<RANT> Personally I think that this whole world wide web thing is mostly garbage (kinda like the page your viewing now) O.K. now sure it has great potential to be of value as an information resource but from my experience it takes less time to find something in a library with the assistance of a good trained librarian than it would to find the same info here on the internet. Well that being said I have to admit that I also truly find this medium to be fantastic. A huge enlargement of potential audience and artist. Anyone can be a publisher in almost all known media via this whole network. This is what the Xerox machine was to the punks, the printing press to the democracy movement,the massed produced electric guitar to pop music. This new thing won't produce better artists, but we'll get access to a whole lot more. Sure most of it is junk, but that's true of books, film, TV, theater, canvas you name it. </RANT>

O.K. thats done . . . here's some of the stuff I think is worth looking at

Addicted to stuff This one is an inspiration for me, well at least it was an inspiration to create this particular document. The folks at a2s have been able to sort the entire universe into two categories. Things that make things go, and things that make things stop: Duct Tape & WD40. If you don't see the utter beauty of this concept then goto yahoo or something, you won't appreciate my sense of humor/whatever. But go ahead and try it . . . look around your desk, the room your in, the material . . . no don't even stop there . . but all planes of existence and try this little philosophy. Duct Tape:WD40. It might not hold "The Answer"TM but it just might get you a bit closer. http://www.morestuff.com/ Subsite Praise Bob! What can I say about subsite that hasn't already been said in a court SUMMONS? Whether or not you are AWARE of it you know Bob and Bob knows you . . . but it wouldn't HURT to get to know him a little better, oh well it might, but thats OK. Play it SAFE, you wouldn't want to be around when the STARK fist of REMOVAL sweeps through your neighborhood http://sunsite.unc.edu/subgenius/ Museum of Non Primate Art It, I believe, has been commonly felt throughout history, that some of the finest moments in humanity search for truth and knowledge have been when art and science meet an blend into one majestic thing of absolute finerry. Now even that limit has been crossed. The work that goes on at monpa is very much so in the tradition of Ursula K. Legiun in her ground breaking work Author of Arcadia Seeds (which I also highly recomend). http://www.monpa.com/ AS220 AS220 is a wonderful place. A while back I performed there with a little quintet I was with. It was a showcase night which essentially means and audition night. A promoter from Lupos Heartbreak Hotel was in the house and whatever performer she liked best that night got an night at the best rock club in Providence. The scenario was wonderful, the stage was set with a drum kit and amps and a very large timer. A dude walked on stage, introduced the artist, set the timer to twenty minutes and you played your heart out until the buzzer went off. Fantastic! AS220 is the center of the underground/avant gaurde/alterna-whatever scene in Providence Rhode Island. It's a great place to work in or experience art of all kind. I suggest that you shut off your computer and just go down there and experience it. On another note as220 was in many ways the inspiration for Richard Goulis to start the Worcester Artist Group, a place where I truly began to learn what it was to perform and how boundless art is. http://users.ids.net/~as220/ Lauire Anderson Laurie Anderson has a wonderful story about using the web. She plugged two words into a search engine to see what other sites might have things that she was herself interested in. Music Sand. She got a sight put together by a young child. Lots of folks I know "don't get" Laurie. I think they look to narrowly at what she does to appreciate it. She might not be the finest song writer or musician the world has ever seen, but she is a most profound observer of what we are, and her communication of those observations through sound words and images make for some very important art. "One World. One Operating System". http://www.laurieanderson.com/

theChannel this . . .This . . . THIS is a prime example of the world wide web. I believe it is safe to say that this set of html documents serves no real purpose whatsoever other than self gratification of the authors, or possible the author is very very bored. I love this country. http://www.upstatepress.com/weather/ Car Talk Despite there insistence that this web site is a complete waste of time I believe that Tom & Ray Maliotzi have put together a damn fine resource of information as well as a great bunch of entertainment. For the info end of things be sure to check out some of the great automobile data that they have graphed up, or the database of good mechanics, shesh that alone justifies the webs existence if you ask me! But of course not everything there is serious . . . http://cartalk.com/ Dvorak Keyboard "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" Lies Lies Lies! Just ask Bill Gates, he's made millions regardless of how many actually functioning mousetraps get built. Or ask the lesser know, less musical Dovrak (well being dead you can't really ask him, but you can find out more about his work) There is quite a good chance that at this very moment you are working with a piece of machinery that as deliberately designed to be inefficient! Wait did you comprehend that statement. I'll repeat myself just to make sure . . . this is important Deliberately designed to be inefficient. What the hell is the world coming to? Well it upset ole Dvorak more so than I and he set out to do something about it. Did they beat a path to his door? Nope. This simply reinforces my belief that a huge amount of people are just fools, or damn lazy . . . same difference. Well gosh dern it, I'll grab my machetti and make a path and drag as many folks to that door as I'm able. (And yes this site your reading right now was built and is running on a Mac thank you!) Hmph! http://www.ccsi.com/~mbrooks/dvorak/dvorak.html potomac american gallery - o'keeffe exhibit For a time in the early nineties there was any annoying overdoing of this womens art, got to the point that every sixth postcard had an O'Keeffe flower on it. I guess the fact that I got through that "overplay" and still retain a great appreciation for Georgias art says a lot about how true I feel her work is. Now I don't think that the web is a great medium for viewing this kind of art, but perhaps a wee bit better than the postcards? Who knows, you really must look at this type of work in the flesh. But right now your gazing into an electron gun or a bunch of liquid crystals and not at one of the great art museums, so we can try this out and think about this manner of presenting paintings . . . digitazation . . . what s it we are observing here anyway. http://www.michelangelo.com/potomac/okeeffe/ Calvin & Hobbes What is there to say? Two great philosophers and we simply laugh. How appropriate. My personal favorites are the statements regarding art. http://www.uexpress.com/ups/comics/ch/

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