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1. Be Kind. If this is the one thing I manage to do, I’ve done enough. Kindness may seem like a personality trait, but I think of it more as a habitual spiritual practice. Being kind has taught me that simple, seemingly insignificant human interactions can be profound. It has opened people and their stories…
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williamlmoore: it was really cold and i only lasted from about 10 until about 1. here’s to better weather next year.
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williamlmoore: Hanging out for Silas Soule2013 hang out
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yourplasticbag: DIS read this essay by Nick Faust in Dis
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Maps of “The map is not the territory.”
whaamblr: The only thing is that the map… ..the map is not the territory ——Sam. John Frankenheimer: “Ronin” (1998) It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory – precession of simulacra – that engenders the territory. ——Jean Baudrillard: “Simulacres et simulation” (1981) We say the map is different from the territory. But what is…
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I began to … keep my eyes open while walking around in my daily life. Bits and pieces of reality, bits and pieces of something that could be cobbled into the arena I need this character to have, some sort of agency. And the pieces I came up with were just the sight of kids…
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jtotheizzoe: Mathematical Films of Manfred Mohr Just stumbled across this collection of digital math and geometry films created by pioneering digital artist Manfred Mohr in the early 1970’s. This stuff puts most modern GIF artists to shame, and he made them in Fortran IV on a CDC 6400, which is considerably less powerful than Photoshop.…
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Toward an experiential art
stilleatingoranges: We have said that art does not exist. However, those works which are called “art” do exist; and, when we are immersed in them, we have experiences. The most honest aesthetic theory does not go beyond these immediate surface experiences, in which the viewer connects to the work intuitively, without attempting to take control via…
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There are of course many photographers who work completely outside of the assignment-photography mainstream, and I admire their tenacity. However the truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a pure artistic practice. After all, the fine-art and gallery circuit is simply another type of market, with frustrations that I think…