the search for thoughts

do thoughts occur within a void within the mind

or can they?


this is a question in relation to the understanding of space and how it may shape the way we think, how we think, what we think of when...

the void in the mind could also be perceived as a space, however microscopic, it could be seen as a body organ, or even the soul. But it may also not exist, as maybe all thought happens in an artifice of substructural contextualisation. Of places built of memories;

of thoughts
of ideas
of concepts
places
people
events
philosophies
happenings

these memories create their own order from the chaos of living, of the mind... when things begin to be placed in an ad hoc non sequential way, we begin our slow descent into what may be madness or possibly genius... maybe the order in which we have rearranged these thoughts is something no one has ever thought of before... the actual thing has existed for centuries, but the way the thing is done or presented seems so new, not because it is (the bottle, the can) but because it seems to be. Because no one ever thought of doing it that way before, not that doing it that way is anything special...

chicken in Yard #1

chicken in yard #1 from FMGrande on Vimeo.

The hen "feist" roams the yard freely in search of worms, snails, leaves... pretty much anything she can eat. She seems content, happy even, as far as we can tell if chickens are content. I wonder what she's thinking? yet she is not free on a societal level, there remain fences around the yard, and laws banning her from leaving the yard...

Dead Rat

Global Warming

Nothing

The thing about nothing is that it truly is something. When Freddie Mercury sang "nothing really matters...to me" in Bohemian Rhapsody, he may well have been stating one of the most profound declarations of caring ever. Next time you ask someone "are you ok" and they reply "its nothing", maybe reply with, "nothing really matters", because if nothing is something, then they are actually trying to tell you something about what they claim to be nothing. But if nothing really is nothing then it still is something, its nothing, so nothing is sort of something.

This has troubled philosophers for a while.

It follows that if nothing the indefinite pronoun is some sort of something then maybe everything is part of nothing.



some nothing links:

http://www.nothing.net/deult.html
http://www.nothingamsterdam.com/
http://nothing.org/

format vs content

Is format important? There are many opposing views in film/making regarding the primacy of form over content or vis versa. Some argue that the way a film looks should always be of the best quality and consistently so, giving the viewer the chance to focus solely on the content. This view assumes that viewer will automatically be distracted by low technical standards. Others argue that if the content is good enough, the form should not matter, as the story/plot/image will carry the viewer beyond a preoccupation with artifice. It's an interesting debate. A badly acted/scripted piece is just that no matter how it's captured. A well written/acted piece can be let down if the viewer is distracted by poor technical considerations. There's definitely a balance that needs to be struck somewhere... Watching old movies can inspire you to look beyond the artifice of technical polish. There's usually a hiss in the audio, and the film cuts are visibly faulty on some classics. Maybe people in the 50s were more concerned with performance and story to notice a few consistent technical production flaws . Or maybe they noticed but just let it go, as they did with many things back then, like wars, social injustice and really archaic political views... similarly today we have let wars and archaic political views pass under the radar. We are shooting news footage on iphones i guess. I don't think there is an actual primacy of one over the other. Sometimes content is something that could only ever have happened whilst being captured on a phone camera. Maybe as more and more cameras become HD capable, including phones, less camera worthy things will happen, as people become actors in a HD world. Not that state repression and responses to it and war crimes are HD worthy, what is HD worthy? Not many things I've seen lately.

global warming

this is footage of the air conditioning unit inside a hybrid car

dead rat

this rat was dead when we found it. the ants had started eating away at it. it was at the end of a runway.
this footage has formed part of a new work that was shown recently at Federation Square in Melbourne (november 2010)

immersive technologies

Whilst researching hybrid, multidimensional immersive tools and instruments, particularly in relation to performance, image and sound I have stumbled across many practitioners, I am assembling links here and will post some notes and ideas on them soon...

http://suguru.goto.free.fr/PDFfiles/om2-gi-ppBodySuit(E).pdf

http://www.cemp.ac.uk/communities/interactivemedia/interactivemedia/interactive-or-participatory-media

http://www.cemp.ac.uk/communities/interactivemedia/interactivemedia/does-your-second-wife-or-husband-count

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film art

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