“Most of what gets labeled “entertainment” is really terrible. We get the entertainment we deserve. To me, being entertained is having your mind engaged with the work of art on multiple levels. So I think a lot of what gets passed off as entertainment really does not qualify for that definition. It’s merely diverting at most.
To be entertained by something is in turn to entertain it, like you entertain ideas, a kind of mutuality there that I think is part of my definition of “entertainment,” that you’re giving back to the work at the same time the work is giving to you.
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Plate No 48 from the “Yesterday’s Sandwich” series © Boris Mikhailov
“This image was part of a series I put together in 2006 called Yesterday’s Sandwich, in which two pictures from the past were combined. My friends have been superimposed over a photograph of a poster I saw in town at that time. I don’t remember what it was for, but it was probably advertising a demo or an important communist, as all posters at that time were ideological. Valera is holding the racket like a fighter bearing a sword. That’s why the shot reminds me of the final verse of my favourite Oscar Wilde poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. I think of it as my poem:
And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
For me, everything started with this shot. I felt like an artist for the first time in my life.” - Boris Mikhailov
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Boris Mikhailov - Yesterday’s Sandwich
(via Berenice Abbott A retrospective | Le Journal de la Photographie)
Motif d’interférence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1961 Épreuve gélatino-argentique contrecollée sur masonite14 x 56 cm Graphics Ltd. Inc. © Berenice Abbott
The Idea Dictates Everything
A David Lynch speech circa 2005 captured and illustrated by John Hoffman :: via monkeyfeather.blogspot.ca
“That’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears.”
“Art allows us to expand the dimensions of our everyday life.”
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“We’re in a cultural moment that prizes artisanal, small-batch, hand-cranked everything, and when it comes to art and technology – already a dicey intersection – plenty of folks are pining for old-timey, nuts-and-bolts craftsmanship, even if they’ve never experienced it firsthand and aren’t prepared for all the work it takes to actually achieve. For whatever reason — the acceleration of culture, the odd loneliness of a virtually lived life, skyscrapers, cubicles, the decline of manual production — we’re collectively nostalgic for “simpler times” (of course, the notion that life’s ever been simple is probably humanity’s wildest and most self-perpetuating cultural con). We want our art to reflect that foggy longing; what we don’t want, necessarily, is an actual backwards slip.”
