In last part of the book, New Media in Art by Michael Rush mentions artist Paul Garrin, white devil, (1993) an interactive cinema installation. The viewers are placed in middle of imaginary neighborhood as they pass through the the gallery space surveillance cameras track their gestures and dangerous dog appears on video screens to scare them. Similar, to how stereo-profiling is in some neighborhoods. Mainly, ones that are not use to having people of different backgrounds. But at the same time this also views that everyone is suspicious regardless of race, ethnic, or religion. Treated as equals in the view of the cameras and the dog. Terrifying movie.
This weekend I went to an awesome record store in Seattle called Easy Street Records. Man oh, oh man was I was in vinyl record heaven, at first glance the store had some records, merch, and cafe. And I was a little excited to fully know to expect, so I checked out a few bins seeing that it was a marked sale. And some rows wrapped around the upper level which was small but it had a whole lot of vinyl records. Words cannot explain the feeling in a record store and a great one for that matter. But what made this store worth the trip was the number of rare records that you cannot find at Best Buy, Barnes n Nobles, Wal-Mart or Adventure Land Comics store. This place is my top favorite record store aside from RIP "Off the Record" which unfortunately went out business.
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