Sunday, I wrote about an interesting email I received asking me to be a part of a book project. As I expected, spam. To be included in the book, there is of course a fee. If I had heard of the book, or if I had solicited them, sure, I might consider it. Thanks, but no thanks, guys.

Like Dad always said, “Nothing’s free”. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

If you’re interested in reading the terms, you can check out the application form here [link].

At first I thought it was spam, but upon further investigation, it looks legit. I’ll keep you posted as to what transpires with this.

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Dear Visual Artist

Marc Moss

Found out its work quality, we considered your incorporation in the book “AESTHETICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART” produced by ATcultura.

Biographies and images of artists ; commentaries by prominents reviewers, messages and essays of Contemporary Art, will be present in this highquality book, big format, it will be distribuited on first universities and museums of the world.

Book will be edited in illustration paper, with photocrom illustrations and in a fancy box, covered by a luxe cloth binding, bilingual ( Spanish and English).

Artists invited to take part of edition, will invite by a selection criteria of quality.

Atcultura is sponsored only formally by the Government and enterprises but solicit not subsidies from they, wherefore ATcultura prefer avoid any possible conditionament, this colaborative project solicit to artists one minimum monetary contribution.

Previous books of ATcultura include artists like Caio Fonseca, Natasha de Wet, Perez Celis, Carole Feuerman, Regina José Galindo, etc. You can see in www.atculturalibro.blogspot.com or in our webpage www.atcultura.com

If would be interesting participation in this book for you, we require you as soon possible reply to: atcultura@argentina.com with a brief biography for be larged to future, adress and phone number, to be considered one of selectioned artist for receive own proposal.

You can see first confirmated artists of the book “AESTHETICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART” in www.atculturalibro2.blogspot.com

Best regards.

Lic. María Miriam Farías Iriarte

Vicedirectora Atcultura

Feeling uninspired? Think your work is shit? Want someone to tell you how great you are? Fear not, young artist. Let a Hot Intern (or any number of other folks) stroke your ego for a few minutes between brilliant projects.

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I ran into one of the musicians last night, and he informed me that two from the group will be performing at Dauphines next week. Sweet.

Meanwhile, you can find them on YouTube here and here.

This, from a good friend currently deployed in Afghanistan. A reminder to support our troops….Being that i have a lot of freetime on my hand and often eat bad food out here, I wondered how far the human ass travels in a lifetime because of farts. Assumptions: a good earthy, average fart oscillates the cheeks approx 10 times/sec a cheek moves 1/16″ per oscillation average fart approx 2 seconds the average person farts 13 times/day average American lifespan is 77 years given these numbers, one can marvel at how resilient the human body is. in the course of one’s lifetime, the ass will move 28.83 miles because of gas. thanks for the tax money :-)(fyi, “farts” was tagged as being misspelled by blogger. I just thought that was funny.)

Hilarious IM exchange today:

Asok: computers are just a fad, like pogs and beenie babies
Asok: they will fade out
Asok: just wait
Asok: internet….internot
Asok: i want to move to oregon and do cocaine all night and drink Beer
Asok: you know
Asok: really make it in this world
Asok: live the dream
Asok: hot girls
Asok: fast cars
Marc: i can’t afford that shit
Asok: either can i
Asok: slow cars
Asok: and fat girls