BRAINWRENCH
Created by Robert Spahr in June of 1998. BrainWrench was a website of digital images that could be sent as electronic greeting cards. All images were divided by either Love or War.
BrainWrench is best described by the BrainWrench Manifesto. The sacred and profane are all expressed through innocent-appearing eCards, that turn the BlueMountain.com and American Greetings format upside down.
Thousands of people have used these images to share with others ideas not easily expressed.
BrainWrench Manifesto
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
life
a baby
a street persons cough
urine in the subway
cotton candy in the sky
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
cold pizza early in the morning
that knowing glance across a room
arms around you that care
gas station humor scribbled fast off 80
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
room tone
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
the sort of expression you feel fast like the flu
butterflies you swear you have seen before
that really great meal you will always remember
chocolate ice cream on a kids sleeve
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
a wood screw, rusted in the rain
the sound of mucus hitting pavement
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
that feeling the knife really did cut you
the relief when you were wrong
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
the smell of wet newspaper
the smell of people when they come out of the rain
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
brown
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
the cabs all off duty when everyone is going home
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
sealing wax and Michelangelo
that moment when a child looks at you for the first time, again
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
soft skin
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
that akward moment when no one talks
a smile
a fuck you
the finality of the end
When you are BrainWrench, you are:
decay
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Robert Spahr
New York City 1999
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