Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Specific Synonyms
bull’s eye, categorical, characteristic, clean-cut, clear-cut, cut fine, dead on, definite, definitive, different, distinct, downright, drawn fine, especial, exact, explicit, express, flat out, hit nail on head, individual, limited, on target, outright, peculiar, precise, reserved, restricted, right on, set, sole, special, specialized, straight-out, unambiguous, unequivocal, unique Specific Antonyms: general, indefinite, uncertain, vague
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List from Mel Bochner's "Repetition: Portrait of Robert Smithson" 1966
Referenced from the piece that is ink on graph paper, 7.5 x 6.75 inches
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Performance Footage
This is a long video, but I finally finished editing the full footage of the performance I did last month.
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My Mythologies
Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” has been a very influential text for me recently. Often it just takes a small, beautiful moment in a text or lecture or time in my day that triggers the idea for the next piece I make. “Mythologies” is chock-full of these nuggets. Barthes constantly reinvented his theory on what he was…
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Provocative One-Liners Can Work
Art that is only a joke runs itself thin, but the one-liner that opens up into a new bubble of thought that is funny and provocative is intriguing and hard to find. Ceal Floyer does it well in her piece “Today’s Special” (the first part of the video covers this piece and the rest shows…
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Rope Swings are Free
Free to use if you find them. Freeing in the way the fling you and swing you. They themselves however are the opposite of free–I’m glad for the tethering that enables me to hang. Swing-like rope in my studio Rope swing images from Google
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More Dusty Ideas
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Holding and Shifting
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Notes from reading about Gober by Hal Foster
My notes are directly related to ways that I identify myself in the ideas in Gober’s work, so this is quite slanted reporting (but it’s a blog, so that’s expected, right?). Gober creates uncanniness through moods of aloneness, voyeurism and lack of sense place and time. Primal Fantasies: the fantasy is not the object of…
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