drummer<a href="http://www.rearviewwindow.com/photos/cat_judah_fan_club.php"><img src="files/2005/02/IMGP3057.jpg" /></a> photo by <a href="http://soft_anonymous.blogspot.com/">soft_anonymous</a>27234613ImaginingDaniel2005-02-27T11:41:02stage<s>Daniel Miller -- rare live performance</s><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/art/images/2004/06/blackback_upright.png" /> <s>I</s> supposedly <s>have a gig Sunday night at <a href="http://www.standardandpours.com/">Standard and Pours</a> at South Side on Lamar. I'm heading over there 'round 7. Probly going on sometime 8-9. Hope to see you there.</s> Gig cancelled. Had the premonition. If you want to hear me play, just swing by IR Gallery. Will probly be in the mood to bang out some tunes. Call first though, probly doing my regular Sunday dinner at the Semrad's. Might go somewhere to watch the Oscars.25122153MusicDaniel2005-02-25T12:21:34stageLook ma, I'm a patron of the arts!<a href="http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/archives/2005/02/micromedici.shtml">The Bradlands: Micro-Medici</a>: <blockquote>But something someone said to me offhandedly over a year ago stuck in my mind. "There are no modern-day <a href="http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/">Medicis</a>," she said. "Corporations and foundations send grants to museums and theatres. Occasionally, a wealthy matron or civic-minded financier will pony up to buy a bust or underwrite a fund-raiser. And the National Endowment for the Arts offers what little it can to artists and musicians. But where will the next Renaissance come from? Who is helping the dreamers make their dreams real?" I won't pretend that I'm trying to make anyone's dreams come true, except maybe my own. But I booted up Quicken last year and told it to divert a little bit?not a lot, but not an insignificant amount either?from every paycheck I deposited into a separate account. I called it "Medici", told Quicken to fill it and tried to put it out of my mind. But then, throughout the year, when I saw a chance to help someone on their way to a dream or a passion or a way to bring beauty or interest into the world, I took a little out of my Medici fund and I gave it away. It's entirely self-serving on my part, not because I expect their gratitude, but because I expect that at some point, it's going to pay a dividend to me that can't be calculated in interest points. It will bring a little bit of music into the world. It will brighten my life through their creation or, at the very least, through my being able to share their joy in the act of creating.</blockquote> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnilDash?m=186">via anil</a>: <blockquote>I believe in the idea of everyone being a Medici, except without the nasty Medici habit of infiltrating the papacy. ("Pope Hacking", coming soon from O'Reilly.)</blockquote>25114805ElsewhereDaniel2005-02-25T11:47:15stageUnhappy Hour<a href="http://www.sindustrydesigns.com/unhappy/unhappy_02.htm"><img src="files/2005/02/unhappy_02.jpg" align="left" /><a href="http://www.joeyseeman.com/">Joey Seeman</a> (<a href="http://www.sindustrydesigns.com">see also</a>), and <a href="http://pigeonstoneproject.com" title="not much to see there yet. working on that atm.">Pigeon-Stone Project</a> at the Magnolia present, "The Unhappy Hour," featuring jilted lovers and unhappy bar patrons. 24 February - 6 April Opening Reception Friday 25 February 2005 6:30-8:30 3699 McKinney Avenue in the <s>fabulous</s> West Village 2 clam margaritas Don't let all the references to the devil/evil/etc. scare you away, Joey is a cool, down-to-earth guy with great, fun work. Hope to see you there (I'll be there ~7.30-8.30). <a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-02-24/calendar/seebeseen.html">headlining see and be seen</a>:<blockquote>Aside from having a last name that evokes childish playground humor, Joey Seeman is a nationally and locally acclaimed artist (just look at the work he does for this paper) with an art style that broils in its expressionism. The main thing to remember is that Seeman's paintings are not family-friendly. His art is decrepit, sleazy, disgusting, embarrassing, lustful, homoerotic, misogynistic, lurid and cheap. And in an America that seems to have lost touch with reality as it drifts further and further to the right, his style is stirring, meaningful, soothing, unapologetic, innocent, beautiful, relevant, insightful and obtuse. Seeman's latest visual compilation is titled The Unhappy Hour, which depicts those familiar denizens of the bar life, and we're not talking about those suckers on Cheers. It's hard to tell if Seeman is recognizing or empathizing with these characters; either way, your eyes will not revolt as you take in the way-past-her-prime barfly and her drinking buddy, the too-slick-to-stay-sober businessman.