January 2010
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ALT.Dimension: by ZEELIO
[Zeelio is an anthropomorphized program operating within the Art for Humans architecture. Zeelio reveals by several means the tactical and strategic interventions of oppressive unfriendly agents, agencies or entities intended to disrupt or otherwise harm free expression within the AFH network. Zeelio also helps identify interventions outside the system, such as activities designed to artificially...
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Decade in Review, Part 2
Dear Paul, Here’s the New Year’s Revolution you requested for January 1st. I realize that it’s terribly tardy, but don’t be bitter. I made a voyage to the Great Mysterious, as Red Ted used to call the Eastern US, and the weather was harsh and difficult to negotiate. I plotted an itinerary that was complex and demanding of precision, in timing, in style and presentation. I...
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The [not-Art] Decade in Review
The Decade in Review ZEELIO: A scan of surveys is possible, now. Did you watch the television over the Holidays. PJM: We did. It was hella painful, ALMOST TORTURE. MILO: Didn’t someone interview John Yoo, who was identified as funny? V: I think I saw that on Salon. TR: …Which is a laugh a minute. MILO: Jerry [Artist Lover] Saltz pegged Jeff Koons as his “Artist of the...
October 2009
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Z49
We are lounging by the pool at the Claremont Club with our laptops (connected to web via satellite). Milo is my guest today. It is sunny, and the smoke is gone, though the chemical soup that is Southern California air is our medium. Today a Wall Street Journal opinionator called concerns about human-caused climate change a “religion.” PJM: Do you wonder, Milo, whether chemistry is the...
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Z33
“There’s very little room at the top.” - Peter Drucker “There’s very little room in a casket, and in Hell, from what I gather.” - Milo Santini PJM: “Creativity” is what you use when you don’t have enough money to get what you need, or when you’re hungry & you need to eat or don’t have a roof over your head & you need to hide...
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Z36
MILO: So, this morning you were visited again by the twins…
PJM: Yes, & they both waved at me right away. I seem to remember their sitting with those stumpy dwarf legs, in strollers. Both sported hair almost identical to the Louis 14 portrait of Cyril I painted a month or two ago. Both had faces like shar peis, wrinkled decoratively. As I’ve thought about it today, I would...
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Z42/1
The hybrid came to my door tonight, after all in the house had gone off to bed, except for me. I had been unable to sleep, thinking about my father’s cough, the bankruptcy attorney and the children’s Christmas. He introduced himself as Cyril. He has only one eye, which does not blink, and it is colored a freakish shade of olive or nectarine. Cyril’s mouth is sewn closed. His...
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Z8.3
MILO: Have you spoken to Zeelio recently?
PJM: Only in passing. He seems preoccupied.
MILO: I believe he might be. The Drucker Centennial banners adorn the light poles around Zeelio’s neighborhood. He told me he would prefer that they hang bank managers and CEOs from them instead.
PJM: Do you know how many times Geithner has phoned the leadership of Goldman Sachs, Citi and BofA over the...
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ZEELIO 4, Part 1
Milo and I are prostrate in the grass looking up at the clouds passing overhead.
MS: How was your trip to New York? PJM: Wonderful. Best ever. I should start at the end, after Shane escorted me to the pickup site and I got in the cab with the 74 year-old Indian immigrant for the ride to LaGuardia over the Brooklyn Bridge. The weather had been perfect. Memorial Day, the onset of sunset was...
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Zeelio 21 (German[fr]>>Eng)
In summer, 2009 we get on the way from Peter to died fruit-trees, the house has pushed. He has given us our absurd instructions and we have embarked, decides, our parabolic mission to realise how normally. The first pair which we have met from the barrier behind which there is no water, his faces has been made by the use of heroine to the cripple, like the wood eaten by the worms, but crimson...
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Zeelio 20 (French>German)
Im Sommer 2009 machen wir uns von den Peter gestorbenen Obstbäumen auf den Weg, hat das Haus eingedrückt. Er hat uns unsere absurden Anweisungen gegeben und wir haben uns eingeschifft, beschließe, unsere parabolische Mission, wie gewöhnlich zu realisieren. Das erste Paar, dem wir von der Sperre begegnet sind, hinter dem es kein Wasser, seine Gesichter gibt, ist durch den Gebrauch von Heldin zum...
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Zeelio 19 (English, English>French)
In the summer of 2009 we set out through the dead orchard to Peter’s caved-in house. He gave us our nonsensical instructions, and we embarked, determined to fulfill our parabolic mission, as usual. The first couple we encountered by the dam behind which there is no water, their faces were maimed by heroin usage, like wood eaten by worms, but crimson and umber in coloration. This man and woman...
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Zeelio's Screenshots →
September 2009
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Z1.6
Announcer: Onstage tonight we have the old curmudgeon, Zeelio! (Applause) He’ll be reciting from his collection of recent poems, entitled They Eat Flesh. Won’t you please welcome The Cabaret’s favorite wordsmith, Mr. Z! (Applause, a few whistles)
ZEELIO: Thank you. Thank you. I don’t presume to inform you, tonight, of the serious threats we face, as lovers of language and...
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Z1.5
(Zeelio is talking into the digital recorder…) I couldn’t see the thing until I was practically standing on it. The light is half-moon Northern New Mexico high desert, and it shimmers. You notice that translucency or transparency in shadows. I could make out a shifting set of features. I think of it like trying to see something through an old and dirty window. In this case the hair was...
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Z1.4
Zeelio leaned forward on the porch railing, resting the weight of his upper body on his forearms, staring into the horizon lines, past the traffic on College Avenue and the freeway beyond, and spat.
Z: The backlash has been brutal, hasn’t it?
PJM: You have no idea.
Z: The minute you pegged the AI function, the Hive Mind, all shit hit the Phantasm.
PJM: I fell down last night.
Z: (Turning,...
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Recession Collective Pre-Pro Mtg (Spkr.: Zeelio)
How to Start a Collective in a Recession
(Preproduction meeting, October 2009)
Speaker: Zeelio
Good evening, everyone.
I presume that most of you are now fairly involved in your studio processes for this production. To refresh the discussion, each of you has been assigned the task of executing 1000 Revolutionary Actions.
In a number of worktable or anecdotal conversations, I have been able to...
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Z1.3
In other words, there is a national temperament. But it tells us nothing about the nature of actual decisions – just as the fact that one man is superficial and the other thorough does not tell us which is more likely to commit murder. (Peter Drucker, “Introduction to the Transaction Edition” of The Future of Industrial Man)
To say that things are identical is to say that they are the same....
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ZEELIO (Preface)
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Milo and I relaxed in the Los Angeles Plaza for New Year’s. We caught the Red Line in Pasadena after the Rose Parade, exited at Union Station, strolled a few blocks to Jail Gallery for pleasant visit to view David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David’s three person-three exhibit there (“Minor Monuments,” “Pungent Glimmer” and “Hubris Cream,” respectively). I love Jail, situated as it is...
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“ADBUSTERS was RIGHT!”
– Zeelio
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The Obama administration announced the immediate suspension of all advertising privileges on public airwaves (radio, TV, print). Also, the programming czar Elio Ekrood announced that the practice of saturating television schedules with “Cop and Robber” shows is now illegal, and that any such show will result in criminal and civil litigation against the “perps.”
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Z1.1
Hello world!
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Another word is almost time and space.
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Today in America we will celebrate the worker. It is always the happiest holiday. Here in this amazing nation, all who work have enough to eat. All who work enjoy good health care. All who work have money to spend, and good sex. All who work smoke and drink only in good cheer, and without the horrible oppression of sin taxes, that...
