Monthly Archives: October 2009
notes on material transparency as a form of hyperpersonal communication
1. From Wikipedia: Compared to ordinary face-to-face situations, a hyperpersonal message sender has a greater ability to strategically develop and edit self-presentation, enabling a selective and optimized presentation of oneself to others. 2. Material Transparency: an ethic for writers based on full disclosure of material connections between the writer and subject. 3. Linguistically, material transparency [...]
what people told me and what i told people
Joshy told me he needed a flow overhaul, a flowverhaul. He told me he needed a trip. DJ told me he was taking a class in ‘rapid visualization’. Yohanna told me about the novel she was editing. I told Yohanna I wrote a manifesto on material transparency. I told DJ we’ve been getting small windswell [...]
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[damn]
me and lau, 2001. note ‘sand free’ kitchen and crossed sticks on either side of fire pit. Feels like another ‘chapter’ is closing and damn if it can’t come fast enough and yet still feels like it’s all too fast. Yesterday was 2001 and Lau and I had just met. She thought I was from [...]
I added a news to section to my blog
Small news section will follow recent publications, notes on writing, writers, music, maybe river levels, swell reports, and other laminar flow.
What I did today
Got up at 6 am. Wrote a piece about chickens. Published a piece about staying stoked. Felt blood pressure go up when Mom came in at 8:00 to ask about ‘boxes in guest bedroom’. Went outside to pool area to work. Saw thousands of dead ants on ground from where ‘they sprayed’. Went back in [...]
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Micromix by Atlas Sound
Blogged about this micromix by Atlas Sound. Notes: favorite part starts @ 29:40 when Bradford sings “Sing to the coffin that awaits you, sing to the coffin in you mind, sing to praise yourself, ” and then has this ill break that goes into harmonics and harmonica and sad hard chords.
Micro Travel Notes
Published what may have been the first collection of ultra-short (3 sentences or less) travel stories. Solid response. Almost 900 views so far. There were good writing ‘lessons’ it seemed–people had to leave out almost everything except one time and place and how it affected them. Some people thought ‘zen’ but I was looking at [...]
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Updates Remix
1. Stoked for David Page, who won a Lowell Thomas award. 2. Stoked for Hal Amen, who wrote what’s in his head. 3. Wondering about this blog “Travel Blogging vs. Travel Writing.” Wondering in general about comparisons like this. Wondering in general about a conference (an ‘expo’) where people get together in rooms in Las [...]
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best sentence i’ve read all week