</blockquote> <a href="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/blog/index.php?file=2004_08.xml&id=16005203"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-1.3.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.punkymoms.com/">see also</a>23155919AnnouncementsDaniel2005-02-23T03:56:45stageAn Incomplete Manifesto for Growth<a href="http://www.brucemaudesign.com/manifesto.html">Bruce Mau Design Inc.: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth</a>. There are 43. I especially like the first 19:<blockquote>1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. 2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you?ll never have real growth. 3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we?ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we?re going, but we will know we want to be there. 4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day. 5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value. 6. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions. 7. Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit. 8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism. 9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere. 10. Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead. 11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications. 12. Keep moving. The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice. 13. Slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves. 14. Don?t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort. 15. Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant. 16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential. 17. ??????????. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven?t had yet, and for the ideas of others. 18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you?ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you?re separated from the rest of the world. 19. Work the metaphor. Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.</blockquote>22003511ElsewhereDaniel2005-02-22T12:34:54stagehomesick<blockquote> I'll lose some sales and my boss won't be happy But I can't stop listening to the sound Of two soft voices mended in perfection From the reels of this record that I found Everyday there's a boy in the mirror Asking me what are you doing here Finding all my previous motives Growing increasingly unclear I've travelled far and I've burned all the bridges I believed as soon as I hit land All the other options held before me Will wither in the light of my plan So I'll lose some sales and my boss won't be happy But there's only one thing on my mind Searching boxes underneath the counter On a chance that on a tape I'd find A song for Someone who needs somewhere To long for Homesick Cause I no longer know What home is</blockquote> Kings of Convenience, <a href="http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858508975">Homesick</a>. Mar 20 at the Tea Room oh yeah. I've added <a href="http://www.43things.com/people/view/dealingwith">my <s>43</s> 24 things</a> to the sidebar (if you're looking at the homepage and not a permalink). I need dependencies. I'm working on a SWIM project management module (in my head, have to finish the initial release first) that I'll be implementing, possibly in public, once it's at least halfway done.21231736Values.Goals.StrategyDaniel2005-02-21T11:16:43stage2.19.05: John Miller @ IR Gallery<a href="http://irgallery.net"><img src="files/2005/02/JohnMiller00.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://rearviewwindow.com/"><img src="files/2005/02/JohnMiller01.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.integrationresearch.org/gallery/archives/2005/02/john_miller_roy_g_biv_216312.html"><img src="files/2005/02/JohnMiller06.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.rearviewwindow.com/photos/cat_judah_fan_club.php"><img src="files/2005/02/JohnMiller08.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001YMSIW/sr=1-1/qid=1108953950/ref=sr_1_1/002-3245193-2426421?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=11965861&s=musical-instruments&v=glance"><img src="files/2005/02/JohnMiller16.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.patrickrhodes.com/"><img src="files/2005/02/JohnMiller21.jpg" /></a>20204325ImaginingDaniel2005-02-20T08:42:58stagesmall ritual: frauenalb<a href="http://smallritual.blogs.com/small_ritual/2005/02/frauenalb_photo.html"><img src="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/blog/files/2005/02/img_2083.jpg" /> small ritual: frauenalb</a>19212238ElsewhereDaniel2005-02-19T09:20:30stageHappy Belated V-day<a href="index.php?file=2004_06.xml&id=24170948">intro</a> 1. Then, as quickly as his journey had begun, he found himself at a home. He did not enter. Instead, he wound his way around on its broken, weed-covered walkway to the backyard. A short chain link fence guarded the sparse lawn, a closed but unfastened gate beaconed him inward. He strangely realized that he had smoked his last cigarette. Inside the gate, he stood and observed in the pale yellow light from that which was cobbled to the rear of the house, attempting to illuminate the yard but instead casting only shadows across the blades. Nature was on the take in this penal system, but it struck a good balance-backyards, he thought, should have a foot in the wild. He then noticed the tree. It stood directly in the middle of the yard, stoic in its minisculality. 