White room - paint anything build
White room installation build
Memory Replacement Election Day 2021 Wearable /
This is how New Yorkers felt around this time last year.
3-Parties ! Not just Party but support the arts also. Come! I'll be showing White Room - Paint anything you want :) yeah, anything. /
Dear Friends,
Come party and support the arts! These are the places to be seen wearing no socks to be honest.
Chashama.org has been very supportive over the years, not just with projects I do but it also supports thousands of working artists.
Chashama.org is throwing holiday parties and the proceeds go 100 percent back to us, the artists. I am building an installation called White Room and it will be seen in all three events.
I'd love to see you, come !
Chashama GALA
GALA:
Thursday, November 18th
6pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring
Tickets: $600
Tickets link: https://chashama-gala-2021.eventbrite.com
A free-flowing, experiential art celebration featuring 300 performers and interactive installations.
Chashama ART PARTY
ART PARTY:
Thursday, November 18th
9pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring
Tickets: $80
Tickets link: https://chashama-art-party.eventbrite.com
Unleash yourself at New York's most outrageous art party! Tickets include open bar and immersion in a labyrinth of 300 performers and installations.
CHASHAMA-RAMA
CHASHAMA-RAMA:
Saturday, November 20th
12-6pm
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Fun
Tickets: $25
Tickets link: https://chashama-rama.eventbrite.com
Immerse yourself in creativity at Chashama-Rama: a $25 art extravaganza with interactive performances by 300 artists.
Lets party.n paint mm..ok? The very Awesome Chashama GALA: Thursday, November 18th 6pm-midnight 144 West 43rd Street, NYC. Dress Daring! A free-flowing, experiential art celebration ! /
Lets party.n paint mm..ok?
The very Awesome Chashama GALA:
Thursday, November 18th
6pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring
Tickets link: https://chashama-gala-2021.eventbrite.com
A free-flowing, experiential art celebration featuring 300 performers and interactive installations.
Thoughts on IRL. Let yourself become pieces of other people. /
I spent a lifetime behind the keyboard, and my machines were my best friend. I used to work on five screens, two consoles and a PC simultaneously.
From video games, I became a hands-on installation and performance artist working in public spaces.
I believe IRL is very important, while we invade our personal spaces we reinforce togetherness by exchanging electrons atoms, and molecules, we exchange energy, and pieces of us become other people.
Working remotely is like sunbathing to a beach video.
Prisons when they want to punish someone they put them in isolation.
I believe in standing among people, it helps us build a tolerance to humanity and its errors, we become more empathetic and we let pieces of other people become us.
I have been messing around with AI music. Musenet made me Mozart from scratch /
Some of the AI music miracles I messed with last night:
Aiva made me a fantasy in C Minor from scratch but I can’t possibly take any credit, i just pressed one button.
Make me Art, AI !
And it made me art.
Rebel! Trolling Google A.I. Quick, Draw with Star Wars characters /
It is a Game you said..
This is a game built with machine learning. You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you’re drawing. Of course, it doesn’t always work. But the more you play with it, the more it will learn. So far we have trained it on a few hundred concepts, and we hope to add more over time. We made this as an example of how you can use machine learning in fun ways. Watch the video below to learn about how it works, and …
Friday Flash - Dune, possessions, pumpkins, road ahead, my personal hypocrisy /
I remember reading a science fiction short story I think a novel where you could put on glasses and read an entire planet. I think to be an artist is to somehow gradually put these glasses on and once you have that Vision it's impossible to unsee it. Where there are objects like apples or paintings or buildings or people you see primordial soup and electric storms, and some abysses and heavens.
Holiday gift guide:
Make your loved ones an installation. Food installation, spell there name with cucumbers and bananas. Spell their name with clothes, make art piles in the hallway.
Let your kids and your spouse draw on the walls, convert your kitchen cabinets to library and art closets, curiosity cabinets and mystery storage.
