tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379559946315730502023-06-20T14:21:35.359+01:00G U Y D A R TA log of cicerone's journeys, hypertextual musings, delvings and derangements.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-84217937342174611732008-01-21T21:07:00.000+00:002008-01-21T21:30:48.470+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: Twenty Two / PausedCicerone pauses to consider outcomes and eventualities. <a href="http://www.liminalgroup.org/newsroom/flux/nr">Events</a>/<a href="http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs80s/83deval2.php#21">Dualities</a>. Bipolar actions, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switcher">switchers</a>. They would be digital, binary.<br /><br />Like, when you're on you're on<br />and<br />when you're off you're off,<br />but if you are somewhere in between you are possibly nowhere at all, or in an image of <a href="http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-13/welcome-to-nowhere.html">nowhere</a>, trapped between <a href="http://www.somewhere.org.uk/">somewhere</a> and <a href="http://www.somewhere-else-magazine.co.uk/">somewhere else.</a><br /><br />You can try to interpolate, animate, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/34oklb">reanimate</a>, reactivate. Or <a href="http://taylorhobynum.com/applications/wordpress/?p=20">take it to the bridge</a>, to the edge, to the max.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-57889537879489280432008-01-20T16:57:00.000+00:002008-01-20T17:21:55.837+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: Twenty OneCicerone is a hunter, tracking an elusive prey. What he wants to capture is:<br />Not the thing, but the shadow of the thing,<br />Not the thing, but the reflection of the thing,<br />Not the thing, but the echo of the thing.<br /><br />He is searching for displacements, distortions, filtered representations, <a href="http://www.process-one.de/en/Methods/Methods/Decontextualisation.html">decontextualisations</a>. He attempts to record a change of <a href="http://www.umsl.edu/%7Efraundorfp/noncoord.html">velocity</a> in time, or a change of <a href="http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/motion/space.html">velocity</a> in space. Maybe they are the same thing. He is riding on a <a href="http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html">jet stream</a>, buffeted by western boundary currents, a turbulent cruise through the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere">stratosphere</a>.<br /><br />He is looking for the <a href="http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html">appearance</a> of the thing, not the thing itself. What is an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbuMi5N97c">appearance</a> may be true or fictitious. He finds a formulation that says that the Apparent is True plus Fictitious: A = T+F. It seems to <a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600">make sense</a>, when most things have <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/09/16/sense/">stopped</a> making sense.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-64433133416745271702008-01-19T20:11:00.000+00:002008-01-20T16:43:41.514+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: TwentyCicerone is locked into a private audio space and he is making a journey that has the provisional title "true/false". These are the places on his itinerary:<a href="http://audiversity.com/2007/11/burial-untrue.html"> Untrue</a>, a place where he looks for The <a href="http://www.lyricsdepot.com/roxy-music/the-bogus-man.html">Bogus</a> Man who is mixed up in a Shining <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYKDWmpYxs">Dub.</a> We must <a href="http://www.warholstars.org/filmch/sleep.html">Sleep</a>, Eat <a href="http://www.slowfood.com/">Food</a>, Have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Tet">Visions </a>and avoid getting <a href="http://kode9.blogspot.com/">Stung</a> On <a href="http://isthistomorrow.com/2005/beefheart2.html">Tomorrow</a> in the <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/74189/La-Vallee/overview">Valley</a> of The <a href="http://www.rhis.co.uk/jmas/">Saroos.</a> Every Next <a href="http://ramadanman.com/">Day</a> our Simple <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeP-bJFg1bQ">Heart</a> needs <a href="http://www.visi.com/fall/">Protein</a> Protection from the<a href="http://www.alog.net/"> Son</a> Of King, to whom <a href="http://www.knunst.com/aplacetopray/interview/Aleister-Crowley-32KB.jpg">Aleister</a> Explains <a href="http://www.shining.no/v1/discography.php">Everything</a> about a Scarlet <a href="http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/belburypoly.htm">Ceremony</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owFx_ZuRiww">Scarlet</a> Ribbons, Scarlet <a href="http://music.yahoo.com/track/732579">Ribbons</a>BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-59739185277717824732008-01-18T14:35:00.000+00:002008-01-18T14:56:06.877+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: NineteenCicerone