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Month: April 2009

  • Opinions on Biber recordings?

    Trying to decide if I want to spend money on Biber done by Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln or Romanesca or John Holloway? Listening to clips, I hear things I like in them all. OK. I got Holloway’s “Der Turken Anmarsch” because there was one left in stock and it made me dizzy (in a…

  • Prurient

    So, the pentagon has up to 2000 pics of prisoner abuse, 44 of which will be released through actions of the ACLU (bless ’em). The CIA called the ACLU’s push to release the photos “prurient”. Prurient? Prurient??? Is that really the word they were looking for?

  • Torture Memos: Waterboarding

    Waterboard Torture Memo set to music. I opened it in several different windows and played it simultaneously in staggered layers while reflecting on the many individuals upon whom the torture techniques were used. The walls kind of fall in, but then they’re supposed to.

  • Another new Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project painting

    Another new Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project painting

    The Fire Prevention Parade Digital painting, 2009 Light box enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings What the Hanford Declassified Project archive shows is that life was one long parade in Richland Parades are a recurring theme in the Hanford Declassified Project archive. Their intent was to build morale and…

  • Hiroshi Teshigahara

    This morning IFC was running Hiroshi Teshigahara’s “Face of Another”, based on the book by Kobo Abe, screenplay written by Kobo Abe. It was through Teshigahara’s films that I was introduced to the works of Kobo Abe many years ago. Highly recommend both.

  • An Unexpected Gift

    H.o.p., at the Dogwood Festival, had the amazing good fortune to be gifted by an artist with a handcrafted glass globe he’d been admiring. “You like that?” the vendor asked. H.o.p. had been ogling for a while and said he did. The artist boxed the globe and gave it to him.

  • Liu Yan video at Youtube

    Was reading about Liu Yan in the NYTimes, the celebrated dancer who was paralyzed from the waist down due to a stage malfunction during rehearsal for opening night performance at the Olympics. I read she’s studying to be a television announcer now. Her emotional quality in dance is riveting, what she’s able to project. I…

  • Nuclear Family Shelter

    Nuclear Family Shelter

    Nuclear Family Shelter Digital painting, 2009 Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings What every nuclear bomb shelter needs a magic vacuum Light box enlargement A new painting for the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project series, this one showing a cozy nuclear family bomb shelter, with my addition of Kirby, a…

  • Hanford Declassified Photo Collection on Flickr

    Hanford Declassified Photo Collection on Flickr

    Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings 783 pics are now up in my Flickr collection of public domain photos culled from the Hanford Declassified Project. The carefully chosen selection is enough to give a sense of the trailer city, the unique war time boom town, and its mindset. Proof that…

  • “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

    H.o.p. has discovered the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series of books. He polished off the second one in one night.

  • Mid April Ghostlies

    Aaron’s spooked. Late night before last I heard 4 distinct knocks seeming to come from the middle of the room and there was no source for them that I know of (and I know this apartment well). I mentioned it and late last night Aaron insisted he saw two shadows. Aaron sometimes won’t sleep in…

  • “How the West Was Won”

    Sitting here highly amused that because of the Cinerama technique used in the 1963 cheeselog “How the West was Won” the costumes were hand sewn for sake of realist detail, yet they had Carroll Baker, b. 1931, playing the mother of the naive youngster George Peppard, who was born in 1928. Cheeselog of a plot…