uncollected: 10.11.23

large format: mafia of the mediocre. tell a drewley. conflict, disagreement. disparagement. justification for bullshit bully. need a small tank … spend time gossiping about the difficulties rather than the possibilities.

form into craft circles, then limit what imagery results. Ciba Circle[Tom Kelley, Galen Rowell, Keith Logan, Vern Clevenger, Christopher Burkett…] Easy looking art.

craft circles: ignore or ban — prune the vine

community — type of is type of growth — threads: topic tangles into their own story of heroism. Drunks retired from the Bowling alley life to the unmarked concrete pad. Alcoholics use a glass; drunks the bottle. The snobby hobby gets drunk from cut glass.

goog takes you to — greeted by the snobby hobby cadre

educated by workshop. craft campers. vacations away from the wife. learning a getaway take away.


minick chandler. pictures are never about what they seem. pictures are never as effective as expected.

cartoons have impact. cartoons, not art , change artists.

the language of (art) is too abstract. (any specialty field)

reflection density
the same color printed on different papers

TLC: chicken, but porkier

revolutions never happen once. always come twice.

Debra Bloomfield: small room

lower case crossings fill the bay of photography as, and in, the service of art. SFAI was an early beneficiary of the photography boom of the 70s. Student populations swelled as the boomers reached the age of enlightenment, as well as the draft.

San Francisco called. SFAI provided respite. Teachers took root.

Four Corners. “In 1989 photographer Debra Bloomfield got into her car and headed east from California. “

Lost O in Translation — how captioning gets the names wrong:

“I dwell in the house of the arts… you can talk to me about lucy Lipard and Imagine Cuninghm and Ansel Adams or anybody in the arts…”

a very small sampling of the house of her dwelling. Those were people from 40 years prior. I would have thought her years teaching at SFAI would have kept her more current. Perhaps her self involvement kept her confined to a small room in that house.

DB is speaking in 2014… her house is getting a bit dusty… seems behind on her house-wprk.

Knowledge comes from awareness that is used.