ah yes, quiet again. a bad combination for far too much to do at work and my home computer falling victim to the dread ibook logic board fault...(incidently apple computer's help desk is perhaps the least helpful on earth).
while i dwell on this twin unfairness:
the nicest thing i've seen of late: the lartigue exhibition at the hayward, a whole life in photographs and the loveliest catalogue i've brought in a long time. theres this marvelous sense in his very early work (and it is very early, he was given a camera at the turn of the century at the age of about five) of someone involved in photograph before it was an art and before he himself had any idea that such an art might have rules.
the best thing i'm reading: i shall bear witness, victor klemperer's diaries 1933 - 1945. its astonishing the speed of the advancement of the nazis, the confidence with which they set about corrupting germany. the diaries start with hitlers 'election' and its only a few pages in before he says "we talked of politics but not much, as the windows were open". i've been reading the book he wrote from notes kempt in the diary 'the language of the third reich', it's both touching and chilling (and occasionally very funny) about the subversion of language by politics.
soon i shall have time and a working computer and the ability to get bad photography from nice new camera phone onto the site.
Posted by flambingo at July 12, 2004 05:47 PM | TrackBack