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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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[pete3great.livejournal.com]

i am three days older than you... cosmic.

Maybe I'm just too cordian to 'get it'

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

But I don't see the intrinsic art in this. I mean, clever, yes... but as literature, it frankly sucks.

So the only people who you want to be able to read your work are those who are already fanatically impressed with the concept that they're willing to put permanent ink-to-skin before you'll let them see it? Sure, that's an unbiased sample.

Re: Maybe I'm just too cordian to 'get it'

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think you miss the point. The people who are doing this probably don't even really care about what the story concept is - they're doing it as performance art. I would hope that the participants will get the story as a photo album - a shot of each inked word. That's how I would do it, if I were clever/crazy enough to have come up with this.

I mean, maybe I'm the one that doesn't get it, but I don't think it's about literature.

Re: totally unrelated

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Spooky.

That means you share a birthday with Davy Crockett, Mae West, and Robert De Niro.

If you had just held out for three more days, you could have shared a birthday with H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Plant, and Isaac Hayes. :-D

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.

[tsninja.livejournal.com]

Holy shit that's cool.
I wish I was a part of that.
That's the perfect thing for a tattoo.