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This picture is 1% of an exhibition. It shows "Beethoven in raptus in front of a nobleman. The horse. The lamp." Beethoven has just got very angry and his outburst ("raptus") is strong. The reason is that a nobleman asked him "if he knew the violin". To say something like that to the great Beethoven was just too much for the genius. In his raptus he left and walked away from the castle in heavy rain. The horse seen in the drawing is Beethoven's horse, a gift from another nobleman. He wasn't too fond of that horse as he had to feed it which was expensive. Only twice he used the horse for riding. The lamp is a lamp for blind. It was a revenge joke from another composer that had been insulted by Beethoven. He succeded in making Beethoven believe that it really existed a special lamp that could be seen by the blinds.
Is this information interesting or important? We just don't know. Think about it.
"Bearing in mind my motto: "Ludo ergo Sum" I would hereby suggest a giant Ludo-board built in the colours of the flag, i.e. all fields green played, of course, with green pieces. It could be painted directly on the shore, or maybe built on a platform to better elevate the noble game. And yes, maybe there should be a minstry to administrate the game and the unavoidable championships that will arise."
I am convinced that Mr Dørum is referring to the famous novel by Herman Hesse Das Glasperlenspiel (1943) and the game played there by the twelve Ludo Masters.
Bras are an artistic material, no doubt. In this very interesting story we can follow a desperate artist trying to get enough bras to form the ball of bras before the idea is made by someone else. And if you have many bras lying around you can help her:
In late October 2000 I responded to a news item that a male artist was looking for a home for his large Bra collection. I have done artwork about female body image and gender issues for years and immediately jumped at the chance to have the collection. I called him and we spoke for about an hour. During our conversation I proposed my idea, a giant Bra Ball made of the thousands of bras wrapped around each other; like a huge rubberband ball. I followed this conversation up with a formal proposal letter. I discussed my idea with him at length. We met and discussed it further. He told me there were some other groups making proposals for the bras but that he liked my idea best and was probably going to give them to me. In December, I went up to his house to discuss logistics and see how many boxes of bras there were etc. After that meeting I wrote him a detailed plan of what how and when we could transfer the bras from him to me and other information about my plans for the Bra Ball, possible exhibition sites etc. He phoned me a week later to say that not only has he decided not to give me the bras but now he's going to make my Bra Ball himself. He promised to give me "credit" for the idea but when pressed couldn't tell me exactly what that means. I sent copies of all my documentation to the reporter of that original news item and she ran a piece about our dispute in the Chronicle (titled Underwear Undercurrents):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/10/D
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I have just been informed by my attorney that the other artist has also retained counsel and is claiming that I cannot hold a copyright on the concept or sketch of a sculpture. The only way I can keep him from stealing my design is to make a full sized, permanent BraBall immediately. The other artist has over 20,000 bras in his posession (that collection is what started this whole mess) and he claims to be planning on making "his" BraBall. I need bras ASAP. I'm asking everyone I know to please send as many bras (any size,color, condition) as you can to:
Emily Duffy - Fine Artist
P.O. Box 1555
El Cerrito, CA 94530
mondrianmobile@hotmail.com
If you can send five or more bras I'll send you an original linoleum block print from my collection of Everyday Women's Icons. Please tell all your female friends/co-workers etc. about this and ask them to do the same. Thanks so much for your help with this unusual request. I can't tell you how violating it feels to have this man steal my idea for an art piece about female body image.
Sincerely,
Emily
MIR WIN FALL? MIR falling off shores of our Ladonia's Antarctic Colony Claim at Midnight CST. Does this entitle us to Claim $200,000,000 for environmental damages? The Russians did take out an insurance policy in that amount. If so, how do we split the recovery fees should it wind up on our shores? Or is this only if it hits the Colony directly?
HIE FROM A CITIZEN
I think it is important to show the small messages that we do receive from our citizens:
"Hello there!
i just wanted to cheer you guys!
Ever since i've heard of Ladonia i could only see that it is developing! Congratulations, it's very good to know that i belong to a growing nation just keep it up.
Andrew from Romania"