1. hunky dory
2. aladdin sane
3. ziggy
4. diamond dogs
5. lodger
6. space oddity
7. low
8. heroes
9. station to station
10. young americans
11. man who sold the world
12. pinups
13. scary monsters
999. let's dance
1000. earthling
What I really like about this piece is that it's a perfect analogy for how the lyrics to "Cracked Actor" were made -- via an Oblique Strategy (hello, eno!), Bowie cut up lyrics, spread them around, and quasi-randomly repieced them together.
"This project was initiated when I decided to leave Los Angeles after having lived in the city for 20 years, over half of those in Hollywood and West Hollywood.
This area is where, in 1991, I had formed what I consider my mature working methods and interests in psychogeography. I felt it appropriate to make a work that would function as a farewell to Hollywood. I went back to those first "psychogeographic excavations" done in the early '90s -- the abandoned sofa and abandoned mattress projects.
CRACKED ACTOR was executed over three weeks. The work transposes all the lyrics of the David Bowie song "Cracked Actor" - a glam rock gem from 1973 - onto 36 mattresses [see examples above]. I chose the song because of its Hollywood setting and the way the references to cruising for sex dovetailed nicely with the daily search for and use of discarded mattresses.
Working in the morning I would cruise the empty streets for fresh mattresses and set to work on location. I worked early to avoid making a spectacle of myself. Nevertheless, passersby and residents looked disdainfully upon my activities , even if my "graffiti" was being applied to something put out as trash. As always, the streets of Hollywood - streets unlike any other city in the world - proved both rewarding and frustrating. "
OMG!, this is the best thing I've seen in a long time.
I can't imagine anyone posting anything stupid, uninformed, myopic or bitter about this.
Oh wait, then what would the point of "Currently Hanging" be?
True dialog?
Nah.
Have at it...
1. hunky dory
2. aladdin sane
3. ziggy
4. diamond dogs
5. lodger
6. space oddity
7. low
8. heroes
9. station to station
10. young americans
11. man who sold the world
12. pinups
13. scary monsters
999. let's dance
1000. earthling
What I really like about this piece is that it's a perfect analogy for how the lyrics to "Cracked Actor" were made -- via an Oblique Strategy (hello, eno!), Bowie cut up lyrics, spread them around, and quasi-randomly repieced them together.
Mackro-
Right! (thank you, thank you, thank you).
As LaBelle describes the project:
"This project was initiated when I decided to leave Los Angeles after having lived in the city for 20 years, over half of those in Hollywood and West Hollywood.
This area is where, in 1991, I had formed what I consider my mature working methods and interests in psychogeography. I felt it appropriate to make a work that would function as a farewell to Hollywood. I went back to those first "psychogeographic excavations" done in the early '90s -- the abandoned sofa and abandoned mattress projects.
CRACKED ACTOR was executed over three weeks. The work transposes all the lyrics of the David Bowie song "Cracked Actor" - a glam rock gem from 1973 - onto 36 mattresses [see examples above]. I chose the song because of its Hollywood setting and the way the references to cruising for sex dovetailed nicely with the daily search for and use of discarded mattresses.
Working in the morning I would cruise the empty streets for fresh mattresses and set to work on location. I worked early to avoid making a spectacle of myself. Nevertheless, passersby and residents looked disdainfully upon my activities , even if my "graffiti" was being applied to something put out as trash. As always, the streets of Hollywood - streets unlike any other city in the world - proved both rewarding and frustrating. "
This is the kind of stuff you'd see in "Art School Confidential," only more tepid.
Is that comment "myopic" enough for you?
Jay-
I would have used the word 'fetid' instead of 'tepid'.
Now that would have been hypermetropic...
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