Book & Show at Te Papa
I saw a great video or TV thing recently, what was that?
Scoop: Rita Angus: An artist’s life
Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais, “At the Edge of Artâ€
This Stuart Brand’s short report on the talk:
Long Views » Blog Archive » Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais, “At the Edge of Artâ€
I found it inspiring, fun and informative. I agree also with the comments on the blog post that there is plenty of art in galleries that is art on the edge.
Yes, art can be very diverse.
Their anti body analogy is great though.
Hand Made
I listen occasionally to Brooks Jensen’s short podcasts on photography, they often apply to all art and creativity, he is a thoughtful man. The Lenswork publication is beautiful. The website is beautiful. He has a great piece about printing images, all of which I fully concur with.
Here is the full archive: LensWork Recent Podcasts
I just listened to this one: LW0405: Considering Content, Considering Medium
It talks about the presence of the hand of the artist. So that is right on topic with the stuff I was looking at re Walter Benjamin recently. The useful point he makes is that some art is more hand-dependent than others, I am not sure if that is his word or not. Painting is at one extreme, and photography on the other.
Which makes images that are made by hand, but digital an interesting case in point. The hand is more there in the file, but when it comes to reproduction it is much like a photo.
My sketches work quite well if they are just printed on some machine in a store, but they loose a lot. The prints I make are another whole story, it has taken me a long time to perfect my technique, and there are rejects as I learn. I have found better paper, and I now have better mastery over the software, ie the colour.
So when I sign a print it means I am satisfied it is as good as I can do it.
The great masters of the darkroom probably have a strong hand in the work as well. Look at this by Sally Mann for instance.
There are a few twists to this reflection…
One is that my printing of the images influences what I make when I make digital images. In some deep way where medium is the muse, but I will tweak an image to make it work well as a print, and then the final version is posted on the net. This means it works well on my combination of screen, software, hardware paper & ink. That will be hard to replicate ever again! (I can’t always do it!)
When I do sign something that is 100% hand-dependent.
The other thought I had is that somewhere, sometime, someone and they may have already done it for all I know one of my images is presented in a way that is just wonderful. My hand, their craft.
Matthew Collings, deep and shallow
I listened to a podcast today for the second time – Kim Hill interviewing Matthew Collings. I realised I had blogged it before in Thousand Sketches, and there is a link there too – I recommend it.
If this is an age of shallowness then it is sort of deep to be shallow. Kim: “Shallow is the new deep”.
I don’t buy that though. It is an age where we are more conscious than ever and we flee. There are oceans of depth and we flee to the shallow. But not everyone. The “long tail” comes into play. At the top of the zeitgeist it may be shallow, ironical & tabloid, but down the tail it gets more interesting, there are activists, thinkers, and people having real relationships.
Anyway, it was a good listen even for the second time, happened cause I was cleaning up after re-installing a backup.
Great podcasts – Friendship
BBC – Radio 4 In Our Time – Philosophy Archive
This is a treasure page. I have to be in the mood for this rather heavy stuff, but they are worth the effort. I have subbed to them and have a back log on my player. Unfortunately they are only streaming them there at the moment – Total Recorder would get them though. I particularly enjoyed the history of friendhip one today.
It seems that with Imago we have a philosophy and a practice of love, built on all the traditions before it, and still those old traditions, even on friendhip, can amplify our notions of love.
Joe Boyd on Kim Hill
Radio NZ – Saturday Morning with Kim Hill Podcast Feed:
Playing Favourites with Joe Boyd Legendary producer of key UK musicians during the 1960’s. This is a longer version of this interview than that broadcast and is without the music because of copyright issues. It includes the true story of Pete Seeger and the “axe incident” at the Newport Folk Festival, how Joe Boyd got into – and out of – scientology, and the story behind the song ‘Duelling Banjos’. (Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:10:00 +1200)
Kim digs up these old boomers and I learn more about the era I grew up in than by being there. Great. He produced my then favourite band The Incredible String Band. I particularly like to hear the longer version of these interviews. By the same token – when I don’t like one I can skip. Pity the music is deleted – Request, please put up a list of the deleted songs on the show notes, one might have been by Nick Drake who I am now curious about.
The other thing that Kim Hill seems to be thriving on are scientists. Some very good ones on her show. For example: Brian Cox
The sad thing is that they don’t archive these shows. Criminal to have the asset, produced on public radio, hidden from future use. The chances are these links are dead by the time you read this.
Kim Hill Podcasts
Kim Hill talks to author, Helen O’Neill, of a book on Florence Broadhurst. I found it a great podcast and am delighted so much of Radio NZ is being podcasted. Posting this one here because I really do like the wallpaper she designed, and want to slap a strip of it up from
Signature.
John Brockman interviewed by Kim Hill
Radio New Zealand – Saturday, 15 July:
9.05am Interview: John Brockman Literary agent and founder of online salon The Edge Foundation (www.edge.org) to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields. He is the editor of: ‘What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty’ (ISBN 0060841818), ‘Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist’ (ISBN 0-375-42291-9), and many other books.
I don’t know how long the podcast will be up there for. Forever I hope, but I listened to it later via mp3 player – which is agreat thing to be able to do! I found it interesting, always one to enjoy the reminiscences of a boomer in the 60’s. Disturbing too… such interesting people and stories and ideas but with is a strange scientism in the mix, he sides with Dawkins not Gould, there is a glowing link to Denis Dutton at the end, who maligns psychotherapy with his zealous cult like devotion to skepticism.
More on Brockman here by Bruce Stirling (Interesting that I just said he is interesting):
Wired 7.09: Agent Provocateur:
“You’re not interesting?” “Not not-interesting!” he snaps. “Post-interesting! Interesting doesn’t pay. Well, it pays once, but not twice. I used to be interesting. I was, like, the It Boy. Being so interesting – well, it’s not so interesting.”
Then and Now:
Psyche, Soul, Unconscious I
Odeo: Psyche, Soul, Unconscious IProfessional identity
My third psyberspace podcast
Download: MP3
Listen: Odeo
Psychotherapy & Counselling – the difference – registration of Psychotherapy as a profession in New Zealand
There is no simple way of saying that someone is doing a psychotherapy in the way we could say they have done an analysis. Psychotherapy as a project!
I also ask the question of how all this might apply or not to psychotherapy online.