Hey, if you're interested in striking conversation with the Gorilla Girls about this year's Whitney Biennial... go to the museum tomorrow Saturday May 13 between 11 am and 1pm. I hear they will be out front distributing bananas and talking shop, with cameras rolling.

http://jamarts.net/

so far we raised about $200 with the jambalaya arts holiday card fundraiser. yay. all the proceeds go directly to the baton rouge area foundation.

next year it may be a good idea to do pre-ordering online...

anyone heard of this funny slang for the area of bushwick, brooklyn near the morgan ave station -- "Morgantown". intersesting little scene. if you are looking for good handmade tshirts and silkscreen, then visit my friend garrison's place http://antimart.net/

Hiya...
All these "new" people on killoggs... gosh.

Well if you know me, and i know you, and if you are in NYC over the super cold winter holidays, then please gimme a yell. not much new to report. I saw Louisiana over Thanksgiving. Yikes.

Here is a cool artshow:
http://bitforms.com/exhibitions.html

Hi Everyone. I am in the process of doing a Holiday Card Fundraiser up here in NYC utilizing all the great talent of artist friends. I am looking for an organization to collaborate with in Louisiana, so that way the credit goes to the South for this project. The name of our loosly affiliated group here is"Jambalaya Arts".

If we work now, then the cards can go on sale by Halloween and catch the big rush to buy Christmas cards and the like. I think the cards will be displayed in a box of 30 or so, and placed near the cashier inside stores in Manhattan. Each card will cost $3 and 100% of theproceeds will go toward disaster relief. I'd also like for all thecards to have an official stamp, sticker, or tag.

Wanna make some cards for the fundraiser? I ordered some recycled paper envelopes that are a red wine color. The size of the envelope is A8 or5-1/2 x
8-1/8". The size card that will fit is 5-3/8 x 7-3/4" folded inhalf. Prior to folding in half, the paper dimension is 10-3/4 x 7-3/4". In case you don't feel like measuring, tell me your address and I'll mail you a sample card.

Can anyone suggest an organization for us to work with in Louisiana? It would be helpful to have a letter of endorsement or permission to use a logo for the Holiday Card fundraiser. Also when the time comes, we may need some suggestions on where to donate the funds. I like the idea of supporting an arts-therapy based program, but don't know who may be planning, let alone implementing, this yet.

I'd appreciate any advice, as this project seems to have a lot of potential- and could be done successfully in many cities.

Can anyone find a consistent Katrina donation location in NYC for clothing etc? I think donations are still being accepted in Brooklyn in Bay Ridge at this location:

NY State Senator Martin Golden's District Office
7403-5th Avenue between 74th and Bay Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11209
(718) 238-6044

I was there this morning with a car load full of goodies, including a frisbee for Rocking the Boat designed by Erin Wright.

Still NYC needs a big location that is dependable. If anyone reading this has time to do so, please make some phone calls and get it rolling. I haven't heard anything publicized about the Salvation Army or anything.

There is this site, http://www.scribbledthoughts.com/dropoff but i am unsure where they are sending the donations exactly. The person coordinating it is from Lafayette, and I found her on Craigs list.

This weekend I called up all the cajun restaurants in NYC to ask about fundraisers. Only one had it together already:

New Orleans Relief Effort Benefit
Wednesday Sept 14, starting at 7pm
Jacques-Imo's NYC
366 Columbus Ave At 77th St , New York 10024
Phone: 212-799-0150
http://www.jacquesimosnyc.com/index_home.php

This restaurant's owner runs the location on Oak Street in New Orleans, next door to the Maple Leaf Bar. They say: Great New Orleans' Food, Open Bar, Live Entertainment, and a great, great auction. Come support New Orleans! 100% of the proceeds are going to relief efforts in New Orleans. Tickets are $30.00 in advance and $40.00 at the door. Call 212-799-0150 to buy your ticket.
On the phone they tell me in addiion to this, now 15% of any bill gets donated to Louisiana.

Wow Mr. Quintron is amazing in concert. Miss Pussycat is sooo sexy too!
And as a bonus, there were all these freaky Louisiana people gathered together smooshing eachother at the show. Now that doesn't happen too often in Brooklyn.

Femi Kuti played Summerstage in Central Park on Sunday. Anyone ever been to Nigeria? I'd like to go. That was show was really really really good! Actually I am curious if anyone has seen Femi Kuti play in Louisiana... the comparison/contrast factor intriguies me.

Hooray for free and cheap music. Tomorrow/Wednesday Northern State is playing at South Street Seaport at 7pm-- wee wee free free. And Friday night Bill T. Jones' dance group will be at Summerstage. Yay.

maybe you are too...

