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Wednesday, November 28, 2001

03:20 It's past three in the morning and I just finished packing. Bwaaaa what a day - four and a half hours stuck inside Dutch Railways hell on my way back from teaching, then a mega-crash of my palm that made me spend hours to recover all the data (so much for the efficiency of HotSync).
Well, I'm back and I'm ready. My plane leaves in a few hours so I am going to bed. See you in Rio.
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Sunday, November 25, 2001

13:55 Finishing all I can before I go. Shedding preoccupations, layer by layer; anticipating slowly.

The timing of this trip is't great. Really not. It's an interruption – just when a lot of things start to run smoothly again. On the other hand, I know I will enjoy being back home for a bit (home?) and I know that the contrast between my former life and the current one always comes full of interesting information.

So I find myself oscillating between – no, conciliating these two feelings
(one inside the other):
- being happy to be back even before I go; savouring every bit of Amsterdam; seeing everything; wanting to continue.
- wishing the twelve days will stretch into a long time of skin, air, water, weather, tongue.

• Poolback: 7 Oct 2000: Fun with time.
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Friday, November 23, 2001

10:43


The 'Kaas Mesjes' – geen spelfout, ze zijn echt zo genoemd – are in Mongolia (see the mountains?) ready to try yak cheese (see their faces?)

A Dutch commercial, *very* funny – especially for us, the semi-locals. Here's two quicktime versions: modem and broadband.
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Thursday, November 22, 2001

17:20 Last night I came across this Iens Independent Index, a cool restaurant guide that covers all main Dutch cities. It not only has both English and Dutch versions – it also looks pretty fine, and you get to add your own reviews. Nothing new; all good.
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17:15 Questions that need answers:

1
Should I keep on having all links open in new browser windows?

2
Is there a difference on the referral information sent to the target page when a link opens in a new browser window?

3
Why?
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17:02 Something vanished from a train in the Netherlands only to reappear, weeks later and full of stickie notes, on a weblog in Rio de Janeiro.
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13:11 Reading Toufic's (Vampires), a truly mesmerizing book. In this fragment he's writing about what happens to movie characters (and to the spectator) during the cut between two scenes:
... That implies that between two scenes – a scene being "a unified action... that normally takes place in a single location and in a single period of time" – there is a narrative, a extra-diegetic ellipsis, with the consequence that the expectator is not inhibited from filling it with a a duration. This projection can be inhibited in various ways: in case the characters can still be surprised, feel the lapses within a given scene, it suffices to make them surprised and disoriented at the beginning of each scene, at each different location-time.
The topic was also extensively explored in Greg Egan's Permutation City (a book that keeps getting better after you finished reading it):
His sense of loss became impossible to sustain; his enthusiasm for everything to which he'd been devoted for the past seventy-six years evaporated like a dream. he was not repelled, or bewildered, by the phase he was leaving behind – but he had no desire to extend or repeat it.
His tools, his clothes, the workshop itself, all melted away, leaving behind a featureless gray plain, stretching to infinity beneath a dazzling blue sky, sunless but radiant. He waited calmly to discover his new vocation – remembering the last transition, and thinking: These brief moments between are a life in themselves. He imagined picking the same train of thoght and advancing it, slightly, the next time.
Then empty ground grew a vast room around him, stretching in all directions for hundreds of meters, full of row after row of wooden specimen drawers. A high ceiling with dusty skylights came together above him, completing the scene. He blinked in the gloom. He was wearing heavy black trousers and a waistcoat over a stiff white shirt. His exoself, having chosen an obsession which would have been meaningless in a world of advanced computers, had dressed him for the part of a Victorian naturalist.

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01:06 To Renée:
Nice to know you're fudging again.
Sort of late now, but I wanted to say hi
Got two e-mails from Lygia Clark's son today,
we'll meet in Rio next Friday (next week's Friday)

Wondering what to ask, asking myself if improvisation + intuition aren't, in this case, the best lack of option.

big kiss

rog

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Wednesday, November 21, 2001

11:02 The very knowledgeable, porno-crazed BJ – whose weblog I found out a few days ago – posted a very cute baby picture of Björk, along with his regular spicier interests (no connection between the two whatsoever, except maybe for the camp factor). Too bad he has no comment function on his pages; I am sure his readers would produce delightful remarks. Go BJ, go.
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Monday, November 19, 2001

13:33 One of the amazing war posters from the powers of persuasion website (via theMotherOfAllWeblogs).


