Nothing is unacceptable
“The acceptable and the unacceptable are both acceptable, for this reason there is nothing that is unacceptable.” Wen-Tzu: Understanding the Mysteries, Further Teachings of Lao-Tzu
View ArticleThe uneventful events constitute the fabric of our existence
“When seeing a James Bond film … one expects only the exciting parts of Bond’s life to be portrayed: shootouts, explosions, sexual liaisons. One can imagine what the audience reaction might be if—in...
View ArticleI’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual
“Oh—one would feel things instead of merely looking at them. I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong...
View ArticleI don’t want to see you, I want a woman I don’t see
“‘I don’t want to see you. I’ve seen plenty of women, I’m sick and weary of seeing them. I want a woman I don’t see.’” Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence.
View ArticleThe insidious modern disease of tolerance
“…he had the insidious modern disease of tolerance. He must tolerate everything, even a thing that revolted him. He would call it Life! He would feel he had lived this afternoon. Greedy even for the...
View ArticleLight either burns or scratches film
“Light, lens concentrated, either burns negative film to a chemical crisp which, when lab washed, exhibits the blackened pattern of its ruin or, reversal film, scratches the emulsion to eventually...
View ArticleComputer Music Studies
During last month, I spent most of my time making a series of audiovisual pieces entitled Computer Music Studies. The sound, and the title, are by Mikel R. Nieto, who provided me with twenty tracks....
View ArticleI love flashing lights warnings from films and TV shows
Warning: This film contains flashing images and stroboscopic sequences This one is from A Field in England by Ben Wheatley. I remade the original intertitle that I had because it was a bit small for a...
View ArticleRetinal response to rapidly changing frames
“They rejected subjectivism, expressiveness, narrative, and direct social reference and focused instead on the medium’s formal and material properties … flicker films were about retinal response to...
View ArticleIn structural film sound does exactly the opposite
“If one of the main functions of sound in traditional filmic mimesis is to ‘naturalize’ the image and anchor it in the real, in structural film sound does exactly the opposite. It openly contradicts...
View ArticleThe interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static
“Before a message comes on, there is the interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static; at once no sound and (potentially) all-sounds, murmur and static indicate that the channels are open,...
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Psycho 60/98
WARNING: This film contains flashing images. “Psycho” (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock and “Psycho” (1998) by Gus Van Sant collide in a frame-by-frame editing that assaults the eyeballs and assassinates the...
View ArticleInto each life some rain must fall
“…it seems to me that rain is a mirror of one of our key emotional states: not a negative one at all, but deeply necessary – just as necessary as joy. Water, after all, both reflects us, and brings...
View ArticleRain is essential to my sense of identity
In the first page of Rain: Four Walks in English Weather, Melissa Harrison writes: “…rain is as essential to our sense of identity as it is to our soil.” She is writing about the English countryside,...
View ArticleNew concepts for new words: shorthearinged
Definition of shorthearinged : not considering what will or might sound in the future : made or done without thinking about how it will sound in the future
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No image. No color. Just blackness
“Dreams getting worse. Usually in nightmares you see what you’re scared of. Not in my case. No image. No color. Just blackness and then in the distance, getting closer and closer, beginning to pierce...
View ArticleIf sound is power, then listening seems like submission
We seem thoroughly persuaded that looking is active while listening is passive. So looking is always liable to become a violating, objectifying and diminishing action, while listening is thought of not...
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I’ve created a Patreon for Glifcker…
I’ve created a Patreon for Glifcker, I don’t know if this kind of things work, but I would like to dedicate more time to this, so I thought it was worth a try…
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