Brian,

Short flash stories.

Paint: Tony Shifrazzi gallery in Soho. He handled Warhol and Keith 
Haring. I got a call some irrate performance artist had thrown gold 
paint on the storefront of the gallery. Could we come and remove the 
paint before it got too well set? So I went and looked at it. Quite a 
mess all over the glass, the cast iron, the sidewalk. Yeah sure. So I 
sent out the crew w/ paint stripper and pressure washers. Got a report 
back that crazy things were going on there. Some story about how 
Shifrazzi had been involved in stealing gold bullion from the irrate 
artist's father in Iran buried in a secret cave. What? As the crew was 
working the irrate artist sat in his 60's era convertible Cadillac 
across the street and videotaped the removal of his gold paint. That 
would have been enough except the car was painted all different colors 
and was decked with all sorts of fuzzy gew gaws... an artiste's car, and 
this irrate artist dude with the purple spikey hear with all the metal 
piercings etc. ...I should not forget the leopard stripe leotards and 
the aviator's scarf... was bounding all over the place shooting the 
scene and yelling at the top of his lungs. What reminds me is Twy's 
comments on beer cans on the cornice... what got the crew most upset was 
not the scene on the street but that tenants of the building from higher 
floors were simultaneiously dropping flower pots off their fire escapes. 
I always think back on this project that we were the working-class 
deconstructionist artists.

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Brian Robinson wrote:

> I have no doubt that if we collected the top 20-30 stories from this 
> group we would have enough material for a book

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