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https://ds-pages.swarthmore.edu/sublime-miscellany/

#Sublime #Miscellany #Lunor #Rhapsody

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In this fictional town, nothing seems to make rational sense; all the modeled structures have no function or practical purpose; stairs that lead nowhere, balconies without an entrance, walled-up faucets, ornamentation in hidden spots. Taken the surname of Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American sculptor, NOGUCHI TOWN reimagines the world as a playground-like place where things happen for not obvious reasons. By modeling seemingly dysfunctional elements and show on videos indecipherable human actions the project seeks to question the very notion of rational operation as the status quo.

#Andi Schmeid #Noguchi #Town

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#Roccasalva #Zeno X #Overview

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At the heart of what Kapuściński was up to when writing The Emperor and several of his other remarkable works (his approach has been called Magical Journalism, a "non-fiction" sibling of Marquez's Magical Realism) is alluded to in this passage from a 2012 review of a book about the journalist in the Columbia Journalism Review: "Strict accuracy was not his paramount concern; when a friend who had been with him during riots in Dar es Salaam commented that he had misreported certain details, she says he shouted at her, 'You don't understand a thing! I'm not writing so the details add up --- the point is the essence of the matter.' Thus he left a long list of embellishments... to catalog. When Kapuściński wrote, for example, that fish in Lake Victoria became big after feeding on the corpses dumped there by Idi Amin, he was telling a good tale, but not one that was true."

#Kapuscinski #Magical Journalism

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#Griselda #The Cow #Coeur De Lion

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#Mungo #Musk #Marimba #Youtube

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#A.C. Marias #Lucas Samaras #To Sleep #Youtube

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#AUTHENTIC #cairns #Eric Ko #CCC

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#New Blue Sun #Unshowable Photographs #Andre 3000 #Ariella Azoulay #PDF #Darwish

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#Anecdote #Hiwa K #Dreamy #Adina

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#Hala Alyan #Phaistos Disk #Hub

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#Queen Of The Desert

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#Teen Image #Seth Price #Essay #PDF

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#Proxy Wars #Where Was God?

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Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (يـومـيـات الـحـزن الـعـادي), 1973

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Visual interferences that dots make scuff us

Before digital imaging, there were two techniques for creating a halftone image You could hang a piece of coarse woven fabric in front of an unexposed photographic plate and the weave would filter the light like a mesh or sub the fabric for a screen with hand-cut parallel lines like slits Once exposed and developed using photo-etching techniques the photographic plate made an image composed only of dots or lines I am imagining these life-size stencils in a domestic space, like a living room: solutions that emerged from everyday objects a linen shirt draped over the back of a kitchen chair on the wall the horizontal lines of shadows made from bamboo blinds until someone has the idea to use them as light filters and hoists them up impromptu-like I need to describe what I am learning about print technology in physical terms, my terms I learn that jpeg artifacting is made from compressing data by saving it as a jpeg Contours of what otherwise might be the clean edges of shapes become jagged and halo-ed when the file size is increased This is the by-product of the circulation system of image processing (batch scaling up and down and back) This is dust that has been scaled from shapes and released into a pictorial space On a screen, dust can be made from the microfibres of hard smooth objects like playing cards, mirrors and dice, creating a texture culled together from non-essential data Under a microscope one piece of dust the size of a hole in an audio speaker becomes immersive What is this dust that cannot be root-bound or kicked off like shoes Brown and grey dust made by week old flower bouquets LA freeway dust nestled at the bottom of jars used to mix paint A surface covered in the velvet like texture How can I describe dust blowing underfoot from memoji dog picking up speed fuzzzzzzz The first time we saw the Sturtevant’s Finite / Infinite, a video projection of a dog running, that filled the entire warehouse space of 356 Mission Road, we weren’t together We were co-workers in an art world job We had nothing to say to each other. No idea how to interpret it except to feel the energy of this enormous beast on repeat together. The force of the dog running is cathartic energy If there is something that escapes the closed loop of the GIF it is the physical pleasure of running The painting is a mise-en-scene of this running scene The interior of the camera obscura is a dog beach with two mirrors instead of one, side by side Come closer I am looking at artifacts of digital processing and editing translated by silkscreened acrylic paint that simulates and adheres to the logic of the Photoshop file paint into grids of high res and low res dots but I am also looking at last night playing threes for one dollar bills with a button that makes everything night vision green a painting tool that softens the sepia hue of an absurdist film noir night and grades the jagged edges of pixels a squeegee that flattens the undulating stage curtain the cumulative sources of these images: a bootleg of a bootleg of a video still from a batch upload to Youtube a How to Video of scrap metal graveyards Op art fan art (my methodology for writing is the pleasure of having image associations flood through my hands like water) I like being lied to about the mechanics of optical illusions because when I hold my phone up to the painting, the camera animates a moire pattern while attempting to register the image

Rachelle Sawatsky

#Kate Mosher Hall