{"id":10378,"date":"2014-05-26T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/05\/26\/chronicpnin-missvoltairine\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:19:30","slug":"chronicpnin-missvoltairine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/05\/26\/chronicpnin-missvoltairine\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10378 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/05\/26\/chronicpnin-missvoltairine\/attachment\/10379\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4vt1pjSL21tyg203o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4vt1pjSL21tyg203o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4vt1pjSL21tyg203o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/05\/26\/chronicpnin-missvoltairine\/attachment\/10380\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4vt1pjSL21tyg203o2_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4vt1pjSL21tyg203o2_400-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4vt1pjSL21tyg203o2_400-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicpnin.tumblr.com\/post\/86919570470\/missvoltairine-phil-irish-artist-by\">chronicpnin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/missvoltairine.tumblr.com\/post\/85724541931\/phil-irish-artist-by-copyrighting-his-property\">missvoltairine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/phil-irish-artist.tumblr.com\/post\/85599582160\/by-copyrighting-his-property-as-an-artwork-he-has\">phil-irish-artist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By <strong>copyrighting his property<\/strong> as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta.\u00a0 There\u2019s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each year of his life, and there are many \u201cwatching\u201d trees, with eyes scored into their bark.<\/p>\n<p>Oil interests pester him continually about drilling on his land.\u00a0 His repeated rebuffing of their advances lead them to move toward arbitration.\u00a0 They made it very clear that he only owned the top 6 inches of soil, and they had rights to anything underneath.\u00a0 He then, off the top of his head, threatened them that he would sue damages if they disturbed his 6 inches, for the entire property is an artwork.\u00a0 Any disturbance would compromise the work, and he would sue.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after that meeting, he called a lawyer (who is also an art collector) and asked if his intuitive threat would actually hold legally.\u00a0 The lawyer visited, saw the scope of the work on the property, and wrote a document protecting the artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The oil companies have kept their distance ever since.<\/p>\n<p>This is but one example of Peter\u2019s ability to negotiate quickly on his feet, and to find solutions that defy expectations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel like this is really important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>the way my natural thought\/language works is sometimes disjointed and fragmented and sounds off to people sometimes, my first thought reading this was \u201cart is the good\u201d and i think that stands for this very well. good as noun fully intended. art is the good, this is the good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>^^^^ perfect phrase\/meaning\/aesthetic is perfect<\/p>\n<p>also, reading about mythology as hereditary truth, how this country doesn&rsquo;t have the ethos of one with established unspoken rules, and how in this country law rules instead of ethos, and so: this is how you ethos in the law. this is how you good, Deeper Magic, when magic is ignored pretty hard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chronicpnin: missvoltairine: phil-irish-artist: By copyrighting his property as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it. Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta.\u00a0 There\u2019s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/05\/26\/chronicpnin-missvoltairine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-10378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10381,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions\/10381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}