DC Blogs Noted:
If My Life Were A Movie
Gwadzilla
Our writer, taking random photographs, has a run in with someone and his camera is stolen.
…as I took the third shot and got ready for a different angle for the fourth a driver shouted at me from his truck, "what you flashing at me?" …The Reason for the Season
City Sparkle
This writer’s church attendance has gradually declined and it troubles her. An excerpt:
Also Noted:I miss going to church. I just feel like I can't now. Which is dumb, because of course I can anytime. I just feel guilty because I've been gone so long. When I was in high school I went pretty much every week, then in college I went during breaks, and more in the summer, and now I basically go 1-3 times a year. I didn't even go on Easter this year.
The Chutry Experiment has a link to a new video documentary project, TurnHere, chronicling neighborhoods throughout the US, including two in DC, Dupont Circle and Shaw.
A very good point is made about the error rate differences in the Wikipedia and Britannica on Lies & Fish.
Blogger Meetup Wednesday: So far 21 people have RSVPed ‘Yes’ for the blogger Meetup on Wednesday, with nine others possible – a nice turnout. These are very informal meetings and everyone is welcome -- all you have to do is just show-up. In Adams Morgan at Pharaoh’s Bar & Grill, 1817 Columbia Rd. It starts at 7 p.m. (Photo Credit: Rob Goodspeed)
posted by kob @ 12:58 AM
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Ah DC Blogs, it always warms my heart a little to be included! :)
Thanks gang.
thanks for the shout out/the mention...
always appreciate when my stories are read/viewed/or shared
that story has a happy ending and a silver lining...
but
as a man it really plays upon my insecurities
it is affecting (or is the effecting?) my each and every step
like Paul Rubin in Pee Wee's Big Adventure I am scanning the world for that silver pick up with my silver camera
ontop of that
I feel some anxiety like I am less likely to walk away from the next fight that presents itself
and well
that is not a healthy way for a person to exist
but
I am human
this encounter is not so easily shrugged off
aspects are funny
yet
the reality can be scary
AM and Gwadzilla -- You're both welcome. Wonderful posts.
So you don't think my Wikipedia post is a hoax on account of the word "lies" in my blog title?
It's not that I don't appreciate the link, but I think you're misunderstanding my blog. I am not a "blogger." I don't write for attention. My blog is primarily professional and academic. And I understandably chafe at someone whose first reaction to my professional, academic blog is to accuse me of perpetrating hoaxes, call me a vandal, and then neglect to respond to my reasonable defense. This isn't to say that I expect you to spend time on all the blogs you read and mention; just the ones you comment on and insult.
So while I do appreciate you throwing a link my way, please have the courage of your convictions next time you editorialize. You didn't leave a good impression last time. In fact, you left a classist and judgmental comment, which I nevertheless tried to respond to in good faith, only to have my rationale apparently fall on deaf ears (eyes). This makes me less than flattered by any further links from you.
Thank you for the note Jess. I am sorry I didn't leave a good impression, and appreciated the disarming humor on your part, the "sticker a duck" reference to the criticism. But my criticism of the emergent novel project has not changed.
I read your response carefully, and didn't see any point of continuing the what-is-art discussion, especially after you wrote: "You and your blog are now part of the novel, and I appreciate your contribution." No sense putting more paint on this canvass; my work is done.
Most bloggers don't write for attention, but it matters not. Your blog is on the internet, is searchable and is part of this emergent novel.
You clearly didn't read my post very carefully if you think the internet is an "emergent novel," at least in the way I'm using "emergent" (I've never used the phrase "emergent novel" and am not sure what it would mean in the context of what I was discussing, so maybe you're using it in another, non-scientific way).
