did they mention grassy knolls?
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Reminds me of the time in Fell's Point in Baltimore I was walking along S.
> B'way toward the harbor and was passed by two guys
> going the other way, one of whom said, in an astonished tone,
> to the other, "Him? Who'd want to kill him?"
>
> Hal
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>
>>>
>>> For all of you fellow domestic summer weekend slackers(!), you might be
>>> interested in a new "City Psyche" blog series I have started - camera and
>>> journal in hand - exploring San Francisco streets again. To get some some
>>> sense, the opening passage goes:
>>>
>>>
>>> A current challenge is to look for signs (text, image, etc.) that work as
>>> collective epiphanies of life in this City, if not across the nation, globe,
>>> etc. That is to explore the ways in which individual and collective psyche
>>> emerge in an identifiable configuration. The process is probably most taken
>>> from some combination of Jersey Grotowski's, Towards a Poor Theatre, and the
>>> principles of Arte Povera. The brief sum of which is to work the streets
>>> and - not ruling out the complex - to find texts and images within simple
>>> and/or found materials. The additional task is not to belabor a critical
>>> definition of any discovery. In fact, the primary impulse is to use eyes and
>>> ears - or any of the other senses - reveal what makes for awe. I don't mean
>>> awe in a shallow, romantic sense. But to find those situations in which the
>>> senses are penetrated in such a way as to make you stop in your own tracks,
>>> either for a second or an enduring space of time.
>>> For example, I am walking across Guerrero at 19th Street at dusk on a
>>> Friday evening. A young woman on a cell-phone is in the cross-walk just
>>> ahead of my step. "Don't be fashionably late, sucker," she says, her voice
>>> at full volume.
>>> Your comments always appreciated.
>>> Stephen V
>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>
>>
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