Tom Joslin and Mark Massi were on a bowling team with me in the fall of 1977, calling ourselves the Berlin Boys in homage to Iggy Pop's The Idiot and David Bowie's Low lps.
We took the bowling league seriously, as did other teams--one of which bought the from-the-catalogue bowling outfits. The Berlin Boys went with hand silk-screen tees. One of my scars comes from a bowling competition, as I stubbed out onto the back of my left hand a cigarette, standing at the scoring desk of the bowling lane before my turn to bowl.
Showing posts with label Polaroid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polaroid. Show all posts
Saturday, November 12, 2011
1978 Berlin Boys
Tom Joslin and Mark Massi were on a bowling team with me in the fall of 1977, calling ourselves the Berlin Boys in homage to Iggy Pop's The Idiot and David Bowie's Low lps.
We took the bowling league seriously, as did other teams--one of which bought the from-the-catalogue bowling outfits. The Berlin Boys went with hand silk-screen tees. One of my scars comes from a bowling competition, as I stubbed out onto the back of my left hand a cigarette, standing at the scoring desk of the bowling lane before my turn to bowl.
October 1978
The day of a performance planned for Marie Thibeault's studio party, I was practicing my poses, working throughout the day with at least two packs of Polaroid film. The white wall with black ties and tape allude to the photo documentation of actions by the the Viennese artist Rudolf Schwarzkogler. I'd bought a catalog the summer of 1977 at the gallery, Rene Block, which represented Joseph Beuys and Schwarzkogler.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Pretending to be an artist
Art pose, Art prose. ↓ BAD WRITING ↓
Pretending to be an artist.
Feigning a background.
Imitating your heroes.
Calling attention to a fluke/a stroke of good luck, not genius.
Wanting to be in w. the art crowd.
The thrill egoism of being able to say "I went to school with _____."
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Communication breakdown - an idea from 1970.
those words aren't used. The punks aren't attempting to define a generation gap. They are acknowledging that there is one, --- "Your Generation," "Youth, Youth, Youth," "Wild Youth." I guess that indicates some form of definition, some statement of place in society.
Offer no alternatives, state the conflict.
I want to be in a group.
I want to join.
I want to feel a part of something.
I want to be rebellious within reason, so as to be still acceptable to society.
Pretending to be an artist.
Feigning a background.
Imitating your heroes.
Calling attention to a fluke/a stroke of good luck, not genius.
Wanting to be in w. the art crowd.
The thrill egoism of being able to say "I went to school with _____."
____________________________Communication breakdown - an idea from 1970.
those words aren't used. The punks aren't attempting to define a generation gap. They are acknowledging that there is one, --- "Your Generation," "Youth, Youth, Youth," "Wild Youth." I guess that indicates some form of definition, some statement of place in society.
Offer no alternatives, state the conflict.
I want to be in a group.
I want to join.
I want to feel a part of something.
I want to be rebellious within reason, so as to be still acceptable to society.
Friday, July 9, 2010
and speaking of Multiple Male Orgasms!
the link on Amazon for my name as a contributor to Gay City vol. 3, Re-Pulped, takes one to a list that includes the title Multiple Male Orgasms. Would that it be me!
Or that I would be as clever as that to have grown for self-portraits in 1978 with a Polaroid One-Step to having an M.A. in Psychology and having had orgasms with multiple men. Oh, wait, I did do that, didn't I?
Well, I weren't so clever as to have written a book about it, and I can't brag that my bisexuality in mind has led me to a fourth edition Updated for Women!
But there's some Lurid Images! Sensational Characters! and Scandalous Storylines! to be had in Vol. 3 but nothing to tell my nieces and nephews to stay away from.
http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews38_25/page5.cfm
Or that I would be as clever as that to have grown for self-portraits in 1978 with a Polaroid One-Step to having an M.A. in Psychology and having had orgasms with multiple men. Oh, wait, I did do that, didn't I?
Well, I weren't so clever as to have written a book about it, and I can't brag that my bisexuality in mind has led me to a fourth edition Updated for Women!
But there's some Lurid Images! Sensational Characters! and Scandalous Storylines! to be had in Vol. 3 but nothing to tell my nieces and nephews to stay away from.
http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews38_25/page5.cfm
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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