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Danielle Adair — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:26:51 +0000

What’s the writing on your wall?

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self-identified

Danielle Adair — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:32:42 +0000

Artist Michael Asher, a pioneer of the Institutional Critique mode, defines art as this:

Art is work done by artists.

In contemporary time, when an art product cannot necessarily be defined by gallery space, temporality, means, or end, Asher’s definition is accommodating. I wonder whether you think the corollary is true of writing: Writing is work done by writers.  

What is some writing you admire by someone not considered or self-identifying as a writer?

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Post-It

Danielle Adair — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:34:58 +0000

In college I learned about Patient H M. Two Fridays ago I watched his brain be dissected. Patient H M, who, in his twenties, lost his ability to form memories, died this December 1st. His brain was immediately flown across the country to a lab of research students ready to undertake what amounted to a 53-hour procedure at UC San Diego. The slicing was broadcast over livestream. I sneaked peeks at it while at my desk job – muted my music when I did. One camera focused on the slicing, another on some lab equipment and a third was a wide shot of the space. At first, watching the slicing of the brain was profoundly inconsequential, like a successful gulp of too much water. With no music, later, like watching someone wipe a kitchen counter from the vantage of another room. During the occipital lobe, toward the end of the surgery, a hand appeared in the upper right frame and put a Post-It on the lab equipment – “STAN GETZ”. (No screen shot, mea culpa). Nodding. Yes, I would have rather liked to imagine everyone in the lab listening to Biz Markie or something. Second thought: At college again, a leading research biologist gives our graduation address and says the thing that my hippie parents argue long afterward, the only thing impressed on my memory of the speech to this day, it has been found most people’s music tastes stop evolving after their twenties, that most continue through their life listening to the same music they listened to around that time. Twenty…

In appreciation of Twenty Favorites and all the music posts at Big Other of late, online dissections and empirical studies, I ask you,

How has your taste in the music you listen to while writing evolved?

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Letterpress

Danielle Adair — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:04:41 +0000

Next time you need something printed in SoCal… Aardvark Letterpress: this place is like a mini museum. I stumbled upon it a few blocks from my apartment this weekend. In the words of Richard Harrison, “MacArthur’s Park”.

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Collaborations

Danielle Adair — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:51:27 +0000

I just saw this:

And thought of this:

What kinds of collaborations are you involved in these days?

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