From Photos taken on the 8th of a month.
From Some January 1/8/2001 Impression: Chicago story documentary on Studs Terkel. Passion for life, passion for "common" people, and a zest for things interesting. Will subsequent generations produce a rival?) He called himself a "gold prospector" while sifting through all his recorded interviews. This is what I try to do with music ideas, lyric ideas, and this diary. 1/8/2010 People criticize people that are addicted to their iPhones. But there's nothing more profound than the addiction to the automobile, and the result is ultimately on the stresses it puts on resources and the environment. *** Re: The interactive installation "I Want You To Want Me" at MoMA: This is interesting vis-a-vis what I'm thinking about re the 'Window Art/Mirror Art' axis. The exhibit seems to be overly obsessed with gazing deeply into the mirror, rather than looking outwardly for transcendence. By only using what people type into websites we only see a 'stylized' version of behaviors. It is merely feedback, although it may be useful in seeing the undercurrent of our emotions, similar to seeing what the Big Bang looked like as opposed to seeing only through imagination. While this may seem transformative, it might actually diminish imagination. And once people are aware of themselves being tracked, may artificially load the system with inaccurate data as people dissimulate reality. *** Dynaxiom: Photographs are artifacts of experience. 1/8/2011 Arizona Dem congresswoman Giffords shot at Tucson rally. Six others killed, including one nine-year-old girl, born on 9/11 (apparently with a precocious interest in politics). Now politics has reached the 'postal' level and is conflated with gun rights and extreme righteousness. Ironically, she is a supporter of gun rights. 1/8/2013 Two-year anniversary of the shooting of Gabby Giffords. She and her husband were interviewed by Diane Sawyer. One can imagine their empathy for all gun violence victims in the last 2 years. She is a supporter of gun rights and one would think she carries, but some people probably would never be brave enough to use it. 1/8/2022 Bowie's 75th. Revisited some interview greatest hits. Podcast Episode: On Tactility In Music Watched old 1980s doc on Frank Lloyd Wright, just because it was there in my YT feed. One thing I'm sure of is he must have become somewhat of a misanthrope and rather championed things interesting and beautiful in architecture, which have withstood the test of time. *** Question on Quora: If you could change anything about the music industry, what would it be and why? I always wonder why I answer these questions, but then I realize that it's a reason to think about things, then use the writing somewhere else. This is also why I wonder if people are just texting now how will that add up to anything in the future? Zero historical value? In a practical sense, we can become involved in exploring how artists can monetize intellectual property. This is partly the idea of using the Blockchain, and in some ways has the same revolutionary spirit of Napster as a form of restoring ideas of democracy and equality. But I wonder if it's simply a paradox in which compromise is the only viable solution. *** 1/8/2048 From Reset 2046 (Anthony Townes) Jon sent me a story about the future of music being more microtonal and raga-based and wants to start using it as an AJ. We've never thought that ethnological history going back centuries could be "algorithmic", but it is in fact, as it has existed in cryptoculture since the 2020s.
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I started a new series derived from the diary photos where I overlay them based on the day of the month, e.g. 12/8/2018 Over 11/8/2015. (I'm actually using the Overlay mode in Photoshop). It makes history "transparent" and you can get interesting juxtapositions.
A good term for this would be "metaphotography", art made with the use of metadata. Photos taken on the 8th of a month. 1/6/1934
Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Car #2 is finished. 1/6/1966, Friday From The Complete Beatles: Yet more overdubbing onto the tape of "Penny Lane"...none of the instruments was taped pure...recorded at 47-1/2 cycles to speed up on replay. 1/6/1995 From the Brian Eno Diary: "I've never kept a diary past about 6 January (so I know a lot about the early Januaries of my life)." What a difference 55 years makes...from bouncy Beatles pop to the end of democracy in the US: 1/6/2022 Sunny and cold, 10 degrees 1/6@1. A very strange day. 9/11@1 felt much different. Half the country is celebrating and half wants to avoid it. A few years after 9/11 I wrote: "Forget September". I want to write one for January. What we didn't have in the first few years after 9/11 was social media. Jimmy Carter chilling op-ed in NYT with a stark warning about "losing democracy". I've read a few books on coups in history and it never crossed my mind that it could happen here. In fact, the idea that it could happen here has always been floated, but always dismissed as not being possible given the trillions of dollars the US has spent on nation building and protecting the American way of life since the 1940s. Carter is now 97, born in 1925. He was 16 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. By the time he was an adult, the US was well on its way to the present moment in terms of the fear and paranoia that drove geopolitics, and in which he was also involved in while he was president, including going along with the idea of arming the Mujahideen as a continuation of the militating against communism. Biden gives a commemoration speech, pulling no punches. Very risky in my view, but like Carter was averse to bold risks, or simply playing the game he never liked but felt forced to in extremis. There's the old saw that "just because you can doesn't mean you should". Yesterday I was assessing what I'm going to do with the InSum series in future editions. The thing about e-books is that you can continue with them indefinitely, but should we? Should there be limits on content? Now that we can generate content with AI ad nauseam the sky's the limit. But we can't consume that much information without some kind of framework. That's one of the ideas behind serializing the diaries into months and days. It's easy to create within that structure.
When I create new content it's usually through YouTube video transcripts that I use as raw material for the diaries. (This piece of writing is from a video transcript). You can generate a lot of text from voice and I think a lot of people are doing that these days. [Eventually, content gets "sequeled" and "prequeled" out. Serial thinking makes the sky the limit, and that's a good limit, instead of the universe being the limit. Many of the books are now in their second and third editions. The third editions will not have any images in them as I decided that I would create a separate blog for them. This is the better option rather than the very small images in the books. Amazon charges a download fee to the author, so I had to optimize them accordingly, resulting in tiny images with no zoom.
The other change I might be making in the future is that I will stop making e-books and just publish a print version of all the books. The downside of that is that they get too large. The original first edition of all the books was about 215 pages. The initial plan was to keep them at 215 pages but that was back in 2021 and there's been a considerable amount of new content. New essays and riffs that I've done are probably going to double the size. Do I want 12 400-page books? One of the advantages of e-books is that they eliminate bulk in long open-ended serial texts. 1/4/1998
Interesting book: Emerging Infection Microbial Threats by Lederberg. It remains to be seen if the new bird flu out of Hong Kong can be transmitted from human to human. If so, we're all sitting ducks. 1/4/2004 Mars rover lands successfully, first pictures beamed back. At first, you think they look boring—a shot of the sun from Mars, then you realize the significance. It's like a baby's first step, a rite of passage. But how many Americans will care: they're just pictures of rocks... 1/4/2012 Romney wins by a razor-thin margin in Iowa Caucus, apparently by only 8 votes. The days of Landslides are long over. 1/4/2022Omicron infections exploding around the globe. 1/4/2047 (Anthony Townes) From Reset:2046 A day of interviews and meetings. First the accident investigator, then Dr. Stone. Apparently he runs clinics that assist war veterans and athletes who have sustained brain trauma. He also has a son who has Progeria Syndrome. Neone told me she knows him through her friend Ramona. She says I know of them but I'm still dreaming through life. Everyone is from a dream. Stone suggested I start a course of treatment which is all immersion. Art therapy in PM. Started several new works. The therapist thinks I'm moving too fast, but I really love this. She still wonders why I won't do neuroart. |
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