franco art imitates life

Posted on October 8, 2010 by markweiss86

I found myself on a blog called the discriminating viewer TDViewer watching James Franco’s stint on General Hospital and it reminded me of the case in San Jose a few years ago in which someone broke into an art gallery and destroyed all the components of a show because he thought the pieces were sacrilegious. Later I recall seeing a flyer for a local rock band’s show that used the press photo of the perpetrator. I also told that story once from the audience at a panel on digital rights by saying that peer to peer sharing (stealing) of music is like breaking other people’s art. I was actually trying to sound off against too strict property rights by claiming that once an artist has finished his or her work she relinquishes control of it and what people think of it; I’m a proponent of both the “intentional fallacy” and “property is theft.” I also once made a fake flyer for a fake band called Stanford Fair Use Project and passed it under the door of the Stanford Law Professor who headed a project on fair use under the same name. but I digress.

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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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6 Responses to franco art imitates life

  1. markweiss86's avatar markweiss86 says:
    October 8, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    The work I refer to was by Einar and Jamex De La Torre at he MaCLA gallery in fall of 1996.
    http://www.delatorrebros.com/
    http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.17.96/art-9642.html

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  2. markweiss86's avatar markweiss86 says:
    October 8, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    I wonder how long before the content owners take down the link? The link was posted by someone named Cazigirl in November of 2009. I didn’t know the source when I copied the url — I know that’s no excuse.

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  3. markweiss86's avatar markweiss86 says:
    October 10, 2010 at 2:55 am

    Speaking of which, I just heard that in Colorado someone attacked a museum case with a crow bar and hacked up an Enrique Chagoya artwork because this person felt it was blasphemous. Here is a link:
    http://www.sharksink.com/printview.asp?printid=493&artists=15

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  4. Mark Weiss's avatar Mark Weiss says:
    October 31, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    There is a story in the Times about James Franco in the movie based on the plight of Aran Ralston who had to amputate his own arm during a hiking excursion. The movie is called “127 Hours” (presumably the time he spent pinned) rather than “Coyote Ugly” which was already taken.

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