The mp3 link is not working.

I fixed it, merci.

By the sound of this article, it sound like you have effectively taken up a Witold Gombrowich like impudent boy character who leads people around to lose themselves philosophically, in this case art-theoretically. I wish I could go to the biennial and chase you around the gallery without you recognizing me.

Did you make those seikaiha cuffs? They're lovely.

They're from my trusty "tailor", the Shinsekai uniform store in Osaka. I didn't know they were called that, though. They're apparently to keep sawdust from blowing up your sleeves.

Seikaiha is just the name of the pattern; I can see how those would be useful for anyone working in a dusty place, although would elastic sleeves make them functionally redundant? I'm trying to figure out your choice of utilitarian work clothes, framed in an exotic way, for your job as a performance artist. Maybe it has to do with your riffing on bits of life that are easily missed within the framework of the everyday, but become uncanny when magnified and enacted out of context.

Along those lines, the grip and color of your megaphone reminds me of this sinister thing:

Hum... his megaphone looks more like a power tool than a gun-y thing to me.

Need a cape?

your scottish accent is very slight. i've lost my welsh accent too... piu piu tenminutesolder.blogspot.com

oooh, funfun.
How much longer will you be unreliably guiding tours?

Until about 21st May.

This is great. Now I know what I'm missing.

"I'm sure it's your ultimate nightmare to be trapped in an elevator with a performance artist."

I know mine is.

have they given you that shirt to wear or is that your own creation? do your pants make swishing noises that announce your presence before you announce your own?
i suppose the t-shirt uniform would lessen confusion...although also lessen ninja-esque stealth. i do like you as a bellboy/paperboy street announcer though. charming.

perhaps you should aquire a Maywa Denki type suit:

I got the shirt made up at a little shop in Greenwich Village. The curators actually prefer me to be ninja-like, but I rather like having the title of my performance printed on me, it adds a structure to the piece the same way a song title can lift a lyric and play off it contextually, creating something ironic and 3D. For instance, I can say "I'm reliable" and my T shirt can contradict that.

Maywa Denki would have been good too. And yes, I do swish in those fishmonger pants.

What did you use to record? The audio was quite nice.

Liked the Tati reference and I'd wonder what he'd think of new architecture these days.

Ah, I'm glad you noticed! This was my first podcast made entirely with the Sony Cybershot M1, all the older ones were done lo-res on my old Fujifilm, which has a low sampling rate and is mono. There were advantages to the Fuji, I could drop the files into iTunes and crossfade them easily, they also fitted easily onto the memory card, whereas the stereo files on the M1 take up a lot of space, come out as mp4 files, and have to be edited manually, so it takes a lot more time to do a podcast.

I actually considered making this an enhanced podcast, ie programming it to show the art I'm describing at the appropriate points if you play it back in iTunes. But I didn't have pictures of all the artwork, and the software needed to make enhanced podcasts just opened a scary terminal when I clicked on it, so I'm leaving that for a very rainy day.

Off topic and a bit of sad news.
Nikki Sudden has died yesterday in NY.

http://www.secretlycanadian.com/news.php

Thought you might like to know.

Yes, I've already heard, and put my comments on this thread. Nikki died as he lived, is all I think I want to say at this point. I met him only a couple of times, and he was a very likeable man. We shared the same label, but he followed a different religion, the religion of rock. Dying young of a heroin overdose after playing a rambling free show at the Knitting Factory seems to be completely consistent with that religion, and it's a good illustration of why it's not mine.

"Art, as Eno said, is where you can crash the plane and walk away."

Thanks for the link to the thread. I met him once and he was a really nice person to chat with. Your records and his share the same space on my shelves and you both make my favorite 80's singer songwriters. It's good you've not chosen this religion though. Stay alive and kicking :)

i particularly like when you talk about the conceptual coal smell not hurting unless your head is also conceptual. the laughter is also quite enjoyable, bridge & tunnel as it may be.
xx

Well, sitting here in Brooklyn, I am of course B&T myself...

i forgive you, but can you forgive yourself?

Well, we B&Ts are very judgemental, our favourite thing to do is to go into Manhattan at the weekend and call the ponces there "a douche". So I'll probably pop over and call myself that on Friday night.

And but so I just downloaded that MP3--would you mind if I animated a chunk or two of that? I'll have to go through and find the most-animatable parts first (and I'm in the middle of a book deadline, so time's short this week), but yeah, there's good stuff in there.

And SOMEday soon, I'm going to catch your current gig in person.

That's a good idea, Scott, go ahead! Look forward to seeing what you make with it!

http://asap.ap.org/stories/473745.s

a gangly man, outfitted in suspenders and an eye patch

Ha, it sounds like I'm nude apart from stockings and a patch! We call them braces in Europe...

So does this mean I'm in every single paper in the world today (wearing suspenders)?

The ending is sweet, I sort of reproduce in a non-sexual way, by "identity distribution"!

Poncemosis?

Ha, it sounds like I'm nude apart from stockings and a patch!

i double dog dare you to try it for a day.

The story just went out on the wires, so let's hope for a slow news day tomorrow.

Ooh, I like the picture. Lots of depth-of-field, and I look a bit like David Bowie circa "Outside".

Cool.

the AP story of the kids saying "i am momus" is eerily similar to the "i am malcolm x" montage in the spike lee biopic.

i like your voice

The whole line at the end of the AP article:

"Upon hearing his reply, she booms into the megaphone, "I am Momus!" One by one the other children in the group also step up to claim their identity as Momus, as the man himself just smiles with satisfaction."

Brilliant! Corrupting the children is always a good thing. They will no doubt remember their visit to the Whitney longer than any adult who attended.

Today the story is picked up by... the Canton Rep, Canton Ohio! Yaaay!

Goodness....this is hilarious!!! Thank you for posting the MP3, you should do another one before the end of your 'Tour Of Duty'.

I really wish I could go, but this almost makes up for it. I was sitting in art class yesterday making watercolor paintings with my headphones on and everyone must have thought i was loopy cos i kept cracking up.

Mach Shau!