Self-expression with cork and tacks.
(PHOTO: Cork Board, Brooklyn Heights, 2003)
The cork board was the original tumblr blog. With stuck tacks, and that cheapo cardboard edge, it was a perfect platform to conspicuously announce who you were as a person.
In today’s culture, we are often described more by what we ‘like’, rather than what we do, think or fight for. Modern blogging can be a veritable TOP TEN of slightly ironic, slightly pretentious pop culture references, uninvited blips of ego-centric wisdom and possibly a Polaroid of a cleverly poised girl with her bare tits out. Arty, emo elements, noir-ish lighting and a leftist political caption create the perception of art over pornography.
Contents of my ego and self-identity, via 2003:
1. Rousseau postcard.
2. Cardboard coaster from the Bulldog, Amsterdam.
3. Photo of Jack Kerouac + Neal Cassady.
4. Flyer featuring Lawrence Ferlinghetti dressed as a catholic archbishop.
5. Greeting card featuring Benjamin Braddock of the Graduate, 1967.
6. Obituary from NY Magazine for Timothy the Tortoise, who died at 104.
7. Krissy + Dana re-connecting over Southern Comfort.
8. Guide to the Anne Frank House.
9. Postcard from Abraxas, Amsterdam.
10. Article on Afghani olympiad-hopefully who struggled against gender oprresion and was training for competition.
11. Guiness-Extra from a bed + breakfast in Dublin.
12. Flash card designed for the illiterate.
13. Photograph of Calie and I on a ferry near the Island of Stromboli, near Sicily. She’s look at me; I’m looking at an attractive French woman by the railing.
14. One ticket to the Van Gogh Musuem.
15. Postcard of Abbie Hoffman in trademark American flag-shirt.
16. Photograph of Dar Magreb, a Moroccan restaurant (doom!) on Sunset Blvd.
17. Photograph of my late Labrador Retriever, Sahara.
18. Photo of Tiffany + Krissy, stoned outside Carnegie Hall after the Tibetan Freedrom benefit.
