CogBlogged from ‘March, 2011’

This one ought to be added to the Amazing Stories of Sharing, all enabled via flickr photosharing. cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by windsordi Back in December, I posted a photo of some really solid oak that had been split for me (it was like iron) cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Di, who is among the most prolific of kind commenting in flickr, was a bit horrified at the thought of my burning the wood- as she does creative things with wood, turning them (literally) into pens: I’m crying right now… as I look at some of the spalting in that gnarly wood, I’m seeing GREAT pen turning opportunities… I’ve added some notes to a couple of the logs… here’s what I’d be doing with them… www.flickr.com/photos/windsordi/5230785038/ Feel like cleaning up a block or two of the wood? (no bark across [...]

or When Looking Back Really Makes You Cringe or Alan does not know crap about art. In my recent presentation on Looking Through The Lens I spent a little time riffing on Errol Morris’ New York Times column Liar Liar Pants on Fire. Morris leads us down the path to show that the question of “is it true” has no meaning for a photograph that lacks any kind fo caption or context. And how that meaning changes when the context is current I have often wondered: would it be possible to look at a photograph shorn of all its context, caption-less, unconnected to current thought and ideas? It would be like stumbling on a collection of photographs in a curiosity shop – pictures of people and places that we do not recognize and know nothing about. I might imagine things about the people and places in the photographs but know [...]

I found the official ds106 restaurant in Austin- another one for the Illustrate 106 assignment cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog And am thinking we need a version of this for the theme song ds106 ds106, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said ds106 ds106, oh baby Me gotta go