17.8.09

He drew a circle that shut me out -
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.
- Outwitted, Edward Markham

15.8.09

Suomalaiset eivät koskaan anna periksi,
minä annan aina periksi.

(Piti tehdä video juutuubiin, mutta annoin periksi.)

6.8.09

Collaboration with materials

[John] Cage argued that the artist should not speak to his or her audience about the natural world, but should instead use art to heighten the audience member's sensitivity to experiences of all kinds.

Robert Rauschenberg: "And I'm opposed to the whole idea of conception-execution—of getting an idea for a picture and then carrying it out. I've always felt as though, whatever I've used and whatever I've done, the method was always closer to a collaboration with materials than to any kind of conscious manipulation and control.'

for them, the making of art had become the building of systems of pattern and randomness, and thus, in Claude Shannon's sense, of information.

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/turner06/turner06_index.html

Harry Patch (In memory of)

I am the only one that got through
The others died where ever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen devils coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical but they will never learn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8184000/8184802.stm

3.8.09

Get fired for what you believe in, not for being average.
The breed of the grasshopper shrills, "What does the future
Matter, we shall be dead?" Ah, grasshoppers,
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made
Something more equal to the centuries
Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
The mountains are dead stone, the people
Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
The mountains are not softened nor troubled
And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper.

Robinson Jeffers: Wise Men In Their Bad Hours

2.8.09

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.
-- Norman Spinrad: Bug Jack Barron

1.8.09

Ghostbusters Law: "If somebody asks you if you are a God, you say yes!"