James Paterson
bitforms gallery, nyc
529 west 20th street
now thru aug 6

http://www.insertsilence.com/
http://presstube.com/

If you want some yummy recipes, I just completed the Blereau Family Cookbook.
Look at the cookbook online using this website
http://www.blereau.com/cookbook/
Happy Eating.
xxxoxoxo

any killoggs peeps in nyc want to have a dinner party on xmas day?

hi everyone

i am just writing to let you know that i am still on the planet and playing in nyc. a few weeks ago i met another killoggs-er, michele, at the museum of modern art. we both work in the same department?!? in nov i started a new job there. yay. also i still do a part-time job at an art gallery. weeeeeee . hooray for pretty pictures.

you know what i did today? i got a tooth removed. total party in my mouth for the next six months. i'll even get a fake one put into it's place. i take my tooth troubles to the NYU dental clinic. it promise an educational experience every time for both patient and "doctor". the people there are very nice and the rates are great. these doctors are young, easy to relate to and don't fit the usual stereotype of your average mid-western moustached laughing gas white guy.

my doc and i exchanged cell phone numbers yesterday, because she didn't have time to do the extraction then. so today after working two hours, she calls and says she can see me. then i get on the walkie talkie and say the most embarrasing thing: "hi this is laura managing crowds outside the museum on 53rd street. i am having a dental emergency and need to go because my doctor can see me now. i know this sounds weird, but is is true. can someone come out here and relieve me from my post?"

so that is my story for today. i hope you laugh at me. you don't know how happy i was to get the tooth removed.

Hey I picked up this leaf while hiking in New Paltz last weekend.

Also Katie Richert, the super dooper painter and roommate, moved back down to Sulphur, LA this week. Lick Katie if you see her.

Hey-- Katie, Robin, and I are having a party tomorrow, Saturday 14 at 8pm. We will have tasty refreshments and any far travelers can sleepover in the backyard. Bring a tent or a friend or something for potluck. If you need directions then call or email.

Do you, or someone you know, need a place in Brooklyn?
Here’s the deal:
It’s a bicycle accessible first floor apartment in the quiet Windsor Terrace neighborhood. We have a grassy backyard with a patio, and plenty of easy parking on the street. The strikingly beautiful and talented Laura Blereau will be your roommate, and the person with whom you will share a bathroom, kitchen, and living room. There is even a garage in the building for extra storage, and that space is shared with other tenants. Your price for this slice of heaven is a low low low $750 per month. Rent also includes the price of both electricity and gas. The F train station “Fort Hamilton” is only 2 blocks away.
The ideal roommate will be non-smoking, and own no cats or dogs.
No goons either.
Just email me through the Killoggs site if you are interested. Gracias Amigas.

In Memory of
Erin Elizabeth Wright



July 15, 1977
June 21, 2004

Yo

This is where I have been hanging out lately. Three weekends in a row. I can't get enough of the ocean and I am riding my bike like a mad woman. 25 miles sometimes. Really beautiful. The Rockaways are even better. So, yes it is true-- today's my birthday. And this afternoon I am going to Coney Island to buy a bike. Weee.

On Long Island I found an awesome place in Rocky Point to do bmx and mountain biking. My new bike will be a purple 5 speed bmx. Maybe I will post a picture when I get it. The old bike is just fine, but not made for the dirty drivin that i crave lately.

Really I am obsessed with bicycles right now. I just can't get enough. I find myself saying things like HPV and expect others to know I mean Human Powered Vehicle.

Why not Why not let's all drive bikes instead of deathmachines?

i'm going this weekend to visit the m.i.t. media lab. any killoggsers in boston? what's a body to do in boston in the evenings, or what is a good paper with events listings?

Hey I gotta art show at the end of the month. Wee. A collaboration with modern dancers and another video arist. The choreograpehr composed a solo for my Camera Bra. Yippee.

If you can't read it on the picture, my show is called "Double Vision". It happens at 8 pm Sunday and Monday January 26 and 27, 2003, inside a space called The Construction Company located at 10 East 18th Street on the second floor.

Yo baby cakes and baby snakes... all is invited for the big-ass gumbo party at my place in brooklyn new years eve... a tuesday this year. here's the address. 58 fifth ave apt #2. ring the top doorbell after 8pm and we will have gumbo for you~
so bring some dranxxx if you can. oh and the apt is located on 5th ave between bergen street and st. marks street. the nearest subway station is the red 2 or 3 at bergen street. that is one block away. then the other closest one is the atlantic-pacific street station (4 blocks away) where the yellow N,R, W and Q trains stop. also the green 4 and 5 trains. brown M train. and again the red 2 and 3 trains. c'mon over and lemme feed you. my tel # is 718-857-3596. i hope to see killoggsers en masse... especially all those lsu student media dorks (with some sort of broadcast addiction) who can't help but hit "reply all" every time they write a dinky email. GUMBO FOR YOU in NYC, FREAKNASTY! Come over.

Last week I hooked up with an art magazine in here called NY Arts and asked if I could write reviews on Sound Art. Today I submitted my first article, I dunno yet if it really gets published. But if you want to read it, I'll post the article in the responses section of this message.

Howdy, I ain't Gaudi.
Who you?

