Jared Stanley's Blog, page 8

The Merry Christmas Dust Warriors

Dune Buggy Rally in the Algodones Dunes, Imperial Valley CA

Another question for you – anybody familiar with any artwork dealing with Irrigation Canals?

Greenfield's Sheesh

Uh, been so so so busy, that I haven't had tim to respond the Richard's post about the vatic, immanence, and all those kind of questions about poetry that I mostly think of as extralinguistic. I'm glad he's writing about this, at this particular moment, because I'm just now starting to think about a Spring Poetry Workshop, and I don't want to talk about craft as the only thing poetry instruction is about. That' verse, not poetry.

Richard helped me think about how the vatic is still 'in...

Lauren Levin, Ron Silliman, and Erin Morrill's House

Probably you have seen THIS. Comments include the word painterly.

In other news, Lauren is reading w/Susan Gevirtz

 

Sat. December 5, 2009
7:00pm – 11:00pm
Erin, Ted and Michelle's house
1220 Wood St
Oakland, CA

http://www.boxwoodeditions.org/

http://traffickerpress.com/

 

Paul Smith Does a Track Stand. The Manx Missile Looks On

The Mongolian Death Worm

Cryptozoology of the Gobi Desert includes this shitty houseguest, which spews sulfuric acid.

The Desert Modernism

An excellent desert article:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/13/masco.php

 

More Or Less More Desert

The new project, as yet unammed (I think it's nicknamed "The Dice") is humming along nicely. Had a good talk w/Matt H. Sculptural Furniture Dude extraordinaire. We talked about Voyager VI's golden record (pictured in all its occult vagary to the left), about the placard on the outside of said satellite (Guy naked, Gal w/Fig Leaf?), and about the shape of the desert object. At any rate, I want to write more about this here but there's something really fun about hinting at the project itself...

Desert and Map

OK, the thing about desertification – the destroyed land will overwhelm our cultivations, our cities and grids. They will be a kind of return of the mapped thing, overlaying and undoing the maps, the time represented by the maps.

Suggestions Please & More From Readings

Anybody have good suggestions for reading about desertification?

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Working on an awesome project. Won't say too much about it. but, it's about desertification, I'm reading Edward Tufte to make it work, and it contains stuff like this:

Once consumed by the megafauna that used to live here, the solid-fearful bean dragon makes a very nutrious soup.

I don't know!

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Useful remarks from Mr. Tufte:

"An explanatory image is an explanatory image because it is a mapped image."

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Mr. Tufte sometimes seems like...

Reading, November 2009

Condor: To The Brink and Back by John Nielsen

Purchased this book via Bookfinder because I wanted to write a poem about the condor. I love that poem of R. Jeffer's in which he describes his own death, after which his carcass is consumed by a turkey vulture, about which he exclaims "what an enskyment!" and I agree.

For Californians growing up in the 80s, the condor became a symbol of human care for the natural world. I was so consumed with love and devotion for Siskiyou, the first condor chick...