After several hours of carefully mulling, re-arranging, thinking and viewing...I finally managed to come up with the arrangement for the 9 little fuckers, now dubbed (in my head) as the "Guðmundsdóttir Vag" (Just kidding Jeff, just "Vag" will do.) Photos of the arrangement follow the individual shots.
For those of you who like Bjork, if you're still around somewhere on this blog, I have included the track title (and mix where relevant) above each piece.
Joga
Generous Palmstroke
Cocoon
Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix from Telegram)
Unravel
So Broken ("Spanish" guitar version - Joga single)
Enjoy
Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet - Telegram)
Unison
The Vag.
The Vag Equivalent of Side Boob (Side Vag)
Generous Palmstroke
Cocoon
Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix from Telegram)
Unravel
So Broken ("Spanish" guitar version - Joga single)
Enjoy
Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet - Telegram)
Unison
The Vag.
The Vag Equivalent of Side Boob (Side Vag)
20 comments:
Although I find his pendantry insufferable, I will go on record as liking "Possibly Maybe" and "So Broken." Quite alot actually. Perhaps there is a indirect correlation between my antipathy towards someone's political views and their artistic abilities.
After all, viscerally I'd like to punch Philip Pearlstein in the mouth, but that doesn't mean I don't admire his artistic description of the human form.
RS
Haha. This is why I continue to suffer your wrongness...because deep down, I think you must be human.
why do you want to punch Philip Pearlstein if you like his work? I don't know the first thing about the guy.
Cause he's a liberal wackjob. Plus he's old and I think I can take him in a fight.
RS
You know ADM, that arrangement isn't entirely blasphemous. Actually it sort of works. Bravo.
I'm glad that Joga ended up in the center somehow. It's really the only piece that I took and really made my own. I did this with the Joyce series and that piece ended up being the weakest instead of a worthy center.
RS - good to see you! I think I've noticed you lurking in some other posts.
I do not fashion or otherwise offer pendants, clearly you confuse me with a jeweler. I see what you are attempting to accuse me of, and gleefully revel in it. Pedantry is, after all, far more sufferable than something like, say, pederasty. How could you?
Anyways, Egon Schiele does more for me than Pearlstein, but then so does Lucien Freud.
Don't make the mistake of thinking you could take Pearlman. He may be old but he could paint you into a corner with the power of his Bohemian Logic. Of course when the paint is dry you could just scuttle off into the shadows like those things at the end of Ghost :}
I'm glad you enjoy those two. Cheers!
Jesus Christ. I'm never introducing the two of you.
I would, however, be curious to show each of you 5-10 pictures of random people and have you choose which one you think is the other. I think that would be a very interesting experiment. Maybe i'll do that on the blog.
Bravo Jeff. You proved my point. Only the most pedantic would have noticed or cared that I purposely spelled it pendantry. Perhaps not the funniest of traps, but it made me laugh while tipsy from homebrewed beer at quarter 'til 11.
Seeing as how you gleefully relish in being called pedantic, and in using your bohemian logic, I shall up the ante by using my using actual logic (i.e. the kind not completely divorced from reality), demonstrating its superiority to your own hippie psuedo intellectual brand of convoluted thinking...
ADM -
I'm offering a future contract, in writing, so as to conform with the Statute of Frauds. On December 31st, 2010, at 4:00 pm EST, I will be on hand at 51st and Lexington with a cashier's check, made out to you, for $25,000.
At said time, I will trade you the cashier's check for the Bjork series painted by Jeff. The offer is not to be construed a jest.
RS
P.S. Jeff - Why do you have a little icon of a tie fighter?
Please stop talking to each other. Heh.
It's odd because I'm a little bit reluctant to make this deal, despite the financial upside and the fact that I'm sure Jeff would be willing to do wonders with a couple grand of that. Turns out I DO like the paintings.
In any case, in true lawyerly form, *I am not making a counter offer*, but instead am making a friendly inquiry into the nature of your offer...and asking why you would choose a location 6 blocks from my office instead of simply at my office, and what your purpose is for the transaction.
The interesting thing, is I think you may have just made an offer that could result in an enforceable contract.
1.) Location was chosen at random. First intersection in NYC which came to mind. Feel free to change.
