It Is Made Up Of A Combination, In Variable Proportions, of Speech, Dance, And Song

Hung out with Kanka this afternoon at our favorite, the El Myr. Had a few drinks and a few shots of Patron to boot. We talked about life, art, money and women... what else is there to talk about. Well we did make fun of the fat little kids with mullets playing in the Little Leauge World Series... what a bunch of losers — ha ha. We also made our own additions to the beer tap at the bar heres a few picture of that and of drinking.






Headed over to Stephs tonight to watch a few movies... popcorn and goodies. Yes!

Through Long Years I Have Not Ceased To Experiment, Neither Have I Have Spared Any Labour Of Mind

9:32PM
Kanka said I should post this fact. So here it is.
Tonight I drank:
4 pints of Guinness @ $5.00 each
3 glasses of 18 year old Glenlivet @ $15.00 each

Total cost for Jim $65.00. Thanks Jim — I'll get you back... no worries.

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9:10PM
Recieved a most intersting postcard from Barker today. It's unlike anything I've ever recieved from him. Now first off, it's a very important card because according to the written text — "I created this master work of art at about 6am after my bachelor party. Lord was I fucked. - Barker" Now this card is definitly an important artifact that I'll hold high above others... but what makes it even more unique is the following. The card possessed a double postmark: DALLAS, TX AUG 16 — NORTH METRO, GA AUG 19. This double stamping makes absolutly no sense... but it makes the card an amazing artifact to the system that is called the USPS. As usual Barkers brilliance is engrained in the work — under the influence, in retrospect, and in the unknown sytems we embrace. Thanks Bark!

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7:05PM
Finally, I have been given confirmation from Unisource to use Korea as my concept country for the Paper Fashion Show. Now the next hurdle is to develop my creative brief for the work as well as the visual concept. Tonight I will begin visual research as well as more indepth research into the two cultures. Even though both regions are part of one country, they both have extremely different ideologies. I'm going to have lunch & drinks with Kanka tomorrow. We'll discuss at length his personal experiences with communism and it's influence on modern societies. I'm really looking forward to the conversation. Kanka is one of the smartest and most well imformed people I know. He has a worldly experience I can never have. He is one of my best friends... I value his opinion in matters such as these above all others.

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12:42PM
Since I have little time to write at this moment, I thought I'd post an older photo Kanka took of me. I believe this photo was snapped in 2003. The painting is from 1994 — a terribly old oil painting I did in high school. It is titled 'The Average Bureaucrats Visions Of Jesus Christ'. If I remeber correctly, I won some awards for it back in the day.

photo: KANKA

You Have Done Something To Your Hair!

Had a silly time at the Vortex show last night... Arrrggg. Pirates bewares... yer ships run a fowl and yer booty has been a' stolen.




Enough of the scurvy savages at the bar... what was happening at the show. Well Big Mike was decked out in a grass skirt and jungle gear. There was a tiny little witch doctor running around casting his magic on all the evil drunkards. Really funny stuff. The Dames did several routines... all were sexy sexy sexy. Those Dames.. yikes. Of course my favorite was Luna's 'Krispy Kreme Donut' act. Red sparkel pasties.. ohh lordy lordy.

Leave Me Alone... Ouch! That Hurts... Don't Do It Again

Kanka and I are headed to get drinks. I have to withdraw my last statement. Kanka is not a Fuckin' Asshole... no no no, thta was totally incorect and uncalled for... he is now the Ultimate Pussy. Bwaha ha ha ha!!!!
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HAMPSTER WEAR
' When It's Hampster Wear... You Can Put It Anywhere'
Kanka and I have a new clothing fashion. It's called Hampster Wear. It's the underwaer that come with a live hampster inside.
Happy People will love them.
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Kanka has done the worst thing he could have ever done up until this moment. The bastard took the orange striped tights picture of me, blown it up, printed it and taped it to his fridge. Asshole! You fuckin' asshole! Ohh well.. I'm sitting over at his place having a glass of scotch. Delicious scotch... it's good. We're just sitting around shooting the shit.
Earlier this afternoon I worked on some different types of correspondences for all sorts of people. Got a few different emails from Barker. Check out his killer street lamp cover collection —


Kanka and I are gonna head over to the Vortex on Peachtree this evening. Mr. Geier is playing there with his smooth stylists. There is some other stuff going on too and the DA'f will be in full swing tonight as well. Ohh la la la. Kanka is yelling at me.. he says "I know what you're talking about you fuck'n pork'r." What that all about man... what a weirdo.