thinks that it would be good to feel like never before, to experience the shock of the new, to be a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2008/jan/18/chess?picture=332121456">champion</a>, to create an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2008/jan/18/usa?picture=332118385">invention</a> that changed the world, that made the world go round a little faster. He thinks about bodies approaching dissolution or collapse, spinning into oblivion. Loss of balance, teetering, spasms and awkward or unlikely <a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/article321009.ece">movements</a>. Communication fragmented into a sequence of stylised freeze-frames, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPp7nq5YWiE">stroboscopic</a> vision of the social. Blink, blink again. Now you see it, now you don't.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-34928999960703666372008-01-18T13:39:00.000+00:002008-01-18T14:11:48.740+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: EighteenCicerone thinks about alphabets, languages, accents and <a href="http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/">dialects</a>, he thinks about <a href="http://communication-confusion.com/">communication and confusion</a>. He thinks about <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-Gibberish">how to speak</a>, or how to speak in the absence of grammar, for example. He thinks about problems that can arise if, for example, one were to try to speak the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lamjo">language of birds</a>, to explain the alphabet of <a href="http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/">clouds</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sunset/">sunsets</a>. He sits at a table. He is <a href="http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1013.html">sitting</a> in a room. He looks at a <a href="http://www.davidhallart.com/id3.html">television</a> and he thinks; this is a television. He writes a list that begins;<br />the grammar of <a href="http://victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/sawyer/notes/11in06.html">stones</a><br />the grammar of <a href="http://www.brantacan.co.uk/bridges.htm">bridges</a><br />the grammar of <a href="http://www.world-waterfalls.com/">waterfalls</a><br />the grammar of <a href="http://www.fourchimneysorganicwines.com/">chimneys</a><br />the grammar of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tdgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage">windows</a><br />the grammar of <a href="http://www.starling101.btinternet.co.uk/canals/lckworks.htm#">locks</a><br />the grammar of <a href="http://www.wicks.org/pulp/part1.html">postboxes</a><br /><br />the list continues.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-36280779942152238012008-01-17T13:49:00.000+00:002008-01-17T14:12:57.356+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: SeventeenCicerone says it is always like this, more or less. We are all here, we are waiting, we are watching. Electric eyes behind curtain glass walls of watchful <a href="http://www.automatedbuildings.com/news/jan02/art/hari/hari.htm">buildings</a>, a <a href="http://www.notbored.org/scp-maps.html">malignant</a> architecture, a social <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/biotech/organswatch/pages/cannibalism.html">cannibalism</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1110674">Mirror</a> wall to <a href="http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view517584.html">mirror</a> wall, a closed circuit dialogue. Echoes of human presence trapped between matrices of self-desiring screens. It's an <a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/e/eternity-box.html">eternity box</a>, a false infinity, a device for rendering the unreachable. It's a bounce-space, an image trampoline, an <a href="http://www.johnnyspencer.info/imagetexts16/doctorsatanechochamberWH.htm">echo chamber</a> of little horrors; horror of appearance and horror of disappearance. You need a black belt in click boxing, you click and tick the boxes to make the choices that fix your co-ordinates in the blink of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafarian_vocabulary#I_words">eye and eye</a> and eye.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-43754186324692630362008-01-16T14:46:00.000+00:002008-01-16T15:05:38.590+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: SixteenCicerone says: come on, <a href="http://www.metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/622/goods.asp">light</a> me up, enlighten me, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yWyBjDEaU">light my fire</a>, take me to your <a href="http://www.melafoundation.org/dream02.htm">dream house</a> and break another little <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-TR2tN9Mk">piece of my heart</a>. From <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohLAd6w4WU">penthouse</a> to pavement, it's a leap into the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bola/ho_1992.5112.htm">void</a>, a Klein-<a href="http://www.international-klein-blue.com/">blue</a> moment on the eve of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akoukq5DvAE">destruction</a>. Let me be your <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=662">demolition</a> man. Let me take your world apart to put it back together again; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinglish">same, same, but different</a>.