{"id":729,"date":"2009-06-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/top_10_list_of_stupid_death_tr\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:00:00","slug":"top_10_list_of_stupid_death_tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/top_10_list_of_stupid_death_tr.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 list of stupid death tricks (performance art with a penalty)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stupiddeathgun.jpg\"<\/span>Death does not have to hang heavy in your head for you to be a fan of Obit<\/a>. (I’m a fan, and I’m singing a happy tune as I type this. Worms crawl in, worms crawl out.<\/a>..<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Fellow AJ blogger, Jeff Weinstein<\/a>, contributes to the site, most<\/strike> recently with a fine piece titled Hidden Memorials<\/i><\/a>, on ephemeral Sufi shrines in the desert. <\/p>\n

All that is by way of saying Obit’s Top 10 List of Stupid Death Tricks<\/i><\/a> is not just anybody’s death-trick list. <\/p>\n

Number 3, for example:<\/p>\n

A prop can still be a deadly weapon.
\nActors on Hollywood sets are routinely warned to be careful with guns used as props, but in 1984, Jon-Erik Hexum, a star of the CBS action series Cover-Up, pretended to play Russian roulette by putting a blank-loaded .44 Magnum to his temple. “Let’s see if this will do it,” he reportedly said, and pulled the trigger. The burst of hot gas fired at close range penetrated his skull.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’d like to read a top ten list of stupid death tricks that didn’t work. Chris Burden<\/a> in his reckless youth would loom large on it, when he attempted to electrocute himself, and had himself shot, nailed to a VW bug and stuffed into a sack left in traffic. The trick here, in the format of a top 10 list, would be to convey to an undifferentiated audience why everything he did continues to matter so much, to not make a joke out of some of art’s most soulful moments.<\/p>\n

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Death does not have to hang heavy in your head for you to be a fan of Obit. (I’m a fan, and I’m singing a happy tune as I type this. Worms crawl in, worms crawl out…) Fellow AJ blogger, Jeff Weinstein, contributes to the site, most recently with a fine piece titled Hidden Memorials, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}