Auxillary Capillary Blog Squad #1 : CHALK
I looked all over for calcium carbonate once, to make milk paint. Turns out it’s chalk. What’s good about chalk?
-Armed with chalk, urban renegades can make all the statements they want, on streets and walls, without indelible illegal implications. My neighbor can sometimes be spied drawing intricate designs on downtown sidewalks. Late night sneakiness, no criminal consequences.
-Buildings painted black by bizarre landlords turn into instant chalkboards. White chalk on black walls. What an opportunity!
-Some Saturday evening in April, the streets are swarming with kids and parents and town-people. The cops pass out buckets of chalk to bystanders, and the kids converge in the middle of the street. Before the parade is almost as good as the parade itself. Anything in the street that’s not cars.
March 18th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
amber!
using the black houses as chalkboards is BRILLIANT!
SUCH POSSIBILITY!
bsquad UP!
~robert
March 23rd, 2005 at 5:51 pm
I’ve heard of that night in April. I really like things people make that disappear, it really makes it clear that it is all just for the fun, just for the experience. It can be kind of intense though, like when all that magic and fun is happening, and you see all the amazing children, and their hot moms, that you get crushes on, and you smell the blossoms and the other smells, and your heart wells in the warm spring air, with love and possibility, and time on this planet seems so short and fleeting, almost desperate, sad, even if you can manage to relax and just accept your lonely situation, and you can’t find any of your friends, and people are having so much fun everywhere, everywhere without you, and there’s so many couples, holding hands, and soon it’s time to go to work…
So,
therefore,
I’m also into sheer empty profit. Rooms and rooms of sheer cash and possions, never used. I would like to sit one a huge hill of gold, and maybe only occasionally spend one tiny piece, for a burrito or something. I like entire storage spaces of potential lives to be led, mix tapes of imaged good times that could possibly be had some day.. ‘I’m not a person but I play one on tv, or watch one’. Just think of all the fun you might have someday, when you’re sitting in your house doing nothing, on your wooden floor, with your safe inanament objects, that you never get crushes on, and that rarely go away from you.. Think of how good it could be, while you’re sitting there, safe, and nice..
Small is the new big, again. I swear.