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APR 27, 2021
When we were small, our grandmother would often take us in tow to confession. She drove a boxy black sedan (we can’t recall the model) but both she and the car were always immaculate. If it was cold (and not raining) she wore a fur coat and leather gloves. For us, the creaking of her gloved hands on the vinyl steering wheel typified her otherworldly remove. If she was in a good mood (as was often the case) she would allow us to bury our face in her side, in the cold fur, in the darkness behind her arm.
On a certain day, instead of the cathedral, she took us to the zoo. As far as we can remember the trip was unremarkable — all we recollect is a horrible detour into the arachnid pavilion.
From birth, the mere thought of spiders, so like disembodied searching hands, always filled us with a mild to serious anxiousness.
Inside the spider exhibit, as one would expect, it was quite dark. The walls, ceiling and all the fixtures were coated neatly in a matte black paint. The floor was a dark maroon tile and had a slight sheen. The exposition took place within a long zig zagging corridor. There was one large, glowing display per zig or zag — totaling about eight. There was no glass on enclosures where the spiders weren’t considered dangerous. Gesturing without speaking we drew her attention to the lights that dotted the space; there were webs around all of them. She assured me that she spoke with one of the guards, who said that the errant activity was nothing more than that of spiders common to the area.On a certain day, instead of the cathedral, she took us to the zoo. As far as we can remember the trip was unremarkable — all we recollect is a horrible detour into the arachnid pavilion.
From birth, the mere thought of spiders, so like disembodied searching hands, always filled us with a mild to serious anxiousness.
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Much design that addresses the possibility of a primarily unstable future does so in a dark way (black/gray and post-ruinous tech figure largely). To respond to a volatile view with color and concentrated energy is rare; the output of Polish designers Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara (chmararosinke.com) is of this buoyant latter sort. If the future demands that we eat only irradiated borscht, we sure hope to have our glowing steamy rations passed to us from one of Chmara.Rosinke’s jaunty mobile kitchens.
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Graham Greene, The End of the Party, 1929
Anita Thacher, Loose Corner, 1986
Denise Scott Brown Lecture, 2009
Mike Leigh, Career Girls, 1997
20471120, Fall/ Winter, 2000
ORACLE
At the beginning of each week, we draw a single Tarot card and consult the I Ching. The Tarot card represents the person (you, me, us). The I Ching reading speaks to the nature of the scenario that you, me, us will face throughout the week. Think of it as protagonist (tarot) and plot or theme (I Ching). It is our opinion that neither the I Ching nor the Tarot are tools of prediction, but rather a mechanism to aid in self reflection.
Before reading further, we recommend you collect your thoughts regarding the state of affairs inside your head as well as what you are involved with externally. Take precise stock of your emotional temperature and your goals for the week. The more preparation and detail, the better the results.
So, of both the Tarot and the I Ching, we asked the following: for the coming week, what is the best advice for the engaged and sincere person?
Petite Reading
Harmony is really the only condition worthy of pursuit; but you can’t capture harmony, nor can you trick it — you can only match or befriend its primordial oscillations with a kind of rekindled innocence.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Seven of Wands: A defensive position has become necessary; a challenge to your existing order has been enacted. It comes from distributed sources. It is quite possible you have been caught off guard.
Our first hexagram this week is #25, Innocence (The Unexpected). It is said here that the best state for humans is to be innocent (like a child), as it puts one in direct accord with the larger motions of power (the earth, the human generally, etc.). Innocence here is defined as a sort of willful naivety — relinquishing to eliminate the distortion of ulterior motives. Not blindness just knowing that you ultimately don’t know, thus allowing yourself to be magnetic to harmony. Will you have cancer? Will you be accepted? Will it work out? You just can’t know these things — it is suggested to accept that type of unknowing. We rolled one change this week, of which the specific note is: if the time does not feel ripe/right for your intended endeavor, do not blindly push forward; wait for more favorable conditions.
Harmony is really the only condition worthy of pursuit; but you can’t capture harmony, nor can you trick it — you can only match or befriend its primordial oscillations with a kind of rekindled innocence.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Seven of Wands: A defensive position has become necessary; a challenge to your existing order has been enacted. It comes from distributed sources. It is quite possible you have been caught off guard.
