The Ruin in Layers

Holy Terror

Art Is All We Have: In the Face of Diplomatic Idiocy

While our leaders disfunction each other and cram themselves down into fishy niches; while they  disorient their preoperatives and negate their misinterpretations....why not have some fun with the, "Not that!"  We've been working with some ideas that we haven't had yet....something  about the  "modest squares."

X Box (Y)

Good Morning Mr. Orwell

An edited version of Naim June Paik's first international satellite installation held on New Year's Day, 1984.  Now an artifact and as quaint in retrospect as it is difficult to analyze in context.  Watching so many artists having fun doing their thing is endearing enough to see through the time capsule of Whammy hairstyles and David Byrne suits.  When did you ever get to see Yves Montand doing a song and dance routine and really selling it, to boot?

Good Morning Mr. Orwell

Liverpool Ferry Terminal Wins 2009 Carbuncle Cup

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3147432&origin=BDweeklydigest

What is DADA part 2

And the second part...

What is DADA

Part one of a film made in 1969 by Helmut Herbst. 

Ash Wednesday I

The audio track pestered me all day with, "C'mon give us some pictures for company!" And, "We won't let you just sit there eating braunschweiger and saltines until we get some images to hang with!" And finally, "No pictures, no peace!"
So, now there are pictures and now there is peace.

TSEliot: Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday maps Eliot's escape from the spiritual void. In this interpretation, the poem is recited over a continuing rhythm of life, punctuated by competing aural representations of the sacred and the profane.

http://www.box.net/shared/grp2eqe9k5

house cat

Mouse

The idea of Mouse as an interdisciplinary icon generates this improvised biographical sketch. In endless permutations, Mouse is the central sustaining figure essential to both animated entertainment and the metaphorical sciences: The leading character in a world of situational chaos and social satire, combined with applied biology and psychoanalysis.
My Dissected Mind imagines Mouse as a world weary and chemically dependent exaggeration of celebrity who, in a state of overdose, consents to donate his cinematic memory to science. His imaginary recollections are proposed as a portfolio of imagery, posthumously bequeathed to the arts and sciences.
He was once known as the most versatile and talented character ever in the world of animation. Inevitably, fame, resultant pride, and a concomitant sense of invincibility overtook the Mouse in the form of addiction. No, not in its common forms of adulation, praise and applause, rather in the form of the dragon. The dragon who, in return for his offering of pleasure and distraction, demands nothing less than the soul of the seeker in return. Fortunately, in his final moments, Mouse acquiesced to the clamor of his admiring throng and agreed to share with them, upon his death, his dissected memory. The animated cells of his mind are here preserved for posterity and we thank the powers that be for his final moment of clarity which this record documents. Mouse, we thank you.

Noatikl Compositions

Recent forays into composition of ambient music.....
Piece IV:
http://www.box.net/shared/54zoqmrgc0
and the others....
http://www.box.net/shared/j3az01lja0
http://www.box.net/shared/n3ozxx1yzn
http://www.box.net/shared/f13f7xneh8
http://www.box.net/shared/a6076abu5x
We'll see if progress can be made from here....
these truly humble beginnings

Digitecture

Located in the evolving overlap between the disciplines of art and architecture, digitecture must be seen as a distinct category of practice and production. Meaningful critical examination depends on the acknowledgment of a unique context within an aesthetic continuum, that is less about functional value than it is about speculative value. Digitecture is the genealogical descendant of a virtual collision between the Fluxus movement of John Cage, the telematic art of Roy Ascott, the ideas of simulacra and simulation of Jean Baudrillard, and embracing the notion of indeterminacy and chance into the artistic operation. Methodologies begin to cross artistic disciplines and share the improvisational character of a rhizomatic approach.
http://www.sq.ro.spamarchitecture.php
The Spam Architecture of Alex Dragulescu is characterized by the underlying structure (the invisible) of a generative software which produces (the visible) three dimensional forms resulting from variable, indeterminate and chance information. The generated shapes are essentially translations of text (language) into a three dimensional language.

