Voting Blocks

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

I'm a visual artist, on the side. I'm creating 26 alphabet blocks for a gallery show in October, and want to have 2 opposing words on each letter...

E Enron
E Environment




I'm looking for ear-twitching words, like Bagdad, Military, ect, and want to put the idea out to greater minds than mine.

Any thoughts?

[newyorkstreetdean]

Karl, great idea. I don't think that my mind comes anywhere close to being greater than yours, but I'd like to see the ball get rolling...

Fox, I think needs to be involved. Maybe Fox-Fallacy
Somebody has already use "Faux"


Also, Air America this afternoon posed the question, "What is Condoliza Rices' (sp... dont care) job?" I've been trying to look at this question in a way that could help you, but have found no end. Anybody?

What is your medium?

[Peter Voice]

Apple-Pie & Arsenic
Brains & Bush
Class & Crass (I was going to put charm & chance but,,, nahhh)
Daft & Deft
Enrol & Expel
Fucked & Fruitful
Glee & Gloom
Honey & Heroin
Ideal & Inapt
Jack and Jill
Kiss and Kick
Love & Loathe
Minor & Major
Nectar & Napalm
Oval & Oblong
Pittance & Plenty
Quell & Quake
Robes & Rags
Saintly & Satanic
Torpid & Turgid
Under & Ultra
Victor & Vanquished
Wiseman & Wanker
Zero & Zillions
Yummy & Yucky
Xerox & Xray

[worldwidese]

Condoleeza's job

Rice - Rasputin.

New York Street Dean- "What is Condoliza Rices' (sp... dont care) job?" I've been trying to look at this question in a way that could help you, but have found no end. Anybody?"

[Doctor Eric]

"What is Condoliza Rices' (sp... dont care) job?"

Aunt Tom?

I'd say her job is to "look pretty, and refuse to think," but the woman looks like a strung out zombie, she pisses me off more than Georgie Peorgie.

How about Artist-Apathy? Independence-Impotence? Freedom-Fascism? Chips-Cheesecake?

[scot]

abortion agrivation
art applicable
adventure apathy
blisters balm

wait, isn't the point that you are the creative one?

ok, one more.

hack heaven

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Thanks for the replies. The blocks will be made of granite, shaped like cubes informally and smoothed with a grinding cup wheel. They'll be painted with gesso, then a coat of marine epoxy white, then various colors and graphics.


The show is called "vote with your art", the piece is "voting blocks", and the best words will be juxtaposed thoughts on existing issues, starting with the same letter.


Last night I worked up

Haliburton Harmony
Cheney Civil Liberty
Diebold Democracy


Scott, yes, I am "supposed to be the creative one". This form of creativity is "brainstorming" or "collaborating", searching for ideas, and help with the initial concept, outside of yourself. It's worked really well for me over the years, in my act, and in my visual work. You may consider it invalid.

[Butterfly Man]

Bombies

America ....... Accountability

[le pire]

conscious - coma
compassion - conservative
disease - desire
empathy - enemy
faith - fiction
garden - ghetto
humanitarian - haliburton
killing - kindness
oil - orgasm
passion - pretend
religion - reason
uterus - utopia

[newyorkstreetdean]

WMDS & WWJD
Patriot Act & Prerogative
Haliburton & Holy War
George W. Bush & Genocide

[Lynneski]

More to follow ...

Here's my boot at the feline:

ardor/anthrax
benevolence/battleship
candor/coalition
diversity/defense
equality/enemy
fellowship/faction
generosity/guard
harmony/homeland
integrity/internment
justice/judgement

[Butterfly Man]

Not the obvious answer

Freedom ... Free

[Peter Voice]

Hey Karl,

Either I've been ripped off (and ripped off) a lot of people at crapps or a cube has six sides.
Shouldn't you be looking for six words per cube?

Why use granite(or any other classic stone) if you are going to paint over it. The stone will always be harder than the paint (even epoxy) and the paint will always fuck up. Why not simple wood blocks?

BTW. Did you know you write poetry in a 6/8 (Waltz) rythmn. It's quite wierd trying to put it to music (flying pig stuff).

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Hey there, Peter.


I might do some wood ones.

http://worksinstone.com/

Most of what I do is in stone, and I have some granite cube shapes here that interest me, is why I chose it thus far.

The two remaining sides of a given block will be painted, not in words. I'll post a photo later this month.

Moochas gracias, authors. Oil - orgasm is fantastic, ´tienne.

[Woofnah]

what?

uterus - utopia

That's not very nice.