“We’re an odd bunch. We love and believe in what we do in spite of the rest of the world telling us it has no worth; we put all our working hours and our non-working hours into making something hardly anyone will appreciate. We do appear to be making a futile attempt to create entire worlds in miniature that even the few who do care to view will only glance at for a second.”
Rob Davis, in conversation
Susanne Brokesch: Chasing the Night
Aural poetry…
Meet The Comics Grid, an online journal of comics scholarship
Salina Christmas makes a very kind and generous report for Sojournposse.
"I Put a Spell on You"- Nick Cave and The Cavemen, 1984
Via Dangerous Minds.
“Doing several things at once has been a way of remaining unemployed even in the midst of constant, inescapable unemployment. Writing, too, can be a form of unemployment within employment, and so is closer than ever to art.”
John Kelsey, “Preface”, Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art (Sternberg Press, 2010:8).
“The history of culture is in part the story of a protracted struggle for dominance between pictorial and linguistic signs, each claiming for itself certain proprietary rights on a “nature” to which only it has access. At some moments this struggle seems to settle into a relationship for free exchange along open borders; at other times (as in Lessing’s Laocoon) the borders are closed and a separate peace is declared. Among the most interesting and complex versions of this struggle is what might be called the relationship of subversion, in which language or imagery looks into its own heart and finds lurking there its opposite number.”
W.J.T. Mitchell, “Image and Word”, Iconology (Chicago and London: 1986) p. 43
“It is not sufficient to have the whole world at one’s disposal - the very infinitude of possibilities cancels out possibilities, as it were, until limitations are discovered.”
Roger Sessions, “Problems and Issues Facing the Composer Today”, Problems of Modern Music, Pit Lang (ed), New York: Norton (1962:31). As quoted by Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art, Indianapolis: Hackett (1976:127).
“The overriding desire of most children is to get at and see the soul of their toys.”
Charles Baudelaire, “A Philosophy of Toys”, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, trans. Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon Press, 1964), 202-3.
This video was shot by Paul Tschinkel in 1979 for his show Paul Tschinkel’s InnerTube.
Rare FM - UCL Occupation Coverage - Billy Bragg Speech | Mixcloud - Re-think radio
Billy Bragg on pretty much everything that matters. Inspiring. Via @travellingmoose
“…the first thing is to know in what technical progress consists, what factors play a part in it, and to examine each factor separately; for we mix up under the name of technical progress entirely different procedures that offer different possibilities of development.”
Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty (2001:46)
Bill Aron
The Scribe
black and white photograph
16 x 20”
Inspiration
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
-Albert Einstein, via The Moose
Lucy Shelton Caswell, cartoon and comic art librarian, Ohio State University.
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