contamination

This makes me think about what I read once:
“The film actor,” wrote Pirandello, “feels as if in exile – exiled not only from the stage but also from himself. With a vague sense of discomfort he feels inexplicable emptiness: his body loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice, and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence .... The projector will play with his shadow before the public, and he himself must be content to play before the camera.” This situation might also be characterized as follows: for the first time – and this is the effect of the film – man has to operate with his whole living person, yet forgoing its aura. For aura is tied to his presence; there can be no replica of it. The aura which, on the stage, emanates from Macbeth, cannot be separated for the spectators from that of the actor. However, the singularity of the shot in the studio is that the camera is substituted for the public. Consequently, the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays.”
Excerpt from Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
(http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm)

creative destruction

Long live creative destruction!

1.25 AM

Mac you pulled me from my deepest sleep thankgod without an image this time (gentlemen prefer blondes) after that I went to work an early shift the golden age suffering from heart and lung shit happens all the time where was my consent plenty of sound and smell at work and nothing a few teardrops can't wash away
Beth

Bernard

Thanks for this quote.