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Jeppe Hein Water Flame (2006)
‘Water Flame is an installation combining two elements usually opposed to each other in a spectactular but nevertheless minimalist way: a small sprinkling fountain with a flame burning on the top. This paradoxical constellation of elements creates an effect of astonishment and wonder.’
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Sylvie Fleury Gold Fountain PKW (2003)
Gold porcelain, plexiglass plinth, 18 x 62 x 62 cm
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Raffaelo Romanelli Untitled (1928)
‘Outside of the Starbucks in the Plaza of Kansas City is a thoroughly inappropriate fountain called “Boy and Frog.” Why is this fountain inappropriate? If you can’t tell from the picture, it is a naked young boy with his frog. When turned on, the water sprays from the little boy’s peep into the frog’s mouth. It is a little boy peeing in a frog’s mouth! How is that appropriate for public viewing?! I first saw the fountain when my friend Anna came to visit me last year. We went to the Plaza and to look at all high-fashion things we couldn’t afford and be “ladies who lunch.” After lunch we went to get some coffee. That was when we saw it. A boy peeing into a frog’s mouth. We both stared for a while, trying to be sure of what we were seeing. Then I looked around for someone else who was shocked by the fountain, but nothing. People were buying their lattes and going on their way. Apparently public depictions of little boys peeing in the mouths of amphibians is okay in Missouri. It was originally sculpted by Raffaelo Romanelli and was acquired for the Plaza in Florence, Italy in 1928 by John C. Taylor, the chairman of the J.C. Nichols Company. I’m all for artistic expression and extremely opposed to censorship, but I’m struggling to get what the creative merit to this fountain is.’
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Klaus Weber Public Fountain LSD Hall (2003)
‘”Public Fountain LSD Hall” is a single room installation by Klaus Weber. In the centre of the installation and the proposed building is a crystal glass fountain. The water running through its innards is spiked with D-Lysergic Acid Diethyamide.’
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Yoan Capote Tear Duct (2001)
‘In Tear Duct (2001), he replaced the top of a drinking fountain with a stainless-steel mold of the face of a classmate who had to support herself through prostitution, a prevalent social problem in Cuba at the time. When viewers put a coin in the slot of the fountain, red wine spouts from her mouth. People drinking from the fountain are put physically and psychologically into the position of her customers, watching the wine and their saliva drain through her eyes.’
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Klaus Weber Sandfountain (2012)
‘As we move into what has been called the anthropocene age, in which we prove we can do just what we damn well please with the planet, traditional fountains are redundant. That is what makes Klaus Weber’s Sandfountain so timely. It’s a technological swansong which swaps a single water pump for some dozen sandblasting units. The sand will erode the concrete and you can already see the disconcerting way it shifts and cascades.’
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Charles Ray Ink Line (1987)
‘Ink Line is a sculpture/drawing/fountain consisting of a stream of jet-black ink pouring from a dime-size hole in the ceiling into a dime-size hole in the floor. Initially Ink Line looks like a strand of yarn strung the height of the gallery, a pulsating Fred Sandback sculpture, a free-floating Barnett Newman zip, or a disembodied Sol LeWitt. Get close and you’ll realize the line is liquid, glimmering, the consistency of syrup, moving fairly fast, fluctuating slightly, and thinner at the bottom than at the top. The ink forms a weird climatological aura around itself, slightly changing the humidity of the room.’
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Bertrand Lavier Fountain (2014)
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Bartosz and Malgorzata Szydlowska Fountain of the Future (2014)
‘A bright yellow statue of Vladimir Lenin answering a call of nature has been installed in Nowa Huta, the ‘ideal socialist town’ built on the edge of Krakow in the Stalinist era. Fountain of the Future, as the work has been dubbed by artists Bartosz Szydlowski and Malgorzata Szydlowska, references a statue of Lenin that once took pride of place in the district. The diminutive yellow version is a replica of a communist-era work which anti-regime activists tried to blow up on several occasions during the 1970s and 1980s.’
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Kasia Fudakowski Watch what you say (2019-24)
‘A speech-activated fountain which essentially converts words into water. If you speak into the microphone, water will drip into the bucket, threatening to overflow and electrocute you if too many words are spoken.’
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Aldo Froese Fountain #5 (2010)
‘A waterflow is directed through the frame of a wheel barrel. As time passes, the water changes color and turns from clear to yellow, orange, red, brown and ends up as almost black.’
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teamLab Universe of Water Particles under Satellite’s Gravity – Gold (2014)
‘The fall of water is calculated using physical laws and a waterfall is simulated that is attracted by the satellite’s gravity. The simulated waterfall is then projection-mapped onto a life-size model of satellite ALOS-2. The water is expressed as a continuum of hundreds of thousands of water particles that flow in accordance with computer calculations of particle interaction. The water particles that hit the satellite bounce off and circulate around the satellite until they evaporate. Once an accurate water flow simulation has been constructed, 0.1% of the water particles are selected and lines are drawn in relation to them. The waterfall is expressed as the combination of these lines. Behind these lines exist thousands of water particles, and the curvature of the drawn lines is based on their overall interaction. The waterfall video artwork is created in 3-D space and uses what teamLab calls ultrasubjective space, the logical structure of spatial recognition used in premodern Japan.’
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Bruce Nauman One Hundred Fish Fountain (2012)
‘The Nauman sculpture, one of the largest artworks the artist has ever made, is a functional fountain comprised of 97 bronze casts of fish that are suspended throughout the air that noisily shoot water out of their mouths into a large basin below, occasionally coming to a complete halt.’
