Last year, roughly, I was taught to count the days, this year, counting enables me to do a great number of things. D. calls out the number of steps as we ascend or descend. I count out the coffee pouring into my glass from the machine. I use timers to cook. Timing is distance, is [...]
treasure
April 17, 2008 – 9:41 pm
Youtube is growing to be our visual (and aural) archive. I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIzKdmDxdD0
spoof of dutch entertainment shows
April 17, 2008 – 9:07 pm
It’s a generational thing I guess: imitations of Dutch show hosts from the seventies through to the nineties: Wim Kan; Toon Hermans; Seth Gaaikema; Freek de Jonge; and Youp van het Hek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJHrgh9rw4
enaction
April 17, 2008 – 6:02 pm
[...] I am skeptical of the idea that perception proceeds, as it were, from the retinal image to the perceived world. According to the enactive view, we do not construct the world from the retinal image, we encounter it in our active exploration making use of our understanding of patterns of sensorimotor contingency. Perception is not a [...]
wondering
April 17, 2008 – 5:03 pm
I’m writing a proposal for a presentation for this. It’s an art conference that’ll take place in Birmingham, UK, this summer. I’ll quote a bit:
[John Szarhowski] designated photographs as either ’windows or mirrors.’ The ‘window’ relates to the subject matter being of prime importance - a straight recording, and the view of the photographer is secondary. [...]
erasing i/eye
April 17, 2008 – 4:39 am
Stephen Kuusisto and Petra Kuppers offer this interesting text:
Auto-graphein occurs when the blind man arrives on the sidewalk with pencils forlornly arranged in a cup.
He cannot write. He does not know where to place the “I” of autobiography.
His street performance says he’s merely a self ‘acted upon’—the self arranged alongside the useless instruments of writing.
Therefore the [...]