Support Your Local (insert noun)

5:00PM
I have it... Korea. I'm going to do a split layer dress with the top half representing North Korea and the bottom South Korea. I need to call and make sure that someone hasn't taken this country yet. I'll have to somehow develop this concept into a political statement regarding the climate in those regions. I'll also throw in some of the ideas that were discussed during the six-party talks with China, Japan, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, and the United States to resolve the stalemate over Norths nuclear programs. There will definitely be references to the nuclear. I'd like to try to figure out a way to use the midriff region (belly) of the model to serve as a transitional border point between the 2 regions.

The dress or maybe more appropriately outfit... will consist of a 2 part strategy. The upper half of the dress (NORTH) will be a very conservative military style cut. Very angular and rigid in it's construction. It should allow no real personality to show thru. It should make the upper half of the body fit into a communist like profile. The bottom half of the dress (SOUTH) will have a more free and organic structure. It will allow the models individual form to show through the dress. It will allow for free movement and imply the ideals of a democratic republic.

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12:08PM
Friday has come... and eventually Friday will go and I seriously doubt that I will have made a decision on the country that I want to use for the paper show. I lumped all my efforts into the Japan concept, but at this point-in-time I really don't like anything else that I've looked into. It's such an annoying feeling... you'd think it would be a simple thing, picking a country, but it isn't. Japan was so perfect... the difference between the ancient and modern cultures was fascinating. Some of the latest ideas I've had have been less than brilliant. A UK theme dress that's based on punk rock and the british underground movement. I wonder what would happen if I tried to incorporate something from The Who's Tommy or even Pink Floyd's The Wall. That could be interesting... and it could also be very very cliche'. This is just a difficult situation... hopefully I'll figure out which country to choose. Once I pick one I have a week to develop the concept and develop preliminary drawings. This is turning into a bad situation.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 19, 2005
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LUDWIG - KISS no.2 (postcard)

Say Are You Really One Of The Richest Girls In This Here Territory

11:06PM
Still struggling to choose a new country for the paper dress show. I'm going to have to dive deeper into the culture, mythology & history of some different countries. It's the only way I'm going to find a clever path to follow with this work. I have a few different paths in mind, but we'll see how clever they really are... hmmm & grrr.

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1:30PM
Nothing too interesting to report today. Last night I worked on a number of different correspondences for people. Everything from postcards to stuffed envelopes. I should be ramping up mailing transferrals next week, at least 5-6 mailings a day for a while.
On the new home front, the house has been completly drywalled and is probably having trim installed as I type this. I'll be swinging by there again this weekend to show it off to some folks and to do more measurements for the entertainment center I'm building for the living room and to measure certain walls for paintings. I also have to measure all the windows so I can order blinds. Now the builders said they would be complete by the end of August... ha ha. I'm thinking more like the middle or end of September. Things are gonna move really fast in that house now. After they get all the trim installed and everything is painted they will lay the wood floors and install the cabinets and appliances and then it's just a bunch of little things. Getting down to the wire... finally!! Can't wait to get out of the hole.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 18, 2005
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LUDWIG - KISS no.1 (postcard)

Thank You For Holding... Please Hold.

Here's a picture from that strange party I went to with Monkey Lulu a few weeks back... isn't she the sweetest lookin' thang. Thank the lord the person who shot this didn't get my legs. Yikes in stripes!!


He's another photo from before the party. This photo has been edited for elicit content that is not suitable for women under the age of 17.


Here's a rockstar for ya.

The Children Will Be So Thrilled. Wait... Weren't You A Blonde When I Came In?