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Andrew Salomone Vomiting Doll Punch Bowl Fountain (2015)
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‘English artist Anna Brownsted left 100,000 pennies in an abandoned public fountain in Cambridge, over the weekend, in a bid to explore human nature. The money was all stolen in just one day. The coins were placed in the fountain at Quayside, in Cambridge, at 8 am on Saturday, and were supposed to be left there for 48 hours. However, by 9 am on Sunday, over 99% of the coins had been removed from the fountain, despite clear signs informing passers-by that the fountain was under constant CCTV surveillance. Only £1.66 worth of pennies were left.’
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Roman Signer Kayak with Fountain (2015)
‘And out on the terrace there was another bloody kayak – this one had been put on top of a fountain and had a hole put in it so it looked like it had sprung a leak! LOL. ART.’
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Helmut Smits Street Fountains (2002)
‘Small water pumps in existing pot-holes in the road surface. When it rains, small fountains appear.’
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Walid Raad Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see you (2022)
single channel video, looped, no sound, 4 paper cutouts
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Miķelis Mūrnieks Behavioral Sink, 2024
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Doug Aitken Fountain (earth fountain) (2013)
‘Fountain (Earth Fountain) (2012) is blatantly derivative of a more famous work. In a large rectangular vitrine the letters “A-R-T”, built from Lucite, ooze smooth creamy mud resembling milk chocolate. It immediately recalls Robert Rauschenberg’s Mud Muse (1971)—itself a large rectangular vat filled with mud rigged to bubble and sputter like lava. The use of the word “ART” here merely underlines one obvious subtext of Rauschenberg’s piece: that something as ubiquitous and abject as mud could so effectively be corralled into the realm of art. This makes Aitken’s rather polished version more like CliffsNotes for a canonical work than anything else.’
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Tue Greenfort Crystal Fountain (2014)
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Guillaume Paris Fountain (1994)
‘The video is shown on a cubic monitor, placed directly on the floor, in a corner of a room. The central figure (the Pinocchio from the eponymous 1942 Disney feature) is “de-animated” – inanimate – while the water surrounding it flows continuously. A perfect loop simulates the regular movement of water and a linear sound recording (white noise of water flowing) accompanies the image. The schematic drawing (simple shapes, bright colors), combined with the homogeneous and regular sound of the water flowing contrast with the uneasy nature of the subject. The inscription of image and sound within a protracted time frame, with neither beginning nor end, hampers our understanding of the event and freezes the narrative dimension of the scene.’
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Micah Brynes MAJESTIC FOUNTAIN ON TOP OF THE SALESFORCE TOWER (2017)
‘“The San Francisco skyline has been forever changed by the large erect Salesforce tower thrusting up into the heavens. While it is a glorious sight to behold, I think we can make it better!! I propose to install an artistic fountain at the tip of the tower (above the shaft). To conserve water we will build 2 large spherical water tanks at the base of the tower that will collect and recycle the water as it flows down the shaft of the building.”’
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Santo Tolone Fontana Angelica (2014)
‘Santo Tolone’s immersive “Fontana Angelica” is a working fountain based on a design by early 20th century architect Piero Portaluppi. As the name hints, the original fountain would have been decorated with angels, but Tolone’s version is stripped down to just the plumbing of the fountain. What remains is a simple, structural beauty. It’s also an exhibition within the exhibition: Tolone curated a display of coins made by other artists in the pool, including works by John Baldessari, Tim Foxon, Nick Fusaro, Ryan Gander, Micah Lexier, Jonathan Monk, M/M, Alek O, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Wilfredo Prieto, Rob Pruitt, Yann Sérandour, Jack Strange, Santo Tolone, Amalia Ulman, and Anne de Vries.’
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Taro Shinoda Model of Oblivion (2006)
‘Inside the screens is a small room containing “Model of Oblivion,” in which a visceral red liquid is clinically pumped across “white cliffs,” creating a vision as sinewy as human muscles on a white table. Explaining his approach, Shinoda says: “In my mind, waterfalls are connected to oblivion. When I stare at a waterfall, I go into a daze and forget reality. But the essence of myself is always there, even when I forget everything. I tried to express that here in an abstract sense.”’
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Daniel Wurtzel Feather Fountain (2010)
Feathers, mirrors, fiberglass and air
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Sam Durant Proposal for Public Fountain (2013)
‘Proposal for Public Fountain centres on a fountain sculpted from black marble – a prototype for a larger installation in a public setting – together with a series of related graphite drawings. The structure features a reproduction of an armoured water cannon, which sprays a jet of water onto a hooded figure bearing an anarchist flag. Its note of polemic is a defining aspect of Durant’s art. Poised between detached commentary and acerbic critique, it recasts a contemporary episode of state authoritarianism in the ‘stately’ aesthetics of public stonework.’
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Slavs and Tatars Reverse Joy (2012)
‘Reverse Joy is an ambiguous fountain of joy. The fluid flowing out of its pump is carmine red. It is the carmine red of lips ready to sweet talk and of tongues able to roll (a recessive phenotype mostly found in the Slavic population of the Balkans). The pigment is fittingly produced out of Armenian and Polish cochineal. Slavs and Tatars’ works ceaselessly point to details such as these.’
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Olafur Eliasson Big Bang Fountain (2014)
‘Every few seconds it is illuminated by photoflash lightning. The image of the bright dancing water leaves a ghostly impression in the mind’s eye. Keep watching the flashes of silver water and you see blue impossible forms in the afterglow.’