Our first hexagram this week is #25, Innocence (The Unexpected). It is said here that the best state for humans is to be innocent (like a child), as it puts one in direct accord with the larger motions of power (the earth, the human generally, etc.). Innocence here is defined as a sort of willful naivety — relinquishing to eliminate the distortion of ulterior motives. Not blindness just knowing that you ultimately don’t know, thus allowing yourself to be magnetic to harmony. Will you have cancer? Will you be accepted? Will it work out? You just can’t know these things — it is suggested to accept that type of unknowing. We rolled one change this week, of which the specific note is: if the time does not feel ripe/right for your intended endeavor, do not blindly push forward; wait for more favorable conditions.
CN_184
APR 20, 2021
From where we are sitting, there are collected (as a kind of decoration) three dried tumble weed type plants. The general structure of each is identical, a few stick-sized, stubby “trunks” that burst out into a cacophonous ball of branches and thorns. It would take disciplined attention to follow a single branch — so twisting and near-unaccountable is a single tendril; but ultimately the signal is easily separable from the noise. Tumbleweeds are plants whose self-reflexive and self-reinforcing structure allows them to roll, for far-reaching germination — but should a favorable condition not be found it has no other option to carry on the genes (like ending up in a studio as ornamentation).
Like personality, a tumbleweed forms then detaches, borne away by a larger force to pursue some purpose. We are inclined to say that one main advantage we have over this flora is conscious reasoning. But this power as evinced everywhere comes with its own internal looping (no matter how intricate it appears). Perhaps one thing can be said about all of it, formation is one’s power and constraint.
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A new partnership! A long standing ambition realized! Dinamo & Cargo together! (Independent Type Foundry ↔ Independent Site Builder)
Cargo and the ever-clever Swiss type foundry, Dinamo, have united services. Having been friends and admirers for quite some time, it is wholly exciting and not a little lovely to finally be working together (like ancient friends in modern bodies ♻♻♻).
All Cargo users now have full access to a selection of our favorit (😉🙄) Dinamo fonts. The offering includes: Diatype, Diatype Mono, Diatype Semi-Mono, Favorit, Favorit Mono, Monument Grotesk, Monument Grotesk Mono and Monument Grotesk Semi-Mono.
To peruse and test, visit our fonts page.
(NB, this is a partnership of the long haul type, so watch for further stuffs born of this union.)
(PS, this is an exclusive partnership — these fonts will not be available on other any other site builder.)
Cargo and the ever-clever Swiss type foundry, Dinamo, have united services. Having been friends and admirers for quite some time, it is wholly exciting and not a little lovely to finally be working together (like ancient friends in modern bodies ♻♻♻).
All Cargo users now have full access to a selection of our favorit (😉🙄) Dinamo fonts. The offering includes: Diatype, Diatype Mono, Diatype Semi-Mono, Favorit, Favorit Mono, Monument Grotesk, Monument Grotesk Mono and Monument Grotesk Semi-Mono.
To peruse and test, visit our fonts page.
(NB, this is a partnership of the long haul type, so watch for further stuffs born of this union.)
(PS, this is an exclusive partnership — these fonts will not be available on other any other site builder.)
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The beautiful simplicity of linking is realized perfectly on artist/designer Daniela Grabosch and Ricardo Almeida Roque’s site. yyyymmdd.art is an archive and aggregator of art exhibitions from various galleries (a sporty but tight museum without walls type endeavor). A strong theoretical and intellectual point of view curates the selections (not without genuine solicitude).
Though attributions are evident and permissions clearly displayed, there is an energizing spirit of autonomy here — an unfeigned desire to connect information under one’s own view — “I link therefore I am” rather than “I like therefore I am.”
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Interview with Peter Halley, 1985
Edward Yang, A Brighter Summer Day, 1991
Eva Papamargariti, Factitious Imprints, 2016
Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/ Summer, 1990
M dot Strange, We Are The Strange, 2007
ORACLE
At the beginning of each week, we draw a single Tarot card and consult the I Ching. The Tarot card represents the person (you, me, us). The I Ching reading speaks to the nature of the scenario that you, me, us will face throughout the week. Think of it as protagonist (tarot) and plot or theme (I Ching). It is our opinion that neither the I Ching nor the Tarot are tools of prediction, but rather a mechanism to aid in self reflection.
Before reading further, we recommend you collect your thoughts regarding the state of affairs inside your head as well as what you are involved with externally. Take precise stock of your emotional temperature and your goals for the week. The more preparation and detail, the better the results.
So, of both the Tarot and the I Ching, we asked the following: for the coming week, what is the best advice for the engaged and sincere person?
