Some want to hear more good stuff on Bruce Conner - maker of films, photographer, sculptor, painter, printmaker, occasional San Francisco politician, well, today in Leah Garchik's collumn:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/07/11/DDI511LPR7.DTL
In 1967, Conner ran for the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. He described his business or occupation as "Nothing. My qualifications for said office are as follows: The light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is single, they whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is dark, they body is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known."
Followed by a lovely conversational account by Michael McClure of going from Kansas to NYC with Bruce Conner in their teens to up with Robert Motherwell in the summer of 1951, as well as accounts of his runs for the Board of Supervisors.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/11/DDKA11LE22.DTL&hw=Kenneth+Baker+Bruce+Conner&sn=001&sc=1000
Kenneth Baker's good piece on Connor the person(s), also in today's Chron.
Of course, for additional stuff, one can always Google!
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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