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Robert Gober The Heart Is Not a Metaphor (2005)
‘Gober’s chapel in honor of September 11, 2001, originally shown at Matthew Marks in 2005, is one of the culminating rooms in the exhibition. At the front of the chapel are two doors through which one can barely make out a naked pair of legs submerged in a running bathtub. The child peeks through the cracked door and sees something it cannot understand—something it is, perhaps, not supposed to see.’
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Eli Hansen and Oscar Tuazon Huh (2012)
Toilet, stell, water, 68 X 36 1/4 X 47 1/4 inches
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Unknown Decapitated Head Drinking Fountain
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Vincent Houze Interactive Fountain Mapping (2016)
‘The result of a collaboration with AV&C;, an experiment where one can control a simulated liquid flow and watch it splash against a geometric sculpture. It was premiered during SEGD Xlab conference 2015 in New York. As in previous experiments the liquid simulation is driven by the nVidia library Physx FleX that I implemented in TouchDesigner, which is used for the mapping and overall set up.’
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Dan Flavin proposed fountain in memory of Pablo Picasso (1974)
Black ballpoint pen on white looseleaf notebook paper
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Thiago Rocha Pitta Inverted fountain (2003)
‘Thiago Rocha Pitta is best known for his “collaborations” with nature, outdoor interventions that harness its forces, processes, and beauty. Here he has created an inverted fountain by the side of a lake.’
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Bruce Nauman Three Heads Fountain (Juliet, Andrew, Rinde) (2015)
‘Three identical, scar-covered male heads, fed water through a tube and pierced to create thin jets of water, are hung by the neck.’
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The world largest dancing fountains, Burj Khalifa
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James Grashow The Cardboard Bernini (2012)
‘James Grashow is an artist who has built—among many other things—giant 15 foot tall fighting men, a city and an ocean using paper mache, fabric, chicken wire and cardboard. Several years ago, while visiting the home of his art dealer, he stumbled across some of his giant fighting men that had been put outside due to lack of space. They were disintegrating. Although it was deeply painful and shocking for him to see his work like that, it was also surprisingly beautiful. He felt that he was seeing the full arc of his artistic enterprise before him—including its end. So, Grashow challenged himself to embrace the “backend” of his process, and decided to build a giant cardboard fountain—a Grashow “Bernini.” From its conception, he intended this work to be put outside to disintegrate. Work on the fountain began in 2007 and was completed in 2010. Grashow installed the fountain outdoors at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT on April 1, 2012. It was there for a total of six weeks, after which time Grashow took his degraded cardboard masterpiece to the dumpster.’
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Denis Adrien Debouvrie Jeanneke Pis (1987)
‘Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels, which was intended to form a counterpoint to the city’s Manneken Pis, south of the Grand Place. It was commissioned by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987. The half-metre-high statue of blue-grey limestone depicts a little girl with her hair in short pigtails, squatting and urinating. It is located on the east side of the Impasse de la Fidélité / Getrouwheidsgang (Fidelity Alley), a narrow cul-de-sac some 30 metres long leading northwards off the restaurant-packed Rue des Bouchers / Beenhouwersstraat. The sculpture is now protected by iron bars from vandalism.’
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‘In the late 1960s a 12-foot calcium carbonate cone spewing nearly boiling water formed in Nevada, resulting in this spectacular man-made geyser you can arrange to tour today. This three pronged geyser constantly sprays, depositing minerals and enabling growth of multi-colored algae on its surrounding natural terraces.’
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José Lerma Fountain (2014)
”A Critical Analysis of Central Banks and Fractional-Reserve Banking from Austrian School Perspective,’ an installation that takes form in the shape of a 10% fraction of a circular fountain which is flanked by mirrored walls. An essay by Spanish economist Jesus Huerta de Soto, from the Austrian School, serves as the inspiration for the work and title. The percentage reflects the minimum requirement of liquid assets the United States’ financial institutions are required to hold by law in order to operate. ‘A Critical Analysis…’ presents a contrast to the interaction the portraits have with each others’ reflections, instead of borrowing from the impressions of each piece to build on the final compositions, the fountain completes itself through the illusion of a whole in the mirrors, creating a kaleidoscopic effect. The installation is activated through performance in which water sounds are made by participants standing within the structure as sculptural elements of the fountain itself.’
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Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran Multi Limbed Mud Fountain, 2023
mud cob, straw, paint, LED rope, electrical cable, water
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Ghislaine Leung Fountain, 2022
‘A cascade of water piped in from a man-made lake above and raining down from a ceiling directly onto the floor of the subterranean gallery to cancel sound.’
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Wiseguy Fireworks All-in-one-eruption (2016)
‘The Most INSANE Fireworks Fountain EVER.’
