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Spam, part 2:

I get alot of chain-mails which you should forward for a noble cause, but I never really trust these mail, because although they are send to you via a good friend; You really never know the person behind it who first started this.

What do you think? is this for real? Is this a serious initiative? Do you know these people? Will it have any effect? Will it matter if you forward this or not? Should I forward this? Would you? Do we really need oxygen?

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Hi All,

The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but PLEASE put your names on the list and forward this on as instructed below.

First, some facts:

The Amazon rainforest is responsible for the generation of 20% of the oxygen that we on this earth breathe, 30% of the world's freshwater is contained within the Amazon basin. 60% of the cancer-fighting drugs used today are derived from plants that can only be found within the Amazon rainforest. The area to be forested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock.

All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large multinational companies.

The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region is prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 square kilometres deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and in the process of becoming deserts, meaning that this proposal is in the short-term interests of a few, and in the long term interests of none.

Please copy (cut & paste) the entire text into a new e-mail, put your complete name on the list below, and send to everyone you know.

Blindcopies (BCC) would be nice...

DON'T JUST FORWARD IT, AS IT WILL THEN END UP WITH ROWS AND ROWS of '>'wich discourages people from sending it on.).

If you are the 400th person to sign please send a copy to:

fsaviolo@openlink.com.br

Thank you for your help!

panoptic abstraction#3

Things I find on the web, Part 3

Tanya, getting hand-cuffed next to a police car. 2004

Tanya: "We even had to put the cop car in the album. The officer actually gave us the hand-cuffs, I made this one a little bit artistic"

-Source

Word of the day: elision

elision
1.
a. Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation.
b. Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable, as in scanning a verse.

2. The act or an instance of omitting something.

MSN portrait#2: Maurizio

The second portrait in the 'msn-portrait' series is this drawing I made of Maurizio (Cattelan) while he was drinking his favourite drink, a cup of green tea with honey. (He learned to acquire such taste from Joseph (Beuys)). He had his webcam on but the framerate was to slow, so I kept seeing him blurry and shocking... What really depicts Maurizio again offcourse...

Pebble

This weekend I was at the Niedersachsenwald and found this curious pink pebble.

Word of the day: mercurial

mercurial
-relating to or containing or caused by mercury
-"mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth"
mercurial
-liable to sudden unpredictable change "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; -"mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"

Realists wear shoes too!!!

Apperently people who are very ill, (the most illest persons to be exact). And realists wear shoes! I wonder what healthy and un-realistic people wear on their feet..... I never met anybody unrealistic but myself before coming to think about it :)

Spammovie#1

Msn-Portraits#1: Gregor Schneider

I recently started making portraits of friends of mine during conversations with them on msn (which has a neat drawing-tool). This is a portrait I made of Gregor Schneider.
He didn't see the resemblance...

:(

Ahh! I just hate it when I wake up with a huge hangover... :(

panoptic abstraction#2

the power of diversity

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. Young or old, man or woman, rich or poor, a person is always located at “nodal points” of specific communication circuits, however tiny these may be. Or better: one is always located at a post through which various kinds of messages pass. No one, not even the least privileged among us, is ever entirely powerless over the messages that traverse and position him at the post of sender, addressee, or referent.

"Can you show me the way to the post-modern snackbar?"

Philosophy originating from the 1980s

Star gazing

Weren't it the old Greeks that claimed that a blanket was pulled over the world when you went to sleep? An old partly ragged blanket, full of tears and holes: that were the comets and planets. That explanation always settled my mind at ease because its so comforting. We don't really want to know why everything is as it is, we just want the most comforting explanation. Or the most poetic... We search only for that we want to find...

Panoptic abstraction#1

How to make money out of art!?

The best way to make money out of art: start an art-supplies store! Just as during the days of the Californian goldrush (or probably any goldrush for that matter). People who make money out of others fortunes (and try to monopolize that), will get rich even before the producers of that the fortune do so.
(Is this a political statement??, I'm not sure :/)

Who is leBlanc?

Spacing art

Wow, what strange works of art you can find on the net these days, this artist openly calls his work "strange", and his style "spacing-art". I think I said enough already, just see it for yourself!
And the best thing is, that he even explains to you why his paintings are unique! What were you asking more for in live?

idea

I just woke up with a great idea for an artwork in the public space.
But I'm not going to tell you... :P

politics

I dunno about politics, it's so risky! What if you make the wrong decision? I'm glad I do not represent the people, but just the arts.