Lewis LaCook
Since 2001
Works in Lorain, Ohio United States of America

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Dirty Milk("...under the lake where cats equal their shadows...")


And then waves of blackbirds rise from the bed. You,
who love so much to be martyred: red yarns fill you
with an accidental narrative, one in which you get out
of bed, force a face on your thoughts, saw through
jules of calendar-warped spaghetti; all the while
wanting you to watch me, watch my cry, shimmer like
smoke. By that time she was noticing the color of the
wind. It smears across my dead stepfather's mouth as
he never kisses me goodnight; mother's not allowed to
either, your maggot tongue beating in the rain like an
opened road kill, wet dog strewn across wet squirrel
across wet rabbit, bunny rabbit: the pavement drools a
honey sulphur rush. Will I blush to think of you,
years after the networks unravel, no hard critic to
unknot the nothing chains, no star-spattered art in
your hands anymore, but grasping the root, saplings
bent to this shade of wind? What hue will water talk?

Teal is one likely candidate, a diluting of black.

No-one's paying attention now, so you can loosen your
cells in long trails through the lake. I fell down
trying to follow you, slim Virginian with a
belt-buckle shaped like a globe; you were too right
and too natural for my footprints to bury you. A hard
critic moans into duct tape and pillows, something
dead about expression that twists into all the shapes
we love: especially the food, which has spoiled now
because I kissed it with lips refuting their own
composition. Some say her plane never left that
holding pattern over snowy Cleveland. Even so, the
balance of cryptic green on layers serrated by her
mouth enveloping these tinny deaths online keeps
circling over my inert distributions; restless, I
comb through the hex and octal strands, prefixing
curls with a truth-table half submerged in a barbarity
of bright ideas: turn the light on, dear, turn the
light on me so you can see me crawl over the floor,
dead stepfather in straight-jacket mouth, deader
father watered with yarns of silver ivy! Am I not
beautiful, refusing to hold form?

What did you dream about, under the lake where cats
equal their shadows?

I dream of car crashes, and snakes that blur with
flippant scales.

Hold me! You could cave in and let me enter you: let
me fill you up: give me a face!

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Fwd: Not TV's new look/Being There update


--- emily Webber <ucwaesw@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 16:17:21 +0000
> Subject: Not TV's new look/Being There update
> From: emily Webber <ucwaesw@ucl.ac.uk>
> To: emily webber <esl_webber@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> New look not TV
>
> Not TV has a new look ready for the summer please
> look at www.not-tv.org
>
> Being There continues to update on a Thursday the
> timetable is below:
>
> timetable
>
> week 1:01.05.03 Tina La Porta
> week 2:08.05.03 Gregory Chatonsky
> week 3:15.05.03 Raphael Di Luzo
> week 4:22.05.03 Brad Brace
> week 5:29.05.03 Crankbunny / Norma V Toraya
> week 6:05.06.03 Victor Vina
> week 7:12.06.03 Laura Floyd
> week 8:19.06.03 Mark Jackson-Downes
> week 9:26.06.03 Lewis La Cook
> week 10:03.07.03 Shirin Kouladjie
> week 11:10.07.03 Doron Golan
> week 12:17.07.03 Fiona Jackson-Downes
> week 13: 24.07.03 Euginia Fratzeskou
>
> Next project: Victor Vina

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: fresh air & real soul...


i wasn't offering my own dissatisfaction as a crit to
Jess' work, btw---only feeling tired,
cranky---questioning why i do it (is it ego? or do i
really *need* to make art? would i make art if no-one
were paying attention?)

(i *was* making art when no-one was paying
attention)--

as for t's crit--it's a great point, but i think most
of these entries *were* quick replies...& yeah, i
often wish we could have blackhawk here (though
blackhawk and i have had rabid disagreements in the
past...i still think he's got a keen mind for this
sort of thing, and admire and respect him)...

i too, michael, meant my comic in much the same way as
you meant yours---i get boggled down in all this code,
all these special-effects, the 'demo' view of net.art,
much maligned deservedly by many--and what i think all
of us meant was that it was great to see this simple
and quite funny piece---it refreshed me...and prodded
me into asking myself the right questions...

