June 8ths (Day 159)
6/8/1927 (Edward Weston Daybooks--Glendale, California)
Last evening I had printed, and ready to show all shell negatives: two “interested” girls, pupils of B. wanted to see more of my work after B. had shown them a print she has of the first shell. Of course, they were “interested,”—“thrilled,”—but not to the point of spending money, yet they were wealthy girls. Do they think I show my work to be flattered?—That I am hungry for praise?
6/8/1943 (Taliesin Diary)
Mr. Wright's birthday. Watched office and practiced recorder and piano at the same time. Jay, Ellis and Phyllis in evening for some Porgy and Bess and some beer and salami.
6/8/1995 (Brian Eno Diary)
With Andre Wilms on an "incomprehensible play".
[It was twenty years ago on this day he and Fripp played at the London Palladium].
6/8/1998
Interesting that Greeks in Alexandria created an amalgam of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian. This is similar to what musicians do today, where creating is more "curating".
[In his recent book (2020), The Decadent Society, Ross Douthat posited that repetition through Remix was a symptom of decadence—a continuous remix of nostalgias, rather than an effort to create something from scratch with a spiritual underpinning].
[6/8/2024: My Songdays are a diary remix and are a form of nostalgia, although ChatGPT is sometimes used to flesh out the lyrics. ChatGPT couldn’t possibly be “from scratch with a spiritual underpinning”. It’s rather a “scraping” from history, not curating at the Greeks did].
6/8/2000
On the “condensed movie” idea: Short movies are not what you want. What you want is a way of remembering all the films you want to see. Even if it’s a two-year-old movie, you want to see it because you made note of it earlier that it was interesting.
[6/8/2024: The condensed movie is essentially a Short. To this day, I see films where if I saw it again, it would only be the scenes I liked. The recent Brian Eno documentary is sort of based on this idea, but is rather more of a shuffled playlist of Shorts, or an “incomprehensible play”]
6/8/2014
Working on music for this room:
6/8/2015
Late sunset silhouette:
6/8/2018
We are perhaps moving more towards the transformational or experiential in art, in which physical objects are mementos. The popularity of the minimalist movement (in contemporary society, not in art) is a testament to popular sentiments about art objects. This philosophy about material objects is something worth considering as an artist. There are many ways to be creative that don't take up space. I have ideas for paintings, but I always put off ordering the materials until I have parsed-out what I already have, and have made a decision to make them.
This is one of the attributes of music that is so elegant—that there is a score (plans) and perhaps a recording (remix source) to work from. It only has a spatial dimension in the place that it is played, or if the physical recordings and/or data take up too much space.
6/8/2019, Saturday
Johnnie's Blue
[As a vegetarian, I’ve never eaten here, but is a cool building with a cool 50s roadside diner vibe. The image is just the blue channel, hence the title].