From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #133 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, May 29 2000 Volume 05 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Aliens Ate My Buick for $8.00 (one only) ["Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: Aliens Ate My Buick for $8.00 (one only) I was looking at Half.com and came across Aliens used for $8.00. If you use the link below you will get a $5.00 off coupon, so you will = only pay $3.00 plus about 1.50 shipping. Also, the link is from my = company's web page and your purchase commission will go to the National = Cancer Prevention Fund. http://www.commission-junction.com/track/track.dll?AID=3D167874&PID=3D298= 036&URL=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehalf%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Fwinpopup%3D%2Facc= ount%2Fcoupon%5Fpopup%2Ecfm%3Fpromotion%3DSAVE5%26ad%3D10052&SID=3D3778A1= 75A942A05282000164243 Anyone can use the coupon, only one will be able to get the CD. -Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:59:49 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: calendar project Thanks to everyone for voicing your concerns about the proposed Calendar contest prize. I've had a few letters personally from people who also think I shouldn't offer the Camera Club record as a prize since it's from my personal collection of Dolby stuff & it's hard to find. Your kindness and consideration are very sweet! But if you'll bear with me for one moment, I can explain my reasoning (I hope..!) I have this strange personal philosophy/instinct that carries over from my own artwork I think. I never really saw it clearly until after I'd taken my recent course in the history of African art and realized that the way I do my artwork, and my attitude toward it, follow along the lines of a traditional African aesthetic which relates to the concept of art as a spiritual force (which of course, points to any number of things in Jung's theories of a collective unconscious, but I won't get into that) Anyway, the aesthetic is to put your entire self into your work, and then give the work over to its purpose, so that it can live out its own 'life'. Only through the act of giving your work to be used in its own realm is it 'empowered' to fulfill the purpose of its existence, whatever that purpose may be. Anyway... though I didn't create the Camera Club record obviously, I still do feel very much the same way about it. It came into my possession as a complete coincidence while I was making a business transaction with a music shop in the DC area about two years ago... & though I ~love~ it & felt extremely fortunate to have gotten it, I sort of instinctively feel it would be equally good to send it off where I know it will be loved by others too & continue to serve its purpose. However, since so many have objected (and I really thank you for your thougthfulness toward me, and my seemingly addled brain :) - yet the fact still remains that I *did* offer it - I think the only thing to do would be to offer an alternate First Prize for best image for the calendar. Whether or not to have the Camera Club record or one of the other choices would then be up to the winner. In fact, I do have some things which are duplicates of themselves within my Dolby items - though they aren't recordings. I have an original April 28th 1984 Record Mirror music mag featuring Thomas in the article entitled "A Night in New York", including Thomas' first appearance at NYC's Radio City Music Hall (as seen on my web page) and an accompanying one from July 27th 1985 featuring Thomas and George Clinton (also on my page) Of recorded material I think the Camera Club record is the only actual 'rarity' I have to my name, so it was the first to spring to mind, though I have all year to locate more.. I hope this sounds more reasonable! Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #133 ***************************