Happy New Year! dinner consisted of egg drop, tofu and seaweed soup, then some vegetarian pot stickers. beer to drink. my fortune cookie message reads: Listen these next few days to your friends to get answers you seek. i started reading The Grapes of Wrath (interrupting and putting aside the book on Critical Mass to do so) and i've made an additional New Year's resolution: to stop neglecting my needs.
i expect that ceasing to neglect my needs would lead to harboring fewer secrets, which leads me to my next topic...i've recently enjoyed a book titled Post Secret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives, compiled and introduced by Frank Warren. this concerns an ongoing project Frank started, of soliciting, collecting then publishing (in books and on his website, postsecret.com) anonymously sent handmade picture postcards containing confessions and apropriate visual images - usually little drawings, collages or photographs.
Frank Warren reminds me of another confessor type: the late great Allan Bridge, a.k.a. Mr. Apology. before his untimely death in 1995 in a scuba diving mishap, Allan ran something called the Apology Project, consisting of a telephone hotline (the Apology Line, based in New York) wherein participants could leave (recorded and preserved) messages of apology and confession...as well as its print equivalent, Apology Magazine.
currently here in SB we have our annual International Film Festival in progress, so this past Saturday night i saw one of the only 2 movies i want to see this time: Automorphosis, a documentary by Harrod Blank about art cars, heavily decorated, modified and personalized cars which their owners intend as vehicles not only for transport but also for personal and esthetic statements. Harrod has made at least 2 such cars, one of which he came to town in: the Camera Van, a van literally covered in fully functional cameras, all artfully arranged to form such images as a giant camera, an eye, a star, etc. from a panel inside the van, Harrod can activate these cameras to take reaction shots of the people who encounter it!
naturally i had to go photograph this puppy myself...using my flash, of course. i took several photos. hopefully at least one or two of them will come out.
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1 comment:
HOlden - great post - I wrote more earlier but couldn't seem to get through. the part about "stop neglecting my needs" was right on. And, your public accountabilityenlists those who care about you in this - your most critical need. keep blogging!! love dad
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