tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86956567361678833102009-10-02T18:26:08.942-07:00Please feel free to leave commentsUMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-87666078245906686302008-11-02T20:18:00.000-08:002008-11-02T20:40:04.637-08:00

My friend Jewels has posted numerous times on her LiveJournal about various zombie walks she's been on. According to her, the two best days to do a zombie walk are Halloween and Easter (since it was the day that Jesus rose from the dead and became a zombie).I thought it was a pretty good idea, so I went out with an OSACS credit card and bought $50 worth of make up from Party City (crap, I know,

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-36420523222927133092008-11-02T19:42:00.000-08:002008-11-02T20:18:23.251-08:00

At our puppet master's meeting before the GALL school year got officially underway, the GALL elders were discussing various things that the club could do so that we might not run out of ideas like we did last year. One of the ideas presented was to put googly eyes in various locations. It was a good idea, but we decided that the clean-up (since GALL maintains responsibility for clean-up when

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-59750077585072085452008-10-19T20:08:00.000-07:002008-10-19T20:44:09.186-07:00

This has been, by far, the longest running GALL project ever. Hopefully, it will remain to be.The idea was a coalescence of Chris being dead set on a junk art project, and me thinking that beaded curtains are pretty cool. At one of the primordial GALL planning meetings (before we started actually doing things at meetings instead of just planning them), we thought it would be a good idea to build

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-15802478003568448862008-10-07T07:20:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:43:46.349-07:00

Joe Mollo is a genius! This year, in an attempt to draw more people to our pillow fight, we decided to advertise. And since GALL isn't the biggest fan of paper flyers, we chose clothespins instead.Some people were intrigued by the innovative publicity. Some, such as a girl in my Arabic class, greeted the clothes drying accessories with a, "What the fuck is this?"Looks like a clothes pin to meI

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-32320857449365465612008-09-24T09:00:00.000-07:002008-09-24T09:17:20.838-07:00

Our first Poetry Brawl this semester went off without a hitch. The event started off with smack talk similes. Verbal burns were thrown in the vein of, "Your poetry is more watered-down than Natty Ice."Ouch.Then began the poetry. It was a good ten rounds of head to head verbal madness. Here are some pictures:Eric readingMaggie readingMaggie with a crazy faceAfter ten brutal rounds and one

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-31226835487180287272008-09-07T19:54:00.000-07:002008-09-07T20:25:32.481-07:00

This year started off with a bang. At the first G.A.L.L. meeting, Vice President Ben counted 35 people. I don't think we had that many people combined last year, much less at the same time.This year, we came prepared. G.A.L.L. held a secret meeting of last year's members to prepare for the first public meeting. So I came equipped with six cardboard boxes, 4 packs of construction paper, and

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-10656534741722964582008-04-23T21:03:00.000-07:002008-04-24T10:54:30.652-07:00

On the same night that we came up with the spider's web, Heather suggested that we put rubber duckies in the fountain. Happy Heather? You got your due credit.Anyway, I ordered a case of 288 rubber ducks on Wednesday in preparation for Tuesday's ducking.On Thursday, I found a message left on my cell phone asking me to call back Kites, Tails and Toys.Apparently, the yellow rubber duckies, which I

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-55084034732801665892008-04-15T20:39:00.000-07:002008-04-23T21:40:59.873-07:00

When we got back to school this semester, Ben (GALL VP) was already brewing with new ideas. As you might remember, it was Ben who came up with The Blanket Experiment, and shaped GALL as a platform for social experiments (pranks) in addition to poetry performance and street theatre.His first idea (or at least the first idea that I thought was feasible/good) was to throw a whole bunch of paper

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-485015536709210562007-11-15T12:50:00.000-08:002008-04-15T20:42:40.271-07:00

The next day, the project was summed up in a bit of graffiti written on one of the signs:The idea: Heather and I were talking this Saturday about things we could to at the next GALL meeting. I didn’t want to have another meeting at which we benignly plan things. I had thought about maybe going trick-or-bottle-capping, as we are currently working on getting enough plastic bottle caps for the

