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<br />Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-81661037169376595392013-08-26T12:14:00.001-07:002013-08-27T10:04:01.615-07:00Summing up the map book in 50 words... and some moreSheffield international artist book prize needed me to write a blurb for the exhibition about my map-book. In 50 words. In the end I wrote this<br />
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Do You Know The Way - World Map 1310 - 2235</blockquote>
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This map, like all maps, exists in opposition to the ideal map, a correct diagrammatic depiction of the world around us. This is the purpose of cartography, but it is an impossible aim. This idea was a starting point in the construction of this book.</blockquote>
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<li><span style="text-align: justify;">This map, like all maps, exists in opposition to the ideal map; a map that would depict, in detail, the world around us. This is the defined purpose of cartography, but it is an absurdist, impossible aim. In the construction of this map I gathered up elements of historical fact together with the culturally apocryphal and formed them back together within the constructed constraints of this folded map book. In the combinations of these elements, this map hopes to recognises and celebrates the impossible and the absurd. </span></li>
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<li><span style="text-align: justify;">This map, like all maps, exists in opposition to the ideal map; a map that would depict, in detail, the world around us. This is the defined purpose of cartography, but it is an impossible and absurd aim. In its combinations of historical fact with the culturally apocryphal, this map-book celebrates attempts at the impossible and statements of the absurd, recognising them as ways through the pessimistic narratives of our world today. </span></li>
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<li><span style="text-align: justify;">Umberto Eco In his essay ‘On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1’ makes it absurdly clear the hopelessness of including everything in representation. This together with the particular way of folding was the starting point for my book </span></li>
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Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-65726204054830779672013-07-29T16:39:00.000-07:002013-08-17T01:57:56.829-07:00Revistapictograma.com illustrations I am currently doing drawings every two weeks for this <a href="http://www.revistapictograma.com/">Spanish philosophy website</a>, here are my first two illustrations .<br />
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ABOVE was my first illustration for the website, it was for an article about Erasmus of Rotterdam, entitled "In praise of folly", although the article wasn't actually about that piece of Erasmus writing, I decided to draw folly because I like him. </div>
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Here Folly has been transported into our age he is now wearing specialist headgear, because he has been morphed within the the legacy of Erasmus of Rotterdam. That is the legacy of the classical tradition in combination with the unreformed doctrine of the Catholic Church. That is why his hand, his instrument of power is inside the church and the Greek temple is on top of his head. </div>
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ABOVE AND TO THE RIGHT is the next illustration I drew, for <a href="http://www.revistapictograma.com/Francisco%20de%20Vitoria,%20el%20Hombre.html">the next article about a follower of a Erasmus from Spain, Francisco de Vitoria</a>. He came across as rather boring and Conservative but nevertheless a nice guy, in the same way as Erasmus but maybe without his wit. He was also a big fan of travelling the world, seeing all races and creeds as part of God's great kingdom. </div>
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I have illustrated him being guided by the Stoic and careful tortoise, who incidentally issues God's will via moon worship, not unlike some of the Greek pagans that the European Catholic scholars had recently rediscovered, "That knowledge, It was already in them, the parts that they didn't want" the tortoise might say...</div>
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documenting and playing with points of convergence both historical and cultural
in a way that exposes oddities and uncomfortable patterns of events that often
contradict our assumed realities. I collect information and narrative together
in the course of my research, and reassemble it within the constructed
constrains of the work I have created. I do this because I need to understand
what’s going on and I hope I’m not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think the writing workshop last year worked better, this group and that group were more in need of a writing workshop than an image generation workshop. Especially at this time of year. Similar ground had already been covered by Matt and Andrew Lanyon in their workshops.</div>
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If it can be said a handmade book is read at the distance it was created, then with this in mind what is happening when we read a PDF? There are many crazy websites and programs around now that attempt to simulate the book and its pages, in pixels, in windows, on your screen. There's a sadness to this sort of operation, a sort of nostalgic tragedy. I would like to make PDF's that utilise this tragic nostalgic quality, in a poetic way, to exposes what is at the heart of this type of thing, an uneasiness in the way we use our new technologies. I think its a transition thing. We are living in times of transition, it might be useful to get inside the symptoms of this transition. </div>
