Friday, November 30, 2007

Feed Your Mind Living Art



It's an amazing thing, how utterly different valuable art is when taken in a second time, the third time, and so on. Some works of art gain immensely, they are a new thing. They are so remarkably different, they make you question your work. They live. Again, other art looses immensely. I recently viewed an exhibition of art I had seen previously and was amazed by how little it moved me, I was almost aghast to think of the raptures I had once felt, and now felt no more.

The real joy of art lies in experiencing it over and over again, and always finding it different every time we experience it. Art of any kind can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a beautiful book, into which you can look deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

So it is. This clip is from the beautiful documentary on Andy Goldsworthy's art, "Rivers and Tides". Like Goldsworthy's art ,"Rivers and Tides" lives simply because its meaning is not fixed or static.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

"Representing the Neighborhood"



In 1969, the US Senate had a hearing on funding the proposed Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half for the Vietnam War. Sometimes nice guys do win some.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Gilgamesh Guild: Red Lion Down's Crypt


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The searcher operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

A crypt containing several pieces of printed ephemera awaits your attention. The cost of this adventure is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it.