What to do with a gallon of paint

One Gallon High Gloss Industrial Enamel, Thrown

3 in 1

To anyone who would like to put a photo in their profile I can help you, its very simple. You can IM me (ambivalentxlove) or leave a comment.

ALSO, here is a link to my webshots page if any of you want to check it out. http://community.webshots.com/user/3ileen

AND Anyone who is free the day AFTER thanksgiving, there is gonna be some cool stuff going on at the MF. AIR (artist image resource) is going to be doing screen printing and there will be a few other tables with some stuff to do.

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four

I saw John Cage (1912-1992) give a talk
in NYC in 1986. I don't remember much or anything of what he said, but I'll never
forget
the way he
said it.

I met John Cage at The Mattress Factory in 1991 at an after opening party in Barbara & Micheal's apartment(s).
I was terribly shy at the time and a bit in awe of meeting one of my heroes of the avant-garde. So, I sat beside him
in silence on the couch & we bothed seemed quite content to do just that.

When the artist Buzz Spector met John Cage at The Mattress Factory in 1991, he said, "Mr. Cage, it's an honor to meet you."
John Cage replied smiling, "No it's not. It's just something that happened."

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened by the old ones."
-John Cage


"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
-John Cage

What's The Value of a Blog?

I am very new to the world of blogging and it appears that many others are as well. The word blogging is so new infact,
that my spell check does not even recognize it....( blooding, blooming, blotting, blowing, logging, bogging, clogging, flogging
and slogging are several options to pick from to replace the word)....However, it's becoming increasingly clear that
blogging is a phenomenon which is rapidly changing the way that people share ideas & images, connect to like minded
indivduals, communities & family members and offers endless possibilities for self publishing.

I'm very pleased that we as a group (The Factory 14s) are entering into this new realm of "Messages & Communication".

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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

The sentence "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays. In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a woman. Stein later used variations on the phrase in other writings, and "A rose is a rose is a rose" is probably her most famous quote, often interpreted as "things are what they are". In Stein's view, the sentence expresses the fact that simply using the name of a thing already invokes the imagery and emotions associated with it.

Gertrude Stein's repetitive language refers to the changing quality of language in time and history. She herself said to an audience at Oxford University that the statement referred to the fact that when the Romantics used the word "rose" it had a direct relationship to an actual rose.


For later periods in literature and visual art this would no longer be true.

Gertrude Stein was a member of The Lost generation, a group of expatriated American writers who resided primarily in Paris in the 1920's and 1930's. The group consisted of many influential American writers including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams, Thornton Wilder, Archibald MacLeish and Hart Crane. These writers were disillusioned with the American society and bitter about their World War I experiences.

She was the first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an indeterminate and discontinuous universe. Words represented neither character nor activity: they were "not imitations either of sounds or colors or emotions. Language was an intellectual re-creation. Through an emphasis on such stylistic devices as repetition she used language to deny meaning and representational concerns. As she pointed out, she would "write as if the fact of writing something were continually becoming true and completing itself, not as if it were leading to something. A rose is a rose is a rose. And a universe is a universe is a universe.