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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Thanks! Yeah, Carpenters, weird. I think I heard it playing in the supermarket or something. Love is looking for bros on the Virginia side of the river to come by and hang out with our wangs out, online gaming, talking shit, working out, showing off our cocks, and getting my bf’s little bro’s deep throat and anal slime all over our dicks and balls tonite until 4 am, G. ** Misanthrope, My guess, for whatever that’s worth, is that the gun thing was just a signal of how secretly fucked up he knows he is mixed with anger with himself misdirected at you, but I’m no analyst. Tough to say the least. Oh, shit, about the workstation. It’s getting sadistic. Try to squeeze all the pleasure you can out of the weekend, pal. ** _Black_Acrylic, Nice, a hat review from the hat connoisseur. Thanks, B. ** Tyler Ookami, Yeah. Attila from Mayhem sang for my friend Stephen O’Malley’s project Sunn0))) for a while, and even with someone as seemingly left of rightwards as him, before Stephen introduced me to Attila, he said don’t talk politics or tell him you’re gay. Thanks, super interesting fill-in on kawaii death metal, and for the Nick Shutter tip. I don’t think I know his stuff, and I’ll go fish around in his bandcamp, thank you! ** Poecilia, Sadly both logistics and financing will likely prevent the existence of that haunt, but I’m greatly appreciative that your imagination is game. ** Steve, Oh, allergies, right. Yury’s are going crazy too. Spring and its pollen confetti attack is here, at least in Paris. Hope the meds are miraculous. Kyle Polaski is a real twink porn star and those were his photos, but, as with all things slaves-related, whether he made that profile is highly questionable. Re: the anonymous comment, gosh, who knows. Would be surprised. PSF Records, that’s something worth re-investigating. ** PL, Hi. I’m okay. Really, I thought some of them were kind of cute. Not familiar, no, but I can educated myself. Excellent about the timely commission. There you go! Do alert me/us about that when it’s fruited. Zombietwt, nope, but you can bet I’ll investigate. Huh. Thank you! Have the best weekend whatever that requires. ** James, Extreme and sensible: the perfect human being? I assume ‘white me out’ means zonk him oblivious with a drug whose color is white, crystal meth being my guess. Probably because he’s not really a virgin. Consensual nonconsent is massively popular. I think the clue was in johnathan0115’s name. There are probably more dead twink porn stars than there are living twink porn stars, if you count the ones who qualified as ‘twinks’ before the term came into usage. ‘Sad If I Lost it’, lovely choice. If I could imbed it, I would. The unimaginative part about Hell is that generations upon generations of people subsequent to whoever thought it up are too lazy to imagine something completely different and are content to just redecorate some long dead person’s concept. Better back, congrats to you or I guess specifically to it. Paris has tons of people worthy of being social with but they’re not as friendly as the tons of people in LA who are worth being social with, but that’s why they’re cooler. Well, you had a hell of a day there. I just did a bunch of fucking work I have to do and dipped out to the tabac and supermarket. You probably won’t have a weekend as good as that, but never say never, and I hope you beat the odds. ** Steeqhen, Oh, okay, understood, thanks. Never played any of the ‘Sims’ games, I don’t know why. I didn’t even know you can play it with other people. For some reason, I’m not enticed by multi-player games/options. I guess I like suffering alone. Thank you, but unfortunately ‘RT’ has many conditions and little time to cure them, but we’re giving it basically the 24/7 college try. ** HaRpEr, Yeah, I was going to wonder why February got picked as the short month, but the answer is probably kind of uninteresting. We’re creeping into spring here. Crossfading, I guess. A new theater commission, how awesome. Your prof is a pip, and I will be curious to know who said person is once you’re in the clear. Your ghost kid idea sounds super interesting. It reminds me a teeny bit of our character Roman in ‘PGL’ who doesn’t want to die but rather use his death to facilitate an amazing disappearing act. So, up my alley obviously. Oh, shit, the program axing. Even there in the UK! In the US, they’re being incinerated minute by minute, but that’s not a surprise given the fascist in charge. Thanks, and about the suicide scene in ‘PGL’. One of my favorite moments in ‘The Devil, Probably’ is right before Antoine Monnier’s character goes into Pere Lachaise to have himself shot to death and pauses long enough to look in a window that’s emitting the sounds of a pleasant evening at home. Oh, I like compliments, they just make me tongue tied. So, thank you! ** alex, Hi, alex! Me too, ‘huskular’, I actually wrote it down for possible future use. We’ll get the film shown in Canada, I just don’t know how and where yet. Excellent about the writing and submissions! And the snow too. And you seeing Laurel Halo DJ. Nice. We’re extremely rushed to get ‘RT’ ready, so my Saturday evening will likely be just doing that. But oh well. So nice to see you! ** jay, Yes, MakeMeHomeless was a novel one. Even if nobody seemed to be interested in helping him fulfil his wish. Right, no, my back thing is because when I was about 11 years old I suddenly grew tall really fast, and my spine didn’t keep up, so I guess there is more space between my spinal bones than normal, and my problems are the result. An autoimmune nerve thing sounds much more daunting. I hope your back behaves like the ultimate slave this weekend and opens every excitement-packed door for you. Sorry for the mixed metaphor. xoxo, me. ** P, Hi! Thanks for coming back! Thanks a lot for filling me in about you. Maybe you know these LA-based queer skateboard artists/skaters/video-makers Bottom Feeder? The main guy, Mike, is good friends with a good friend of mine. They seem cool. I can imagine the frustrations you’re having, but, at least in the telling, it’s sounds vibrant and inspiring overall, no? Yeah, maybe it’s kind of same for me living here. I don’t have a ton of friends, but I do have a handful of great ones. And coming from California, it took me a while to get used to how not immediately friendly and open people are here., They’re much more cautious and self-protective. But I like that in a way too. Part of me likes feeling kind of alone and not fully understanding what people are saying and not having an instinctive understanding of the world they grew up in. If that makes any sense. Super interesting about your airbrushed t-shirt work. Your site looks really good, I mean your art and shirts on there. Very cool. Respect! Let me … Everyone, P is an artist and maker of t-shirts, and their work looks really exciting, and I highly recommend you go have a look. The site is called cock jock, and it’s here. Sure, l’d love a shirt, that would be amazing. I have a stupid allergy to clothing and dyes, but, if a shirt’s big I can wear a boring organic shirt underneath it as protection. A Roxy Music fanzine … Nice idea, obviously. Gosh, let me think. I really like them, obviously. I’m one of those people lucky enough to be old enough to have seen them live when Eno was in the group at the Whisky-A-Go-Go circa their first LP. Great, no? Have a really interesting weekend. How/what was it? ** nat, Wild, eh? Okay, I’ll crank up my imagination and go wild and see what you get put through. Thanks for the posts attention. Listen, I chuckle at the slave posts all the time. Your breakthrough sounds like a bonafide breakthrough. Congrats! You gotta eat what you gotta eat. Right? ** Dan Carroll, Hi. Thanks! ‘RT’ things will be dribbling out. Wild day. Uh, hm, I don’t know why I think ‘RT’ is probably a daylight movie since at least half happens at night. Maybe just because that desert daylight is so intense when it’s there. Roger Deakins sounds like a very wise soul. For a couple of years I was an art show reviewer on staff for Artforum, so I reviewed usually three shows a month for them. It was cool although they didn’t like reviews that were too negative or enthusiastic, which could be frustrating. I’ll go read your piece and look at your trees this weekend, thank you! Everyone, Do go do two things: read an art review by Dan Carroll here, and look at bunch of drawings of trees by him here. The tree drawings look really swell at first peek. ** Okay. This weekend you get the third iteration of my apparent interest in making posts about fountains. See you on Monday.
