What does it feel like to see the world as a materialist, to believe (sorry, to “know”) that you are always, at every second of your single random lucky dice existence, one breath away from nonexistence? Sometimes, in the spirit of play, I try this on for a day or two. I’m never able to move in, but I do enjoy an occasional visit. It sharpens things.
I have no idea if this still works, or why anyone would want to make use of it, but here it is. If you are really, truly lonely or bored, and just want someone, anyone to talk to you – and aren’t particular – this used to be foolproof. I know from personal experience that […]
I recently had what William Wordsworth called a “spot of time.” A moment when perception happens through some imaginative faculty you didn’t know you had. Something you have no name for turns and cracks and you suddenly, briefly “know” reality as if you’ve just made an exciting new friend. I know the phrase is from […]
Reified thought is the enemy of humanity. The chaos of heaven is within you. Play.
You’ve probably never heard of Linds Redding. He was an art director who spent his life creating advertisements for other people’s products. Then he died. He was 52. Shortly before his death from esophageal cancer, he wrote a blog piece called “A Short Lesson in Perspective.” If you aspire to work in a creative industry […]
Why is it, whenever I hear Tony Banks’s keyboard riff at 9:09 – 9:16 on “Supper’s Ready” on Genesis’s Foxtrot (released UK Charisma 1972), I get an image of Dam Square and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam (Paleis op de Dam) back when it was the city hall? De Dam in Amsterdam (c. 1670-75) Gerrit […]