You Are In A Trance Now... I Will Bring You Out Of It Shortly

Witnessed a terrible car crash in front of my house today. It happened seconds after I got on the street directly behind me. I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't here a large slash sound... then I turned around and found that a car crossing the street got broad-sided. Nasty stuff... didn't stick around long enough to see if anyone was hurt. I was running late and had places to be. There are too many accidents in the ATL to worry about any of them. Besides nobody stopped to see if I was ok after I wrecked. I guess the feeling is mutual.
On the Drive-Invasion front I've learned some good and bad news. First the bad — they are only playing 2 nights of movies v. the 3 they've done in the past. Now the good news — my hero Jack Hill will be there to give a talk. They are playing 4 of his films on Sat night — The Big Bird Cage, Spider Baby, Foxy Brown, and the classic Blood Bath (also known as Track of the Vampire). I'm really excited to meet Jack. I'm going to try and get him to autograph my Sorceress poster, but I'm not sure he'll do it. That was his last film and Roger Corman pulled his name from the film and put Brian Stuart as director instead (the first names of Corman's 2 sons). Hopefully Jack will be a good sport and sign it anyways. Sid Haig is also going to be there (Spider Baby - Blood Bath - Foxy Brown)... but I really want to meet Jack. This is the drive-in lineup i've been waiting for... too bad they aren't playing Swinging Cheerleaders or Switchblade Sisters though. They play both a few years back so...
In other unfortunate news I need to select another country for the Paper Fashion Show. Someone has already taken Japan. Bastards!! I know they are going to do something stereotypical and utterly pointless with that dress... what a disappointment (mine would have been much better). I'm going to consult with Steph tonight and discuss a few different options. She had some really good ideas for other dresses last time we discussed the project. I'll have to pick her brain some more. It's important to get her opinion considering she will have to wear the dress.
Since Spin & Gin is finally over, I can get back to the bulk of my solo work again. I can also get back into the postcard habit and get some new correspondences out to my peps. Until I get an approval on the country I choose for my dress, I'm not going to worry to much about it.
I am going to jump head-first into the process and planning of the '100 Small Works' series again. I've had a nice break from those works and feel refreshed and reinvigorated with the concept behind the works. Also going to continue production of the secondary materials I have for the 2004 Fluoride Series. As soon as the house is completed I'll have ample studio space and I'll be able to get a better scope of all the works in progress. It's very hard right now to see the full picture/status of all the current works. I have everything listed out in spreadsheets and process forms, and that is great when you are getting technical, working on the time management and asset management of the works, but nothing can compare to looking at all the work in one glance. At this time most of the work is filed away because of space issues... as well as being packed up for the moving process. I really need to escape this space soon, so I can begin to work under the type of methods and organizational planning I require. Much of the later work I am going to be producing is larger in both physical scale and over-all scope. The processes and methods employed are going to become more complex and will require the larger space to facilitate a workflow that is comfortable and efficient.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 15, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 37 (postcard)

Sundays Are For Sleepin' In Even Later

Here are some pictures from the SPIN show. Thanks Kanka... the man always has some sort of camera on him.






Kanka snapped this picture of the lady who bought 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. He said he thinks he spooked her out when he asked to snap a pic of her in the parking lot. I'm sure he did too... my buddie had a lot to drink that night.

Here is me and Steph getting our portrait done. It took so long we weren't able to get over to see Geier finish playing at the top of the Hilton — Nikolai's Roof. But we did get over there in enough time for us to all hang out. Yeah, I was still in costume... people must have been weirded out a little. I wasn't though. All I wanted was a cheesburger and a nap... and to my suprise everyone I asked about these things, gave me directions to both.


ELVIS v. KINGSIZED

The Kingsized Elvis show was just amazing. There had to be at least 800+ people packed into the Variety Playhouse. It was intense. I saw Fredrick from Degenerate Press and we discussed the sad news about the Starlight Drive-In and those jerk-offs at New Line Cinema. If you don't know what's happening check out what The Degenerate Press says — Degenerate Press: Live Journal
Fredrick said he should put together a 4th of July Event there... I'll hold him to that. Kanka showed up after I told him that if he was smart he'd come to the show. So he smart'ned up. We had some drinks and some chuckles. Tee Hee!!

Met with Luna Luxx after the show... check out the lashes on her. Ohh baby!!

Had 3:00AM breakfast at the Majestic. Me — Western omlette, coffee, and hashbrowns with cheese. Miss. Luxxy — 2 eggs over-easy, hashbrowns and wheat toast. Delicious... thank you Mr. Mike for the meal again. What a hell-of-a guy.

Saturdays Are For Sleepin' In

WATCH OUT BRITNEY... HERE COMES VERONICA!


The show last night was a big success for Spin. They had almost 100 items up for auction. Everything from art - sculpture - glassware - jewlery - certificates and lots more. All of my works were bought in the beginning of the show and by the end all had multiple bids on them. Which is very good — The person who bought 'Dance - Dance - Dance' is going to be putting it in their office building. Thats pretty cool. I'll have to go and see it there for real sometime.
A lot of people were really wild about the 4 drawings I submitted. Which was strange, as I figured people would hate them. But I was asked by quite a few people - what they were about - how i did the transfers - etc. I ended up giving away 20 or more website cards... so I guess we may get a few more viewers to the blog.
Got several pictures taken of me and the angry & always late (she was shopping) Veronica. However I don't have any of them right now. However we did get this strange portrait of us done. Those French artists are drinking to much absinth I think.



