ciard hq

What happens when you stay up too late?

2009-05-13T11:57:00.001-07:00

Automatic Weapons and Thunderstorms

2009-04-29T10:05:00.000-07:00

Mainframe

2009-01-23T14:42:00.000-08:00

Hey CIARD!!!! Server is progressing. running fedora, got it installed and up and running at chad and graham and charlies house. now we have to figure out dns... ugh. 500 gigabytes thats a half a terabyte arrived today, and next week the server should be up and running enough to accept either usb harddrive transfers or cd burns. no word yet on ftp file transfers, learning linux. well, just wanted to keep everyone posted.

put your hands in and 3.2.1 LETS GO GET 'EM.

Check me out on youtube

2009-01-21T08:41:00.001-08:00

Hey CIARD bloggers, i now have a youtube account, and im puttin videos up like a storm, so check it out Eric's YouTube and don't forget the CIARD Science Update blog

2009-01-13T14:14:00.001-08:00

Look what I saw at Matt's house

From Photo Booth

hopeful idealist text piece

2009-01-12T21:33:00.001-08:00

CONFETTI!!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-11T00:27:00.001-08:00

Chicago Issues Blog

2009-01-08T15:21:00.001-08:00

I think it might be a good idea to start a blog that addresses issues to the people of Chicago. We could include events and endorsements. just a thought. comments?

These Are They

2008-12-22T01:18:00.000-08:00

The Videos I Posted To YouTube Recently

welcome back me

2008-12-17T12:14:00.000-08:00

In the light of the news, and the snow, I have decided to begin blogging once again. I pose questions about the new nothing. The news of yesterday was that a new report was released on dark matter, and hearing the story twice on NPR got me thinking, what is nothing and what exists beyond the smallest forms of matter.
I enjoy the theories that there are whole universes in the atoms of us, and that we could be the in the body of a even greater thing. if this is true, when sub-atomic particles collide, are these universes destroyed, morphed into weirdness or unaffected? Could the same thing happen to our universe, and if it can, how often does it happen?
This, of course, is only if these inside out theories are true. I would like to also point out that the new nothing contains 70% of the energy-mass content of the universe. Could this be the new renewable energy source. What implications would sucking energy from this field have on the physical universe. There has been some research on so called "zero point energy." Could this research have relevance to the new declaration of nothing? Astrophysicists and Mad Scientists could combine to solve the pressing issue of energy creation! All that that is there in nothing.

chapter 18 of the same piece reads, in its entirety...

2008-10-23T18:44:00.000-07:00

"death row is the label that pays me."

billboards. exerpts from chapter 8 and 9 of one of the novels i am writing.

2008-10-23T18:28:00.000-07:00

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DICKS AND LIFTS.

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BUCKLE UP. BEES ARE THE LAW

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ANTIQUES EVERY EXIT

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MODERN REST AREA 90 MILES.

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SOME OF YOU WILL DIE HERE.

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ABORT.

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Some Recents

2008-10-23T12:09:00.000-07:00

I think the water smells and tastes funny. Not just at my house everywhere. Not just in Chicago everywhere either. Craig agrees. Some say Zebra Mussels are the cause. "Okay". Contact me here if you agree.

In other news;
I am having a going out of business sale, premium items will become affordable. Affordable even in our current economic "crunch". Contact me here if there is something you've always had your eye on. Prices based on relativism.

Additionally;
I'm buying up land, and houses, contact me if you're feeling foreclosureish, we might be able to work something out.

Also as a reminder, the applications for: UNPAID INTERN. are due at the end of this week. Late applications WILL be accepted.
Mail to: 2401 W Lexington apt 4
Chicago, IL 60612
or drop off in person.

chicken bones and the bus never comes.

2008-05-04T23:38:00.000-07:00

...were going to toss chicken bones around to look into the future. we'll let you know whats going to happen, but heres what weve learned so far.

in the future, tigers will be made out of metal. they will be really good at sodoku. in the future, there will be more people who used to be alive. in the future the nfl will institute the wild card rule, secretly giving one player a gun before each game to be concealed until its needed. in the future nobody will cast a shadow or be reflected in mirrors.

i apologize if i was pointing at you menacingly last night. im really not that tough... you were never in any danger.

in the future, wet feet will be a thing of the past.

in the future, we'll all die of thirst because we will be controlling the weather.

in the future we'll all die of thirst anyway, and controlling the weather will be a thing of the past.

in the future there will be lots of things that are things of the past...

this thing i learned today.

2008-04-09T20:51:00.000-07:00

Ode to a snowman.

2008-03-03T21:04:00.001-08:00

DEC 21st 200seven

2007-12-17T23:43:00.000-08:00

This is gonna be the jam!

popop returns (?)

2007-11-28T18:25:00.000-08:00

gotta go goodnight this morning.

2007-11-17T14:22:00.000-08:00

immoral support for antiquated souls.

