Buy More Stuff: Sat Dec 15, 1 PM: Westlake Park! (Seattle)

"The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do."

-- Laurie Anderson, performance artist

Last year, me and some friends started a performance art project called "Buy More Stuff". The idea was simple: Get dressed up in corporate slave drag, head downtown with big-ass signs and tell people that they have to Buy More Stuff! And Hurry! Why? Because they don't, the store will run out of stuff...or they'll run out of time!

This ended up being a lot more fun than anyone expected, so we're doing it again! Make a sign, print out some fliers and come on down. It's hella fun.

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# BUY MORE STUFF! #
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WHO: You, your friends, your dog, your attitude

WHAT: Buy More Stuff!

WHEN: Saturday, December 15th from 1 till 5 PM

WHERE: Westlake Park, see "finding us", below

WHY: Because if you don't, they'll run out of stuff...or you'll run out of time!

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# PARTICIPATE! #
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Here's how you can participate:

# Get dressed up in nice corporate-slave clothes (see "dressing" below)

# Make nice signs and fliers that say "Buy More Stuff" (see "making signs" below) -- please make extra signs and fliers!

# Meet at Westlake Park between 1 and 5 PM on Saturday, December 15th, during the peak of the feeding frenzy that surrounds the holidays (see "finding us" below)

# Encourage people to Buy More Stuff! (see "Our Message" below)

Take a peek at these pics from Buy More Stuff from Black Friday:

www.michaelholden.com/pics/v/...s_nov_07

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# OUR MESSAGE! #
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The Message is very, very simple:

# Buy More Stuff!
# Hurry!
# If you don't hurry, they'll run out of stuff...or you'll run out of time!

This isn't political -- we have no social or economic agenda. This isn't judgmental...We are no better or worse than the people downtown to shop. We Buy More Stuff, just like everyone. And when we're done with Buy More Stuff, we're going to Buy More Stuff, probably drinks.

Note: Some people get really pissed off by this sort of thing.

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# DATES! #
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We meet at 1 PM at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle on each of these days:

# Sat Dec 15 -- The official Buy More Stuff orgy!
# Mon Dec 24 -- The Most Desperate Day of the Year!

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# WEBSITE! #
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For more information, please see the website:

# BuyMoreStuff.org

If you'd like to buy more Buy More Stuff stuff, go here:

# www.cafepress.com/buy_more_stuff

Please note: The money that we make by selling Buy More Stuff stuff will be used to buy more stuff, like signs and fliers that say "Buy More Stuff".

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# MAKING SIGNS! #
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Make your Official Buy More Stuff sign by following these easy directions.

# Don't be a dick and show up with some lame-ass hand-lettered sign. If you do that, you're not Buying More Stuff, ya dig?

# If you want a sign you have to print and laminate a sign. (Rain, yo!) Official artwork and directions about how to have the folks at Kinko's make 'em are located here:

www.buymorestuff.org/art.html

# Download, print, laminate, put on stick. Bring extra fliers and signs if you can!

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# DRESSING! #
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Put on your best clothes! This ain't no hippie drum circle. You want people to Buy More Stuff? Then you gotta look like you've got stuff, too. Good stuff, if you know what I mean. None of that geriatric hippie raver lube-soaked tribe.net-dwelling burner drag shit. Got it? This is what we looked like last year:

michaelholden.com/pics/v/Bu...0.JPG.html

Note: It's cold. It might rain. Dress accordingly.

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# FINDING US! #
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In general. we're down by Westlake park. If you want to get text messages about where we are and what we're doing and what we need (ie, coffee, more fliers, bail money etc) please join Swaggle, Jordan Schwartz's ass-kicking text messaging service. It's like a mailing list, but it uses text messages to communicate.

To join, send a text message to 206 694 9197 that says

.join buymorestuff

You'll get a message back that confirms that you've joined. After you've joined, give yourself a name. Send a text message back to 206 694 9197 that says:

.name <insert your name here>

Then send another message to the same number that says something like

Yo, where you all be?

And someone will answer. We'll post updates about what's up with Buy More Stuff as the situation unfolds.

For more info about Swaggle, go here:

www.hive-mind.com/swaggle

Note: The people who wrote Swaggle are burners and they're cool.

Note: Or just call/text me at 206 227 4236 if you can't deal with Swaggle.

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# PHOTOS! #
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Galleries of Last Year's Buy More Stuff Escapades

www.michaelholden.com/pics/v/...oreStuff

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# FAQS! #
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We get a lot of questions about this project. All questions can be answered by reading the "Our Message" section, above. Additional questions can be sent to michael@superpod.com but I might not answer them.

Love (and stuff),

Michael

P.S. Buy More Stuff!!!!

P.P.S. Get ready for XXX-MASS III: "Wholly Dazed", the FREE freak family holiday party, Saturday December 22!