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-6376226891821603232008-01-15T08:29:00.000+00:002008-01-15T10:57:45.411+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: FifteenCicerone thinks about a <a href="http://web.mac.com/jeremyjwelsh/remixit/one.html">remix</a> of the future and the future of the past.<br /><br />The future is not what it used to be but the future of the past can be rebranded in the present. Remade, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2acoul">remodelled</a>, retrofitted, retooled, remixed, whatever.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitarfacelift.com/home.htm">Facelifting</a> and image-morphing of urban blight. <a href="http://www.utopia.ru/english/">Utopian</a> architecture of high <a href="http://www.textetc.com/workshop/wa-high-modernist-1.html">modernism</a>, icons of a future society that became social problems of a recent past, faulty towers in grey <a href="http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/RMDZ/">development zones </a>of post industrializing cities, now repurposed as luxury nests for hedge fund operatives. Change the name , erase all traces of former occupancy, all traces of a vision of a future that never happened.<br /><br />The past was a bright light future, forged in <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,,563492,00.html">white heat</a>, white light, a <a href="http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/FILMS/awepi.html">velvet</a>-gloved iron fist of social programming. The past was the future, and the future becomes an inverse reflection of a vividly glowing past, or maybe not quite that, maybe a reflection of a reflection multiplied to infinity. Welcome to this <a href="http://www.parisdigest.com/monument/galeriedesglaces.htm">hall of mirrors</a>, welcome to the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2c2cdq">fun house</a>.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-62510416079872343232008-01-14T14:27:00.000+00:002008-01-14T14:52:20.034+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: FourteenCicerone might be a man with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_the_Movie_Camera">movie</a> camera, his <a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1859.html">kino</a> eye trained on a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bnm27">storyboard</a> that maps the space of a <a href="http://www.manovich.net/">database</a>, based on aesthetics of <a href="http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=133">disappearance</a> and re-<a href="http://www.recombinomics.com/News/09170702/H5N1_Guangdong_Ducks.html">emergence</a>. Vanishing <a href="http://www.houdinitribute.com/houdini.html">acts</a> and dramatic entrances. He has known for a long time that meaning in a given <a href="http://jci.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/306">cultural text</a> is not so much produced as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huT0R4deLB0&feature=related">post-produced</a> and he doesn't need to be curated into a set of arbitrary relations to understand the syntax of the creative act. His scripts and treatments are <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/don_letts/tracklisting_20080112.shtml">playlists</a> and <a href="http://www.remixtheory.net/">remixes</a>, dredged from the depths of memory, organic or silicate, to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_recombination">recombined</a> in a real-time stream of consciousness / reframed. Cicerone says it was always like this, nothing new, that there was maybe just no word for it earlier. So now he examines short intervals and points of contact on the circuit boards of geography, history, memory, encultured action. This is what it is like. It is like this. This is what it is, and has been, and will be.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-4367995215334148022008-01-13T09:48:00.000+00:002008-01-13T10:17:58.348+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: ThirteenCicerone wears a cloak of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow">shadows</a>; he is swathed in five <a href="http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/8.3/merchant.html">shades</a> of darkness. What matters is the dark, and the residues of light within it. Faint memories, echoes, that can be amplified, refined, brought back into the realm of the seen, the seeable. Buried <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2kax3w">dreams</a>, dreams of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hI4bSCy9iE">burial</a>, an archeology of faint whispers and forgotten promises, hovering like <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/millay/april/sa-wraith.html">wraiths</a> at the edges of becoming.