Stoked about Sound Lab

2007-09-04T22:23:00.000-07:00

Yeah. It's a big sweet thing right now.
(Wed. Nights the Little Flower Shoppe.)
p.s. Sleep in a cooler, listen to CAN.

NYC

2007-08-23T19:24:00.001-07:00

they very rarely tell me to be quiet in the woods.

his name is rodney

2007-08-11T14:53:00.000-07:00

the little flower shoppe. chicago

2007-07-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

bolingbrook il

2007-07-23T15:48:00.001-07:00

it was like this when i found it.

the nest sat about 5 feet above the web. robin's egg/ dead spider. i think the true inhabitant of this web was out crashing through the woods someplace while i was assessing the situation.

roatan, honduras

2007-07-23T15:20:00.002-07:00

dirty verbs come first.
dont (what?) the animals.

2007-06-26T01:09:00.000-07:00

the irony of this.

2007-06-19T14:51:00.000-07:00

i thought you guys would guys would like this. next to the bonsai trees there was a nice sign that read. "do not touch the bonsai trees or the alarm will sound." i thought it was pretty ridicoulus.

cleveland, oh

2007-06-14T11:54:00.000-07:00

2 for 1 (drinks dummy)... served w/ vegan sloppy joes, potato salad and white russians.

catskills, new york.

2007-06-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

devils swing set (hiding from the road behind devils tombstone).

Dekalb, IL

2007-06-01T00:34:00.000-07:00

he jumped off the roof of eric's apartment complex the other night in a rainstorm. the animals kill themselves in dekalb.

neons the new buckskin

2007-05-20T15:05:00.000-07:00

i got lots of other ones up on my other blog, check em out if your bored. i think they got that material from the european american apperall.

all the leaves are grey and the sky is brown.

2007-05-13T21:49:00.000-07:00

reasearch.

all i want is to be your housewife

2007-05-01T20:29:00.000-07:00

i hate updates

2007-03-02T10:57:00.001-08:00

i guess i can pick my own font now though.

fearless engine ear (meah! michigan).

2007-02-06T08:13:00.000-08:00

this is not an isolated incident.

Whoooohoooo

2007-02-05T09:31:00.000-08:00

hey CIARD.blogspot.com... long time no see. availing fiascoes... no rhyme or reason... hoot and holla. Chicago is defeated today, but we at the ciard will not be phased by the defeat of our humble bears, and know that they will just win it next year. after years of waiting, we can wait one more. and don't give rex shit... cause I say so. Chicago will survive. So when you step out into this wiley blue frigid cold, know know, Those fuckers down in florida could never survive this shit.

blog ab-sense

2007-01-23T17:27:00.000-08:00

Will blogging come to an end? You decide.

Zombie Christmas

2006-12-25T00:43:00.000-08:00

Why is it christmas, it doesnt feel right.

The zombie spirits have claimed this christmas for thier own. They just want our brains. Its not so much to ask for is it. I have allready seen many claimed by the zombies this christmas, and they are knockin at the door. So, batten down the hatches, close all shutters and lock all doors so you will not be claimed by the zombies. and get me a sword with a sawedoff shotgun in it.

jumping for citrus

2006-12-22T10:14:00.000-08:00

riding through the dark past the noises and moving things...florida death airstrip.

2006-12-22T10:09:00.000-08:00

listing things in florida.

2006-12-21T16:16:00.000-08:00

Quoth charlie... "everything in florida is 'the florida death' whatever it is.

this is the truth.

florida death panther

florida death strip mall after florida death strip mall

florida death retiree

etc.

charlie has been making a list (as well as lots of primitive weapons and tools out of garbage). i hope that he can post it at some point.

"you should have seen me reading marx."

2006-12-16T20:37:00.000-08:00

"Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana, millions of genitals,
an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 MPH and
25,000 mental institutions." (Allen Ginsberg)

consider outsource man. consider war epic. consider socio/political CIARD.

craig gave me this on a mix cd with some tubby the tuba and lots of other good stuff.

list everything here... everthing is everything because it is also not everything else.

2006-12-16T17:56:00.000-08:00

geoff is geoff because geoff is also not table
table is table because table is also not paper bag
paper bag is paper bag because it is also not (signifier)
(and thus, the endless chain of signifiers, each one giving every other one meaning by not being anything other than itself)

our view of the nature of the thing is a construct, just like every other aspect of our perceived existence (gender, race, language, culture, politics, etc). that is to say that we invent and collectively validate (or, begrudgingly sanction, for lack of a reasonable alternative) structures asserting that an object is an object and an institution is an institution and an idea is an idea and a person is a person. we are doomed to exist inside of the framework of these constructions, as self conscious beings, in order to establish (invent) social networks key to survival and proliferation.

we need to talk.

a thing is a thing, a biological entity is a thing, an animal is a thing, a marsupial is a thing, a kangaroo is a thing, a joey is a thing.

is it not a contradiction to say that a joey is a joey because it is also not a kangaroo? in our constructed existence, can an object be different than its signifier? a joey is a kangaroo, but a kangaroo is not necessarily a joey. to answer this question, we might need to reread it (the preceding question) in several different languages... i recommend that we start with some pama- nyungan tempered by some form of Inuit (eskimo... ehem).

my uncle is a laser physicist who repeatedly forgot to send me his extra copy of "communist manifesto" throughout my jr. high years.

