Sunday, 27 March 2011

Monday, 28 February 2011

Saturday, 12 February 2011

letters

The number of Elvis Presley impersonators has reached an all-time record high - there are now at least 85,000 Elvis’s around the world, compared to only 170 in 1957 when he died. At this rate of growth, experts predict that by 2019 Elvis impersonators will make up a third of the worlds population.


A - 17 B - 2 C - 4 D -10 E - 23 F - 3 G - 2 H - 14 I- 13 J - 0 K - 1 L - 19 M - 6 N - 10 O - P - 9 Q - 0 R - 20 S - 13 T - 20 U - 5 V - 3 W - 6 X - 1 Y - 3 Z - 0


201 letters
x 3 cm
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603 cm of wall space


1 foot = 30.48 centimetres

603/30.48
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19.8 ft

19.8/3 (Would ideally like the text to be spaced out over three lines)
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6.6 ft


6.6ft of a line of text over three lines.

Monday, 31 January 2011

The established process and the birth of the beginning II







David Mach
Robert Carston Arneson






EP crude bust - Thank you.


Something like that. Its just going to be a crude clay bust of EP with a cheap speaker connected to a cheap cassette player with a cassette inserted inside playing a text to speech list of everyone who wrote songs for EP to perform. I'm getting the list together now, but its very long.

EP on TP

I want to print application forms for an invented Elvis Impersonator contest. I will then roll them into the paper towel dispenser in the toilet. This piece is Untitled.

This interesting specimen showed me how...

