Rob Ray

Each line from Scarface with the word "Tony."

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Where'd you learn English, Tony?
You ever been to jail, Tony?
What about homosexuality, Tony?
Just answer the questions, Tony.
That's pretty funny, Tony.
I'm Tony Montana,
Tony! Montana!
Tony Montana! Come here.
Waldo, this is my friend, Tony Montana,
Tony, that's Omar Suarez
And I am Tony.
Where you from, Tony?
Tony!
Frank Lopez. Tony Montana.
Tony Montana.
I need a guy with steel in his balls, Tony.
You, Tony and your compadre here.
I'm sorry about your friend, Tony.
Tony Montana. Elvira.
Tony boy, and you never forget it.
for this bottle, Tony.
How you like it, Tony?
Yeah, sure, go on, Tony. You dance.
aren't you, Tony?
Don't get confused, Tony.
Tony?
"Always." It's beautiful, Tony!
I'm doing hair, Tony.
I'm sorry, Tony.
No. Tony, wait a minute!
Tony, wait, please!
No, Tony. Please.
I like you, Tony. There is no lying in you.
You tell me, Tony.
...don't fuck me, Tony.
Hey, Tony.
This is not the time or the place, Tony.
What about Frank, Tony?
Hello, Tony. Well, you remember me?
Tony, baby, we gonna talk...
Well, that's not my business, Tony.
You ought to smile more, Tony.
Tony, why don't you find your own girl?
You got some nerve, Tony!
...Tony and I are like brothers,
Are you afraid of Tony?
You afraid of Tony's kid sister?
Tony!
It's Tony.
Yeah, Tony.
Tony, what happened to you?
There always is, Tony.
Anyway, I'm glad you made it, Tony.
What is the gun for, Tony?
Tony, why the fuck would I hurt you?
All right, Tony. I was the one.
in Spain, Tony.
Okay, Tony?
Please, Tony?
Please, Tony, I don't want to die.
Tony, I am begging you.
 Look. Tony, no, don't kill me, please.
Sure, Tony.
Tony! Thanks.
I got to do it, Tony.
Come on, Tony. Don't be a schmuck.
You should know that, Tony.
It's boring, Tony.
Tony, the law has to prove
When you gonna have another Tony
Sit here, Tony.
You have a problem, Tony.
It's embarrassing, Tony.
Is that a problem, Tony?
That's wonderful, Tony.
...what we're becoming, Tony?
Tony, everything go okay?
Tony, what time do you got?
I don't know, Tony.
I don't know, Tony. He just took off.
Tony, your mama called. Gina's gone.
What happened, Tony?
Tony, what happened?
My partners and I are pissed off, Tony.
No, Tony, you can't do that.
They found what was under the car, Tony.
Tony, I can't find Manny anywhere.
Jesus, Tony.
Tony, we gotta get outta here, man.
Tony, we can't stay here. We gotta go.
No! This is Tony's place! Let me go!
She's gonna be all right, Tony.
Tony. Take it easy.
Is this what you want, Tony?
So you want me, Tony?
Here I am, Tony.
I am all yours now, Tony, you see?
Come on, Tony.
Tony, open up! Open the fucking door!
Please! Tony!
Tony, open the fucking door!
I'm Tony Montana!

I, along with a whole pile of other people, will be ustreaming a performance as a part of Channel TWo's "Daisy Chain" event this Friday May 13th from 4pm-8pm PDT.

My performance, titled Boom Harangue, uses Richard Serra and Nancy Holt's 10min 27sec Boomerang (1974) public television broadcast as a script for an improvised streaming performance.

The idea for Boom Harangue is this thought I had about the Internet as a tape delay – both definitions of tape delay (the audio-effect device and broadcast media's use of the term). So it seemed like a natural fit to dig up Serra and Holt's Boomerang and go from there.

Come perform with me online! Or if you're in Chicago head on down to Antena Gallery!

More info at Adam, Jessica and Oskar's Channel TWo site and on their Rhizome post.

My Ustream (goes live 4PM PDT 05/13/2011): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/robray

Boom Harangue at
Daisy Chain: An Anarchic Performance Event
Produced by Channel TWo
Antena Gallery
1765 S. Laflin, Chicago, IL [map]
May 13, 2011 6pm-10pm

Woop! Psyched to be in THE OCTAGON's upcoming TWEEN show! The line-up (below) is insane. That room is going to look totally crazy.

-----------HERE'S THE FULL DETAILS-----------

THE OCTAGON presents
TWEEN
a one night event, 7-10pm, Saturday, May 7th

TWEEN is a survey of responses to the animated GIF via animated GIF-the bastard child of early motion picture technology and most pesky annoyance generator capable of rendering the most sober of images into perpetual ridicule. Local, national, and international cultural workers were asked to either create or curate an animated GIF. The show is divided in two parts.

1.THE RACE
Emphasizing the personal computer as the frame for production and consumption, 30 animated GIFS will play simultaneously by a diverse yet local slew of artists, designers, curators, writers, art historians, and cat fanciers, as they all race their animated GIF to personal computer battery death via an ad hoc computer lab.