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So many pissing fountains! I really like Helmut Smits’ “Street Fountains.” And Kasia Fudakowski’s “Watch what you say” would be so useful at certain events! Thank you for this fun collection!
Love sounds like a ton of fun. An absolute charmer. A real bro. Love is not a psycho just a normal young person who wants to be destroyed, Od.
I think you and I share a love of engineering-heavy artworks, things where a certain amount of the aesthetic appeal is the mind immediately reaching for the question of how it was made or, in the case of anything with moving parts, how it works. I think that water and live flame are really cool art materials but I can understand why a gallery might not think so. Or wet paint or ink, like I would have a hard time controlling the impulse to not put my hand under that Charles Ray piece and splash the ink everywhere.
I can see Attila picking up those attitude through proximity, but he does at least challenge them aesthetically. I love his insane costumes. The one made of Doritos bags, the tree creature, Bugs Bunny, Santa Claus, they do seem to upend or at least parody the acceptable aesthetics of that scene. But, yeah, there are not many people associated with black metal, even if it’s not being right wing per se, that I would want to spend much time around. I remember reading an interview with Niklas Kvarforth where he keeps making controversial statements, then getting angry at the interviewer’s interpretation and redacting it with a contradictory controversial statement.
Hey Dennis,
Whilst I love the written posts with interviews and prose, I do have to say that these art showcase posts are among my favourites. They’re a great break for me whilst doing work; I love that fountain of the monkey pissing in his mouth. Maybe juvenile of me? I don’t know nor care if so, I just love monkeys and their strange behaviours.
Uhm well there is an online Sims that existed and has now been kept alive by the community; it’s based on the isometric style of the original. The microtransactions are really DLC, but the fact that there’s about 71 different types of expansion/game/kit packs amounting to about 1.25k dollars… it’s extortionate and the base Sims 4 on its own is empty and a shell. They made it free a couple of years back but instead of releasing a Sims 5, they’re making a different game that’s supposed to be an online, multi-platform Sims game that will transfer data between platforms. To that I say, they can fuck off. Sims 4 looks the best, but Sims 2 looks great for a 20 year old game, and was perhaps the last game before EA really took over from Maxis and exploited the fuck out of the series. Sims 3 is still good, but it’s a bit ugly, and the fact that it’s one giant map you can play instead of designated lots with loading zones makes it very laggy. I realized as I played more of Sims 2 that I actually played that with cousins and babysitters, and have more nostalgia than I thought for it. Anyway the story in my Sims life is that my French sim Jacques Renault moved to Pleasantview to become a city-planner. Luckily he met a Sim he has chemistry with, named Komei, who has a high-paying job, and they ‘joined union’ (as it’s a game from 2004 and no gay marriage) and adopted a child named Quinten.
Ah well hopefully some of those conditions end up being quirks that make baby Room Temp lovable. I met up with my friend whose setting up a film collective in Cork for networking and funding projects, and I mentioned RT to her, and we’ll try and go to a European premiere if the schedule works. She ended up getting 9k euro funding for her film podcast, which is incredible as she’s been paying out of her own pocket to travel to festivals across Europe. She got me a copy of Pulp Fiction signed by Uma Thurman which was sweet of her, but the biggest surprise was her getting a video of Patti Smith saying hi to me. I have ideas for vignettes or short films, which will mainly be me trying to recreate some of my dreams, so perhaps I’ll get some of those done over the summer with my newfound directing passion!
Speaking of my friend and upcoming film networking stuff, I’ve gained a sort of artsy respect from a lot of people recently: everyone is constantly in awe or complementing how much I do, which just makes me do even more. The two magazines are done and sent off to be printed, with both of these issues being some of my favourites I’ve worked on.
I’ve listened through Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes by GbV, which were very eclectic, which I like. Going to try listen through them a lot over the next few days and familiarize myself before moving on to more.
Saw u mention The Devil Probably and that specific scene really spoke to me too, even though I was mid-dissertation work and found the film online to see Pere Lachaise in film (and my morbid curiosity of the suicide). The lingering and unspoken melancholy was… wow. I bet though that it’s even more profound when you’ve experienced the entire film.
