Frank B. was a true artist friend of mine when I was 15 or so. He lived in the basement of his mother's house, he had two rooms, the bedroom had a pile of clothes in it from which he would just pull out random pieces of clothing, in the dark, every morning, he always looked the way I thought a real artist should look like. Including wrinkled everything.
His idea of painting an E and a Y between the B and the U and the U and the S of all BUS lanes in the city, (making them Beuys lanes), sounded like just the perfect project. (I still think it is a pretty brilliant little idea.)
One other little thing I remember him telling me was the thing about glass. He claimed that glass did not quite have a cristaline structure like, let's say, a sheet of metal. The molecules in glass were frozen in an organization that resembled something closer to a liquid. He claimed that if measured with the appropriate devices, one could see that large sheets of glass, like those in department store windows, for example, were thinner on top and a tiny bit thicker on the bottom. Glass was like a really, really slow liquid. Really slow, dripping its way down in every single window frame, giving in to its own weight.
Hmm...
Comments? Broken?
Posted by: Monkey on October 12, 2003 08:28 PMWhoops, sorry, I guess not! Delete! delete!
Posted by: Monkey on October 12, 2003 08:49 PMIt's true! It's true! Glass is a slow moving liquid. Take a look at the windows of an old building or house, you'll see how they are rippled... and how they distort light in a very lovely way.
Wait, I bet you have noticed...
Posted by: Laura on October 12, 2003 09:52 PMMonkey, can I keep these?... they are so cool.
Laura!, I was not quite sure... but yes... you are right... hmm... how quickly would we need to travel through time to see glass in windows ripple and flow...
Posted by: Witold Riedel on October 13, 2003 08:30 PMYou can keep them if you must. ;\
It would be beautiful to watch time-lapse of a window dripping down the side of a house.
However, a lack of crystalline structure does not a liquid make. Glass is just thicker in places and rippled in the old windows because they made it differently back when and it will warp and move like old timber does, but alas, it's a solid, so it won't drip.
Posted by: Monkey on October 15, 2003 12:09 AMGood lord, just listen to me. Must I embarrass myself every time I comment here?!
Posted by: Monkey on October 15, 2003 12:12 AMI think your comments are tres cool...
not embarrassing at all... : D
aha, see... it is not a liquid... : D
is plexi glass?...
You mean it's not really a slow moving liquid that distorts time, space and light!! I now realize my husband has been deceiving me, telling me stories. I'll bet he's still laughing over it....
Posted by: Laura on October 15, 2003 09:01 AM