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* feel free * >---------- >From: William <we@decrepit.com> >Organization: ¿decrepit? >Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:17:23 -0500 >To: satisfied@complacent.org >Subject: Money on the Streets > > >Thanks to everyone who participated in making Feel? an incredible event. > >We can now offer some answers for those of you who have been wondering >why we wanted to people to pay in $1 bills, and just what was the >"action" the party was raising money for. > >This past Friday, November 24th -- Buy Nothing Day -- the Complacent >collective dropped thousands of one dollar bills into the streets at >34th and Broadway (Herald Square.) Each bill was stamped with the >question "satisfied?" and was thrown from atop a telephone booth to a >huge screaming crowd. After 15 minutes, thousands of dollars and a >street full of mayhem, the police where finally able to arrest the >masked money throwing offender. > >For pictures of this action and more information on upcoming bits of >mayhem, propaganda and events from complacent, surf to: >http://www.complacent.org >(also keep your eyes open for the next event: red, green, blue. details >to come.) > >What Is Complacent? > >Complacent is not about forcing information but about inspiring >questions. We intend to create unique perspectives, autonomous thought >and spontaneous action. We are about reevaluating what we take for >granted or hold dear, are apathetic or passionate about. We intend to >inspire a movement against our culture of complacence. We intend to live >in a provocative, thoughtful world. > >Complacent will be amorphous, growing through ever changing forms and >functions as the community wills it. The only constant will be our >mission to inspire questions. We will be online and off. We will be >inanimate art, animate performance, street action, guerilla media, >internet stuntmen, festival and celebration, plus more and more and more >that we can't even begin to conceive yet. > >* feel free to forward this to whomever may find it interesting. * _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold