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You Never Know What You’ll Find in a Book →
Rob sent me this nice essay by Henry Alford in the New York Times about why people leave things in the pages of books.
November 2008
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The writer Marshall McLuhan liked to point out that of all the modes through...
– taken from Sanford Kwinter’s book “Far From Equilibrium”
Some quotes about seeing that my friend Jed sent my way…
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. - G. K. Chesterton
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don’t even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. - Colin Neenan The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William James
The human...
Phil passed this along a few weeks ago right after the election. It’s a great example of how repetition & juxtaposition can go a long way in telling a story.
Quickly threw together an animated loop from the photos I took today in the lighting studio. Used some grids to highlight small portions of typeface. The loop is comes from Andrew Thomas - Fearsome Jewel (9) off Kompakt Records.
Since its inception Basic Channel has become a byword for a certain kind of...
– Taken from “Underground Resistors” in The Wire (#150, August 2006)
October 2008
15 posts
A motion sketch for a 3d face that i’ve been working on.
Music Reference 001
These three tracks are representative of the kind of music I’m drawn to; bare, analog yet electronic and repetitive. If you take the time to listen carefully, you’ll notice that’s its more than just a loop repeating over and over again. Keeping in mind the phrase that’s being repeated over and over, you’ll notice a subtle interplay between the all the parts of the...
In essence, Basinski is improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time...
– Pitchfork review of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops by Joe Tangari
A straight line as defined by geometry cannot appear in nature. Still we...
– Excerpt taken from Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher/Josef Albers (1961)
If we are indeed living in a fragmented society (and we believe we are) then...
– Experimental Jetset
Interview with Lucienne Roberts (2005)
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Second try with shifting planes.
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First try.
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