The caption says “David Shrigley @ Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 2008″. I’m going to guess that the cat in the photo is dead/stuffed (I realize she’s holding a sign that says “I’m dead” but not everything you read is true), mostly because the pose appears somehow not totally natural and also the position of her left arm seems a bit awkward (as in “death-like awkward”). So what’s going on here? Did Mr. Shirgley (an artist) write the sign as if he was the cat? Or was the cat forced to make the sign before being killed and stuffed? Or was she perhaps the victim of a terminal disease? This is why I think art is very important - there are always many more questions than answers!
Thank you to Tenorina, David Shrigley, museum people, Davenin, and also inventor of the internet for bringing anonymous dead cat to me.
A couple of days ago I read an outrageous news story and I’ve been thinking about it a lot since then. Here’s an excerpt:
The University of Hawaii’s two submersibles will spend 15 days beginning Monday filming and taking water and sediment samples south of Pearl Harbor… Chemical weapons were reportedly dumped at two sites: The largest amount of chemical weapons believed to have been dumped in island waters is in an area 10 miles west of the Waianae Coast. The Army thinks 2,000 tons of lewisite, mustard, hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen chloride were discarded in this area. An additional 19 tons of mustard gas encased in 100-pound bombs and 155 mm and 75 mm projectiles were discarded 10 miles south of Pearl Harbor between 1932 and 1944.
Lewisite and mustard gas (blister agents): Effects are irritation and damage to skin and mucous membranes, pain and injury to the eyes and, when inhaled, damage to respiratory tract.
Hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen chloride (blood agents): When inhaled, will interfere with tissue oxygenation process, especially in the brain. (Source: U.S Army)
Tonight I was telling Bunny about what the military did and I said something like “I still can’t believe anybody would do something this crazy.” First she shot me the “O RLY?” look, then said something like, “If I tried I could probably find 10 equally-depressing news articles everyday.” I caught myself trying to figure out if that was an exaggeration or not (”maybe she’d only be able to find five equally-depressing articles every day…?”), before realizing that that’s totally beside the point.
Sometimes I feel like there’s so much bad things going on out there that I feel almost paralyzed with hopelessness. Which is probably why Bunny and I are friends. When I get depressed she always reminds me that nobody can fix the whole world all at once, all by themselves. Bunny says: “Just choose one thing that you think is good and then keep doing it until you’re dead.” I guess that makes sense.
Take care,
pinky
Pinky, Maybe you will like to watch this video next time you are feeling depressed? love, Kim
Today Pinky and I received a surprise announcement that we have been appointed State Envoys to the U.S. Empire by the Special High Commissioner Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary. I’ve been appointed envoy to the new state of Falvinas Islandas (Falkland Islands) and Pinky has been appointed to Namibia Minerale (Namibia). We have no idea (yet) how we will be using our new positions to further peace and mutual understanding between USE and our respective nations, but we are looking forward to what I can only assume will be many elaborate (and probably tasty) state dinners and limosine rides. These are, however, non-resident appointments, so we will not have to move to these countries - apparently we will rule them from our current home in the California desert. The fancy certificates that came along with the announcements are below, for your viewing pleasure. I’m going to frame them. - Bunny
Yesterday I was talking to my friend H., and he asked me what we thought about being named to “that list of 100 websites to visit before you die”. I responded, “Huh?” Neither Bunny or I had heard of that. He couldn’t remember where he saw that list, so Bunny and I did some searching on the internet afterwards but we couldn’t find it.
Did anybody else out there see this? If that list exists, that’s pretty exciting. I’m sure there’s lots and lots of websites out there, maybe even thousands! Please let us know if you saw it - Bunny wants to add it to our list of media props if possible. Thank you!
Sorry we’ve gotten so behind with our e-mail correspondence lately. Bunny and I are furiously trying to finish up some production work before heading off to Kaho’olawe. We got an unexpected invitation to go to Kaho’olawe and we immediately jumped at the opportunity. For us it will probably be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I’d heard that if you want to go there usually you have to put your name on a waiting list and then you sit there for maybe a couple of years before it’s finally your turn. But the way this unfolded was that we were talking to an anthropologist friend of ours the other week and out of the blue she says, I’m going to Kaho’olawe - you wanna come too? YES WE WANT TO GO TOO!
While we’re there we’ll be planting various flora (long-term re-vegetation project) and moving rocks around. In our spare time we’ll try to take photos and record our impressions of whatever we see there. The U.S. military seized Kaho’olawe immediately after the start of World War II and bombed & shot at that tiny island for around 50 years as a “practice target” and training area. As you can imagine this little island is pretty messed up so we’re going to try our best to try to heal it at least a little bit.
We’re not going to have computer access or even electricity while we’re on Kaho’olawe. I hear the stars are amazing but I’m not looking forward to bathing in the ocean (yuck). We’ll get re-attached to the internet as soon as we get back, unless we step on UXO or drown during the landing. Please cross fingers for us!
(photo by davenin)
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