to: matej andraz vogrincic
<matej_andraz@yahoo.com>
from: vuk cosic <vuk@ljudmila.org>
date: thu, 12 may 1999 13:52:35 +0000
subject: Hey Matej, two things about your house

In Venice everybody is a model, and all streets are fashion shows.

Once I was sitting at a square while it was raining and all tourist groups were wearing those weird huge anti-rain condoms in different colours. You could tell one group from the other real easy: the yellow ones here, the red ones there All models. That's when I heard the sirens and the flood came, the acqua alta.

Everybody was waiting for this, and have jumped on the walkways in the middle of the streets. Models on catwalks, perfect. It was just a matter of time when somebody would finally dress a house there, and it makes a lot of sense that you are doing it.

And let me tell you one more thing.

In times much before these, in a past so remote that the words of today don't apply anymore, in that lost era numerated by christians as year of their Lord 1995 I have spent an important few days in Venice with a group of friends. We were busy talking about net critique, net theory and net art which are most important to me now. Inumerable activities in the past years have put subjective centuries between today and then, just like as if we spoke of times of Casanova.

You must admit that it's strange how the accellerated nostalgia of today have met the superslow sentimentality of Venice. Well, that's what your house is all about if you ask me.

Yours truly,

Vuk