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About Me

In an age of consumerism, life is driven by market forces and popular culture preaches homogeneity, art in the community mimics the latest consumer fads on television and intervention is ditched for the (community craft) love in centre for the rehabilitated visionaries of yesteryear. Live life.Crag Active; a measured response completely derivative and utterly at odds with the dependency culture dictat that drives the art machine into our communities ticking boxes, practising low altitude free form existentialism on the back of a five pound note whilst replicating the new age impressionism that is rampant in our culture, where the soul of an artist is more likely to found branded and worn on the well formed feet of the consultant whoâ€™s budget is index linked to salary and performance criteria.Crag Active volatile, argumentative, self destructive, questioning, anarchic, the reason the answer, the motivation: life not to except but to encourage, not to dictate but to provide opportunity, not to deny but to assist, the celebration of the arts the joy of making the right to make, the right to participate and opine..anarchist or socciopath the right to beI edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

the art as social sculpture; creating interventions that stimulate thought and challenge perceptions .. pics by Cameron MacKenzie SPACE2007

I'd like to meet:

artists makers creative thinkers practitioners dreamers deconstructors imagineers poets writers sculptors puppeteers.. those who have not lost the desire to play learn and innovate..

Music:

ORB Hawkwind Biosphere Syd Barret Air Shooglenifty Aphex Peatbogs Transglobal Underground Stranglers Velvets Ambient Trance Celtic Fusion anything with squiggly electronic noises in the background that .....messes with you head in the nicest possible way

Movies:

Space 2007 Carrick Festival of Light Girvan
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|Nosferatu Brazil Apocalypes Now Trainspotting Lock Stock

Television:

why don't you switch off you televison set and do something more interesting instead like....choose life

Books:

Banks to Welsh, passing through Gray and Gibbons on the way,Kerouac and Morgan, Zola, Kafka and Heaney books that teach, that encourage thought, thet allow the heart to sing and the head to fly, books that I find, that are doorstops and paperweights of a time out of time and in a space..

Heroes:

the invisible man the hero within

My Blog

balance

stumbling from reality to dream in a waking way forgetting the nuances of conversation in the passage of a day sun crests the horizon as breathe condenses on metal shards perceptions clarified b...
Posted by cragactive on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:47:00 PST

Fire Poi Girvan Beltaine 2008 Burning Man

Artists Performers Musicians Fire Poi Sculptors Builders Poets Puppeteers interested in building something new and unique for one off performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJMLjy4gEFc...
Posted by cragactive on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

truth

isn't it absurd the truth hinged on the word that spun on the edge of the table and fell to the floor shattered into a thousand pieces and spread out in a silent surge across a world chastened by fea...
Posted by cragactive on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:02:00 PST

drugs rugs and barstools

art star rock star how far how far gone from the bottom of a glass to the top of a class from hanging on the streets to popping pills like sweets attitiude with a conscience or a head of sawdust ...
Posted by cragactive on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:26:00 PST

bore

howling winds whistle through clattering slate rattle on the roof overhead a thought stream struggles to shake an elegant torpidity braid the thread as the dream dancer quests for th...
Posted by cragactive on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:58:00 PST

Ghost

Pipe band plays on an esplanade basking in glorious sunbeneath heavy tunics alcohol perspiration begins to run. Beachhuts, faither snores on a deckchair in the shade, mother, granny and the weans at p...
Posted by cragactive on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:39:00 PST

buzz

a new day a new sun the buzz of a breath as the feelings come rushing jumping striving the memory of the gannet diving the white streak the splash as the ocean envelops ripples and eddies th...
Posted by cragactive on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:06:00 PST

walking

an angry man walks a lonely road kicking at the cars as they pass burning and twisting in anger and pain each footstep stepped could be his last rain whips a maelstrom hair stings the face...
Posted by cragactive on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST

dream town

A dying town even the ghosts have gone. The shoals of humans that swam amidst the eddying currents of traffic forming queues at ice cream kiosk and chip shop the taste of the new tatties fresh from th...
Posted by cragactive on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:27:00 PST

water

Sea coruscates bewitching the wandering soul pebbles shells and sand grains lay scattered to the far horizon where verdant green hills are bathed in a radiant heat, floating th...
Posted by cragactive on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:09:00 PST