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Trees have roots; I have legs. And believe me, that is a huge advantage. [...] Is it possible to read Plato while wearing a Walkman? [...] Books are a great bulwark for private life. [...] Imagine a world where neuro-chemistry could explain Mozart… It is conceivable, and I find it frightening. From Telerama, via Presseurop [...]
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The documenting of how we live, where we live, what we do — that’s what I’m interested in. And it’s a waste of time, really, in that it doesn’t contribute to any of those things (oh, of course that’s simplifying it too much; oh well). It’s also necessary to live, to be of the world, [...]
[Keywords: community, dichotomy, documentation, Making, modernity, recording, wikis] [No comments] [Permanent link]
All has gone well, since my last post, with my intra-office carlessness. My announcement (“I don’t go in cars; don’t ask me to.”) has been met with near universal acceptance (or silence), to my great relief. I had wondered whether the conversations in the tea-room about various cars’ power-ratings and other such motorcar trivia would [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, cars, dichotomy, Making, woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Homeward Bound — August 26th, 2007, 6PM
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Every evening as I head home on the intertown, the view west from the bridge reminds me of all that I love most about Canberra. The sun setting behind Black Mountain, with the ANU tucked in amongst the trees and the lake there, all still and calm, and I wonder what more I could ask [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, dichotomy, Fremantle, place, Placeblogging, transport, University] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have just returned from my customary post-lunch walk around the lake. It’s lovely, strolling through the hundred meters of bush that lies between the shore and the highway — I’m not being ironic, it really is lovely. I went across the bridge (the one over the weir) and turned south, along a vehicle track, [...]
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(So why am I saying this?) I am looking forward to the day when I will again have something worth writing about (and I’m thinking here of woodwork: one of the happiest times of wood/tech union was back in 2003 when I was working at the art school wood workshop. The web then was a [...]
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In which I work on the catalogue for the workshop exhibition and do no woodworking but lots of thinking.
In which I work on the catalogue for the workshop exhibition and do no woodworking but lots of thinking.
[Keywords: 2XXFM, dichotomy, InDesign, podcasts, radio, technology, University, Walking With Water, woodworking, world wide web] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I can’t wait to get to work! I’ll avoid transport; I’ll dig the skips; I’ll code to my heart’s content (and no farther)!
I can’t wait to get to work! I’ll avoid transport; I’ll dig the skips; I’ll code to my heart’s content (and no farther)!
[Keywords: dichotomy, focus, materials, reuse, shipping, transport, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have begun dressing the ash, but am quite disheartened today; I don’t want to be doing it. I feel like my work is not ‘good enough’, too rough, or ugly… Why this society, myself included, is so hung up on the smooth, square, fair, straight, even and ‘perfect’ I do not know! I like [...]
[Keywords: dichotomy, dispair, internet, not good enough, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
