June 19ths
6/19/1927 (Glendale)
(Edward Weston Daybooks)
Grayest, coolest spring in memory. Check for $9 from shell print sold in San Diego seems like $100. Shells again yesterday.
6/19/1930 (Carmel)
(Weston Daybooks)
Fog has lifted—brilliant sun. This provides the happy accident of shadows cast upon the work. Played a Caesar Franck Symphony as well as a Bach Concerto, read, sunned, dreamed.
After a walk on the beach, began new series of photographs—of bananas. Then portraiture of Fred Bechdoldt for Carmel Rogue's Gallery.
Photography is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas and is too slowed down with painting and sculpture.
6/19/1998, Friday
Absolutely gorgeous day. Sitting by Turning Basin by river and lake, my favorite spot, soaking in the maximum sun on the evening of the summer solstice. High angle of the sun this time of year makes all the colors seem more vibrant.
50th anniversary of the LP. It was the LP that made it possible to write longer pieces. We'll probably look back 50 years from now and say that the CD and sampling made copying easier.
6/19/2010, Saturday
Field recordings: Adams El Station, Art Institute Garden-Michigan Avenue to River.
6/19/2021
This is a very interesting morning—the wind is blowing quite strong and the dapple is coming in with a nice shimmering effect. Read article about dealing with music AI on its own level: We don't have to make it do everything—we just have to deal with its limitations. When you use the limitations of something you can become very creative with it. Interesting that you can choreograph robots to do different rhythmic and gestural routines, or as a kind of animated sculpture driven by music. That's something that I would do, but whether that's "AI" is questionable. It's just programming, but also another slippage point. Lots of this is stuff we've been doing for 50 years now and we're repackaging it as something that is the future. The future in many ways is a repackaging and rebranding of the past, just as lots of things are.
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Book: City At the Edge of Forever. The author said he was "Los Angelicized" as if taken over by aliens and pulled to the west coast as if under a spell. (This again, is the myth of heading west.]
6/19/2023
Interesting article: SoFlo Slang Calques. like “dandelion”, they are established soundalikes. Even the word soundalike is misunderstood and mispronounced can start to take on the Mandela Effect. It's pretty crazi (crazy nazi, or crazy thank you, grazie, to a nazi). Even happy accidents or experiments when playing with the music in language can create new interesting words that begin to evolve independent of dictionary geeks. Slang is an interpolation of several ways of saying something.
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I was looking at some of the photos in Macca's new photo book of pics taken by him in 1964. The image of George in sunglasses holding a rum and coke with a girl in a yellow bathing suit is a very cool image.