You remember Jerry Seinfeld. He’s the real life comedian who played himself as a comedian named Jerry Seinfeld in the sit-com “Seinfeld” where he pitches a sit-com to a TV network to play himself, Jerry Seinfeld, in a sit-com about nothing. Since the show ended 10 years ago, (can you believe it’s been [...]

John Cage in Performance

Welcome to an on-line performance of John Cage’s masterpiece 4′ 33″.

The audio volume of this particular performance may not be high, so listen carefully.
DISCLAIMER: Some performances may be slightly shorter or longer than four minutes and 33 seconds and each involves different instrumentation. Thank you for your understanding.

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SEATTLE ZEN POEM, by Jon Wesick

Sometimes I sit and watch my thoughts
come and go like clouds in the sky.
When one stays too long,
others gather,
and soon there is a shower.
It rains a lot here,
but last night it was clear,
and I observed the moon and the stars.

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COUNTING BREATHS, by Jon Wesick

In – one, out – one, in [...]

The image above is of one of the ingenious contraptions build by engineer/artist Theo Jensen from The Netherlands. I first became aware of Jensen upon seeing a video of an ad featured in a post written by my brother Jim and my nephew Max on their blog -site, Techimoto. I’d suggest that you go [...]

My painting called “Buddha-Bush” was painted not long after the U.S. invaded Iraq. Everyday I would read the newspaper at breakfast and find myself seething. I hated George W. Bush with a passion and everything I would read about him in the paper would make me feel fully justified in holding on to [...]

Jake Sensei has agreed to respond to selected Posts that I have written. Since he is extremely busy with administrative and teaching duties and with family matters, not to mention his own art practice, we have agreed follow the procedure described below as a means of getting his responses in print. We meet after [...]

I’m starting to feel rather like the fellow in the accompanying image, which is not me, by the way. He looks naked and self-confident; the kind of self confidence that comes from being oblivious to how he really appears to others. Two posts ago (Blogging as Performance Art?) I tried to make the case that [...]

Zen Master John Loori has created an exercise that allows artists to find out how their work is affecting their viewer’s gut-level responses. I thought it might be fun to try this on-line with the idea that in the future readers could submit their work and get some feedback about the feelings and emotions [...]

NO TOUCHING
In 1983-84 Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano, two artists who did not know each other spent a year bound together by a 8 ft. rope. Among the various conditions they set up for this art piece was the rule that they could not touch one another. What does this have to do with this [...]