Got to do some karoke myself last night too. I did 3 songs — Clash: Rock the Cassba — B-52's: Love Shack — Iggy Pop: The Passenger — . I rocked the stage and didn't fall to my doom once. The DJ was same guy as the year before... he asked if I was that guy from last year and I winked. I did my brithsh accented grunting Clash - My best Fred with fly moves - The Iggy Pop dance. What a fun evening. Lots of my friends showed up which was great great great.
I'd have to say though, that my favorite part of the show was talking to people and catching them with strange looks as I talk to them in costume. I think it bothered some folks to talk to somebody all costumed up. It's reminded me of what Ray Johnson once said when he was asked about his work — 'By acting I mean I am putting you on, by acting I mean I'm performing here, but I'm also playing the role of an artist who is talking about what he does, but I'm playing with you both by talking to you, I'm just haveing fun by talking about this, but I do this... I have a Deadpan Club. I do this with a dead pan expression, like I'm really very serious, but underneath it all it's a Dada joke."

Headed to the Kingsized Elvis Show tonight... It's gonna be a' gimmer ana gammer


MAILING TRANSFERRAL
August 13, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 36 (postcard)

Show Night — SPIN & GIN V: Caberat

TONIGHT
SPIN & GIN V — Caberat!
914 Howell Mill Road, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30318

6:00 - 10:00PM
$25 Donation at the door

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2:15PM
Got home from my morning of community work. Hot and tired boxed food all morning. Getting cleaned up and putting together the last 4 works for the show. 4 hours till the party'n starts... yeee-haw.

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8:35AM
VIVA LAS VEGAS

Geier is the man... check out the King chattin' on FOX 5.


The Late King


Luna Luxx does her stuff

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7:52AM
Went to Stephs last night to finish up final production of my costume for the show and to check out hers. That girl is just too damn fast on a sewing machine. A lot faster than me.... wow!! The costume is finished as well as a major change in my appearance, I don't really notice it though. Again, major points to Steph for helping me with all this into the late late hours last night.

We both woke up really really early this morning... I have to donate some time to some community service for work and Steph is going to be on 'Good Morning Atlanta' FOX 5 to promote the Kingsized Elvis Show tomm. night. Geier is supposed to rock the TV set this morning. We are sleeping in tomm. Neither of us has had much sleep this week, way to many thing going on. Ahhhh!!! Paper Fashion Show is coming soon... AHHHH!!! Need sleep.

Show tonight... I'll update later.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 12, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermitted Jughead 35 (postcard)

Countdowns Are Time Killers

Well it's finally done and hung. Went to Spin last night and hung 'Dance - Dance - Dance'. It looks amazing. I decided also to donate 4 small transfer drawings to the show as well, just so the Spin folks have more work to hang. I'll have to run to the art store tomm. and pick up a few frames for the works. I'll hang them just before the show.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 11, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermitted Jughead 34 (postcard)

Come On Give Me A Drink For Heavens Sake — Why Don't You Cut It Short — Give Me Another Drink

8:27PM
Dance-Dance-Dance is complete. After waiting 2 hours at the customer pick-up counter, the Fader has finally reached my home and has been installed. All I can say right now is that this painting is so fucking good it makes me have to take a step back. I have tons of shit to work on tonight (all nighter) I'll write more later. But again... this painting is FUCKING amazing!!!! If you weren't planning on coming to this show you are going tom miss the best work there... so get your ass to the show! I'm damn serious too!!

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12:02AM
Just shut off 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. Before I finished though, I hooked each colors (red/white) electrical plug into 2 different power strips. Then I flipped the switches on the strips back and forth to see how the strobe effect would look. After only a few seconds of watching the pulsing red then white lights I marveled at how great it looked, but also how uneasy and sick I felt — PERFECT!!! The slightly slower strobe effect I'm going to deploy is going to rock this show so so hard.
The pulsating lights make it look like a street side advertisement for some sleazy establishment. There are no letters or numerals on the entire work, so instead, we communicate with a set of select symbols all in the the form of Jughead. The Jughead's' various gestures and paced actions placed in a plenary void, combined with the lighting scheme, advertise a place that contains infinte possibilities within it. The title 'Dance-Dance-Dance' refers to the way we should act in such a free and open environment. Have fun with life... create every moment of it in your own image and enjoy the labors of this action at all times.
The lights do some very interesting things with the paint as I had suspected and then purposefully planned for. The red and white lights reveal and conceal certain aspects of the red and white enamel paint on blue background. Colors cancel out and others are enhancened, but at no time can we see the entire picture, unless we were to place it in direct white light. So, you have to fill in the void of missing information in your mind. Just as we do in everyday life, the plenary void forces us to create environments and situations to involve ourselves in.