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My initial idea with this book was to create something of a travel journal. the leftovers from this approach can be seen in the black covered concertina sketch book and also in this research journal. I soon realised that what I actually wanted to create, in reflection to my lebanon trip, was something more akin to my first project utilising a poetic song-like back and forth between the text and imagery. This time however the events I was dealing with were contemporary, this together with the primary nature of the research brought me towards a simpler more straightforward, less graphic visual side of things. These events are still going on, the civil war in syria could see yet more complications with a more active participation of the west, we will see. </blockquote>
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This book is about Lebanon, but Lebanon is barely mentioned. This is intentional, this is book about syria, about the west's relationship with the east, the ellipsis of all this is Lebanon. -"If there is no Syria what will happen to Lebanon?" It is what is implied by all these conflicting physical and theoretical realities but left out in the political reasoning about these things. A state which exists because of an accident of history, which now some may say operates as a laundry room for all the dirty money of the middle east and to others as a model of tolerance and balance in a sea of problems. It may also be the place where free market has proven how, if implemented without constraint, can make even the most hardened enemies partners in the quest for acumltive personal welath, thus peace. The flip side to this is the side effect; weird and excessive corruption together with soul destroying homogeneity. </blockquote>
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This is the homogeneity I was talking about in my final essay, it is a process of maybe sub-liminal but most probably liminal fatalism, which as its first victim, takes the arts and turns its possibilities for creative advancement into wet shiny wallpaper. The way through this is impossible to see clearly, i'm clutching at straws, I can only imagine the willingness to see through this will come from the margins, almost as an accident, like lebanon itself.</blockquote>
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SO! The way through? It will seem desperate and mad, It will come from the unexpected, at the edge of the center to the middle, to the east? The lebanese bank manager and his visions, thats the idea...</blockquote>
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I have been doing a Wikipedia binge today following the further story of the Phoenician alphabet, reading into how it spread like a cultural disease across the world. I came across lots of strange charts including the two above. I especially like the top one, it is very proud and very mad. Anyway eventually stumbled upon a website about symbols used in medieval Arabic alchemy inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphs. It is weird to see how the beginnings and ends of written language have joined forces, in the pursuit of the completely unattainable. </div>
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The concept I'm developing for the front cover of my book is to display something of this begins and ends, although I don't want to imply any connection to alchemy. However <a href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/islamic_manuscripts.html">this website</a> makes me think that as soon as you start throwing letters around without really understanding what they mean you cannot help but imply a practice of alchemy, bad alchemy that is...</div>
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Never thought about the connection between the crescent moon and the ouroboros...Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-19581641458196275332013-05-29T08:04:00.000-07:002014-03-01T08:17:49.576-08:00Selected Sketches <br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><b>In the process of writing my book I generally have a few thematic concerns from around which I generate imagery. From this imagery I then generate text. This is a particular piece of text I liked, but I'm not sure I'm going to include.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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The darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You are not dreaming<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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You are reading a book</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You fall asleep
while reading a book <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">imagine waking
thousands of years later <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">would you
finish reading the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Imagine falling asleep reading a
book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You awake a thousand years later<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You look at the book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Byblos is directly and tangibly associated with the history of the diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet (on which humanity is still largely dependent today), See above two examples of this diffusion on one sign. Two for the price of one!</div>
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The scribes of Byblos developed an alphabetic phonetic script, the precursor of our modern alphabet. By 800 B.C., it had traveled to Greece, changing forever the way humans communicated. the earliest form of the Phoenician alphabet found to date is the inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram. Found in Byblos, in fact.</div>
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<br />Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-61094103263351365332013-05-23T05:29:00.000-07:002014-02-28T05:56:16.677-08:00Train from the pastThis photo was emailed to me by a Frenchman named Ludo on the 14th of May 2013. I met him when I was in beirut gathering up material for my book that was sort of about that place and sort of a book.<br />
