Word Exercise- Thanks to Paul Thulin

He made us do this three word thing in grad school. Everyone hated it but me. Im pretty sure of this. While I do not think my work can ever be summed up in three words, I enjoy the process of trying.

In the next 20 minutes, im going to try to come up with 50-100:

sameness
similarity
repeat
multiple
human
internet
organization
homogenize
trend
popular
many
archive
memory
proof
document
participant
insecurity
doubt
need
conditional
fear
importance
validation
love
materialism
obsession
truth
Truth
audience
performance
time
guilt
mediated image (ok thats two, but still)
grouping
clique
show
update
fast
real-time
social
self
social-self (which is different from social and self)
window
mirror
fake
real
superficial
simulacra
need
want
desire
sex
sexuality
projection
perception
extroversion
stage
screen
identification
identity
youth
gender
culture
reality
Reality
difference
perceived difference
perceived similarity
hetero-normative
class
hip hop
adoption (of personality, not of actual children)
futility
change
morph
ephemeral
awareness
choice
caring
time
maturity
willful
adaptation
unaware
follow


ok. thats 85.

i need to get this work out there more. i feel incredibly lazy.

You Remember Dada

A few months ago, I found a series of videos linked on Facebook of dogs reuniting with their owners. The owners were soldiers who were arriving home from overseas.


I was reminded of Hachiko, the Akita dog in Japan who loyally waited for the return of his owner at a train station until he died. In 1924, Hachikō was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. During his owner's life Hachikō saw him out from the front door and greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return on the usual train one evening. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage at the university that day. He died and never returned to the train station where his friend was waiting. Hachikō was loyal and every day for the next nine years he waited sitting there amongst the town's folk.

I thought there was another (perhaps Greek?) proverb or story that went along with this idea as well, but it escapes me at the moment.

I made You Remember Dada because I became my interest in the archive and preservation and documentation of time continues to interest me. In addition, the idea value as a human being adds another layer. A third layer is the projection of value. 

"See how much I am loved/liked/cared for/admired/ect?"

 This manifests itself in the form of status updates on Facebook, self important blog posts, thousands of photos of people with their friends which convey a sense of popularity and importance they could never achieve on their own. I chose to make You Remember Dada because, in THIS particular piece, I wanted to show what I think to be is true love and loyalty that does not know the bounds of the conditional. What better place to go than to animals for that? Perhaps I will address (to me) superficial love as well. Who knows.

As I researched this, I found that a movie was being made about Hachiko.

This is a still of You Remember Dada and Hachiko.

Projects

Soldiers/Dogs---DONE

Father/Daughter Wedding Dance

Military Party Boys

American Idol Freak Outs

Baseball Game Wedding Proposals

Haul Bloggers

Dick Slang

"Were Not Gay" response to Dick Slang

People Saying Um, Uh, Like or Sigh

The I Dont Have Much To Say Vlog

Just Sayin Hey

Something about the First YouTube Video Ever

Weird Dates.

Youtube was born on February 15th. My dads birthday is February 16th.

The first video ever uploaded on Youtube was on April 23rd. My dad died on April 22.

Here is the first video ever uploaded to Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&feature=player_embedded