How Many Fingers

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Bill Perry
Robin Collyer
AJ Patterson

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"How Many Fingers" was the title of the last recording of the band "The Government.  Working with AJ Patterson, Robin Collyer created the animated space ship shooting fingers for a music video, which was still a novelty in 1982. Robin allowed me to place his animation into a TV frame, to use in a ART vs Art daily summary #4 - about AJ Patterson.

The title refers to an incident on 8 August 1982, months before the ART vs Art show, when Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau responded to hecklers by giving them the finger.