Jim Andrews
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Works in Victoria Canada

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Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
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Re: republican art


> http://it.news.yahoo.com/040831/38/2x6oy.html
>
> yeeesh, speaks for itself...

from http://www.nypress.com/16/7/nyc/nyc1.cfm :

""...real people get what I'm doing. It's other artists that don't
understand me." LoBaido describes himself as an artist and patriot. "For
years I've been painting the American flag. I used to have to beg store
owners to let me do it on their walls. A lot of them didn't want to do it
because they thought it would be bad for business. Bad for business? Now
after Sept. 11, I can't keep up with the demand. I love painting the flag
because I worship America. I realize what I have: a great family, access to
beautiful woman, Johnny Red scotch and to be whatever I want to be." Born
and raised on Staten Island, LoBaido is a fourth-generation New Yorker. His
father worked in sanitation and his mother was in real estate. "I'm from the
working class - the people that build this city." According to LoBaido, it's
this pedigree that's keeping his WTC memorial out of consideration."

googling Scott LoBaido, i see he has made a bit of a name for himself with
this sort of 'patriotic' work since 9/11. there are various news articles
from outfits like cnn on what he is doing.

i did a bit of a search on the web for other paintings from the middle ages
etc similar to the one above. because i seem to recall seeing similar sorts
of 'patriotic' paintings of a king on a horse holding the severed head of an
enemy. but i couldn't find any.

such work indicates a failure of compassion and understanding and, instead,
celebrates barbarism, is easily identifiable as political propaganda. so
too, on the other hand, can (for instance) anti-republican art fall into a
different but related category of political propaganda. how then to create
work which escapes both categorizations but does not simply avoid the
political?

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: The Aesthetics of Computer Viruses - I love you [rev.eng]


yes, there's a lot of buzz about viruses, has been for quite a while, will
continue to be, i suppose.

i think it might be important to note that good ideas, good information,
useful 'memes' and so on, these things spread not via involuntary viral
replication, but via conscious decisions by conscious people to support and
propagate the ideas or information or whatever.

great to hear that neural.it is getting some recognition, alessandro. i find
your http://neural.it/english very useful.

ja

DISCUSSION

Re: 'Southern strategy' numbers


> Speaking here from the terminator state, those 54 are clearly Kerry's.

ha. cool.

so, erm, a 'Southern strategy' is sort of like a strategy in a game of Risk,
ie, you fortify your primary set of states (the southern ones, in the case
of the republicans), concentrate considerable effort there, and then
hopefully make enough successful incursions elsewhere as to hang on.

looking at the map of the 2000 election at
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-2000 ,
the south looks pretty darn republican during the last election. do you
think it'll turn out that way again, ryan and curt? lots of respect being
lavished by the republicans on the cultural issues of abortion, no gun
control, nea disembowelment, and school prayer?

I read in one of the reviews of "What's Wrong with Kansas?" that

"The trick never ages, the illusion never wears off," Frank wrote. "Vote to
stop abortion, receive a rollback in capital-gains taxes. Vote to make our
country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those
politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation.
Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly
everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists;
receive Social Security privatization efforts. Vote to strike a blow against
elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than
ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power
and CEOs rewarded in a manner beyond imagining."

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

'Southern strategy' numbers


i was curious to see how a 'southern strategy' could work just in terms of
voting clout.

here's a map of how the 2000 usa election panned out:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-2000 ;
the map has the numbers on it that indicate the 'weight' of the states (by
population).

the total of the weights is 537. so a majority is 269. what would it take to
get a majority?

tallying up the southern states (Texas, Okla, Kansas, Nebr, Missouri,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina) we get 209.

throw in the terminator's California (which has the greatest 'weight' at 54)
and pretty much just one other state, just about any other state, and that's
a majority.

ja