Category: The Why

overnights: oct5 ’23

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[santamaura] failed engineers need singular meaning words.

failed: what’s another word for early retirement. redundant. not essential to the future of the company. past production of such insufficient value to warrant retaining for future efforts of ” air industry.” Not able to define a future in the company. Time to write letters on concrete.

see the sun without definition. why does it being ‘meaningless’ (meaning too many things)( he hates variables, demands equations of constants) why does meaning less cause such anxiety.

A: because you are excluded.

you could -- interactions changes
types: opinions become anti rather than of positive
-- woodburytype phd: asks, can't get answer cause braggarts -- without info, gossip from other's opinions
no pictures: no way of comparing. whose brag is bigger
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the diffraction distraction -- a diffraction function
.... can't show; can't say ... no way of exchange... limited vocabulary -- small, shrinking dictionary.
the flight of the bumbling bee

factual + conceptual erros — blindness :: resentment : division. not letting them win

[viva voce \ a precis ]

reading The Wrong Paper

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as we learn one thing we forgo another. As we look for something, we don’t see the other. Various ways of saying to walk lightly, look softly, be open — said often. However, the nature of knowing means acquiring greater focus, digging deeper into something. Perhaps genius is found by the loose grip; others must hold on tightly.

Paper was always my way of acquiring the other facts of life. Words and pictures intermixed. There have been many newspaper/journals in my circling around my purposes. In the wayback 60s, artist tabloids, and newspapers were printed on newsprint in effort to be distributed widely, cheaply. It was all transient.

as a photographer, I learned to interpret the difference between that printed page and the printed photo. Even gaining skill to provide prints to be reprinted by the cheap web print. These days interpretation between screen space and my spaces — darkroom and printroom — is made easier. It is called do-check learning.

the paper print as prompt

Threepenny uses many photographs in their paper. It isn’t a photography publication, but the editors understand and give much care to providing space for photography. I am happy that it links me to former students.

The pictures must be interpreted by an understanding that comes from open, informed eyes. These type of publications provide the backup for vision. They serve to exercise the deeper eye. That bundle behind.