It's very easy to say that you felt there was nothing more to be said on the subject, just as it's very easy to sneer and walk away. I persist in being less than impressed with your idea of dialogue. You made statements that were questioned and asked questions that were addressed. If your opinion truly hasn't changed at all, then you must not be the least bit interested in intellectual discussion. You asked questions from, excuse me, a position of ignorance -- this is an objective statement, since you were so unfamiliar with Implementation that you thought I'd made it up -- so even just reading and incorporating the answers to your questions should have constituted a change. Your dismissal of the discussion as one of "what-is-art" is also unnecessarily cavalier and gives the lie to your assertion that you read it carefully. Unless again we're reaching an impasse as far as definition -- do you use "read carefully" to mean "let your eyes pass over every word"? When I say it, it means something more like "understood and considered the other person's point."
Of course, it's perfectly fine for you to say that you don't prefer to use the internet as a space for intellectual discussion, just as I've mentioned that I don't use it for the airing of personal issues. But don't pretend that you have thoroughly tried my academic stance and found it wanting.
I also strongly question your assertion that bloggers aren't looking for attention. Witness the comment a few before mine: "thanks for the shout out/the mention...always appreciate when my stories are read/views/or shared[.]" As someone whose primary contribution to the blogosphere seems to be one of noticing others, does this response honestly strike you as atypical?
Jess, here's my take: When the artist Carl Andre was commissioned by the City of Hartford in the 1970s to create a sculpture on sliver of public land, he gathered large rocks and boulders and installed them in orderly rows by size and height. No other work was done to the rocks. After his work was unveiled there was a public uproar that ran from angrily accusatory to passionately supportive.
It was the use of public money (He was paid around $90K) for this particular work that gave this project more attention -- at least with a broader and more diverse audience -- than it might have otherwise received. I've come to admire Andre for his courage to undertake such a project. He had to have known that using public funds for this artistically bold project would expose him to hostile critics who would accuse him of wasting public funds. But Andre's work endures today, in part, because of its ability to engage, challenge, and spur debate.
I do not know what to make of your project and the placing of stickers on public objects. When Andre unveiled Stone Field Sculpture all some people saw were a bunch of rocks.
Minimalism’s deceptive simplicity makes its all the more difficult to grasp and so does a project that involves printing out the novel, Implementation, on stickers "and post the stickers, in such a way that they're integrated with and in conversation with their location."
Does your project spur debate in the way that Andre’s did? Suppose Andre, without any commission, simply showed up one night with his rocks and set them in place. In this case, no public funds were involved and Andre’s efforts were uninvited and uncommissioned. Regardless of the artistic merit and intellectual underpinnings of Andre’s effort, I suspect he would have hard time defending – getting people to even pay attention – to a defense of Stone Field Sculpture because of how it was executed. That’s the problem I have with your project. Don't take that as a sneer or a refusal to follow through on convictions. Just don't expect applause or great interest in its intellectual justification.
Regarding the point about bloggers … you’re right, most bloggers do appreciate a shoutout/link for certain, but I don’t consider that attention seeking. I know I’m probably splitting hairs here, but it’s how I see it. Some bloggers do aggressively seek out attention but most really view their blogs as a means for connecting with family, friends and professional associates.
You know, I usually know better than to get into fights online, because it's so easy to stonewall on the internet -- to walk away and say you saw no point in continuing, for instance, or to refuse to seriously consider people's points. I expected some degree of that. All I was going for was an admission that your unwillingness to back up your opinion was just that -- unwillingness to engage, not superior knowledge or insight.
But I have to say, you flummoxed me. To ask me whether this project engenders opinion and debate while currently taking part in a debate about it... well, I just don't know what to say to that. I'm going to have to abandon this argument just as I'd have to abandon one with a creationist; if you can honestly say that your stubbornness with regards to justifying your opinions about something means that the thing has no discussion potential or interest, we're operating on different planes, pure and simple.
I'm especially bowled over by your deeply flawed analogy, which, if taken at face value, seems to imply that controversial art is worthwhile only if it uses others' resources. Combined with your comment about the "underclass" on my blog, this indicates that you should give serious thought to your attitudes about class.
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