night songs
a dying fire, late in the moonless night, crickets singing all the while, on the leeward side of the summer solstice. the Enigma of Presence. being here is the initial event that triggers all else....
View ArticleThe Wild Surmise
Sue Thomas poses some interesting questions in her search for possible synergies between the cyber and the natural. it’s an open project — add you own answers on her site! Please describe where you...
View Articlespring
yes, spring does arrive. the chestnut tree outside the back windows rather suddenly bursts into a leafy presence that only the chestnut can express. added advantage is that it blocks the view into and...
View ArticleThompson (NOT Fred)
The Army Corps of Engineers with its national system of dams and levees has shown us what happens when the military-industrial approach in which Man dominates nature is put to work in eliminating wet...
View ArticleRiverwalking
Moore knows rivers, wet places, how to feel, how to transliterate feelings, and how to see, but I’m not in consonance with her characterization of the desert. drawing emotion onto that landscapes seems...
View ArticleMedano Pass
a much longer ramble with a heavy wind at my back until it’s time to turn around. the dunes are located here for a reason and that reason is the frequency of very intense winds being funneled across...
View ArticleEnergy and Society
Excellent resource which will allow me to trace both forwards and backwards in time on this particular worldview which, although the definition of energy is strictly based on contemporary physics and...
View ArticleSydney Non-Objective Gallery exhibition
reflections on neoscenes :: drift |.[ audio (115.4 mb) blurb for SNO gallery exhibition web site, November 2009, NSW, Australia: drift arises from an ordered archive of ambient phonographic fragments...
View ArticleA start to meditations on The Road
The road-as-pathway is a channel for the flow of energy. It is defined by socially-constructed standards and protocols: a web of socially-applied energies follow the limitations and directedness of...
View Articleroadkill
death strewn on the highway. roadkill. carnivore, herbivore, amphibian, insect: getting to the other side of the road is just part of the inexorable (natural) systemic flow. Roadkill represents one...
View ArticleRedirecting the Flows of Energy in Natural Systems
(but wait a minute, LIFE is, by definition, a redirecting of the flows of energy in a natural system — a redirecting that is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of living systems — according to...
View ArticleThe uncontrolled gesture: go to your edge
Starting with the immediate body as a field-of-action to release control (versus the control-at-a-distance regime we are immersed within now): Bushwhacking is a method to relinquish control of the...
View Articlemovement and encounter
Morning, mourning notes on encounter, in no particular order. It is on a pathway, the pathway, in the mode of movement, in the shifting of unknown situations, where encounter occurs. These encounters...
View ArticleOn The Poetics of Protocol
How to transcend the rigidity of extant and defined protocol? Opposition is no cure. Poetry is emetic (of protocol); or poetic stretching, morphing of the protocol. Or simply turning away to create a...
View ArticleFood, Energy, and Society
For most of the time that humans have inhabited the earth, their prime source of power has been their own muscle power. … Early additional sources of power included human slaves and domesticated...
View Articlemusings before a roadtrip
Leaving aside the refined mapping of experience-once-removed. And instead, gathering experience first hand, in the moment, where circumspection is wistful, wasteful, or even dangerous. Music on the...
View ArticleClui: Day Five — tangential contact
In the sonic realm, this part of the western desert (the spatial extent defined by precipitation at least) seems, at first, quiet. Stepping out of the car after a bruising day of fighting the wheel,...
View ArticleSand Canyon transect
try a couple more timelapse shots, but they are unsatisfactory with all the technical drawbacks. Stability, resolution, quality, etc. Nothing to be done about it without a 10K investment, or more....
View ArticleL-I-M-I-T-E-D
Aside from a fraction of a kilo-ton of human-re-configured matter that has been more-or-less permanently jettisoned from the immediate gravitational field of the Terran system, all human activities are...
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