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This is my dad modeling new comforter, purchased to accompany new bed and new sheets. Bedsores, not me, no more!

Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real and create a new reality. At the same time, this “escape” is not into a never-never land. What makes a novel idea creative is that once we see it, sooner or later we recognize that, strange as it is, it is true.

Most of us assume that artists – musicians, writers, poets, painters – are strong on the fantasy side, whereas scientists, politicians, and businesspeople are realists. This may be true in terms of day-to-day routine activities. But when a person begins to work creatively, all bets are off.

Taken from “The Creative Personality” via The New Shelton Wet/Dry

Image by Wang Qingsong

I spent my free Monday being a bum with my dad, we washed our cars and ate snacks. The K is for Kevin, that’s his name! – this photo is from a couple months ago.

Also: Days With My Father by Phillip Toledano – this is really sweet and beautiful, it will break your heart.

In the wee hours of Sunday morning I deleted all the comments ever on accident. I marked them all as spam and they dissapeared. I don’t think the blog reports back spammers (my friends) to an sort of service.Drink + laptop=no. I apologize for the lack of action around here… it’s been replaced with live action.

Also, I still love the Selby.

We added our office to the Ikea office space gallery… check out those hard working legs.

One reason concerts are alive and records are dead is that there’s a new value in things which can’t be uploaded as digital content to the internet. I call this phenomenon “the post-bit atom”. It also explains why the art market is booming. Art and music have become social occasions. An art opening or a concert (or, even better, an art opening with a concert included) is a chance for people who spend all day in front of computer screens to see their fellow human beings and share an intense, loud, colourful, real experience with them.

Art and music are also “distinction machines”: efficient ways for people to sum up complex clusters of values — social, political, aesthetic and ethical — and connect with like-minded souls. None of this is going to become less important any time soon.

…of lost pictures on the internet. I used to think this image was so funny.. but somewhere along the way it got lost. FOUND!

Thursday Allison “roped” me (it wasn’t that hard really) into seeing Gogol Bordello at Toad’s place, in Richmond, on a worknight. I in turn “roped” Anna-Claire (also not so hard) into coming along for gypsy times. In my few hours spent there I enjoyed another long and never boring Gogol Bordello performance, a private Hot Lava show (practice), giant PBRs courtesy of AC, and Allison’s new palace in the sky. Bonus: Allison surprised me with my “Fans Only” Belle and Sebastian DVD that I wrote off as lost years ago. This is the only DVD I’ve ever owned with rounded corners.

This is a neat way to show a collection – Rebecca Turbow Spring ‘08. I sweat her too much. I don’t think I could get away with wearing her stuff around these parts. I’d be called a space lady.