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Ludo loved ruins, he had traveled to Bosnia, Belfast, Berlin in search of ruins. He said he worked for the UN or was a photographer or both or was one and wanted to be the other. I'm not sure<br />
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He was not meant to take this photo, he took it in secret while our guide was not looking. <br />
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Here is an email I sent about the trip to the train station<br />
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I tried to go to the old train station to take photos, but they told me in order to do so I would have to fill in a form pay 1000 LL and wait 5 days,
So instead me and a frenchman just had a walk around with a guide who spoke french but no english<br />
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He wasn't really a guide, he just worked for the railways. Arounds arounds abouts,
There are no plans for any trains to arrive or depart cos there isn't anywhere for them to go.<br />
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He did know some english like "train" and and "go to"
he said 'no photo' a few times. Found out the railways employs 2000 people here.<br />
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There are no trains that work there are only bits of rails, bits pointing to what was palestine, pointing in the direction of syria. Everything is rusty and full of holes, everyone is at their desks in the offices. One man was sleeping.Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-58143338501999763392013-05-21T16:49:00.000-07:002015-03-14T10:11:45.364-07:00Lebanon - Batroun <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The batroun projects is an art space where I stayed for a few nights, I entered and left the house through a window. The house was being looked after by a small Syrian man and his family, we had a few confusing conversations and he gave me some coffee.<br />
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ABOVE: is the type of strange concrete block-like almost Soviet type building you get in a lot of places in Lebanon. This type of building is a reflection of the pre-Civil War direction of things, centralised, big and planned a bit broken, the direction never fulfilled.<br />
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LEFT: Ancient doorway with broken glass, in the old town part of Batroun.<br />
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Pebble beach in Batroun, complete with Ottoman leftovers</div>
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These are the type of buses that take you up and down the length of lebanon. you stand at the side of the motorway waiting for one to approach you on the hard shoulder then you shout your destination at them. they either stop and let you in or if they're not going to that destination they drive on without acknowledging you. On the bus back from batroun I met a guy with a big bushy beard and the type of internationalist American accent that lots of the young Lebanese seem to have when speaking english. he started complaining about his country in the way many young Lebanese people do, however his particular brand of astonishment was very entertaining.<br />
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He told me about the port of beirut, how nobody knows what goes on in there, nobody knows what it does. "Is that where the money comes from?"<br />
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"Look at these cars, families are selling their land so their sons and daughters can have these cars. Other families are buying these cars for their sons and daughters with money from where, where did the money come from? - nobody knows, really nobody can be sure"</blockquote>
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He also complained about the malls, countless air-conditioned shopping palaces everywhere in Beirut.<br />
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" these malls, they have all got absolutely stupid names, but there all the same. people attend the opening of a these malls, what for? Another place which offers you exactly the same experience as the other place - only this experience is a new experience, but still the same? my family are happy because I'm not like the other young people, but sometimes a bit confused by the beard, sometimes they say, look at him, he is an intellectual with his beard" </blockquote>
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When I sat down next to him he was in the middle of revising equations. He is studying engineering, this is the career path these parents thought he should take, he said it was boring. He lives with his girlfriend, and has opened a cafe with her in Hamra, the cafe is named after a character from a play written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran">Khalil Gibran.</a> ( He wrote the book, the Prophet, the most widely known book written by a writer from Lebanon, maybe the whole region ) His parents don't really ask him too many questions about his private life, and he does not tell them. His girlfriend is from Italy.<br />
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I mentioned offhand that his accent was quite American expecting him to spend some time there, he was surprised by this because he's never been to America. I can't really tell the difference between the international American accent, and one that just sort of been acquired through time spent there.<br />
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He then went on a tirade about young Lebanese people pretending to be sophisticated in these malls with their silly french names;<br />
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"They speak French not out of any practicality but in some sort of ridiculous display in order to appear sophisticated, but they can't even speak French. I don't speak French and even I can tell that they don't even speak French. They speak this crazy version of French which has nothing to do with the original language or the place they live in. And when they speak Arabic or English they put on this stupid fake French accent - I don't understand why they do this"</blockquote>
