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http://le-too.blogspot.comCinematheque Films is guerrilla education for a collective of at-risk adolescent HIV+/AIDS boys studying art in radical, self-directed ways. We've been prostitutes, junkies, thieves, and potential suicides. Most of us are from the street. Art is all we really have. Traditional education has failed us. We have rejected the status quo. We seek to interject our subversive ideas into the dialogue that defines what art is today.http://le-too.blogspot.com
http://le-too.blogspot.com They say I've lost my mind.I assume this self-righteous diagnosis would put most people off. You don't want to be known as someone who has lost their mind so you go out of your way to avoid those sort of labels. You alter your behavior so as to appear to go along.But if you are an artist, I am not sure your mind works that way. I am not sure your neurology functions like that.When people say that -- "You've lost your mind, Barrus" -- I just shrug. So what.Then the re...
http://le-too.blogspot.comShe saved my life. I do not know if she sees herself as a dancer or not but she is one.I was drowning then. In a lot of things. In the fragments one piece at a time. Way, way, way over my head. Lost in this morass of a thing I did not know how to escape from.Did it have to do with another guy. It usually did back then. I don't give them that power anymore. I am content with how things are. My marriage is different. My relationships are different.Because I have constru...
http://le-too.blogspot.com Art guerillas rule. And fuck your private property and fuck you, too. Cinematheque Films is guerrilla education for a collective of at-risk adolescent HIV+/AIDS boys studying art in radical, self-directed ways. We've been prostitutes, junkies, thieves, and potential suicides. Most of us are from the street. Art is all we really have. Traditional education has failed us. We have rejected the educational status quo. We seek to interject our subversive ideas into the di...
http://le-too.blogspot.comMotoko Rich at the New York Times insists I have disappeared.Motoko Rich at the New York Times only wishes we would all disappear. How do the already invisible disappear, exactly. Those pesky-troublemakers. Is that another magic trick, the invisible becoming more invisible. Do we need the Haters Seal of Literary Approval. I don't think so."He's vanished into the witness protection program."Motoko, honey, I'm in Paris. It's in France. I left the United States. People l...
http://le-too.blogspot.com I can survive most things and their fists. There is always a fog whose presence will obscure your location and anything you might see coming at you. There are always rocks waiting for you somewhere. Always a storm that will rip your doors from the hinges. There is always a ripening beneath a stray and starboard sun.Tim Barrus http://le-too.blogspot.com
Tim Barrus is an artist who lives on Place Vendome, Paris, France. http://le-too.blogspot.com
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