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Ok Rack, I will tell you what I am going to try to do, although it is a little crazy, and is somewhat a ‘kernel’ still. I have this idea about timelines, it’s always been there, but now I am going for it more consciously. Of course, it revolves around ‘Rack and Ruin’, but they are no longer only us.
There are three main ‘timelines’. The first is 1917/1918, and a story of a double pandemic: Syphilis and The Spanish Flu. Two men, an Irish writer and a French artists set up a three-day assignation in a Dublin hotel, 'The Shelbourne' to take opium, cocaine, and mercury, and perform what they call ‘The Lancing Cure’. Their assumed names are Rack and Ruin, their cover, one is gay, the other is ‘straight’, or at least as gay as Duchamp might have been and as ‘straight’ as that notorious ‘petomane’ Joyce was. They won’t be named in this part of the 'book', they will be Rack and Ruin, two desperate men looking for both a type of fellowship in their shared condition, and some release through a mercury cure. Both have syphilis, of course. (I am remembering our high tea in ‘The Shelbourne’, that hysteria). Ruin has booked a room for three nights, and filled it with what would be needed for this ‘cure’.
The second time-line is, of course, from 1987 to the present (2021), with that ‘Rack and Ruin’ we are used to, you and me maneuvering from one pandemic to another, finding fellowship.
The third is the future, two characters met on a clunky website called Flickr, in 2022. They never actually meet, other than on this ‘astral plain’. Their gender is ‘indeterminate’, flexible and fluid, but mainly because gender doesn’t matter anymore in 2040. They have survived a double pandemic during the 20s, and are sort of the narrators. They are both fat and very old and permanently attached to screens, though keyboards aren’t necessary anymore. They are also gender-neutral simply because at their age all that doesn’t matter anymore, as if a second reason was needed. They have been set free to be tied down to their monitors. Pandemics are over, more or less, with everyone remaining hermetically sealed, as extensions of their computers. Food is now downloaded and printed out, and everybody is writing furiously, or creating digital ‘mash-ups’, to entertain each other. Permanently sitting still has reduced carbon emissions completely, so that’s no longer a problem either. President Thunberg (of the European Federation) and President Kardashian of the USA seem to have worked out their differences. Everything, and everyone, here in the Netherlands, is floating along nicely, those floating pontoons really work!
Even in cyberspace Rack and Ruin still blister each other, as they already have for hundreds of years, apparently.
So, what we have so far: You know I have studied and been obsessed with Duchamp for well over 40 years, even basing my doctorate around him. I am currently busy unpacking Joyce (again). I presume that I haven’t got 40 years to unpack him, but I do seem to be going for it with a vengeance (see Flickr). Eventually they won’t be them anyway, but they will be used as a type of fodder, I will be using their ideas.
I have started, tentatively, a sort of rough ‘draft’, a quasi ‘statement of intention’. It’s under the ‘The Lancing Cure’ image on Flickr (attached). It is unedited, uncorrected, raw. Duchamp and Joyce are both mentioned by name, but my intention is not to name them, to keep that open. I also recognize an indebtedness to ‘Orlando’, but then Woolf was an obsession for years too when I was struggling initially with the incestuous abuse in my childhood. Her ‘22 Hyde Park Gate’ is an extraordinary document.
This e-mail will be part of it. It is written by the fat grey Ruin of a gender-free man attached to a monitor.
Anything you ever write to me will be used, treated as if we actually had something worthwhile to say, something that might be of use. I wanted to get this ‘intention’ down, that’s enough for now. We have no idea how far we will get. Sometimes stating your intention might suffice, it might even encourage someone else to go further. Surely that is more than enough.
I can almost guarantee that it will all be 'gloriously purple', and therefore not to everyone’s taste. The beast will out, either way.
