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8 of Phones - the Latest, the Greatest
Jan. 6th, 2013 05:56 pmThe thing about patience is - patience is its own reward.
Years ago I would say to Agatha, while we waited in line or did some other tedius thing, something that required inner calm, I said - "Use your patience." Still say that actually, but she was small. "What's patience?"
"Patience is when you wait for something and are glad to wait."
It's not exactly true that that is what patience is - I mean, dictionary-wise. It is true, maybe inexact.
Did you know this is the anniversary of this project? I've been doing this for a year since last winter when I picked up some brushes and watercolors and decided from nowhere that I'd make a magical journey into myself and try and make art and magic and learning all at once.
I think this one kind of sums up some of my learning - you know- what it is I've discovered about things.
Some of that was already known, innate or subliminally you understand - but now I have a better capacity to know what I'm on and on about. Not quite the facility to explain, otherwise I wouldn't have to go on and on you understand.
We went to Panini's for lunch because she insisted, I don't know why, but that's her preference. Football on TV and I think about that - how do you interpret this in different contexts? Religious? You can look at the teams, the ritual of the sunday game, the advertising and the pageant of it all as being Mass, or some other service - sure it is, it's even got the gift-offering request. There's a building of social bonds... It does come up short in many ways - the narrow ethical values that are in football - it's fine, it's just not exactly religious.
Or look at it analytically. Science-wise, cynically? Maybe. You've got a vast advertising juggernaut - you've got rapt attentive viewers and they're being sold and sold and catered to and the popular vision of reality is being reinforced - the cultural identity is being religiously enforced - because analytically - you can include things like religion - since you understand it analytically. So you think - why do they all believe so strongly in teams? Belief- you find it and have no context for explaining it.
Then you can look at it like a magician. See - popularly I think the magician, like Levi says - is supposed to be a bridge between the divine and the scientific - but I feel that's a mistake. It's a good cursory explanation sure, and it's a strong seller - because it's hard to give a lot of attention to my perspective. So you watch football, there's this performance - how much of that is innate and how much is a process that is carried out to bring about a non-intuitive result? Do you sit in a certain way or say specific words- actions, carried out with INTENTION that are not obviously related to results - that's the incantation, get it? That's the mystical effort that's carried out. The actors in the commercials- they're the real story - they're carrying out the performance and it has this whole external effect that's completely disassociated with their personal intentions - isn't that weird? The actors in the commercials, they probably want some fame and some money - and they might even want to be actors acting - and their pereformance has all of these ancillary results - because there's a lack of intentionality. Well - no, that's not why, and causal relationships are irrelevant to magicians - it's that there is a performance of a specific behavior - an intentional performance that is supposed to bring about a result.
What I'm saying is that football as a metaphor is really not going anywhere for me because I don't like football.
Anyway - this is the 8 of Phones - Next Year's model. This card, this image, all the versions of this image - they're sort of boring, sort of perfunctory. The story is- you have all these phones - going back, back to the dawn of your vocal capacity - and they get better and better as time goes by. Because you've waited, and were happy to wait, you are rewarded. That's the idea - something like waiting the 6 months to buy the newest model iPhone at half the price as it's launch price - patience is rewarded. What's coming to you is coming, the future is in its place - don't rush it, but expect it.
Years ago I would say to Agatha, while we waited in line or did some other tedius thing, something that required inner calm, I said - "Use your patience." Still say that actually, but she was small. "What's patience?"
"Patience is when you wait for something and are glad to wait."
It's not exactly true that that is what patience is - I mean, dictionary-wise. It is true, maybe inexact.
Did you know this is the anniversary of this project? I've been doing this for a year since last winter when I picked up some brushes and watercolors and decided from nowhere that I'd make a magical journey into myself and try and make art and magic and learning all at once.
I think this one kind of sums up some of my learning - you know- what it is I've discovered about things. Some of that was already known, innate or subliminally you understand - but now I have a better capacity to know what I'm on and on about. Not quite the facility to explain, otherwise I wouldn't have to go on and on you understand.
We went to Panini's for lunch because she insisted, I don't know why, but that's her preference. Football on TV and I think about that - how do you interpret this in different contexts? Religious? You can look at the teams, the ritual of the sunday game, the advertising and the pageant of it all as being Mass, or some other service - sure it is, it's even got the gift-offering request. There's a building of social bonds... It does come up short in many ways - the narrow ethical values that are in football - it's fine, it's just not exactly religious.
Or look at it analytically. Science-wise, cynically? Maybe. You've got a vast advertising juggernaut - you've got rapt attentive viewers and they're being sold and sold and catered to and the popular vision of reality is being reinforced - the cultural identity is being religiously enforced - because analytically - you can include things like religion - since you understand it analytically. So you think - why do they all believe so strongly in teams? Belief- you find it and have no context for explaining it.
Then you can look at it like a magician. See - popularly I think the magician, like Levi says - is supposed to be a bridge between the divine and the scientific - but I feel that's a mistake. It's a good cursory explanation sure, and it's a strong seller - because it's hard to give a lot of attention to my perspective. So you watch football, there's this performance - how much of that is innate and how much is a process that is carried out to bring about a non-intuitive result? Do you sit in a certain way or say specific words- actions, carried out with INTENTION that are not obviously related to results - that's the incantation, get it? That's the mystical effort that's carried out. The actors in the commercials- they're the real story - they're carrying out the performance and it has this whole external effect that's completely disassociated with their personal intentions - isn't that weird? The actors in the commercials, they probably want some fame and some money - and they might even want to be actors acting - and their pereformance has all of these ancillary results - because there's a lack of intentionality. Well - no, that's not why, and causal relationships are irrelevant to magicians - it's that there is a performance of a specific behavior - an intentional performance that is supposed to bring about a result.
What I'm saying is that football as a metaphor is really not going anywhere for me because I don't like football.
Anyway - this is the 8 of Phones - Next Year's model. This card, this image, all the versions of this image - they're sort of boring, sort of perfunctory. The story is- you have all these phones - going back, back to the dawn of your vocal capacity - and they get better and better as time goes by. Because you've waited, and were happy to wait, you are rewarded. That's the idea - something like waiting the 6 months to buy the newest model iPhone at half the price as it's launch price - patience is rewarded. What's coming to you is coming, the future is in its place - don't rush it, but expect it.
