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Artist David Horvitz knows how to transform the mundane details of everyday life into unexpected quirks that inspire people to action. Over the course of 2009 he posted a new initiative on his blog every single day, enjoining readers to follow his lead and insert some art into everyday life. The popular blog not only inspired people to act, but they also documented their actions. Everything Than Can Happen In A Day features some of Horvitzs favorite ideas as well as an astonishing array of images that document people following Horvitzs cues. From accompanying mail carriers on their routes to fast food restaurant Tai Chi, poetry readings in ATM kiosks and sticking your head in a freezer and photographing it, this book serves as an excellent source for making sure that on any given day nothing feels ordinary.
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Format:Hardcover
I threw this book away immediately after reading. It took me about 15 minutes to read from front to back, and not one thing in there was of an validity. It screams pretentiousness. Don't buy this book unless you feel like insulting someone by giving it to them.
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Dip in and drop out. Look at your world differently.
David Horvitz has calmly offered a myriad of free-thinking things to do, see, appreciate or not.
Hard to describe, but the book contains suggestions which, if you followed them, could make life more interesting on a day to day basis. I don't approve of all of them on environmental grounds, but cannot deny they add interest to a bland existence.
David Horvitz has calmly offered a myriad of free-thinking things to do, see, appreciate or not.
Hard to describe, but the book contains suggestions which, if you followed them, could make life more interesting on a day to day basis. I don't approve of all of them on environmental grounds, but cannot deny they add interest to a bland existence.
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'For the sake of the idea' - 'Reawaken the possibility of possibility'
11 Dec 2010
Format:Hardcover
David Horvitz is an artist who is finding just how potent is the dissemination of information on the Internet can be. This book represents a year long project in which Horvitz daily sent out ideas on the internet inviting people to respond to the idea, not as his idea but instead as their own response to his initial idea thought. Sound confusing, then better to quote Horvitz's own statement: 'Almost every day of the course of 2009 I sent out an idea to an email list, and posted the same idea on a tumblr blog. Anyone could sign up to receive the emails, and anyone could follow the blog....The intent was to disseminate the ideas outward, to send them away and to see (or not see) what happens.'
What 'happened' is the content of this enormously fascinating book. Some of the ideas that Horvitz sent were ''Go on a walk with a postal worker as the deliver the day's mail etc'; 'Go to a popular tourist destination. Place yourself in the backgrounds of as many tourist photographs as you can. Think about how you will become part of other people's memories' (this accompanied by two photographs taken in the courtyard of the Louvre and in front of Notre Dame); 'Leave a a bouquet of flowers in a taxi for the next person'; 'Cover up the sun with a finger' (two sunsets obliterated by fingers); 'With a sharpie make a small sign that says: out of order. Tape this to an ATM when no one is looking' (photograph of just that); 'Go to a museum that has one of Marcel Duchamp's "fountains." When the gallery attendant is not looking, put your face inside the urinal.' (two photograph responses); 'Ask a war veteran to write an apology letter to the country they had fought.'; 'Acquire a highly priced bottle of water. Pour it out on the roots of a tree nearby.' (two photographic responses); 'Make a series of photographs in which you are standing on the trunks of felled trees.' (two photographic responses); 'Try to go to sleep with your eyes open'.
This book of ideas and responses to those ideas contains humor, philosophy, environmental concerns, challenges - all ideas that make the receiver want to respond. It is a clever 'idea' for a project and an even more clever an idea for a book. In so many ways this book is about the essence of art: ideas propagated in new ways to communicate to an audience. Highly original: highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 10
What 'happened' is the content of this enormously fascinating book. Some of the ideas that Horvitz sent were ''Go on a walk with a postal worker as the deliver the day's mail etc'; 'Go to a popular tourist destination. Place yourself in the backgrounds of as many tourist photographs as you can. Think about how you will become part of other people's memories' (this accompanied by two photographs taken in the courtyard of the Louvre and in front of Notre Dame); 'Leave a a bouquet of flowers in a taxi for the next person'; 'Cover up the sun with a finger' (two sunsets obliterated by fingers); 'With a sharpie make a small sign that says: out of order. Tape this to an ATM when no one is looking' (photograph of just that); 'Go to a museum that has one of Marcel Duchamp's "fountains." When the gallery attendant is not looking, put your face inside the urinal.' (two photograph responses); 'Ask a war veteran to write an apology letter to the country they had fought.'; 'Acquire a highly priced bottle of water. Pour it out on the roots of a tree nearby.' (two photographic responses); 'Make a series of photographs in which you are standing on the trunks of felled trees.' (two photographic responses); 'Try to go to sleep with your eyes open'.
This book of ideas and responses to those ideas contains humor, philosophy, environmental concerns, challenges - all ideas that make the receiver want to respond. It is a clever 'idea' for a project and an even more clever an idea for a book. In so many ways this book is about the essence of art: ideas propagated in new ways to communicate to an audience. Highly original: highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 10
Something I was a part of
19 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover
It was really cool to see all of David's blogs in a book. I participated in as many of his "one-a-day" activities last year as I could. I received pictures, drawings and messages from all across the globe.
But it is amazing what can happen in a day ;)
But it is amazing what can happen in a day ;)
Everything That Can Happen In A Day
5 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover
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I recently received a copy of David Horvitz's Everything That Can Happen In A Day and it's been the perfect book with which to ring in the New Year. The book is chock full of ideas, perpetuating the possibility of possibility from page to page. The ideas presented in the book are from a tumblr of the same name to which David posted new ideas to in 2009. He says, "The intent was to disseminate the ideas outward, to send them away and to see (or not see) what happens. "
I sat with the book for a good while yesterday, thumbing its pages, and reading it cover to cover. I found myself laughing out loud, completely engaged and inspired by its breadth and depth. It invigorated me, recharging my creative spirit with its array of whimsical yet thought-provoking images and ideas.
I recently received a copy of David Horvitz's Everything That Can Happen In A Day and it's been the perfect book with which to ring in the New Year. The book is chock full of ideas, perpetuating the possibility of possibility from page to page. The ideas presented in the book are from a tumblr of the same name to which David posted new ideas to in 2009. He says, "The intent was to disseminate the ideas outward, to send them away and to see (or not see) what happens. "
I sat with the book for a good while yesterday, thumbing its pages, and reading it cover to cover. I found myself laughing out loud, completely engaged and inspired by its breadth and depth. It invigorated me, recharging my creative spirit with its array of whimsical yet thought-provoking images and ideas.
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