RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • Cracking the Agrippa Code

    Cracking the Agrippa Code nodalpoint: n 1992 cyberpunk author William Gibson wrote a short poem called Agrippa (a book of the dead) that tells about memory, loss, nature and mechanism, all framed by a Kodak photo album. The poem was bundled into a Mac System 7 application and included on a 3.5” diskette in the back of…

  • neil-gaiman: A few weeks ago in London, Amanda showed me this video in email. She’d just got it from filmmaker Jim Batt. I watched it with the artist Judith Clute. When it finished, we made Amanda show it to us again, and then again. We laughed and gasped in the same places each time. I…

  • I tell artists this all the time: You have to do your history. If you don’t, you’ll be forgotten. The ABC No Rio Interviews: Alan Moore (via eyebeamnyc)

  • dropouthangoutspaceout: Roger T. Whitson reviews Alien Phenomenology I didn’t really get that until I found myself confronting all of the conflicting feelings that came out of reading Alien Phenomenology. Who cares about the phenomenology of a chicken wing, really? It seems like such a useless and meaningless thought. But, then again, I’m reminded of the fact…

  • newyorker: newyorker: African drumming is polyrhythmic: conflicting rhythms are played simultaneously. Skilled dancers can move two, three, or even four parts of their bodies to different rhythms at once. A master drummer is said to be able to “make the djembe talk.” Such speech acts may be figurative or literal. The Yoruba “talking drums” can…

  • Because the knife is polished they think it’s sharp. William Carlos Williams, The Embodiment of Knowledge, “Science and Philosophy” (via interruptions)

  • museumoflatinamericanart: Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was one of Mexico’s most prolific photographers, with a career that spanned nearly fifty years. The exhibition Lola Alvarez Bravo:The Photography of an Era will be on view at MOLAA from September 23, 2012-January 27, 2013. Image credit: Lola Álvarez Bravo (Mexico, 1907-1993) Diego Rivera, 1945  Gelatin silver print Familia…

  • robotcosmonaut: Emiliano Zapata via mudwerks

  • rgr-pop: fossoaposto replied to your quote: One day someone knocked at my studio door…. what do you have to say about the GI Bill – inquiring minds want to know! BRIEFLY: the U.S. dominated colonized dominated the postwar art economy because the U.S. profited off of World War II. The war basically obliterated France, Germany,…