There are those naps that you wake from so utterly transformed that you cannot remember or even conceive of the life that you led before you took them. There are those naps in which each second of sleep unfolds like days of intense awareness, in which each moment is an eternal orgasm and crucifixion. And then there are those naps that combine and transcend everything that you could ever describe or imagine from either of those first types. And it’s that last type of nap that I just had, that revealed itself to me and I to it, in which I always was and now will be.

Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who believe Thine only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have this day ascended into heaven, may dwell in spirit amid heavenly things. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Most people have never thought through how they’re going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance. I never work on Saturday. I don’t ever work on Sunday either. If you make that decision on a macro level once, when all the incremental decisions arise on an incremental basis, life is easier.

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In a company you have a lot of different businesses. As a manager you ask, “Which products are we going to invest our capital into?” It’s called the resource allocation process. In our personal lives we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I’m a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

- Clayton Christensen

What is it about human perception that allows “yes” and “no” to be considered as valid responses to situations? Affirmation and negation are both illusions. In fact, they are both primary causes of illusion, since acceptance and rejection of conditions leads to disfigurement and distortion. By framing conditions in terms of a decision to appropriate them or not into thinking and behavior, something vital is stripped from them.

Mass literacy seems to be diluted literacy. When the definition of literacy devolves to meaning the mere ability to read and write words using the alphabet, much is lost. Might it not be preferable for fewer people to write well and read intelligently than for more to do so poorly and crudely?

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Interference Studies with Prepared Cameras (Series 1)

Created using a prepared Kodak DC280 during my Deconstructing Digital Cameras Workshop @ Hack Queensday, produced by Mediamatic and STEIM [link].

Note: Announcement today slightly skews, but does not change, my perspective. If anything, like his late answer on a public option, it reinforces the point.

Gay marriage is becoming this news cycle’s public option debate. The problem Obama now faces is not whether he supports it, or how the political fallout of supporting it might affect him. The problem is that while he dithers, the issue burns, and has already now bypassed him. Lack of resolve quickly becomes lack of relevance. 

And now, what he has to face is not the courage of owning up to a position, but the fear of whether he even has the moral authority as a leader for his position to matter. It seems that is the source of hesitation, more than his need for his position to “evolve.” No matter how evolved or un-evolved it is, the time for taking a position is past. Coming out with one now only would only force him to recognize that what he thinks of the issue doesn’t matter, and he does not want to come to terms with that recognition, especially if stating a position is forced on him by circumstances. Once again, his opportunity to lead has been squandered. It’s not “leading from behind” it’s “failing to lead while behind.”

Ipecac

What poetry, as clearing projection, unfolds of unconcealment and projects ahead into the rift-design of the figure, is the open region which lets poetry happen, and indeed in such a way that only now, in the midst of beings, the open region brings beings to chime and ring out.

- M.H.

Uncle Ike and the Red-Headed Boy. “Unkle Ike, I heard a rumor about you yesterday that tickled me most to death.”