Hope you have a good weekend, D!
Made me think of Kenneth Anger’s short film Eaux d’Artifice, with the garden fountains of the Villa d’Este soundtracked by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. KA give us a talk in Dundee 2008 when he disclosed that those gushes were supposed to provide an ejaculatory impression. Bodily fluids would seem to be a recurring theme here alright.
Fountains. I like a good fountain. Fairy fountains from the Legend of Zelda games have such lovely music. Coo, at Water Flame. The Fleury is flashy. Romanelli reminds me how odd it is, to me, that so many fountains exist which are little boys pissing. Like. Like what’s going on with that. Seriously. How did the first guy to ever make one get away with it. An LSD fountain is kind of giving Huxley. I love lit/coloured fountains. Capote’s does its job when it comes to discomforting its viewers. Weber’s Sandfountain very desert-level-in-a-videogame-y. Inkline’s nice and simple. That food fountain kind of makes me want to gag. Lavier’s is inventively makeshift. Goodness, it’s Lenin. That highlighter greenish yellow is so ew. Fudakowski appears to be out here trying to kill people for not shutting up. Froese’s No. 5 confused me, made me frown a bit. The bucket’s contents look like Lipton peach iced tea. Yum. I had some of that yesterday. Swanky swanky, that teamLab. Me likey. The Nauman kind of underwhelms me, but I like how the fish are suspended. Salomone’s is revolting. Brownsted’s experiment is actually hilarious. Spare change always comes in handy. Signer’s makes good use of a kayak. Smits’s is cute. The name of Raad’s is eluding me. Murnieks’ is great, reminds me of the p4k review of a Jet album – 0.0, I think the rating was – which just linked a video of a monkey pissing into its mouth: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9464-shine-on/ . Aitken’s makes his point well. I heartily approve of the dudes dancing. Greenfort’s feels alien-y. RIP my boy Pinocchio, damn. I have no need to comment on a phallic fountain in SanFran. The Tolone is free-feelingly bare. The Shinoda pics make me think of The Shining. I love science centres, like the one Wurtzel’s fountain is in. Durant’s sculpting that out of marble is impressive. Reverse Joy is a nice shade of red. That GIF above the Eliasson feels Ghibli-y to me. The Big Bang fountain is a little dizzying. I like the Gober because I like baths – I had the first one in years this Tuesday. I love that the toilet’s titled Huh. Don’t know what the fuck the creator of the lopped-off head fountain was thinking. Aw, I like the look of the Houze. Japanese game shows always seem to have random cams of people in corners. I’m jealous of what Flavin can do with a black ballpoint pen. I like like the Pitta. I love spirals, so I like the Burj Khalifa fountains. I love the pixel-y garden, too. And that Cardboard Bernini, wow. Debouvrie with yet another kid pissing. That Nevada thing is geographically interesting. The Lerma makes me think how much fun this kind of art could be. To have so many people to use. Nithiyendran’s feels autumnal. Damn, that Leung is *white* white. The All-in-one-eruption is delightfully, stupidly unsafe. It makes me a bit happy. Fountains work to bring in March.
Hullo, Dennis. I’m the type to lean towards the sensible as opposed to the extreme, so to have a guy that could mesh the two would be pretty perfect. Even if perfect is impossible. Substance abuse saddens me. Such adventurousness is still kind of impressive, but not admirable. It’s funny to me that I have yet to have sex but there are people out there *not only* fucking, but fucking on drugs, too. Like, damn. Gasp, a slave, *not* telling the 100% verifiable truth, unheard of. The popularity of consensual nonconsent isn’t impossible to understand, but I have trouble reconciling those two concepts. Because at the end of the day, no matter how hard one roleplays the ‘nonconsensual’ bit, at the end of the day, that’s been knowingly consented to. Usernames are such great things, so fun and interesting to me. I’ve had soooo many in my time. At the moment I use maybe 3. A time before the word twink was in common usage sounds enviable, to me.
I find myself using embed more than imbed, but apparently either spelling is fine. Sad If I Lost It is one of the slower GbV songs I like. I generally prefer faster music. But Learning To Hunt is really sweet, too.
Good point. Gullibility probably limits imagination. The first dude to come up with Hell must’ve been damn proud of himself. He really hit onto something with that.
Thanks. I prefer not having breathing-ruining back pain, too. I haven’t even taken any painkillers for like 48 hours or so, and I’m in a tolerable state.
I can’t remember much of what I thought about the people in Paris. Probably nothing at all, since I was more bothered by what my chums were doing, or being sad or tired or bored and wanting to come back to my comfortingly meh England. Present-day me would make more of the city. And similarly, not a clue what LA’s inhabitants are like.
Yesterday was greatgreat, yeah. Even if I did scratch my right hand on some thorns/brambles when retrieving a tennis ball. Some of the cuts are right by a mole, so they look like a face. They went a lovely red, yesterday. And stung/still sting a bit. Plus, I managed to impress, disgust, disappoint, etc. my friend with my My Little Pony knowledge.
To my knowledge, I don’t have much or any work that needs immediate doing. Tabacs I have no experience with, but supermarkets are places I quite like, evils of capitalism and consumerism aside.