2006-12-16T17:14:00.000-08:00

(most likely at the request of my parents).its probably a good thing... fuck, the damage i could have caused with all that rhetoric which would have almost certainly been applied to connecting punk rock lyrics like constellations.

not until your 12 son.
aw... a handgun. i wanted politics.

"It is the specific virtue of both art and pure maths to be perfectly useless."(Trevor Pateman. "Formalism: Clive Bell and Viktor Shklovsky")

of course there is no such thing as the singular... there are always two autonomous parts and the whole that they make.

i would argue that, as much as it is incumbent upon art and pure math to have the purpose of having no purpose... the purpose of having no purpose dictates function to the artist, to the viewer and to the critic, validating the efforts and actions of all involved and creating a use value.

someone please break this argument apart.

last from eirre

2006-12-15T06:05:00.000-08:00

Last post frm here. it's been an experimental adventure. The last few days have been espeacially ridicuous, I have schooled the school, and now I am taking my talents elsewhere. This ones for GS, found in Dubs.

p.s. I have a painting portfolio up for review at SAIC, links : http://patrickrios.blogspot.com please refrain from commenting on it till i give the o.k. (or better yet post comments here.)
I'm be out of the office for the next few weeks moving into yet another CIARD outpost, this time in Brighton. I'll stop by from time to time.
January 8th; please provide 30 PBRS and yourselves to the HQ.

goddamn, i miss the furniture store sometimes. maybe just when i need a job and dont wanna work for assholes or butfaces or fanney bewps.

2006-12-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

obscene and immature... bears, doing what bears do on a ludicrously faux wooden podium. how did they get up there? little known facts about bears: 1)they are very good climbers of wooden things. 2) they can run uphill very fast but cannot run downhill.

summer in the desert again. joliet, IL.

2006-12-08T19:52:00.000-08:00

driving wedding photos to a family at a funeral. joliet in the summer time(2005). so bleak and dead, and brown and yellow it could have been gray but the ac was broken (at 100 degrees + with humidity, this speaks to the color(s)). there was stickey beige leather interior with a sunroof, two sweaty boys and a dead bee (sleeper cell. latent threat).

a few weeks later, at the real height of summer... we drove the same car, through the desert again... colorado, new mexico, arizona, and california.

chicago, and its swamps have (some of) the hottest heat. i promise.

this is a year later... at a wedding, on a sidewalk, in the lush desert of joliet, il. july, 2006.

he's way dead by now

contested region... line of control.

2006-12-07T20:23:00.000-08:00

signage in a snowstorm.

2006-12-06T13:31:00.000-08:00

or the day after.
dont not stop.
there is no not stopping.

"acadamia for the academics!" goes the battle cry.

2006-12-06T11:54:00.000-08:00

is it because of the scale of relevance% that i cant get it to come up in a google search? how do they know?
there is this place... and i sit and think... and we are still lacking discourse,
are we not?here is this anyway.

Can it really be this cold?

2006-11-30T20:10:00.000-08:00

I know I know the weather, but what the fuck. i went outside for like 2 seconds and my socks froze to the ground. Why is this happening, now of all times. its terrible. Snow for tomarrow, school might be canceled, and i just want to lock myself in my room and hybrinate till spring. wait, then i couldnt do shit for 3 months. moral of the story... time to put your hat on.

where is the pastiche in postmodern city planning.

2006-11-30T20:03:00.000-08:00

its a complicated matter that you all are more than welcome to look into, but to explain very very very simply.

a modern(ist) city is a city about a city.

the po-mo city is the ironic evolution of city planning. where there was once a city for citys sake, there are now low density high population tracts of land throughout which you will find islands of commerce and the smoldering glow of culture looming in the distance.

think Chicago vs. the silicon valley.

these labels contradict themselves, because a time period and a group of philosophical ideals become a movement and the movement must be embraced or rejected. there is no sharing of values when they come in packages. just think about partisan politics... (and here i was just about to send in my donation to the people for the ethical treatment of historical context).

its is all a pile of piles of ideas... this having been said, Marx would have never sanctioned such an evil (the whole civilization being built around off ramps... strip malls instead of anything/everything else... sprawling sprawl).

