Can you see my face?
-=: I guess that's what an appetite for destruction will get you.
Bringer of life, bringer of death.
So, are we all destroyers? :=-
*(But as Ive said before, ye bloodletting is good. Same as ye fasting. Death makes us stronger. Only leading to rebirth etc. yadda yadda mumbo jumbo Jah)*
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and i think,
no,
i know,
the world feels right
at this moment
and it's good to be here,
to be alive,
i think,
"
..in the heart of the mother son
....a murmur of life floats away
......to the rythym of a kettle drum
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[But, I mean, krikey... is it almost done? Has it run its course?]
17 comments:
There you go, first entry...
Bonus points if you can identify the original source of the words!
I think the bloodletting was me.
heh. nice. a few of 'em were me, too.
p.s. i like that kathe kollwitz pic-- the arrival of death, or something like that, i think.
c-o-o-L!
Sorry, no bonus points for recognizing YOUR OWN words!!
This isn't what I was thinking of for collage. I think that's why it rocks! Very post modern, ALFA-referential, cooooooool.
my question is: how did you select these images and text specifically?
was it random?
Not entirely. First, I went to the very beginning of the blog (that scan of James' face is the first post). Then, I searched through the archives for "death", "life", "rebirth" and those kinds of things. I also just browsed a bit. I pulled out about 20 or so posts in total, then went through and selected the things I really like and that seemed to me to work together.
It's funny, even though this wasn't what James was thinking, for me this is the most obvious and natural way to do a collage. I guess it comes from working on the computer so much, and working with text.
Ok, first off, I love this Sky. It's pure imagination.
Now, as for this "is the blog dead" bullshit. Or rather, "is the blog dead" Culleton-bullshit. Seriously. Why always this discussion of how this blog is dying or should be dying? It seems to me that this act - discussing the degradation of the blog as an obvious fact - is a cynical attempt at convincing others of its truthfulness, which in turn, faith now gone and lost, would in fact destroy the blog.
So here's my reality check. Last time I checked (yesterday, as is the case for most of us - hint#1 that the blog is not dead), the blog was still here. Still worth checking out.
Now, for those of you who think this blog is dead or dying, maybe it just isn't what you want it to be anymore. Maybe it was something you wanted it to be two years ago, and still is, while you've moved on and developed new ideas, new wants, and new eyes. Well, then, start shaping it into this new something or other that you think it is lacking. There's plenty of space to move around in this blog. At least I've always thought so. I know that some of us have expressed some dogmatic ideas about what should and shouldn't be posted, but honestly I've always thought the main requirement is that it should require some imagination, and I think most people would agree.
So, take a look around. Flex your post-muscles, stretch your limbs, go for a jog. If you still think it's dead it's because you're not living inside of it anymore.
It's always been the sum of its parts. Not wholly controllable (thank god), but nevertheless a LIVING breathing testament of the minds and imaginations of a constantly evolving collective. Hence the sometimes random participation of contributors(ahem), and the highs and lows of production.
If this sounds like a rant, it's cause it kinda is. I'm totally on board with the concept of change. I think that's almost always a great idea. But to imply that this blog is dead is lala-land ridiculous.
love always,
renée
great blog/collage Sky! I won't be able to make the deadline for this one- Been busy (the good kind).
Renee articulated my sentiments better than I ever could.
Blog On, yeah yeah yeah, Oh Blog on!
First - thanks, everyone. I really didn't even spend that much time on this, it was very spur-of-the-moment.
Secondly, I agree completely about this blog not being dead, and everything you said Ren.
Cheers!
Lorne's suggestion that the blog was dying or dead, one I also made when I was in Montreal, is very interesting to me. I think when you move (and you're from Transcona?) the blog becomes an important part of what was Winnipeg for you. Maybe I'm just speaking for Lorne and I, but I seem to remember feeling the same way.
Is it dead, no of course not, but the thought that it could be reborn is an interesting one. With the last Label Gallery art show coming up we must ask that question. The Gallery will take on a new face and the blog lives on. Of course they aren't the same thing, but yet they are the same thing. As a testament to the gallery this blog will live one and continue being all the things the gallery never was.
And lastly, to respond to the 'Culleton-bullshit'?!?!
Maybe we think the blog is dead because Renee hasn't posted anything in 6 months(I went to find her last post and got tired of looking once I reached October). flex flex flex those blogging muscles! Of course the blog isn't dead to you...it;'s still waiting for you to enliven it.
You know, that idea about things meaning something else to you (and something very important) when you move away from them is undoubtedly true. But I would also say that our perception of them becomes decidedly skewed, since they largely exist only in our memories, or our memories of them become more important than the reality.
I know that was certainly true when I lived in Korea; I had a lot of memories of what we had left behind in Winnipeg which, upon returning, turned out to be not quite what I had remembered it all to be.
Things are what they are, though, and in the end we ourselves are only a small part of the making them. Be they children, art, or anything else.
lol
nice one James.
Hey I was fully including myself in the whole ebb and flow of blog participation thing. What can I say, sometimes I'm inspired, and sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I'm stuck in front of my computer trying to avoid other work, and sometimes I'm not.
Truth is Culleton, I've always admired your constant drive to produce tangible creations. Admire because I think it is rare, such consistent activity. My creativity, I feel, isn't as well harnessed as yours, but that's partly my choice, because I actually prefer to let it have a say in where and when and what I produce.
The main reason I've never been a huge blogger is because I'm too busy empathizing and learning from the human condition through words, and usually verbal. Oops. Sorry. NOT so tangible. And it sometimes makes me feel like I live in a dreamworld, which I suppose is partly true, except that I think it's a communal one.
But yes James, I will keep trying to translate the going-ons in my mind into something you can see and evaluate and potentially collage over in the next collage challenge.
But how about next time we just cut out the middle(wo)men and let JC decide what the theme should be. Daddy knows best, after all...
ha!
:)
(do smiley faces always make everything ok?)
awesome collage sky
i've been away from computers for awhile.
i love your process.
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