I grew up in the same house my dad grew up in, and a large part of my toddlerhood was spent rolling around on this awful mint green shag carpet that my dad had also rolled around on, and it was absolutely disgusting by the time we ripped it out. When I think of suburban living rooms that’s where I end up, that matted-down green shag. So when I was at Target looking for rugs for this piece I’m working on (that was due in to be installed yesterday morning – very sorry guys I’ll have it done by tomorrow), I found exactly the rug. Which was almost exactly the size of my platform stage thing, and almost exactly the color/fluff it would’ve been if it was new. Maybe too yellow? But still awesome. I hope I end up using it.

They are reorganizing the Target in my neck of the woods and as a result there are all these huge awkward gaps in the store and every time I am there I want to play Supermarket Sweep Art Installation in that I would have 30 minutes to run around with one of those scanner guns collecting materials (that the crew members could then deliver to the “site”) and 4-6 hours to build something magnificent in the gap. It keeps crossing my mind. I want to talk to management or sneak in after hours or something.

So awesome. I feel like such a freak standing there with my camera phone out while all the grandparents and soccer moms try to get around me.

If I were Target CEO I would get on it as of like last week. One of these big box chains needs to instate a residency so us artists stop trashing their names all the time and making art about consumerism in a bad light. It would cost little to no money, because none of the stuff we’d use would leave the store. It would boost the morale of the troops slugging through the retail warzone (so to speak). It would be fucking awesome.

You could apply to the company headquarters, and it would be a rolling application that you could go for multiple times, and once you got picked for it the people at HQ would set you up with the store in your area and they would do the rest. And at the end of the year there’d be a big something or other to showcase all the artists that got picked across the country.

This is probably why I got so hooked on the SITE design firm my freshman year at MICA. They hooked up with a chain of home improvement stores back in the 70s/80s and designed specific store fronts for different branches. And they were ALL amazing, backhanded, humorous, socially and environmentally conscious, wonderful. If I end up TAing next year, I’m doing a section on SITE.

Maybe my thesis should be sending letters of “Why you need to do this..” to various boards of directors.

This is old news, but I saw these guys in concert last weekend before/during the Great Shitshow, and it was very great. I was digging through the internet last night and I re-found this video and I wanted to put it out there.