Synaptic Dilutions for Creative Solutions.
I don’t know how to write about other peoples work. It’s not because I don’t know what I think about it, I usually do. I don’t know how to write about my own work either. It’s not because I don’t know how I feel about it, I usually do. If someone expresses the intention of their work I generally understand what they mean. I want to express the intentions of anything I produce but I feel like I get lost. By this I do not mean that by expressing an intention the intention will be lost. To be honest I think thats kind of bullshit. I mean that I am bad at expressing intention. I’d like to be to be better at this.
This next part is only very distantly related to what the paragraph above.
Today I was speaking to my friend Connor Clark. I told him I had watched the documentary film ‘Bobby Fischer Against The World.’ He had recommended I watch it some time previous to today. I told him that during part of the film in which people were describing an extraordinary game of chess I felt moved, more so than at any other part of the film or indeed most things I’ve experienced. Now, I wasn’t crying or anything like that. It didn’t move in a way beyond anything I’d felt before. It wasn’t an incredible cinematic moment, it was just a description of a game of chess and I think if I had experienced the game first hand in real time I would have simply thought ‘Woah that was a fucking awesome game of chess, probably the best I’ll ever see, glad I watched that.”
Vernon Chatman’s ‘Final Flesh’ would be almost impossible to swallow if the viewer wasn’t aware of his previous work with production company/art collective PFFR. Ostensibly four pornographic films, there is actually very little nudity and no penetration. Instead ‘Final Flesh’ is a film about fetish. It’s also about god, capitalism and the end of days but if you’ve ever seen a PFFR show before you’re more likely to expect that. I could write a lot about this film but I’d probably be wrong. I’ll just say that this is a film I laughed at, a lot, in a lot of different ways. And like I did with both Wonder Showzen and Xavier: Renegade Angel, I found it completely ridiculous and I took it very seriously at the same time.
Test film. Made with assistance from Sean Christie.
Sam Falls
An Interview with photographer Sam Falls by Johanna Reed. His thoughts on alienation and the idea that ‘everything is important’ are things I can identify with.
- “if I love my horses and I love my mom, I may as well have one follow the other photographically. “
Letha Wilson is one of the small number of artists working today whose use of photography interests me.
Hosts of Dead (wave)Forms
I’ve been building simple MIDI patterns and then creating simple graphic representation of these patterns. These are segments of the waveforms of one of these patterns.
