Fertile Verge" = "a place of encounter between something and something else." - historian Daniel Boorstein
"Erick asked me what I thought was coming after the infrastructure and application phases of the Internet. I talked about Carlotta Perez' work and suggested that if past technological revolutions...
"A good artist can get your attention. A great artist will enter your mind and deconstruct it. It feels uncomfortable and leaves you with some work to do. If you can manage not to deny the discomfort...
"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?" - Anaïs Nin That's true in general--forget gender. Why wait for anyone else? Why lament, "Why don't they ____!?" Do it yourself. Do it ourselves. Start by crystallizing it in new stories, new films, new poems, new lyrics, new speakings, new spellings, new daydreams, new acknowledgements, new paintings, new sketches, new what-if's... playing make-believe and acting as if. "You never change things by...
I got this totally spam email. It contains a good question. So they want me to put to good use a sum of $650,000. Great, let's play with that. Could I put it to good use? What would I do? (The original headline/subject line was "About the Donation.") And, being my birthday, I thought I'd check out the daily Abraham quote for a year-long emphasis that I will embody: What anyone else has or does not have has nothing to do with you. The only thing that affects your experience is the way you utilize the Non...
"Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings." - Jack Kerouac via The Paris Review It doesn't come from a great script per se, I believe that feeling is where catharsis happens, and been thinking more experential ritual and emotional release ever since a guy sitting nearby at the coffee shop asked me how to spell the words catastrophe and catharsis the other day. via Wikipedia: "Catharsis is a term in dramatic art that describes the "emotional cleansing" sometimes depicted...
Recently came across Foolish People... ... and ties into my interest in locative cinema, interactive art particularly thinking Blast Theory, alternate reality gaming (the ones that blur into the 'real...
Musing on the word, recant....origin/etymology: 1525–35;
From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwvB4_Te8A
Campbell: A myth originates from a poetical insight on somebody's part. He has experienced potentials that all of them [his people in the village] might have experienced had they been poets. Now...