Scoolio is over this May with my art show May 13. Wee. I am making a movie called "Double D Vision" that I am shooting using my camera bra. It will be pretty.

Lately I've been listening to alot of Quintron. I think I want to put some of his music in the movie and I wonder if any killoggsers know him or his email or something. i gotsta get my greasy paws on it.

Oh. cool stuff. My video about following vito acconci will be screened at the end of this month at Galapagos in Williamsburg. And some art critics are coming to school to check out the video in april. hooray.

Ciao Ciao

I'm not sure what I am supposed to post, being one of your New York City affiliates. Some stuff still sucks. Some other things don't. So I go where it doesn't suck.

This week, that will be Pratt's "MAKE : VIDEO" screening in the 3rd floor Audutorium (Room 371) of the Engineering Building. Shit goes down at 7pm. Nibbles N Snaxxx N Nibbles N Snaxxx at 8:30 down the street in a nearby restaurant-bar called the 5-Spot.

Wanna go???

Oh boy Oh boy I really have excellent news! Vito Acconci will be coming to do a lecture and studio visit with graduate students at Pratt Nov. 6. Good thing my buddy Jennifer is helping book the lecture series. I have already peed in my pants. Three times. The big plan is for me to follow Vito around in the school cafeteria when he takes a break at lunch. Then he'll come into my studio for a visit and I'll show him the work, and audio tape-record his response, if any. Oiweee!

Vito

Vito

Vito

Vito

And Yoko Ono will be here in March for a performance as part of the Pratt Presidential Lecture series. To the astonishment of many Pratt students, Ms. Ono was a student here some 40 years ago. Yummy.

Juicy painter Vic Munoz comes in October! For those of you not aware of the man's work, it's kinds like that made by LSU's Mike Pavolini- but with a Spanish accent, and less hair... umm on the canvas. barely.

P. B. Shelley

CLXXXIV. Love's Philosophy

THE fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single, 5
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle—
Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another; 10
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdain'd its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea—
What are all these kissings worth, 15
If thou kiss not me?

hi, i'm breathin and everyone i know in nyc is doing the same. my birthday falls on sept 11. i turned 25 yesterday. please be nice be nice be very very nice nice.

Dearest Dreamboat of my childhood days,

Won't you please make a post on Killoggs? You are the coolest. I bought TEEN BEAT just for your picture. Now I can get all the ones I want on your website... But Wil! Wil! Willy! Wil! Wil! Wil! Wil! Where are you?

Bendependent drew a most excellent head for you. Use it. This glorious head captures your charm, but not your verse! Please write.

Sincerely,

Laura Blereau

"Following Vito"

August 13, 2001

Well, I did it. Today I followed conceptual artist Vito Acconci around his studio. I didn’t go in. It seemed like a good idea to stick to his rule of “public spaces”. Anyway, that’s what Vito did in October of 1969 when he followed people. I was relieved that he pulled the door to his studio shut rather quickly. You see, I want to be just like Vito, and I am not sure yet how to do that and have a conversation with him at the same time. So I follow him around instead.

At approximately 5:02 pm, Vito went down the elevator, crossed Washington Street, entered a bank, turned around, went into Peas ‘N Pickles supermarket, and headed back up the elevator to his studio.

There’s a big bright red sign at his door that says “ACCONCI STUDIOS”. Behind the door sits a man named Shawn who is afraid of me. Apparently this is the man who answers the phone and who first receives and reads my letters addressed to Vito. Let’s call Shawn “the receptionist”.

My first letter dated August 5 was passed along the entire Acconci Studios office. That letter explained my following of Vito in terms of my admiration for the Vito’s creative work. For the receptionist’s tastes, my letter may have been too forward.

The next letter, dated August 6, should arrive today or tomorrow. That one is a little more graphic, and I’m not talking about pictures.

There weren't enough posts using the above word.

Hi. Greetings from the neighborhood where Spike Lee shot the film "Clockers". Do you think it is wrong for me to shout at 11 year old boys, "Fuck you" who comment on my white-ness, girly-ness, redhaired-ness, bike-having-ness, or bitchy-ness? Just wondering.

Also: Fun stuff in NYC this summer. I tapesd music of Summerstage in Central Park this Sunday where Iranian sound artist Sussan Deyhim performed. (Josh, I wish I could post this kinda stuff.) Wee! I have the coolest part time job blowing glass for an artist named Michael Davis too.

Hey, I want to make cookies for everybody. E-mail me your address and I will snail mail you some cookies!

Nice adventure this Saturday to Mass MOCA, home of the Tim Hawkinson UberOrgan. This time, however, I did not spend my time trying to get my hands on that massive organ. Video Artist Shirin Neshat and her longtime collaborators Shoja Azari, Sussan Deyhim and Ghasem Ebrihimian spoke about preparing their upcoming project, "Conference of the Birds (Phase One)". This multimedia exravaganza, which will debut at The Kitchen performance space this October will combine large scale video projection with live choreography, theater and music. These guys rock my world.