bliss
l

--- Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I can't speak for the others but in my case perhaps
> I
> wrote what I wrote because I *meant* it in exactly
> the
> same way that I *meant* the critical things that I
> wrote about the Arcangel piece awhile back.
> I *actually think* this particular piece by Jess is
> worth a 1000 Data Diaries. That is my *opinion*. It
> may or may not be justified in the long run - I
> don't
> know at the moment and neither do you.
> I don't say what I don't mean or believe.
> best
> michael
>
> --- "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com> wrote:
> > I'll withhold my opinion of Jess's piece and crit
> > the critics.
> >
> > It seems to me that the good-natured back-slapping
> > copied below is
> > all fine and good for dilettantes, amateurs and
> > 'sunday painters',
> > but I've always felt that Rhizome should be more
> > than a mutual
> > applause society. We should strive for
> professional
> > level of
> > critique. I'm not saying it's wrong to toss off
> some
> > quick praise for
> > a piece, but I would hate to see Rhizome descend
> > into a perpetual
> > 'i'm ok, you're ok' session.
> >
> > Of course, artists are the worst critics there
> are.
> > jealousy and/or
> > one's own blinders get in the way more often than
> > not. It would be
> > nice if we had a house critic like Blackhawk over
> on
> > thingist
> >
> > Vague sentiments of praise are no more materially
> > helpful to an
> > artist than vague insults, tho the praise feels
> much
> > better. I would
> > rather have no 'social integration' with pithy
> > remarks eviscerating a
> > piece of mine than all the good natured cheers
> > combined.
> >
> > What gets me about this praise, which may be my
> > inference totally, is
> > that it goes beyond back-slapping to head-patting.
> > I've met Jess, she
> > definitely doesn't need her head patted.
> >
> >
> > At 21:37 +0100 6/2/03, furtherfield wrote:
> > >
> > >After all the continual cynicism on here & lack
> of
> > social intigration grace,
> > >this blows it all away.
> > >
> > >I love the soul here - it communicates, its with
> > you, its real & is not
> > >pretentious or self-conscious.
> > >
> > >Thanx Jess - breath of fresh air...beautiful.
> >
> >
> > At 18:35 +0100 6/2/03, ruth catlow wrote:
> > >I love this piece of work!
> > >beautiful choreography- have they been dancing
> > long?
> >
> > At 18:57 +0100 6/2/03, neil jenkins wrote:
> > >fantastic jess..
> > >if only my video camera were working, I'd be
> > >creating a 'fingermouse' remix
> >
> >
> > At 12:09 -0700 6/2/03, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
> > >I totally agree with all the acclaim.
> > >It's a beautiful piece of work - both funny and
> > >moving.
> > > You do yourself a disservice by your diffidence
> > about
> > >the piece.
> > >I think you've done something that has way more
> > >resonance than maybe you thought it had to start
> > with.
> >
> >
> > At 17:11 -0400 6/2/03, Lewis LaCook wrote:
> > >better than anything i could ever do---
> > >
> > >(which is probably why i'm thinking about
> > quitting...)
> > >
> > >bliss
> > >l
> > >
> >
> > --
> > <twhid>
> > http://www.mteww.com
> > </twhid>
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Re: fresh air & real soul...


better than anything i could ever do---

(which is probably why i'm thinking about quitting...)

bliss
l

marc garrett wrote:

> Hi Jess,
>
> After all the continual cynicism on here & lack of social intigration
> grace,
> this blows it all away.
>
> I love the soul here - it communicates, its with you, its real & is
> not
> pretentious or self-conscious.
>
> Thanx Jess - breath of fresh air...beautiful.
>
> marc
>
>
>
> > the word ''work'' used in the broadest possible sense of the word.
> > ...what can I say my internet connection was down and I had
> (literally)
> far too much time
> > on my hands this morning. (and I thought it was funny)
> >
> > lapdance
> > http://www.rssgallery.com/lapdance.htm
> > flash 6 + sound
> >
> > (rough on a dial-up, sorry)
> >
> > jess.
> >
> > o
> > /^ rssgallery.com
> > ][
> >
>
> >
>
>
>
>

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a patch of reactive quilt from screenburn


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flash 6/soundcard

please explore with mouse strokes, clicks and keyboard taps

part of a collaboration at screenburn--joseph mcelroy has drawn a wonderful line drawing, which we've segmented and divvied out to several artists--whole project will be available soon!

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l

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