all the homes, freeways, and corperate campuses in silicon valley are built on top of some of the most fertile soil under the best fruit yielding climates that could even be concievable on the face of this earth. now, the fruit growers are all gone and your average grocery store offers bottles of $900 foreign wine. such is the nature of paradise. unknown and then unaffordable.

i want to be ether... somone make me a statue

2006-11-30T15:04:00.000-08:00

i read too much to care about what you think. i dont read enough for you to care about what i think. i think too much... i dont think enough... and this is true of many of us.

been thinking about the nature of reatlity... semantics... linguistics... etymology... and how this effects our ontological perspective. a lot. for months... years. this is important.

feral children. what does it mean to be who i am vs who i tell myself i am.

goddamit, whether or not this is the point (it may be. it felt like an epipheny when i was turning it over the other night. a very sad revelation). to do this it needs to be done. there are things i like and dont like about art and life, but i still live and make things.

just someone start to set up meah! and popop myspaces. i started to set up so many, and it makes me a little sick so i give up. one of you souless bastards make us look cool.

Ruben's Tube

2006-11-30T12:19:00.000-08:00

More appropraite to have been posted by our resident wave expert, here is an awesome video of the physical manifestation of sound waves at different frequencies.

Where's your god now Dr. Scientist!?

If anyone wants to get me anything for the upcoming winter holiday

2006-11-30T11:25:00.000-08:00

This'll do just fine

the goose goes to gander at the great peak

2006-11-28T00:27:00.000-08:00

force my face to your bussom
my neck forms the rythm
of the blue aprain of my pain
main
stain
kane
chain me to the wall of hungry flesh
mesh
shorts the old men wear in the field playing hockey
with
your face
hate paste
make haste.

can you rythem my motion
for the seagull swoops over the ocean
rocks blocks hawks
where you flying to
manchu?

diseased blankets giving day.

2006-11-23T13:45:00.000-08:00

Crossing the straits... pursuing mega fauna to thier doom... right on down to tierra del fuego. There should be more turkeys with teeth and natives with machine guns.

i am listening to a funney conversation about me in the other room... "is geoff graduating soon?"... and so forth. excuse me i am going to go and stand in the backround until i'm found out...

the sky is blue, because you want to know why the sky is blue.

2006-11-20T17:22:00.001-08:00

sloppy zen again.

acts of kindness... stacking stones durring the ascent...

2006-11-20T17:07:00.000-08:00

Input.

2006-11-17T08:30:00.000-08:00

I will be installing several fairly small discreet objects, mounted on the wall or on pedestal. The walls and floor will remain white and grey respectively.

My proposed installation includes the following elements; an all black photograph entitled, "4x6 Photograph of Everything", a slightly larger than baby-bel cheese sized clay sculpture entitled "Good Sculpture", wall mounted headphones (not plugged into anything) entitled, " Good Sound Piece", and painting (see slide) entitled "Studio Painting".

I will require an installation room for this work because it is integral to the concept of the work that the viewer be in close and closed relationship with the work
The aforementioned elements presented in context of the white cube like installation room suggest a skeptical and equally idealistic narrative. The work, which appears as critique of the gallery constructs of meaning and initially seems cynical, ultimately reveals itself as humanist. The compression of space and the subsequent forced intimacy is necessary to solicit in the viewer an empathy with the objects, such that their relationality can be elucidated away from the already re-constructed gallery/artfair space of the open BFA show.

I will be creating an installation of four elements representative of the taxonomy of contemporary art practice; a photo piece, a sculpture, a sound piece and a painting. Individually the pieces address the viewer's expectation and curiosity by alternately soliciting interest and denying the desire for meaning. Relationally the pieces address the sense of bewildered, ecstatic ambivalence inherent in availability of everything.

(this post has been edited, the proposal has been improved, the discourse surrounding the work has advanced)

Right....

2006-11-17T08:07:00.000-08:00

We do everything. And Nothing. Art about nothing may actually be (/about) more than nothing. (I hold this belief firmly and tightly, like someone/everyone I love and am not willing to let go of). Art about everything often ends up being about nothing. That's o.k. The other day I did stuff that wasn't art. It was really good (art). I hold my parenthesis and my punctuation very firmly. For it functions. Let's keep it going. We don't have any thing to push against (the world is wide open and ours when we leave every option open [like we do]), which means we should be careful not push against eachother. I thought your open letter was lovely and poetic (by the way). I'm in Ireland right now.

Love,

Patrick Rios
President and Co-Founder of:
CIARD
(and every other thing in the world)

P.S. This blog alows the author of a post to edit it. Said author can either edit it, not edit, or do whatever said author wants.

wheres charliestache?

2006-11-16T21:46:00.000-08:00

always trying to flesh out exactly what we do.

2006-11-16T20:36:00.000-08:00

this is the second to last paragraph in a short piece about "concrete warriors" in relation to ciard. The paper is only a month old, there are piles and piles of this kind of material dating back a few years now. This passage is some kind of explaination of what we do.

