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Posted in Music on Jul 22nd, 2008
Last Saturday (19-Jul), King Black Acid played @ Doug Fir after a 3 year hiatus. The previous lineup was always known as KBA to local fans. Actually the name for the latest incarnation of KBA is properly called “King Black Acid and the Sacred Heart“. So the new acronym is KBASH(?) This new version is [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 14th, 2008
On Jörg Colberg’s weblog about fine-art photography there is a translated interview with Hilla Becher, which, unfortunately, only appears to be available in German. He translated some of the passages that struck him… Q: You spent your life photographing industrial memorials: Hundreds of furnaces, hundreds of water towers, hundreds of coal bunkers. Is this about [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 10th, 2008
Somebody woke up o the wrong side of the bed… the wrong side of the contemporary art bed that is. Jed Perl wrote this latest attack in “Postcards from Nowhere” for the The New Republic (Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008) I found his attacks to bounce around a bit, cherry pick, and lack some clear [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 4th, 2008
As American’s look up tonight to see the flashes of light produced by fireworks, they need to realize that those light bursts last a very long time. To get a really really REALLY short flash one needs to work a lot harder. Researchers have created the shortest-ever flash of light which lasted only 80 attoseconds [...]
Posted in Main, Music, Ponderings on Jul 1st, 2008
Last November, I read a NYT article that said that Freud and psychoanalysis form a key part of humanities teaching, while in those same universities his teachings are virtually extinct in psychology courses. Read Patricia Cohen’s article “Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department” In the day, I took enough psychology [...]