someBody

My version involves somebody I know, but they don't know me. There is a Culver City gallery dealer...I love his shop, but I see him everywhere. Almost to the point of absurdity. Around LA galleries, makes sense...Miami art fairs, ok sure...whole foods Glendale...margaritas on a Sunday...concerts at hotel bars, seems a little strange. I could use a puppeteer. It is not not I am a nervous person, I don't know what to do with my body. In those situations I almost need to bungee cords to constrict my arms to the side. I will cross, twist, angle, maybe even multiple fold like and accordion...almost any odd contortion...I have had people comment that I look skewed. For reference, I want to talk or want to get into the conversation the helicopter arms amped on coffee just get in the way.

Body for Business


Speaking with Body

Communicating with everyBody

If Tickles became a show on C-Span, it might look like this:

puppeteer

I am sure it has happened to you that you see the same people all the time. Perhaps on a bus, in a cafe, in the gym, at your local bar... but you never really talk to them, maybe a "hey" and sometimes you watch them and wonder what they do besides hanging out in the same spot as you - right!?

This evening I found out that Eli is a puppeteer. I have a lot of imagination, but I would have never guessed this one... marvelous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz190K7yTJs


http://vimeo.com/10957835


http://vimeo.com/10957835

You just made me a superb "movie trailer". I am sorry to say but I haven't watched it. The movie just made it to my top things to do in 2 weeks! And I'll go back to this post and command!

For now I have to change subjects, well just a little bit. We are moving into the advertising world. I just came across the ad from Nike with Tiger and the article about it in Applied Arts.

Nike and Tiger Woods

Published on Friday, April 9th, 2010 by Stuart Thursby

my favorite

Vanishing Point (1971) was on last night. Why was everyone not watching!!! Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a guy who has been a good cop, a motorcycle racer and now transports cars to dealerships. It begins with him delivering a car to Denver, not to be swayed with liqueur or women, he immediately takes his next job...deliver a 1970 white Dodge Charger to San Francisco. Kowalski decides it must be there in 16 hours. Amped up on speed and total disregard for the law he motors his way through all sorts of obstacles. Kowalski is never in a major city, but only towns and long empty stretches of road. While outrunning the cops, a local radio station's blind disk jockey, Super Soul, becomes his champion. "The last American hero...the last beautiful free soul on this planet" he preaches. As Super Soul blast the airwaves in his one stop sign town, the camera will pan along dirt roads with almost no one listening.


The cops are after Kowalski, but it is not just about him against "the man", but him connecting to the machine and the machine driving past the vanishing point. There are all these shots of roadways outlining the great expanse of the west and inside the roadways, linear patterns cut through the asphalt. Because of a cop blockade, a city truck painting lines on the highway slowly paints a curve on a stretch of road with no turn in sight.



Kowalski barely says a word, but the engine is always on. The voice or the narrator is the blind DJ, piecing together events from a police scanner. At one point the charger leaves the road, and ventures off into the dessert abyss, the last piece of civilization and structure is now gone, reality is obscured as Kowalski will now, never leave the machine. He takes more speed to power himself powering the muscle car.


How does it end? There is really only one way and existential road movie can end.

trailer

Be the first!

1. I like the blog, and as your audience...you are very entertaining. As a participant, it is nice to direct the conversation. To talk and share and discuss in public - ideas and stories while in such a vast place, but still only talking to one other person is pleasantly awkward.
2. Audiences are nice. I have a studio at home where I am a participant and the sole audience all rolled into one. I understand the need to change.
3. The blog has made me a self-conscious social media user. I think about posting to facebook, then I say, who do I really want to say this too. Do I need to make another random comment to miscellaneous friends who may or may not even see the feed. I like feeling the web is not just some bull-horn, but something possibly to fine tune. There is plenty of great work on the web, but drawing the line in the sand and saying who and how you want people to respond and enter your dialogue is critical.
3a. Then, if they have the right conversation, they become participants.
4. I watch this show, How it's Made. It tells you exactly how things are made. It is a one to one transfer of information. No host and no hidden messages besides a Canadian optimism discussing all positive aspects of industrial breakthroughs (even if the reality is not so positive). In one 30 minute show you get a snapshot of systems; "how to make" guitars, metal washers, kayaks and Zamboni machines. Random. A little. I wonder if you zoomed-out, if there was a method to the mechanics. By focusing on one thing, you begin to understand the system.
4a. cookie
5. Lets make a deal, Ms. BMX Bandit - Patch/emblem + T-shirts blog is our safety net. That is the book deal and NYT Sunday magazine home run. This one right here, this is 72 cookies collapsed into one.

ONE more thought,
Is a switchboard a form of social media? In 2002, we were looking for numbers of friends. We called information. The 20 second info switch turned into a 5 minute phone call. The switchboard woman was distraught over Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopez' death. She became the first source, the i-report, the post to her followers (me and my studio mate)...the need to "tell" is important and that might help define the listeners and beckoners.

Another direction

I am wondering if this blog thing is the right way to go... still no followers. Does it matter, perhaps not as long as you and I are amused . But on the other side it would be pretty nice to have an audience, just a small one... yes!? Mhhh but wait actually, I am your audience and you are my audience and at the same time we are both participants, that's pretty out there if you ask me. (Just like a huge cookie that fits into a pizza box).

Maybe we have more luck with turning this Blog into a "Patch/emblem + T-shirts blog".



PS: Whats the difference between an audience and followers? In the blog world, we have the blogger and the...? (blog-reader, blog-fan, blog follower, blog audience, blog-viewer).

PPS: Maybe we need to define this:
Twitter: tweet(ing) - tweeter - follow(ing) - follower
Facebook - ?
Blog - blogger - blogging
...... (What other social, unsocial networks are out there?)

what to do

Sarah Morris, this is really great. I wonder which one was the original inspiration and trigger for the other one. Perhaps they came to live at the same time... what was inspiration in the first place. Marvelous!

What we have to say about a day: Today is a shitty day, ohhh I had a great day today, today was so lala, today is my birthday, today one year ago...

But have you ever said: "Today is World Pillow Fight Day", Today I attended my first mob event and it is throwing pillows!?

Go for it!

World Pillow Fight Day 2010 - Los Angeles

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240455942083&ref=mf



Or you could go to the Hollywood farmers market on Sunday and say, I have seen the The Blasting Company for the first time!


Or you could just watch them on vimeo - but live is always better!
http://vimeo.com/1507341

and perhaps you are lucky and see Gwen and Gavin shop veggies again.


or you could just cut phones apart - explanation to follow!