tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6559422191197962900..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Slide Show on Cave WallUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20495078183852084002014-01-21T03:59:08.148-08:002014-01-21T03:59:08.148-08:00Here's that Twitter post to which Curtis refer...Here's that Twitter post to which Curtis refers:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/peanuts.html" rel="nofollow">Peanuts</a><br /><br />On the theme of getting along in the dark:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/artificial-light.html" rel="nofollow">Artificial Light</a><br /><br />And welcoming Hazen back down to the cave:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/endarkenment.html" rel="nofollow">Endarkenment</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26138758154155732322014-01-20T09:25:00.521-08:002014-01-20T09:25:00.521-08:00In that final photo, Europe and the US seem to be ...In that final photo, Europe and the US seem to be faced off, signaling one another with bits of “abstract pseudo knowledges”—whose useful information content probably approaches zero; it certainly isn’t worth the energy expended. Noise, in other words. The picture of the Nile valley all lit up reminded me that human habitation there has always (ever since “civilization” first rolled into town) been clustered in a narrow band along that watercourse. <br /><br />David Bohm uses the word “endarkenment” to describe all the wrong ideas that pollute the common pool of knowledge, the knowledge base that we humans share. Many of these ideas are just plain bad. They cause harm; they damage us; and they have not-surprising outcomes; pain, confusion, misery; the snafu-world that we all experience.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9551637106157697792014-01-20T08:47:07.320-08:002014-01-20T08:47:07.320-08:00A couple of years ago, I recall, you posted a BTP ...A couple of years ago, I recall, you posted a BTP entry concerning Twitter that I thought was the last word on the subject. Appropriately, I thought, you used very few words and only a couple of pictures. I had hoped that would end Twitter, but apparently it's just gotten bigger and more important in people's eyes. Acquaintances tell me that I've missed the boat in not seeing its merits and value. But I'm mentally hung up on the phrase "so-called social media" because so many of the applications on offer seem to exist to separate people into their own separate madness cubicles, rather than bringing them together. Eventually, I discontinued my own Facebook account because I couldn't take the poster-wall polemic aspect of it and then being yelled at by "friends" when I would mildly disagree with them or ask a mildly phrased question. At least with Twitter, they can't scream at length, unless of course, it's Cher (who "serial Tweets") and she can do what she likes. Because she's Cher. (As we used to say back at CBS/FOX Video.) CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27440038917963657442014-01-20T07:40:05.934-08:002014-01-20T07:40:05.934-08:00Herd and swarm, often to small purpose with way to...Herd and swarm, often to small purpose with way too much light and noise... it makes one dizzy and blind. More darkness... not more light. More darkness, please.Poet Red Shuttleworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053848100740944133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87156506982225951552014-01-20T05:28:41.030-08:002014-01-20T05:28:41.030-08:00Yes, I too felt it would have been so much more pl...Yes, I too felt it would have been so much more pleasant had Eric Fischer chosen less horrid colours for the Flickr and Twitter dots.<br /><br />For a while, before Google withdrew the "personalized iGoogle" homepage (allowing us to opt out of all the available substitute gadgets), we had "summer ocean theme" -- a set of a dozen rotating backdrop scenes, all in various relaxing blue-greens.<br /><br />That was much nicer.<br /><br />Still, I think maybe it's the very horrescent hues of the Flickr and Twitter dots that give the images of these swarming metastatic urban lesions their particularly hideous (unintended) impact.<br /><br />And then too, thinking a bit further on it, maybe, for the imagined audience attending this cave wall slide lecture on history in the Platonic neanderthal Fourth Reich techno millennial future, having relaxing tones for the dots would be "sending the wrong message".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24672334767180900532014-01-20T04:56:16.126-08:002014-01-20T04:56:16.126-08:00I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I be...I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I believe I first need to remember to breathe. Waking up to this -- the breathless-making poem and the photo array -- is difficult in the sense that for me, at least, it makes pushing through another day seem at first unappealing or irrelevant. The Flickr/Twitter dots are the least cheerful lights I've ever seen -- they're just enervating. But seeing history written another way in the Berlin photo, which is so unexpected and telling, raises my spirits, and so do the lights of London, Paris, Naples and the Nile Delta. Hollow ball of bone and as through glass darkly really speak to me. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com