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A quickie: an image from an ad for a show at the Tate. I’d call it decoration, not gallery art; it looks like the old MacPaint “trace edges” command. But I do think it would be fun to see Trading Spaces do that to someone’s floor. (Update: a larger image of it, which Clark Myers found for me.)
And another: Thinkofthechildren.co.uk:Who are we?The site offers you a variety of helpful options, including joining an upcoming mob, starting a mob of your own, and buying a “Stop Justice Now!” t-shirt. And a reported sighting of a .sig:We are concerned parents, many of whom have children of our own and who want the law changed to protect them. Every day in Britain happy, popular children who do well at school are being murdered by evil paedophile scum. Well enough’s enough! Its time the law got tough on child murderers.
What do we want?
We want the law changed to make it illegal to murder children and bury them in woodland. We want it to be made illegal for adults to work with children. We want an end to the ridiculous process of ‘criminal trials’ for suspected child killers.
I was kept naked on display in a cage for my Master’s pleasure. The steel band around my ankle told everyone who saw me that my role in life was to chew on his stiff cuttlebone. (From Parakeets of Gor)(via Geri Sullivan)
Ooooh, I like it! I saved the floor picture and set it as my desktop wallpaper, but unfortunately it's too low-resolution.
You might try http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue4/images/touch_zobop_large.jpg
193591 bytes (NOT kbytes); 473x738 pixels
there may well be other images around, dare I say it is just a variation on duct tape?
Ohhhhh. That's absolutely gorgeous. They could do it to the downstairs of my new house. (I will not, not, not say, "Oh wow man. Look at the colors.)
MKK
You need to do more computer fiddling. The time stamp on this entry says 5am on Mar. 24. It's only 9pm here on the left coast, so it can't be any later than midnight there. How'd you get 5 hours into the future?
MKK
Time stamp works for me, also left coast, time stamp shows me right coast as of. Posting this at about 5:26:10 AM Zulu
EST is -5 and that's what my browser shows as pasted below. Just possibly somebody is set to display what I still call ZULU? Lots of opportunity here for witty remarks about different time systems for astronomers too.
From Clark Myers,
posted on March 24, 2003 12:26 AM:
Time stamp works for me, also left coast, time stamp shows me right coast as of. Posting this at about 5:26:10 AM Zulu
Well, let's see if I can be clearer about the problem after 10 hours of sleep. The time stamp on Teresa's post, on which we are commenting, reads 5am Monday morning. But I was reading it at 9:15pm Sunday on the west coast. Which put it at least 5 hours in the future. The time stamp on my comment was fine. It was the one on her post that was the problem. Is that clearer?
MKK
Getting back to the show, I'll comment because I saw it on Saturday (actually went to the Tate to see the Marcus Gheeraerts' exhibition, which for anyone into embroidery was magnificent). Anyway, the tape on the floor was fascinating, especially the way the architectural features echoed in the colours until they faded out. Also had a lovely column of coloured lights at one end, although I'm not sure the artist regarded the back as part of the piece - plain black with cables stretching down to multiple sockets - very funny in the context.
I wanted to say that I liked the tape piece very much at first, but the effect on my eyes after a while was very strange, and I wouldn't want to live with it.
I am sending you the above URL because I don't know what else to do with it and I want it out of my house.
Aargh. It might be helpful if I actually put in the URL.
There.
Moveable Type sometimes apparently uses invisible ink.
I think you have to either post URL references with no tag information at all, or include a full bracketed anchor around the hyperlink. If you put a URL between single or double brackets without the A=, it just goes away.
This seams to be what Loren was trying to point at: http://www.defianttheatre.org/season/autumn.html
The link shows up under Loren's name in the first post.
What a great reminder of the possibilities of the floor plane! I wonder what it feels like to stand in that space now? How it would feel to sprawl out on that floor with a book? (Probably not so good.) Try it in something with varied textures, or inlay the material into the floor.
Randolph, I'd go with monochrome furniture, black or white (but not both), then just above that have single-color accent items (tall vases, low hanging light fixtures, small throw pillows) that picked up the colors of the floor.
