As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about passive-aggressive notes:
Just found this via FFFound — it’s a note left on a graffiti-ed wall of a Lower East Side school:
Photo by GammaBlog on Flickr
It’s a little hard to read b/c it’s on a bit of an angle, but it’s remarkably frank, kind and uncompromising.
Oh man! this site is hilarious! Like a Found Magazine, but exclusively for contextualized passive-aggressive notes.
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
As a tribute (and because I can’t actually submit it since I don’t have a picture of it), I will now recite the text of a note we found while rehearsing at an artists’ space on 54th and 12th last week. For posterity.
We found this 3 page note above a paint sink in a space operated by chasama in nyc (thanks to Sara for copying this down and to Rachel for also appreciating how funny this is):
ahem. :
I don’t know where all that sludge came from, but it never should have gone anywhere near the sink!! I’m also disappointed that whoever did this assumed that no one else would need the sink and therefore did not clean up their own mess!!
If you are going to create a mess like that in the building, you are responsible for getting it out of the building without using the plumbing we all depend on. The moral of the story:
Things not to deposit in the sink:
- Sludge (this covers a lot)
- Cement
- Nasty Mop Water
- and the all-encompassing ET CETERA
use your brain!
We were rehearsing ‘The Terrible Temptation to Do Good‘ there at the time and tried desparately to work that entire tirade into the performance, but all we managed to work in was ‘Use Your Brain!’ I consider that a bit of a failure on our part. It still stings…
Next time, maybe?
I got an iPhone yesterday morning.
Now my conversion to the dark side is complete.
Ok. One more of these then I’ll quit I swear:
As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
#1? The Magniscribe Pen, where the woman is ‘calling now’ to order the pen she so desperately needs USING one of the pens? Classic.
And I’m not sure this is real or not, but check out the reviews page for #2: My Lil Reminder — a voice recorder/reminder system. Click here and do a search for ‘Bob of Ohio’.
I was up in Williamstown over the weekend and had a chance to visit Mass MoCA (which is always amazing, I find). I addition to the Anselm Kiefer and Jenny Holzer exhibits, which I had seen before, I was captivated by the new Badlands exhibit.
There’s something timely about the examination of post-industrial landscape — what with all of the strange spin stories the NYT has been printing lately about India and China trekking through the adolesence of their own industrial revolutions.
In the wake of our own industrial age — when it seems like we have mainly adapted to becoming consumers — it’s not clear what happens to the industrial refuse that has been accumulating: mills from the early 20th century; bomb shelters from the Cold War; factories built in the heyday of the US auto industry, etc. Is this the slow decline of our landscape into the industrial overload of Blade Runner? Or the vacant obliteration of landscape a la Mad Max?
That’s obviously a little melodramatic. But seriously. What do we do with all of this stuff? (besides re-claim it the way Mass MoCA did…)
Of Note:
Post Script: After mulling over all of that I came across Kim Stringfellow’s book Greetings from the Salton Sea in the shop downstairs. Strangely enough, even though I’m from CA, I’d never heard of the Salton Sea. The book takes a hard look at how we’ve basically created and destroyed an ecosystem in southeastern California. And painful though they are to look at, the images of a shattered landscape are stunning.
Not sure what to do with all of this, but there are some really interesting ideas in here.