tales from the goatshed

casualty

2008-05-01T05:15:48Z

My blog was a casualty of some updating, caused -no doubt - by my clumsiness in dealing with midphase’s cPanel. Fortunately I make export files on a weekly basis, so not much was lost, but the loss of search engine rankings and connectivity is ...

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casualty

2008-05-01T05:15:48Z

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remembering

2008-04-27T05:17:09Z

My dreaming is already different and it turns out that memories are not “pictures” but instead are other-sensory visions. Obviously, now that the modality in which they were generated and the modality in which they are remembered are different....

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staff

2008-04-26T16:20:46Z

The staff is the staff of the herald and of the augur. The keryx, the aggello, the messenger, someone who comes before us to announce what follows. It is the staff of the forerunner. Tireisias’ staff is made of “crow’s wood”, his name already i...

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revulsion

2008-04-26T04:28:30Z

Over time, I started to develop a revulsion against certain kinds of photographic gesture and against the photograph as such. The finished product, the print, even the digital file displayed on the web page. There was a time when I could make o...

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embodiment

2008-04-25T17:33:58Z

Odd how disembodiment was the most immediate effect of losing vision. The bodies of others and my own body as well. It would be easy to say the body sees to exist since notions of how it relates to the space around it, how it moves through that...

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touchspace

2008-04-25T03:59:15Z

I’m in the Anywhere. Space is mainly time, but not quite. Simultaneous occurrences exist there, but without the conventions of perspective and distance. I walk across Pont d’Iena and I say to D.: “those poles are very loud.” Yet I hear a kind o...

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luminous

2008-04-24T16:47:39Z

From when my vision first started changing, I remember the feeling of combined dread and excitement. The fear produced in me by the strange colors I was perceiving, by objects abruptly appearing and disappearing, by the way everything acquired ...

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seeing

2008-04-24T03:51:45Z

What is the camera to me. Perhaps a bit what a musical instrument is to musicians; the bond between D. and her clarinet, an instrument of expression and an object that has to be coaxed into performing for her. My cameras do not have to be adjus...

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procedure

2008-04-23T12:22:35Z

Procedure is following pre-determined steps in time to arrive at a result. The steps all concern converting spatial information to a format I can perceive. I consider sighted help much the same way: converting visual cues into aural ones. I fel...

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