The Ascetic Divides The World In Two
Mar 2012
Text by Ye Qin Zhu
Cover drawing by Joshua Weibley
1000 paper airplanes
Feb 2011
A video about young friends trespassing to climb onto the roof of a run-down sweatshop factory in Chinatown, Manhattan. Andy Warhol's portraits of Marilyn Monroe were printed onto 1000 sheets of paper, folded into 1000 paper airplanes, and tossed off the roof. The video was anonymously submitted to the website. Author unknown; date unknown; no sound; subtitle: English.
moving image
Nov 2010
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The image generated is rendered three times. Two are filtered to 50% opacity and are overlaid on top of the base image. The filtered images float in random motion and center in on the base image.
<--- thanks to the courtesy of Eric May for the picture on the left. it's of a naturally bonsai-ed oak tree, found growing sandwiched between sand and soil (West Michigan). by the tree is a joss stick, lit up and held by its incision in the ground. //we gathered around. //a dragging glowing point connecting the dead to the living. //of metaphor and imagery -- the single is in place of the many and the many is provisional for the infinite. an inexhaustible flooding of imagery.
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Pouring Paint Down A Building
Dec 2009
Footage of three friends scouting the interior and exterior of a Jewish dormitory in attempt to gain access to the roof of an adjacent building. The plot is to pour paint down the facade of the adjacent building, which houses a law firm. The building is located on Lexington and 65th Street, NYC. The video was anonymously submitted to the website. Author: unknown; date: 2006; sound: mono; duration: 12 mins.