Petite Reading
Now is the time. Create. Be like the Spring and allow growth and production — enjoy and increase. Do not block flow; there will be other times for scrutiny and skepticism. Be the example of manifest generation!
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Eight of Wands. This is a card of opportunity, not a card of analysis (carpe diem? 🙄). Previous reflection may be utilized but try to let things flow out of you. Production will come from moving with energy, not detailing its mechanics. “Align yourself with a higher power.”
Our first hexagram this week is #20, Contemplation (View). This hexagram describes how a great sage or similar worthy leader achieves such status. In short, by embodiment. Something like seeing a personage transcend themself, that is, experiencing a human manifesting their personality without guile or insecurity and with full intention — inspires devotion, emulation and appreciation in all that bear witness to them. This is true of the self as well; if you are open, honest and loving when reflecting on what you are, warts and assets alike, you are capable of giving off a light that will illuminate a path and object (perhaps even for others). We had one change this week; the specific note here is: whatever you are working on, do not be satisfied with a shallow version — follow the momentum deeply.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #42, Increase. Here we have a declaration of what it means to lead: “To rule truly is to serve.” The pith is expanded on beautifully: “When one discovers good in others, they should imitate it and thus make everything on earth their own. If they perceive something bad in themself, let them rid themselves of it. In this way they become free of evil. This ethical change represents the most important increase of personality.” And again, this type of commentary regarding leadership and character formation applies not only to the external structures of people, but to one’s own internal hierarchies.
Now is the time. Create. Be like the Spring and allow growth and production — enjoy and increase. Do not block flow; there will be other times for scrutiny and skepticism. Be the example of manifest generation!
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Eight of Wands. This is a card of opportunity, not a card of analysis (carpe diem? 🙄). Previous reflection may be utilized but try to let things flow out of you. Production will come from moving with energy, not detailing its mechanics. “Align yourself with a higher power.”
Our first hexagram this week is #20, Contemplation (View). This hexagram describes how a great sage or similar worthy leader achieves such status. In short, by embodiment. Something like seeing a personage transcend themself, that is, experiencing a human manifesting their personality without guile or insecurity and with full intention — inspires devotion, emulation and appreciation in all that bear witness to them. This is true of the self as well; if you are open, honest and loving when reflecting on what you are, warts and assets alike, you are capable of giving off a light that will illuminate a path and object (perhaps even for others). We had one change this week; the specific note here is: whatever you are working on, do not be satisfied with a shallow version — follow the momentum deeply.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #42, Increase. Here we have a declaration of what it means to lead: “To rule truly is to serve.” The pith is expanded on beautifully: “When one discovers good in others, they should imitate it and thus make everything on earth their own. If they perceive something bad in themself, let them rid themselves of it. In this way they become free of evil. This ethical change represents the most important increase of personality.” And again, this type of commentary regarding leadership and character formation applies not only to the external structures of people, but to one’s own internal hierarchies.
CN_183
MAR 23, 2021
The reading of a sentence is something like a stone skipped on water. One hurtles along the surface tension of recognized structure, powered either by the writer’s intension or the reader’s attention, until they sink. Punctuation is like the spot where the stone disappears. Look. Another sentence started; the attempt repeated. Sink.
See us together here trying to make sense. Sink.
A sentence has a structure that attempts to carry meaning, but having meaning and having a repeatable, recognizable structure that attempts meaning is not the same thing.
Words like stones are ancient and composite. Sink.
Some people find stones beautiful and useful despite their depressive density. Sink.
Perhaps it’s like Gerard Manley Hopkins said: “This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, is immortal diamond.”
But of course it might be that we are simply and senselessly synching runes of ruins.
Image: from The Occult Reliquary
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Artist and designer Riley Hooke is superbly comprehensive — digital publications, printed publications, much curation, performances, editions, collaborations, a network — a covetable model for the marriage of terrestrial and digital practices. However, most of all, we admire the deep cognizance of site as medium, the understanding that a site is something, not just an anemia of thumbnails that weakly point to the real thing elsewhere. Most sites after all are like split level houses; you know what goes on before you even enter. With both Façadomy and the collaboration with Maria Petschnig there is the engendering of actual curiosity in the viewer. 👅❤️
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Hart Crane, Voyages II, 1933
Otto Preminger, Laura, 1944
Final Home, Fall/ Winter, 1999-2000
Marc Camille Chaimowicz at Indipendenza
Alice Neel, They Are Their Own Gifts, 1978
ORACLE
At the beginning of each week, we draw a single Tarot card and consult the I Ching. The Tarot card represents the person (you, me, us). The I Ching reading speaks to the nature of the scenario that you, me, us will face throughout the week. Think of it as protagonist (tarot) and plot or theme (I Ching). It is our opinion that neither the I Ching nor the Tarot are tools of prediction, but rather a mechanism to aid in self reflection.
