Learning Aesthetics

1.00  There’s an apocryphal story about John F. Kennedy  touring the Houston Space Center and being introduced to one of the employees who turned out to be part of the custodial staff and we assume somewhat obviously not one of the brightest crayons in the box.  “What do you do here?” the President ask. “I’m [...]

In an effort to set a good example for those who work with me it’s become necessary to start a blog, well something like a blog, that is primarily “work related”.  Following my own good advice to rely on Occam’s razor and resist the temptation to multiply entities, I’ve decided to re-purpose LA for a few [...]

The Logic of Things Having imagined sex and desire we assume the world. I’m going to try and refocus here. While I make a lot of connections that are evidently difficult to explain, I’m operating on the theory that it will be useful to sort out and categorize some of the entities that catch my [...]

…and counting down to that 2012 thing. In the mean time I think it’s important to keep refreshing the knowledge pool:

I’ve been thinking about sharing lately. The impulse to make art is roughly congruent with the impulse to share. Probably there’s more ego in it; perhaps not. I like Bill Frisell a lot. So I checked out his album Disfarmer. That led me to The Project, and the project to Dan Hurlin‘s puppets: I wanted [...]

I’ve been using the I Ching off and on since the mid-sixties. Of late it’s been a Sunday morning ritual. My iPhone has become an important part of that thanks to an app from Brian Arnold; it’s brilliant and I highly recommend  it.

This one will require a bit of context. 10 1/2 dog years ago I was teaching a media theory course about YouTube. As an opening assignment I asked the students to explore the top 10 most watched videos for a two week period. One of the group submissions which showed up with appalling frequency was [...]

Re-Tweeted form Share This Course: Imagine that you’d had one of those way-back moments and you’d Googled “Guy DeBord”. Once you’d finished with the Wikipedia obviousness you’d find the text of The Society of the Spectacle, sort of a book made up of overlong Tweets, but then if you became tempted by the backspace key [...]

In looking for things to share I stumbled upon the latest DARPA contest. I’m not sure whether to take this “Adequate Paranoid System” or .mil as a sense of humor, really. At any rate here are some links to what went on, but be warned you follow the references to 4CHAN and the Something Awful [...]

I’ve been reacquiring my blogging addiction. Like smoking cigarettes an almost irresistible urge reoccurs at unlikely moments. In this instance you can blame Mark Pesce who started one of those interesting Internet experiments, this one called Share This Course. You can find my contributions if you stumble around in the comments fields. Here’s an example: [...]