2. He took to the tree. It looked familiar to him, yet only familiar, not identifiable. It's tiny, barren branches reached out into the night like the gutted homes of his neighborhood's skyline. And yet, he found himself, step by slowly-strode step, next to the tree. 3. He knew that he was to care for it, and he did, yet he had the feeling that it was actually caring for him. He spoke only briefly to it that evening, but would return, never too infrequently, yet somehow not often enough. He brought cups of water, biscuits, cheese, and would share them while they conversed-he in hushed tones, she in such mysterious silence as to render God quantifiable. His offerings were always accepted with grace, his trip back from the spot shorter than that there. 4. Eventually, spring came and with it a single green leaf bud on a single spindly branch. Its bits spread slowly like a hand opening for a surprise, eyes clamped shut, mouth quiveringly open. The man realized at that moment that he did not know what to say or do anymore.17103108FictionDaniel2005-02-17T10:30:52stagepingBTW, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308644/">Finding Neverland</a> is a REALLY good movie, if you can ignore the fact that Johnny Depp has eyeliner tattooed on. It may have been the timing, it might have been something specific to me, but I have never cried so much in a film before. It was really great. My beard was all wet and snotty by the end of the damn thing. Started halfway through and then pretty much nonstop for the last 1/4. Blogging shall be light. Lots to do. I wasn't too upset about the two weeks when this site was essentially down. The <a href="index.php?cat=12_Days">12 Days</a> thing will have to just continue when I have time. Maybe I'll rename the category, maybe I'll realize that this entire blog is about finding out my values, goals, dreams, etc.17133725MinutiaDaniel2005-02-17T01:36:41stageHOS<a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2005/02/919-build-so-many-of-issues-that.html">theyblinked</a>:<blockquote>so many of the issues that plague the various flavors and builds of the cultural operating systems humans have existed through stem from a useful, sometimes even brilliant, solution being checked into the build to fulfill a short-term need, but over time becoming a real problem as its idiosyncratic origin is obscured by the weight of the wider codebase it now exists within and that casts an aura of giveness over something that was decidedly constructed. as any programmer worth her salt will tell you, it costs orders of magnitude more in effort to fix an issue the later the activity falls along a development timeline. the horrid nature of human operating systems has been that a preponderance of users of any given system are willing to do or support (materially or in silent consent) the most horrific things in the name of defending the current build. so not only is debugging expensive it may demand far more than time and talent from those who would hazard to fix or fork the build.</blockquote>09150115QuotableDaniel2005-02-09T03:00:40stage...<blockquote>Music and therapy are very similar because both are about the personal development. It is about going further, deeper and having your own cognition and feeling but taking it a step up. It is unravelling mystery and a good song is not written, it is discovered, if you know what I mean.(Eirik Glambek Boe, "who reads psychoanalyst Carl Jung's writings for work and semiotician Umberto Eco's essays for fun")</blockquote><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00026W82U/qid=1107807879/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-3219980-3299858"><img src="http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/010/919/10919214.jpg" /> It's another rainy day in the lone star state, listening to Kings of Convienence. This record</a> took me longer to warm up to than their last, but now it's my record de jur. You want downloads? <a href="http://www.kingsofconvenience.org/kocdownloads.html">Thems got downloads</a>. Ug: they <a href="http://www.kingsofconvenience.org/05.html">played IOTA last night (would've been a good excuse for a trip to Arlington)...but hey: they're also playing SXSW</a>. Check out <a href="http://www.kingsofconvenience.org/roma052001/08.GloryBox.MP3">their Portishead cover</a>. Update: They're playing the Gypsy Tea Room March 20!! <a href="http://carissabyers.blogspot.com/2005/02/one-of-those-things-well-be-embaressed.html">Shrek</a>. <a href="http://music.