Simon Taylor
“Why does everything have to be a contest with you?” “Why does everything have to be a victory with you?”
pilgrimage to Barry Brickell’s Driving Creek Potteries & Railway, Coromandel Peninsula – Barry is pictured nude, a beer bottle in one hand, or a wine bottle, depending on the time of day, a hammer in the other hand, and a spade, and in the other a kumara-
to placard: letter on arts funding crisis, to demolish an idea
[-The following went to Spectre -]
State arts funding does not have the interests of the artist or of art at its centre as its reason. It is rather a symbolic – political and economic and ethological – allowance that such things might emerge as artists and arts which if they do
mainly sand
general statements about art suck even if they satisfy and other failed attempts or is it better to live to be a caricature of oneself or die a cliché? (RIP Amy Winehouse)
to placard: sufficient conditioning; a call to raise expectations of and from conditions considered sufficient
[-with minor alterations, the following was sent to the Listserv Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives-]
Dear Un-Alike,
I’m intrigued by the support here for decentralization as a condition for a desirable network. Decentralization is what the social graph aspires to, lighting up the dark zones