I could only do two walks this week- couldn’t put running shoes on due to “egg” on my food where something hit the blood vessel on the top of my foot just wrong. But tomorrow, I will walk even if only for 20 minutes.

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I’ve gathered together all the scrawling Flowers scribbles, in multiple b&w composition notebooks, and tomorrow plan to start typing up some of it. I’ll worry later about drafting more sections and even later about editing.

See more progress on: Write a novel that is a cross between a sci fi space opera and a regency historical romance (code name ( Read more... )

Anyone following these short and not so short bursts of writing will have by now realized that I am focusing most of my readings on the visual and performing arts, though right now my focus is a bit more on the visual arts, which I have less familiarity with. I read about exhibitions that I will not be able to see not just to torture myself, but ( Read more... )

Genius: The Modern View is an Op-Ed piece by David Brooks. One reason I am counting it as one of my readings and writing a little blurb about it is that I want to share it with my students in the fall and writing helps cement something in my memory. Another reason is that relates to one of my art projects, An Exercise.

Brooks gives a quick gloss ( Read more... )

In It’s Official: Models Look Good, a fluffy promo piece disguised as a piece of journalism with only the faintest hints of a whiff of a trace of art criticism, Guy Trebay suggests that muses must be silent and that fashion models are “perhaps the last silent film stars” because they do not speak but are compelling to look at.

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n It’s Official: Models Look Good, a fluffy promo piece disguised as a piece of journalism with only the faintest hints of a whiff of a trace of art criticism, Guy Trebay suggests that muses must be silent and that fashion models are “perhaps the last silent film stars” because they do not speak but are compelling to look at.

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Spooky Action at a Distance just opened in Australia. (For those who wonder; no, I don’t have magic teleporting powers, I live vicariously through eFlux and Art Agenda email announcements). Spooky is a double joint joint effort bring together artists Anat Ben-David and Martin Bell, and curators Adi Nachman and Andy Mac.

The title of the show is ( Read more... )

I did a few readings today that I will write up tomorrow, but today has been very long and fairly stressful day, and I’m about ready to go to sleep.

But in this time of pandemic panic about swine flu, I wanted to give y’all a little gift. This “reading” is more an art listening experience. Stephan Zielinski made music by feeding the amino acid ( Read more... )

Blogademic is an awkward, fugly duckling neologism, the kind that would have to have pork chop tied around it’s neck to get the dogs to play with or even eat the damned thing. Yet, it seems to be accepted in some blogging circles, though I had never come across it until today. This may be because I have had only the most cursory interest or ( Read more... )

part of An Exercise. I was able to do crunches and significantly modified push ups tonight. Which was wonderful. I did not try to go for my previous number of reps, because just the positions for the crunches and the modified push ups puts a small bit of strain on my calf- which I need to do in small doses. The push ups really were a series of ( Read more... )