Tea Project33

2007-07-05T09:15:00.000-07:00

2007-07-05T09:12:00.000-07:00

2007-07-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

2007-07-05T09:06:00.000-07:00

2007-07-05T09:02:00.000-07:00

Rememory Ceremony 5.1: Travel and Mystery (With Emphasis on the Mustache)

2007-07-05T08:13:00.000-07:00

The event was a success. Some of the highlightsinclude:
- The busride as ghosts wearing mustaches holding signs displaying portraits of people who attended the last years event.
- Our busdriver (Fred) was the same bus driver we had last year. He remembered us.
- At the bus stop on the way there we met this guy in a wheel chair who we all posed for a picture with.
- One of the participants (Bonnie) chose to hold the sign with Eliza Fernands's portrait. When I told her who whom she weilded Bonnie told me that she had been in email correspondence with Eliza about a possible show at the Sugar Gallery but had never met her before. We were trying to remember the name of the guy who used to own gallery five hundred (which became Sugar Gallery and moved to the Everett Lofts after the coke dealer, Eric Kellog II, bought it and ran it into the ground by hosting insane hip hop drug parties that got him evicted from the 500 space by police. The truth is he doesnt care about art, all he cares about is stroking his own ego. He power trips over hiring young attractive art girls as curators for his "gallery" who he then sexually harasses. My friend, Alicia Eggers, responded to an add for the curator position at Sugar a few months ago. Mr. Kellog took her out to dinner and explained to her that her duties at Sugar would include having sex with him. Eliza has confirmed these allegations as consistant with her experience with Mr. Kellog.
When Katy asher showed up she started talking about the M.O.S.T's Fan For A Day Project. One of their clients is Justin Oswald (Owner of Gallery 500) the one we were trying to think of previously.

The sun was beautiful as it set. It made even a truck stop seem magical.

2007-07-02T20:19:00.000-07:00

2007-07-02T20:15:00.000-07:00

2007-07-02T20:11:00.000-07:00

2007-07-02T17:49:00.000-07:00

Symmetry: the Universal Beauty Mean

2007-06-26T01:54:00.000-07:00

sunset

2007-06-25T10:52:00.000-07:00

Franklin high school.
Shane's (unpresent) birthday.
Ice Blocking.
Balloon stomping (crab-walk style).
Pinata smashing.
cake eating.
nipple pinning upon shane effigy.
fun for all (and free).
thank you ryan wilson-paulson

lust and objectification as materialism

2007-06-18T02:48:00.000-07:00

the commodification of the body.
the assertion that the person is only material.
the assumption that the person and body can (and should) be bought, sold, owned and controled by others.
the reality of this assumption.
the devaluation of the person.
The overemphasis of the body
the use of the body as object to promote consumption of other objects.
is lust materialism?
primary focus: physical appearance and possesion (control).
primary focus: unatainable ideal.
primary focus: lack of perfection.
ultimate focus: universal human need for love and acceptance.
strategy: control (minipulation), financial prowess, aquisition of objects, consumption of status inducing commodities.
the display of material wealth.
the display of consumption - aquisition of status inducing commodities.
status inducing commodities determined by subculture.
subculture determined by material wealth.
material wealth determined by subculture.
material wealth determined by level of subcultural privelege.
level of commodity consumption determined by material wealth.
priveledge determined by birth.
birth determined by love (and or reproduction).
loveability determined by performance.
performance determined by level of ability to provide access to and aquisition of popular commodities.
strategy: promise of love and happiness if commodity is consumed.
strategy: creation of desire (exploitation of desire).
creation of desire acheived through display of objectified human form in relation to commodity.
strategy: encourage lust for the unattainable ideal.
strategy: determination and distribution of ideal.
strategy: suggest possiblity of perfection (unattainable ideal) through consumption.
strategy: suggest possesion of perfection (unatainable ideal) equals love
conclusion: aquisition of love determined by ability to be objectified.
submission to objectification = love

2007-06-15T14:39:00.000-07:00

I was invited to build sets for the world naked bike ride last weekend. I in turn invited my friend Angela, Chris, Katrina and Bonnie to work with me. This is a safe we built out of cardboard to keep all of the riders' belongings in while they rode. I didnt go to the party but I heard that it was fun - apparently lots of nakedness was seen by all.

How the United States Became A Coffee-Driven Culture of Expansion and Desire

2007-06-14T09:09:00.000-07:00

The English apppropriated tea culture from India and China and made it their own by adding porcelan, milk, fancy silver cutlery, jam and scones. They then began exporting the English version of drinking tea back into the cultures from which they had taken it.
When the early English colonialists travled to the new world, they too brought tea culture with them. It is assumed that high tea taxes and greed led to the American Revolution begining with the infamous Boston Tea Party. I would suggest, however, that the American revolution was equally motivated by an intense desire for social liberation.

