tom moody

Owing to some confusion I missed Guthrie Lonergan's talk "We Did It Ourselves!" at Light Industry tonight and am bummed.
Light Industry the film series is hosted by Industry City Art Project--both have addresses in Sunset Park, Brooklyn but they are not the same address (as in, they are three blocks apart)--I went to the address on the website for Industry City, found an empty building with no signage and came home. (I didn't bring my cell phone because the website directions were quite clear, with a google map pinpointing the precise wrong location.)
Here is what Lonergan announced that he would be talking about, which sounds great:

"The success and failure (and illusion and depravity) of DIY in the era of Web 2.0 -- Little entries in The Big Database -- selections of new Internet art and Internet 'non-art' -- My Favorites! -- Something very real struggling beneath a heavy and ancient structure of corporate software defaults and cultural banality... What have we done? I will try very hard to offer insightful and enthusiastic annotation as I surf the net in public for you. I broke my laptop's keyboard but maybe I can borrow my girlfriend's. We will look at a vague Internet art movement (moment?) still growing -- critical of but subject to technology -- artists in relationship to The Big Database, collecting tiny home video thumbnails, or posting difficult metaphysical questions on Yahoo! Answers (a lot of Travis Hallenbeck and Joel Holmberg), etc. -- regular Internet users as artists -- artists using Google.com -- And with just-as-powerful pieces of online 'amateur content' -- an entire YouTube-based Fandom for fans of box-fans and washing machines, and 11 year-old kids sharing dull dreams as downloadable 3d models. A fully linked playlist will be released after the event... Please come!" - Guthrie

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.

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.