-The group is a serious and prolific fake organization which releases a barrage of media through the Internet and at live gatherings. Currently there are six to ten active participants in the endeavor, ranging from artists to writers to musicians, we shed medium and then talk ourselves back into the clothing. I have written far more about CIARD than anything else in the last few years. Its dense and not the point of this particular piece but to sum it up, the creative mind will always be the clandestine incumbent within any social ordering.

the paper was signed...

-Geoffrey Carr
president/cofounder CIARD.

moving on.

2006-11-16T20:28:00.000-08:00

richard tuttle at the mca!!!!!!!!!!

its really worth it if your in chicago. if it wasnt free, it would be worth it.

we danced our selves out of the womb.

2006-11-16T20:18:00.000-08:00

as a published response to a private post by patrick... and another open letter to all who post here.

i would like to prelude this with the the statement that i am conscious of the fact that the post "this is all happening so fast (nov 13, ciardhq)" was the catalyst for the most recent collective tangent that we are taking.

that having been said... i am not sorry for my words or anyone elses which have made thier way into this dialogue... nor should anyone else be.

the post was an open letter to no one in particular, or anyone who would listen to another art and text rant about life, just life. (while some of you took this to mean one thing... which i will not harp on... another friend of mine, otherwise unrelated to the institute took this to mean that i had a new love interest myself. always say what you mean, but whenever possible think before you speak.)

the danger, as i see it, is letting one (exceptionally ambiguous) issue/ post take over the conversation, especially on such a volatile issue which could very easily become degrative to our personal relationships and interaction, and especially in specific implications of individuals relating to previous posts which (believe it or not) may or may not be addressing said individuals in specific.

CIARD hq was originally in reference to the CIARD Lexington ave dorms. it was to be a conduit between chicago and Ireland... the intended members to be geoffrey, patrick and charlie (sub-lesee and comrade).

i saw in this blog the opportunity to share ideas between a larger group of close friends, colleagues, artists musicians etc. without being precious or self conscious as to what we posted. i sent out invitations to the usual round up and we were off (zoom) in september/ early october. suffice to say, we have gotten grossly off topic several times to date, but will inevitably always come back around to our collective vision(s).

today i believe CIARD hq is meant to be a dialogue carrying out what i see as one of the fundemental aspects of our workflow and unofficial missions... "everything we do is art". to break down our own realities, deconstruct if you will, to the point that we can relate it to our lives and work... in both a pragmatic and more etheral sense.

the blog is about our lives as much as the work of the institute... because eventually the events unfolding in our lives will become the work of the institute (as a general rule, through incorporation not conformation).

i really want people to do what they want, without taking into account what anyone else thinks... the assumption being that the ideas wrapped into "do what you want, or do what i tell you" and "everything we do is art" come along with the realization that we all should be living consciously, justifying our otherwise arbitrary actions or reflections through either the ends, the means or some combination thereof. art about nothing is nothing.

as far as i know (and i could be completely off base with this) i am the only one who has the power to edit this blog... which i havn't... in spite of my personal taste as to what is relevant or not. comments are a different story

anonymous posting is ok. i set the blog up to allow anyone to post (comments), whether or not they have a blogger account. deleted posts and comments are less ok. we are all friends here and you will be forgiven for whatever you were feeling at the time.

Pay attn

2006-11-16T05:36:00.000-08:00

Me and all my friends do what we want, and we're conscious and invested, and therefore we achieve auto-growth easily and lots of people love us, and because of all of this we are free as fuck, and therefore very dangerous and powerful.

Global Warming Initiative

2006-11-15T12:14:00.000-08:00

So contrary to popular belief of large industry and some politicians, global warming is happening. I say SWEET! Bring it on. Price and Rind (1994a) showed that with each 1 degree C global temperature increase, there is a 5-6% increase in the incidence of lightning. So... I say, go buy a McDonald hamburger of fantastic Brazilian beef, arguably one of the leading causes of Global Warming. I just did, it was absolutely disgusting, but I feel that I have at least cut down one rainforest tree, so I am doing my part. Drive you car emitting as much CO2 as possible, buy unrecyled paper, go outside and empty an entire aerosol can (look for a no CFCs label, if its there, don't buy it!) 60 degrees in January with thunderstorms, sounds lovely. Loose Florida, let it wash away. More hurricanes Ohio yeah. The planet will go extinct, but we know how to engineer, well get over it. The human race is relatively resilient. We can just go find a new planet. So support global warming! It will make the human species the best on the planet!

Everyone knows I'm an asshole.

2006-11-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

It's true. Mine was a pointed statement of emotive conjuring.

Woah.

2006-11-15T06:11:00.000-08:00

the Institute.

WAVES!!!!!!

