Mark Sanford the Governor of South Carolina has given new meaning to the term "Hiking the Appalachian Trail". As in , "It is nice to be retired. most afternoons my wife and I relax and often spend time hiking the Appalachian Trail"
Dang these sins. Love Ya
Denny
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
“There isn’t any maliciousness in this state of affairs it’s just a conspiracy of dysfunction.”
Sometimes you have a brilliant glimpse of the obvious (BGO). Today seems to be one. Having taken a leisurely morning, I am sitting in the patio enjoying the morning sun and watching the birds that my dear wife insists on feeding. (Damn things make a lot of noise but I digress).
Reflecting on the work I have done in business over the years, it came to me that I never really understood business. Not the bushwa about margins, ROI , and all of the other ephemera that seems to be espoused by the MBA automatons from the Harvard School of Business. Instead what I failed to understand was how mundane (although necessary) is the making of money!
I was trained as an artist. My sole (perhaps my Dover Sole or maybe the sole of my shoe) is that of an artist. Artists are about trespass, and as I have said before (quoting Joyce Carol Oats ) “All Art is a trespass and therefore must be punished, the greater the Art, the greater the punishment”. It is my nature to trespass, which is not what business is likely to tolerate. My whole work life was parroting the bullshit of the MBA automatons.
Alas and at long last I can leave that behind and be at peace with whatever it is you are supposed to be at peace with. (or is it “I believe in whirled peas”). Now all I have to consider is, what do I want to take a picture of, and how can I play with that image to reflect an underlying truth (oops… that’s horseshit). Let me rephrase. How can I play with an image so that the truth (whatever that is) is obscured, and what you see is what pleases me and hopefully pleases those that see it. So let us all now trespass and be punished together!
Anyway below are some more of the obscured truth
Dang those sins! See you next time
Denny
"Carol the Cat Woman"
"Carol - Quiet Moment"
"Carol with Clay"
Reflecting on the work I have done in business over the years, it came to me that I never really understood business. Not the bushwa about margins, ROI , and all of the other ephemera that seems to be espoused by the MBA automatons from the Harvard School of Business. Instead what I failed to understand was how mundane (although necessary) is the making of money!
I was trained as an artist. My sole (perhaps my Dover Sole or maybe the sole of my shoe) is that of an artist. Artists are about trespass, and as I have said before (quoting Joyce Carol Oats ) “All Art is a trespass and therefore must be punished, the greater the Art, the greater the punishment”. It is my nature to trespass, which is not what business is likely to tolerate. My whole work life was parroting the bullshit of the MBA automatons.
Alas and at long last I can leave that behind and be at peace with whatever it is you are supposed to be at peace with. (or is it “I believe in whirled peas”). Now all I have to consider is, what do I want to take a picture of, and how can I play with that image to reflect an underlying truth (oops… that’s horseshit). Let me rephrase. How can I play with an image so that the truth (whatever that is) is obscured, and what you see is what pleases me and hopefully pleases those that see it. So let us all now trespass and be punished together!
Anyway below are some more of the obscured truth
Dang those sins! See you next time
Denny
"Carol the Cat Woman"
"Carol - Quiet Moment"
"Carol with Clay"
Thursday, June 18, 2009
F Scott Fitrzgerald and our economy
Thought I would offer a View I encountered recently.
"In short the current global financial crisis is a story about people who thought they were the smartest guys in the room and who turned out to be remarkably naïve, reckless or, in some cases, downright stupid. It’s a story — novelistic in its narrative and moral arc — about hubris and greed and heedlessness, about people, as Fitzgerald wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness” and “let other people clean up the mess they had made.”"
I apologize to the author for not providing attribution. I have to start being more attentive to that issues as these thoughts are very valuable to all of us. Another sin I will have to account for.
Dang these sins. See you later
Denny
"In short the current global financial crisis is a story about people who thought they were the smartest guys in the room and who turned out to be remarkably naïve, reckless or, in some cases, downright stupid. It’s a story — novelistic in its narrative and moral arc — about hubris and greed and heedlessness, about people, as Fitzgerald wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness” and “let other people clean up the mess they had made.”"
I apologize to the author for not providing attribution. I have to start being more attentive to that issues as these thoughts are very valuable to all of us. Another sin I will have to account for.
Dang these sins. See you later
Denny
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Santa Fe Trip
Went to Santa Fe yesterday to see the S.O.F.A exhibit. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art). Very impressive but very expensive. It was however a nice source of inspiration. I highly recommend seeing it sometime. I understand the Chicago show is the flag waver.
Here is some images I took around the convention center
Dang these sins. See you later.
Denny
"Drain"
"Water Tap"
"Drain I"
"Entryway"
"Lovers"
Here is some images I took around the convention center
Dang these sins. See you later.
Denny
"Drain"
"Drain I"
"Entryway"
"Lovers"
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Thoughts from my dear wife
"Gone! My introduction to is gone! I put in a very safe place, and now it is gone, lost, misplaced, errant. blank. I cannot introduce me to you without it, so I will return when I am again whole"
In addition Carol summed up our life together with her usual sense of irony
"Everything we have is missing something"
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Thoughts on Art.
All Art is a trespass and therefore must be punished. The greater the Art, the greater the punishment. - Joyce Carol Oats
We have art in order not to die of the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Now for some of my thoughts. Ego demands that these thoughts be earth shaking but reality comes and rests lightly on my shoulder so therefore they are what they are.
After a life that started with some distress, I sometimes forget what or who I am and so I take photographs and re-interpret them. I do this in the hope that after a while the photos will talk back to me and tell me what my world is, where I belong in it or more simply who the hell I am. The other function theses images perform for me is to remind me of my humanity in a world that does not necessarily value its humanity. Finally I take photographs because they are a life force and I am alive.
Dang these sins! See you the next time
Denny
We have art in order not to die of the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Now for some of my thoughts. Ego demands that these thoughts be earth shaking but reality comes and rests lightly on my shoulder so therefore they are what they are.
After a life that started with some distress, I sometimes forget what or who I am and so I take photographs and re-interpret them. I do this in the hope that after a while the photos will talk back to me and tell me what my world is, where I belong in it or more simply who the hell I am. The other function theses images perform for me is to remind me of my humanity in a world that does not necessarily value its humanity. Finally I take photographs because they are a life force and I am alive.
Dang these sins! See you the next time
Denny
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Epiphanies and Creativity
I apologize to the author of the statement below. Thank you for its insight and please forgive me for not giving you attribution.
Dang these sins! See you the next time
Denny
Epiphany has little to do with creativity. Instead, creativity is a slow process of a building small insights upon interesting facts upon tried-and-true processes. Just as an oyster wraps layer upon layer of nacre atop an offending piece of sand, ultimately yielding a pearl, creativity percolates within hard work over time.
Most creativity comes without epiphanies, and when powerful moments do happen, little knowledge is granted for how to find the next one. To focus on the magic moments is to miss the point. The goal isn’t the magic moment: it’s the end result of the creative process Each creation is built on the work that went into making the previous one.
Dang these sins! See you the next time
Denny
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