Then and now: fat – dealer – explosives – meat


Next week I'll be proposing to my students an assignment on the role designers have in creating, maintaining and/or breaking taboos.
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Sunday, November 18, 2001

19:16 ~ ~ Updated my Workpile
after a long long while ~ ~

should add some images one day
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Saturday, November 17, 2001

17:16 Agenda

23 November / 1 December


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10:37 Insightful information:
When men first sense the arrival of an orgasm, those feelings emanate from the epididymis and the spermatic cords which contract and spasm to move sperm up the ductus (vas) deferns into the ampullary gland or ampulla. The ampulla filling with sperm accentuates sexual stimulation pleasure. Continued penile stimulation soon triggers a hardening of the seminal vesicles which also discharge fluid. The sperm and seminal fluid in the ampulla then flows into the ejaculatory ducts. Sufficient pressure quickly builds in the ejaculatory ducts to trigger a hardening of the prostate, which discharges directly into the urethra. Ejaculation is inevitable once the prostate hardens. Finally, the valves at the ends of the ejaculatory ducts open and the urethral bulb is quickly filled, triggering the ejaculation reflex. Semen discharged from the penis comes in a distinct sequence of partially mixed emissions: 1. prostatic fluid (10%); 2. sperm (2%) and ampullary gland fluid (6%); 3. seminal fluid (70%) and again; 4. prostatic fluid (12%).

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Friday, November 16, 2001

18:07




I took this photo in São Paulo during my last visit in March 1999. I was on the balcony of Flavio's apartment on Praça Roosevelt, at the core of the city center, where I was staying. My friendship with Flávio is one of the few I started there after leaving, and I enjoy it very much. We call his apartment "a hospedaria intermediária" (something to do with parasitology). I'm staying there again this time. Nice.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2001

23:09 I have three words for you: riant. opgetild. bouwbaar.
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22:27 Apparently 'the sun was shining out of my ass' during a meeting this week (as remarked by an annoyed studio partner). Humpf. Ha.
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Sunday, November 11, 2001

23:32 Thou shalt not post in a hurry.
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Saturday, November 10, 2001

22:11 Posting from Brussels. Saw Rich's new apartment, took measures. Had Steak au Poivre. Went around on a scooter. It's cold. Fell down on my face hand at Place de Brouckere (remember?) on our way to see Human Nature. The director Michel Gondry is also responsible for a few of Bjork's excellent videoclips (Human Behaviour, Army of Me).The movie was not so good though. One memorable bit:
Mother: "Drop me a line one of these days"
Son: "I`m an ape, Mom. Apes don`t drop lines."
You see, mother-son dialog tips seem very interesting to me these days.

I love Brussels - it's very nice being here again. Back to Amsterdam tomorrow.
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Friday, November 09, 2001

11:52 And now the comment count is gone.
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11:49 Paging yelloboxperson. Paging yellowboxperson. Chop the bead tree! Go go now! Get a couple-size frameset!
or stay like this, we also like.
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11:46 Intimidation works how? Takes two. Grows in the dark. Long are the shadows. Put aside with care. Go to work.
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08:58




Via Edrants I learn that Watchmen (the best graphic novel ever created?) will become a feature film. Is that good or bad? The screenplay comes from David Hayter, who was also responsible for X-Men. Well, that sounds bad to me - except Hayter is also behind the next Ang Lee film The Incredible Hulk.
Let's wait and see.

It's bad enough to know what we missed: Terry Gilliam attempted to get Watchmen to the screens in 1989 without success. Personally, I'd happy to have M. Night Shyamalan continue what he started with Unbreakable, the Watchmen-est of all movies.

Via Geegaw, long ago: The Annotated Watchmen.
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Thursday, November 08, 2001

23:47 Baaaaaah! Boooooo!
(don't ask)
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10:01 Not really stable, this Blogback thing - and it makes the latenightpool much slower. When it works, though, it's a lot of fun. What do I do? Keep or throw?
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Wednesday, November 07, 2001

09:08 Hm. Nasty.