2006-11-15T01:19:00.000-08:00

there was a wierd Magnetic-Field anomoly at about 7:30 this evening, you should check it out. there are massive waves continuously passing through us. everything propagates as and is a wave. frequencies give us shape, light, and sound... apriciate the glory of a wave

Eric
Atmospheric Physics specialist

there is no "this" situation.

2006-11-14T18:06:00.000-08:00

my post was an open letter to everyone i know.

this is all happening so fast.

2006-11-13T10:24:00.000-08:00

Dear Everyone I Know,

Love is a strong word.

Very fond of, but we have only known each other for _______ (insert some time frame here... for most of you less than a square month) and I think we should wait before I profess my supreme adoration/ make plans to fly to the sun together.

Geoff.

ps it might have been easier to keep a level head because im not sleeping with you, Everyone I Know.

Giant Monsters Kill Robots!!!!!!!!!!

2006-11-11T14:59:00.000-08:00

So Giant Monsters are going to be our only savior from the robots, who will inexplicably kill us. We must befriend these giant monsters, and we will win the human robot war. These giant monsters will have big claws and crusty eyes. Undoubtedly they will probably get bored after they kill all the robots and go after the humans, but well ship them off to the sun after they do in almost all of the robots. These robots are vicious, with laser beam eyes and long wave hair that's always flowing in the wind. They stun you with there good looks and blow your head up with their eyes... Its kindof like medusa.

making easels

2006-11-11T14:33:00.000-08:00

original packaging

construction

grand entrance

parts of pieces of people.

2006-11-07T15:24:00.000-08:00

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popop is playing with Maribelle and Geoff Farina of karate, this sunday nov 12 at The House Cafe in dekalb. 7pm... be there... you know you should. also, on thursday (as in the 9th) we will be playing at the spring st house with The Sump Pumps and Prizzy Prizzy Please. i think the show starts at 6 and is going to be an early one due to weeknight sound constraints.

self portrait w/moon and stars...or , nefarious individual w/sunglasses w/henchman w/moon and stars.

charcoal on beer case,
masking tape,
paper scraps,
wood grain,
lint roller adhesive s
parts of pieces of people with roomate

london etc 2

2006-11-07T04:41:00.000-08:00

also swayze is huge in london. HUGE. this last one is "chip-fork snake"
love,

london etc

2006-11-07T04:32:00.000-08:00

i found the perfect place for us to play, it's called the 12 bar club. you cant tell from the picture included (the tea and toast band) but its a charming dive with classic mod colors (orange and black) on the wall annoying graffiti on the bathroom and a cctv camera so you can watch the band from the bar. it is also incredibly small.

"wanna buy some taffy apples?"

2006-11-06T16:44:00.000-08:00

"well i didn't, little girl, until you asked me that delightful question."

I think it may have been an exploited child wrapped up in some hustle. i gave her my phone number so that she could contact me about about the goods when they became available. she assured me she would come and find me if all else failed.

I'm certain my contact information has been sold and is now in the clutches of some information company somewhere... market research. here is a demographic that loves taffy apples so much that they're apt to paying strange children up front for delivery at a later date.

she had the sign up sheet... but then again she was a ten year old wandering around in the hood trying to sell taffy apples.

well jokes on them all... i don't even like taffy apples that much. could use that $2, though.

The next person she hit after she took my two bucks was the DHL delivery driver, and then a man standing at the end of the alley, mumbling and then every other person in her path as she moved down the street. I did notice that no one else that she solicited seemed to be in the mood for taffy apples.

ready for the weather

2006-11-05T21:19:00.000-08:00

The Sprites and Elves are coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ionosphere and the surface of the earth create a giant capacitor that stores an electrical charge. This system holds a conservation of charge and during fair weather, the current flows from the ionosphere to the ground, and during thunderstorms, the charge from the ground gets built up on the top of the thunderstorm, which sparks back to the ionosphere via phenomenon known as Red Sprites and Blue Jets. check them out, they are relatively new (discovered in 1990) and are huge electrical discharges that span distances of over 60km. They deliver tens of coulombs of charge via many unknown mechanisms. one of the leading theories is the runaway relatavistic electrons, where electrons above a certian energy threshold will continously gain momentum as they shoot through the field set up between the thunderstorm and the ionosphere. there are also gamma ray bursts quite like these sprites associated with thunderstorms, but the electrons in these bursts have far more energy and thus are not radiated in the visible spectrum, but produce high energy light that can be detected. so... thunderstorms are cool. by the way, the "blue notes" which are the minor 3rd and minor 7th sound best when they are bent... enjoy your lightning when you get it, and dont forget that relatavistic electrons expirience time much slower than we do.

Eric Oij
Atmospheric Physics Specialist

try and make out the words fuckers.... i still am.