When the colonists came to the new world they maintained a strong pressence of Engish power and control over their lives by bringing tea. Despite the obvious potential for control in the addictive quality of caffine there were also opportunities for the English to exert control via the social dependance on (or addiction to) tea (as a social facilitator) in colonial America (similar to the current American economic dependance on oil producing nations today).

If a government controls the socialization of its people, that government has absolute control over said people due to the simple fact that socialization is a basic human need intrinsic to our survival. When babies are denied touch they die. Adolecents would rather die than be rejected by thier peer group. Men and women take desperate measures to maintain social networks of love, acceptance and stability.

As tea was consumed in every level of English society and colonial outpost in the context of leisure and socialization, it could easily be used by the English as a social control mechanism by withholding it or inflating the price (and limiting availability) through Taxes.

The homesick colonialists could engage in the social ritual of tea to remember all the good things about England and the home they had left behind. However every time a colonist sat down for a cup of tea she was looking back, like Lot's wife, betraying their primary vision of freedom and pledging their fealty to England's throne.

Just like the final purging of the old, ephemeral relics of a defunct love affair can provide realease from the past, so too was the Boston tea party a decleration of independence from a dysfunctional relationship to all things English, including tea. As the Boston Tea Party Participants tossed boxes of tea into the harbor, they were not only rejecting the financial burden tea represented, they were rejecting of a way of life and socialization that had become a barrier to their growth and development as a nation. Ever since this action America has been rapidly developing as an overcaffinated, coffee-driven culture of independence, expansion and desire.

L.A.

2007-06-13T10:17:00.000-07:00

Wasteland.

If you don't have anything good to say...

santa monica

2007-06-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

pretty much sucks.

Black white and greyscale rememory 4.1

2007-06-05T00:59:00.000-07:00

The BWGS rememory was enjoyed by all who participated. New features included glow in the dark signs and ghost tea. A tasty alternative to real tea.

The only person present who was present at the initial event was me (gary). This is ok though. It feels real somehow. An acurate representation of the transcience we encounter daily.

2007-05-31T09:36:00.000-07:00

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only as long as they remain distant.
Rebecca Solnit

Probing the Unkown Reaches of Uninhabitable Space

2007-05-28T03:03:00.000-07:00

A brand of personal lubricant that i have never encountered before. Strange name. Is it a description of its function?

Tea man showed up at a superhero party. Here he is with his gun and Superman. Te-Man sports unenhanced ass cleavage in homage to all plumbers everywhere.

2007-05-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

This is an image of the tea table from Rememory Ceremony 3.1.

Meet Te-Man (on the left). He is a new breed of sensitive, superhero. He holds the infinite power of paradox with which he confronts his enemies and comforts his friends by challengeing their most precious presupposed notions and paradigms.
The Dali Lama makes Tea on his shirt. His mask holds a symbol of reconciliation and his hat sports an NRA patch. He wields a weapon of mass destruction made impotent by design.

On the right is his friend Tank Girl.

Rememory Ceremony 3.1 (Orange and White With Forest Green Accents)

2007-05-19T20:48:00.000-07:00

First Mounting Ceremony

2007-05-17T15:28:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the first mounting ceremony. The "gun" mounting ceremony. These are some of the people who came to whitness this momentous event. They pose with the 800px replica that my friend Chris and I made out of cardboard, Superglue and masking tape. We hung it on this public gun rack that we found on NW Everett Street between 3rd and 4th in Oldtown (that is Chris, with blonde hair, on the right hugging our friend Tuey).
Here is the 800px replica by itself. It really is a fine work of cardboard craftsmanship.
This fire hydrant reminded me of my friend M. He decided to stop being my friend because I couldn't give him what he wanted. I can respect that, sometimes relationships just dont work out. The other thing this hydrant reminds me of is a penis which is how I felt M acted when he ended our relationship.

2007-05-16T13:25:00.000-07:00

Today is the Third Tea Project Rememory Ceremony, ("Orange and White with Forest Green Accents") after this event we will be traveling across the river to the first Mounting Ceremony. Tommorrow i will post pictures. For now here are some images from the Tea Party we will be remembering. When we meet at 6 pm on MLK between Beech and Failing it will be exactly one year since the third Tea Party occured.

2007-05-15T21:29:00.000-07:00

I met this child today: Miles (which is what I thought when I looked into his eyes). Endless.

An encounter with eternity. He started screaming when he was passed into my arms.

At the moment I need eternity at a distance.

It seems that everything I give returns to me transformed and better. I have seen it happen repeatedly. I have the ability to derail this process. Somehow I have the power to thwart the endless generosity of the benevolent universe with my most silent subconcious musings.

beginnings are hard

2007-05-14T23:52:00.000-07:00

I found this monument in the park.

Today i contemplated the opposite of niceness which i feel is most likely genuineness.
I have also decided to only do what I love.
I am not sure exactly what that means, however it seems like a good idea.
I consulted a shaman today his name is Amit.
He told me love is all that matters. He seemed nice.