<br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/guydart/AnAlmostRandomSelection/photo?authkey=Eq_j2o7eTJo#5154899963137414274"><img src="http://lh4.google.com/guydart/R4niNGN61II/AAAAAAAAA_o/k7O-ZcJQ3wU/s144/L1000821.JPG" /></a>BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-84772762819437372032008-01-12T14:26:00.000+00:002008-01-13T10:26:24.350+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: TwelveCicerone reckons these are <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/people/int_Singer_Marc_000830.html">dark days</a>, end times, scenes of disintegration recorded in grainy monochrome. An expanse of human flesh in dim<a href="http://jaywel.blogspot.com/"> </a><a href="http://jaywel.blogspot.com/">blue light</a>. Prone bodies, sleeping, or dead, maybe. Killing fields, dumping grounds, agony and ecstacy, a garden of <a href="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/bosch_ext.html">unearthly</a> delights. No fire burns, this hell hath frozen over. We <a href="http://www.sashacohen.com/photos/sashamilk.jpg">skate</a> over its glossy surface. The traces we leave etched in the ice are like <a href="http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/gardiner.html">heiroglyphs</a>; ironic, stubborn, resisting <a href="http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/sontag-againstinterpretation.html">interpretation</a>. And Cicerone says to himself "I want to be able to see what it is".<br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/guydart/AnAlmostRandomSelection/photo?authkey=Eq_j2o7eTJo#5154593736264176706"><img src="http://lh4.google.com/guydart/R4jLsWN61EI/AAAAAAAAA-c/KuAfYxnyStk/s144/P9220739.JPG" /></a>BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-84500839908991683582008-01-10T12:42:00.000+00:002008-01-13T10:27:59.708+00:00Cicerone´s Journeys: ElevenCicerone looks at a sign that says; <a href="http://www.lundskonsthall.se/utstallningar/jeg_vil.html">"</a><a href="http://www.lundskonsthall.se/utstallningar/jeg_vil.html">I Want To be Able To See What It Is</a><a href="http://www.lundskonsthall.se/utstallningar/jeg_vil.html">"</a>, and he wonders what that means. Is it possible to see what it is, or can he only see what it appears to be? Can what it appears to be, be what it is? Is this it? Is that all there is? <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" id="table1" bordercolorlight="#ECEBF1" bordercolordark="#E9DFD1" border="0" bordercolor="#c0c0c0" cellpadding="0" width="182"><tbody><tr><td height="19"><br /></td></tr><tr><td bordercolor="#C0C0C0"><br /></td></tr><embed src="http://lb.lyricsdownload.com/2/fla/2.2.swf?passid=1621188-17322405&p_varlista=1&ida=&colT=FFCC33&colF=111111&colL=EEEEEE&aphF=80&sizF=9&spdS=1&bkgI=insert%20url%20image&txtT=Is%20That%20All%20There%20Is?&themerq=1&themeLy=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="transparent" name="lyricsbox20" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="200" width="180"></embed><br /><br />There is a small <a href="http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/plambeckmaterial.html">table</a> (that once belonged to a retired doctor) on which a portable <a href="http://tv.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestions/f/ana_port_TV.htm">television</a> stands next to a <a href="http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-601/426-601.html">potted</a> plant. The tv can not be turned on and the plant has no need of water. The entire arrangement is something other than that which it appears to be. A <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions/">proposition</a>, maybe, or a challenge.<br /><br />Beyond the table/no table, a deep perspective; dark floorboards and heavy wooden beams, a claustrophobic architecture, with metal grilles and iron hooks. Suspended within this space he observes large numbers of dismembered and stuffed animals, like cast offs from a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ypv88q">museum</a> of natural history. In the distance, dimly lit, a small room in which hangs another ambiguous object, apparently part human, part animal. In its arms it holds a faceless and genderless <a href="http://www.mannequinmadness.com/">mannequin</a>. Cicerone thinks; that could be me, it could be anybody.