Tuesday, September 29, 2009
shifting nature of consciousness...
I have been keeping a photogjournal of the changing light over the seasons. the slideshow about is from 9/27/08 which is two days past a year. the time goes faster but my vision grows deeper...as I go deeper into my mind, I am the richest homelessman in america after all, loveless, torn like esau cast out to wander the sanai of the spirit, I see more and more...
and here is a slideshow of images now in the present...
and here is a slideshow from 9/19/07...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
the fence...
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in the garden...fancy now...fenced off and admired by the magazine people in town...I used to oil can's in there when I came off the train in my monkey suit...Gene the cop was on the beat, even if he noticed I was there, wouldn't have given a shit...the town had lost most of its personality by then but not to the extent it has now...I got a whiff of that odor while In the dunkin donuts this morning...you just feel the vibe...to counter the emotion I turned up Phil real loud Turn On Your Love Light...it made the people all fade away...
in the garden...fancy now...fenced off and admired by the magazine people in town...I used to oil can's in there when I came off the train in my monkey suit...Gene the cop was on the beat, even if he noticed I was there, wouldn't have given a shit...the town had lost most of its personality by then but not to the extent it has now...I got a whiff of that odor while In the dunkin donuts this morning...you just feel the vibe...to counter the emotion I turned up Phil real loud Turn On Your Love Light...it made the people all fade away...
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Videopoem Patti Smith Piss Factory...
the poem goes on within you without you...another year around the stone...donny didn't make it this time but I"m sure he would have loved this show...he had become a practicing Buddha at the end and he would like it that Patti is one too...the shots of the woods behind the Patti pics Donny and I many times got stoned and drunk and enjoyed the aesthetics of the beauty...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
A rose...
She was wearing a rose which became a metaphor for the moment...before we had seen her a homie was selling them on the street...leo hopi bought one from him...we were going to give it to Diane but Mary said we shouldn't...in the moment of the buzz I turned around and handed it to Leo Hopi who placed in the windshield of this fancy jaguar parked in front...the rose matched it's color...
Hipster mad angels in the NYC night...
like hipster mad angels in the nyc...infused by the magic...I started to lip synch the notes I wanted the guitarist to play...a penguin in the window giving me the sherlock holmes eye...I told leo hopi she was a bit road tooth and it made him laugh...the breeze blew with an indian summer sigh as I taped and took beautiful pictures of strange women and for a moment I was back in the Jack Kerouac dream of hipster mad angels in the nyc night...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Portait of blonde done in chairoscuro...
My friend Diane was gracious enough to let me take her photo the other day...I called it portait of blonde done in chairoscuro.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Cleaning Up
Dan and I spent part of the afternoon cleaning up the Greeley gorge. Under a beautiful late summer sun we got into removing garbage that kids left over the summer...
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Words Matter: Observations from Ralph Nader
"Ever wonder what’s happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists? Too often reporters and editors don’t wonder enough. They ditto the words even when the result is deception or doubletalk."
This is the opening insight from Ralph Nader. He provides an analysis at the euphemisms that the media accepts without critical inspection from the corporations.
"The raging debate and controversy over health insurance and the $2.5 trillion spent this year on health care involves consumers and “providers.” How touching to describe sellers or vendors, often gouging, denying benefits, manipulating fine print contracts, cheating Medicare and Medicaid in the tens of billions as “providers.”"
In my opinion it starts way back in the school system. We are not taught be critical of society. Education is more about social promotion and learning. It led my conflicts so many years ago. A scary thing is that a lot of those who are in power to make decisions are not there through merit as the myth but through social connections bought on by the right schools and family associations. These individuals naturally want to advance their social advantage. It is up to the media to confront these areas of privilege but the media has been bought off long, long ago.
"“Privatization” and the “private sector” are widespread euphemisms that the press falls for daily. Moving government owned assets or functions into corporate hands, as with Blackwater, Halliburton, and the conglomerates now controlling public highways, prisons, and drinking water systems is “corporatization,” not the soft imagery of going “private” or into the “private sector.” It is the corporate sector!"
In this Mclite culture of easy sound bites and surface imagery who takes the time to achieve such insights...?..
This is the opening insight from Ralph Nader. He provides an analysis at the euphemisms that the media accepts without critical inspection from the corporations.
"The raging debate and controversy over health insurance and the $2.5 trillion spent this year on health care involves consumers and “providers.” How touching to describe sellers or vendors, often gouging, denying benefits, manipulating fine print contracts, cheating Medicare and Medicaid in the tens of billions as “providers.”"
