Fasciniceation

Man-made snow sculpture on a tree, Vermont.
I think some of the
snowmaking machine operators at
ski areas do this deliberately, these
wonderlands of antigravity...



Four- day old snow frozen into ice and already being pulled up from the ground.

D o' D

Drawing of the Day.

It's three tuning forks, kind of related to the three various forms of "busy" seen below.

Busy Sunday (After Rem Koolhaas)

Busy(1)

I'm afraid that there is no one here
who has time to meet you.

Busy(2)

I have no time for the avant-garde.

Busy(3)

I have no time.



That's Rem and his project-book SMLXL is 1,345 pages long and ends
with a photo-spread of a Beijing newspaper, with the caption
"Two Billion People Won't Be Wrong". Spooky. Mmm-hm.

The Flower Guy Folds, Unfortunately

Two days after Valentine's, and the flower guy on the 1st
floor of 59 Wareham has a wall of boxes full of flowers he
has to now throw out. His workers didn't show up because of the
"storm", and the stands he'd planned to set up on the street vending
the flowers were all thwarted due to snow emergencies.

The place smells great, though.
He's picking at some still-fresh roses,
skinning off the leaves in one swoop of his
hand, right over the thorns. I ask him if he
doesn't get cuts from doing it like that, and
he says,

"Yeah I get cut up, but it doesn't hurt
if you're makin' money."

Bread and Puppet

Was great. They played it up at the Cyclorama for 4
performances of The Terrorists VERSUS The Horrorists,
with a cast of locally-recruited
puppeteers and musicians.

The cardboard people ("this is your neighbour..."),
the silences, the black and the white, all very lyrical
and beautifully strange.

There was a big flat-puppet flying over head for the whole show,
and after he landed on the floor at the end of the show, we went over and checked out his construction. That's the arm, it says "high arm", so that they know how to arrange it when
they get back to base.



& the manifesto makes sense.

Mark's Valentine

After Petrarch. He made it from 4 keyboards.

Nosnibor

This is how Cheryl Robinson used to sign her paintings.

As part of the "profiles of how to survive" series,
we are pleased to report that she has recently announced
her new goal of becoming a Garbologist.

Many friends of hers have made the connection between
her fascination with Bob Dylan, and her new Garbology
aspiration. And, indeed, she is not the first one for whom
the two have been cosmically aligned; A.J. Weberman writes,
in his bio of Dylan,

"One night I went over D's garbage just for old time's
sake and in an envelope separate from the rest of the
trash there were five toothbrushes of various sizes
and an unused tube of toothpaste wrapped in a plastic bag.
'Tooth' means 'electric guitar' in D's symbology...."

"Dylan's Garbage's Greatest Hits," in Twenty Minute
Fandangos and Forever Changes, edited by Jonathan Eisen
(Random House, 1971), p.179.

New Radio Programme

Don't know how many people are into the Public Radio thing, but
WNYC seems to be a hotbed of interesting programmes. First, there was
the fascinating (and voices-in-your-head-like) Radiolab, which is now in its second season. Tonight was the debut of a new programme- described as a sort of variety show- titled
Fair Game.


Tick here to listen to an audiofile, discussing, amongst other things,
the similarities between journalists and prostitutes.

RockMamaMetamorphosis

Don't know this band Grizzly Bear, but their music video Knife
= both pretty and wild. "I can't tell if I am high or offended"...

The Fill

Tuan Tran

Tuan Tran is in jail.
Trying to re-enter the United States, after visiting
his sister in Vietnam, it was determined that his visa is
no longer valid, and was put in a detention facility in
New Jersey. He has several months left to go; the best
thing in jail is to receive a letter (for those of us not in jail,
it's only something we can surmise). So, if you can, write to
him. It would cheer him up.

Tuan Tran, V (D-52573)
Bergen County Jail
p.o. box 0369
Hackensack, NJ
07601-0369

afore

tea-rain expansed the new palette.
the new board-curve.
allowing, allowances
for a cut corner here, a bridge there, and
pause- stands selling things (all things)

while waiting for the emptying, the workers (neutrally)
there wonder what the Fill will be when it arrives.

2/5/frio

...the day the patches of ice decided to be shadows, and the
shadows in turn saw themselves as patches of ice.

Title Explain

The reason for the title, you ask?

Well, the title refers to the equation for
a sphere. That's what this here is,
this Web Net thing, this
thing linking us
all equally.
We're all
equidistant
from its core.
So, hopefully this
can be a forum to talk
about various things, including
art, music, science, local things or global
things, and really what anyone sees fit.

Oh, and it doesn't have to be 2007.

You can be in any year you want.