Road to New Minimalism
The ultimate goal is to build a space fairing creative civilization.
We have to be very careful with what we create, because I believe we're Gods and this is why I think that handbags and cutting up diamonds is not really our job anymore. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love fashion I love people who are nicely beautiful dressed but I can't justify in my mind digging up crystals from the ground, cutting them up and decorating ourselves with it, and conditioning young people to also be into cut up crystals, they do not need body decoration to feel self-worth. A well disciplined body is beautiful, but diamonds are ugly. Handbags are even more trashes than actual garbage, and even less useful. Don't get me started on weddings, bonding ceremonies are fine, I just can't think of a reason why so much energy is expended to create one of a kind throw away objects.
Whenever I look at bonding ceremonies and all kinds of other activities I always use first principles and try to look objectively at the activity and reason.
We need to really carefully rethink our values as a civilization, it seems to me that the media promotes the values that promote the agenda of their advertisers of course.
The media never promotes what is valuable to humankind science learning well-being of the body and mind, creative and forward thinking.
We are virtually mind slaves on the advertising industry which perpetually produces ever more crap for us to desire.
I am actively trying to unsee most of the stuff that is on the internet
Google was something useful and beautiful now I have to hunt for technology to block me seeing all the ads, I have several ad blocking add-ons on my browsers otherwise I cannot stand looking at anything on youtube or websites. I refuse to look at ads and frankly i’ll boycott anything that I see advertised on anything. If I am not bying it already - I don’t need it, period.
I have resorted to Android as I cannot find anything reasonable to bloc ads with on iPhone, although the iPhone takes beautiful pictures. My mind’s space is just too valuable.
I gave up television for the same reason, I can’t stand looking at ads, cannot imagine something less useful to our civilization and refuse to accept the digital landscape as it is evolving into adscape today.
I believe one day artists will spin neutron stars and draw in gas clouds
Video games are very very successful because they combine art and technology, computing and creativity.
I just realized that paintings with text were the first memes
Art offers a profound experience that just can't be compared to anything else. Art is not trivial it is profound.
I spent my entire life sharpening my ability to see, all my realizations about the material world have come from placing intense gaze on things.
Have just binged on Dune, I thought we are all Pre-born through reading
Art is basically like tasting melange and feeding on melange everyday. I was also born pre-spiced, with blue eyes.
But I can live the rest of my life without seeing another pumpkin
Holiday cartoon /
Own a Giant Hand /
Own a Giant Hand
and help support my next mass public performance art project coming up in 2022.
The Giant Hands are One of A Kind heroes of many art installations. They've graced Central Park bridges, footpaths and lakes, and famous places like Strawberry Fields. They hung on Broadway, been on Times Square and the East Village.
Each hand is approximately 10 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide at the palm. The hands are double sided and can be hung either side facing up. The hands are ready to hang with a wired, small wooden dowel at the top. The hands ship free to your home rolled in a tube.
The Giant Hands were lovingly cleaned of dirt but not of their soul. They were carefully repaired, repainted and glazed. To make an unique art object.
Click on any hand to see a super high-resolution image.
See scale of the hands at Artist for Scale.
Own a Giant Hand
Own a Giant Hand /
Happy Day. Soon - this, times 200 /
Distributed, DIY performance art /
I was walking down 5th avenue reading about the global goals, and I read that one of them is light bulbs. I'm like this is not a chicken coop to benefit from light bulbs, the world needs dreams, a common dream for humanity. Of course number one is getting rid of guns, how about we decide that all guns go.
My way to do it is my proposal and framework for Distributed, DIY performance art. More soon.
What is Art? /
Art celebrates the genius of man.
Giant Hand - artist for scale /
Last year as I was walking through the dark Manhattan toward the hospital and choking a bit from Covid - I am like, man i won’t get to finish these and no Mars for me. Damn. Now i am like - I want them at least 150 feet and I want to die on Mars, it will be the ultimate adventure. My molecules will seed another planet and my eyes will last gaze the stars. Or maybe i should be shot out of a Martian cannon and my body will become and interstellar artifact. I want this to be my last performance. If the Universe permits of course.
