Blow Up...IV

[Bled Welder]

I don't mean to interrupt what could be described as a work of genius, this
mail, below, but I want to fly?

There was something about *Wallace*.  Why did he die.

Because he did two things.  He wrote a book on infinity--and then he looked
in the mirror...


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:44 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Something about technology, A' and the reduction of one's essence to fewer
> dimensions than it takes for one to be... Might be why P eschews the media
> for anonymity, and allows himself to be known only via his literary output.
> Somehow this media asceticism allows him, paradoxically, to inhabit and
> invigorate his constructions so much more than if he were to, say, go on a
> typical book tour, ala DFW. There areother benefits, of course, like, well,
> like not having to be accused of
> "bogarting that joint" by a bunch of groupies:
>
> http://youtu.be/EvGJvzwKqg0
>
>
> When I saw this article in The Guardian:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/**film/filmblog/2012/sep/27/**
> michelangelo-antonioni-**centenary-forgotten-giant<http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/sep/27/michelangelo-antonioni-centenary-forgotten-giant>
>
> It reminded me of the classic 60's movie, Blowup:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Blowup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup>
>
> Another interesting take on authority and photography, wherein the the
> lines betwixt image and reality are also blurred. But this time I thought
> of Doc, watching the video of Glen's murder and knowing that he  (Doc) is
> lying unconscious somewhere just out of view. Doc puts himself in the
> video. He straddles the line between image and reality. Of course, he
> doesn't know that he's really a fictional character, but  that's okay. We
> do, and  we're real enough...
>
>
>
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