2.TWEEN SCREEN
Projecting the animated GIF to a monumental scale via the 15' TWEEN SCREEN;  the wee GIF file will reach new lofty proportions that are incapable of experiencing at home in your mom's basement.

TWEEN is a one night event and all GIFS and documentation, as well as a text by Steven Pate, will have an eternal afterlife where you can revel in its planned obsolescence at http://tweenchicago.tumblr.com. TWEEN is a project in collaboration between artist Christopher Smith and Octagon Gallery.

Participants include:
Aaron Orsini,   Adam Farcus, Adam Grossi, Alberto Aguilar, Alicja Zelazko, Angeline Evans, Arielle Bielak, Adam Trowbridge, Ben Russell, Big Bad Ron, Brandon Alvendia, Brian Wadford, Burak Birinci, Chris Hammes, E. Aaron Ross, Eric Fleischauer, Emily Keuhn, Hooliganship, Isak Berbic,  Jake Myers, Jesse Avina, Jon Satrom, Kevin Jennings, Kevin Robinson, Kirsten Leenars, Kyle Fletcher, Laura Boban, Lara Unnerstall, Mark Sansone, Michael Radziewicz, Miguel Cortez, PaperRad, Philip Parcellano, Philip von Zweck,  Rob Ray, Silas Reeves, Steven Pate, Tim Pigot, Tom Burtonwood, Theo Darst, and many more!

THE OCTAGON gallery and screening space
1318 N Milwaukee
Apt 300
Chicago, IL, 60622
http://theoctagongallery.tumblr.com/

A looping figure study.

Your sidebar items are stored in a plist.

I found a pretty solid writeup of how to find, open up, and modify the correct plist file.

From the terminal

cd ~/Library/Preferences

then

find . -name  *sidebar*

you should get a file named something that like com.apple.sidebarlists.plist.

Running open com.apple.sidebarlists.plist will open the Property List Editor.

Go to useritems (at the bottom of the list) and expand it.

Go to CustomListItems array and you will see Item 0, Item 1, Item 2, etc...

See which one you want to delete and use the "Delete Item" button at the top of the Property List Editor.

You'll need to quit and relaunch the Finder or log out and back in to see the change.

The "Russian Woodpecker" is a sound I grew up with. My father, a ham radio operator, would be tuning the radio to listen to some faraway country and the signal would get stepped on by this pulsiing sound known by radio nerds as the "Russian Woodpecker." He would be infuriated, but I was totally fascinated by this mysterious signal of unknown origin and purpose. Many late nights I would stay up late in my dad's radio shack turning the dial hunting the Russian Woodpecker and dozing off mesmerized by it's incessant mechanical clucking.

I recently learned the Woodpecker's official name was Duga-3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker) and was shut down in 1989 as a result of the thawed out Cold War. So I thought I'd make a short sound piece imagining the last 20 minutes of the woodpecker's life and what it might sound like to perform along with it. I made twenty hand-stamped and numbered CD-Rs of this piece for Erik Brown's totally awesome ASCII exhibition of multiples at the California Clipper in Chicago, IL USA on April 27th 2011. For more info on Erik's series check out http://www.archeospiritist.com.

Note: This track is best experienced on headphones or with a nice subwoofer.

Rob Ray - Bedside Performance with the Russian Woodpecker (Duga-3) by Rob Ray

Also, Cole Pierce has posted some pics of other peoples work from the evening. Great stuff!

A big shout out to What It Is for screening You Can Do It! Good Job! at the MDW art fair last weekend. For those who missed the fair or aren't in Chicago, here's a looping Vimeo embed.

Psyched to announce I'm in EC Brown's The Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative, Illinois (ASCII) "group exhibition and offering of audio multiples" at the California Clipper next Thursday!

Multiples and audio by Jon Bollo, EC Brown, Chris Hefner, Bruce Neal, David More, Caroline Picard, Cole Pierce, Rob Ray, Julia Rooney, Kendrick Shackleford, Paul Shortt, Edra Soto, Ralph Syverson, Bill Talsma.

If you're in Chicago come on out in your elegant attire! Lots of stuff to be shared!

The ASCII Specifications

1. Participants will create multiples, to be given freely or available for non-monetary barter.
2. Multiples must involve recorded audio.
3. No direct digital transfers can occur during the timeframe of the event itself.
4. Attire shall always be elegant.

Specification extensions for the first ASCII event:

• 23 songs. The first word of each will be added together to form a description of its themes (a poem, a paragraph, a haiku and a sentence etc. - punctuation can be added afterwards at the creator's discretion)
• All adherents must wear a blue flower (real or homemade) on the night of the event.
• Packaging should include a blue flower (marker, sticker, printed, etc).

ASCII
A group exposition & offering of audio multiples.
Thursday, April 28 8:30-10pm
California Clipper
1002 N. California (at Augusta), Chicago, IL [map]

The mighty @superanne RT'ed this total bummer of a Guardian article. Particularly the last two paragraphs where French officials are like "Hey, it's cool."

