As a break from the interminable Christina (*only* 22 episodes to go!), a life story instead: Last weekend I was the guest on a traveling live radio show/musical event known as Radio8Ball that is run by SyncHeads. SyncHeads are a wide-ranging group born out of vaguely Jungian-9/11 conspiracy [more]
No plants on TV anymore. When did that stop being a thing? After “The Tonight Show” moved to Los Angeles Johnny Carson always was surrounded by green stuff. A forest, a jungle even, sometimes the cheesy wallpaper that it just was. “You have to understand, it was the [more]
The definition of art has to open up to the question concerning the museum. If one reads the article which Georges Bataille contributed in 1930 in the Documents on the concept of the Museum, one can only be disappointed. From Bataille, the theorist of the heterogeneous, one would [more]
Iceland spar, a transparent calcite very common in nature, has the property of polarising light. Specifically, the double refraction of light through the anisotropic crystal led physicists to understand the nature of light as a wave. When a ray of light enters the Iceland spar, it is split into [more]
Costumes I saw tonight: Cats, lots of cats. Some with a mini skirt and tail. I have to admit cat costumes are fun. Mavie Hörbiger and I once had the best time ever at IKEA. We laughed like crazy, while trying on ears and tails. Almost getting thrown [more]
Etwa 24 Stunden lang glaubte ich, den perfekten Nagellack gefunden zu haben. Vielmehr den perfekten Nagellack-Farbton. Dass der Lack selber nicht perfekt ist, weiß ich, weil ich schon 20 Lacke dieser Marke besitze. Sie decken nicht perfekt, sie splittern, sie greifen die Nägel an. Aber die Farbtöne sind [more]
Went to a ghost walk through Zurich, organised by the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce. Obviously not many ghosts in this town, they had to invent some. I like the British humour, just nastier than the Swiss (and the German) one.
Before the Method Acting will immaculate my thoughts again, let me introduce a historical person. His name is Wolfgang Pauli, an extraordinary physician of the 20th century. He was famous for his research in quantum theory. He published some of his research the normal way, by writing books [more]
Breaking Free: Escape in Cleveland (2013). Written by Ariel Castro, Directed by ABC news. Starring Amanda Berry. Duration: 12 years. Castro is noted as leaving a student on the school bus, and cursing at them. On September 3rd 2013 his contract was terminated. Liberated Film Store; Purge Stoke [more]
The demystification of the world has led to the mystification of the demystified reality. Enlightenment has engendered its own obscurantism; facts are now the new religion. They bring consistency and reliability. That is the meaning of the word and its function: to guarantee familiarity. The opening toward the [more]
An airplane without windows would be a terrible thing. Especially while spending hours and hours cruising over this magnificent planet we call earth. There is so much to see. Endless variations of natural and man-made structures can compete easily with the terrible TV screen in front of you [more]
Wiki worked, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Visual_Artists It became encyclopedic enough! I even got linked and added to. Thanks wiki.
A coincidence of scatology. Given television’s desperation to cross any boundary to bolster its dwindling status, MoL went pitching to Channel 4: Get Your Shit Together, based on the premise that you are what you eat. Volunteers shit on camera; in fact they shit on the camera. Expert [more]
honestly i don’t care about halloween. it didn’t exist when i grew up and anyway i was wondering about it’s tremendous role in the us-tv-shows i used to watch as a kid. suddenly it knocked on my door first time years ago and especially german suburbs became more [more]
I have just been to see the new Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, I am not an established fan of Louise Bourgeois work. I use the term fan to distinguish my engagement from that of connoisseur, collector or critic- my engagement lies beyond the casual but [more]
He used to say: „Photography will always be my first love. But you will be my second.“ She says: „There was only one love for me: it was him. Sometimes shit happens“. Then she laughs. “Selfportrait of June with models”, 1975 Today would have been Helmut Newton’s 93rd [more]
Christoph Schaaf, the former director of Tiergarten, lives inside the forest, in a peripheral house of the small compound that includes the Berlin Parks Department. The compound is set on the side of a Baroque axis which triumphantly opens the view between Schloss Bellevue and the Tiergarten Tunnel. [more]
Many doors to many new and old rooms these days, some missing, some still phantoms, some still without keys, some which might close, and some changing every day. I feel like I have been in transit for the better part of a long time, and probably some temporal [more]
Mäx posted here (sorry Finn) and here (sorry Lichtenberg). And Mäx published photos from my phone! Shinichi Sawada (Sandra Bartoli just emailed me the name) in the Palazzo Enciclopedico at the Arsenale. Actually I was writing about the Biennale and why I loved seeing all these ugly paintings, [more]