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2005-02-03/music/music.html">The article on the Nourallah Brothers in the latest Observer is rather good</a>.06163547MinutiaDaniel2005-02-06T04:32:53stageinterconnected indeed<a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2005/02/04/its_a_paradox_of_the">Matt Webb</a><blockquote>It's a paradox of the work I do that it involves capturing the isness and tethering it, while at the same time I know it shouldn't be like this. But it has to be done if we're to do anything at all. We've made these same decisions over evolutionary time: Carved the world into objects and forces: nameable things. Created a neural semiotcracy over a billion years. And we try to escape it every day. And we know this because we see it expressed unrepressed in technology, where it can exist in grids and axes without the moderating influence of a world of becoming to shake it apart. And so, in technology, we have to resist reification even more. But just because I know this, it doesn't mean I have to shy away from production and doing, even when it works counter to my beliefs. I can't inhabit only a world of ideas operating on other ideas--thinking and doing inform one another, and so it is our job to make thinking rigorous and doing fluid, without losing the essence of either. Doing - production - constraint of self and others - exerting power - is thinking that affords fixity, and is between ourselves. It's difficult, but it is a more open thinking, that by exerting pressure on many gives freedom to them all. I won't take either position, but will react towards the balance. Know this: Every single flag I place in the ground is a compromise, and every flag and every compromise I resist. But I will go on placing those flags. I will inhabit paradox. I will not be unpowerful, just as I will not want it. Don't assume otherwise.</blockquote> 04122222QuotableDaniel2005-02-04T12:22:09stageSamples of Dallas at IR Gallery<img src="http://halsamples.com/blog/files/2005/02/urbanreflectionsforsite.jpg" /> "Samples of Dallas" <a href="http://www.integrationresearch.org/gallery/">The IR Gallery</a> 830 Exposition Suite 103 Dallas TX 75226 Opening Reception Feb. 5, 2005 7-9pm <a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-02-03/calendar/seebeseen.html">From the current Dallas Observer</a>:<blockquote>Should you find yourself at IR Gallery from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, admiring one of Hal Samples' photographs and on the fence about purchasing said piece, here's a word of advice. Four, actually: Give until it hurts. Why? Because that's what Samples has been doing since he began his Hero to Zero project, which raises money and awareness for the local homeless community. In a year and change on the job, he's lost weight (35 pounds and counting), money (more than you'd wanna know) and God knows what else in his quest to make Dallas just a little bit better for the people sleeping under bridges and behind buildings. But he's no charity case. Samples' vision is altruistic in front of the camera and artistic behind it, imbuing his stark images of the people and places that populate this world inside a world with warmth. Even if there wasn't a good cause involved, the heartfelt photos in his latest show, Samples of Dallas, which runs through February 16, would be worthy additions to anyone's collection. Call 469-951-7323.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.halsamples.com/blog/files/2005/02/bill_final2.wmv">Click here to view an early teaser from the production of the documentary film Dreamtown (1.5MB WMV)</a>. See, now I gotta brag a little bit. Hal's documentary is called Dreamtown, inspired by the <a href="../art/music">Daniel Miller Band</a> song <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/art/music/media/Daniel_Miller_Band-Americana_EP-Track03-American_Dream_Town.mp3">American Dream Town</a>, and that tune is also to be the title track for the documentary. If that little über-compressed clip up there doesn't get you excited about this film, then man, I don't know what would. (And that's just Hal doing a quick edit, professional producers and editors are lined up to do this thing.) The film, like all of Hal's ventures, is bootstrapped to the extreme. If any angel investors are going to come forward, I would think making this film happen would have the greatest appeal. So if yer interested, <a href="http://halsamples.com/contact/">contact Hal</a>. 