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Tomorrow at the Shadow, be interviewed by a painfully awkward middle-aged man with OCD

I wasn’t going to do anything at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair. I’d intended to have a table, and sell something, but things never fell into place. Actually, none of us who plan the event were going to have a table this time around, which kind of sucks. We all want to do creative stuff again, […]

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What to wear to the Krampus Ball

Tonight, during my breaks in reading up on how to properly brine a turkey, I’m looking around the internet for inspiration to guide me as I set out to make my costume for the big Krampus event on December 11. All I know at this point is that I want something that won’t disintegrate when […]

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What to expect at Saturday’s Shadow Art Fair

If you didn’t catch it, AnnArbor.com ran a good article yesterday by Jennifer Eberbach on the evolution of the Shadow Art Fair. If you haven’t been following my posts here, about all the various things we’ve got planned for Saturday, it’s probably a good place to start. Or, if you just want to get right […]

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Hillbilly Hot Tub

I don’t know that it qualifies as performance art, as I’ve tagged it here, but I just happened across this video shot by Metro Times editor Michael Jackman, and felt obligated to share it. The phrase, “hillbilly hot tub,” by the way, before people attack me for being insensitive to the plight of Appalachian Americans […]

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The Shirtless Guttenberg Project

Back when I started this blog, about eight years ago now, I had this thing I called Project Whitney Lover. It was a pretty simple concept, as far as performance art goes. I just, during the course of my average day, would drop little references to Whitney Houston, leading people, over time, to the conclusion […]

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