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A few minutes after I gave this address, an audience member approached me privately and asked whether I was a Marxist. Surprised, I asked him why he thought I might be. He said it was because I had “reduced” the lofty subject of art to a mere question of labour. (Paraphrasing mine.) To him I’d…
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Critical Toy, work in progress, second attempt. Model was reduced in scale be a fraction, from 3.5" in the x dimension to 3.25". The y and z dimensions were scaled proportionately. Work piece (block of Freeman jewelers’ wax) was moved +1 cm in the x and y from the origin. Last time I had tried…
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But he was wrong. Before these tools became widespread, photographers were indeed very much like painters, in both form and function. The camera itself evolved from the camera obscura, literally a “darkened room,” in which one or two people would stand, and record the scene before them, tracing it on wallpaper. Later film-based large format cameras required…
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nprfreshair: Tomorrow is Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday. He might just be the coolest 80-year-old out there. For some Willie reading, last year Texas Monthly did an oral history of outlaw country — “That Seventies Show”: Up to that point, the cosmic cowboys had played to crowds that looked largely like they did. Willie brought a…