“Work Produce Consume Pollute” sticker by Custom Flotilla

This sticker is vinyl, for outdoor use on your car bumper, lawnmower, or trash can; or for indoor use on your broken dishwasher, grey filing cabinet, or document shredder.

“All Known Metal Bands” t-shirt by Custom Flotilla

Custom Flotilla - detail of “AKMB Black” t-shirt (2014)

“All Known Metal Bands” t-shirt by Custom Flotilla

Perpetual Motion [felt]

Blaise Pascal: "56. We are so unhappy that we can only enjoy something which we should be annoyed to see go wrong, and that can and does happen constantly to thousands of things. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when things go badly would have found the point. It is perpetual motion."

“All Known Metal Bands” book – page view

Since this is a list of all “bands” and not all “band names,” if a name is used by more than one band, it is listed that many times.

“All Known Metal Bands” book – spread

Many people have pointed out that this book was obsolete immediately, and wondered why someone would have a list like this printed when you could simply consult lists on the internet for the most complete, up-to-date info. Part of the playful (in a non-ironic way) nature of this object is that it is kind of like a tomb of information, a snapshot, a monument to the human tendency to wrap our arms around the impossible and solidify the ever-shifting. Also, as a document that could only be assembled in a reasonable amount of time in the internet age, it is a successful attempt to limit information and to separate it from hyperlinks. This book has one kind of information only, and I find that very liberating as a reader, and respectful of a reader’s attention.

“All Known Metal Bands” book

I considered this piece of conceptual art finished when it had been printed out on plain white letter paper. But, lo and behold, through persistence (thanks partly to completing Tony Robbins’ series of “Personal Power” cassettes) I managed to have it published and it became a rather nice-looking coffee table book.

“Dodecadiscoteca” performance view

Performance view at The Lab, San Francisco, 2006.

“Dodecadiscoteca” performance view

Songs included “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis, “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas, “Sailing” by Christopher Cross, and a selection from the “Barbra Streisand Christmas Album.” Behind the players I placed a montage made of some of the record sleeves.

Smoker Furniture