On Jun 25, 11:44=A0am, Musea wrote:
> Musea Readers, before I start, I have two more brand new videos to
> show you this week. They are:
> 34. BOX OFFICE CONCERTS: Short video about my box office concerts with
> photos by Uday K Photography.
> 35. MEDIA DECENCY PLEDGE: Video is all about Musea's Media Decency
> Pledge of July 2005 and who signed and who didn't.
>
> My hometown Dallas has a reputation as being a very conservative town.
> This applies to the arts and media. Our daily newspaper and our weekly
> alt magazine have proven histories of being extremely conservative
> when it comes to new arts. That's why I have some hope for the PBS
> outlet, KERA Blog. We will see. As of now they have not covered
> anything progressive in the arts. =A0I sent the following e-mail.
> It sets up arguments FOR the fair coverage of progressive art
> developments. See what you think.
>
> KERA, Arts And Seek Blog,
>
> For the new arts blog to succeed, it must not only cover art that is
> classic, safe, and sanitized; but art that is new, innovative, and
> challenging. As a Dallas musician, painter, writer, and editor of an
> arts/media zine for the last 15 years: I've found a general
> conservativeness, in Dallas arts that sends most accomplished artists
> fleeing the city. I encourage you to take Dallas beyond its provincial
> past and at the least acknowledge the progressive arts in the city.
> Someday I would hope that the city would be known for even sup****ting
> progressive arts - yet that time seems far away.
>
> For example. This group of youtube videos (all on the video site of
> hunkasaurus.com. Also all on youtube.com) suggest multiple progressive
> ideas blended with high quality.
>
> Each deserves its own blog entry - though from past experience I am
> doubtful that the innovation involved will even be understood.
>
> Note: =A0Each entry suggest a major new art development and can stand on
> its own. =A0Each art innovation is from DALLAS (one wonders if people in
> Dallas can accept progressive art that doesn't originate from NYC, LA,
> or London?). And each was posted within the short span of the last few
> months. I encourage your most progressive thinkers to take a look, and
> if bewildered by the innovative art, ask questions, do research, work
> at learning what new art can be. It will sup****t =A0your new blog, and
> Dallas, and help Dallas get out of this provincial stigma that it has
> now.
>
> Videos:
>
> FIVE DOORS TO THE ART REVOLUTION: Series of FIVE videos that gives a
> summary of the main points of the Art Revolution in music, art, lit,
> art reviews, and art center as developed IN DALLAS over the last 15
> years.
>
> S**** OIL: =A0A video presentation of a conceptual art work that uses
> video and conceptual art to challenge the abuses of conceptual art and
> pave the way for the new POST MODERN ART as outlined in the zine,
> Musea.
>
> POEM VIDEOS: A new type of video, where each video is a short film
> that spotlights not one song, like music videos, but one short poem -
> POEM VIDEOS.
> Sample videos include: =A0'FLY AWAY', 'THE THIEF STOLE', 'POOR LITTLE
> URCHIN' and THE SPACE BETWEEN THE MOON AND EARTH'.
>
> BOX OFFICE CONCERTS: The world's first and only box office concerts
> give music lovers a new way to hear music. And hopefully it will -
> like a monk's swat to the head - give an inkling of how much fun and
> excitement new, progressive, and POST -BANDS music =A0can be.
>
> MEDIA DECENCY PLEDGE: Challenge for all media to rein in the gore
> re****ts - issued in 2005. In the three years since its inception,
> there have been no signers from any mainstream media source.
>
> Progressive new arts are a key to the vitality of all the arts.
Good luck with that, Tom... I'm well aware of the challenges of
creating and broadcasting art in the hinterlands.
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