2.) I purposely intended to make an enforceable K, which K you can accept, deny, or make a counteroffer. So much so that I'm willing to put up an earnest money deposit.
3.) Remember, Jeff has promised to "burn on the front lawn" any money he receives from me. You can do what you want with the $25K, but if he accepts it and uses it for any other reason (such as charity) besides burning, he's violated his integrity (artistic and otherwise).
4.) My purpose for the transaction is to prove a point about capitalism being the most efficient means of distribution, and socialism (or the Jeff equivalent) being less efficient.
RS
1) 45 and Lex.
2) Denied. I'm not taking your money.
3) I don't remember that, but it's sort of funny.
4) Point not made. Attempt not successful. Against who? And I'm being absolutely honest in asking you to stop trying to invoke and then tear down the straw man of socialism. It's actually embarrassing and discrediting...and ultimately it means that you haven't engaged in even a whit of give and take since I've known you, which I find disrespectful.
I don't care if you agree with me, but I can't tell if you've been duped by the mindless hucksterism or if you simply refuse to engage.
Those weren't very fair options: I can't tell if you have a disorder or you're not paying attention.
No wait...dammit. Couldn't figure out how to squeeze a Jew Gold joke in. Drats.
...and this would be a primary disagreement. I do not believe that socialism is a "straw man." Indeed, I think that socialism is alive and well.
RS
In Scandinavia, you do indeed have an opponent. In any conversation you have had within my vicinity, it is a straw man.
As far as I can tell, you define socialism as any involving more government involvement than you personally think should exist...then attempt to jam everything anyone believes into the spectrum placeholder of 1950's socialism. And then you attack that.
This is awesome. All my friends and I argue about is movies or whose mother is the bigger whore.
This is a troubling and complicated topic, not least because in our situation, your mother is clearly the bigger whore.
hahah
This is by far one of the more amusing threads I've come across in 2009.
RS, the irony of calling me pedantic followed by my reacting as such was indeed part of the joke. Brava, I'm glad you got a giggle. It was unequivocally my intention. Also, to "revel" in this observation as reaction would be to point out minutia, methinks. Clearly you aren't in this for context clues. Congrats, your "trap," was also my "trap." Whoopie.
I can only assume you wish to purchase my work so that you may destroy it, in which case I would indeed be hurt, as my work is a part of me. But then my only choice would be to paint better ones. If that destructive intention is not the case, I do take commissions. I'd even paint a portrait of Reagan for you. A big Reagan portrait: him with a modest boner on a backdrop of mushroom clouds with smiley faces while satellites shoot nukes and laser beams at each other. Title: LEGACY.
I'd first have to check my exact words on not taking your money- as it is my job as an artist to take money for work I might be professionally obliged to do so. I barely recall that that argument had more to do with national resources and taxes -wellfare/medicaid/help for needy people- than actual trade, but I could be getting pedantic about those details formed by words that pop up in discussions about topics that mean things about stuff that has something to do with us in some way.
Lastly, if it isn't getting to detailed or specific for your tastes, I am not, nor have I ever been, a socialist. Honestly, listen to ADM on this one. You sound ridiculous.
ADM, I'm offended. The fact that you think anything that RS could say to me would give any actual rise in temper or loss of cool is ludicrous. I am simply having fun at the expense of his seemingly poor lifestyle choices. If, in fact, any serious debates were to take place between us in person, my logic, which is neither bohemian nor bourgeoisie, would serve me well in maintaining peace and civility. As we've discussed, I actually lean left and right on many differing things and I'm always looking to revise my belief structures and learn more about life, the universe, and everything.
Oh yeah, it's not a tie-fighter.
It's a tesseract. A 4-Dimensional cube.
I don't remember saying anything to the effect that RS got a rise out of you....
Unless you're construing amusement as concern...and continued irritation at the same talking points as anything other than that.
Ah yes, I did momentarily take your amusement to be actual concern that if RS and I were in the same room for more than 2 milliseconds a new World War would come about.
No...not really. Though when I do talk about these things to RS, I sometimes wish I could run a sword through him.
...Preferably one crafted in Cuba, the USSR, or Red China...and then have it crumble and rust in some defective, incompetently manufactured mess right before dying...just to witness the utter explosion of feeling that would take place.
heh. I like that one.
As do I, my friend. As do I.
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