…is, in fact, a title of a song.
This title I also claim (if not for myself, for a friend): An Algorithm for the Flocking Patterns of Balloons.
Done. It has been claimed.
Installation? Chamber piece? A new function capable of reversing our current economic situation? Who knows…
Many of you have probably heard of Barbara Hashimoto by now. She is a sculptor/artists that has recently switched to the medium of junk mail. Yes, junk mail. It’s abundant, available and using mass amounts of it can really bring awareness of how much paper is wasted every day/week/year on that crap. She states that the average person will spend 8 months of their life sorting through junk mail.
Don’t sort it- recycle i! And call any comment line you see to get removed from their list. My room mates and I get our internet through Cox. It felt like every few days I was receiving another envelope full of promotions for other services. I finally called Cox and told them to stop all snail-mail communication. Bingo! No Cox in my box! (Ha ha ha ha) Now to contact Food City, Fresh & Easy (you can get coupons form them via email), Sunflower (I would go their regardless of what was on sale) and Red Plum (whole big packet of crap).
Anyway, back to Barbara. She has been collecting junk mail for a few years now and has almost filled a room with the stuff. People are amazed at how many pounds of crap mail one small business can accumulate over a year. One part of her project was to cover a performing pianist in the stuff to show its suffocating and destructive nature.
Now what am I going to do about all this white trash? I’m going to collect the junk mail that comes to my house, and with the help of my handy-dandy shredder, fill this bean-bag chair and ottoman.
I started collecting junk mail on 9/21/09. Let’s see how long (or short) this takes!
Coffee will be on me for whoever gets it right!
Here are a few sites that can help you prevent the spread of junk mail (plus a few other fun sites):
YellowPagesGoesGreen: A site that claims to stop the unwanted arrival of a stack of new phonebooks every couple of months.
41pounds: A site that claims it can stop most junk mail from reaching you for a few years. I only glanced at the site, so take some precaution before you sign up. Hopefully it’s not a bunch of dudes sitting around, taking your money and not stopping junk mail. I think the best way is to just call the folks who are sending junk mail to your address.
ithinkihateplastic: a blog that debates the lesser of many evils in our day to day lives.
DYI Steps to Stopping Junk Mail: Some simple steps you can take to stop the flow of crap. Annoying yes, worth it, yes.
This has to be the weirdest episode of Family Guy:
Good thing I don’t own a car. But seriously, they need a test for cyclists, too. A bike lane goes with the direction of traffic… You don’t know how many people I have seen coming towards me on a bike in the bike lane… while texting.
Created by Auto Insurance.org
Do you enjoy sitting down with a warm goblet of blood and devouring a tasty vampire-themed novel? Do you live for the next Twilight movie to come out in theaters? Are you under the impression that vampires have gnarly sparkly zits that twinkle in the daylight to warn mortals of their presence? Do you like the seductive curve of fangs protruding from ruby-colored lips?
You have been brain-washed by vampire novelists feeding off of and sucking the life out of former Harry Potter lovers.
I feel that the current vampire trend has given the public the unnecessary right to be proud of their trashy obsession. You might as well tote around some romance novels and slap fangs on the leading romantic role. Oh wait, it’s been done. And do you really need two phallic symbols dangling from a cute 20-something’s mouth to get turned on? I certainly hope not. With wizards, they do have long pointy wooden wands, but these implements of mass sorcery are used by both wizards and witches. But I am not here to talk about the Harrys and Gandalfs, I am here to make a convincing case for our friend the Zombie.
Why is the Zombie so awesome, you ask?
1. Because I say so.
2. Because they have inspired great works of film and fiction such as Sean of the Dead, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Fido, 28 days/hours/weeks later or whatever (admit it, fast zombies are hilarious), World War Z & The Zombie Survival Guide (both by Max Brooks), Boy Eats Girl, and many, many more…
3. Zombie-inspired foods are far more entertaining. See: brain cupcakes, grave cupcakes, zombie cake…
4. Zombies can be vegan-friendly. Meet Tofu, the vegan zombie! I believe the cutest trait about this little guy is his cry for, “GRAAAAAAAAINS!!!!”
5. Zombie Fluxx. The card game Fluxx is brought to a whole new level of awesome with zombie-themed cards.
6. In the original Dawn of the Dead, the black guy is NOT the first person to die.
7. Zombie stories are actually scary because they feed off of the fear of a mass epidemic. The spreading of a virus that can’t be stopped. The fear that loved ones will turn on you. The fear that there will be no where left to hide.
8. Lovers of Zombies don’t take themselves too seriously.
9. How lame was Dr. Acula!?
10. Zombies were the inspiration for one of the most ground-breaking chamber pieces of this century, Zombie Victory. PDF
Masterminds David Wegemthgthpyt…, Kurt Melehblchker… and myself got together one afternoon to complete a counterpoint assignment. Little did we know we would change the course of contemporary chamber music. Using nothing but a map, a ruler, beer, Zombie Fluxx cards and our very own blood sweat and tears, we contrived mind-boggling algorithms that would soon form Zombie Victory.
Zombie Victory is expected to go into recording with Fig’s Library later this fall.
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