</tbody></table>BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-16082184913583033232008-01-08T07:49:00.000+00:002008-01-08T08:18:19.224+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: TenCicrone says that <a href="http://www.moleseyhistory.co.uk/books/molesey/tm/tm_3.htm">history</a> is melting and <a href="http://proboscis.org.uk/lilt/index.html">geography</a> has liquefied. The only thing he can be sure of is that he is no longer <a href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/uncert/intrisk.htm">sure</a> of anything. No constants, but interpretation, narrative. The analytic becomes subsumed into a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2swqya">poetics</a> of spatial <a href="http://www.cyc.com/cycdoc/vocab/spatial-vocab.html">relations</a>. Have you heard the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/">news</a>, have you really <a href="http://resonancefm.com/schedule"><span style="font-style: italic;">heard</span></a> the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/">news</a>? The <a href="http://forums.gleemax.com/archive/index.php/t-838709.html">constructed</a> event, dramatised for the world stage, stage managed, promoted and marketed as the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewZdTmh13B4&feature=related">revenge</a> of the real, a space-bomb hurled into the fabric of time. <a href="http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm">Managed</a> time, boundaried time, <a href="http://timeshareownersblog.sellmytimesharenow.com/">time shared</a> and traded on a <a href="http://abc7.inklingmarkets.com/">futures</a> market that is past caring.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-77548557199737138892008-01-07T14:33:00.000+00:002008-01-07T14:56:50.230+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: NineCicerone could be a spooky DJ, a grinderman, a <a href="http://www.rhythmscience.com/">miller</a>, a granular <a href="http://music.calarts.edu/%7Eeric/gs.html">synthesist</a>, or a hooker's john, caged in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ypx3br">silence</a>, waiting for the sun.<br /><br />Cicerone was a knight under the reign of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yqworl">umbrella</a> makers, sheltering his riders from an iconoclastic storm. Because that knight belonged to lovers of flickering <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightlypaintedpixels/109568481/">shadows</a>, Cicerone guided his dream team through groves of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/25l2pc">incandescent</a> screens, <a href="http://moma.org/collection/conservation/pollock/shimmering_substance.html">shimmering</a> scenes, <a href="http://www.rialian.com/shape.htm">shape-shifting</a> wraiths morphed from primitive forms and <a href="http://www.3datelier.com/psychedelics.htm">acid</a> colours.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-19202829831789736492008-01-06T21:33:00.000+00:002008-01-06T22:01:15.600+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: EightCicerone says: "ARM THE DISENFRANCHISED HORDES OF <a href="http://www.zombiesoutside.com/pictures.html">IMAGE ZOMBIES</a>" Cicerone said "<a href="http://www.fgth.org.uk/">RELAX</a>, DON'T DO IT". Cicerone <a href="http://www.inblogs.net/bldgblog/2006/11/fault-whispers.html">whispers</a>; "Let me be your guide aboard this <a href="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/g/gericault/raft_of_the_medusa.jpg">raft</a> of a <a href="http://www3.baylor.edu/%7EScott_Moore/Seducer.html">seducer</a> that will glide you over the <a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Broken_Surface.html">broken surface</a> of the mirror of your desires. You may dive if you wish, dive deep into memory, to <a href="http://www.surfacemag.com/index.html">surface</a> again when time has stood still and the final scene is in the can."BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-58496863335277675432008-01-06T09:51:00.000+00:002008-01-06T10:24:14.308+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: SevenCicerone says: consider this a <a href="http://changedprioritiesahead.blogspot.com/2007/10/literacy-rocks.html">dramatic</a> dissonance or resonance, <a href="http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/packsViewSingle.php?id=2753">resonating</a> and <a href="http://reverberatehills.blogspot.com/">reverberating</a> in a <a href="http://www.massiveattack.co.uk/">massive</a> dub <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZJzbDItju4">space</a> where, just last night, a DJ saved your face from certain <a href="http://www.albanypowerexchange.com/Ds/humiliation.htm">humiliations</a>. When you get <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2233057,00.html">wrong-footed</a> on the dance floor you'll be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EEynvjfljU">walking</a> on the <a href="http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html">moon</a> before you know what time it is. It's time for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_painting">action</a>, it's time for <a href="http://www.fvumbrella.com/projectdetail.jsp?pid=334">painting</a> and you need some time to think: "Doctor, my head hurts, I need a pill to still the shrill drilling that is boring me to death, boring holes in my <a href="http://noosphere.princeton.edu/">consciousness</a>, my false <a href="http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/%7Edelittle/iess%20false%20consciousness%20V2.htm">consciousness</a>, my bad <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm">conscience</a>." Let Cicerone take you to his leaderboard and show you the ranking of riders on this storm of low-pressure signals, a barometric flux. He'll take you to the river and put you on a ferry to cross the merciless torrent of useless information that's supposed to fire your imagination but that only dulls your mental stimulation. No <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvcuaJy9OwI">satisfaction</a> guaranteed.