Monday, February 11, 2008

See, you try to do something nice for people...

So there I was, at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, positively laughing my ass off, when it dawned on me - this is going to be on YouTube! I will share this with Pickle Nation. We can share something other than Barack Obama.

But it's not. I won't. No we can't.

But I'm still going to tell you what was so damn funny, and maybe you can find it yourselves online (in which case I hope you will have the decency to post a comment), or, for those of you in the Boston area, you can make your way to the end of the earth yourself and check it out.

1) Cezary Bodzianowski. Dude has a rollerblade on one hand and another one on one foot, and he's inside a slowly rotating concrete cylinder. It's funny, then you're over it, then it's funnier than it was before. And so on and so forth.

2) Christian Jankowski. "The Hunt." Man vows only to eat what he can hunt with a bow and arrow, then goes to the supermarket and hilarity ensues.

3) Rachel Perry Welty. Karaoke Wrong Number. It's Karaoke, but with wrong numbers.

4) Andrea Fraser. Frank and his Little Carp. Um, it's porn. Frank is Frank Gehry. His little carp is the Guggenheim Bilbao or his little carp, depending who you ask.

Honestly, I'm sorry I can't link to them - Internet Seriously Letting Me Down Alert. I mean, not one of them! As far as I can tell, Andrea Fraser's art is all about knocking pretensiousness. Hey Andrea, YouTube is exposing you! You're like John McCain (sorry) - it's so much worse because you promised us you were different. But anyway, they are all brilliant, and if you can check out the ICA, you will be rewarded.

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