My weekend so far has been totally null. I woke up at 2pm today, and got out of bed after 3pm. It’s 6:03pm right now, and I’ve done literally fucking nothing apart from tending to basic hygiene, getting dressed, and eating breakfast at 4pm, and listening to music and podcasts, and typing this up. And trying to complete/remember what stuff I fell asleep in the middle of last night. I have emails I need to pick up, but I’m feeling very lazy and as such probably won’t get much done today. I was up to a stupid hour last night. Sigh. We’ll see. Till Monday.
It’s cool to see how so many of these fountains subvert the definition of a fountain in different ways. It reminds me of something Maurizio Cattelan said that I can’t find–and who knows if he even did say it–about how whenever people parody his duct-tape banana work, people either choose to use the banana or the duct tape as which element to use in their version. But the work is both. I don’t really know what that means but it’s always struck me, and this seems kind of similar where the artists are either choosing to subvert the water or the structure that holds it.
Roger Deakins was really interesting because of how uninterested he was with entertaining all the film geeks. His wife and work partner James Ellis Deakins was with him and she was clearly the people person, whereas I think he’d be equally as happy just wandering around taking photos all year. Everyone just wanted to ask him about the Coen Brothers. Someone asked him if he had a favorite shot in all his movies and he literally said “I don’t understand that question,” it rocked.
Thanks for checking out my stuff, too! Just today my friend told me she wants to buy one of my larger paintings, which is awesome. And man, I’d love a gig writing for Artforum…was it as glamorous as I’m dreaming of?
Did anyone break the glass to get at the LSD fountain?
Mainliner’s first few albums are spectacularly lo-fi and blown-out.
I started taking my new prescriptions today. No effects yet, but my doctor said they’d probably require a week or two to kick in.
It’s very hard to be optimistic in the U.S. right now. I started watching a news clip of Zelenskyy’s humiliation ritual and found it so depressing I had to shut it off. He must have endless reserves of patience not to kick Trump and Vance in the balls. The media is completely collapsing.
Did you watch the Oscars?
*sexy trumpets* im happy to announce I’ve revamped my website put my book up for public access and download with some art and a reading list so that’s what what i was up to in the blip while i was gone and im working on like speaking the story with out laughing cause its funny full of love. Super short book too i promise if you have the time pop on over and get your copy the playlist for it is pretty sick i must say. Oh fuckmachine boys omg really it’s truly a fetish ive had since a kid so maybe thats why i dont mind chatgpt this one tho im about to put my credit card info in some camshow recording website I can’t believe the artistry. Hum I wonder whats your go to os apple windows or something else? Oh heres new website link just in case : https://closedpractice.univer.se/
What was for dinner and ill be back tomorrow!
oop its tomorrow and I was sort of super tired today I guess its the sign all my work payed off even if I don’t exactly feel tired per say I’m open and willing to taking a break especially after all I’ve been doing. It truly feels like something is actually coming for me but that may be the faith speaking for me as it should. Just grateful and happy honestly long day that felt short full of walking and then white lotus also whats your favorite os android windows apple or something else? Actuality tired now so see you tomorrow xoxo extra comments are really fun!
Wow, that Robert Gobert piece is lovely! The fondue fontain, maybe not as much. Communal food fountains are kind of cool to think about, but when I see loose foods get put near them, I always get a little grossed out. Obviously all fountains are regurtitating circulatory/digestive systems, but I feel like it’s a little too biological when there’s food involved.
Great, great, amazing weekend for me. Got a ton of great work done, had a great chat with a friend I really get on with about maybe moving in with him, finished off that “Lorelei and the Laser Eyes” game I mentioned to you earlier. The last section has a ton of time-sensitive writing, so I ended up grabbing a pen and writing all over my hands and a piece of cardboard near me, so I’ve got some scrawling on my palm that’s hopefully going to wash out soon. But yeah, amazing weekend, even if I broke a limb it’d still be overall great.
Oh wow, that sounds rough, your back I mean. I think “autoimmune” and “nerve” are sort of scarier sounding words than “back pain”, but I think they’re probably similar feeling. My legs are often less straightforward “pain”, and more a quite interesting kind of sensation of something moving up my legs with extreme force, like squeezing the last bit of a toothpaste tube out, which sounds awful, but is actually pleasant if I’m in the right mood. Anyway, hope your weekend was as excellent as mine, see ya!
Hey. Yeah, the UK isn’t dealing with the terrifying book burning thing that the US is but the arts are definitely being denigrated and disrespected as always. I know the political climate is an endless roundabout, but I’m honestly terrified at the moment. I mean, there are obvious similarities with the 80s, of course. But I read over the past week about how the famous trans actress Hunter Schafer lost her passport and got a new one and was forced to list her gender as male, and if it can happen to the most wealthy and successful trans people, then everyone else is going to be hit much harder. And I’ve been reading that there’s a bill to ban all gender affirming care for people of all ages in Texas. It’s just so insane that these wedge issues are being used to distract from the real problems. This will affect all people, not just trans people. Anyway, I don’t really talk politics on here but I don’t think this should be political. All of these wedge issues are just intended to sow discord among undecided voters to detract from the real problems and to place the blame for all of their woes onto whatever marginalized group is the current target.
And eek, my classmates drafted an open letter to the university about the importance of the course. Unfortunately, the university will definitely not be receptive to what is currently written. It compares the axing of the course to Nazi book burnings and is filled with expletives and insults. Then again, all of my classmates responded something to the effect of ‘I’m on drugs right now, I’ll give you my feedback when I’m sober’ in the group chat so it’s probably just a first draft.
