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[featherynscale]

Well, somebody in Kansas City has balls, it just isn't me. A student and professor at UMKC are participating in the "Skin" project. I found the idea compelling, but couldn't commit to the unknown word. Oh well.
My first thought was, "You don't get the opportunity to be art every day", but on further reflection, I think that's bullshit. I think you can make an opportunity to be art any day you like. You just have to have the balls to go through with it.

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Oh, I'm sure I'm missing the point

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm just not entirely certain what the 'point' is; then again, I never really like pretentious performance art pieces, so I'm biased.

This quote is what rubbed me the wrong way, for what it's worth:
"I can't write a normal book. I'm not interested in that," Jackson said in a telephone interview while roller-skating through New York City's borough of Brooklyn.

Can't or won't? If it's just performance art, I'd have been more impressed with taking an existing (public domain?) short story that somehow had something to do with skin and tattooing that across several thousand people. Different strokes...

Re: Oh, I'm sure I'm missing the point

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

If it's just performance art, I'd have been more impressed with taking an existing (public domain?) short story that somehow had something to do with skin and tattooing that across several thousand people.

I'd have been impressed with that, too.