Matt Williams

Leo Robin

Ralph Rainger

Richard Rodgers

Lorenz Hart

Fred Tobias

Paul Parnes

Hank Cochran

Ira Stamphill


Aaron Schroeder

Sid Wyche

Bill Monroe

Sid Tepper

Roy C. Bennett

Fred Wise

Randy Starr

Sid Wayne

Ben Weisman

Lester Flatt

Earl Scruggs

Clyde Otis

Ivory Joe Hunter

Chris Arnold

Geoff Morrow

David Martin

Bill Strange

Scott Davis

Ben Weisman

Otis Blackwell

Luiz Floriano Bonfá

Wayne Thompson

Mark James

Johnny Christopher

William J. Gaither

Kathy Lee Bates

Doc Pomus

Mort Shuman

Mickey Newbury

Don McLean

Neil Diamond

Charles Gabriel-Battersby

Bill Giant

Bernie Baum

Florence Kaye

Burt Bacharach

Bob Hillard

Bennie Benjamin

Marcus DeJesus

Joe Thomas

Don Robertson

Aaron Schroeder

Wally Gold

Cliff Owens

Roy Turk

Lou Handman

Wayne Walker

Domenico Modugno

Jerry Hubbard

Sherman Edwards

Hal David

Jerry Leiber

Mike Stoller

Joy Byers

Arthur Gunter

Jimmy Reed

Ernest Tubb

Jack Pitman

Bob Roberts

Ruth Bachelor

Al Smith

Luther Dixon

Larry Gatlin

Bob Dylan

Vincent Rose

Al Lewis

Larry Stock

Billy Hayes Fred Rose

Jay Johnson

Jerry Leiber

Paul Simon

Greg Gordon

Dennis Linde

Hugo Peretti

LuigiCreatore

Franklyn Tableporter

Arthur Glenn

Frederic E. Weatherly

Ned Miller

Doc Pomus

Mort Shuman

Charles Singleton

The Clovers

Polynesian Cultural Centre

Gordon Lightfoot

Jesse L. Kelvin

Bob Willis

John Willis

Anita and Bonnie Pointer

John Davenport

Eddie Coole

John Crutchfield

Carl Sigman

James Last

Kris Kristofferson

Willy Nelson

Roy Brown

Danny O'Keefe

Preston Foster

Claude Putman

Pepe Guizar

Robert Hubbard

Hank Williams

Claude Demetruis

Peter Andreoli

Vince Poncia

Mae B. Axton

Tommy Durden

Dallas Frazier

Mosie Lister

Larry Gatlin

William J. Gaither

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

Robert Higginbotham

Stuart Hine

Ben Raleigh

Mark Barkan

Rose Marie McCoy

Kelly Owens

Erwin Drake

Irvin Graham

Jimmy Shirl

Al Stillman

Richard Howard

Billy Swan

Don Gibson

Chuck Willis

Red West

Tony Macaulay

Stan Kesler

Dottie Rambo

Henry Slaughter

Albert E. Brumley

Mark James

Johnny Christopher

Ray Charles

David Hill

Paul Evans

Clara Ward

Al Kent

Don Gannon

Michael Jarrett

Bobby Darin

Jimmy Currie

Lonnie Donegan

Don Robertson

Cully Holt

Ernest Tubb

Carl Story

Darrell Glenn

Bix Reichner

Eddie Rabbitt

Howard Barnes

Homer Morris

Faron Young

Hal Blair

Stuart Hamblin

Clive Westlake

Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Shiri Milete

Nora Fowler

J.A. Balthrop

Tony Joe White

Andrae Crouch

Ira Kosloff

Maurice Mysels

Joe Babcock

Lou Singer

Chuck Berry

Clevant Derricks

Rex Griffin

Dick Heard

Stuart Hamblen

Lloyd Price

Doris Akers

Vera Matson

Jesse Stone

Jerry Chesnut

Tom Jans

Lou Baxter

Mark James

Tony Joe White

Sylvia Dee

Donnie Summer

Arthur Crudup

Claude Francois

Jean PiereBourtayre

Bill Martin

Phil Coulter

Billy Edd Wheeler

Dick Manning

Bill Campbell

Jessie Mae Robinson

Rory Bourke

Thomas A. Dorsey

John Fogerty

Ralph Carmichael

Lowell Fulsom

Del Shannon

Herb Goldberg

Felice Bryant

Gene MacLellan

Theodore Williams

Neil Sedaka

Justin Cody

George Harrison

Rosenblatt

Milrose

Percy Mayfield

Winfield Scott

Lincoln Chase

Titus Iurner

Ewan MacColl

Naomi Ford

Beverly Ross

Sam Bobrick

Roger Whittaker

Bill Kenny

Cole Porter

Alex North

Hy Zaret

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Layng Martine

Irving Berlin

Oscar Hammerstein II

RichardRogers

Gene Autry

Elvis Herselvis


The Man Who Ownes Elvis

Elvis Presely impersonators are under threat of being put of business.America’s estimated 30,000 Elvis impressionists could be forced to give up work after a New York businessman bought the rights to the legend’s name and likeness.Billionaire Robert Sillerman – who also owns the TV show 'American Idol' – last year paid $114 million (£65 million) for an 85 per cent stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises, which is run by Presley’s family.Though the rights do not extend to the singer’s music, Sillerman now has control of Graceland in Memphis, and control of the King’s name and likeness.Previously the Presley family, through Elvis Presley Enterprises, have allowed the majority of impersonators free use of Elvis’ name and likeness.However, speaking to the New York Times, Sillerman has revealed plans to open an interactive Elvis exhibit and an Elvis-themed cabaret show on the Las Vegas Strip, which could mean the end of the line for impressionists.“If we were going to do a show that was based on Elvis impersonators, then obviously it wouldn’t make sense to have unauthorised Elvis impersonators,” he said.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

56) Elvis recorded more than 600 songs - but did not write any of them.

41) In 1962 Elvis had a hit with Return To Sender.

In 1992, on the day a commemorative Elvis stamp was issued in the US, many people used it on letters with deliberately invalid addresses so that they would receive it back marked "return to sender", increasing the stamp's value.

30) His 1960 single It's Now Or Never was heard in jail by a prisoner who was so affected by it he vowed to pursue a career in the music industry. It was Barry White who had been jailed for four months for stealing tyres.

Legs



A
Well, that's alright, mama
A
That's alright for you
A A7
That's alright mama, just anyway you do
A7 D
Well, that's alright, that's alright.
D E[7] A
That's alright now mama, anyway you do

Mama she done told me,
Papa done told me too
'Son, that gal your foolin' with,
She ain't no good for you'
But, that's alright, that's alright.
That's alright now mama, anyway you do

I'm leaving town, baby
I'm leaving town for sure
Well, then you wont be bothered with
Me hanging 'round your door
Well, that's alright, that's alright.
That's alright now mama, anyway you do




Elvis by 2019


The number of Elvies Presley impersonators has reached an all-time record high - there are now at least 85,000 Elvis’s around the world, compared to only 170 in 1957 when he died. At this rate of growth, experts predict that by 2019 Elvis impersonators will make up a third of the world population !

Types of Elvis impersonator

There are many differing types of Elvis impersonator. Most fall under the following main types which are;

Look-alikes who concentrate more on visual elements of Elvis fashion and style using accessories such as wigs, costumes and jewelry.
Sound alikes who concentrate on changing their voice to sing or talk like Elvis.
Combination who try to use a combination of both the visual and aural methods listed above.
Question: How Did Elvis Presley Die?
Answer: Elvis died on August 16, 1977 in the bathroom at Graceland. After being found on the bathroom floor, Elvis was rushed to the hospital where he was officially pronounced dead. The coroner recorded the cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia. While true in the strictest sense (cardiac arrhythmia basically means that the heart was beating irregularly and in this case, finally stopped), the attending physicians deliberately omitted the fact that what had apparently caused Elvis' heart to beat irregularly and then stop was an overdose of prescription drugs. These drugs included codeine, Valium, morphine, and Demorol, to name a few. After this information was revealed, Vernon Presley, Elvis' father, had the complete autopsy report sealed. It will remain sealed until 2027, fifty years after The King's death. Elvis' body is buried at Graceland.

WARHOL, Andy | Elvis

Dying for a shite









S'in the Name.









R.Mutt



This old image says it best. The name is false. Why would he sign his name to it?
Everyone seems fine with artefact's from the toilet being transported from the toilet to a gallery, so why not use the toilet as a space of its own. The fact that the toilet might not have anything to do with the work may in fact be a metaphor for how much we don't need Duchamp now that we're all grown up.

Toilet Humour II









I thought about doing this...


but then Koji Suzuki did it first, and much bettter.

Its a story written on toilet paper. It even works as an installation piece since the Japanaese traditionally believe that Ghosts hide in the toilet. Its just such a good idea.