04115336AnnouncementsDaniel2005-02-04T11:53:19stageme in an email<blockquote><a href="http://integrationresearch.org">IR</a> is about flattening hierarchies, not creating new false ones (the "<a href="files/2005/02/execution_schema_jan_05.jpg">hierarchy of Kool-aid</a>" is supposed to be ironic). It takes a lot of humility AND balls to know you're going to take over the world and not become just like those who currently own the world; why do you think world leaders suck SO BAD? ...Everyone says they can do better, but when they get into it, they get sucked into the whole thing. When I say "game the gamers" I don't mean fight fire with fire. Their fire is bigger and besides it takes water to fight fire. I mean understand the game and then subvert it; yeah you could learn how to play it better, but better still to get everyone to change tables (being an expert at blackjack won't mean shit at the poker table). It's going to take patience and resolve and those other things I already mentioned. Yes I'm talking to myself as much now as anyone.</blockquote><a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001294.html"><img src="files/2005/02/zzzbambam34.jpg" /></a>03141932Values.Goals.StrategyDaniel2005-02-03T02:19:10stagethinking...<a href="http://erikbenson.com/entries/2005/02/02/positive_sentiment_override.html">Erik Benson</a>:<blockquote>Thinking is so funny. We think we're so good at it. Every time I try to really think about something, though, it doesn't quite work. How do thoughts train together? Sometimes I think to myself, let's think about this, and then I think, okay, what should we think about this? And then I look around and wait for something to suggest something to think about. Next time you ask someone ?what are you thinking about? and they answer, then ask what exactly they are thinking about the thing that they are thinking about. Thinking is not hot. Another thing, I've been keeping track of how my stomach thinks. Or, rather, how it tries to subvert my thinking. I think about cats, say, and see what my stomach does. It usually does something, like make me a little happier, or make me a little sicker. I learned about this when I was reading Steven Berlin Johnson's latest book, with the biofeedback stuff. The chicken and egg of heart rate, skin conductivity, tense shoulders, sick feelings, etc. There is this idea of the positive sentiment override and negative sentiment override... the direction you are pulled when neutral events occur. If you're feeling happy, you forgive more easily, and if you're feeling irritable then you tend to get annoyed by things that aren't really that annoying. And I think my stomach is partially responsible (if not wholly) for swaying me into positive or negative sentiment. And I combat it with coffee and gin... which probably eventually gives the stomach more power because I become more dependent on sentiment to determine my behavior. I wonder how many people are stuck in negative sentiment override and the implied debt pulls them down down down to history. It's like a misaligned wheel that takes an otherwise nice car off the road. I had that misalignment for a while, and it's like getting corrective eye surgery to see how a small adjustment can make so much difference. Some people can predict whether a marriage lasts 15 years to 90% accuracy by watching a couple for 15 minutes. Evaluations of people that occur after 2 seconds can mirror evaluations of people after you've known them for a year. The infamous gut. Isn't it strange how very little attention we pay to ourselves compared to the attention we pay to people around us? When's the last time any of us has seen ourselves on film? Seen our own body language from the perspective of someone else? Recently I got some information about someone that doesn't like me much but is a close friend. I see myself through a tunnel of eyes and realize that they're probably right not to like me... not that I think I'm entirely unlikable but there are definitely reasons not to like me out there and if you are being purely logical then that's one conclusion you can come to. But the feelings in my stomach, as I think about this, are slightly negative. Of course, I don't like that a close friend doesn't like me... and the stomach feeling will probably come up with a plan to either confront said friend, or re-think some of my actions to see if we can remedy the reasons for this discovered dislike. The evil part of me also likes being disliked a little... maybe that's my pancreas? There's a buffer somewhere in my gut that allows slight imperfections to not matter. ...It's great being single. Knowing what I want, being able to at least make minor progress towards those things...I feel like a vision of life is forming, slowly, over the period of months and maybe years, and that the vision has potential to indirectly divert streamlets of happiness to me indirectly, while not going blind by staring at it directly. </blockquote>emphasis mine.03133207QuotableDaniel2005-02-03T01:31:55stagegrr.God created the world in 7 days. The rest of us require 12 to take it over. ...That was kind of where I was going with my second