Remember bag-man

I was wrong when I thought I saw a bag lady's possessions under the bridge head of Staatsbrücke. It's a gentleman and he's fighting darkness in his unique way: he started gardening last summer saving the little donations of passers-by for new plants and seeds.

Hopefully he has a warm place to stay in cold winter nights!

Loop-di-doo

"Infinity in a finite object" …?

Now, with the blog theorist gone on a sabbatical,

the blogwart still trying to link (Lacan's) jouissance to Candle in the wind,

while trying to disperse any far-fetched associations to "Life is hard and then you die" (see below on the blog),

while holding back the the tears 'cause for reasons unknown The Righteous Brothers' "You've lost that loving feeling" came to his inner ear,

with the sound technician working on a re-loop of some of Neil Young's greatest guitar feedback (Arc / Weld, and more) tracks – and somewhere, in the back of his head, someone in an unknown audience is screaming 'Tar Babies', strange, but true,

and the back office crew once again in a meeting or gone fishing (one in a synthetic fur coat, one took an ice-pick along to the frozen lake),

wemo practicing his tractor skills as a 4-year old,

gaffers, riggers a.s.f. applied, but were never called back,

sadly, there's no-one around to comment this incredible screen-shot except for the blogger's knee, but, alas once more, that never has been very outspoken …

The photograph on this post is best looped – correction: viewed! – on a Mac with Mac OS X 10.4

in brushed aluminum design.

As so very often, nobody will accept any responsibility for the external links on this post.

Letzte Meldung:

Während wir die Ausdünnung unseres Blogteams bedauern, hat sich ein junger, vorwiegend deutschsprachiger Praktikant bei uns gemeldet, dzt möchte er noch anonym bleiben.

Vom blogwart freundlichst begrüsst, sei er doch ein Student von Klaus Theweleit in Freiburg, mit einem interessanten Diss-Thema:

'Anti-Ödipus verlinkt. Der Blogger und das Internet als Wunschmaschine.' –

Hm, zumindest der blogwart findet das interessant und schickt dem blog theorist gerade ein SMS.

Die back-office-crew fand ihn 'vielversprechend, aber verwirrt', und hat zur Sicherheit eine Flasche Wein aufgemacht.

Der Sound technician wiederum legt etwas Albert Ayler auf, altes Vinyl, was weiß ein Fremder, und das mag er wieder, der Jungspund. Naja, mal sehen. Wir sind da nicht so!

Wer hat das jetzt hingeschrieben – wo doch außerm Knie keiner mehr da ist?

Hard surfaces

"Life is hard and then you die."

Just a quote – from 1980s (?) band It's Immaterial. Nothing to do with anyone round here.

Says the blogwart.

Granter

For a better 2011

Went over my photo archive from last year, and it looks slightly barren, just 1177 photographs, not even a hundred per month? Not the wemo we used to know. And long, long intermissions on the blog. Just too much work on the job, and hardly any restful early mornings driving with time for a sunrise to be shot and enjoyed.

So, here's to a better 2011!

Thanks to a few friends who got worried and helped me get off that workaholic nightmare.

Happy new year, v.2

After seeing those season's greetings below somebody in the blog team got the screaming fits: "What about winter as it used to be, what about my tractor and the little snow plough of the olden, golden days?!"

There we are. Happy new year!

Phew; that was close. It's heartbreaking to see a competent adult turn into a little kid that's so terribly in need, of something so easy to get. It just takes someone to do it. Luckily this is a big multiple personality blog team, there's always somebody helpful around.

Season's greetings once again, from wemo, from the nasty lads of the back office crew,

from the sound technician who's just piping in Over the rainbow,

from the blogwart who's trying to relate Candle in the wind to Lacan's jouissance,

and they're all not a big happy family, but humans in all their need and distress,

and a feel for the needy – and with just a few simple means to help

when it's needed, and the awareness to stand back

when it's due.

"Let's hope it's a good one!" – 2011, c_Human rights, human needs, & human awareness

for all the good-willing

Happy New Year! – and an announcement

With the blog theorist currently on a sabbatical – for his ground-breaking study on Multiple Blog Personality Disorder Syndrome (wonder why he took so many notes round here recently?) – well, for the moment we'll have to miss out on his little lecture that would have been due right here & now: 'Auto-referentiality in post-modernism 2.0 and the doppelganger motif in German Black Romanticism in the light of Jacques Lacan's concept of the 'Real' as opposed to traditional symbolic theories and their concept of the Sublime'.

Once he's back, we'll love to get that slim 2 hour tour package to a theater near you!

Got a sneak preview of his manuscript: barely 200 footnotes there, easy stuff, yet enlightening, especially with his newly developed multi media presentation system.

As a little preparation work you might just brush up your Lacan: still familiar with the concepts of the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic – jouissance?

As for the practical applications you might just want to re-read Slavoi Zizek's 5 volumes on Lacanian analysis of Hitchcock movies; then work out your questions for the discussion: it will be mostly on the implications of web 2.0 for the theory of the Imaginary, and why Schubert's 'Doppelgänger' was a predecessor of the discussion of identity and loss in The Matrix.

Sheet music will be available at the doors!

Come to think of it: it might just add that extra something to your enjoyment/jouissance, if you also read wemo's thesis on Matrix beforehand; it's based on an unreleased editor's cut that was destroyed by the production company's law firm shortly afterwards. wemo was slightly injured in the incident, and a doppelganger of the film editor has been haunting some 50.000 copies of Gibson's Neuromancer ever since. The effect is especially gruesome in the e-book versions; watch out before download!

wemo's thesis available at Salzburg University Press, Salzamt division, 500p., € 250.00 or $ 325.00 incl. VAT, postage and packaging not included.

I'll just take it for granted that you're familiar with Kant's three Critiques, those two compact volumes of Deleuze's theory on cinema, and Karl Sierek's theory of the visual paradigm as developed in passing in his analysis of Blade Runner, a lot of basics there in that little essay, not to be missed; – you're with me, aren't you?

There will be handouts in Sanskrit, for reasons to become clear during the lecture (it's got to be about Zen and the perception of 'reality', hasn't it? Just an educated guess there; let's see).

All set? Then: Happy New Year! Signed Mister Mister, blogwart