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. This is, of course, what F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, about age and fame and love and wisdom and trying to push ahead and fight, for yourself, for what you believe in, what you want [more]
I am interested in articulating gradients, where they overlap and what they become at their edges. These spaces or sets of interactions involve people for the most part. They also typically involve boundaries. I am not, however, interested in boundaries per se. I can be polite about it [more]
The marvelous thing about hearing Capote read this is realizing how long he lived with Holly’s voice, and the source of Holly’s voice. I laughed during his introduction; “Shall I read something from ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s?’ That or a short story.” The last he says like a stern [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World “Are you planning to fly away?” “Not right now.” I was too exhausted to think of escaping. I also thought I heard Giver whispering I should stay [more]
They rode the subway to the final station. Aside from an old alcoholic drinking beer and talking to his large, mournful German shepherd mix, trying to cheer him up, they had been the only ones on the train for the last three stops. They climbed the exit stairs, [more]
00:30:552, 02:15:581, 03:23:251, 03:45:864, 04:51:070, 04:52:961, 04:54:454, 05:41:683, 05:53:161, 05:54:755, 06:09:939, 06:37:592, 06:44:108, 06:48:030, 07:20:106, 07:48:753, 07:58:901, 08:02:904, 08:09:472, 08:28:905, 09:10:309, 09:13:621, 09:15:127, 09:17:405, 09:24:445, 09:26:630, 10:21:385, 10:48:047, 11:08:658, 11:16:097, 11:18:248, 11:19:630, 11:21:435, 12:01:282, 12:14:005, 12:38:493, 13:43:433, 13:50:672, 13:54:391 … are moments of truth, in her 14-minutes speech.
In On Certainty from 1949-1951, Ludwig Wittgenstein showed that there is no reasonable ground not to put one’s trust in what is groundless. The language game and the form of life on which our social and scientific evidence is based are without ground. They themselves cannot be grounded [more]
The work of art stands its ground amid a world to which it cannot assimilate. The act of creatio is not so much a heroic act as one of embarrassment. “Go with art into your very own narrowness. And set yourself free”: the sentence from Paul Celan’s Meridian speech [more]
Chapter 3: Instead of sleeping with my Mom, I wanted to die in her beloved Poland (3) When our Polish guide, after a bunch of arrogant army-officers had passed our way, said silently to us “These are the masters of our land, but not for too much longer”, [more]
To affirm the other as being constitutive for me means to touch his or her truth, which seems to be inseparable from mine. Coincidence of two aporiae, because this is a bonding of two incommensurabilities: the incommensurability of the other as the other and the incommensurability of a [more]
Die Häuser meiner Kindheit verschwinden; hinter Isolationsplatten, unter Stoyropor. Ich stehe nach Jahren plötzlich als Fremder auf dem Bürgersteig des Dorfes; der grobe Putz am Gemeindehaus ist verschwunden. An diesem Putz habe ich mir die Fingerknöchel blutig gerieben. Hinderlich waren die Wundpflaster beim Geigenspiel; der Bogen, kaum [more]
The definition of art that I attempt to give culminates in the assertion that art asserts a consistency owed to its opening to inconsistency.
the force of your gravity it defines my tendency velocity’s equal to throwing myself with you we have potential energy motion between you and me i’ll be your sounding board just throw yourself toward this energy that sings between bounce off of me elasticity elastic kinetic electric connection [more]
I was always dreaming of Candice Bergen’s mask. Made of fur, possibly rabbit fur, it was the most elegant mask that a woman wore at Truman Capote’s Black&White Ball,––the rabbit mask was special. Candice wasn’t a bunny––in the Hefner sense––she was a sleek, elegant rabbit. What’s so great about [more]
I went to Kunst Zürich, the foremost Zurich art fair (is it?), based in Oerlikon. First of all, if you want to eat dinner after 10 pm in Oerlikon go home, head to McDonald’s or le Muh (what a name) near the train station. The interior is a [more]
It feels like i am in a baseball field when i am dealing with my emails and text messages: just keep hitting the balls as fast as it flies in. In the past years, I am proud to have developed a way to make the most efficient way [more]
Rocks can evoke many different sentiments. At the Désert de Retz, deep in the forest of Marly, there is a legendary opening through a long stone wall in the woods. Through this portal the wall expands into a convoluted rock formation. Famished spruce trees, bent by numerous tempests, [more]
Three images I was about to post during the last weeks but while writing I lost their references: Marcus (and Mäx) really made us understand that it is not 60picks but 60days. It’s a window much more than an archive. Whatever happens within these eight weeks. And then [more]
Four posts I still had on my desktop: 1) Ex-footballer Lothar Matthäus was declared dead by the Amtsgericht München because he didn’t pay for ex-wife Liliana and didn’t receive the claims either. 2) Canadian smartphone maker Blackberry is mired in crisis––but German authorities and ministries have ordered thousands [more]