in search of an etymology", DIACHRONICA 12:1 (1995) 99-111.

Flower

Flower
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(You're the only person who has used "symbolicvagina" as a tag.)

Finally, after two weeks of greiving and coming to Jesus, I caleld my close personal friend, Garth Fisher, who is my plastic surgeobn. And I said:"Listen, I need to ahve aneciscion done, will you do it for me..."

Jennae Jameson in US