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Candyneck & Other Earthbound Texts
Brooklyn, NY - GGP - Saturday, May 14th, 2005 : goo
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Yesterday's assignment: photograph stuff on the street that includes text of some sort. The garbage-strewn strip along Atlantic Avenue above the railyards provided the perfect site for this project. None of the elements were moved or rearranged in any way. Where a happy assemblage occurs, we have only the litterers and the wind to thank.
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elaine: 14th May 2005 - 16:03 GMT
if you see something say something. neat turnaround, that semiotician
GGP: 14th May 2005 - 16:38 GMT
if you see something say something is the post-9/11 mantra on the NYC subway system. you know--suspicious packages, people taking photos of trash, atypical behavior...
elaine: 14th May 2005 - 16:47 GMT
i could see the mundane anchoring of what existentially is rather a nice little poetic, but i think you pulled it out of the mundane, candy neck
elaine: 14th May 2005 - 17:11 GMT
we have, since the days of the visiting team of the IRA in london, had no litter bins and lots of notices - ours centre around a notion of 'suspicious packages'. why the packages are suspicious of us, i do not know, but it is best to report them, becuase they get very angry, aparrently, if you don't
GGP: you can never be too careful these days.
elaine: 14th May 2005 - 18:01 GMT
walls have ears; keep mum, she's not so dumb; careless talk costs lives... and remember to wash behind your ears
elaine: you have to look at the goo for this one!
jyk: 14th May 2005 - 18:23 GMT
gg, a new poetic form is born on the street(s) of brooklyn, ny - looks like the great american forensic poem. fragments of language and image. culture on the morning of the day after tomorrow. i see- i don't need words- for the entire message is encoded in our media soaked brains. 12 stanzas written in image. i like this forensic form.
i once knew an artist that would photograph lost combs. he would include a compass in the photo to record the direction of the comb's teeth. stay away from formalism.
elaine: 14th May 2005 - 18:30 GMT
like the phrase - forensic poem - very evocative.
re compass, can see a nerdy appeal, it's better than putting a milk bottle in to show scale, at least, which we were pragmatically advised at college. no way! (less it was about milk bottles, of cours)
GGP: 14th May 2005 - 21:34 GMT
jyk: yep, formalizm sux; I've had enough formality for one lifetime. the comb/compass thing is brilliant and insane...and brilliant.
elaine: honored by your offering.
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