Before reading further, we recommend you collect your thoughts regarding the state of affairs inside your head as well as what you are involved with externally. Take precise stock of your emotional temperature and your goals for the week. The more preparation and detail, the better the results.
So, of both the Tarot and the I Ching, we asked the following: for the coming week, what is the best advice for the engaged and sincere person?
Petite Reading
For one to be exceptional, that is perform at a sincerely high level (whether as an activist, a familial head, as an artist, etc.) you will not be able to please your immediate self or your immediate peers. To be actually helpful (durable in your value to the world and self) you must accept the uncomfortable truth that this is a long term scenario. By its nature this type of life will often make you appear as out of step. This is hard to accept and bear; this is why so few people are remarkable (and actually helpful). To be remarkable you must reduce your world, accept all the various changes, whilst having a long term goal.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Hanged Man. This card is a symbol of capitulation, surrender — but suggests a mature type of yielding, one that is nutritive. Here it is recommended to muse upon giving up to gain — excepting a certain change; it will feel like a loss initially, but ultimately is for greater flow and power.
Our first hexagram this week is #55, Abundance (Fullness). In a human’s world, there is very little without a pitch and a fallow; we have a very bi-polar existence (not that it is perpetually only between extremes — but, there is always a back and forth). It states a “condition of abundance cannot be maintained permanently.” Knowing this perhaps oddly it is “only a person who is inwardly free of sorrow and care can lead in a time of abundance.” We feel this suggests what might be called a light touch in all dealings. All is change (triteness be damned) — thus it is wise to be aware, but it is super-wise to be aware and not get caught up. There was one change which specifically states: “To bring about a time of abundance, a union of clarity with energetic movement is needed. Two individuals possessed of these two attributes are suited to each other... it will meet with recognition.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #62, Preponderance of the Small. There are many statements here of direct use; all center around the importance of maintaining a sophisticated, multilayered sensitivity if one is to be remarkable and not simply a follower. “Exceptional modesty and conscientiousness are sure to be rewarded with success; however, if a person is not to throw themself away, it is important that they should not become empty form and subservience but be combined always with a correct dignity in personal behavior. We must understand the demands of the time in order to find the necessary offset for its deficiencies and damages. In any event we must not count on great success, since the requisite strength is lacking. In this lies the importance of the message that one should not strive after lofty things but hold to lowly things.” “The superior person… must always fix their eyes more closely and more directly on duty than does the ordinary person, even though this might make their behavior seem petty to the outside world. They are exceptionally conscientious in their actions.”
For one to be exceptional, that is perform at a sincerely high level (whether as an activist, a familial head, as an artist, etc.) you will not be able to please your immediate self or your immediate peers. To be actually helpful (durable in your value to the world and self) you must accept the uncomfortable truth that this is a long term scenario. By its nature this type of life will often make you appear as out of step. This is hard to accept and bear; this is why so few people are remarkable (and actually helpful). To be remarkable you must reduce your world, accept all the various changes, whilst having a long term goal.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Hanged Man. This card is a symbol of capitulation, surrender — but suggests a mature type of yielding, one that is nutritive. Here it is recommended to muse upon giving up to gain — excepting a certain change; it will feel like a loss initially, but ultimately is for greater flow and power.