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The man in the bird shop wanted to know where I came from, then he wanted to talk to me about terrorism. After this he wanted to talk about art.<br />
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ABOVE AND BELOW: The old centre of Beirut has been completely renovated, this renovation is an absolutist reflection of the new way of doing things. This new way of doing things is a wholehearted reliance on unrestrained capitalism as a bringer of both internal stability and national wealth. it was all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafic_Hariri">Rafic Hariri</a> idea, before somebody blew him up. still nobody is sure who blew him up. </div>
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The whole centre district is now privately owned, mainly by Saudi's, and controlled by private security guards, if they don't like the way you look you're not coming in. This has led to a perception amongst locals that part of the city, a city that has only just been reconstructed has now been sold off. The people of the city do not own the centre. </div>
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In the reconstruction of the Central district they use lots of old stone to do the renovation, on the surface it's very complimentary, from a distance it looks like it makes sense. however a more detailed inspection exposes a corporate soullessness to the place, that feels a bit like a reanimated corpse or maybe a wax dummy. </div>
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<br />Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-10855693501593280532013-05-16T12:39:00.000-07:002014-02-28T06:02:57.867-08:00Illustrate digital media in new book - another list<br />
I wrote these ideas down today for the book i'm going to produce about my lebanon trip<br />
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Illustrate digital media within text almost as portraits of screen grabs. Bringing reading in focus when utilized. The reader does not expect to see a drawing of the digital familiar.</blockquote>
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Draw Internet Explorer, drawn YouTube, draw an e-mail. unexpected imagery, useful jolting point in narrative.</blockquote>
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Dual narrative interplay? </blockquote>
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Upside down text in sections? - </blockquote>
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Play with the idea of language, wight in English from right to left, as in Arabic script. Utilise Arabic script. </blockquote>
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Talk about Byblos and the Phoenicians discuss whether or not they made it all the way up the way to Cornwall. ( because of the tin mines) I like this idea. </blockquote>
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Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-31977697979232751442013-05-16T02:53:00.000-07:002014-02-28T06:01:44.125-08:00DO ANDROIDS DREAM IN TECHNICOLOR? <div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021224091445.htm">Interesting article about the study of dreams</a></div>
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In this article about <a href="http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/DreamB&W.pdf">this paper</a> by a philosophy professor from the University of California, the idea is put forward that the notion that we dream in black and white was influenced by the media of the time that the studies were taking place, a time primarily of black-and-white moving image and television.</div>
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Recent studies have concluded that sometimes we may dream in colour. The paper puts forward the possibility that dreams are neither colored nor black and white, that applying either of these categories is misleading.</div>
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"I advocate the view that we don't know our own experiences nearly as well as we think we do. I have advocated this position not only for dreams, but also for auditory experience and for visual imagery"</blockquote>
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"If one is reading the novel quickly, one may not have time to piece together a completely colored scene in one’s imagination. It does not seem that my imagination, at least, is that rich, that novels play before my mind with all the details of a color movie. If you find yourself disinclined to think that novels, or the images evoked by novels, are properly described as being either in black and white or in full color,then you might likewise find yourself hesitant to apply the terms ‘black and white’ or ‘colored’ to dreams." </div>
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Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-12364468960263479302013-05-08T06:34:00.000-07:002014-02-28T06:02:11.756-08:00Cornish Tin <b>Here is a bit of text where i'm playing with the relationship between Cornwall and Lebanon via the phoenician alphabet and tin; </b><br />
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I am not in Cornwall I am one hundred thousand years old,<br />
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This sentence is part of a simulation.<br />
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They came here and bought tin from the Cornish. The Cornish were all completely mad because there thoughts were without form.<br />
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Darkness was over the face of the deep.<br />
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Because the phonectians used their alphabet to detail the tin they bought from the Cornish, this made the Cornish sane.<br />
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Sane by association.<br />
