JTPP was completely packed as art fans from all over the world who were in town for the big international art fairs, The Armory, Scope, and Pulse and half a dozen smaller fairs, came over to Williamsburg for a special night of galleries staying open late. Some of the art fans drunkenly asked Cheen Pitney to make them a virtual Beer and Cheen came through! Cheen do you have a good pic of the beer? I was too far away from the screen and there were too many people in the way for me to see it, but you know, i thought… that was a good problem. There was a whole crowd watching and cheering on whoever was typing at the keyboard at sometimes and at other times the party continued around  while one person or another had an actual conversation with whoever was stading around in the BIW sim– which much of the time was Chugabug Goodnight, Kat2 Kit, and… Kat, who was your other companion there? Amsterdam somebody? SEE ALL THE PICS

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As I, your humble watcher, was exploring the many and myriad masses of art that grace our small land, I was able to make a contact out of my IM list and compel him to come down and look.  I was enjoying Khanaar Ingmann’s company and thoughtfully looking at a choice (as if there is bad art in there, I dont think so) bit of creativity, and it was then that I started hearing a rumbling car engine. This understandably piqued my interest, and I dismissed it to a soundbyte he was playing in my ear.

Oh to be so Naive again.

Ingmann, unknowingly to me, was a Second Life car dealer, and never travelled without his entire compliment of automobiles.

He had produced a Pontiac Firebird, of mid 1980’s vintage.

Needless to say, my beginners mind was not prepared for the uncanny sight of a random musclecar appearing out of nowhere. This quickly gave way to my common sense of practicality, and I took a seat. He drove us around the tower, and gave me the most enjoyable tour of the exhibit. As my mind was thinking this was impossible to top, He topped it.

He dropped a truck down, and one with a hover conversion kit ta boot. as you can see we ventured into a globe piece and hovered there. pondering the world.  One creation, inside another, inside another.  This was where I thought we would stop, again, Khanaar was the showman, and I his audience.

He takes the stage with his Monster Truck creation, and treats the stage as a stage, I watch my own personal Monster Truck ralley.  Thinking the show is over I grow bored, but his finale, was indeed larger than life.

Yes so large I blog 2 photos. He makes that fly as well.

I ask him to take me back to his place where we talk about his cars. “Here are 2 I had in real life” ,he says taking me to two rust speckled trucks. I can tell he has nothing but love and good memories of them. He later tells me about his choices of vehicles, and the lack of exotics. “I prefer common cars, the ones you see on the road everyday”

I respond, “Real cars?”.

“Yes” ,is his eloquent reply.

Thank You Khanaar!

Seddel Cougar

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Holger Bowman is among many artists who are using the space above the ground, would it be apropos to call this a flying leap? He grants us with a floating piece simply called HB’s Modern Art (2008) (02), and deceives us with an apparently simple looking static piece, however this installation is not merely static. The patient veiwer is rewarded with a kalidescope of color, swirling before thier eyes. Is this stating that despite our structure and in spite of the borders, change can still happen?

I revel more in the idea of it, than I do of it as a piece. I like it.

Seddel Cougar

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Selavy Oh created Tectonics II for us. Now as you ponder the art, you are also forced to ponder the very ground you step on.

I dont understand it, but as with anthing that confuses me, I like it. It just means that the punchline is gonna come later for me, and I get to take the laugh home and ponder on it.

Seddel Cougar

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Alright Podcast three is up! Click the link on the left or right here get it from iTunes– you can download the mp3 directly from this link

notes from this podcast:

Our third podcast is a little short dear listeners, and we would like to promise you a much improved podcast next week. We had a very good week for the BIW SIM and for the blog and lots to talk about in our next podcast which will be in a snappier format. This podcast features an interview of PatriciaAnne Daviau by the panda (in panda voice) Kat2 Kit, and also the chopped up remains of a panel discussion recorded under duress from an art fair on set-up day.. along with jay’s after the fact commentary on the same. Don was too busy manning Jack the Pelican’s booth at the Scope Art Fair this but if you miss him, you can go to the BIW sim on saturday night, because JTPP will be open late and packed with art-fair visitors who want to see what SL has to offer ’till 11pm eastern. Artists discussed include PatriciaAnne Daviau, DC Spensley (DanCoyote), Andres Watanabe, Kat2 Kit- .

ALSO– everyone read amy’s post about how next week’s podcast will be different

News Flash- its now available also on Blip TV

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Remember back to your junior high days and the nervous start of attending your first parties which included both boys and girls, when some asshole would inevitably suggest playing an absolutely horrible game called “Seven Minutes in Heaven?” You and a member of the opposite sex would get locked in someone’s mother’s coat closet, left to fumble uncomfortably and make awkward conversation, all while everyone else at the party stood outside and assumed you were having wild sex when you really weren’t. Well, “Brooklyn is Watching”’s new Three-Minute Rule is going to be just like that, without the implied sexual contact (probably) but with all the awkwardness and fumbling that comes with a group of people pondering aloud about a work of art…

So goes the PR bid for a new format for Brooklyn is Watching that I scribbled down and emailed to Jay earlier this week. My proposal is that, in order to make our podcast as jam-packed, informative, lively, and interesting as possible, we should impose the following rules:

Every week there should be a list made of all the new works of art on the sim.
Once the podcast starts, our team of “experts” goes around and talks about each of them, spending three-minutes (exactly! with, like, an egg timer or something going off in the back to enforce it!) on each piece.
Each “expert” gets the chance, once per podcast, to call for extra time (up to ten minutes) to talk about a certain piece that they feel strongly about. And of course, if the “expert” still doesn’t think the piece has received its due, they are encouraged to blog about the piece here and give it yet more attention.

I think the above will ensure that we get to cover more ground while at the same time giving works of art we really like the attention it deserves. What do you think?

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Well, I know you’ve all been waiting to see who would win the award for the most weird artwork of the week. There are so many lovely things on our sim right now, its been hard to keep up, but i’ve tried. For example the turd that was much talked about on podcast 2 and also the image of LePen with bonus hornage and boobage (thanks for explaining Ichibot) also much talked about on podcast 2, and several works by Mr. Touminen . Before i reveal (can’t you feel the drama?) who wins the award, have you ever heard this little artschool truism?

The difference between “huh……WOW!” and “WOW!- huh.”
this is something that art teachers say all the time– That there are works that make you go “huh…..” they seem unassuming, you’re not sure what you’re looking at, they don’t seem that impresive, then you get something and you say “WOW!” because they just blew your mind in some important and presumably lasting way (I’m not sure yet, but this one might be in that category because of what Cam said about the arbitrary scale of the Avatar– i really really really want to be able to make my avatar 2 inches tall if i want to now that i think about it– i mean really what’s stopping us?). Then there’s the work that goes “WOW…. huh.” (I propose that this might be the catagory of this work) -where it seems great at first but the more you think about it the more it really doesn’t seem to be saying anything really except making reference and doing a neat scripting trick.

SO, after much consideration the award must go to this work:

why? because it blew a fuse in my little too-much-art-school-trained-mind… this one, seriously seriously folks (do you want to disagree with me?)… is just Huh?
Award to ANDRES WANTANABE for the flying sheep, cow, thing with wings… and skies! and is that blood?!…..thing.

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