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-81795563178160212182008-01-05T09:46:00.000+00:002008-01-05T18:20:12.901+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: SixCicerone thinks in frames and edits, loops and <a href="http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/">intervals</a>, layers and <a href="http://42explore.com/mask.htm">masks</a>. He cuts, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/">splices</a> and <a href="http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone">mixes</a> the elements that coalesce in <a href="http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/cmp/cmp.html">compounds</a> of precipitated meaning. He's a <a href="http://whomix.trilete.net/?wmid=subreadremixreviews&remixid=75">mix doctor</a>, which doctors the patient unravelling of <a href="http://archaeology.about.com/od/b4/fr/quilter.htm">narrative threads</a> that were <a href="http://noemata.anart.no/norgesveven/">woven</a> in webs and networks by <a href="http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/">spiders</a> from <a href="http://www.google.com/mars/">mars</a>. It's a <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html">war</a> of the worlds, a war of the words that tell you what to think and who to buy or sell. If you are branded or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCd_i7wW87Q">stranded</a> on a terminal <a href="http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/terminalbeach.htm">beach</a> by an ocean of <a href="http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/">indeterminacy</a>, let Cicerone be your principle <a href="http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/guided_tours/pantomime_tour/the_great_victorian_pantomime/boys.php">buoy</a>, your guide aboard a starcraft that will <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter">warpdrive</a> you to the Holy Woods beyond that land of nodding affirmation where opinions cluster around a totemic pole of dissociation; the meaning of the interval; a kind of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance">dissonance</a>.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-73145802135927863922008-01-04T10:15:00.000+00:002008-01-04T10:28:36.851+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: FiveCicerone is a <a href="http://www.monkinstitute.org/">monk</a>, <a href="http://www.jackbruce.com/revamp/html/menurevamp.html">jacked</a> up on info-speed, drip-fed data from a wired world. He's <a href="http://www.sherpastore.com/Google-eye-tracking.html">google-eyed</a> and <a href="http://dizzygillespie.org/">dizzy</a> with <a href="http://www.anjagarbarek.com/main.html">wonder</a> at the prospect of embarking on a tour of that <a href="http://sohodojo.com/ribs/mirror.html">mirror world</a> reflected in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxTl5Km_hbs">pool</a> of shared knowledge. He's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man">wicker</a> man, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki">wikiman</a>, a distributed entity, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound_%281945_film%29">spellbound</a> and cast in the role of interpretor.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-5369580783868505962008-01-03T10:34:00.000+00:002008-01-03T10:59:49.964+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: FourCicerone is a collector, hunting and gathering fleeting <a href="http://www.impressionism.org/">impressions</a> that are the folklore of a dissipating culture. He stakes his <a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/pitch.html">pitch</a> from here to here, from now to now, a <a href="http://www.speedysigns.com/decals/vinyl-decal-290207.htm">barker</a> harking back to vanished public fora where storytellers and <a href="http://jon.hedley.net/toys/soothsayer.cgi">soothsayers</a> built <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=429&storycode=3059576">architectures</a> of narrative upon which cultural heritage would rest. There's a thin red line running through his cabinet of <a href="http://www.acaseofcuriosities.com/">curiosities</a>, a thin red line like the laser sight of a guided missile, a semantic bomb that is smart enough to explode on impact with meaning. After the explosion the dust settles and Cicerone sifts through the debris looking for clues, making links, hoping to reconstruct a <a href="http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/8238.html">chain</a> of <a href="http://fluxuscentral.com/blog/?cat=5">events</a>. Once he finds out the <a href="http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/captain_beefheart/circumstances-lyrics-1199752.html">circumstances</a>, then he can go out and build <a href="http://anothereality.jankounen.com/anglais/index.html">another</a> reality, draw another map, tell another story, translate another text, illuminate another <a href="http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/illuminated/">manuscript</a>.