Graham Holliday's Blog, page 8
February 24, 2015
cut ups part 12
I like this discussion from 2007 about how to manipulate a tape recorder. Look at the difference in attitude. On one side, there’s the sound engineer who has very fixed ideas on how things should be done. And on the other, there’s someone who wants to experiment to see what’s possible. I would like to […]
February 23, 2015
cut ups part 11
I don’t know how theses photos happened. I was photographing bits and pieces in the nearby shanty town in the top one. I haven’t done any post-processing to it. The bottom one is the only other “mistake photo” I’ve found. It’s of the local cornershop. I did post-process this one into black and white.
acknowledgements
Pretending to be the sole creator of any substantial creative endeavor is simply a lie. link David Shenk writes about book acknowledgements in the New York Times. He cites some very good reasons for not including them. I admire the writer for allowing the text to stand on its own, unburdened by metatext. However, he […]
February 15, 2015
deadlines
From an interview with Brian Eno in The Polymath Perspective, “I am sick of albums that take two years,” insists Brian, “so we just decided on a deadline. I have a theory that deadlines are responsible for most good art. Deadlines are good because they stop you overcooking something. Albums that take years to make […]
February 12, 2015
the hemingway app
The Hemingway app. Quite useful for editing. Like an outside eye.
February 9, 2015
cut ups part 10
The British artist Tom Phillips spent 40 or more years on a project using his variation on the cut up technique. After reading an interview with William Burroughs, Tom Phillips… walked to a bookshop, and grabbed the first book he could find for 3 pence. He started blacking out the words, first with just a […]
shantytown destruction
The shantytown that I walked through every day. And sketched. Was destroyed at the beginning of the month. The landowner wanted the land back. Land is expensive in this part of Dakar. Even though it might not look like it. 100 or more folk lived in this shantytown. They were from Guinea. The last of […]
February 3, 2015
on the tracks
There’s life along the railway track that runs through the centre of Hà Nội. The trains are infrequent enough, and slow enough, and loud enough, that you can walk along the tracks in relative safety. There are restaurants right by the tracks. Many people live along them. Photo by me
January 29, 2015
pojangmacha
From “Seoul – 1964 – Winter” by Kim Seungok. “Any one who spent the winter of 1964 in Seoul would probably remember those wine shops that appeared on the streets at nightfall – the shops that sold hotchpotch, roasted sparrows and three kinds of wine, where the curtain you lifted to step in was flapping […]
January 26, 2015
cut ups part 9
From a Library Foundation of Los Angeles discussion on William Burroughs and his writing techniques, Barry Miles: I’m hoping that the cut-up stuff will influence people. Maybe people will return to it. As long as you regard it as prose poetry and just dip into it and take what you can from it, just as […]
