Farenheit 451 (or, the ridges of thumbprint)
re-reading a yellowed paperback version whose spine has cracked, letting pages loose at every turning. shall I burn it in the next sacrifice action, in a camp-fire in some wild place? Bradbury dances...
View Articlewaterwheel
I responded to Suzon Fuks’ invitation to join a waterwheel performance this week – Wednesday, 22 August, between 1800 – 2000 MST (time converter here) — the detailed info on the performance as well as...
View ArticleWilliam Gibson in Wired
Wired.com: How about Twitter? More than most authors I’ve checked out, your tweet-happy avatar @GreatDismal seems to be most comfortable messaging and cool-hunting on the service. And in the novel,...
View ArticleNicholas Carr
A very intelligent and sympatico Carr (author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” makes a local visit (he’s currently a Boulderite) to present a compelling ATLAS talk last week about neural/behavioral...
View Articlescreening: Jeanne Liotta
Make a pilgrimage to Longmont to the Firehouse Arts Center to catch an evening screening of work by a CU Film Studies faculty-member Jeanne Liotta. I had met her the evening before at another...
View Articlestasis, spectacle and speed? unh-unh!
I just ran across this excerpt from Geert’s first internet-oriented book — way back in 2003 — in the chapter on “tactical education” entitled “The Battle over New Media Art Education.” This is a...
View ArticleThursday, 03 January, 1963
No after effects from yesterday’s shots so far. Gave the Ballistic Plate Dev. Area data (layout) to Paul Gaudette. In the course of the conversation he said that he & Dave M. were going west to...
View ArticleFirst Day of Class
blurr. faces, voices, situations; I seem to have a penchant of being boring when introducing an open framework. At least to the jaded percentage. This comes as an effect of talking about things rather...
View Articlebricolabs @ pixelache
Helping Felipe, Jerneja, Bronac and other bricos get the following text out for our Pixelache Festival presence — still not sure that I can make it, logistically, between cost and timing: it will be a...
View ArticleThursday, 28 February, 1963
Spent all morning & up to about 2 PM working on my notes and additional questions for Peter Pfluke, AS, & JK. Went up to Roi on the 3:55 and talked some more about the Versamat. The shot went...
View ArticleThe Allegory of the Cave
The cave is the world The fetters are the imagination The shadows of ourselves are the passive states which we know by introspection. The learned in the cave are those who possess empirical forms of...
View ArticleMary Caroline MacKenzie 1916 – 2013
My favorite Aunt, Mary, passes peacefully today in Fort Myers, Florida. At 96-y.o. she had a long and active life. More to come on this. I have her entire photographic archive of which I scanned a few...
View ArticleSaturday, 30 March, 1963
Picked up tickets & cash at L2. Clear Arrived at PSC about 9 AM. Paul Bradbury already there. We ran in two new 9-cord cables between the pulpit & radio room. Sldered in six jacks at each end...
View Articlemoving visual thinking
After attending the Brakhage Symposium a few weeks ago, I run across this excerpt from Bruce Elder. It’s a little dense. Brakhage has even argued that artistic forms relate to our embodied nature. The...
View Articlea TAZ is born?
Meaning of Information Technology: dateline, Boulder [AP] Students take control of classroom, locking door, and start teaching each other Chinese, making cut-out collages, doing homework, puzzles,...
View Articlea shared question
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my...
View Articlequick notes
The N-1 event is curious — I wasn’t aware it was a pedagogic exercise to be acted out in front of (!) students at Arcada. This makes it a bit awkward with some of the invited people, though I simply...
View ArticleBrandon
Mindaugas cues me in that Brandon is having a closing performance at a show/installation that he’s got over at General Public, just a few blocks away on Schoenhauserallee. So I wander over for the...
View Articlebig synchronicity
Well, where to start this narrative? In the PhotoWorks Laboratory on 23rd Street in Chelsea in Manhattan in 1986? Or in Karla’s flat in Prenzlauerburg in 2013? I leave there earlier than I probably...
View ArticleDay 3 – Hawk Moon Ridge
Up at 0500 to continue the discipline of yoga on the patio before the bugs make it uncomfortable. It’s perfect in the waxing Light well before dawn. Body is stiff and resisting flexibility, but it will...
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