portion of "<a href="index.php?cat=12_Days">12 Days</a>" entries (the first part being the <a href="http://smartcommons.com">SmartCommons</a> posts also on <a href="http://integrationresearch.org">Integration Research</a> and <a href="http://theyblinked.com/blog">theyblinked</a>). But things were put on hold by a very crazy second half of January, which I hope is not a sign of more to come in 2005, hopefully we've got all the shit out the way already. However, said craziness also caused some re-evaluation of what was originally going to be the 12 day game plan for taking over the world etc. I'm still evaluating and processing, and so I'm coming back to this category of entry. It's February and I'm basically still just getting to new year's resolutions. ("Basically still just..." ...yes you read it here first!) Two things I've learned recently that I need to move into practice (these are just for me, not �berTruth(TM) kinda stuff):<ul><li>Simplicity = success.</li><li>I can not save anyone or anything. Likewise (this was never just two things)...</li><li>Others will not only not save me or my things, but most likely trample me in their rush for the door when the gunshots go off, and later shovel the coals into my cremation oven. So...</li><li>Trust less. It's ok. Meaning...</li><li>Talk less. I used to be such an introvert. Of course I know what happened. I need the pendulum to come back to center. Which takes one full circle to bullet #1. And...</li><li>Don't believe your own bullshit.</li></ul><img src="files/2005/02/zzzzzz7654168.jpg" />(this is the part where I kiss <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/">hugh</a>'s ass because i've fucked with one of his cartoons w/o permish and i don't want him to roll up on me with that ego etc. <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001339.html">see the original of this cartoon here</a>. <a href="http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative">download the How to be Creative PDF</a>. <a href="http://gapingvoid.streetcards.com/">get gapingvoid blogcards</a>. <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000823.html">etc</a>.) I also blogged <a href="http://nonlinear.blogspot.com/">over here</a>. Twice now.03023119Values.Goals.StrategyDaniel2005-02-03T02:31:00stageair guitar<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963726455/qid=1107391825/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-3219980-3299858"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0963726455.01._PE32_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="right" style="border:0px;" /></a><a href="http://www.sarahjanesemrad.com/blog/000422.html">from Sarah Jane</a>, an excerpt from Air Guitar by Dave Hickey..... <blockquote>First: Art is not a commodity. It has no intrinsic value or staple application. Corn is a commodity, and so is long-distance service, since the operative difference between bushels of corn and minutes of long-distance service is the price. Price distinguishes commodities that are otherwise similar and destabilizes the market, whereas price likens works of art that are dissimilar and stabilzes the market. When I trade a work by Kenny Price for a work by John Baldessari, as I did once, I am not conducting a commodity transaction, I am hopefully engaging in a subtle negotiation of analogous social value. Second: Art and money never touch. They exist in parallel universes of value at comprable levels of cultural generalization: Art does nothing to money but translate it. Money does nothing to art but facilitate its dissemination and buy the occasional box of Wheaties for the artist or art dealer. Thus, when you trade a piece of green paper with a picture on it, signed by a bureaucrat, for a piece of white paper with a picture on it, signed by an artist, you haven't bought anything, since neither piece of paper is worth anything. You have translated your investment and your faith from one universe to another. ...Money is the emblem of the risks you're willing to take to have a say in the way something looks. If you don't take risks, if you only confirm the prescience of previous investors, you aquire no power, create no constituancies, and have no effect. ... In order to have any say at all, then, one must take risks and do so persuasively, and continue to do so.</blockquote> ...strong emphasis mine. <a href="http://amazon.com/gp/registry/1IE1ZRAEO5E1F">added to wish list</a>02185151QuotableDaniel2005-02-02T06:51:24stagenonlinear<img src="files/2005/02/nonlinear.jpg" /><blockquote>So let's get crazy, Jen. I'm already there. I'm to the point that I think the reason something this horrific continues to spread is the power of human denial. Skepticism and curiosity, a dangerous duo. The house knows this. It banks on it. It gets its next victim that way, and prevents the truth from becoming so widespread and accepted as to blow its cover. The old line about the greatest trick the devil ever pulled. Why is the unexplained so taboo we can't accept it? We can't go to friends for help?