The vertexList blog has a report on the DiVa (Digital Art and Video) art fair in Miami and some pictures of the shipping container on the beach where my and some other New Yorkers' work was showing. One gathers from that blog and Paddy Johnson's that the event was...underpromoted. Fairs suck, and a few posts back I offered showing in a shipping container as one of the few things helping to prop up my self-image as an aloof avant gardist. A reader then jumped in and proceeded to demolish the very idea of showing in a container in a couple of unstinting, scorched earth comments. These went a long way towards knocking out my last strut of personal dignity. Seeing the vertexList pictures helped revive it, though--in that the images of the white metal boxes on the sand with palm trees in the background seemed kind of romantic to me. As I said in that comment thread, I am proud to have shown in Miami and appreciate my shot at the big time.
If you only have one last strut of personal dignity, isn’t it better that it be kicked out by someone who cares about you? Old yeller wasn’t shot by some faceless dude off the street you know.
And besides, from the scorched earth a little seedlet blossoms to one day become a mighty majestic oak. Nature has it’s darker side. Babmi’s mom was a jerk and had it coming... Not sure where I’m going with this any more. Grad school’s turned my brain to cheese, and "unstinting" has me all discombobulated.
bill -
exactly
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The vertexList blog has a report on the DiVa (Digital Art and Video) art fair in Miami and some pictures of the shipping container on the beach where my and some other New Yorkers' work was showing. One gathers from that blog and Paddy Johnson's that the event was...underpromoted. Fairs suck, and a few posts back I offered showing in a shipping container as one of the few things helping to prop up my self-image as an aloof avant gardist. A reader then jumped in and proceeded to demolish the very idea of showing in a container in a couple of unstinting, scorched earth comments. These went a long way towards knocking out my last strut of personal dignity. Seeing the vertexList pictures helped revive it, though--in that the images of the white metal boxes on the sand with palm trees in the background seemed kind of romantic to me. As I said in that comment thread, I am proud to have shown in Miami and appreciate my shot at the big time.
- tom moody 12-12-2006 5:19 pm
If you only have one last strut of personal dignity, isn’t it better that it be kicked out by someone who cares about you? Old yeller wasn’t shot by some faceless dude off the street you know.
And besides, from the scorched earth a little seedlet blossoms to one day become a mighty majestic oak. Nature has it’s darker side. Babmi’s mom was a jerk and had it coming... Not sure where I’m going with this any more. Grad school’s turned my brain to cheese, and "unstinting" has me all discombobulated.
- joester 12-13-2006 6:37 am
- bill 12-13-2006 5:45 pm
bill -
exactly
- j in jc (guest) 12-14-2006 5:31 am