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archives and memories

Memories. how to surface, how to frame, how to recreate. images, in the process of uncovering three decades of work primarily unseen. thousands of images of friends, places, strangers, objects,...

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hipbone

cross paths with a fellow BS‘er, Charles, who is based in nearby Cottonwood. nice to have some high-quality f-2-f time at the Raven for the afternoon. many interesting stories and thoughts emerge in...

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the spring again

head out to Sycamore Spring earlier this morning to allow for a longer period to explore. four liters of water rather than two. forgot to take the pruning saw to take out some of the tamarisk trees...

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the Center

day starts in a noisy campground, packing up, rolling out, the ritual stop at the Center of the Universe where there are further changes — someone has brought in a larger iron tank for the artesian...

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geothermal

Prof. Fred Henderson III of Mount Princeton Geothermal, LLC, meets us in the late morning (thank goodness!) for a briefing on the geothermal development that he is overseeing in the area. the ultimate...

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health care

got to weigh in on health care. so sick(!) of the toxic blather going on within the US, although it might just be that it is a spent nation-state, in the throes of becoming less relevant in the world....

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code and money

Michael Bauwens on the iDC list:

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(in) no time

Willie Wagtails (Rhipidura leucophrys), Minors (Manorina melanocephala) … that entry stopped there. no time to observe and note things when constantly consuming texts and coping with the daily...

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movement and encounter

Morning, mourning notes on encounter, in no particular order. It is on a pathway, the pathway, in the mode of movement, in the shifting of unknown situations, where encounter occurs. These encounters...

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the American Dream is only to survive

David Brooks, columnist at the New York Times writes in this commentary on New Years Day: Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology,...

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upheaval

Upheaving, upheaval. Testing dependence and independence. Just when the path looks stable, where the knowns gradually coagulate to staunch the in-and-out-pouring stresses of un-knowing; the flow is not...

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CLUI: Day Thirty-One — sturm und drang

Pick this night to sleep in the CLUI southbase unit as I had to return some equipment down there. It’s the first night possible to do it after the occupying troops retreat to where-ever they came from....

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arrival and meditation

Have an incredibly erotic dream with Jennifer D., back from the Culture Capitals 2000 project in Prague. Will have to email her. Otherwise watery squint-eyed watching of rotating the stellar field....

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western terminus Yampa Bench

Sleep difficult, not sure why, whether simple discomfort, though the back of the truck seems very comfortable in the immediate impression, warm, soft enough, but body cannot find a comfortable...

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landing

at Collin and Marisa’s up on Glade Park above the Colorado National Monument — sleep in a bit while those folks get down to the airport to prep for their Learn to Fly event that their company, the...

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birth of the DMA

History: National Military Establishment (NME), headed by Secretary of Defense, created by the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), July 26, 1947, which divided the War Department into...

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Freedom in the Cloud

Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Absolutely brilliant talk by Eben Moglen — Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and...

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schizophonia

Originally all sounds were originals. They occurred at one time and in one place only. Sounds were then indissolubly tied to the mechanisms which produced them. The human voice traveled only as far as...

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drenched

brutal day, too late to change it: deciding to go out to the closest bush access — the Blue Mountains National Park up at Katoomba to check it out — bad weather, but this is the only opportunity to go...

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change

The argument may be made that a fence, a window, an article of clothing, a wall are — one-and-the-same — as deflectors of the extant natural flow of energies out there. They represent a set of energy...

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lanfranchis

first-responders on the way home last night. on the way back from checking out the local sonic scene and to meet Shannon and Rick for their solo performances at LanFranchis, a (the!) local alternative...

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OHV

Ready to vacate the camp ground: the omens and portents are not good. Bbbbbrrrrrrrraaaaaaapapapapapapapapa, brapppapapapapapaaaaaaa. Nothing like the amplified throb of hydrocarbon explosion to go to...

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Hector Howey 1948-2007

approaching the solstice, ahead only 3 weeks. too early to be really thinking about it. in a phone call, Deb mentions “since Hector died,” in passing. “what? I knew he had cancer, but when did this...

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Frane the Virtual

Frane the virtual mori gloss And barm in glory midas tock Notter fen inbyro pressed When quinsly Durham bilag lock Full ennil bhutol durm intact And japock frocks were kileray Best green was in a...

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Art and Teaching Philosophy

ART Art, at its social core, is the trace of an engaged pathway. A pathway that conducts the circulation and exchange of creative human energies as they are attenuated by a vast range of mediative...

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dkfrf review

Rinus makes some nice notes on the Amurikan evening at das kleine field recording festival last week in Kreuzberg. Rinus is one of those intelligent and grounded souls who facilitate events that are...

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back in town

Belly full of travel fithrildi. Bland poetic insights into leaving Berlin. Not much to say. I’ll be back is probably the most profound. Sooner than later. Profound unknown, the future, what’s the point...

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mega-equinox

late Monsoon storm rolls by Granite Mountain, seen from the deck. hmmm, Equinox spent in a mega-church, The Heights Church or a church aspiring to be one. dot.com. which suggests the necessity for...

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thesis proposal :: Background

Background for Research While individual human presence in this world has fundamental repercussions on be-ing, it is the ever-present and synergistic exchange between humans — forming what I call a...

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solstice

Transmediale09 tasks start to form up. Though the decision to go to Berlin is not made quite yet. I can participate to a degree without going, working as a remote online moderator for the conference....

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