Lisa Beare, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture issued the following statement after receiving the National Association of Japanese Canadians’ report, Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC: Community Consultation: (see link)
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Not quite sure what that statement is, though... She's wearing Mommy's crocs, a lovely pink sun hat (a gift from Milli) and has an old pair of slipper socks on her hands. I had thrown the socks away because they have a hole in the heel. Lilli found them and dug them out of the trash. She loves them. They have a cow print, so she puts them on her hands and walks around saying "Mooooo!" You can see that she has a finger poked through the hole.
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This set is a photo project I did for school along with my artist statement.
About Photography Peeves
This photo series is a combination of things that many photographers do in their work that irks me. With this series, I am being blatant. I am going beyond deep meaning or rather not going deep at all, but staying at the realistic view of things.
I felt that writing the words on paper would portray the most realism, since I want to make a few points here. With the train track photographs, you see the train tracks in the image, but with the word “cliche” added, it really puts it into perspective that I am mocking the use of the train tracks. Having the word in my hands as a physical element says so much more to me than just a word that is photoshopped onto an image.
When you see these images, I want you to agree with me and say, “Selective color really is cheesy!”, or realize that comfortable lounge chairs from your living room in the middle of a random field are not unique (because it is overused and doesn’t makes sense), but actually are really convenient! “Why yes! I would love to sit in this conveniently placed lounge chair in this random field that has possibly fallen from the sky!” If I am being brutally honest, to me, those types of images are plain stupid.
When I see watermarks on images, I see “Hey look, I am a ‘professional’ photographer. I’m a business. Buy my photography.” The mark takes away from the original intent of the art and becomes a marketing technique that has been abused and misused so many times that the process is now seen as almost unprofessional. In my photograph mocking the watermarks, I wanted to make sure the word was big and distracting of what is behind it. I am most irritated by “photographers” who have the equipment but know nothing about how to use it. I presented this idea in the photograph reading “SLR?” I have a friend who owns a dSLR, she knows not what it means, she knows only of the auto setting, and people call her a photographer because she takes pictures with her “fancy” camera. I am sincerely devoted to my work and both being compared as a photographers is insulting. Coming off as superior is the last thing I want to portray with these statements. It is the ignorance of people not knowing what amazing technology they are holding and what they are capable of by using it correctly, yet still calling themselves something that I am not even sure I am comfortable yet calling myself, a photographer.
I want to make a point that may or may not be correct, but it is where I stand. These things that many photographers do actually hurt the viewer’s response rather than help it.
In einem Presse-Statement erläutert Christian Lindner im Berliner Thomas-Dehler-Haus die Steuerentwicklung in Deutschland.
Das Foto steht zur Verwendung auf den Webseiten der FDP-Bundespartei, der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion und der Gliederungen der FDP rechtefrei zur Verfügung. Die Verwendung zu anderen als hier genannten Zwecken bedarf der ausdrücklichen Zustimmung der FDP oder des liberal Verlages.
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The Uptown Chicago community center closed early 2017. It was the American Indian Center and it served native americans since 1966.
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Absolutely inspired by this photograph which is just completely fantastic! [However, I purposely didn't try to exactly recreate it as I am not such a fan of photographers doing that.] Rather, I decided to put my own spin on it!
From this session.
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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano addresses delegates at the 58th IAEA General Conference. IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 22 September 2014.
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This big yellow sign hangs above the stairs to remind us daily what our mission is. When I started about seven years ago, the "mission statement" took about 10 words to state; then a couple years ago, a committee was commissioned to revamp the 40-year-old statement. It now takes up the entire wall. Ah, committees.
Says: "Foucault is gay"
Graffitti Njalsgade
Michel Foucault (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl fuko]) (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. Foucault's work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse has been widely discussed. In the 1960s Foucault was often associated with the structuralist movement. Foucault later distanced himself from structuralism. While Foucault is typically characterized as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, he personally rejected the postmodernist and post-structuralist labels, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity, rooted in Kant.[1]
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This fabulous necklace is a delightful mix of recycled pewter chains, a pearl necklace and a crystal necklace.
The metal neck chain is intertwined with repurposed black silk to complete this dramatic piece.
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