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Hard Work Being An Audience
Gentle Reader: I would say these numbers tell us very little about the audience you have. I don’t think numbers can do this. For me, an audience is made up of people who do things like pay attention, show interest, … Continue reading
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Parallax
Give a kid a magnifying glass Give a kid a microscope Give a kid a telescope Give them the knowledge they can close their eyes Give them the knowledge they can cover one eye then the other “Cover” (in case … Continue reading
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Differently Challenged Differently Enabled
The die is cast: loaded dice that will never give snake eyes. Match a die with pips with one with numerals. Roll then and then do arithmetic. Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings And so … Continue reading
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Equine Musings
“Jell-O” from Kentucky Derby by Andrea Cohen Beginning and end… O, I remember those days stuck in bed with a lunch that wiggled, like a pet that happy to see you, a pet you were meant to eat. […] O, … Continue reading
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The Mashup of Mashups
Produced by artistic (collective?) zzthex … this is a visual and aural treat. Imagine all the care and time in assembling, selecting, and stringing together. One minute and fifty-five seconds. good morning good evening i’d like to welcome all of … Continue reading
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Some Assembly Required…
Nella’s puzzle. I offered to post the prototype by snail mail. She challenged me to send the thing by the Internet. I thought it would require some fancy coding to create a stack of flash cards that could be shuffled … Continue reading
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Right Words in the Right Place – Overcoming Stigma
If one looks at the jour le jour (Day by Day) page for Berneval https://berneval.hcommons-staging.org/jour-le-jour/ One sees listed medications. One is for HIV+ the other for a mental health condition. I thus avoid a clinical label and it is up … Continue reading
Various Positions
This is not a review of the biography of Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen It’s a little plucking from “Flowers Talk in Languages of All Races” From Jackson Daily News 1930 reproduced … Continue reading
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IF WHEN
A passage from the program notes for the world premiere of Frame by Frame based on the life and work of Norman McLaren I went to London and went to the ballet; I’d never seen ballet before and was utterly … Continue reading
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From a meditation on the 4 Principles of RCAP*
Story Hunter Stories lie in mirrors. Stories slip in film strips and along slide rulers. Stories twist and recombine like the strands of helix. Each story is open and blind. Each story offers a façade onto the unknown. With instruments … Continue reading