Ah, but we arent able to do much in seeing mode this trip, visiting
relatives & all that entails (much of it great, but busyness the
tempo). And, believe me, Ontario in the summer is hot, muggy, & too
much of all that....
And I havent seen a board to walk by like the one you took up...
Doug
Quoting "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Thanks, Doug. Sounds like, lucky summer you, that you are in
> "vacaton-psyche". I am building up for that - here in a City where
> the summer fog barely lifts, and it will only get worse in August.
> Like having a long,silent lunch with George W. Or some such. Growl!
>
> Stephen
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
> Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Very nifty seeing
> on your part Stephe.
>
> I'm away & not often able to connect so way bvehind but took a look
> & liked...
>
> Doug
>
>
> Quoting "Stephen Vincent" :
>
>> 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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> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
>
> That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
>
> Frank O’Hara
>
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Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
Frank O’Hara
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