Archive for December, 2006
HUGE! in China
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| The last week has been madness on my cyber milkcrate. (soapbox) I’ve been getting crazy traffic for my two games, Skatefall! and Sampla. Strangely though, most of these viewers are coming from China. I can’t really explain it, but I’m happy people around the world (and now I can say that for real) are enjoying my work. Stats generated by Google Analytics. |
Things that have gone down
Posted by jfx in art, movies & video, opening, personal, show, skateboarding on December 11, 2006
| Back on November 17th, at Minnow, there was an opening for the show “Skate to School” which is a benefit show for the Patrick Kerr Skateboard Scholarship. The opening was fun, and the boards have and are being auctioned off on eBay. Click on in and donate for a good cause. More pictures of the show –> here |
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| A few weeks back I got an email from Crazy Don about his final project for his video production degree. He was tasked to create a video profile. Don enlisted the help of Dave Delaney (for these photos and some video help i imagine) and the result is pretty damn amazing. You can watch the video on youTube–>watch video. Or you can view some more photos–>here |
| Thursday night at the Art Institue of Philadelphia, the opening of Re:Construction went down. Amy S. Kauffman and Andrew Jeffrey Wright were the stars of the show. See some more photos–>here |
Re:construction Opening, Thursday night 5-8
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| Thursday night is the opening of a new show with my wife (Amy) and my friend (AJWright). The show opening is from 5 to 8. A little bird tells me that there will be good food by the culinary arts students. The show is at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, on Chestnut Street, accross from Liberty Place. The show will be up for a month or so, if you can’t make the opening walk by and check out Amy’s installation in the window. |
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The three types of specialists needed to make great change
From a passage of Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard, the three types of specialists needed for the success of any revolution.
Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening teams with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.
The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.
The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius — a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation. “A genius working alone,” he says, “is invariably ignored as a lunatic.”
The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. “A person like this working alone,” says Slazinger, “can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be.”
The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. “He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting,” says Slazinger. “Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.”
Slazinger, high as a kite, says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, the one I took part in, had that cast of characters at the top — Pollock being the genius in our case, Lenin being the one in Russia’s, Christ being the one in Christianity’s.
He says that if you can’t get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way.
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