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September 11, 2008

The “Martha Stewart Everyday” Campaign

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I found this ad in a women’s magazine this past winter – it’s so good I had to throw it up finally. I guess this series of ads is supposed to appeal to the ever growing schizophrenic housewife market.

The New Martha Stewart Everyday Campaign

Posted by email from marc horowitz’s posterous

Tags: campaign, everyday, housewife, market, martha stewart, schizophrenic.

Filed under 001 Imagination, intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 11th, 2008. Comment. #

September 10, 2008

Today’s Question on TCFIL blog!

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As some of you know, nearly everyday The Center for Improved Living (TCFIL) will post a new question. All you have to do is participate and see where it takes you. Complete any question at anytime.

Just click on the link below to answer the question:

Today’s Question – What was the thing you had too much of?

and click here to subscribe to the feed so you get the question everyday!

The Center for Improved Living is a silly organization.

 

 

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Filed under intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 10th, 2008. Comment. #

Introducing The Wishing Space Project

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We all have wishes – big and small, be it things we’d like to own, people we’d like to meet, things we would’ve done differently, hope for global change, desire for the perfect mate, or simply a cold soda on a hot day.

This project is dedicated to you and your wishes. Simply COMMENT TO THIS POST answering the following questions:

1) State your name (first name only is fine)

2) Where you’re from

3) And what you wish for!

My plan is to broadcast your wishes into outer space. Once there are a few hundred, I would make a recording of me reading them all. For example, Josh from Bakersfield, California wishes he had a 2000 foot slip and slide going from his home to his school. Nancy from Cleveland, Ohio wishes for President Bush to fall in a gigantic hole and never come out. Bob from Portland, Oregon wishes he’d never given up on his high school sweetheart. And on, and on.

I would then give the recording to someone like Sent Forever who would broadcast the recording into the furthest reaches of space.

Additionally on a more earthly level, I’m going to go to The Grove here in LA and read all your wishes through a megaphone

wishes_to_space

I really don’t know what this image is, but it seems like the perfect “wishes in space” gif

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Tags: aliens, collective, consciousness, outerspace, project, SETI, space, universe, wishes, wishing, you.

Filed under 016 Wishing Space Project, intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 10th, 2008. 4 Comments. #

September 9, 2008

Errand Feasibility Study

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Errand Feasibility Study

Studying errands is no small task. Everyday people are faced with the necessary errands – grocery lists need to be checked, tires need more pressure, credit cards need to be paid, new phones need to be acquired, broken things need to be fixed, dogs need their vitamins, sailboats need a specific polish, gifts need to be purchased, and everyone needs new underwear.

Common problems that can occur while fulfilling errands include: loneliness and alienation, boredom, impatience, anxiety, frustration, lethargy, hunger, flatulence, humming a Neil Diamond song, encountering stinky children, head bumps, and thoughtlessness.

In an effort to solve some of the aforementioned problems and create new and exciting ways of running errands, I have designed a two-part feasibility study:

Phase I: Running errands with others
Phase II: Running errands on a pack mule

Phase I: I run errands with strangers. I offer advice on which brand of cereal to buy, help folks fold laundry, determine the best quote on auto body repair.

Phase II: I do the same thing as Phase I, but now I’m on a donkey.

My studies determine that, if one desires to be spiritually fullfilled, errands need to be more than just a menial task. This can be achieved in many ways: go on your errands with another person, or in a group, wear some silly shades and a wig while doing your errands, walk backwards through the store, carry a really big boom box playing your favorite music, dress-up in a tux to go to Walgreens, if you don’t take the bus, take the bus to do your errands.

Go out and start an errand support group in your neighborhood or initiate group bill-paying sessions. The possibilities to make errands more communal and more appealing are endless.

Errand Feasibility Study
Errand Feasibility Study

This is a project I did a bit back, but it’s such a classic, I had to “re-release it”
Click here to read the San Francisco Chronicle Story

Tags: , 005 Errand Feasibility Study, art, bank, boring, dry cleaning, errand, errands, farts, flatulence, grocery, laundry, lethargy, pack mule, project, san francisco, sfai, shopping, trader joes.

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September 7, 2008

Fun with Shaving Cream!

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Fun with Shaving Cream

I covered myself in shaving cream, then removed it with a vacuum in reverse suck mode.