Oh yeah, I do see the similarities with my ghost kid poem and Roman in ‘PGL’. I was also thinking about this youtuber I watched a four hour youtube documentary about recently who was obsessed with a character in the cartoon ‘Danny Phantom’ and murdered three of his co-workers. This character was a ghost girl and he believed when he died his soul would be reunited with this character and he would become a ghost girl too. He was probably the only mass shooter who hated men rather than women. The whole story is too long to explain but the bottom line is that this kid was definitely trans, going as far as to admit it. (I’m calling him ‘he’ because he was too disgusted by trans people to want to be referred to in the feminine, but always stated that his soul was female). I’m interested in the possibility that it was more complicated than even that, though. When you’re trans, it’s very easy to sum up all of the confusion that you’ve ever felt as just a product of you being trans and not having the language to express it, but I’ve always refused that and think it cuts deeper than that.
Ah that scene in ‘The Devil, Probably’ is one of my favourite scenes too! The way he’s trailing behind him… It really hits you when there is a death in a movie which subverts your expectations, since we’re so used to seeing death occur in the same way in films that we’re immune to it. There are so many great, very affecting scenes in that movie, and many of them involve screens (the house collapsing on tv, the baby seal being clubbed). The conversation Charles has with the shrink is maybe my favourite scene, although I think Bresson is someone who I think of in terms of the general effect. I remember watching my first Bresson movie and not feeling anything, and then going for a walk afterwards and it was still with me, like when you take a drug and it doesn’t hit you immediately.
Congrats on Room Temperature having a premier date! Cannot wait to see it. Saw the interview with Lily Lady, which struck me ever so slightly off balance. I do love a good fountain, and this post was a wonderful end to a tiring week. Listening to Peggy Lee’s rendition of “Me and My Shadow” while writing this. Went to Atlanta for some work and on my way back we stopped at a gas station to pee. A man walked in (with the little dance that says you really have to go) when I was washing my hands, made a disgusted face of a specific kind, and left. I couldn’t even be mad at the racism because it was so funny that this guy was hateful enough to probably piss himself in his car. Otherwise I’ve spent the week navigating this illogical fight between friends. Very tiring for no reason whatsoever. Spring break soon!
Hey, today was the second day in a row without any bad episodes and such, which was obviously great. The trick is either music or animals. It feels good now that the peace is back.
Yesterday I was training as a receptionist at the “doggy daycare.” My tasks include boarding dogs, booking them suites (cages and kennels) as well as managing daycare check-ins/out. Etc other pragmatic stuff
It’s going great so far! The system we use to board dogs, called “gingr”, is a bit stressful to learn but I’m sure I’ll get there. The person training me, Felix he’s actually FTM as well and looks a lot like me. At least that’s what my mom kept telling me when she pushed me to apply here a couple months ago. He’s very patient training me , despit me being very “spacey”. Sometimes he’d step outside the building and call me from the office phone, pretend that he was a client boarding a dog, so that I could get some phone practice while diminishing some of the anxiety. My manager is super. nice, almost too nice, the way she took it when I explained to here why I had missed my second day being in the hospital. Oh btw, the police didn’t show up because I was violent, dont think that I am, it was for a different crisis. Can’t remember if I mentioned that? It doesn’t matter ——>
I hope they continue to be patient with me while training because I’ll get this odd boarding system figured out in no time. This is a perfect job for a writer because when we aren’t in rush hours boarding checking in/out dogs we are just sitting at the desk in silence. When im bored I like scrolling through the system of animals, notes or the “doggy database” as I call it. Oh my God it’s so cute! You’d love it. Its essentially a collection of all the client owners and their pets. Some attach photos of their animals and funny notes, as well as the occasional witty note about how “THIS ONE BITES” or “HE WILL EAT RUN CARDS” or “ENJOYS EATING POOP.” there’s also a camera so if I get bored I can pull it up and just watch the dogs in the daycare run around and swim in the pool.
I’m amazed by myself because I planned a lunch date with a friend! This upcoming week hopefully. A place called Pho Basil right next to the asian market I usually shop and the incense store with the cashier I might be crushing on( stories for another time), pho is so delicious. I love Vietnamese food, how about you? I plan to buy some falafel because it’s been a while.
Cooper, the dog, is acting crazy right now, scratching at my bed like its a gopher tunnel. He had his balls cut off yesterday and now sports one of those cartoon cones on his head. He’s a sweet boy.
How was your February in two words?
heeyaw. i like fountains in ways i can’t clarify, probably something i will figure in the fountain’s cousin the shower. i’m usually icked out by body of waters, mainly due to almost drowning as a kid — i think, apparently from all context i just fell down and got my head dangerously close to the water, which wasn’t apparently that bad to onlookers but my memories has made it into something more. or they might be lying. we will never know. — but fountains never are included in that.
but yeah, my week was exactly how you imagined. yeah i had no clue why he was there as well. my weekend was even more insane, (it really wasn’t). writing’s still relatively good question mark. i’m not the best judgers of when im delusional about it or when im on point, but gonna assume the answer to that is they are the same. i’m on track either way.
i get that! i dont usually laugh too hard at the slave posts, it is just that one broke my mind in a good way. absurd bits is always the way to my heart, even if it’s about horrible minecraft players who also apparently is a future pop star.
currently simmering a pot of veggie soup, carrots, lettuces, uh something else in it. i honestly just got what i had and dumped it in the pot. probably should learn how to time these but i don’t care too much if they are mush.
before i forget, comgrants on Room Temperature’s premier date. as someone who has quietly been reading the problems been having even getting to release, i’m shocked and happy it actually is happening.
i think that should be it from me!