"Fair to middlin'...," she says, visibly, audibly, olfactorily tired. Like a threshold, I think to myself but say nothing since she looks and sounds unready for clever or even philosophical fat chewing. "How have you been?" I had asked reflexively. "Fine, and you?" That's what I expected if I expected anything at all. But instead, a verbal grimace, "Fair to middlin'." I can't help but prologue her ...
Photograph
Invention
"Invention, the spontaneous generation of new rules, is central to art." ~ John Gardner ...
Now. Play.
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ~ Alan W. Watts Dusts by Mindaugas Pov https://vimeo.com/118719607 I doff my noggin topper to Mindaugas Pov for his February 4, 2015 short-short film called "Dusts", a visually enrapturing sequence overlaid with the voice of Alan W. Watts. The filmmaker from Vilnius, Lithuania limits his explanation to technical notes: ...
Theme Thoughts
[pullquote]No contrivances. Lots of empty. Lots of blank... A digital studio for analog content. A subtle stage for unsubtle acts.[/pullquote] 40x41 is presently profiting plenty from the 'press prowess of Caroline Moore. She's a WordPress themer who who seems to favor creative, whimsical, relatively simple (in the sense of unnecessarily cluttered) user interfaces. I fumbled upon Spun a while ...
Mapless
"Art is the act of navigating without a map." ~ Seth Godin ...
Compost
I've called it munge, the Daily Munge, for two decades, a term I pilfered from an article about archeology and layers of detritus compressed, transformed over time, long-long time. But the article vanished. Or maybe my memory invented it for want of an apt metaphor. Munge. Unverified. And while it’s served me well enough over the handwriting, typing, and dictating days since, I have begun to ...