Fun with Shaving Cream

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(from the ineedtostopsoon.com archives)

Tags: AIR, art, carl djerassi, fun, marc horowitz, shaving cream, vacuum.

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Sweetums having intercourse with a pegasus!

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pegasus Sweetums Sweetums having intercourse with a pegasus, originally uploaded by marchorowitz.

This is definitely next level topiary gardening!!

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Tags: bush, gas station, intercourse, love making, pegasus, sculpting, sex, sweetums, topiary gardening.

Filed under 001 Imagination, Amazing Finds, intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 7th, 2008. Comment. #

September 5, 2008

Some select projects and work of mine

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Since this blog is so extensive and could be daunting to navigate, I thought I’d put together a little presentation of some of the stuff I’ve done over the past couple years. I put it up on flickr – http://flickr.com/photos/marchorowitz/sets/72157607131251326/

Here’s a sample page:

marc horowitz select work_Page_17

Enjoy!  Let me know what you think!

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Tags: , art, arte, marc horowitz, Projects, select, works.

Filed under 001 Imagination, Everything Else, intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 5th, 2008. Comment. #

Hi (Neil Young)

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Hi (Neil Young)

The Short: I spelled “Hi” on the side of a hill using white plastic lawn chairs. Neil Young is next door and I’m hoping he’ll see it and come over!

The Long: I’ve accepted a month-long artist-in-residence program in the sticks. The location is strategically positioned in the middle of nowhere on Dr. Carl Djerassi’s ranch.  I am one of eight artists here and it feels like I’m on reality television. I find myself constantly looking for hidden cameras.

If this were a reality show, here’s how I’d pitch it:

Camp Djerassi

Thirty days… eight artists… desolate ranch.

What will happen?  Will Cupid find a victim? Will the sculptor be
medivaced out due to a chop-saw blunder? Will food allergies get
the best of the sensitive writer?  Will the painter lose her brushes in a poker game?  Will someone kill the custodians?

Tune into Artist Reality Television (ART) Every Thursday at 7:00pm.

In real reality, Dr. Djerassi is responsible for inventing the birth control pill and is very, very rich as a result. So rich he can pay for all us slacker artists to be out here for a month.

Communication with the rest of the world is pretty limited up here. As a "media artist"; I’m equipped with a dial-up connection and a pay phone. The only other contact with the outside world is through a consumer telescope, which gives me a perfect view of Neil Young’s living room. 

I tried going over to his place to say hello, but the walls were too high and the guards wouldn’t let me pass.  Now I’m forced to say “hey, I’m new in town, come over for some coffee sometime” in a different way. So, I arranged 50 white plastic lawn chairs on the side of a hill that faced Neil’s property to spell out the word “Hi”.  It’s like a more updated version of the smoke signal. 

Neil hasn’t responded, but I’m keeping an eye out. Maybe he’ll tell me something, entirely spelled out in old LPs on one of his hills. 

Oh well, Neil is probably really boring anyhow.

Hi (Neil Young)

Hi (Neil Young)

(from the ineedtostopsoon.com archives)

Tags: 006 Hi, AIR, artists in residence, carl djerassi, chairs, music, neil young, plastic lawn chairs, santa cruz.

Filed under 006 Hi, intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 5th, 2008. 1 Comment. #

Three Questions!

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On my journey from Coast to Coast for the Signature Series, I put Americans on the hot seat and asked them three questions!

From Crackle: Signature Series, Ep 19: Three Questions

Only one more episode to go!!!

Tags: americans, answers, crackle.com, horowitz, marc, questions, series, signature, travel.

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Some of the first twitter drawings…

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twitter drawing #3 - applause backpack twitter drawing #2 - the double wig twitter drawing #1 - just infer - an autobiography

So, here’s the experiment – add me on twitter, http://twitter.com/ineedtostopsoon – and I’ll send you a drawing, something like the ones pictured above. Once you add me, DM me your address and I’ll send along a drawing. This is a nice analog way to connect in a digital age, and you’ll get real fan mail. I encourage you to write a letter back to me… you don’t have to though!

Posted by email from marchorowitz’s posterous

Tags: drawing, experiment, horowitz, marc, twitter.

Filed under 001 Imagination, Everything Else, intss blog by Marc Horowitz on Sep 5th, 2008. Comment. #

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