Our first hexagram this week is #55, Abundance (Fullness). In a human’s world, there is very little without a pitch and a fallow; we have a very bi-polar existence (not that it is perpetually only between extremes — but, there is always a back and forth). It states a “condition of abundance cannot be maintained permanently.” Knowing this perhaps oddly it is “only a person who is inwardly free of sorrow and care can lead in a time of abundance.” We feel this suggests what might be called a light touch in all dealings. All is change (triteness be damned) — thus it is wise to be aware, but it is super-wise to be aware and not get caught up. There was one change which specifically states: “To bring about a time of abundance, a union of clarity with energetic movement is needed. Two individuals possessed of these two attributes are suited to each other... it will meet with recognition.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #62, Preponderance of the Small. There are many statements here of direct use; all center around the importance of maintaining a sophisticated, multilayered sensitivity if one is to be remarkable and not simply a follower. “Exceptional modesty and conscientiousness are sure to be rewarded with success; however, if a person is not to throw themself away, it is important that they should not become empty form and subservience but be combined always with a correct dignity in personal behavior. We must understand the demands of the time in order to find the necessary offset for its deficiencies and damages. In any event we must not count on great success, since the requisite strength is lacking. In this lies the importance of the message that one should not strive after lofty things but hold to lowly things.” “The superior person… must always fix their eyes more closely and more directly on duty than does the ordinary person, even though this might make their behavior seem petty to the outside world. They are exceptionally conscientious in their actions.”
CN_182
MAR 16, 2021
The house we live in sits about a single story off of a hill. It’s high enough that the eastern facing window by the kitchen table is at eye level with the crowns of a white oak (scraggly and narrow in the foreground) and some sort of much larger ficus-type tree (behind it). On Saturday we sat here watching a gentle breeze animate the exteriors of the arboreal systems. The “ficus” looked like a large arrested explosion, that somehow was able to slowly undulate in its suspension, whilst the white oak resembled a bony arm with scraps of skin and cloth, gesticulating rigidly. Two things came to mind. Brice Marden drawing with a stick and the animation by Matt Henderson where a mirrored cube when dipped into a reflective lake takes on the reflection as part of its structure. We were left thinking that the factors for genesis aren’t necessarily complex maybe just innumerable. Another way, the “reason” for our being seated at the table on Saturday and the “reason” for the height of the house and the “reason” for the shape of the tree, and on, and on, is traceable (perhaps even reconstructable) but neither we nor our computers can count that high.
Image: Mike Kelley
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Margherita Chinchio makes beguiling pieces of exquisite and specific beauty. It’s like Lynda Benglis and David Cronenberg, while taking a break from a trip up a climbing wall in the studio of Mendini’s Alchimia, became mesmerized by the various, brightly colored holds, and decided that they should design a jewelry and object line together. 👌👌👌
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Philip Larkin reading Toads Revisited
Stefan Römer, Conceptual Paradise, 2005
Interview with Sarah Charlesworth, 2004
Jean-Claude Biette, Le Champignon des Carpathes, 1988
Interview with Richard Tuttle, 2006
ORACLE
At the beginning of each week, we draw a single Tarot card and consult the I Ching. The Tarot card represents the person (you, me, us). The I Ching reading speaks to the nature of the scenario that you, me, us will face throughout the week. Think of it as protagonist (tarot) and plot or theme (I Ching). It is our opinion that neither the I Ching nor the Tarot are tools of prediction, but rather a mechanism to aid in self reflection.
Before reading further, we recommend you collect your thoughts regarding the state of affairs inside your head as well as what you are involved with externally. Take precise stock of your emotional temperature and your goals for the week. The more preparation and detail, the better the results.
So, of both the Tarot and the I Ching, we asked the following: for the coming week, what is the best advice for the engaged and sincere person?
Petite Reading
This week we asked a sort of ultimate question(s). Something like a query of cosmic, terrestrial and internal realism. We prepared by saying we understood really understood the human animal to be in a constantly difficult spot, besotted by blind corners, cut off from origins, with no access to ultimate meaning — but then also still able to feel joy and create beauty… We said we knew this with nuance and intimacy, but oft forget it and subsequently struggle for balance and energy. So, keeping all this in mind we asked our question(s): How do you do more? How do you engage the world more? How do you engage yourself more? And how do you do it with more constancy? It would be hard to receive a better reply. The short of it is this, persevere and persevere more, let the Creative Power flow through you like the natural force that it is — if you do this with responsibility (and without guile) to yourself and your surroundings, the world will be yours in great measure.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Nine of Wands. This card is a symbol of persistence within struggle. It is suggested to consider an aspect of your life in need of tenacity (all of it 😉). The card also suggests that this is a time where the perseverance will be requited.
