The Future of the Community

[Rachel Peters]

So we go with everything but our undies?

[jeep caillouet]

I thought this forum was about bitching me out not airing your dirty laundry.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

BRAVO!

Originally posted by Schuyler
Sidewalk underwear is one of the most fascinating phenomenon in modern society. How did they get there? Was somebody running around naked? When will somebody get the nerve to throw them away? Usually it takes weeks for them to disappear. They're there with their many questions every time you walk by for groceries. Eventually they get moved but by the time it happens you're just too used to them laying there. There's a small underwear shaped hole in your life and the walk just isn't the same anymore. That moment of mystery and wonder is gone now, replaced with cold hard concrete. You don't think somebody else's lost undies on the street are a big deal but suddenly you find yourself scanning to make sure they're really gone, maybe somebody just kicked them into some bushes? They're gone though, and it takes a week or so but finally you get used to there not being underwear on the street anymore. All the same, somebodies dirty, discarded underwear had managed to work their way into your life in an undeniable way for months, forcing you to wonder and creating a connection between strangers.

Dude, you could write artist statements professionally.

[Schuyler]

*Deep bow*

[Rachel Peters]

*pat on the back*

*pat on the head*

*pat on the bum?*

[Kate Awesome]

Wow. Prior to Schuyler's statment on underwear I had no concept of the depth in intertextuality between the underwear and the being wearing it. Are we truly wearers of underwear, or simply creatures that embody the idea of wearing underwear? Is going without underwear, then, a symbol of shedding our syntagmatic perceptions of street performing narrative?

I feel the art. Schuyler: can you write my grant proposals for me?

[martin ewen]

Remember brady, Bobarino has a whole religion he's created about 'The Big underwear'

[Schuyler]

Mmm, sweet attention...

I have my moments of lucidity. Apparently they only latch on to deep thinking regarding underpants. One day I will learn to harness these terrible powers and make a whole crowd walk away feeling slightly dazed.

Rachel, I will try to single handedly restore strangeness to the community for your amusement. It's well worth the pat on the head.

[Rachel Peters]

I am wearing the coolest underpants in the universe right now. They make me feel awesome. ...I don't know why, but underwear makes all the difference.

Blue plaid, with a big, oversized, wide waste band.

[roughtoughcreampuf]

[Schuyler]

I have developed a new method of practice. I say I have developed a new method because nobody else said it first. It doesn't make me right, it just makes everybody else wrong.

It involved trashing the place. Essentially I throw all my props all over the floor, turn the music up a bit too loud and then just go to town trying anything that comes into my head. If a prop is dropped the correct response is to either bat the others away with each other, let everything fall, or repeat the mistake with all remaining props. The one rule I feel I stick to it try nothing more than five times and never, NEVER, stop moving.

It's strangely liberating.

[ElectricBlue]

I'll second that.
Nothing better than waking up on a soon to be hectic day and finding your favorite pair of knickers waiting for you in the draw.