Tag Archives: Writing

My Notebook Obsessions

After 5 years of being a dedicated Moleskine user, I’ve finally been tempted by the fruit of another. The Leuchturm reporter style pad is incredibly comfortable, features a “date/datum” field and a table of contents. A perfect fit for a classic OCD type such as myself. The image above is from a FLICKR photostream devoted [...]

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Do I Need To Get Out More?

I’m worried I’m slipping into this photographic coma:
http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-not-to-photograph-i-didnt-go-on.html

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Crisis of Representation

Digging through all of my archived materials continues to be a good distraction from being productive. I stumbled upon this diatribe… but can’t figure out if I wrote this for a class or for my own geekful bliss…
Issues surrounding representation have played a key role in the development of postmodern art. Prior to [...]

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Idealism

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I’m going to blather on and on today. I started this post, stopped it, started it again, and am now finally finishing it while I dread looking up my checking account balance. That’s the life of a multi-tasker. 
I’ve been thinking too much about the role of the market and salable visual appeasement in art production. [...]

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Searching For Public Space

Americans are either in their cars, in their homes, or in shopping malls.
The sense of public space in the contemporary American city is so exceptionally abbreviated it seems that I am able to pass to and from work without ever really having to navigate a truly “public” place.  I get up in the morning, [...]

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