Boundaries and Purposes

This blog is intended to deal principally with my architectural studies. In order to maintain a proper separation between focused academic discourse and random off-the-handle-geflying (as in, "Hermann, your son just geflew off the handle!") we've established a repository for the random "ecstatic truths" (thank you Herr Herzog) that beg for a telepresent life. That place has been established as http://lwdewhirst.wordpress.com
We welcome you in advance and look forward to continuing to put one foot in front of the other. Now it's time to go out an offgehose the courtyard before the rain does it for me,

Follow links below for films by Dodge and Kahn

http://www.ubu.com/film/dodge_kahn.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/arts/design/02fink.html

"You could what....?"

Cronkite Assumes New Post

• His new representatives are pleased to announce that an agreement has been struck between the eternal soul of Walter Cronkite and Valhalla's leading source for news and information, the Ethereal News Network. Sources at ENN say Mr. Cronkite is set to begin his duties as anchor of the network's nightly "Flaming Boat of News" broadcast (rated number one in the eternal market) as the new season begins later this year. The agreement calls for the current anchor, Mr. Vidar Sonofodin, to move to the position of executive producer. In a prepared statement Mr. Cronkite allowed that he is eager to resume his familiar role as the second most trusted man in the Eddic afterlife. (Image courtesy wireimage.com)
  

Pelosi

Is it true that Nancy Pelosi has a permanent boner in her right index finger?

Heraclites

Wayne Dewhirst - Ambulatory Collage
As Wayne's presentation finished up, I thought to myself, ok what was that about now. I was paying attention the whole time, but I'm not sure where Wayne is going with his project. Maybe a little more enthusiasm in his presentation would help out, the monotone loses me after a few minutes. If Wayne's not excited about it, why should I be excited about it? I thought his ambulatory collage was very interesting and that held my attention. I think this is a style and topic Wayne should explore more. It kind of reminded my of Prodigy's (their title not mine) 'Smack My Bitch Up.'
Score: 7


Wayne's project was similar to the stuff we do every day, however it was interesting because he was just learning about them for the first time. It was also interesting how he planned on integrating what he's learned in this class with his teaching. He put together some interesting videos that fit very well together with the class. I liked his idea of an abulatory collage. Also whether or not he realized it, coining a term is a very common part of digital culture. Terms are coined every day on the internet.
Wayne - 9

It is always hoped that the fascination of the content will trump the somnambulism of the delivery...but in Wayne's case there is unfortunately less of the former than there is an abundance of the latter. I say now, as the Rafiq of Emor and, as such, the sworn enemy of all that is unclean (as well as he who, among the pretenders, is without personal knowledge of the person who is the subject people at hand and upon whom we propose to eloquently level the divine judgement of our spiritual inspiration in a most benevolent manner). The pipes in the trunk of my car are merely childish fireworks (you would not understand these simple things). The Father of Rafiq was betrayed by his closest enemies and this is why he campaigns to this day and forever.
For Wayne I give - 8.7
(If I did not depend upon his chambers for refuge I would award him the goat-prize of a six.
Signed, Rafiq)
P.S., If, like Rafiq, you were had to enjoy and find attraction to these musics played upon this works, you may find these at http://www.archive.org/details/FoolAround
(the real raffie [who will prevail] gives a 7.98)

Analog to Digital

Here, ongoing real-space projects are transported as content to cyber-space. Static objects are reinterpreted as they become augmented with variable qualities of motion, sound and time. In this very simple example, the character of the object is transformed as it takes occupancy of an alternate offering system.

Rudolph Weaver, FAIA, 1880-1944

"In 1925 he came to the University of Florida to establish the curriculum in architecture and to serve as the first architect of the Board of Control. During nineteen years of exemplary leadership, he formed the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, pioneered its curricula in art, landscape architecture, and building construction - the Nation's first, and successfully directed for the Board of Control the design and erection of many notable buildings throughout the State."
From the commemorative tablet dedicated February 5, 1966, placed at the entry to Rudolph Weaver Hall. Building A, College of Fine Arts Administration and Library. (Leigh Hall image detail)

Music for Airports

As I heard it, the epiphany in Brian Eno's life came when he was hospitalized and unable to adjust a radio playing at a barely audible volume next to his bed. This became the genesis for ambient music and later, music for airports. . . the idea of a background sound over which one has no control, that permeates one's environment, is the concept which generated and supports the notion of "ambient music." Anecdotal evidence says Bowie and Eno lived together in Berlin for a while, doing laundry WISHING THEIR WIVES WOULD JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Finding the Line Between Insanity and Creativity