Garrett Phelan: Trusted Servant

Trusted Servant is a performance by artist Garrett Phelan. It was created by repeating pre-recorded broadcasts from his MP3 player that were compiled from short and longwave radio, newspapers, and webcasts.

View performance here.

Cut-Up Experiments

William S. Burroughs explains the cut-up technique.

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Camera Obscura

Check out more of these beautiful photographs taken by Abelardo Morell. More about Morell at Lens Culture (plus audio interview).

Memory

In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. - Willa Cather, My Antonia

She had quite forgotten the August afternoon only a little more than a year ago, when they had sat alone out on the grass beneath the maples, watching the thunderstorm sweep up the river valley toward them, and death had become the topic. And Port had said: "Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems so limitless." - Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

#3 - DIY Baby

#3 has arrived in style - barely made it to the hospital. In fact, Marshall Hunter Spreen was born February 26 @ 4:40 pm while dad was parking the car, our doctor was at the physical therapy clinic, and our doula was at another birth. He was determined to be born in a room full of strangers. The nurses and I didn't have time to exchange any niceties like names or adhere to hospital admissions procedures. It was boom, hey, I'm here. Very elemental.

Brazil and Torture

It is absolutely frightening. Homeland Security is just like the Ministry of Information, because if your job is counter-terrorism, what do you need to keep in business? You need terrorists, and even if they aren’t there, we may have to create new ones. It works very well. - Terry Gilliam

Clive James' essay about the film Brazil and what it says about torture.

(found via wood s lot 2.23.2007)