steve, have you seen zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com ? howard junker (editor of mag of same title) seems to be doing some such often though perhaps not so focussed and defined. you think things out so much i get so twisted, but a good twisting and swirling for sure. ed
--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: City Psyche - New de blog
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 7:03 PM
Yes, I share some of your 'typological' impulses, Roger, and I like
these. Do you do any interpretation beyound the image itself - not that
it's necessary.
What neck of the burbs, etc., are you in. It does not look like Cambodia!
Stephen
Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Something along these lines?
http://picasaweb.google.com/rog3r.day
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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> 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:
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> 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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