The Bob Newhart of art
Mar. 27th, 2006 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusIn my unreliable tours at the Whitney I seem to have turned into a cross between "droll" comedian Bob Newhart and an elevator bellboy.
On Sunday I made recordings of the cock-and-a-bull stories I tell in the museum, and I've slung them up here today in the form of a 30 minute mp3 file.
Unreliable Tour Guide (stereo mp3 file, 27.6MB, 30 minutes, a bit of a slow load, sorry. If you want to download the mp3, try the quicker YouSendIt version).
You can also read a third-party account of an encounter with the Tour Guide by New Yorker cartoonist (and tizzy-making beauty) Carolita Johnson, Momus Among Us, on Newyorkette. The New York Times covers the "Bob Newhart of new art" next Sunday.
Update: It seems I'm also on the Associated Press wires today.
On Sunday I made recordings of the cock-and-a-bull stories I tell in the museum, and I've slung them up here today in the form of a 30 minute mp3 file.
Unreliable Tour Guide (stereo mp3 file, 27.6MB, 30 minutes, a bit of a slow load, sorry. If you want to download the mp3, try the quicker YouSendIt version).
You can also read a third-party account of an encounter with the Tour Guide by New Yorker cartoonist (and tizzy-making beauty) Carolita Johnson, Momus Among Us, on Newyorkette. The New York Times covers the "Bob Newhart of new art" next Sunday.
Update: It seems I'm also on the Associated Press wires today.
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:31 am (UTC)cuffs
Date: 2006-03-27 05:44 am (UTC)Re: cuffs
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Date: 2006-03-27 06:20 am (UTC)Along those lines, the grip and color of your megaphone reminds me of this sinister thing:
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Date: 2006-03-27 07:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-03-27 08:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-27 03:04 pm (UTC)How much longer will you be unreliably guiding tours?
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Date: 2006-03-27 03:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-27 03:13 pm (UTC)"I'm sure it's your ultimate nightmare to be trapped in an elevator with a performance artist."
I know mine is.
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Date: 2006-03-27 04:41 pm (UTC)i suppose the t-shirt uniform would lessen confusion...although also lessen ninja-esque stealth. i do like you as a bellboy/paperboy street announcer though. charming.
perhaps you should aquire a Maywa Denki type suit:
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:07 pm (UTC)Maywa Denki would have been good too. And yes, I do swish in those fishmonger pants.
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:20 pm (UTC)Liked the Tati reference and I'd wonder what he'd think of new architecture these days.
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:31 pm (UTC)I actually considered making this an enhanced podcast (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=enhanced+podcast&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8), ie programming it to show the art I'm describing at the appropriate points if you play it back in iTunes. But I didn't have pictures of all the artwork, and the software needed to make enhanced podcasts just opened a scary terminal when I clicked on it, so I'm leaving that for a very rainy day.
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:48 pm (UTC)Nikki Sudden has died yesterday in NY.
http://www.secretlycanadian.com/news.php
Thought you might like to know.
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Date: 2006-03-27 06:18 pm (UTC)Momus/Eno Quote..
Date: 2006-03-28 10:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-28 06:55 pm (UTC)post-listening [at work]
Date: 2006-03-27 07:27 pm (UTC)xx
Re: post-listening [at work]
Date: 2006-03-27 07:29 pm (UTC)Re: post-listening [at work]
Date: 2006-03-27 07:49 pm (UTC)Re: post-listening [at work]
Date: 2006-03-27 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-27 08:08 pm (UTC)And SOMEday soon, I'm going to catch your current gig in person.
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Date: 2006-03-27 08:20 pm (UTC)You're on the AP today
Date: 2006-03-27 08:26 pm (UTC)Re: You're on the AP today
Date: 2006-03-27 08:40 pm (UTC)Ha, it sounds like I'm nude apart from stockings and a patch! We call them braces in Europe...
So does this mean I'm in every single paper in the world today (wearing suspenders)?
Re: You're on the AP today
Date: 2006-03-27 08:45 pm (UTC)Re: You're on the AP today
Date: 2006-03-27 09:44 pm (UTC)Re: You're on the AP today
Date: 2006-03-27 08:56 pm (UTC)i double dog dare you to try it for a day.
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Date: 2006-03-27 08:58 pm (UTC)Re: You're on the AP today
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Date: 2006-03-27 09:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-03-27 10:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-28 01:58 pm (UTC)"Upon hearing his reply, she booms into the megaphone, "I am Momus!" One by one the other children in the group also step up to claim their identity as Momus, as the man himself just smiles with satisfaction."
Brilliant! Corrupting the children is always a good thing. They will no doubt remember their visit to the Whitney longer than any adult who attended.
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Date: 2006-03-28 03:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-28 06:29 pm (UTC)I really wish I could go, but this almost makes up for it. I was sitting in art class yesterday making watercolor paintings with my headphones on and everyone must have thought i was loopy cos i kept cracking up.
Mach Shau!