Archive for June, 2005

“Daily” Projects I have enjoyed…

"When I wake up in the morning I go out and film a one minute observation of the day." -Johanna Marxer
http://www.minutelibrary.com
[thanks to metafilter for the link to this one...]

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"In 1001 nights cast, Barbara Campbell performs a short text-based work each night for 1001 consecutive nights. The performance is relayed as a live webcast to anyone, anywhere, who is logged on to this website at the appointed time, that is, sunset at the artist’s location."
http://1001.net.au/
[the artist's location is currently Paris...]

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"Marc Horowitz wrote “Dinner w/ Marc 510-872-7326” (his name and cell phone number) on a dry-erase board fixed to a desk-like piece of furniture, which was being shot as a retail product for the 2004 Crate & Barrel Catalog. He did it in hopes to have dinner with whoever calls the number from the catalog. The catalog was distributed and he received over 3000 calls. As a result, Marc has decided to take a year-long Trans-America journey to meet with as many people for dinner as possible and document this journey through writings, photographs, and digital recordings."
http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com/
[thanks to my flatmate Bec for sending me this link. She thinks Marc and I should meet up...]

MJWF / SquatFest Review

The weekend of the 26/27th February 2005 was a biggie. On the 26th was the MJWF’s (Marrickville Jelly Wrestling Federation) Ripe Age event at the Turrella TerrorDrome. The MJWF is a burgeoning organization which began from humble garage and backyard wrestle events in Marrickville. It’s hard to really explain to someone who hasn’t experienced this kind of thing before… It’s something of a cross between a DIY version of WWF (now WWE) wrestling (Hulk Hogan etc.) and a very serious costume party…

(to read the rest of this article, go to
http://www.naturalselection.org.nz/s/4.18_Lucas_Ihlein.pdf )