So, the new shelton wet/dry is becoming a little repetitive. Same bizarre stories of weirdos, psychology revelations, cancer cures, American Apparel chicks… Repetition can be positive (Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence), even orgasmic, but usually it’s soporific.

Conclusion: I’m less inspired by working on the site. Conclusion of the conclusion: Starting today, I’ll stop publishing the nsw/d daily. I’ll post once a week, every Friday- the same kind of quoted moments, but by doing less of it, I hope I’ll keep it interesting and exciting for all of us.

Thank you, JC

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We launched the New Shelton wet/dry about a year ago, October 8, 2006 [here’s the first post].

As explained in the about page, this blog is an experiment in creating something new from existing material:

We try to do what Jeff Koons did when he put 2 or 3 New Shelton Wet/Dry vacuums in a plexiglass box, and added a title. We put news in Plexiglass boxes, and add titles.

It also provides a great opportunity to display ‘great shit,’ as George Parker recently wrote:

Shelton Wet/Dry is one of my all time favorite sites. They have really great shit on there. Sometimes, I have no fucking idea what it’s about. Perhaps that’s why I love it.

Today our monthly traffic is about 300,000 page views (200,000+ visits per month).

Technorati ranks the New Shelton wet/dry 1,850 of the blogs in the world (with more than 2,000 links from other blogs).

Thank you (so much) to each of you for making this possible.

Special thanks to Jean-Charles and La Shampoo for their support.

ps. we’re taking 4 days off to rest from the hard work! See you next tuesday.

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We try to do what Jeff Koons did when he put 2 or 3 New Shelton Wet/Dry vacuums in a plexiglass box, and added a title. We put news in plexiglass boxes, and add titles.

It’s rather an experiment than journalism.

It’s about editing news, about the concept “editing/commenting is creating” developed a century ago when philosophers (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, Foucault to name a few) made Philosophy by commenting past Philosophy.

Almost everyhting everything is quoted and nothing is signed: French writer Marguerite Yourcenar once said that it doesn’t matter who is writing. What matters is that it is written.

Also: Personality is like a collection of traits that we all share, and that we sometimes borrow from each other, but the totality (of qualities and traits) is peculiar to a specific person. That’s how one differs from another, by creating a different mix of existing traits, by tuning these traits to various degrees.

The word personality originates from the Latin persona, which means mask. We spend our life building this mask, and make it attractive, unique, different, coherent… It’s about editing traits and influences. It’s about creating something new from existing material.

artwork { Jeff Koons, New Shelton Wet/Dry Triple Decker, 1981 }