The French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, condemned the vandalism as an attack on the fundamental freedoms of creation and expression, but recognised that the art work could shock audiences.

The secretary general of Civitas, Alan Escada, told Le Dauphiné Libéré paper: "I don't support or condemn what happened," adding that the attack on the picture "reflects an understandable exasperation" with the museum.

If the French govt. shocks me, is it OK if take out a hammer and smash them in the face and stab them with a screwdriver?

So I'm fuming but then... but then... the erratum. OMG. Hilarity. Scroll to the bottom and look for the bullet point.

Also, whomever at the Guardian made the human-readable URL for this article has to have a sense of humor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/18/andres-serrano-piss-christ-destroyed-christian-protesters

The Chicago MDW Art Fair is this weekend!

Saturday/Sunday April 23 and 24th at the Geolofts, 3636 S Iron Street, Chicago 60609 to be exact [map].

I'm humbled and psyched to have my You Can Do It! Good Job! video in the company of some totally amazing artists courtesy of What It Is gallery!

Lise Haller Baggesen
Tom Burtonwood
Lauren Carter
Colleen Coleman
Theodore Darst
Anni Holm
James Jankowiak
Sabina Ott
Rob Ray
Andrew Rigsby
Stoic Swine
Anthony Vizzari

If you run Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro like I do. The classic Windows vs. Mac Ctrl vs Cmd keyboard problem will rear its ugly head.

To move the Ctrl functionality over to the Cmd key just to go to

• System, Preferences, Keyboard.
• Click the "Layouts" tab, Click the "Options" button.
• Go to"Alt/Win key behavior"
• Check the "Control is mapped to Win keys (and they usual Ctrl keys" radio button."

I searched high and low for these instructions and never found them anywhere. Of course, once I figurd it out I searched for the phrase "Control is mapped to Win keys (and the usual Ctrl keys)" radio button. and found many good results such as http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1293081

Grr. I have no idea why this text is written in the past tense? Also, It would be nice if the radio button gave a shout out to both Mac and Windows users. Perhaps something like "Move Ubuntu's Ctrl functionality to the Windows/Apple key." or maybe even have the "Mac Keyboard" setting do something.

Otomata is rad little sequencer I've been running in a browser tab all morning. It's particularly nice when the app barfs a little bit when opening a new browser tab or launching another app.

Your settings get saved in the URL so you can send them to your friends. Here's one I made!

http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=3a5a6a7i

Temporary Service's Designated Drivers exhibiton at the Block Museum opens this Thursday!

I am psyched to be one of the 20 artists they invited to contribute a USB memory stick to the project!

Social Mobility: Collaborative Projects with Temporary Services
April 7 - August 14, 2011
The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 [map]

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This exhibition is the debut of one of our most recent undertakings, Designated
Drivers. We gave an twenty people and groups each a 4GB portable drive to fill
as they wished. The drives are  presented in a publicly-accessible space,
attached to wall-mounted retractable laundry lines. Visitors will be able to
load their own laptops or devices with the information on the Designated
Drives. We are also offering use of a computer and free CDrs/DVDrs in the
exhibition space for those who wish to load Drive information onto discs to
bring home. We've made a free booklet with writings and images from all the
contributors that is available on site.

Our intention with Designated Drivers is to get you out of the house. The
information from the drives is not available in its entirety in one virtual
location, like a website. We're hoping that viewers will come to Designated
Drivers exhibitions, mingle, talk to each other about the files, and help
create a file-sharing atmosphere that is physical, social, and special. We are
inspired in part by the cassette tape traders and VCR linkers of the 1970s and
1980s who would swap footage together.

An amazing array of information in the form of images, films, audio, code,
programs, writing, and graphic design has been contributed by our Designated
Drivers: Lisa Anne Auerbach, the Cake And Eat It Collective, Matt Bua, Jessica
Westbrook & Adam Trowbridge, Terence Hannum, Vladan Jeremic & Rena Raedle,
Deborah Stratman, Sarah Ross & Ryan Griffis, Gregory Jacobsen, Dan Gleason,
Alexis O'Hara, Hideous Beast, IC-98, Loud Objects, Ricardo Dominguez & b.a.n.g.
lab, Tim Ivison, Tim Kerr, Rob Ray, You Are Here, and Cara Baldwin.

*Note – when you come to the Block, please bring your laptop, flash drives,
and/or whichever devices you have for toting along electronic information! We
really want you to take this stuff and see and use it.

There is an opening reception at the Block on THURSDAY, APRIL 7, from 5:00 –
7:00 pm. Our friend and fellow artist Michael Rakowitz will be delivering
remarks at 6 pm. Please join us – Brett, Marc, and Salem will all be there.
Perhaps we can all go somewhere afterward and swap GIFs?

My friend Andrew snapped this at the Fort Worth Botanical Garden. UGH!

Psyched to be driving to SXSW tomorrow with Bucky in the back of my truck for the Firestarter party at SXSW in Austin! A 20+ hour drive, but it's a part of the country I've never seen before. Psyched!