[syndicate] real-life vignettes + google should go to hell before i do

[fmadre at free.fr]

Alan, the blogger beta is not compulsory, the old interface functions  
as it always did and perfectly well. you can only use beta when you  
create a new blog, it doesn't work for the old ones

if you go here
http://www.blogger.com/login.g
and type your user and pwd I'm sure it will get you in

otherwise just send me those (privately) and I will try to get in

f.

----- Message de sondheim at panix.com ---------
     Date : Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:01:51 -0500 (EST)
      De : Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
Répondre à : syndicate at anart.no
  Objet : [syndicate] real-life vignettes + google should go to hell  
before i do
       À : syndicate at anart.no


>
>
> [please note: nikuko.blogspot.com is unable to be updated. google has
> taken over blogger which went to beta software; i haven't been able to
> access the site since. corresponding with google is useless; four
> letters only produced the response that i had to log in correctly. if
> anyone knows of better - i.e. usable - blog sites/software out there (i
> don't have and can't afford my own server), please let me know
> back-channel. thanks, alan]
>
> real-life vignettes
>
> I'm tired of these real-life vignettes, somewhat digitally manipulated, as
> if there's a gross philosophical point to be made through the sound or
> sight of the singer or dancer or walker: what foolery. Nausee, Sartre,
> defuge, overwhelm me, and I'm sure if you are following video after video,
> text after text, sound after sound, they overwhelm you as well. No amount
> of philosophy, no quantity of poetics squeezed from the soul of the imag-
> inary, can compensate for one minute of reality rehashed. As if it were
> possible to hack the landscape, the mise en scene. In any case, there's
> always the appeal to god, as in this instance, or the Pringy church yawps
> - spirit makes everything come out well in the end, at least aesthetically
> - at least for believers. And I mean: nothing can be farther from the
> truth - which may also be modified: nothing can be farther than the truth
> - isn't that always the case?
>
> http://www.asondheim.org/chch.mov
>
> All these vignettes involve real people and hard rock, mountains, forests,
> villages cities, churches, granges, pastures, meadows, cliffs, glaciers,
> bluffs, hills, streams, rivers, trees, goats, choughs, flowers, roads,
> paths. And what with the whispering, there is that, the slightest sound
> transcribed into pixel after pixel - an entire universe of pixels, of
> which this, and this and that, are an infinitesimal part. We climbed down
> the north tower of the cathedral in Geneva, rounded a pillar; in a
> distance, a choir was singing. Here now the singing loops and transforms;
> the image isolates madonna and magdalene, bracketing the right-hand side
> of the screen. And that is all, the whole like the paste of spirit
> perhaps, or the slight spew of afterbirth.
>
> breakneck speed to infinity http://www.asondheim.org/whoosh.mp4


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