Faces
I am doing a lot of these, I’ll add more to this post under the fold, and also make new posts from time to time.
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Faces
I’ve been doing quite a few… they come out unbidden. Who is this?
Manifestos
This websites is full of manifestos punk cyber anachist.
Collecting manifestos, better than stamps!
A bit from Hakim Bey
Manifesto of Poetic Terrorism:
Poetic Terrorism is an act in a Theater of Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of seats, no tickets & no walls. In order to work at all, Poetic Terrorism must categorically be divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerrilla Situationist tactics of street theater are perhaps too well-known & expected now.
Seizing the moment or seizing the media
I looked again at a post from 2002, on the Immediast approach.
https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com/2002/immediast/
It must be an obscure thing, there is not much on it that I can find, yet it is alive and well! In the search I came across Hakim Bey again, who was on the horizon in the Psyber-l days. I quoted him in my research on the archetypes of cyberspace.
He comes in with the word Immediatism. Related?
I think the first is about the media and the second about the here & now, but they are both political arty philosophies. I am making the note because I might want to get back to it.
I came across them again because the protests in the middle East are on my mind, and also how people power is needed to recover from this earthquake.
Constantin Brâncusi birthday
Saturday, February 19, 2011
found this as the Google doodle today.
Have seen images of some these items but not known the artist at all: Constantin Brâncu?i Wikipedia
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Later: How do I get the s right in his name?
First few images of 2011
I love flipboard
Role
Richard Bolstad & Annie Currie quote Antony Williams (Williams, A. The Passionate Technique Tavistock/Routledge, London, 1989) on role. I have usually simply said thinking. feeling & action.
NLP in Action – Transformations NLP:
In Psychodrama, a role is said to have five components: context, behaviour, belief, feeling, and consequences (Williams, 1989, p 58)
I still like the word thinking here, “the story I tell myself”
Context is needed, it gives the sense of a flow.
Consequences gives a sense of the role in flow. Reminds me of Marshall Rosenberg and deciding if a request was really a request or a demand. it depends on what happens when the request is refused, if threats follow etc then it was not really a request in the first place.
On the basis of that how about:
Components of a Role
- Context
- Action
- Thinking (Belief)
- Feeling
- Consequences
The Hopper Question – December 14, 2010
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article12141001.aspx
Is he a cliché? That’s the question you keep coming back to when you look at the paintings of Edward Hopper. On the face of it, the current show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time,” doesn’t help answer the question. The show gives us paintings like “Soir Bleu” from 1914. We’re at a café in France somewhere. Patrons sit at the tables. Right there in the middle, facing us, is a clown. He is wearing a white, frilly get-up and his face is painted white, too, with red lips and a couple of red stripes down the eyes. He is smoking a cigarette.
This may, in fact, be the sad clown we’ve all heard so much about. I’ve toyed with the idea that “Soir Bleu” is making fun of itself. Or maybe it is making fun of us, the viewer?
But, no. Hopper is a painter without any sense of humor, which is a troubling fact. He paints without wit, without self-awareness. We may have to accept the fact that Hopper painted the sad clown smoking a cigarette in the café because he felt it to be a poignant scene. He was so moved by the depressed clown that he went and painted one of the silliest paintings of the era.