overnights: 5.10.21

masking the action
gaining the future without revealing your immediate intention. how they fit; if they do.

A movie that aims but misses: why does it miss? What if it was two goals? That divided it into a weaker movie.

Lost in Translation, in the Saudi desert.
A Hologram for the King.

basic needs
food, fuck, fun

every pound is a day's supply of food
combine three and you've got the purpose.... a party

thiel with props -- https://youtu.be/esk7W9Jowtc

the first skill
is independence. don't ask about what you can try, test on your own.
first steps, walking overcomes fear before building strength enough to run.

how to gather information. what to get first. trusting others until you trust yourself.

what exercising exercises. why practice what you practice.
fundamentals of what you see.
caution that you learn why the sample

Nuts and Bolts are the simple part of making a machine. If your interest is in flying a plane, avoid the course that begins with measuring threads. If you want to print dye transer, don't start at the nature of light. begin at the beginning.

Poetry isn't a function of the pencil sharpener.
aphorisms are the lens of mind.


[5.10.21]

overnights: 5.3.21

the punctuation
contact sheets are our connexion with consciousness steams. visual punctuations.
those borders.
on our borderline
--
where we put our comma. do we have an 'and'
the gutter of the book; the space on the wall. 
—
at first
i can't throw anything out, then, I throw everything out. Of course, what comes next is regret.
Time passes. I do it again.
I was making darkroom toys: begin with paper, pencils, xacto. The scraps got stuck on the guide tapes. They became the tool. I had to try them.



aipad ago: 2018

[5.3.21]

Overnight: 4.26.21

Dye Hokey
dye transfer requires space, a bit of attention time, and dexterity.
It is a process cloaked in rounders and back benchers making it a cult. Most of them never got to the real process, instead they stay at the hand waving, constant fear of failure, fear of expense stage.

They fool themself into the hokey pokey making it seem hoku pokus.
You put your red sep in, you put your magenta mask out... mix yourself up and leave it till next week.

clarity of
as present, or as presented. the imager, picturing the present


past perfect
working in the silver mine until becoming lost in the dye cloud
digging in the silver mine looking for a dye cloud
becoming 

past & future
in printed times a subscription gave you the future issues. in digital days a subscription entitles you to the past issues

in 40 years
there will be more of yesterday's rain, then of you.
crying helps everything
electronics, avionics, photornics, histrionics

skill is a manifold

[overnight]
novice (is the amateur)

Aperture as magazine. Glad that it has changed; no longer featuring the “perennial question” getting to the millennial quest.
Small blooms


A perennial question produced only small blooms; luckily it hasn’t taken over the garden

past participle poets
searching for shy photograph

4.26.21