The Giant Hands are veterans of so many escapades, they've been in ditches, hung on Broadway, drugged through footpaths, they have been walked on, biked on, torn to pieces and put back together again. Painted, cleaned and painted again.
Giant Hand with artist for scale
Little girl painting on Memory Replacement - Election Day /
I don't think there's anything more awesome than creating and sharing the circle of light right here on the streets of New York City.
I also know that it is a difficult realization to share, but possessions unfortunately, according to Warren Buffet’s value system, have zero value. The genius of man, however, is priceless, any amount of money I can give this little girl will be of no value to her compare to just letting her being creative right here, on the sidewalk.
This little girl spent maybe three or more hours painting on the installation and had paint on her clothes and hair, sorry about it. But I remember she was ecstatic to do it, because art elevates us humans.
I believe art elevates humankind, art comes from the same place the universe comes from. A burst.
Little girl painting on Memory Replacement - Election Day, November 2020 on Union Square
The Road to New Minimalism /
One of my favorite quotes came randomly to me while listening to an audiobook from one of the great financiers of our time. I remembered it vaguely and tried to find the exact wording and ended up formulating my own quote:
The value of anything is its value between now and eternity
I've backtracked many times trying to find the source for the quote, I thought that I read it in Charlie Munger's book, but it turned out it's a Warren Buffett quote based on a Spinoza quote, and there was another investor guy squeezed in between.
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
― Baruch de Spinoza, Spinoza in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte
When he said that, I nearly jumped out of my course. What? I suddenly look up, and he said, and I remember exactly what he said: 'Spinoza said you must look at things in the aspect of eternity.' And that’s what suddenly hooked me on Ben Graham."
— Marshall Weinberg
“People always want a formula-but it doesn't work that way. You have to estimate total cash generated from now to eternity, and discount it back to today. Yardsticks such as P/Es are not enough by themselves." -Buffett ”
Excerpt From: Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, Ed Wexler, Warren E. Buffett. “Poor Charlie's Almanack_ The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition.” iBooks.
Every single object you buy will cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars and actually possibly millions of dollars over your lifetime. It will cost you your time, attention and care. Every single one of your possessions will end up in the dumpster, and the landfill.
This is why, using the above quoted estimations, between and and eternity, most possessions will not only cost you $0, they will have a negative value, with a minus in the font. All the stuff you own is literally penny on the dollar worth.
Perhaps it's time for me to define the framework of New Minimalism a bit better and put it out there.
My own brand of minimalism started with myself and my personal insights, but the design of it started in Japan. I saw with my eyes the enormous worth of, hold your breath, rocks and sand. And dirt, sprinkled with moss here and there. You have to give it to the genius of the Japanese Zen monk who managed to get a staggering value out of simple dirt.
I made my realization, from what I do know of myself, if I had stayed in the field of money and silicon valley I would have never done any art. I would have gone on vacations and I would have had a great time spending money. I just know myself very well.
I knew that the cost of me traveling around the world having fun and not doing art is very very high. I would just not pick the brush or the pen and I would dabble here and there. Actually the most important aspect of it is that none of the ideas that I've ever come up with about work, none of these ideas came on beaches. The ideas came while I was among people in New York City, and its underbelly. I got ideas for work on the subway, and while cleaning the local park.
New Minimalism is a framework for living in the new millennium, where we will need to do great things so we have to come up with ideas of how to produce great things, and not dabble in small things. Small things are just not worth the great human mind. It's a framework where I hope the production of goods is replaced with production of a great space fairing civilization.
New Minimalism is a framework for the betterment of you , the betterment of human kind, and the betterment of the environment.
It's a all win framework.
New Minimalism encompasses all areas of life and not just your immediate environment at home.