2006-11-02T23:02:00.000-08:00

... but im getting close. maybe soon.
this is exactly the length of time that my cell phone records for. need to work with placement. hmmm.
voice message

here we go... found the page.

you know exactly what i mean mean by please make me feel good for once.
and the radio is playing on repeat all through the night (iron and wine).
"please remember me" and exactly what i mean.
i must have told some sort of lie when i promised not to fall asleep right here beside you.

i made a voice message to rememeber.

romp in one room (then the next).

2006-11-02T11:06:00.000-08:00

Doing things quietly to pass the time. Much purpose... little direction. Sorta chasing maude around with a studio lighting kit, sorta not... The bathtub is getting better... I made it wireless.
...Never did figure out how to use the jacuzzi.

I feel ____ about yesterday.

2006-11-01T11:10:00.000-08:00

pat,
sorry we used some of the CIARD smoothie materials.

this is starting to be not yesterday finally.

geoffs legs
charlie
ashley

Parts of Pieces of People.

2006-10-31T21:45:00.000-08:00

popop will be playing at the spring st. house in Naperville on thursday, november 9th with prizzy prizzy please and others.
11/09/2006 05:00 PM - 411 spring w/sump pumps, sass dragons & prizzy prizzy please!!!
411 w. spring st., naperville, IL 60540 - three dollars.

these are pictures from last weeks show in dekalb.

CIARD the .org.

2006-10-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

hello!
CIARD.ORG

soundlab 1 highlights? go to drop down menu/ research and discussion/ciard sponsored noises/ soundlab 1. pat, i need your songs or at least some way to tell which ones are keepers, and in what order you made them... or something. too many alternate versions. uh... but this will be here for a bit so you guys can hear soundlab since june? july?

i'm streamlining the site a bit... lot. nothing is getting removed (in fact its growing) but against my better judgement, and the original intent of the site, i'm making it a little easier to navigate.

tell me things about it... input on design/ content. also send me any ciard stuff any or you guys have that i dont.

geoff. president/cofounder

Trouvelot Astronomy and (not my) Acid Drawings

2006-10-26T10:08:00.000-07:00

Just somethings to pass the time and hopefully inspire:

Trouvelot Astronomy drawings

(click on the picture to see more)

Sequence of sketches made by an artist on acid during US Government acid tests in the 1950's

(click on the picture to see the entire sequence)

The above is after the 85th minute.

post.script. In regards to Charle's post: FUCKED
and you should have given me a call after you left the house. We could have pissed and drank all your cares away.

post.post.script. I'M HAPPY GEOFF IS NOT ON FIRE

epicly latered

2006-10-26T00:13:00.000-07:00

so tonight two (2) major things happend that made me realize life is fucked.

i joined a few of my old friends at an apartment in logan square, i didnt really want to go in the first place (drinking ect) but i went. now i have this friend (a really good friend) who has this girlfriend (who i feel represents everything, EVERYTHING, that is wrong in the world.) who decides to tell me that she has a speech tommrow. she says "we got to choose any topic we wanted." now thinking like i do (not always right) i felt like maybe it would be an ineresting topic that i can talk to her about. (now this is number one (1) on the things ) so i aske her what she chose. she says, (in her nice shrieky voice) "BUBBLES" hmm i say, and ask "well what sort of bubbles," (maybe its just me, but i think there are lots of different kinds of bubbles) and her reply is, "well, bubbles have only been around since the 17th century." (this is a real qoute, no joke.) so i again ask, "what type of bubbles, like soap and water or ect..." Yes she says, end conversation.

so being a little peived in the first place with her, i ignore her usual idiotic comments, until she says (now this is number two (2) so pay attention all you), "the black people in my class are so irritating, like o my god, this one kid didnt even know what a vegan was." now it could be just me (doubt it) but i dont think that being a vegan is very high up on a kids list while growing up in the ghetto (which she said he was from, not an assumption). so i ask her about why she thinks it would be important for him to know that and she states; "no like, you dont get it, like this kid cant even get over his own stuff to learn about other cultures." at this point i have a very blank stare (a "oh holy shit", if you will) and we have a very heated conversation about it, ending with me saying something along the lines "you cant even open your eyes enough to see that maybe what you and paris think are important may not be relivant in "real life."" after that it got awkward (did you ever notice that word looks what it means) i grabbed my wine, and left, but not without telling the girl i felt she was not very smart. and that she looked like a gap add.
my night,
charlie.

i wont get into it

2006-10-24T15:07:00.000-07:00

today is bad. bad bad bad. big fire. i am being evacuated. smells bad... sorta getting a headache. i need the facilities! but this is really the least of my problems. the sign reads "char broiled"

update: the lab was filling with fumes. we had to go. talked to Shaun today. studio project not finished due to procrastination/evacuation/bad exposures on chromes under bad lights with the stupid 4x5. anthropology of communication test tomarow still on... although i don't have the notes because of my lack of powerpoint and aforementioned evacuation...

but if this dosnt make you laugh (or weep at the loss of another sullivan design, not to mention one in chicagos old vice district, and landmark... you know, the old, ever empty, charhouse building). classes were canceled in two columbia buildings, none for me though.

so i was wondering when the next condo association meeting was.

