Monday, October 20, 2008

Translations = Media yangga

I've been thinking about meaning and language - is language powerful or weak. Powerful but limited? 

I'm playing around with free online translators. I went from English to each of the languages offered (in alphabetical order) and then back to English in between each translation to trace what happened. Starting with the phrase: 

"of course everything I say is clear as day," and ending with "Media yangga"

of course everything that I say is being clear as noonday
everything is natural that I say, as a midday clearly
everything is natural what I say, like one I halve it clearly
All is natural, that I speak, as one I divide into two it clearly
Everything is natural, that I spoke, since I split into two it clearly
Everything is natural, that I spoke, since I tore in two it apparently
Everything is natural that I spoke, since I tore it in two apparently
Everything is natural what I was speaking, since I tore it in two apparently
All is natural, that I spoke, as I have torn it in two apparently 
Everything is natural, that I was speaking, when I have torn it in two evidently
Everything is natural that I spoke when I tore it in two obviously
It is natural that everything is speaking when I tore it clear in two
Naturally, that whatever is said when torn into two clear
Of course, that everything that is called when torn into two clear
Of course, all of this, known as the torn, divided into two clear
Of course, all of which, known as the torn, divided into two separate
Of course, all of them, known as ambivalent, divided into two separate
Everyone is known as ambivalent, divided into two separate
Everyone is ambivalent, divided into two
ALL ambivalent, halved
ALL, half are ambivalent
ALL, is half the ambivalent
ALL, the medium is ambivalent
Ambivalent about the attitude of all the media is
The attitude of the media is all about yangga
The media is all about yangga
Media is about yangga
Media is yangga
Media yangga

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Handstands in Space!


Messing around for the first time in After Effects. 

In Autumn, trees drop their leaves


MANIFESTO

I am for an art of space, time, touch, taste, see, smell, hear. 3-D, 4-D, 9-D art-work/ art play. Because-I-wanted-it-to-exist art. Tall-white socks art. Tattooed-eyebrows art. Pencil art. Chalk art. Bubble art. Wax art. Glitter art. Kid art. 

Art that feels like primal drums on the shaking, breathing floor beams of the second story. 

I'm for an art that chases tag-your-it and sings with swarming locusts and dances without bones like an orbiting windmill. I'm for an art that is picked up from a bench like a piece of cold, forgotten pizza and immediately devoured. I'm for an art that smells like armpits that smell like humans. 

Deep sun-salutation, child-pose, downward-dog breathing art. Alto art. Wood-grain art. Local art. Cheap art. Free art. Huge art. Smart art. Dumb art. Achey breaky heart art. 

Wind art. 

Wind art. 

Wind art. 

A little boy told me that crabbing would be more fun if it were war and the crabs had guns - I'm for that art. 

I am for an art that crumbles into a flakey, papery wad in the pockets of laundered jeans or blankets like the last spinning-seconds before sleep. I am for an art that tickles until you can't breath, like an over-zealous father. I am for an art that wrestles or flirts or analyzes handwriting in carnival booths. I am for an art that lies in your lap like a warm hand. 

Art that grows like an avocado stuck through with toothpicks in a water glass on the kitchen counter. Art that knows itself like the year you decide you're not a child. Sense-making art. Native symbols art. Combinations art. Letter art. Word art. Sentence art. Story art. 

Hard-to-eat art. Honeysuckle art. Walnut art. Seeded concord grape art. Hard-shell blue crab art with sticky yellow guts and feathery lungs and sweet white meat...art. 

I am for an art that is walked on like a welcome mat or scraped into snow like an ice rink. I am for an art that calls in the middle of the night. 

I am for an art that talks or mumbles or yawns or laughs like an unfurled ribbon of magnesium. 





Magic. 

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

It's really intense

when someone turns on the light after you've been sitting in a dark room. what if i could just keep turning on more and more lights until everything goes white. 

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