For those of you who came to see my “performance” last week at LEMURplex (to whom I owe you that $5 cover charge), I am delighted to be able to show you some of what should have happened. Out of context at least. Marlon Barrios Solano over at dance-tech.net was nice enough to conduct an interview with me about the stuff I do. He’s got some documentation from the actual LEMUR show and I’ve also sent him some rehearsal stuff I shot so you can at least get a sense of what never happened. The video is below
So, when I have way too much work to do, I do what any level-headed, self-motivating freelancer would do…usually I start the client clock and pass the time procrastinating by coming up with funny voices, thinking about old girlfriends, and Googling my own name. I’ve never been disappointed. And now, I can say, it’s only going to be downhill from here. I’ve hit the jackpot as far as I am concerned. Meet Andrew Schneider, auditioning for something called Stonehenge in DC. The kicker is I used to do this stuff all the time. Audition on an awkward set, wear red turtlenecks, do funny things with my eyebrows, and get called at the end for time. I must say though, I thought better about the white Reebok’s when I left my hotel for the theatre the morning of the audition.
I have a dream of contacting all the Andrew Schneider’s that I can and getting us all together and having us do the dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” or something like that. Afterwards we’d all stand around and talk about it. Then we’d all get in our Ford Tauruses and drive home, maybe stopping in New Rochelle for some Gas Station Cappucino or the outlet mall for a new pair of stonewashed jeans.
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Having viewed much of the material that you’ve posted I sincerely hope that you don’t consider yourself an artist of ANY kind. Vanity is fine as long as you have something to be vain about, you sir are just vain!
If you want to learn something about real art I suggest that you study the works of BANKSY or GILBERT & GEORGE in fact research ANY artist of ANY calibre who has a sense of humour. “AVANT GARDE” is now quite rightly considered a euphemism for “shit” in England, and dated… god almighty OH, SO dated! What a grown man in his thirties is doing wasting his time on this self-serving rubbish is beyond me, give up, get laid… do anything else… PLEASE!
The only consilation I get from taking time out to look at this crap is that you must live alone. God help the man (or woman) who would even tolerate this for a day. Lighten up, pull that stick out of your arse and do something worthwhile with your life. Maybe you should learn to make soap, if the world ends and you survive at least you’ll have a skill that’s useful. But maybe you’re TRYING to be useless and you have a wicked sense of irony after all! Somehow I doubt it.
In a “keeping up with the kids” decision, I have recently uploaded all of “the dailies” to youtube, and will continue to post them both here and to that great grass-roots media site. There’s also plans to get all the old (and new!) whetherman‘s up there. Ahhh…smell that? That’s the faint odor of the democratization of media. Thank god for our wonderful authorship society. It may smell like like the shit that most of it is, and it can be hard to hear the signal through all that noise, but really, where would we all be without user-generated content? I guess we’d still be around the water cooler, but we might be talking about the weather instead of chocolate rain.
“The 1492nd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at Location One in SoHo.” And I’ll be showing my stuff! Experimental Devices for Performance comes out out of it’s fall hiatus and rears it’s experimental head to the SoHo masses. I’ll be featured with the other “Humid and Tropical” presenters Ted Johnson and Fiona Hallinan (aka Fink). Ted will be talking about “how to build your own secret laboratory in a small NYC-sized space and at a low cost, and thereby produce silly and useless gadgets” and Fiona “would like to tell a story about [her] first interactive experience between computers and people, which occurred when [she] was twelve years old.” I have no idea what to expect except that it’s free and everyone seems really very nice. So please come on out! Free (((BlinkCam))) pics! (see below)