SNEAK PEEK

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 10, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 33 (postcard)

Using A Rounded Yellow Sponge They Capture The Flow Of Blood From The Holes

9:08PM
The painting is 95% complete. The electrical system is installed and is functional. The work has been running without incedent on my wall for the past 2 hours. I'm going to let it run a while longer to be sure that nothing shorts, becomes too hot or heck... falls off. I think everything is going to be just fine though. I will pick up the Fader Controller tomorrow. I have to install and mount it and drill the final hole for the electrical output plug. Then I have a few minor cosmetic touch-ups and it is ready to go. I'll drop it off at Spin Creative this Thursday evening. I need to put in a call to Sheri to let her know of it's delivery so she can reserve space on a good wall near an electrical outlet. I have pleanty of other things to complete throughout the rest of this week before fridays show. Lots of people coming to the show, so I need pleanty of things to give away. Shows without freebies are just so boring.

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12:15PM
I like to walk around with a bum leg all day... it's the best. Because of my little accident last night I didn't get to complete the wiring for the piece, but the sealent has had all night to set so this evening I will complete the instalation and test it out. unfortunately I'm still trying to get the Fader Controller out of UPS limbo some how. I'm still working this out.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 9, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 32 (postcard)

They Are Drilling Tiny Holes In My Skull

10:48
Blood — Blood — Blood. It just wants to keep flowing.... delicious.

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10:32PM
Just shaved all the hair off the back of my thigh and cleaned the wound with alcohol and benzadine. Applied a butterfly sutcher to the huge gap I created. YUMMY!! The bleeding has slown a bit... I probably need stitches, but I'll leave the turnakit on a while longer. My dressing will heal it just as well as stitches tonight. Would rather have the cool scar anyways. A strange feeling, shaving ones thigh... well, at least for a man that has never done such a task before. Poor women... such a horribly lengthy process to please men... I must admit though... there is nothing like a long smooth thigh to run ones hand up.

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10:12PM
DAMN & OUCHH... I didn't think I was making any other works of art tonight until I found an X-acto knife lodged into my left thigh with blood squirting out across the room (YES there is blood everywhere in my living room). I'm sitting at that blood stained couch right now wearing a turnakit on my left thigh as I write to you. I know for sure I cut something really really deep and really really bad, but I ain't about to go drive to some emergency room. All hail the Boy Scouts of America!@!!


Before I dressed my leg in a tornakit I followed my typical Retroconsumeristic ideals and created a self-generated chaotic blot drawing — 4 of them.

Fuck... I'm still bleeding really bad (laff).. umm well. Anyways, enjoy the few pics of the fun. I tried a few times, but decided it best to reapply the turnakit to my leg, since I couldn't capture the blood spurts on my cell phone camera emanating from my leg. Enjoy... OUCH!!

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8:46PM
Went to the hardware store today and it was a total success. I found the receptacle cap pieces I needed for the lights and well below the price I had limited myself to — 0¢ - 30¢ each. CAMPAK RGD 3/4" - 1/2" Steel Reducing Washers. These are just the most incredible and most practical, as well as classy cap pieces, for only 15¢ each. It's the same cap you would use on a large lighted sign, so I makes the work look even more vintage than it really is. It's so perfect.

Sealed the caps to/over the 1" openings with clear silicone sealant. Had to wait 2 hours for it to set (24 to cure) and I've began to string the final wiring. I was thinking that I might have to use silicone sealant to mount the receptacles into the frame but instead I've decided to use 1/8" fiber insulated staples. I wasn't sure if they would keep the receptacles in place, but once you screw the bulbs in, the tension/width of the bulb to recepticale to washer, forces the lightbulb to remain perfectly aligned.

