I didn't realize you had worked for AA and the other General Idea folks, but it makes sense. I saw this at a retrospective at the MIT List Museum curated by an acquaintance ... it was juxtaposed with a picture, nearly the same scale on a cornering wall, of his partner holding a newborn they were co-parenting with a woman couple (as I recall).
So yes. Death and life.
That was also the first time I became aware of Nayland, via a video he and AA made together.
it came just before the Benetton AIDSploitation ads, so unfortunately in a lot of people's minds the two became confused. In fact you could see one of those ads, on a billboard, from AA's apartment soon after Felix passed away.
It's kinda weird, AA and I have lived completely different lives and yet been given many of the same issues to work with.
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Date: 2011-05-17 02:14 pm (UTC)http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pLux_lA5KdU/TQ6MfKUH1xI/AAAAAAAAAIw/lcWjMyJgdck/s1600/aa+bronson+felix.jpg
I was actually working for them at the time, and what sticks with me most is what an unfailingly kind gentleman AA was.
But furrbear's image above has a kind of raw reality that takes me right back to being in his place.
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Date: 2011-05-17 02:20 pm (UTC)So yes. Death and life.
That was also the first time I became aware of Nayland, via a video he and AA made together.
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Date: 2011-05-17 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-17 02:23 pm (UTC)I think I'll echo John and offer you a hug.
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Date: 2011-05-17 02:30 pm (UTC)It's kinda weird, AA and I have lived completely different lives and yet been given many of the same issues to work with.