June 2009
17 posts
“The maps of the brain we currently have are like those antique maps people used to draw of the New World,” says Allan Jones, chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute. “We can see the crude outlines of the structure, but we have no idea what’s happening on the inside.”
This article on the Allen Brain Atlas project has several heartstopping images of the very...
There were clouds over the city tonight at sunset unlike any clouds I’ve ever seen. My girlfriend and I were walking with a friend; we passed person after person aiming a phone or a camera into the sky. It made me think of this photo I saw yesterday of the mourning scene outside the Apollo Theater—a group of people turned in a tight circle around a dancer with a hat, most of them...
Here's how I would explain blogging, if you were...
I am this picture of birds and clouds. I am this song, this beautiful house, this recipe. These things mean something about me; these are mine.
Here’s something else, maybe related: “What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary...
Mom in New York, The Epilogue
I miss my mom.
Sixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion (1975) by Hollis Frampton & Marion Faller.
I’m picking up my household’s second farm share tonight. Last week’s share turned out an accidental pasta salad, a big Sunday afternoon pot of soup, several sandwiches, and a pan of bread pudding with rhubarb and cream. What awaits our heroes in this week’s box?! Tune in again for...
“I don’t know what I was born with. Big dumb eyes to stare out all the windows that life throws at a person. I don’t know. Other than that, you hear stuff, here and there, and you just learn how it goes.” — Will Eno
Mom in New York, Part Two
(Part One.)
“ACQUIRE PACKETS OF FLOWER SEEDS OF YOUR FAVORITE FLOWERS. WITH THE SEEDS ON YOU, PLACE THEM INCONSPICUOUSLY IN THE POCKETS OF PANTS FOR SALE IN DEPARTMENT STORES. IF YOU CAN, TRY TO GET THEM INTO A POCKET OF EVERY PAIR OF PANTS IN THE STORE. THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ONE OF THE FLOWERS GROWING, CONSIDER YOURSELF POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS BEING.” — davidhorvitz.com/2009
Tulsa Hamburgers (do not look at this link if you do not like hamburgers).
“Who ever sees dead birds, in anything like the huge numbers stipulated by the certainty of the death of all birds? A dead bird is an incongruity, more startling than an unexpected live bird, sure evidence to the human mind that something has gone wrong. Birds do their dying off somewhere, behind things, under things, never on the wing. Animals seem to have an instinct for performing death...
Mom in New York, Part One
(You can see me in one of these, if you try.)
