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Never much liked the spidery things. All their wavery arms and their tendrical legs. Oh, and their mandibulistic and bombastical skittering to and fro. Yeah, there’s a certain amount of nightmare stuff leftover from past days of childish womp.

So, there’s something to be said for misliking bees. Bees being things with stingers. But methinks honey is a glorious nectar from which to drink.

Gnaw Gnaw the honeycomb, i go. Grumble grumble, goes the belly: it’s always eating processed sugar these days and no NONO honey to speak of any old way (except for tuesdays, and maybe mondays and sundays?)

there’s so much webstuff or surging surf to keep the mind occupado. is it just a distraction? or is there a purposeful mindliness to this thing…?

An essay analyzing Gulf War I from a Freudian perspective. One would like to think that history wasn’t a result of subconscious emotional turmoil…

Interestingly, the Krishnamurti Foundation of America says something quite similar.

all the world turned into webs of light
so, the connections keep connecting to all the other connections that connect to everything not already connected to the connections. (even the coffee pots in some old buildings where people drink coffee: who knows when to refill it? all the monkeys who cycle through there, methinks)

alternately, while dreaming of pizzas, with a receipt in hand, while waiting in a line of fools (or foodeaters) or lotoseaters or whathaveyou. wouldn’t you know my slice of pizza didn’t come through the pizza drawer. waiting in line for a pieceza that never comes. trying to ignore that utteromen.

walked the clouds (i mean, watched–fooly me) creeping over the western hills, saw their growling darkness. (why in april? it’s the cruellest) woke the arches in glomylite.

aboutface: drowning in paper/electronic madness.

gurgle the free libros, you naawty pilgrums.

“Elephant sets antelopes free“

yay, for the dreamworld chiaroscuros. letting all the lethecicles drainway. can all the springs inside a bag (listen to them jumble all about!); to wit: some deraims (or phantasies) followed me home last night.

and found myself trawling through some kind of mechanised post-indu space. airport? or transgression terminal? or a corncob cavalcade?
(or there i go again, naughty-fellowme, bringing up that) there were important conversations. but foolishly i didn’t peg them down with words, nail those fluttering dreamthoughts to the board, watch their sputtering, spraying green dream ooze everywhere.

so, that’s the ticket indeed. and that’s the question indeed.

what lies beneath the hamper of all our dirty clothes, and who’ll pull the next sock out?

Some photographs taken with pinhole cameras.

If only I had a grand idea like this….

reiterate: ya:
floods and rivers and boats and flotsam and jetsam and dairycows and feverish explorers and tri-cornered hats and underwater divers (with their round diving bell helmets) and bubble-gassers and blibber blabber gum and joan d’arc prouncing on a carp and fitful suzy and unleashing warhounds and hungry burrows lacking sense and ribald phallocentric trickster gods and tickled hamsters and clorophyll and wingnuts and juicy juicy mangoes and flocks and flocks of nameless (to me) birds and (don’t forget!) the owl mask that flies away and jungle prince and james bond’s flying boots and sprinkly starbeings eating earth and grinning cheshires and wrinkly beans and all of mr. green-jenkins’ socks and that calendar with all the sundays burnt out and so…..

I found a website which may get some ideas going for your current project. You’re probably already quite aware of most of this information, but I thought that it might get you started on the path towards some useful resources. Let me know if this proves useful.

The diagrams and old sketch drawings drew my interest especially. As well as the old printed advertisement.

More camera obscuras here. The french instructions are groovy. (Or should I say freedom instructions?)

This is probably my favorite of the five. What can I say: I’m a sucker for the old graphic design and typefaces.

Please see the description of “Vermeer’s Camera”. Very groovy.

If only today’s digital cameras were this aesthetically baroque. One day, perhaps, our digital equipment (computers, cameras, etc.) will have this much character.

I found a website detailing some forgotten/abandoned photographic techniques.

Some excerpts:

CALOTYPE or TALBOTYPE. Paper sponged over with or floated on solutions of silver iodide and potassium iodide. When partially dry, the excess potassium iodide was removed by bathing in distilled water. Paper was sensitized in a solution of silver nitrate, acetic acid and gallic acid. After printing a feeble image was brought up to the required strength by an application of a solution similar to the silver nitrate sensitizer. Talbotypes produced rich warm brown images.

PINATYPE. A transparency was made on a soft emulsion of the lantern plate variety and developed in a tanning developer. The “printing plate” so obtained was bated for about two minutes in an engraving black or photographic brown pinatype dye. The dye was held in suspension by the gelatin in direct proportion to the extent to which it had been hardened by light action during printing. The plate so charged with dye was then washed free of the surplus dye and finally brought in contact with a sheet of paper coated with plain gelatin. The two were squeegeed together and left for several minutes, when the dye in the plate was transferred to the virgin gelatin. When separated, the gelatin bore the dye image. Any number of prints could be made by dyeing-up the printing plate and repeating the imbition process.

Apparently, this information was culled from this encyclopedia: The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (2 Volumes) 1965 edition, 2nd reprint. Editorial Board: L.A. Mannheim, Daphne Buckmaster, Frederick Purves, P.C. Poynter, Norah Wilson, Paul Petzold, A. Kraszna-Krausz.

Also, your aversion to color photography may be warrented…

Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D., is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. These are some happenings around the world that may have slipped past your radar. I know they did mine, for the most part.

It’s amazing how easy it is for me to forget that so much is going on Everywhere all at the same time. How to keep track of it all, anyhow?

You can read his biography here.

Also, check out the Global Business Network’s website. These are the kinds of organizations it seems worthwhile to keep tabs on, for whatever reason.