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Re: Neo Goth
by stephenlauf, 2004.02.08 12:43
just remembering Batcaves
From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: pieces of Kabul on your coffee table?
Date: 2002.01.27 11:54
Rather than returning to the growing and exporting of opium, perhaps Afghanistan should begin globally marketing the millions of pieces of building debris that presently litter its cities and remote terrorist training sites. Of course, cave rocks would be the most expensive, er, I mean sought after. But, if rubble rocks are not appealing to worldwide consumers, maybe there are piles of pieces of Taliban destroyed Buddhist artworks throughout Afghanistan which could be tapped for sale in the global marketplace.
And, (in metabolic dreams only?) perhaps a whole new flowering of Chinese Art and Indian Art will arise with the forthcoming use of WTC steel as medium.
Last night I watched the movie After Hours, and I think I recognized the couch in the Soho artist's loft. In fact, I'm pretty sure I sat in that very couch a number of times. Ron, wasn't that the couch that Jim D. gave you? [Jim D. and I sat next to each other in fourth grade at St. Ambrose Catholic School (c.1966). We used to draw 'Batcaves' to entertain each other. Those long non-existent drawings were probably the first building sections I ever drew. Anyone interested in buying some 'Batcave' drawing reenactments?]
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for the record, Stilicho was half Vandal, half Roman, whereas Alaric was a Visigoth.
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