</blockquote> When things are totally crazy and your eyes are red from not sleeping and you don't know which way is up, sometimes entering the world of nonlinear is the best course of action. A few months ago, I resurrected my <a href="http://nonlinear.blogspot.com/">nonlinear blog</a>, adopting a new blogger template and posting some stuff that had been in my "to blog" favorites folder for a long time. I'd had <a href="http://www.dionaea-house.com">dionaea-house.com</a> in my reading queue for some time, got about halfway through before Xmas. Just finished it. <a href="http://nonlinear.blogspot.com/2005/02/dionaea-house.html">blogged it</a>. <blockquote>\Di`o*n[ae]"a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a name of Aphrodite.] (Bot.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.</blockquote> In other news: <a href="http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/">skepticsannotatedbible.com</a>02055541ElsewhereDaniel2005-02-02T05:55:25stagemore productive <blockquote>...comfortable not drinking too much regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week) getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats) a patient better driver a safer car (baby smiling in back seat) sleeping well (no bad dreams) no paranoia careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole) keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then) will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall) favours for favours fond but not in love charity standing orders on sundays ring road supermarket (no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants) car wash (also on sundays) no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate nothing so childish at a better pace slower and more calculated no chance of escape now self-employed concerned (but powerless) an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism) will not cry in public less chance of illness tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat) a good memory still cries at a good film still kisses with saliva no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness) calm fitter, healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics</blockquote><img src="files/2005/02/i-dont-know-how-2-feel_09.jpg" /> <blockquote>There is a kind of wonderful but sad sickness in the hearts of many ministers. They try to let everyone matter to them. They let people inside their hearts, down on the inside where they feel things. They can't do this, of course. Things have a way of unraveling and falling apart when you try to be all things to all people.</blockquote><a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2005/02/01.html#a457">#</a> <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/media/DJ%20Food-(05)%20The%20Ageing%20Young%20Rebel%20(feat.%20Ken%20Nordine).mp3">DJ Food - The Ageing Young Rebel</a>01212850MinutiaDaniel2005-02-01T08:36:33stagePigeon-Stone Project<img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/02/Dscn0053.jpg" /> <blockquote>Pigeon-Stone Project is expanding! Pigeon-Stone Project is an organization of arists and curators working together to build a stronger foundation in the local art scene. As founders of this project, Sarah Jane Semrad and Nyddia Hannah search for opportunities for artists to gain exposure, and beginning curators to gain experience in the practice. If you are an artist in Dallas (or surrounding area) and are looking for an opportunity for your art to gain exposure, please submit a portfolio of recent work that we can keep (a labeled cd or a labeled printout) including an artist statement and bio, to: Pigeon-Stone Project P.O. Box 191089-369 Dallas, TX 75219 -or- make a drop-off Saturday between 1-5: IR Gallery 830 Exposition Avenue, Suite 103 Dallas, Texas 75226 <a href="http://www.irgallery.net">www.irgallery.net</a> further: If you are an aspiring curator in Dallas (or surrounding area) and are looking to gain experience in the practice, please send a resume to: <a href="mailto:pigeonstoneproject@whatartindallas.com">pigeonstoneproject@whatartindallas.com</a> Pigeon-Stone Project locations include: Continental Gallery (Deep Ellum) Magnolia Bar (WestVillage) Sozo Salon (Travis Walk) Zeo Salon (Knox-Henderson) Cafe Izmir (Downtown) ...and growing! Six more to be added in February. Locations include Mockingbird Station, Uptown, Deep Ellum.... If you have questions, call 214-497-4640. Thanks! Sarah Jane Semrad and Nyddia Hannah</blockquote> image <s>culled</s> googled from <a href="http://www.europewithasmile.com/gallery/day_fifteen/">europewithasmile.com</a>. used w/o permish. NOT the Pigeon-Stone Project logo or anything like that. just wanted a dern image.01110801AnnouncementsDaniel2005-02-01T11:07:34stage