In my opinion it starts way back in the school system. We are not taught be critical of society. Education is more about social promotion and learning. It led my conflicts so many years ago. A scary thing is that a lot of those who are in power to make decisions are not there through merit as the myth but through social connections bought on by the right schools and family associations. These individuals naturally want to advance their social advantage. It is up to the media to confront these areas of privilege but the media has been bought off long, long ago.
"“Privatization” and the “private sector” are widespread euphemisms that the press falls for daily. Moving government owned assets or functions into corporate hands, as with Blackwater, Halliburton, and the conglomerates now controlling public highways, prisons, and drinking water systems is “corporatization,” not the soft imagery of going “private” or into the “private sector.” It is the corporate sector!"
In this Mclite culture of easy sound bites and surface imagery who takes the time to achieve such insights...?..
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Health Care....
Franken Talks Down Angry Mob
This video highlights the irrationality that Democrats face when talking about the health care reform. Why people want to enrich the insurance companies and be behold toi some facelesss corporate bureaucrat is beyoind me. If they stood up to the illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan the money saved from those useless wars alone would pay for the single payer option. Americans are brainwahsed. They know very little of the outside world. While they are bringing democracy to Iraq they barely have here it in the United States. There are so few contested elections in this country and both parties have been bought off by big business, Still even this feeble attempt at health care reform is better than nothing...
Spotted Light...
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Staring into the void I look for patterns to make meaning...I"m also trying to get this Flock blog editor to work...words splash real...expression, it's been a constant for me...now home after a double yoga class...it almost sounds like taking a shot into days of future pass we move...don't have much of an audience working for me but I just can't resist all these social media tools..these avenues of expression blow my mind and make me feel like a kid in the candy store...
Staring into the void I look for patterns to make meaning...I"m also trying to get this Flock blog editor to work...words splash real...expression, it's been a constant for me...now home after a double yoga class...it almost sounds like taking a shot into days of future pass we move...don't have much of an audience working for me but I just can't resist all these social media tools..these avenues of expression blow my mind and make me feel like a kid in the candy store...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
The Art of the Mundane
The art of the mundane...it's right there in the backyard...emerson knew it...we all can know it..
A study of light...
Perhaps it's an obsession to continuously take pictures of the same woods but I honestly believe I come to see something new if not every time I take pictures certainly over the course of the process...there are the ways the shadows fall and the light penetrates the leaves..and of course it matters at what time of day i take the pictures and the season...a lot of the pictures don't cut it...but if looked at as part of a collection and a process then they gain in stature...my study of light is about a way of being...it's not overtly sensational or conspicuously hip...I feel those attitudes are fleeting anyway...who talks about generation x anymore although I remember quite clearly when that concept and bands such as nirvana were quite the rage...
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Security Video Poem
America dark the wealth having been stolen by the real pro's...did you get in on the feeding fenzy the last 30 years...was Reagan your boy?...is iraq and afghanistan some fantasy video game that you don't bother to play?...security big time business in America...for those who have something to protect to those who want to elude detection and slip in unnoticed...I thought it was funny that this vid showed up in my google alerts for Video Poem....it's not that badlly done and it cracks me up...Video Poems come in all sizes and shapes themes and raps...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The flow of information...
The flow of information....I believe in it whole heartedly....we live in the digital age...things should be transparent which is a result of free flow of information...I wasn't able to bring my cameras in...it turns out I could have but once again I listened to the wrong people...so it goes.....that was my fault...so this video was taken by my freind Diane....she did a good job and she captures the spirit of the Micahel Franti in concert...he brings an amazing energy to his shows...I'm sensitive to it because I do yoga and that whole rastafarian vibe taps into that...his show at Terminal 5 in New York City on September 1 was no exception.. He displayed a wide range of musical ideas within the reggae framework.. His band was tight and they rocked a willing house. I prefer to be more involved than being a passive onlooker. It's one reason I like bringing in my camera gear. Being cool and jumping around is a lot of fun and indeed I had a great time but for me I was on a higher spiritual plane when I was kicking it in Central Park. When the flow of information is restricted it makes me feel inhabited. It's the restriction of information and individual passiviity that I believe has given us two wars and the great Wall Street shakedown. I am not saying this is any of Michael Franti's fault. His music was all inclusive and he even mentioned not to forget the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. As you can see this from this video, the atmosphere was electric and the crowd fully involved.
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