This piece is going to be so damn good looking. There isn't a single portion of this work that feels out of place or cheap. There just isn't. I would say this work is mechanically the finest piece I've excecuted to date and a definitly pivotal point in my entire body of works electrical maturity.
On a bad note the stupid company I ordered the lights from decided it made more sense to send the Fader Controller I'm waiting for to the billing address v. the shipping address... Hmmmm — They originally shipped everything but the Fader to the shipping address so of course it makes perfect sence to mail the missing part to another place. Now I have to contact 'my' stupid company because they will not leave an overnight package at my door without a signature. GRRRR... this angers me so. I'll jump thru those hoops tomm., but in the meantime not even that can anger me. This work is looking more classical than anything I've ever done.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Attended the strangest of birthday parties. The theme was Surreal Circus. The entire loft was full of huge balloons... I mean it was waist deep and above with large balloons when Steph and I arrived. The entire loft was jam packed simply unreal. Now as for costumes... I didn't bring anything over to Stephs' and she frowned on me. Of course now, Steph the all too clever clothing designer herself, had a large amount of silly things to wear (silly if your a man). I wore (to her fall-on-the-floor-marriage-proposal-laughter) a pair of orange and black striped tights with a blue & gold one piece ensconced in sequins (chest hair in full view). The entire outfit rode my crotch and rode my crotch hard (someone called me Superman later in the evening), but it was so damn funnny looking that I 'had' to wear it out. She topped my costume off with a red bowed black cape and red 'Robin' mask. I looked.... well... 'indescribable'. Steph decided to step into her other persona of Monkey Lulu. Lulu wore a pair of hand made silver hot pants and a Wonder Woman sequined top with matching red calf-high leather boots. Gorgeous little monkey... ohh yeah she had the black lip liner, croaked pony-tails and monkey mask going too. Prettiest symbian I ever dun seen.
We arrived at the location (Mattress Factory Lofts) and couldn't get in right off. I suggested we walk to the other door and there we saw the party thru a window. Monkey Lulu instinctively rushed to an adjacent garden ledge and danced around and thru a fish at the window to get the groups attention. When everyone turned to look Monkey Lulu became scared and jumped straight up into my open arms. That Monkey Lulu is just too cute. The party rocked and there were still too many balloons left behind. What a great night!!

PICTURES COMING SOON

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 8, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 31 (postcard)

My Goodness Me... It's A Great Big World

LATE
Ohh... the unknown beauty of the woman who sleeps silently... sigh — She knows not what mine eyes speak

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7:42PM
Drive-In tonight... Big Bebowski & Team America. Unfortunately, at this moment, the city of Atlanta has decided to follow it's daily routine of rain and then more rain. So if this keeps up Steph and I might just watch theses films from somewhere else.

Strung the lighting sytem this afternoon — have reralized I need another component to finfish off the work. Some sort of cap or blacker washer to cover the light socket hole and make the hole more finished. Will try and hit hardware store after work tomm.

This Is Strictly A Holy Matter

Well I don't know if the electrical system is still going to work out... but at least my painting has 50 holes in it now. Headed out to make costumes at Stephs this afternoon. Will worry about the mounting of the lights after I perform some minor cosmetic surgery on the painting. A few touch-ups around the holes.



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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 6, 2005
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BARKER - Pretemitted Jughead 30 (postcard)

A Person Working In The Service Of A Toothed Wheel That Engages Another Person Who Records Sound By Scratching Continuous Grooves Into Their Flesh

My light bulbs are here!!!! They are finally here!!! One hundred of the most beautiful ceramic light bulbs I've ever seen. This changes everything as far as the painting is concerned. I can not believe how absolutly absolute these match the red and white enamel painted figures. I haven't even had a chance to put them side-by-side and I know that they are spot on. My heart is beating pretty fast... I'm really really ecstatic. This is so so amazing!!

I can't wait to get home and work on this painting!!! The only bad thing is that the company left the Fader out of my shipment... they will be overnighting it to me though. Good folks at the All American Christmas Co.

Hung out at a Linton birthday party last night at Canoe (it was a gas — Kelly was funny as hell) and then Steph and I went over to Mary's to check out a really fun Drag performance. Some really great songs, sung on the bar itself (that's class if you ask me), with a good Siouxsie and The Banshees closer. Good croud there, even though it was raining. The DJ was kickin' the Eagles of Death Metal and the video screens were pulsing electric sex and retro-vitriol.