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-60762949301192893082008-01-02T08:36:00.000+00:002008-01-02T09:01:06.113+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: ThreeCicerone's <a href="http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/">journeys</a> are constructs, relationally <a href="http://www.gairspace.org.uk/htm/bourr.htm">aestheticised</a> assemblages of <a href="http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/index.html">association</a>, steeped in a history of artful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSodM4pLGIs">manipulation</a>. Every <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/guydart/TourGuideNr173/photo#5086040532573887810">picture</a> tells a story, then another one, then another one. Every <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/guydart/TourGuideNr173/photo#5086040751617220066">picture</a> is a liar. Every <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/guydart/TourGuideNr173/photo#5086040592703430002">picture</a> is the truth, literally, transliterally, an alliterated accumulation of inferred narratives. Cicerone is the guide <a href="http://sami.is.free.fr/Oeuvres/debord_societe_spectacle_1.html">aboard</a> a tour <a href="http://www.intrepidtrips.com/">bus</a>, driving in <a href="http://windowseat.ca/circles/">circles</a> and <a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/lruby/art359/IMAGES/SPIRALJ.GIF">spirals</a> on a road to <a href="http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/nowhere">nowhere</a>, somewhere on or off a map that is drawn and redrawn in memory and song. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines">Lines</a> of <a href="http://www.nysonglines.com/">song</a>, lines of text, <a href="http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2807">white</a> lines that mark the road, <a href="http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/?route=RED">red</a> lines that are borders, thin lines that are easily crossed or <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=2D88DFAF-E7F2-99DF-35DE5F0EED872309&ref=rss">erased</a>, invisible lines that link events across <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/unlikely.html">unlikely</a> distances.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-81282578309165212712008-01-01T22:32:00.000+00:002008-01-01T22:57:40.741+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: TwoCicerone flips coins and rolls <a href="http://www.random.org/dice/">dice</a> to ascertain the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#The_Order_of_Things">order</a> of <a href="http://starling.rinet.ru/music/pretty.htm">things</a>, or to enhance the <a href="http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-aj01.html">disorder</a> of things, whatever. He's rolling and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollin%27_and_Tumblin%27">tumbling</a> through a <a href="http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=a_popular_history_of_signs">popular</a> history of <a href="http://members.aol.com/rcmoeur/signman.html">signs</a>, his <a href="http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/mojo.htm">mojo</a> is working on overdrive, superdrive, driving him crazy, driving through a landscape of dreams, of dreams, of dreams and dramatic pauses. All those <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6710382181854986871">dreams</a> that money could buy, that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHs-6xnMEdE">money</a> has bought, and sold.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737955994631573050.post-48048573494332768912007-12-31T14:26:00.000+00:002008-01-01T23:00:47.785+00:00Cicerone's Journeys: One<a href="http://www.cicerone.co.uk/">Cicerone</a> is guide aboard a High Powered <a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/">Lovecraft</a>, sailing a notion of an ocean soaked in liquefying images. It's a matrix of unstable relations, related in micronarratives emerging briefly from a backdrop of scrambled signals. Messages sink back into the mire of referents as quickly as they are apprehended. Cicerone is a <a href="http://www.beefheart.com/walker/lyrics/mm/mirrorman.htm">mirrorman</a>, a journeyman, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men">matchstickman</a>, pictured in a fractured universe, a cosmos of viral images transmitted through time/warped space. He browses dimensions stacked like hyperlinked subtexts and sidebars, <a href="http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_specialed&number=4">anecdoted</a> topologies, random encounters and unlikely <a href="http://www.lostcarpark.com/news.php?item=185">turns of event.</a><br /><br />The event turns, and returns to haunt the site of its <a href="http://www.thedeparture.co.uk/news.php">departure</a>. We depart this year, 2007, with our rearview mirror flipped forward to reflect the future, again, again, again.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.com0