Jason Rhoades.Everything goes pop! pop! like bubbles constantly exploding. Here in LA, it's a wasteland, the beginning and end of the world. There's so much garbage but also strange, quiet things I've never found anywhere else. Making bubbles, making foam and this action is my job. The water here contains everything. It's as sick and contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. as culture is. I stir it up and make it rotten.... Warhol and Oldenburg and all those guys, they cut down trees and cleared territory. They made a place where things could happen, and we're all living off that. Culture today is foamy foam·y adj. foam·i·er, foam·i·est 1. Of, consisting of, or resembling foam. 2. Covered with foam. foam and fluid, and changing all the time. I can constantly move from IKEA IKEA Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer founder's initials and location) to Jamba Juice Jamba Juice is a high-end chain of smoothie restaurants headquartered in Emeryville, California with over 640 locations operating in 21 states, the District of Columbia and the Bahamas. Over 400 locations are company-owned, with the remainder being franchised. to under a small shrub in the mountains. Last week I went to Ozzy Ozbourne's Ozzfest, with all those speed metal bands. A huge bunch of angry white people--so pure and low. The parking lot of Ozzfest was one of the most amazing things I've seen for a long time. The beautiful thing about bubbles is that they reflect you and the world. They're so psychedelic. And then they go pop! Warhol's bubble might have deflated de·flate v. de·flat·ed, de·flat·ing, de·flates v.tr. 1. a. To release contained air or gas from. b. To collapse by releasing contained air or gas. 2. a bit, but I don't think people would have let it pop. Or did it without anyone noticing? --AS TOLD TO DANIEL BIRNBAUM [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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