Ivan Pope
Since the beginning
Works in Brighton United States of America

BIO
In the place where analogue and digital overlap, that's why you will find me in the kitchen at parties.
Everything is at my site, http://blog.ivanpope.com
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DISCUSSION

Re: art students, ya gotta love 'em


> someone wrote offline:
>
> >I was ticked off when it happened and it is just
> > sad as art even on a student level but...the kids in
> > jail [...]
>
> I'm not sure who is to blame here. I would like to hold SVA accountable
> for it's student too.
>
> ~~ His time might also be better served returning community time to that
> area. Getting down there and seeing how difficult and stressful it is to
> use that station on a daily basis might allow him to recognize the
> importance of a free flowing public space.

I just have to say, aren't we getting a bit pompous here? Maybe the artist
rather than being contrite would turn around and shout 'screw you and your
desire for a free flowing public space'.

Surely we have nothing to fear except fear itself.

Surely it is the role of artists to bring us up against our complacencies.
And surely isn't fear causing us to be complacent about a lot of things at
the moment?

I mean, it would piss me off if I'd been caught up in the event, but I've
often been caught up in totally non-art transit screw ups. And those don't
even give you a pay off.

I like the idea of empty boxes with the word fear on them bringing the
system to a standstill.

Think lateral, act literal.

Ivan

DISCUSSION

We three


> From: "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>

> We suggest jumping from a cliff.

> We do not justify our behavior to you, idiot.

> We are not 'clever'.

> Nothing of what we wrote is 'turgid old codwsallop'.

> Actually dearest, we are nothing like anyone else.

> In fact, we were not writing to you. AT ALL.

> We are in fact also perfectly_ nice_.

> We weren't writing to you. AT ALL.

> If you dislike what we have to post, do not respond.
Ooh, Wassilly, you have become a 'we'. Is that a royal we, or the simple we
of a five year old? Ta me old mate, Ivan

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: [thingist] (from three universal truths ' buddhism')


> From: "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>

> Humans consist of 'mineral-demonic'
> 'plant-angelic'
> 'animal-archangelic'
> 'divine-conscious'
> natures (and more than one tiers of the three lower natures).
>
>
> Additionally emotions != plant-angelic
> brain functions ! = thinking (animal archangelic)
>
> Love + beauty + hope + faith + etc are neither 'plant-angelic'
> (energetic feelings accessible by genuine empathy + co-resonance)
> nor thinking proper (animal-archangelic).
>
Oh, please dont tell me this bollocks. Not only do I not want to know it,
but I dont understand why you feel it necessary to tell us this. I mean, it
does of course make you look really big and clever. But Id still rather not
have to read such a load of turgid old codswallop on a Monday night.

Actually, while I was bringing my kids home today, I realised that you, K,
are really like them. They have a huge capacity to annoy, to grate, to wind
up, to cause friction. I know its only part of their development,
essentially harmless and fundamentally attention seeking. I know that they
prefer angry shouted attention to no attention at all. I know that they have
no deep understanding of the niceties of human behaviour and that its
pointless to try to reason with them or to shout at them. I know a lot of
what they say is dredged up nonsense. I have learned that the best way to
deal with attention seeking is to ignore it. It doesnt take long to calm the
situation. There is no memory or malice. At the same time, it is amazing how
often I dont remember this in the heat of an exchange, and keep on
responding to a grouchy five year old. >

K, Im not sure, but I think you may be one of my children. If not, can you
please stop sucking on my tit with all your attention seeking.

Cheers, Ivan

DISCUSSION

Re: The WOW! Kick in Texts!


> From: "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>

>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> Avoid using text written by others to peddle your ego, idiot.
But K dearest, that is exactly what you have a long habit of doing: for
example on Nov 19th you posted:

"... the thought of man upon being evolved passes into the inner world,
and becomes an active entity by associating itself, coalescing we might
term it, with an elemental - that is to say, with one of the
semi-intelligent forces of the kingdoms. It survives as an
active intelligence - a creature of the mind's begetting - for a
longer or shorter period proportionate with the original intensity of the
cerebral action which generated it. Thus a good thought is perpetuated as
an active, beneficient power, an evil one as a maleficient demon. And so
man is continually peopling his current in space with a world of his own,
crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, passions...
which reacts upon any sensitive or nervous organisations which comes in
contact with it, in proportion to its dynamic energy.

which comes almost direct from
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/path/oc-fisch.htm

and more. What planet are you on? Ivan

DISCUSSION

Re: Karei and Max


> From: "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>

>> I am doing it as an experiment, to see how it makes me feel.
>
> You who?
>
Oh, yoo hoo to you too Karei. Sweet.

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