Friday, May 17, 2002

Something to do when it rains or Experiments in vertical takeoff

Oblique Strategies must have been used to write "Red Frame, White Light". As you may have guessed, I located the OMD Peel Sessions and this is the currently playing track. I can only despair at the fact that OMD did not continue with these off-the-wall songs. When you name a band (VCLXI) after the number on a valve on the sleeve for Radioactivity by Kraftwerk, you have a serious outlook on music - or a very sad life - maybe both.

Ideas Collage

I have added an additional media to my list of all possible collages. Ideas. How do you record an idea as part of an artwork? A collection of Memes could just be a book, but does the book have to be true? Could it be a list of completely fictitious ideas like a collection of pretend film music ("Passengers") or the life of a non-existent artist (Nat Tate). or a website of made-up recollections and ideas(TRVDWCP and others). Chaos will build up a completely separate world that seems to exist but is simply a version of our own. Quantum Theory will choose a single alternative reality and we will experience real life as the interference patterns between the real world and our made up version of it. This is beginning to sound like the rubbish that all those early 90s French Philosophers were criticised for. Genuine scientists were getting annoyed at the pseudo-scientific claptrap which supposed intellectuals were writing about. eg "The real world is a sort of artifical pomegranate where life is the soft juicy pith and we are the seeds embedded within it" - yuk. The whole of France was taken in by these charlatans. I am not having a go at the likes of Sartre or Mrs Jean-Paul Sartre, just the fact that what we see through as rubbish in most cases seems to have made it to main-stream acceptability. Never forget that all Science was once seen as "Natural Philosophy" so why should Philosophy be outside normal scientific method (even if you have to apply scientific method to concepts such as existence, the nature of thought or reality or religion. Blind Faith is worth little.

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