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The Porcupine School of Poetry
The blog of Kevin Buist, artist, podcaster, web denizen.
Dec 02
Reuben Lorch-Miller
Dec 01
“ Good art should elicit a response of “Huh? Wow!” as opposed to “Wow! Huh?” (Edward Ruscha)
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Art Quotations by Edward Ruscha - The Painter’s Keys Resource of Art Quotations
Been thinking out this today…
A sample page from Don Celender’s 1975 self-published book of survey results Opinions of Working People Concerning the Arts. This book is one of eleven by Celender that will be on view at the newly founded Public Collectors Study Center in Chicago, starting on Wednesday, December 9th from 5:00 - 8:00 PM. More information here.
Nov 30
“ In 1996, Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, submitted a paper for publication in Social Text, as an experiment to see if a journal in that field would, in Sokal’s words: “publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions.”[1] The paper argued that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.
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Sokal affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spoiler: it worked!
Nov 27
This video sums up my year in several key ways.
watch: How To Negotiate With Arts Organizations, Feat. Don Draper | http://mag.ma/greg/211480
“ If the cat survives, it remembers only being alive. But explanations of the EPR experiments that are consistent with standard microscopic quantum mechanics require that macroscopic objects, such as cats and notebooks, do not always have unique classical descriptions. The purpose of the thought experiment is to illustrate this apparent paradox. Our intuition says that no observer can be in a mixture of states; yet the cat, it seems from the thought experiment, can be such a mixture. Is the cat required to be an observer, or does its existence in a single well-defined classical state require another external observer?
— The new Coen Brothers movie, A Serious Man, inspired me to look up Schrödinger’s cat on Wikipedia. I liked the movie right away, but now I’m seeing that there’s a lot more going on. I need to re-watch The Man Who Wasn’t There, especially the scene where the lawyer proposes using the Uncertainty Principle in a murder defense.
Nov 26
I’m thankful that there are people making paintings this good.
Portrait number three 2009, acrylic & oil on canvas, 50 x 40cm (via LUKE RUDOLF)
Nov 24
This is taking me to another place right now. And I like it.
