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Just to Let You Know…

12.26.03   /   Comments.03   /   Filed Under: My Tinkering Problem + Portfolio

Just to let you know (both of you), the site now has all the features it was meant to have when I redesigned it last August. Here is just a little tour of the new junk:

  • My portfolio - As I mentioned before, I have gone back and included many old paintings, installations, videos, and performances to the site which are now accessible from the menu at the left. And as of today, the portfolio also looks like the rest of the blog.

  • Menus - Every section of the website now has a different menu, so now you don’t have to look at the recent comments on every page. As part of the new menus, I have included a “currently reading” and “currently listening to” section on the about page. So now you can see what I’m reading and what I’m listening to and say to yourself, “Boy, I thought I couldn’t have cared less, but as it turns out, I can!” I’ve included this stuff mainly to see if I could do it and to force myself to read more.

  • RSS feed - Really, I had no clue what this was until about an hour ago. So for any of you who may have a news reader, here you go. You can keep track of every last entry I put on this site through the blog’s RSS syndication. I’ve also included RSS for the portfolio section so you can find out when I post a new art work. Once again, this is more for my benefit than yours.

  • Perusing - On the main page you’ll notice a little section to the left called “perusing.” This is just a summary of some intersting sites and articles that I’ve come across on the web. Sometimes I don’t even agree with what is said, I just find the ideas interesting. These are just things I want to share.

  • Categories - Each entry now has a category under which it is filed for easy reference. And if you are bored spitless with my ramblings on art, then you can just avoid that category all together.

Comments

<anonymous>
no. 1 / posted 12.30.03 / 5:11 PM

for the last time: your videos are so excellent, i hadn’t ever seen them before. the silhouettes came alive and a caterpillar fanned its skirt out in one.

look at what you are doing here. obscuring cats and dogs, chris! you’re teaching mitochondria to dance to trombones! (i like the ford ad with a new sky portal in it.) i feel a great algae presence here. your art is like a motorcycle that has rusted into a hugest rainbow. it’s a mircle straight from god!

here’s some other things you can talk about on your site:

  • most artists have experiments they do, like they trapp themselves in a box for a hundred days with nothing but a moistened sponge (although this would be confusing artists and magicians). do some experiments, like start unplugging your bath drain and peeling potatoes with your foot and show us progress of evolution on your website. then have your kids use their toes to turn the teapot on, and their kids could build a patio with their toes, and their kids could wait tables with toes. and people would tune in for years to watch it all transpire.

  • take pictures of you scaring people (moms). you could also turn the thermostat way down in people’s (moms’) houses and get pictures of them totally shuddering, but still trying to keep their poise. of course, you could put more of your classic paint blobs all over the pictures, give them creditibility and honest-to-god candor.

  • post inventions that you’ve made out of leaves and mini-pumpkins, with a plug that can be plugged in the distant future when there’s a plug that supplies life and personality to a thing.

  • i’d love to hear what you think about appropriate mattress patterns. there’s alot of really wierd imagery going around on bedspreads, mattress liners. have you noticed the corn theme on bedposts? encouraging fertility is good, great, but i don’t like to feel like i’m reaping some harvest while i sleep and other things. anyways, i’ll let you take off with this one.

ok, i love everything you’ve ever done, even that time you took your shoes off and put them right back on in an uncomfortable way!

jonathan
no. 2 / posted 12.30.03 / 5:12 PM

i don’t know why my name didn’t get put on that comment above. i wasn’t trying to be clandestine.

Chris
no. 3 / posted 12.30.03 / 6:57 PM

I’m working on the phantom name problem. It occurs when you preview the comment before posting. For some reason, the name, email, and url don’t carry over when you preview. It should be taken care of soon.

As for mattress patterns, I prefer stripes and solids. Anything else is a bit shady.

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