March 2012
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck (via tobia)
So much to share. Soon.
February 2012
“People respond well to someone who is sure of what they want.”
– ANNA WINTOUR (via tobia)
“There are as many paths to God as there are souls on Earth.”
– Hadith (via ajarfullofdreams)
The Life of an Artist...
About 15% is creating work. The other 75% is editing created work, crafting statements, applying for grants/residences/shows/publications. Then there is that 10% spent agonizing over all these processes. Let’s not talk about how many hours I have spent in the last month crafting six paragraphs.
I am an artist. Feels good to say that.
“What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is...”
– Lacan
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Next Seminar: “Social Memory in Archaeology” «... →
Memory is not data stored in the mind, but ‘emerges from the mutual engagement between the person and world’ (Jones 2007). It mediates between the past and the present and is not a passive reading of external information. It is part of the ongoing process of interpretation and re-interpretation of the world.
Memory can also change through time and memories can be eradicated. Connerton (1989)...
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JSTOR Binge
I just discovered that my Stanford login for online journals still works. I am currently on a JSTOR binge. The world of online resources and archives is amazing. I should have been a librarian.
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Archaeolog: Between Media Archaeology and Memory... →
Where shall we look for memory?
In the digital world memory is cheap. We regularly snap photographs of scenes which under the different circumstances presented by analog photography (number of shots per roll, production costs, etc) we may have hesitated upon (see Tringham (in press)). Do more images necessarily equal more information? Yes and no.
Think of a camera as a clock. Each image, a slice...
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Books on Mormonism and Scientology?
Everyone who knows me knows how much I love reading about religious minorities and “non-traditional” spiritualities. Anyone with good suggestions for books or films on Mormonism and Scientology, please let me know.
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“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– Comment/response left on the Racialious post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” »BOOM! (via tobia)
how to fly without leaving the ground: Beware of... →
caitsmeissner:
Energy vampires drain positive energy in many ways, such as:
Intruding on your life, ignoring boundaries and privacy (energy vampires don’t think of you).
Making big deals out of nothing. Energy vampires are often called “drama queens” because they can turn a broken nail into a…
Being honest and transparent about someone else’s faults is not a courageous act; rather, it is simply deferring a more essential task. That task is being honest and transparent about your own faults. Tell the truth to yourself. Come to terms with your own mistakes. Admit your role in poor decisions. This is courageous.
Safia Elhillo: "The Love Child of Frida Kahlo and...
Published at Well&Often Press
by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Image: Andre’ D. Wagner
Somewhere between forced iambics, obligatory revolutionary regalia, exaggerated movements, and strangely timed inflection, I decided that spoken word was the unfortunate anachronism that all responsible citizens had the responsibility to contain and neutralize. I’d much prefer to sit with a stack of...
