NOTICE

TO THE PUBLIC

Progressive groups and collectives all across Columbus are converging today, Monday 11 May, at 7:30PM at Hitchcock Hall (2070 Neil Avenue) to protest an OUAB-sponsored event featuring self-proclaimed misogynist Tucker Max (see Ohio Union Activies Board at OSU Sponsoring Misogynist for more details). Any and all who are against the celebration of sexual humiliation and violence are strongly encouraged to come stand in solidarity with others who are appalled that this event is taking place with the use of student activity funds.

NEW PRESIDENT OF THE PEACH DISTRICT

to all the wonderful readers and residents of the peach district experiment-

i have exciting news

spontaneously ive relinquished my role as 'president'

i will maintain all of my current roles... such as ideology engine...idea spinner and general hype guy... poet and town cryer...partial organizer etc. etc.
however the functions of the presidency (which are truly symbolic and nothing more than anyone elses role in an obviously counter hegemonic space) will be taken
over by fariba massah... a young persian american woman who was born to govern an instinctually feminine space. more to come on this front... also can we please have an organized sit
down hang out drink it down meeting at on the fly about the festivus...




cheers
luck
and peachy keen

brett

FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT CURRENTLY IN THE LOOP ABOUT THE PEACH DISTRICT PLEASE FOLLOW LINK I ASSUME IS PROVIDED TO THE RIGHT...!

woo

I PROPOSE A WAR ON TouRISM

walkscape osu

http://walkscapeosu.blogspot.com/



Walkscape is inspired by a book of the same name by Francesco Careri (Barcelona, 2002). Writing as an architectural and urban theorist, Careri examined a series of moments in the history of 20C art when artists turned walking--bodily movement through space--into a critical and creative gesture. Dissatisfied with the conventional and institutional enclosures of art--the frame, the studio, the museum--they took to the streets, looking for new ways to see.

In a line that stretches (circuitously) from the Dadaist "excursions" through Surrealist "deambulation," Situationist "drifting," Richard Long's "A Line Made by Walking" (1967) and the work of OSU's Robert Ladislas Derr, the walking body turns into a means of both creating and resisting meaning: resisting prescribed itineraries, thwarting predictable outcomes, opening new points of access and surprising vistas. What emerges from these bipedal experiments, Careri suggests, are a range of alternative ways of evoking and inhabiting space: practices of pilgrimage, dreamscape, playscape, heterotopia.

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Join the campus-wide experiment in creative bipedalism by going for a walk. Visit new places, take new routes, look with a fresh eye: walk by yourself, in pairs, in small groups, en masse. Document your experience somehow and contribute to the Walkscape Scroll on the Oval from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday (5/20). Sponsored by One Creative University: A project of Arts Initiative and the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. Contact: mailto:Livingston.28@osu.edu. Read more: http://walkscapeosu.blogspot.com

psychogeographic project

i've been inspired by the following youtube video (at the bottom) where a co-worker is given a simple algorithm to follow on a lunch-time dérive.

my proposal:
1) you are here identifies a group of people we want to dérive (CS grad students, in example)
2) we draft up a set of simple algorithms (in the video they had a a few directions on a 3x5 card: '2nd street right, 2nd right, 1st left, repeat') w/ a few instructions and contact info (if you feel you would like to break from the algorithm, please do).
3) anonymously deliver said instructions (mailboxes, &c.)



who's with me?

parkour

Parkour

(sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or l'art du déplacement^[1] (English: the art of movement) is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as smoothly, efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body.^[2] It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment—from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls—and can be practiced in both rural and urban areas. Parkour practitioners are referred to as traceurs, or traceuses for females.^[3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iGordDDpw&feature=related

So Much Hubabaloo About the Swine Flu

Guess what folks - not so worried about the swine flu. Not only is that shit under control but you're more likely to get killed by a car home on the way home tonight.

The explosion of images and thoughts triggered in the cultural imaginary has been amazing, however!

Here's one of my favorites -- a review of a few badass art projects that will blow you mind into a million tiny pieces, enjoy.

a house for pigs and people :: via metastable equilibrium

sneaks:


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