Monday, December 14, 2009
time is on your side
But that's only because time is on all sides. Propelling us and surrounding us all at once.
From one degree, it is a train zooming straight into you, blasting through you, and yet from another angle it is disappearing over the foot-hills off in the distance.
Where does the time go? And more importantly -- WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
We can't catch up.
Time is a tattoo, branding you in long cursive letters... "this too shall pass."
And I'm so glad that 'soonlikenow' has been here to leave its mark. This is our one-year anniversary, this collection and I.
Together we took in Africa, and found a way to translate it as best we could. Together we turned one inaugural ticket into, well, a few.
We scattered poetry all around. And humor. We posted definitive songs and music videos that served as the soundtrack to our ever-unfolding story.
Me and these photos, this writing, all of it. We took you all over the country! And we had no idea how much we would appreciate having a record of it, in retrospect.
At the time it was the process of posting that helped me interpret these experiences. And now they sit as archives so that they'll never be lost to me.
The illusion of time can make it difficult to iconize the very exceptional eras that we happen to be floating upon. That is, until they are beyond our reach, or any hope of reconnaissance.
To have been writing this story as it has been taking place is the best gift I could have asked for as I wrap up this amazing year.
I look forward to continue building momentum, and to be a happy passenger on this crazy train of time.
Something's coming something's coming somethings... somethings...
From one degree, it is a train zooming straight into you, blasting through you, and yet from another angle it is disappearing over the foot-hills off in the distance.
Where does the time go? And more importantly -- WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
We can't catch up.
Time is a tattoo, branding you in long cursive letters... "this too shall pass."
And I'm so glad that 'soonlikenow' has been here to leave its mark. This is our one-year anniversary, this collection and I.
Together we took in Africa, and found a way to translate it as best we could. Together we turned one inaugural ticket into, well, a few.
We scattered poetry all around. And humor. We posted definitive songs and music videos that served as the soundtrack to our ever-unfolding story.
Me and these photos, this writing, all of it. We took you all over the country! And we had no idea how much we would appreciate having a record of it, in retrospect.
At the time it was the process of posting that helped me interpret these experiences. And now they sit as archives so that they'll never be lost to me.
The illusion of time can make it difficult to iconize the very exceptional eras that we happen to be floating upon. That is, until they are beyond our reach, or any hope of reconnaissance.
To have been writing this story as it has been taking place is the best gift I could have asked for as I wrap up this amazing year.
I look forward to continue building momentum, and to be a happy passenger on this crazy train of time.
Something's coming something's coming somethings... somethings...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
"The ethnographer observes behavior but goes beyond it to inquire about the meaning of that behavior. The ethnographer sees artifacts and natural objects but goes beyond them to discover what meanings people assign to these objects. The ethnographer observes and records emotional states but goes beyond them to discover the meaning of fear, anger, and other feelings."
--Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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