Sensational effects of this game
June 26, 2006 - Chamalières, France

I do really like the way you're showing what we've been fed up with since You-Know-When. You chose a flipbook and I'd say you're choice is not only interesting but reveals the reality of human relationships.

Your flipbook is a toy and I think the war we're all living on Earth (even if we're not feeling it as strong as the ones who live under the bombs) is like a big endless game in a schoolyard. We're all like children: there is the strong guy, some who dare attack the strong guy but keep hiding not to be destroyed, and the others who jump on the sensational effects of this game (I think you and me and loads of Euro-Americans belong to the third part). And finally, in middle position there is the big candy packs we're all fighting for.

We're all weak children in this large schoolyard and we're killing each other for a candy packs. Your flipbook will help me and my friends to live again the turn of the game.


How would you feel if I started selling September 11th Flipbooks for money and profit?


I think that big channels like CNN, FOX or TF1 (French) are using terrorism in a quite more critical way than you could do by selling it for profit. Iraq war (1991) has been lived in direct by the Americans. Media wanted the audience to watch it like a series... for entertainment. But now their point of view is not only biased but calculated to feed the fear in the western populations and therefore to keep people under domination. Because Terrorism can touch everywhere. I think Michael Moore (whom I do not like so much) is showing it well in Fahrenheit and Bowling for Columbine.

If you sell your flipbooks I'm sure you'll give people the opportunity to think. They'll see that scene without any comments from journalists. They'll feel it in their own way...I did study art a bit this year and the main question we had to think about was the presentation of art... the link between the object and the viewer. We do not care if it's politically correct or not.. But the fact that 9/11 is still in the memory and that we do not know how another people could react seeing that scene on a flipbook help me to say that your flipbook could never be a stupid gift we exchange with friends.. You cannot get it without glancing oddly at the one who did offer it to you.

But to speak once more about presentation, I think it's the first time an artist is using the Internet to collect reactions. I think what we call art is not the flipbook itself, but the way you're introducing it to the spectators. D'you remember the museum where you cannot touch anything, where you must stay behind the red line.... it's over... Let's exchange, Let's poke our noses into everything...

Philippe Dubost

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1. Sarah Baker March 12, 2006 Omaha, Nebraska The very first essay
2. Sean Smith May 10, 2006 Toronto, Canada Tactical application of slowness
3. Mike Fischer May 17, 2006 Racine, Wisconsin My birthday is September 11
4. Pat Riot May 23, 2006 Los Angeles, California 9-11 FLIP OUT
5. Julian Miller May 31, 2006 New York, New York Desperate grab for attention
6. Scott Grant June 5, 2006 Bristol, United Kingdom I wished I didn't own a television
7. Daniel Clark June 6, 2006 Henderson, Nevada Media Monotony
8. Damon Lawner June 10, 2006 Los Angeles, California Concise yet massive story
9. Natalie Conforti June 12, 2006 San Francisco, California American student in Italy
10. K Torpy June 13, 2006 Omaha, Nebraska Incomprehensible accessible
11. Pierre Ernest June 18, 2006 Borsbeek, Belgium I also was born on Sept. 11th
12. Timothy Schaffert June 18, 2006 Omaha, Nebraska Lesson in commerce and tragedy
13. Chris Fischer June 18, 2006 Landisville, Pennsylvania i could give a fuck less
14. Aaron Norhanian June 19, 2006 Brooklyn, New York Hold the moment in my hand
15. Anonymous June 19, 2006 Anonymous. i think that Bush planned it
16. Steve Chudomelka June 19, 2006 Omaha, Nebraska Caught in the moment again
17. Adam Arsenault June 19, 2006 Prince Edward Island, Canada Respecting each other's visions
18. Pierre-François Maquaire June 19, 2006 Paris, France I collect folioscopes
19. Kim Lyvang June 20, 2006 Ontario, Canada My life is now richer
20. Alexis Turner June 20, 2006 Portland, Oregon Listen to *me*
21. Patrick Hughes June 21, 2006 Gainesville, Florida I would not like a 9-11 flipbook
22. Philippe Dubost June 26, 2006 Chamalières, France Sensational effects of this game
23. Jean-Pierre Becker June 27, 2006 Paris, France I could smile about your question
24. Jayne Sonshine June 28, 2006 Twp. of Washington, New Jersey Hold a piece of history
25. Tabitha Straws June 28, 2006 Seattle, Washington Selfish American
26. K. Verbonus June 28, 2006 Steilacoom, Washington Everyone wants to be right
27. Jo Bryan June 28, 2006 Cambs, United Kingdom Another frantic day
28. Hayley Gardiner June 28, 2006 Northampton, United Kingdom Not just about the victims
29. David Vogt June 28, 2006 Rockford, Illinois Feelings and emotions of others
30. Nick Jugovics June 28, 2006 Paxton, Illinois Made from suffering
31. Lennaert Bosch June 28, 2006 Cuijk, The Netherlands Ten and a half year old
32. David LaBrue June 29, 2006 Marysville, California Trivializing those events
33. David Pitman July 1, 2006 South Wales, United Kingdom Slap in the face
34. Tracy Cowell July 1, 2006 Somerset, United Kingdom Agree with it or not
35. Candy VanOcker July 1, 2006 Springville, New York This happened to everyone
36. Fadel Haowat July 1, 2006 Chicago, Illinois What the news can do
37. Daniel Sahagian July 1, 2006 North Arlington, New Jersey Light against Hate and Ignorance
38. Sam Brobvision July 1, 2006 Nottingham, United Kingdom Little effect on my life
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40. Susan Rabka July 1, 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa I might as well have been there
41. Nicole Brodsky July 1, 2006 San Francisco, California Arbiter of the act
42. Julie Gormly July 2, 2006 Brisbane, Australia Uncomfortable sharing
43. Nicola Dingle July 2, 2006 Somerset, United Kingdom Seize the day
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45. Ricardo dC Russo July 3, 2006 Manaus, Brazil World is full of lost words
46. Pascal Fouché July 4, 2006 Paris, France How people can see it
47. Anthony Mack July 4, 2006 Lacey, Washington ALL humans strive for freedom
48. Teri Jenkins July 6, 2006 Ontario, Canada Deepest sympathies
49. Alexandre Noyer July 6, 2006 Annecy, France Internationnal langage
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52. Kell Black July 11, 2006 Clarksville, Tennessee Small matchbox diorama
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60. Dave Schneider January 29, 2007 Chicago, Illinois Remind me of "real" pain
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62. Thomas Hill February 6, 2007 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma perception is reality
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64. Frank J Perrotta December 5, 2007 Sharon, Pennsylvania 9-11 Flip Book Manipulations
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66. Kristin Heikel March 16, 2008 Omaha, Nebraska Reporting and Voyeurism
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