Mirror I used for shaving in the shower

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09:05 It finally hit me: I, São Paulo-Brasileiro turned into Amsterdam-Nederlander. Is the transformation possible in the first place, and what are we left with? Desk lake, ant in a bathroom, stuck microwave clock.
In any case, people are abusing my patience and pushing me where I don't want to go. Watch me.

[noise of broken glass]

I was staring at the word me when something, just now, fell down in the bathroom. Really, I mean it.
I'll go check.
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Monday, November 05, 2001

22:21 Reading Lygia Clark's notes:
(from a not so clear English translation)
October 28th 1963
At this moment I have discovered my current great crisis. If I still had any caprice to think that my commitment to art was balanced with life in the sense of a value and affection, at this moment in which I propose to abandon everything, my children, my grandson whom I adore and my friends (everything most dear to me in the world), I clearly see that my work is above everything else and it is above my heart. I already knew it was above my sex, but deep down, I, who am so so affectionate towards the people I love, had the illusion that everything was important within my personality. (...) Perhaps my revolt comes from this other side, that of affection, because I know that it is delicious to be a grandmother and I cannot be one like all the others. (...) I, who had analysis for years just to become a woman and be more like other people, always said that if my art disappeared because of this I would prefer to be a real person than an artist who compensated for her frustration through artistic creation. It was proved that I was really an artist. Now it is the moment for my solitude as a human being to be proved, because my path is open. It is the path of choice – I will have to accept my separation from everything that I adore and live exclusively through my art, far from everyone and everything. Precisely now that I no longer believe in the work of art... But I firmly believe in the self-portrait of the artist by means of his work which also shows the self-portrait of a whole period of time. I also know that I cannot deny myself through this self-elaboration without irredeemably destroying myself. I will, despite... everything which holds me down affectionately, which is not so little, here I give my testimony, now.

I feel dilacerated between two forces which are extremes as a concept of life. A long time ago I had chosen, ah... but this distance... this journey is much longer than it. It is awareness. I begin to understand that no one can escape from this awareness. It is necessary to have the courage to take artificial compensation, it is necessary to go naked, bared down to our root, it is necessary to look within, with fear, with terror (...) up to what point will I forgive myself? Up to what point will my children forgive me? Only time will never forgive me. If I outlive my time I will be mercilessly stripped bare, without apologies, without affection, because what will be left will be my self-portrait, which is my work. (...) For it to bear this great strength it is necessary for it to become more and more impersonalized, dead, an amalgam which lends itself to all deformations, elastic and resistant.

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21:36 My problem is that I don't lie enough. Really. It's just not healthy. Do you know what I mean? I should definitely fix this.
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Sunday, November 04, 2001

19:50 Among the guests of a party I attented yesterday there was this man who was impecably dressed and had half of his face totally swollen / deformed. The remaining half was quite regular; handsome. The combination was amazing. He seemed to be having fun and I thought that was an excellent thing to see.
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19:40 Updated the blogback comment function; it should be working again now (not that you write much, but, hey, neither do I).
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Saturday, November 03, 2001

03:02 If you believe the author
I'm just back from DasArts where Jalal Toufic talked about over-turns and read from his book Forthcoming.

"You will lose everything", he said.
"It's time", I thought.
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Friday, November 02, 2001

10:36 To Giselle, asking for a correction to my own typefout: I am – ahum – not 25 but 35 years old.
('Nice try' says Dewald about the mistake)
Oi fofa
>
> achei muito bacana seu site
> vou xeretar nos depoimentos dos outros - por hora queria que voce
> consertasse um detalhe, please: tenho 35 e não 25 aninhos.
>
> Com muito orguio.
>
> Linkei /publiquei. Mas ando meio em baixa com a escreveção, achando
> meu texto muito fraquinho.... há de passar e evoluir...
>
> beijo
>
> rog

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Thursday, November 01, 2001

19:50 Giselle de Oliveira asked me: why do I publish?
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14:20 Booked: my trip to Brazil. I'll be arriving in Rio on Nov 28 and in São Paulo on Dec 3. Back to Amsterdam on Dec 12. It will be a very short one, especially since I haven't been there in almost three years. Main reason for the trip: my mom's 70th birthday. It will be celebrated on a beach halfway between the two cities.
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