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It was a hundred years before reaching the Cornish tin that scribes of Byblos developed an alphabetic phonetic script, the precursor of our modern alphabet. By 800 B.C., it had travelled to Greece, changing forever the way humans communicated.<br />
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Nearly all alphabets in the world today either descend directly from this development or were inspired by its design.<br />
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This happened because of proto capitalism or capitalism*<br />
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*This sentence is also a part of the simulation although there is some absolute truth in this.<br />
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Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-15333015988728206672013-05-08T03:21:00.000-07:002014-02-28T05:57:26.274-08:00SYRIA august 2012 <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;"> I took this quote from an <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-un-leaves-syria-to-its-bloody-fate-8060088.html">article </a>by Robert Fisk from August 2012, along with a few lines from Genesis this is one of the pieces of text that my concertina book keeps referring back to, if not necessarily directly quoting each time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;">Syrians in Damascus speak with increasing freedom about the chances of the regime's survival, openly debating Bashar's victory or defeat in cafés and restaurants. <span style="background-color: yellow;">All know that just a few miles outside the capital, a dark zone begins, a land – thousands of square kilometres of it – in which terrible deeds are taking place hourly.</span> The main highways north have been cut and phone lines to Aleppo have largely collapsed; most travellers choose to fly to the city from Damascus, even though the road from Aleppo airport to the city centre is itself dangerous. Syrian Arab Airlines' main ticket office in Damascus was packed with passengers yesterday, all seeking flights out of the country or pleading for overbooked seats for relatives on planes from Aleppo.</span></blockquote>
Vincent Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300490406291828380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228704981153737442.post-502592268324120692013-05-01T11:53:00.000-07:002014-02-28T05:52:08.974-08:00Lists <div class="tr_bq">
I want to be more clear about my preparations when creating work, so this time for my Lebanon project I will type out and publish all the lists I make when coming up with ideas. They can seem quite abstract so I'll try and explain what's going on if I can.</div>
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Next month my intention is to be in Lebanon, In one of my sketchbooks I was going through my head making connections between all the things I know about this place, looking for some sort of spark I can use as a starting point to focus the enquiry, my research, that will take place when I'm out there.<br />
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<b>THE PLACE</b> – what is a state? – why place? – perceptions of place – comparisons – education ( use Ann franks diary– the story of it being taken of curriculum in north Lebanon but not south ) </blockquote>
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<b>Falangists – Franco - accidental shooting – Spanish king - accidental hero</b></blockquote>
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King Juan Carlos of Spain, in the right place at the right time, accident of history became the man credited with moving Spain from fascism towards democracy.<br />
is also accidentally still entitled the King of Jerusalem , his French Bourbon ancestors having bought the title from Naples. The Duke of Naples being connected to the 1st Crusade. Accidentally shot and killed his brother when they were both teenagers. Accidentally fell off a horse when on a hunting trip in Africa, during Spain's current financial crisis. </blockquote>
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I could also bring to mind the day that the Palestinian liberation organisation left Beirut. They were ordered out in an agreement between the Israelis the Americans, the Lebanese and the Syrians. Despite this seeming defeat they celebrated it as a victory firing many gunshots into the air, so many in fact 4 people were killed when the bullets came back down. there were no apologies for this.</blockquote>
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The Spanish Phalangist ( fascist militia groups and ideology) having inspired their Lebanese counterparts. Phalangist named after a Roman defensive unit. names so, in most probability, to inspire recognition of the Phalangist as defenders of the Christian faith. </blockquote>
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Futility - fluidness of borders. </blockquote>
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<b>OFF Margins ? </b>- Europe - East<br />
Crusades – told in unexpected way<br />
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<b>Living in biblical times? </b> Make comparisons between the Civil War in Syria and the Crusades. Put people off assumptions about East versus West. Show in book the reader that the Middle East and Europe are always intricately connected. </blockquote>
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W<b>e are all Europeans thus we are all romans thus we are Byzantines. </b> </blockquote>
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<b>We are all Germans, the Germans are to the Romans but what the Turks are to the Byzantines. </b> </blockquote>
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<b>We are all turks? </b> </blockquote>
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<b>Turkish fiefdoms defended and liberated the Middle East from the European Crusaders. </b></blockquote>
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This is King Juan Carlos apologising to the people of Spain for falling off an elephant while shooting at animals in Africa. </blockquote>
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