Archive for June 6th, 2010

Art, damn it, art! watch (#10 in a series).

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Laurie Anderson, my favorite living performance artist, played her latest composition for the first time over the weekend.

The piece is called “Music for Dogs”.

Hundreds of dogs and their owners bounced around as Anderson entertained them with 20 minutes of thumping beats, whale calls, whistles and a few high-pitched electronic sounds imperceptible to human ears.

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The concert was originally billed as a performance for dogs’ ears only, and was going to be largely limited to electronic noises played at a frequency too high for human ears. But Anderson changed things up when she decided she wanted people to have some fun, too.

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Things that make you go “Hmmmmmmmmmmmm…”

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

According to the Statesman, yesterday’s gun buyback brought in 343 “guns”:

166 handguns, 96 rifles, two assault rifles and 79 shotguns.

I put “guns” in quotes because it is unclear if this figure includes any BB or replica guns collected.

One of the interesting aspects of this, as you may recall, is that the gun buyback supposedly had a $10,000 budget. However, they actually spent $30,000 yesterday, according to the article; somehow, it appears that the Greater Austin Crime Commission was able to pull an additional $20,000 out of their neither regions in a matter of hours. I would very much like to know where that money came from.

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