It’s beautiful up here. And I’m feeling like I’m having an actual piece of vacation. Even though there’s work in the morning, I have felt relaxed and happy all afternoon. In fact I feel good enough to rant. Sometimes the New York Art world (which is shorthand here for the Current State of Affairs in… Continue Reading
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My issues…
Here’s what Times Square looked like this morning when I exited the subway: faux football field with bleachers, pavilions, people milling about in costumes and tourists everywhere. SIgns urged people to deal with their issues through physical activities like “Dance like no one’s watching you” or “Punch your problems”. It might seem like this is… Continue Reading
On the ground, or why this post doesn’t have a snappy title…
More time mucking about with the Nikon. I’m beginning to warm to it, although I hate using the view finder. It irritates me always having the camera lens identified with the eye. I’ve just finished Jaron Lanier’s You are Not a Gadget, a driven critique of online life and current trends in computing. Jaron was… Continue Reading
Introducing the rantlet…
Listening to Grace singing “Bullshit”, if singing is really the right word for it. Doesn’t matter: I still love her. There’s a whole degree of “I’m bat-shit crazy, now and for eternity” in her whole career that I just have to admire. I’m suffering from the inverse of the usual web rhetoric inflation impulse; every… Continue Reading