Here you are.
- Jamie Livingston: 18 Years of Polaroids
Ben from the Art Monastery Project pointed me to the work of Jamie Livingston.
Livingston snapped a polaroid every day for 18 years (=nearly 7000 polaroids), from 1979 to 1997. It’s a captivating story, I think, because his daily practice was so enduring, and seems to have been meaningful primarily to him and his friends and family (only secondarily intended for the outside world, which is only now really picking up on it).
Photo of the Day, by Jamie Livingston (Not currently working Pretty slow; seems to be overloaded with traffic)
Livingston’s story, as discovered by Mental Floss
Friends of Livingston, blogging
- Prettiest Train
My last post included a version of “Prettiest Train” by Karen Dalton in Boulder, Colorado in 1962. Now here’s the same song, from Alan Lomax’s recordings of prisoners at Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries in 1948 - 1949.
- “Rust is futuristic moss”
Two things, maybe three:
1) Words by
2)
3)“The School Robot.
They change for P.E. quickly, excitedly.
I’m more deliberate as I get ready.
I’m careful not to reveal the
three thousand wires
that run down my back.”
“We played chess for 48 hours straight.
I thought it was her move.”
- “Blog as Metaphor for Film” as Film Review
Someday, when I’ve reached the limits of traditional blogging, I will compose a post riddled with, if not entirely composed of, links. It will inspire dread.
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I will call it “Logic of Hyperlinks,” from a Slate article on David Lynch’s 2006 movie, Inland Empire
And not only does Inland Empire often look like it belongs on the Internet, it also progresses with the darting, associative logic of hyperlinks… a labyrinth of wormholes and worlds within worlds.
Like Inland Empire, “Logic of Hyperlinks” will make only disjointed sense, and it will be a masterpiece. Some visitors to carrotrope.com will stop reading after the first two paragraphs.
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Links:
- Jim Woodring, of course
Sadly, we missed him at Cafe Racer last night.
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• His Blog
- onset of chaos / edge of chaos
School has begun.
Projects are unfolding, vertically integrating, and squeezing novelty out of magic. My notes from the residency are cryptic:
• Idea for a business: Too much change in too short a time
• Idea for a business: Magnificat
• Idea for a business: Recycled conduit metaphors.
• Idea for a business: Value = limits on boundlessness. That is, choices become easy or disappear.
• Idea for a business: 1) Agitate the images. 2) Shaken awake from the restless sleep of images. 3) Decisive variation, novelty, values.
• Essay idea: “Why art and business must consume each other.”• Trust the shape changer (written on a large work in pastels)
• Bona fide (”in good faith”) activist-in-residence Bill Grace: “You can either look good, or learn publicly.” “Form a relationship with someone suffering because of the way things are.”I will need clients and contracts soon.