Photo: DOVER

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 5, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 29 (postcard)

To Take Property Belonging To Someone Else In Reflex Response To Sudden Desires For Heterosexual Intimacy On Inlaid Furniture

3:20PM
Wow... I actually got my first guess for the title of this post. If you've noticed the past few posts have strange definitions in the title. These are definitions that I've taken from several other words to create ideas for things that do not exist. However, today we have a guess for the term I was describing.
SNATCH
Hmmm.... not exactly the word I was going for, but it could work. Thanks for that, dirty-minded girl.

I completed painting the initial composition of 'Dance-Dance-Dance'... now it'll sit for a few days until I figure what else to paint on it (there is more to do still). Reds and whites are done... but I think there will be more whites still. The lights should be here this week.. I'm getting more and more electrified about the work everyday. What a good show this will be.
All of the personal invites for SPIN & GIN went out today. (Boooo!!!!) I think Spin even sent invites to people who attended in the past... Kanka isn't too happy about that.. ohh well, it'll make for a more eventful evening I suppose.
Now back to the invites — I had to stand in front of the lady at the post office and watch her hand-cancel all 50 cards. I initially gave them to her asking that she hand-cancel them and as I was walking away I saw her put them in the out-bin without stamping. So I yelled at her... really really loud. "What part of, 'Could you please hand-cancel these cards for me, it's very important that they are dated', did you not understand!" She tried to give me lip-service-attitude up until the point I walked back up to her, put the rubber stamp in front of her face and said "What was that you just said.. I can't hear you because you're to busy stamping my god-damn postcards!" Yeah.. people were looking at us, but I had the power of the suit on my side. You know what I'm talking' bout Kanka... ohh yeah. The lady needed to learn to follow direction, not slack off and especially not try and talk shit to me in a public place (lazy-ass government employees).
I hate postcards that are not hand-cancelled, as does my postal-lover err... lovers. If it is not hand-cancelled there is no point in mailing it as far as I'm concerned.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 4, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 28 (postcard)
NEWMAN - Woof-Woof (stuffed envelope)
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BARKER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
BLACKMON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
BUTLER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
BUTTREY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
COTEALIA - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
DAVIDSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
DECILLIS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
DURAN - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
ENSLEY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
GEIER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
GRIFFITH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
HARL - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
JACKSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
JENKINS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KANKA - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KIDWELL - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LAMPREY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LEAHY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LICHLYTER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LUDWIG - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
NEWMAN - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
NEWTON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
PEARSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
REILLY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
REYNOLDS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
RIVERS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
ROETZER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
ROWE - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHAEFER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHAEFER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHAEFER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHRIER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
STATTS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SKOREPA - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SMITH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
STOUT - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SYLVESTER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
TAYLOR - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
THOMAS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
THOMPSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
VINSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
WEISS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
WINDOM - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
WYATT - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
YORK - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)

A Thin Fragment That Has Been Shaved From A Device That Is Very Useful For Listening To The Sounds Generated Inside The Body

5:15PM
Invites have been layed-out and printed. 50 in all... who are the choosen ones? Check out tomorrows' Mailing Transferral to see if you had what it takes. Ha Ha Ha!!! Suckers...
Packing up to head home. Have lots of painting to do tonight. The lighting components should be here by friday, so I have a lot to accomplish before the weekend gets here. Still have to put together some Super-Secret stuff for the show. Sewing machines' a calling.

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12:00PM
Completed a mini painting to use on my personal invites for Spin & Gin V late last night. They are Brilliant Blue and Boooo! Will mail them all out this Thursday. Also completed painting the red portions of 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. Next phase is the central compostition... that begins tonight.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 3, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 27 (postcard)

Impair The Respiration Of Or Obstruct The Air Passage Of An Equivalence Or Correspondence Among Constituents Of An Entity

5:15PM
OFF TO THE PICTURE SHOW!!!

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4:30PM
Adjusted the schematics for the work — 50 bulbs v. 66 bulbs. The reason being, besides cost savings, is that the Fader can only handle 3 Amps and with the previous setup I was going to need 2.1 Amps x 2 = 4.2 Amps. Now I only require 1.5 Amps x 2 = 3 Amps. The larger amount of bulbs would have fried the Fader.
Placed an order for all the components I wanted. Bulbs - Stringers - Fader. Went thru a different company as well and was able to save myself $30. I'm happy with that. Had everything sent UPS 2nd Day Air so i should begin instalation of these suckers this weekend. Like I said the money is a small stretch, but the work is more important than me right now. I'll be extremely proud to be near it at the show. Now the difficult task of putting it all together begins!

