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Monthly Archives: November 2008

On Our Way There and Back

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Does photographic art reflect the personality of the photographer the way writing does for the writer? Yes, I told my wife. Then what does it say about me that I’m interested in dilapitated things. The word is dilapidated. What do you think it means? I don’t know. There’s a hole in my duffle bag, said [...]

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On Works-in-Progress as Radiolarians

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Medeski, Martin, & Wood‘s latest record, Radiolarians I, is the first of a three-record project. The project is named after a single-cell organism that is marked by an often beautiful skeletal frame. Some mutations of the organism have only the skeletal frame and nothing in the way of an internal structure other than a ‘spine’. [...]

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Rotten and Forgotten

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

On Election Day, my polling place doubled as a flea market. The elderly sat at long tables of magnets, blankets, coupon booklets, homemade jewelry, and picture postcards while I waited in line to vote. On the way out one of them was trying to get some leverage atop a stack of fives and tens so [...]

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