growing sprouts

akasha rabut

via booooooom, which is so good

les mots

andrea bowers

check this

manon de boer (has my secret namesake, but also) did this really fabulous john cage video piece that was at the kw institute during the berlin biennale that i feel nostalgic for and want to see again but cannot find. but i found that up there and it's a pretty wicked project. it reminded me of how i was talking about my dear friend leah yesterday who thinks so carefully about the words she uses thus sometimes coming at you with language that seems a little unusual, but almost consistently managing to say exactly what she means. the panoramic portraits project experiments with a new semantic relationship between the syntax of communication and pragmatics...maybe? it's definitely an interesting way to draw attention to potential that exists within a new framework of language that is combined with an important structural/visual component. useful for description. do we really want to get better at description though? maybe since the visual component allows for more interpretation within the way the language intends to be used, some mystery remains...hmm...

probably more important is how the internet is such an interesting venue for organization! ah! what a wealth of information about people; the bits they leave behind themselves, the stuff recorded by others, where it comes from, the relation to their physical existence in space, the removal from any necessary relationship to place. mapped together, is our internet presence the most accurate representation of us?

also, i updated this a little