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I like that I will only be entered to win a thermal insulated travel coffee mug.    Dear Thomas Gokey:         Thank you for your recent order at [company name].         At [company name], our goal is to continuously improve our products and services.         Please take a moment to [...]

Hours Description and process 6/23/8 Prepared supplies at home then drove to OHM Lounge, unloaded supplies and set up to work on the back stage. Painted the initial background on a 4’ x 5’ homemade canvas stretcher. 7/2/8 Began set-up at 9:00 and finished moving all furniture and getting all supplies and canvas ready to [...]

Dear Dr. Gokey:         I am glad to let you know that the following orders were shipped via FedEx today, and you should receive it tomorrow.  The tracking number is xxxxxxxxxxxx. The PO is CC. If you do not receive it within three days, please let me know.            [...]

Since the Creative Class project is largely about economics, I would like to point out that my oxytocin order was just slightly less than a weeks worth of wages at $8.16/hour (assuming 12 hours work/week, which is what we have agreed on [even though I didn't work very much last week {but I DID work more [...]

Below is my order confirmation for my crystalline oxytocin. I’ve changed some of the information to protect my privacy, as well as to occult the supply company info so that home experimenters are not supplied with a “how to overdose on oxytocin” manual. All of the changes are in bold italics. The neurochemist who is writing a [...]

Wednesday July, 2, 2008.  Live Painting at OHM Lounge. I arrived at the bar at 9pm to about 15 people enjoying cocktails.  I immediately set to laying out supplies, moving furniture, paintings and preparing to start.  By 9:30 I was under way on the second night of setting the right background.  By 11:30 i had [...]

Notes taken from Dr. William H. Frey II and Muriel Langseth Crying: The Mystery of Tears (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985). “I suggest that like the excretory processes of exhaling, urinating, perspiring, and defecating, emotional tearing may play a vital role in maintaining homeostasis by removing waste and harmful substances. All excretory functions expel omething from the [...]

The project that I propose for The Creative Class is currently called Tears of Love. It is a performance with documentation and objects. It is based on the idea of catharsis. In ancient Greece a human Katharma would be paraded around the city soaking up all the toxins and impurities of the community. The Katharma would then be murdered expiating [...]