joseph...so good!
i so second jerome's initiative and worry not whether it is letter for letter.
i guess i don't need to reiterate that i love all ideas and want a terrible mess of content!
(well i don't really love ALL ideas but all ideas realized are something-something...right?)
quite frankly we could begin to post these lovely dialogues (maybe not including my stupid interruptions) in a bbs style on the site...and already we have the start of process as product in keeping with the early thing.
and why not co-opt history, tongue-in-cheek, to inform the style of our methods today?
cheers, arfus
On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Joseph Nechvatal wrote:
number one, MoMA still has the box of ephemera (flyers, disks,
posters,
press releases, the classic thing baseball cap, etc.) that was
given to
barbara london about ten years ago (...)
Well, this should be returned ASAP!
number two, jerome joy, who runs the audio lab at villa arson in
nice,
started collecting snippets of history on the web and on mailing
lists
and put a web site together: A brief history of The Thing - '91 to
'07
http://thing.nujus.net/index.php?page=The+Thing+History (this was a spontaneous individual initiative, so kudos to jerome!) it's by no means a comprehensive history, but an excellent starting point. and as if anticipating this discussion, jerome installed a
wiki
for the collection of more material which - as i understand it -
now is
open to everyone to contribute. maybe jerome can say something more about this: http://thing.nujus.net/
This is a joy to discover!! Needs to come out of the shadows, I think.
Jerome, if you write (edit) a condensed version of this I will create a Wikipedia page from what you send me. Unless there is resistance to this idea. Of course this can be amended at any point.
gunther reisinger also took three large containers of documents
from our
filing cabinets and had them scanned and put into an on-line
archive.
unfortunately the reproductions are so small that they are virtually useless. i also would have liked to be involved in the
prioritization
and contextualization of the material (as far as i know, this was
done
by a young intern); at the moment i cannot make heads nor tails
from it:
A cruel joke. I just look a look - well not even a look as the images are ANTI RETINAL! This perhaps should be taken off the net and the material returned for a proper treatment (someday).
I still think giving everything to a professional or university archive could/would mend all the blows against the empire and restore TT's sense of dignity.
Joseph
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