cant wait for the new Apple Bone Music feature to launch
While I’m on an absolute contemporary art kick, let’s talk about the Handphone Table by Laurie Anderson.
Originally created in the late 1970’s, visitors entering the exhibit room would stumble upon an wooden table, a few chairs and a photo on the wall depicting two patrons at the same table with their elbows up and hands over their ears.
Naturally most visitors would sit down at the table and try to match the people in the picture. And in doing so, they would be quite surprised to hear Anderson’s voice coming through their hands as if she was entering their consciousness.
What they didn’t know was Anderson had installed a secret, special speaker inside the table that transmitted sound vibrations through solid material rather than air. That is to say, the listeners’ bones conducted her recorded voice.
It was a way for a performance artist to be invisible and yet still present…inside a visitor’s head.
I stumbled upon an alternate, updated version of this artwork at the Hirshhorn, where instead of her voice, I heard her droning, experimental music vibrating up my arms and into my ears (among many talents, she is also a composer). Still just as trippy and deliciously creepy though. ;)
did i just drive ten kilometers in the cold to pet some random cat for half a hour?
yes
yes i did
he be frolicking
JUST NOTICED BUTTONS IS ON A LEASH LMAO
didn't turn out to good but camscanner tried its best
Do NOT. Do not. DO NOT buy fake leather
Pirate everything. Burn cds. Fight the cloud
PHYSICAL MEDIA
Tip food service workers crazy style
Smile at yr bus driver
Wear more eyeliner
Read superhero comic books
Paint more blood and gore
See saw xi in theaters
DIY OR DIE
Draw messy
LIVE MUSIC
remember that old panic at the disco is good truly
Tell people you love them
Stompy boots
My Chemical Romance
Assault a customer at your retail job
Write that weird fanfic
Watch every vampire movie ever made
Wear that crop top
Start a fire
Listen to music made by angry women
Remember that you are fucking alive and do whatever you want
"every day itsa gettingcloser
goingfaster than a roller coaster"
the roller-coaster in question
just finished Castlevania nocturne T~T
anyway how are the monster fuckers holding up?
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.
go on Elliot the whole internet is rooting for you king
its really not,have you met the guy? I'd say 2 is not enough
a comprehensive list of all my fears and weaknesses to be used against me later [he/she/they] [hmu with requests for art]
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