2006-10-24T09:05:00.000-07:00

today i got to sleep in past 8 for the first time since sometime last week. woke up to patrick rios the senior on the phone at about 10. he told me i was just like pat sleeping so late all the time (in a niceish way).

last night
graham: "are you well or like a child wandering into the middle of a movie."
geoff:"jesus. affirmative to the latter."

trying to clean. instead of...
(longish list of "action words", mostly ironic, some very seriouse (in a cryptic ambiguous sort of way).

cunchy mcquoteables

2006-10-23T14:48:00.000-07:00

i saw these quotes posted around the art building today, all done by my graphics teacher.

"everything that i say is a quote" artist

"sorry no time for art today, im going for a walk" artist

"sorry no art today! im going to take a nap" artist

to which my proffesor replied,

2006-10-23T13:24:00.000-07:00

geoffrey,
best wishes.

(name of educator)
(list of acedemic tasks achieved in order of importance..."ranging from very berry super epicly important" to "nominally important, but be sure that you do worse every day."

dont sleep on lunestra (hope fully appropriate)

2006-10-20T00:59:00.000-07:00

so tonight i went to joliet for a drawing class, i met three kids there last week that were very cool. so i went to steak and shake with them again tonight, very interesting artists, and quite talented. but to the point, thats what you want.
one of the kids gave me lunestra (sleeping pill) and said not to fall asleep, and somethings will happen. so far hear is a time line of what is happening.

1:01 took lunestra

1:10 stood up, felt a little body buzz, a bit groggy, little stomach irritaion.

1:15 feeling more out of it, like no sleep for days, light or heavy headed, cant tell.

1:26 no to much happening, if anything (said it hits in 20-30 min)

1:27 got up, legs were weak, like drunk.

1:42 minmal visuals, movement, words shifting a little, nothing intense

1:59 definite visuals only in objects with patterns or repitition, like the colonial peice, word move up and down and side to side, rearrang kinda.

2:28 looked down at my sweater, and it appeard to be crawling.

3:00 nothing really, not even tired, maybe it will kick in again, but i dont know,

3:50 feeling a little sleep deprivation, causing objects to appear as if they are moving, cant really concentrate on words or typing, hopefully its getting more intense, my head feels heavy and same with my whole body.

so my reasearch shows me that, it does work a little, but may need to try more next time so see for sure, also shows that those damn drug companies are putting out sleeping pills that arnt going to make you fall asleep.

someone check me for doubles.

2006-10-19T09:27:00.000-07:00

noun
broken diaphram
hiccup
folicle
cloth flower
refreshment
stonewall... i mean, stone wall

parts of speech.

it's a CIARD Project, called: List Everything Here:

2006-10-19T07:19:00.000-07:00

LIST EVERYTHING HERE

we'll have an exhaustive list of everything there is.
and i'll paint it.
then we will have a visual inventory.

Update octobuary monteenth.

2006-10-16T11:01:00.001-07:00

so were going with CIARD.org this time. it should be up (probebly old version at first) by next week if everything is on schedual with payment... and anticipated technical diffuculties. ciard music will be able to share with less diffuculty and/or redundency.

fixing up packet for grant writer (of megna fame) this weekend (holy fucking school)... planning on ordering new stickers as well.

parts of pieces of people is playing on the 27th in dekalb. The show is supposed to start at 8:00 pm at Java 101,
901 Lucinda Ave, DeKalb, IL. Cost is free.

Model UN
POP OP
Maribelle

fox news at the immigration rally.
they must be cooking up some heartwarming human interest story again. you can tell by the look on his face.

"all you need is a little bit of booze and some stupid thing to do and it'll be a good night"

2006-10-15T11:45:00.000-07:00

quote tony bragg

enter, mattress surfing.
note the "oh shit, i am about to eat shit" form and technique right after the surfer loses the frisbee from underfoot.

"yo" "dude" "seriously"

2006-10-14T09:25:00.000-07:00

i bought a phone card. in the comments section tell me what time and day you want me to call you. (this applies to anyone) keep in mind the time zone im in is like 7 hours ahead of us central. (i think).

kitchen petters

2006-10-09T21:55:00.000-07:00

bottom to top
1)kitchen petters
2)feeble falcon
3)4th floor outreach
4)i ate a(n)
5)infinity sink

twenty minuts

2006-10-09T21:46:00.000-07:00

as in, talk like video games.

2006-10-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

remember whistling in the dark? you might not... if you have had your phone for long enough.

this is studio photography. or more open letters.

2006-10-04T20:56:00.000-07:00

my favorite plugins are mom and uke... but feel free apply your own settings. spelling is not an issue...ehem