Symmetry: the Universal Beauty Mean

sunset

Franklin high school.
Shane's (unpresent) birthday.
Ice Blocking.
Balloon stomping (crab-walk style).
Pinata smashing.
cake eating.
nipple pinning upon shane effigy.
fun for all (and free).
thank you ryan wilson-paulson

lust and objectification as materialism

the commodification of the body.
the assertion that the person is only material.
the assumption that the person and body can (and should) be bought, sold, owned and controled by others.
the reality of this assumption.
the devaluation of the person.
The overemphasis of the body
the use of the body as object to promote consumption of other objects.
is lust materialism?
primary focus: physical appearance and possesion (control).
primary focus: unatainable ideal.
primary focus: lack of perfection.
ultimate focus: universal human need for love and acceptance.
strategy: control (minipulation), financial prowess, aquisition of objects, consumption of status inducing commodities.
the display of material wealth.
the display of consumption - aquisition of status inducing commodities.
status inducing commodities determined by subculture.
subculture determined by material wealth.
material wealth determined by subculture.
material wealth determined by level of subcultural privelege.
level of commodity consumption determined by material wealth.
priveledge determined by birth.
birth determined by love (and or reproduction).
loveability determined by performance.
performance determined by level of ability to provide access to and aquisition of popular commodities.
strategy: promise of love and happiness if commodity is consumed.
strategy: creation of desire (exploitation of desire).
creation of desire acheived through display of objectified human form in relation to commodity.
strategy: encourage lust for the unattainable ideal.
strategy: determination and distribution of ideal.
strategy: suggest possiblity of perfection (unattainable ideal) through consumption.
strategy: suggest possesion of perfection (unatainable ideal) equals love
conclusion: aquisition of love determined by ability to be objectified.
submission to objectification = love

I was invited to build sets for the world naked bike ride last weekend. I in turn invited my friend Angela, Chris, Katrina and Bonnie to work with me. This is a safe we built out of cardboard to keep all of the riders' belongings in while they rode. I didnt go to the party but I heard that it was fun - apparently lots of nakedness was seen by all.

How the United States Became A Coffee-Driven Culture of Expansion and Desire

The English apppropriated tea culture from India and China and made it their own by adding porcelan, milk, fancy silver cutlery, jam and scones. They then began exporting the English version of drinking tea back into the cultures from which they had taken it.
When the early English colonialists travled to the new world, they too brought tea culture with them. It is assumed that high tea taxes and greed led to the American Revolution begining with the infamous Boston Tea Party. I would suggest, however, that the American revolution was equally motivated by an intense desire for social liberation.

When the colonists came to the new world they maintained a strong pressence of Engish power and control over their lives by bringing tea. Despite the obvious potential for control in the addictive quality of caffine there were also opportunities for the English to exert control via the social dependance on (or addiction to) tea (as a social facilitator) in colonial America (similar to the current American economic dependance on oil producing nations today).

If a government controls the socialization of its people, that government has absolute control over said people due to the simple fact that socialization is a basic human need intrinsic to our survival. When babies are denied touch they die. Adolecents would rather die than be rejected by thier peer group. Men and women take desperate measures to maintain social networks of love, acceptance and stability.

As tea was consumed in every level of English society and colonial outpost in the context of leisure and socialization, it could easily be used by the English as a social control mechanism by withholding it or inflating the price (and limiting availability) through Taxes.

The homesick colonialists could engage in the social ritual of tea to remember all the good things about England and the home they had left behind. However every time a colonist sat down for a cup of tea she was looking back, like Lot's wife, betraying their primary vision of freedom and pledging their fealty to England's throne.

Just like the final purging of the old, ephemeral relics of a defunct love affair can provide realease from the past, so too was the Boston tea party a decleration of independence from a dysfunctional relationship to all things English, including tea. As the Boston Tea Party Participants tossed boxes of tea into the harbor, they were not only rejecting the financial burden tea represented, they were rejecting of a way of life and socialization that had become a barrier to their growth and development as a nation. Ever since this action America has been rapidly developing as an overcaffinated, coffee-driven culture of independence, expansion and desire.

L.A.

Wasteland.

If you don't have anything good to say...

santa monica

pretty much sucks.

Black white and greyscale rememory 4.1

The BWGS rememory was enjoyed by all who participated. New features included glow in the dark signs and ghost tea. A tasty alternative to real tea.

The only person present who was present at the initial event was me (gary). This is ok though. It feels real somehow. An acurate representation of the transcience we encounter daily.