Our first hexagram this week is also the first of the I Ching, #1, The Creative. There was one change (note at the end). This hexagram is perhaps the ultimate statement of the I Ching as a whole. Here is laid out the philosophical footing and substructural sentiment of the book. These are beautiful passages. The I Ching is a text aimed at guiding the querent (the seeker) to that which is most nutritive for them — a type of realism which does not sacrifice poetry. If you have the time take a few minutes to read it yourself. “According to the original meaning, the attributes [sublimity, potentiality of success, power to further, perseverance] are paired. When an individual draws this oracle, it means that success will come to him from the primal depths of the universe and that everything depends upon his seeking his happiness and that of others in one way only, that is, by perseverance in what is right.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #14, Possession in Great Measure. “The time is favorable—a time of strength within, clarity and culture without. Power is expressing itself in a graceful and controlled way. This brings supreme success.”
This week we asked a sort of ultimate question(s). Something like a query of cosmic, terrestrial and internal realism. We prepared by saying we understood really understood the human animal to be in a constantly difficult spot, besotted by blind corners, cut off from origins, with no access to ultimate meaning — but then also still able to feel joy and create beauty… We said we knew this with nuance and intimacy, but oft forget it and subsequently struggle for balance and energy. So, keeping all this in mind we asked our question(s): How do you do more? How do you engage the world more? How do you engage yourself more? And how do you do it with more constancy? It would be hard to receive a better reply. The short of it is this, persevere and persevere more, let the Creative Power flow through you like the natural force that it is — if you do this with responsibility (and without guile) to yourself and your surroundings, the world will be yours in great measure.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Nine of Wands. This card is a symbol of persistence within struggle. It is suggested to consider an aspect of your life in need of tenacity (all of it 😉). The card also suggests that this is a time where the perseverance will be requited.
Our first hexagram this week is also the first of the I Ching, #1, The Creative. There was one change (note at the end). This hexagram is perhaps the ultimate statement of the I Ching as a whole. Here is laid out the philosophical footing and substructural sentiment of the book. These are beautiful passages. The I Ching is a text aimed at guiding the querent (the seeker) to that which is most nutritive for them — a type of realism which does not sacrifice poetry. If you have the time take a few minutes to read it yourself. “According to the original meaning, the attributes [sublimity, potentiality of success, power to further, perseverance] are paired. When an individual draws this oracle, it means that success will come to him from the primal depths of the universe and that everything depends upon his seeking his happiness and that of others in one way only, that is, by perseverance in what is right.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #14, Possession in Great Measure. “The time is favorable—a time of strength within, clarity and culture without. Power is expressing itself in a graceful and controlled way. This brings supreme success.”
CN_181
MAR 09, 2021
Outside a window a siren is heard, getting louder — coming closer. Its own rising and falling volume is independent of the approach volume.
In front of a reflective surface a creature is evaluating itself and planning its comportment. The creature shifts and tries different poses, like in a store, testing various outfits. It isn’t in a store though it is in its own private space, something like a bedroom. An internal monologue is heard.
OK, is it pants rolled up no cynicism or is it cynicism and pants not rolled? Oh! Smacks forehead. It’s neither! It’s denim shorts and tank top without cynicism. Ugh, no wait, that’s not it. The creature leaves and returns with a purple knitwear hat and floral patterned gloves (they look like something an amateur gardener might wear). This is it — purple beanie tilted, right glove on, anti-atheist views, then provided the conditions are right, straighten hat with left glove on, express casual Darwinism. Fuck!! Why is this so difficult!? Have patience, we can do this. The creature leaves again this time returning in pink snow pants, with a single snow ski and a rubber mask. The rubber face looks kind of like the cartoon character Caillou. Rubber face on, with ski on shoulders, arms and hands resting on skis, like the wings of a plane, giving off ‘go for it’ vibes. Shit how does anyone do this!?
The arduous, exploratory, viewpoint testing, goes on unabated for hours — until finally the creature falls asleep on the sartorial heap.
Outside the window a siren is heard, getting quieter — going farther away. Its own rising and falling volume is independent of the leaving volume.
Image: Ian Hamilton Finlay
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We were told that the studio of designer Sasyk Mihal was located inside the jewel of a belly button ring — as it turns out, it’s actually somewhere in Prague. However platinum body jewelry and generally post aesthetics do swirl pleasantly and charmingly on his brightly and admirably polished site.
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GOINGS-ON(LINE)
An offering of pieces and projects from around the web.
