Free(ish?) to Good (ehh) Home

Foster Kang?

We have Curious Extinct things in jars. Many are on the tall shelf. The FigmentDC interactive sculptural notion involves the tall shelf. Want any Curious Extinct things?

Preliminary figmentation; serendipity

We have an Idea for the Figment DC art thing in September.

http://dc.figmentproject.org/

We decided quietly, 2 days ago, that it would require lots of yarn. Yesterday a friend of the Collective called us up to say, can I bring you this large quantity of unwanted yarn?

Other decisions are quietly being made. Watch this space.

EFAC had another very lovely experience at Playa del Fuego

An alleged 100 xerographic copies were created. As I survey the wreckage, we seem to have 5 full ciggy-box & trading-card compilations and 4 yarnbound zines (also with trading cards) at large in the Aerie. There could, one dares hypothesize, be an additional print run. But also, if you want these? Ask for what you want.

EFAC ZINE #2

The photocopying shop is open until 9, but xeroxing the new zine cannot be rushed. But it IS DONE and ready to copy...tomorrow!

We are going to have some sort of availability of print zines and art-boxed zine/photo sets for the non-Playa Del Fuego attendees as well. Watch this space!

EFAC will be at the spring Playa Del Fuego - no big art installation this time, but we will be at Camp Tasty, making art & giving away the new zine. If we ever finish the new zine.

1. Google thinks they aren't evil, but they still kind of are.

2. We are doing things with: Books. Water. Wax. Rust. (Rusty metal. And taking a saw to the book. These aspects are optional.)

Join us? We'll post any & all pics. Let's do some art.

Losing My Electrons

Today's art is by Filth. Filth's prior contributions to the Collective have included co-discovery of Hystricomorpha Philthocynia, early documentary photography of the Cabinet of Extinct Curiosities, and endless infusions of enthusiasm. He will answer your questions, read all your comments, and accept submissions of odd rusted metal objects via the EFAC home office. He is not currently a dandy.

LOSING MY ELECTRONS

Hair thins. Toenails yellow. Free radical damage accumulates. Blueberries may slow the process, but the direction of travel remains the same.

These photographs depict the routine oxidation of metal, paint and other finishes. I couldn't resist manipulating the images (more or less, as the case may be), playing with light and color, to bring out the natural... Why isn't there a word that explicitly means both [flips coin, chaos loses] patterned and chaotic?

Everything decays, even our dreams. I was born to be a dandy, but look how I turned out. What choice is there, but to accept the inevitable, and allow events to wash over us as metal accepts flame?

[If your connection can take it, click on any image to go to the huge, intensely detailed original.]

(c) Filth, 02013