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a litte bit to tickle your imagination
so you are about to enter the twilight zone, abandon all hope, fasten your seat belts – Restoring Paradise is a multi-level adventure into a Non-Traditional, Non-Linear story, more like a treasure hunt combined with a voyerism aspect of eavesdropping on the life and times of ChrisMuth aka ChrisMyth, Chrisis, Christastrophy, Chrisification, Chrisis Addiction, Chrispiration (as in despiration) – who is ChrisMuth and the ChrisMytholgy you might ask and why should i be interested in him – to find out click anywhere in any part, video/still/audio and you will enter into a Non-Story story… It’s all very questionable, as to whether any of this is real?… the painting – known by the name of Paradise and painted by a famous Austrian painter, Hundertwasser (Dec 15, 1928 – Feb 19, 2000) is real? or if Chris Muth (ChrisMyth) is for real? or a delusional figment of his or my imagination or both or if as he claims in his self diagnosis (below) he is just exccentric, or has an over active empathy or delusions of grandure gland and beyond or maybe he is sane and possibly the sanest person on the planet or if i am crazy or you are crazy or we all live in a yellow submarine and are crazy – or he is just another bad con-artist who conned everybody including me and himself in the process - this among others is the questionable question – come eavesdrop on our conversations and join us on an adventure, a treasure hunt, in search of the real/surreal story behind Restoring Paradise, restoring the painting, the world and ourselves – below is excerpt from Art of Desperation & Chris Muth Self-Diagnosis and below below is more or less some of the recorded conversations and videos of our conversations – please be advised there is unsanitary use of language as well as i play the devils advocate intentionally to provoke him -geo geller
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Authors Note
authors note: first, just as in life this is a work in progress, a random non-linear play/film/radio/narrative playground where you’re never quite sure what or where you are or where you are going too… think of this as a real life mystery as we follow the struggle of ChrisMuth and listen to his adventures… as in life there are a multiple dimensions and layers this layer asks you to eavesdrop on conversations – anywhere you start is fine since there is not beginning nor end – this is a non-linear story that requires you suspend your mind, close your eyes and listen, imagine if you were in a place where cafe, train, sitting on a park bench watching and people were talking and you were there by chance, eavesdropping
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President of US of Earth 11 11 2011
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example of restored RestoringParadise mural might look like after restoration
Lost & Found
beginning of Restoring Paradise story 1/2 hour after first meeting Chris Muth aka Cat Man on Long Island Railroad train I shot this video
in Penn Station NYC telling me how he discovered/rescued famous Austrian artist/architect/dreamer/thought-provoker Hundertwasser
which is now in storage in Brooklyn (note – he is wearing my rePRESSed hat that needs a pressing too)
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Restoring Paradise – ChrisMuth in Paradise (Times Sq) in 4 parts –
Heroics – Dream it Do it – Believe it Or Not – State of Paradise
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5/8/2011 – length 25min 09 sec
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5/8/2011 79min 19sec
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Non-Traditional, Non-Linear Non-Story story click anywhere in any of random audio players below and also on the YouTUBE video below to experience eavesdropping
this is a non-guided tour, where “you”, the “participant”, the “audience” will eventually have many options to be surprised, not only by the content but by how you stumble on things as they unfold…
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49min 6-23-2011
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105min 6/26/2011
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in this segment excerpted from phone conversation 5/8/2011 (complete talk below) – ChrisMuth talks about being wealthy enough to be anonymous, a 15 min conversation he had in Seattle with a retired programmer and humble man about his dog, “he’s so cute” who turned out to be Paul G. Allen, Microsoft Founder and the story mergers into talking about the state of restoring paradise (slightly un-edited)….
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complete talk 5/8/2011 79min 19sec
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5/8/2011 79min 19sec
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in this segment ChrisMuth walking talking in paradise on beach- phone talking about reflections on his life and Hundertwasser and his mother contacting people to sell paradise while walking on the beach where the very rich live with no money in his pocket and beyond (un-edited)…. | 4-30-2011 – length 1:27:30
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part 2 response to question of not being able to restore paradise 4/26/2011
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in this segment excerpted – conversations with ChrisMuth DAY 2 in 3 parts part 1 conversation in train to long Island, part 2 in the middle coming soon and part 3 in pizza parlor (slightly un-edited)…. Day 2 – in the train part 1 of 3
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Day 2 in pizza parlor part 2 of 3 11/22/2010 70min 26sec
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Brooklyn Eagle article 3/30/2011- A Lost Art ‘Paradise’ Rediscovered in Brooklyn By Mike Weiss
Restoring Paradise moving image conversations
ChrisMuth Story You Never Heard in this 3 part segment – Herald-Sq NYC 4/17/2011
ongoing saga of ChrisMuth talks about dreams, life, Hundertwasser andbeyond
ChrisMuth talking at Restoring Paradise storage facility
lost proerty unit -chris muth holding restoring paradise mural of hundertwasser -11-25-2011
In Old Testiment God told “His People” that they didn’t need a king because he could lead them individually. Chris is saying the same thing, and I think that’s true as long as we are willing to allow natural consequences to occur for everyone – including ourselves.
Maybe it was my poor listening at the time, but I didn’t quite get what part was Chris’ real life story and what part was his created story or art of a dream.
Chris’ philosophy closely matches the message presented by Ester and Jerry Hick regarding the Law of Attraction. They say we came to this physical world to create and expand the universe. When we see what we don’t like or want, it gives us motivation to create what we do want. When we focus on any thought with emotion, we co-create with our higher self (soul, what ever you call the spiritual part of yourself)that on which we are focused. The stronger the emotion and the longer the focus, the quicker the mainfestation of our creation. They say this works whether we focus on what we want or what we don’t want. Both become manifesed in our lives because it is a law of the universe. So the trick is to focus with intense emotion on the things we want – even though they are not here yet – and egnore the things in our lives that we do not want. It is not an easy task, but we believe we are seeing it work in our past and present life. It sounds like Chris’ success was due to his emotional focus on getting what he wanted even thoutgh others thought it crazy. I think there are lots of Bibical examples demonstrating the Law of Attraction in both the Old and New sections, so Rock on, Chris and Geo!
Comment by Linda Polk — December 30, 2010 @ 1:33 pm