Here is the revised schematic:


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4:00PM
OK — So now that I've figured out how to calculate for Amps... all I can say is.... DAMN YOU AMPS!!! I have to fix my plans... pushing too many Amps currently.

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3:40PM
Calculations for electrical load requirements of 'Dance-Dance-Dance'

Total Number of Bulbs X Bulb Wattage ÷ 110 = Amps Needed

Basic Calculations
(1) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 0.0636 Amps
(25) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 1.590 Amps

'DANCE-DANCE-DANCE' Lighting needs
(33) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 2.1 Amps

TOTAL FOR WORK
(66) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 4.2 Amps

The cord I'm using has a max load of 5 Amps... so nothing should overload. The problem is the Fader Controller.. it only can take 3 Amps. DAMNIT...

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3:25PM
LIGHTING - LIGHTING -LIGHTING
Why does this crap cost so much... it just blows my mind that little light bulbs can cost so much. I'm having to bite my tongue and hold my left hand back from punching my nose, as I consider spending a large wad of cash on this lighting system for 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. I haven't hit the PLACE MY ORDER button just yet, but I'm close. But now as I sit here and write this, I wonder... is there that much of a difference when it comes to $70 and $100. Should I just order all the crap I need or give-up and compromise. I never do that with my own work... so I'm wondering why I should start now. Money is always the most annoying of factors when creating art, but sticking to your convictions and struggling financially for a short time is alright. Especially when the work is as you envisioned it. I AM TORN...

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10:30AM
Completed a huge portion of 'Dance-Dance-Dance' last night. As I suspected, the '1 SHOT Letterning Enamel' I picked up was the perfect choice. Amazing stuff. I loved how the figures I painted looked so much, I decided to repeat them in pattern all over the work. They look amazing. So now that the background elements are finished and the work finally appears grounded, I have to figure out a way to re-centralize the composition with the 3 smaller white figures. I believe I'll combine the central figures with other elements by linking them together with silver paint. We'll see how that works itself out.
Have sneak preview passes to The Aristocrates tonight. Gonna go with Steph... should be the most obscene, disgusting, vulgar, and vile film (as well as the funniest) we've ever seen. At least thats how they bill it.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 2, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 26 (postcard)

An Outward Or Token Appearance Or Form That Separates The Limbs From The Body

4:08PM
Just finished creating my electrical schematic for 'Dance-Dance-Dance'.



I finally have real numbers to work with. Here's what I need:

(1) Fader Controller
(3) C9 Light String, 25' Length, 12" Spacing, 5 Amp, White Wire
(50) C9 Opaque (Frosted) White, 7 Watt Replacement Lamps
(50) C9 Opaque (Frosted) Red, 7 Watt Replacement Lamps

There will be a total of 66 bulbs on the work — 25 on each side and 8 top/bottom. They will alternate around the work white/red/white/red. Each color bulb will run on it's own line so a fader can be employeed. The fader allows each color blink on and off in an alternating rhythm with themselves. It can handle up to 300W per channel (2 channels). The bulbs are 7W @ 33 = 231W. This is going to work wonderfully.
There might be a little cost in doing this ($60), but what I want to try and do is not order online because the shipping is murder. I need to find somewhere local that has what I need.

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1:40PM
Just got back from PEARL... spent a little more than I wanted to, but it'll be worth it. I found an old paint I used to use a while back that is just perfect for my thick opaque coating, thin line & drip needs. It's 1 Shot Lettering Enamel and boy does this stuff work really well. It's an oil based gloss enamel that's really durable and almost totally fade resistant. The thing I really like about it is how easily it flows from the brush and that it doesn't leave any brush marks. The paint drys in 2 hours and cures within 8... unlike most household enamels. It's really amazing stuff, better than what you'd get at Home Depot and a lot more reliable. So I'll have to skip a meal or two because of this paint... it's a weird lifestyle when you choose paint over food. I'm so ready to get home and get working with this stuff. I bought 3 colors — Pure White - Bright Red - Metallic Silver. I'm not completely sure what I'll be using silver for yet, but I'm sure that it'll reveal itself after I get working.

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11:35AM
Headed out into this big world to buy myself some brushes and paints... YESH!! Gonna go hit PEARL first and then hit the hardware stores on the flip side. I think the hardware store will have paints closer to what I'm looking for... cheaper too. Have to collect these supplies today because I have a long night of work ahead of me. A long night.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 1, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 25 (postcard)