Anodyne
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
 

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Saturday, December 27, 2014
 

ACT (Aesthetically Claimed Thing): Gene Beery, Cavalier Hybridization, 1986
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Friday, December 26, 2014
 
Reading: Ariella Azoulay's The Civil Contract of Photography (2008).

Making, and preparing to make, new pictures.  I made nothing good in 2014, which might be cause for optimism in 2015.  Or maybe not.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
 

Typist Amy Fung on businesswoman Sky Goodden on artist Brad Phillips.

"Those grapes must be sour," said the fox.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014
 

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"[A]n ascetic life as a practicing artist, though not as a member of the art world..."

"[A] new kind of 'gifted amateur,' a bricoleur, a tinkerer..."

And a (willfully deliberate) misreading: "Passing my ideas and feelings through the historical prism of another's work."
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Monday, December 08, 2014
 

Christmas arrives early this year: JW (2009) on MD.  The author bio at the back is a conceptual artwork of its own, a block quote from Wikipedia's JW page, three of whose sentences are still recognizably mine, all these years later.

(Also noting in passing this tiny cloth book's resemblance to an as-yet unmade Ron Terada painting)
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Friday, December 05, 2014
 

Steven Soderbergh, Psychos, 2014

Relevant to my interests.  Also see fan edit.
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Thursday, December 04, 2014
 

This beautiful pop song, previously unknown to me, found via Spotify & Joseph Brennan's excellent Gibb Songs.
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Tough Love: Socializing Feral Kittens, parts #1, #2, and #3
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"In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time." (Chris Marker)
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COFFEE GAL: Hey!  I like your new toque!

CJB:  Thanks!  Best $15 I ever spent.

COFFEE GAL:  I get mine for a dollar.  At Army & Navy.

SFX:  "Frolic," by Luciano Michelini
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014
 
Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft
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