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Life is More Important Than Art is published by Ostrich, a not-for-profit arts agency concerned with challenging and revealing the prevailing attitudes, consensus and modes of cultural production, with a specific focus on contemporary visual art. The book is designed by Dean Pavitt at LOUP. Art is the most important thing in my life because it’s the only way I have of understanding life. I don’t have any other means of doing it other than through recording and then reconstructing it. Terry Smith, artist.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:12:48 -0800 Cups, chocolat and YouTube http://oddtag.posterous.com/cups-chocolat-and-youtube http://oddtag.posterous.com/cups-chocolat-and-youtube txt: An Inspirational Story - Life happens
Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups...and then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have.
video: EEOOY::How-to-make contemporary installation art::Ep.1 Part1 ("Damn I love youtube!" or "embarrassingly unfunny" ?) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHlrE1saOMc]

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Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:25:43 -0800 I'll get outside today: merry Xmas to everybody http://oddtag.posterous.com/ill-get-outside-today-merry-xmas-to-everybody http://oddtag.posterous.com/ill-get-outside-today-merry-xmas-to-everybody Let's shut down our computer, turn off connections, forget our smartshits. It's Christmas, it's the end of another year. Go outside. Meet your friends, your love, find people, real people. Small real people. Breath. Live. Merry Xmas to all of us. img: The Internet Was Closed...
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:18:11 -0800 I want them to buy my art, do I? http://oddtag.posterous.com/i-want-them-to-buy-my-art-do-i http://oddtag.posterous.com/i-want-them-to-buy-my-art-do-i txt from: Austrian Cultural Forum London - Visual Arts Platform - Nikola Hansalik: I want them to buy my art, do I …
"Seven telephones line the wall of an empty room, lit only by red neon lights. When lifted, the same voice speaks from each receiver and describes the future of Austrian artist Nikola Hansalik. In 2006 Hansalik travelled to New York, where the myth of success lines every street. Exploring the motivating forces behind the ever expanding art market, and questioning the mechanisms which attribute capital value to masterpieces, Hansalik set out to challenge her own future success as an artist. Over the course of a week, she asked a series of Manhattan fortune tellers to predict her future. The seven forecasts she collected, now heard through the seven receivers on the wall in her voice, seem at times uncannily identical, and at others, expectedly different. In asking for multiple predictions and presenting these in the same neon light so synonymous with New York, Hansalik removes the aura and veracity of a single prognosis, and reduces the intimate act of fortune telling into a banal cliche. ‘I want them to buy my art, do I…’ becomes an ironic self portrait, presenting personal details of an unconfirmed future."
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