Day: April 5, 2009
Music Elsewhere
A musical piece of mine is the soundtrack of this YouTube.
Also, an experiment with using the embed files from sites that link to my mp3s is here. This may not stay up long, I just think it looks kind of nice. I still don't put embedded files on this blog or Nasty Nets posts. I just don't like that little hang while the page is searching for some bastard company's proprietary software and then loading remote content. A lot of workplace computers don't just hang in that instance, they freeze.
Robert Delford Brown, RIP
From the New York Times obituary:
In October 1964, Mr. Brown opened “Meat Show,” an installation of thousands of pounds of raw meat, hanging carcasses of beef, lamb and pork, in a huge refrigerator unit separated into chambers by lingerie fabric. Attendees arrived in limousines in the meat market district of Manhattan — hardly the fashionable neighborhood it has become — and wore their overcoats to view the exhibition, which was kept at 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Mr. Brown called the installation “the grand opening service” of his new church, and the opening was covered by newspapers around the world. The Sunday Telegraph of London called it “the world’s most perishable art show.”
Mr. Brown joyously agreed, in a statement to The Sun Herald of Sydney, Australia.
“Most of this meat will go bad in a few days, which makes the whole exhibition more exciting,” he said.
Update: We're discussing Brown as well as past and present "meat art" here.