where are all the sad dolls?
reading On Photography by Susan Sontag. [1973, 1974, 1977]. Picador edition.
p.3
“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experienced captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”
p.12
“Although the camera is an observation station, the act of photographing is more than passive observing. Like sexual voyeurism, it is a way of at least tacitly, often explicitly. encouraging whatever is going on to keep on happening.”
so google now has an OS. they’re calling it chrome.
logo goes like this:
since there are no employees older than i am in the entire corp, i can only imagine that they also remember a little game that goes like this:
therein lies the rub.
from the art world:
do you live in LA? definitely go see tia’s work in Rogue Wave.
photo by Kelly O. via The Stranger here.
read the article here by Paul Constant about Pilot Books.
she has a lending library upstairs.
reading CROWE, D., & OLTERMANN, P. (2007). How I write: the secret lives of authors. New York, Rizzoli.
image taken from OCLC
why did the library cut off the finding ribbon from this book? is that a policy?
just read about Isla De Las Muñecas in Mexico on BoingBoing.
am now non-stop thinking about how wonderful it would be to visit this place. who knew i had so many kindred spirits.
an island shrine to a dead girl made up of thousands of sad dolls.
alright. so i went to see the sontag film last night.
most notable element. large poster in the couples’ office. it had the star from the DRVN and it said “vietnam 15-29 April 1969″.
sontag went to Northern VN in the late ’60s. and she wrote a book about it.
not sure what the poster from the film was actually from. would be cool to find out.
see the sun set with no sleep at all
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just finished Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 edited by David Rieff. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in a bit of a Sontag mood.
Northwest Film Forum is showing one of her films in their films of 1969 series.
poster for the series. via Northwest Film Forum
so i’ll go see her “Duet for Cannibals” here.