Interview with John Ashbery, 1966
Interview with Joan Didion, 2000
Interview with Marguerite Duras, 1985
Interview with Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, 1999
W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W. B. Yeats
ORACLE
At the beginning of each week, we draw a single Tarot card and consult the I Ching. The Tarot card represents the person (you, me, us). The I Ching reading speaks to the nature of the scenario that you, me, us will face throughout the week. Think of it as protagonist (tarot) and plot or theme (I Ching). It is our opinion that neither the I Ching nor the Tarot are tools of prediction, but rather a mechanism to aid in self reflection.
Before reading further, we recommend you collect your thoughts regarding the state of affairs inside your head as well as what you are involved with externally. Take precise stock of your emotional temperature and your goals for the week. The more preparation and detail, the better the results.
So, of both the Tarot and the I Ching, we asked the following: for the coming week, what is the best advice for the engaged and sincere person?
Petite Reading
There is continual crisis and difficulty; you understand it, yet you feel trapped. Transcend your limitation(s), accept it/them. Figure out what you can do, what it is you do well. Focus on that; and give it everything you have (for a time). The other limitation will probably melt away in your ascendancy.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Four of Wands, reversed. In this aspect the card points to the subjects of inner harmony and outer discord. It intimates that there may exist interior certainty/clarity (self knowledge) whilst outside in the world there is a constant misfiring — either with a group or significant other.
Our first hexagram this week is #10, Treading (Conduct). There was one change (note at the end). “One is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people.” Since there are many different types of humans, of which few are superlative — harmony is a difficult quarry. Some people are superlative as they manage to comprehend quite a few perspectives simultaneously whilst others are superlative because they are fair, strong and unflappable. But most people are scared and witless. These superlative types, when given roles of leadership or import can be defended and supported (not without the usual idiotic or wildcard objectors). It is when people with no superlative skills (perhaps besides uncommon selfishness) are given leading or important roles that social orders start to crumble. Arbitrariness in power leads to mass feelings of meaningless and petty opportunism. Perhaps it is best to seek, follow and support superlative people. (The specific note regarding our change this week councils to persevere through danger this period.)
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #38, Opposition. “When people live in opposition and estrangement they cannot carry out a great undertaking in common; their points of view diverge too widely. In such circumstances one should above all not proceed brusquely, for that would only increase the existing opposition; instead, one should limit oneself to producing gradual effects in small matters. Here success can still be expected, because the situation is such that the opposition does not preclude all agreement.” Nothing is really whole; all things/aspects are interdefined and intersytemical. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t discomfort and confusion — ultimate connectivity and economy are beyond our timescales and understanding — subsequently the world is often experienced as a giant mess. But if you know that fragmenting craziness of an explosion can be relatively tracked and isn’t crazy at all — you can find your place/job in helping with the mess.
There is continual crisis and difficulty; you understand it, yet you feel trapped. Transcend your limitation(s), accept it/them. Figure out what you can do, what it is you do well. Focus on that; and give it everything you have (for a time). The other limitation will probably melt away in your ascendancy.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Four of Wands, reversed. In this aspect the card points to the subjects of inner harmony and outer discord. It intimates that there may exist interior certainty/clarity (self knowledge) whilst outside in the world there is a constant misfiring — either with a group or significant other.
Our first hexagram this week is #10, Treading (Conduct). There was one change (note at the end). “One is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people.” Since there are many different types of humans, of which few are superlative — harmony is a difficult quarry. Some people are superlative as they manage to comprehend quite a few perspectives simultaneously whilst others are superlative because they are fair, strong and unflappable. But most people are scared and witless. These superlative types, when given roles of leadership or import can be defended and supported (not without the usual idiotic or wildcard objectors). It is when people with no superlative skills (perhaps besides uncommon selfishness) are given leading or important roles that social orders start to crumble. Arbitrariness in power leads to mass feelings of meaningless and petty opportunism. Perhaps it is best to seek, follow and support superlative people. (The specific note regarding our change this week councils to persevere through danger this period.)
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #38, Opposition. “When people live in opposition and estrangement they cannot carry out a great undertaking in common; their points of view diverge too widely. In such circumstances one should above all not proceed brusquely, for that would only increase the existing opposition; instead, one should limit oneself to producing gradual effects in small matters. Here success can still be expected, because the situation is such that the opposition does not preclude all agreement.” Nothing is really whole; all things/aspects are interdefined and intersytemical. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t discomfort and confusion — ultimate connectivity and economy are beyond our timescales and understanding — subsequently the world is often experienced as a giant mess. But if you know that fragmenting craziness of an explosion can be relatively tracked and isn’t crazy at all — you can find your place/job in helping with the mess.