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...take you down there," she recalls of her Tribeca neighborhood. But she fell in with a community of artists and made money fixing up loft spaces with Philip Glass, who was driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...
...adaptation of the “hamster nests” that the two artists had previously created privately in hotel rooms. Over three days, Snow shredded 2,000 phonebooks in a large room that was then torn apart. Paint poles were stuck into the walls, bottles into the sheetrock, and bodily fluids were spread everywhere in between. A press release for the show states, “The artists themselves are not interested in the destruction that lies in their wake per-se, but seek rather a total freedom of expression, and an expression of the relationship with each other...
...social mobility is failing. (A new study by the Economic Mobility Project finds that American men in their 30s are worse off financially than their fathers.) Real estate may not offer double-digit returns anymore, but it does offer an atavistic promise of security, a nest egg embodied in Sheetrock that you can touch and dirt that can't be outsourced to Mumbai. Property fever is in our blood: this country made its fortune in sweet real estate deals--a Louisiana Purchase here, a few trinkets for Manhattan there--and these HGTV shows tap into something primal...
...Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says. "But if you drive around, you'll see nobody putting up Sheetrock or restoring houses." Plus there's one other major unknown. "Everyone is waiting to see if the levees are going to be ready for June," says Reed. "That's when hurricane season begins...
...would it be like if you had to spend the rest of your life in an outmoded office space? Maybe we should check back in 30 years. People are like hamsters, especially bureaucratic people. These films leave traces of our scurry in the tunnels of pressure-board, fiberglass and Sheetrock. Given time, these things become the proverbial cardboard tube at the end of a roll of toilet paper, chewed to shreds and scattered around the bottom of the cage...