STAIRWELL GALLERY 2/10/06

All these photos, taken in Providence RI, are by Andy Cook.
www.andycookphotography.com

OCTOBER 25 2006

A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR PYRAMIDS

photos by nate nelson

DERICK MELANDER

TOOK THESE PICTURES OF THE RAINY OCT 5 OR 6
THAT THE PYRAMID SCHEME GOT LOCKED OUT OF
THE SCULPTURE GARDEN

AND WENT INSIDE THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
TO MAKE OUR PYRAMIDS
IN THE CONE GALLERY

THIS MOVE UPSET BMA SECURITY FORCES

ESPECIALLY ON ACCOUNT OF OUR LITTLE PILE
OF RAINCOATS AGAINST THE WARHOL WALL

UNDOCUMENTED: TOURISTS TRYING TO TICKLE US

BELOW, WE ABSORB A PAINTING OF A WOMAN IN A VELVET DRESS
OUR ACTION BROUGHT ATTENTION TO HER

ELABORATE OUTFIT

NOTE MINIATURE PORTRAITIST, UNDISTURBED BY SECURITY
http://www.derickmelander.com/

PARTICIPANTS FOR THIS PYRAMID:

Jackie Milad

Elena Johnson

Chiara Keeling

Jen Kirby

Liz Flyntz

Lexie M.

LIZ FLYNTZ

TOOK THESE PHOTOS

OF
KATHERINE HILL (top)

AND

LEXIE MT & CHIARA KEELING (bottom, l-r)

liz flyntz took these in the sculpture garden of the baltimore museum of art during october 2006.

you can find her other photos of things like mud wrestling, Beach House, hairballs, piles of gold & rope and sexy broken legs here: http://flickr.com/photos/leighviande/

कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी

KRISHNA JANMAASHTAMI
September 3, 2007

How can a beautiful blue baby be so enormous as to steal his neighbor's sweets? It takes a tower of men to imitate his mischief.

"The "Dahi-Handi" tradition of Maharashtra re-enacts his childhood pranks, wherein Krishna and his young friends helped themselves to butter and other goodies in the houses of their neighbours. Clay pots called "Dahi-Handi", filled with curd and butter, are suspended high above the ground. To a constant chorus of "Govinda, Govinda" from all those present, teams of young men form human pyramids to reach the pot and break it, to the merriment of the youths and of the assembly."

"Krishnajanmashtami is celebrated to commemorate the birthday of Lord Krishna. Man's Hridaya (heart) is the birthplace of Krishna. To worry over why Krishna and Rama were born on such inauspicious Thithis (8th and 9th phases of the waning and waxing moon) is foolish. It is only when the Hridaya becomes cool, pure and peaceful like the Himachala (the Himalayan mountains), that is the true birthday of Krishna. God makes such a heart His dwelling place which is pure, sacred and peaceful. "

"Krishna had to wage a number of wars during His lifetime. That is why elders say that the birthday of Krishna, Ashtami, is associated with difficulties. When Krishna was born, the day was Ashtami and the star was Rohini. It is a common belief that whoever is born with such a combination of day and star, will face hardships throughout his life. There is another belief that such a person will be the emancipator of the nation. Krishna destroyed the wicked and protected the righteous. He established Dharma. Hence, do not consider the time of Krishna's advent to be inauspicious. It is a noble and a sacred day. "

http://meaningfulblabberings.blogspot.com/2006/08/krishna-janmaashtami.html

HE HEARTS THEM

"Weddings are perfect times for human pyramids."


http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~linderot/fun/humanp.html




"As evidence that human pyramids are truly a cultured, sophisticated activity, I offer the the Math and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Lab. If great mathematical and scientific minds such as these enjoy human pyramids, then you should too! "

MathProf goes nuts in his spare time, throws up pyramids wherever he can cuz its the right thing to do. Additionally, he coughs up a link to the shit-hot "A Simplicial Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Solving Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs''. I have no idea where he's located; signs point to Arizona, website says Bethlehem PA (if ever a city needed pyramids!!), but his triangularity points to an everywhereness.

OTHER PYRAMID LOCATIONS DOCUMENTED:
Braves Game
A Slip-N-Slide
Outside His Office Window
Connie's Pizza
Moe & Joe's

Linderoth I am coming for you. Specifically to find out how you built a pyramid by screwing your friend's head into the kitchen light. Mathemeticians do it from the top down!

FLORISTREE

AND HERE TWO IMAGES OF THAT EVENT

photos by scott braid

the lovely lovely scott braid

http://flickr.com/photos/submarginal/

PYRAMID SHOW AT FLORISTREE SPACE

Two pyramids of twelve are clad in plaid and singing at each other. Two pyramids collapse and reform into four pyramids of three. Four pyramids of three, still singing by the rules, all walk away from each other.

Here, the pyramid involvement includes
Amy Waller
Claire Waller
Amanda Coffin
Katherine Hill
Tracy Sym
Amy Harmon
Devon Diamond
Lexie Mountain
Sam Garner
Lauren Bender
Sara Milinski
Roby Newton

Dated November 25, 2006 Baltimore Maryland

Have you ever been inside a pyramid before?

We are trying to encourage a more triangular approach to comprehension. We form our pyramids not solely that others might enjoy our pleasing shape, but that we can further expand our particular triangularities and integrate this newly three-sided perspective into our meditations on form.

Our pyramids wedge white knives into ivy-covered hillsides. Our pyramids march in formation and collapse face-first into a concrete tomb. Our pyramids map the ground that we lie upon; our mass expands and contracts upon the grass. We slide across floors of dirt and stone in a state that suggests both approach and retreat. We are an army that never attacks, that continually adjusts formation. Armies that never attack spend most of their free time rearranging themselves in preparation for battle, to appear trim in grim conformation. Presenting themselves to the podium, how are we different in our repeated attempts to present ourselves to the world via tha garden’s shady light? It is colder in there, in the garden’s valley, than it is in our meeting place between the concrete pylons where we stretch our limbs in preparation for stillness.

We are a state of potential energy that crumbles without exploding. My days are slow, dictated by the pyramid into strange breaks of activity and inactivity. Without being talked about, the formation of pyramids nearly every day has assumed the function of work/. Church/ temple. A struggle to kneel and remain kneeling.

How many times during the day do we kneel intentionally, purposefully, without subjecting ourselves to anything greater than the ground itself? Our pyramid genuflection are acts of self-subjection. A willingness to submit to a thing that is greater than ourselves without being as “great” as god.

PYRAMID SCHEME

IN THE SCULPTURE GARDEN
OF THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART

THE LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS
CREATED HUMAN PYRAMIDS

FOR ONE SOLID HOUR
EVERY DAY THE SCULPTURE GARDEN WAS OPEN

REGARDLESS OF WEATHER
OR AUDIENCE

WHICH WAS EVERY DAY
EXCEPT FOR MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS

ALL FEMALE
ALL SILENT
SIX MEMBER FORMATIONS

FOR THESE ENGAGEMENTS
THE LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS WERE

Jen Kirby
Liz Flyntz
Lauren Bender
Amy Harmon
Devon Diamond
Katherine Hill
Roby Newton
Julie Benoit
Chiara Keeling
Eva Sighisoara
Sarah Milinski
Jackie Milad
Elana Ehrlich
Samantha Garner
Bonnie Jones
Traci Sym
Kit Macchi
Lexie Mountain
Autumn Breaud
Kendra Gaeta
Catherine Pancake
Nicola Knight