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-34816932589705875002007-11-07T22:13:00.001-08:002007-11-09T07:48:32.886-08:00

The Set Up: Duct tape a sheet to a high-traffic area of campus walk.The Hypothesis: Most people will assume that it is something important and walk around it. Eventually, as it begins to show signs of trodding, people will begin to feel more comfortable walking on it.The Account: After assigning people to take pictures and video in between classes, we assigned Zack to lay down the sheet and

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-81303393271100250972007-10-30T22:05:00.000-07:002008-08-30T10:32:53.245-07:00

At tonight's meeting, the executive officers offered themselves up as human paper. Unfortunately, we didn't get many pictures, but it did work to get more people at the meeting.You guys wrote "Vote Republican" on Ben's arm in addition to coloring in his fading tattoo, while on my back you first scrawled "I ♥ Boys" with a crudely drawn penis, before covering it up with a strange skeletal

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-45593145816256320872007-10-26T16:18:00.000-07:002007-10-26T16:19:47.839-07:00

We got the go ahead for the Junk Art initiative, so start collecting those plastic bottle caps.

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-54280037109613667442007-10-24T20:27:00.000-07:002007-10-24T20:29:58.363-07:00

Yes, it's spelled with an 's'. Class council is hosting a Halloween party in Great Hall at 8pm on Saturday, October 27th. GALL will be painting people. We'll also have a fun donation booth set up. Please come.

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-23139311503750313692007-10-08T07:57:00.000-07:002007-10-08T08:03:14.187-07:00

What is GALL?GALL stands for Guerilla Art Liberation Lives. Our goal is to rescue the arts from the glass case in which modern society has imprisoned it. We believe that the separation of art from its audience is detrimental to the pursuit of art itself. As a reaction to society, art should also elicit an immediate reaction from society. Our aim is not to create art that will go down in

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-80981830761187472262007-10-04T12:40:00.000-07:002007-10-04T12:43:59.553-07:00

GALL will be hosting a pillow fight on Thursday, October 11th in Ball Circle at 3:30. Show up no more than 10 minutes in advance.According to The Bullet in the Police Beat section, someone in Jefferson got a broken nose from a pillow fight. Therefore, no headshots.

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-84885363344242460522007-09-30T10:16:00.000-07:002007-09-30T10:30:23.402-07:00

Art lives!But art is asleepin a glass snow white coffinwhere people come to Disney Worldand spend money to sit on a sticky cartand watch art from behind a lapbarWhat is GALL?GALL is that one guy that slips outfrom behind his seat, runs over,shatters the coffin andtasers art in the balls and yells,“Wake up, bitch!” and when at is like,“But I’m tired, and my balls hurt!”GALL tasers art again,

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-41424258803815368082007-09-26T08:08:00.000-07:002007-09-26T08:13:37.665-07:00

The Set-up:The Haiku slam should be set up on a sumo wrestling mat. Each poet will be given either a (red) or (green) headband/bandana which correlate to the colors of the two sticks placed in front of each of the judges. There should also be some sort of board (either dry erase or chalk) to keep track of the tournament procession. It would be nice to have a Gong (Tam) to culminate each

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-57305194122729248552007-09-26T07:39:00.000-07:002007-09-26T07:59:04.043-07:00

The Set-up:The basic poetry slam should be set up anywhere that there can be an audience and a designated performance area. Depending on the intended draw, the performance area may or may not include amplification equipment.The Rules:The slam will consist of three rounds. In the first round, each poet performs one his or her poems. After each poet performs his or her piece, the judges will

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695656736167883310.post-67232918015755024322007-09-25T20:58:00.000-07:002007-09-25T21:32:44.495-07:00

Article I: NameThe name of this organization shall be Guerilla Art Liberation Lives (commonly abbreviated “GALL”).Article II: PurposeGALL is about redefining what art is and what an audience does. Somewhere in the course of human history, art has been separated from its audience. Sculptures now stagnate in museum instead of living in common parks. Poems and novels are imprisoned by publishing

UMW Guerilla Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536711254940125405noreply@blogger.com