A damn Shame

Illustrator Segway>Legway

Chance Operation Project

Task:

Make a piece of art that comes about as the result of a chance system you design. This could be as simple as tossing a coin, picking numbers or other written text or images out of a hat. You can work in any medium you wish - drawing, painting, watercolor, photography, performance.

The challenge here is to design a system for yourself that leads to the creation of a piece or art, but without the input of your own personal sense of aesthetics determining the choices involved.

Procedure:

Decide:

a.  the medium you will work in. (If you are really psyched, use a chance system to decide that for you!)

b.  the method by which you will generate your chance operations.

c.  the system you will use to make decisions.

d. what is fixed and what is variable.

You can make the system as simple or complex as you wish, however once you set up your system, don’t deviate from it.

Chance Operations: 410

Carina's Chance Operation

Word Hunt:

Begin at the SFSU Library

1. Flip coin:
--heads go to the 3rd floor
--tails go to the 4th floor

2. Go through the entrace for the floor

3. Flip coin:
--If heads turn right
--If tails turn left
(If you can't turn the designated direction
immediately walk straight and turn that
direction as soon as you can)

4. Take twenty steps toward a bookshelf
   of your choice
   Flip coin:
--If heads choose a book off the bottom shelf
   closest to you.
--If tails choose from the top shelf

5. Turn to the approximate middle of the book,
   write down the first whole sentence on the
   left page.

6. Repeat steps 3 through 5 until you have 4
   sentences.

Carina's Results:

Earlier in this chapter we discussed Executive Order 12372-- Intergovernmental Review. Noting that the Quay focus on the inappropriate things that each youngster does, they proposed a modified approach. Thus, satisfactory physical conditions of work mean material inducements to factors not directly productive; satisfactory social conditions mean the rejection of some of those best able to contribute to the material production and acceptance of someone less able. An enthusiastic young soldier who was with the United States Army in Czechoslovakia wrote to me from Pilsen, a town of 100,000 inhabitants in June 1945.

Oz's Results:
This story representation has an important feature in common with our earlier ACT network representation of sentences (refer back to figure 2). It is hoped that the enlargement and betterment of the unloading facilities there and elsewhere in the Lisboa area, which handles the distribution of most of the fresh fish landed in Portugal, will be stimulated by the completion of the new fishing port nearer the Tejo mouth of Pedroucos. The Second Development Plan ending in 1980 entailed five successful years of development for Saudi Arabia. As tables 2 and 3 indicate, both equations in the system are significant.

Oz's Chance Operation:

1. Use letters from the name of the item you had for lunch today to make a new word.
2. Take this new word and Google Image Search it.
3. Post the top five image results.

Oz's Results:

Burrito = turbo

Carina's Results:

During lunch I ate frozen yogurt and decided to use that to make a new word out of. I made the word gooey and did a google image search of it with some shocking results for what I believed was a relatively innocent word. I took the first five images and made a composition from them.

f r o z e n   y o g u r t
    o   e      y o g
gooey

 

 

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You Are Here

You Are Here
Probable Monument
Oz McGuire

Instead of an improbable monument I am proposing a very probable monument for the Market Street Kiosks. I have always been attracted to the visual assault of public space, generally led by the advertising world. How we see and understand the world around us is heavily influenced by visuals created by people trying to manipulate our desires. Other visuals that permeate our public space, specifically on Market Street and kiosks in general, are public service announcements and maps telling us where we are, or how to get where we want to go. Maps and the science of cartography attempt an objective telling of reality through visual representation. I am fascinated by the roles technology, history and visual culture play in creating this reality. In my proposal for You are Here I have collaged imagery of pictures I have taken of reflections off of kiosks, macro shots of the streets, Google Earth maps and historical photos of Market Street together to create a new cartography of where You are now. When a viewer looks at the kiosks assumptions about the intention of the imagery will be put into question; is this work art, advertisement, public service, public discourse or a combination of all these things?  It’s up to the viewer to decide.

Pleasuremaker @ Madrone

This Friday Happy Hour w/ Ozgood and J Montag

Afrolicious November Party

Wanderer Above Trinity

I've been citing and appropriating images of the 19th century German artist Caspar David Friedrich for the last year. His famous painting "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" has become an iconic image of the Western ideal of the sublime. In this collage I have placed imagery from the first U.S. nuclear test called Trinity in front of the wanderer. I look for the sublime in the destructive, one of the binary oppositions that have been pushing my ideas lately.

Wicked Funk this Sunday Night!!!

Hope all of you in the Bay Area can stop by this Sunday night for the first of many Afrolicious parties.
We start at Nine at Little Baobab on 19th and Mission. Its one of my favorite clubs in the city , can't wait. We will also be doing a little Fela Kuti tribute set of originals, remixes and alt versions in celebration of the maestros birthday (along with other global funk sounds). Below is an mp3 of a Fela joint called Fear not for Man from his Stale Mate LP, that I've been rocking non-stop lately. The intro is where its at, great break and then this primordial scream that is the essence of Fela
"The Secret of Life is to Have no Fear" when Fela says it you believe it too.
Download  "Fear not for Man"

Pleasuremaker Teaser

Download "Disco MOFO (When the Rain Falls)"
Download  "Government Spying"

Both cuts recorded summer '06 at Mixtape Studios with Jerret Fulton on live drums and Jon Brewer on Keys. Written by Joe McGuire , who plays keys, bass, guitar and writes beats and lyrics. Look for the full length album Gather 'Round that Heavy Sound soon.

IF Life is a Beach

Than sometimes it is a cold windy beach. Sand in the pockets, thats okay. Just get your sleep kid.