Monday, December 20, 2010

THE BEGINNING in many parts, some of which may be out of order, but there is no order. Wild setting.

 "We are here to celebrate the artist's right to fail, gloriously."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marie
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jackson  co-founder of the Museum of Bad Art


>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Hermanson
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> OK, you gave me a great idea. I will rewrite Mody Dick as a whale of a
>>>>>>>>> stream of consciousness novel. My version. Has anybody done that? What
>>>>>>>>> a great first novel. And then I'll do "Lesser Expectations," for my
>>>>>>>>> next novel. And then, "War and More War." and finally, "Reality and
>>>>>>>>> Everything Else."  And finally, "What's Left?"
>>>>>>>>> Thanks Tom, YOU ARE A CREATIVE PAL!



>>> Dear Richard,
>>> I am decided to re-write/mash Moby Dick by Herman Melville as my first novel. The working title is Moldy Dick, it made Mary laugh, but it might be to too.
>>> I am vaguely, seriously serious about this. What is Toulouse to Trek? What is the heck? I think the time is right to set sail. Bon Voyage´ as Bugs Bunny would say.
>>> So I am asking you to ship on board. Tom is on. You can be Starstruck. Or is that to too to?
>>> I am resigned, signed on, to not really editiing much, but letting the roll of the waves, getting a little buzz on, the wind and the waves, amber waves of grain, moldy dick? I think not. Adventure is afoot, and it is partially athlete's. Wampanoag truth and realism with madcap world and word mayhemp. To the bards of old, such as James and Joyce, and Teller and Penn, and Tom, Dick and Harry Houdini. Are you in?
>>>
>>> My wife calls. That is why I must ship to sea. And for other reasons I will tell as I need to, or want to, or you ask. Or to deny. Let the winds blow.
>>>
>>>
>>> PREAMBLE:
>>>
>>>
>>> We are both Yin and Yang, and that is why we have the expression, "Up
>>> the YinYang..." It's kinda the Chinese version of "Up the People," or
>>> "Get Down with your Bad Self!" Remember to be all that you can be,
>>> which is more than you think, and less than ... uh, I forget. Phil
>>> Dick once said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
>>> doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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>>> ReplyForward
>>> Dennis Hermanson <to mickey hackman
>>> 4:51pm
>>>
>>> OK, you gave me a great idea. I will rewrite Mody Dick as a whale of a
>>> stream of consciousness novel. My version. Has anybody done that? What
>>> a great first novel. And then I'll do "Lesser Expectations," for my
>>> next novel. And then, "War and More War." and finally, "Reality and
>>> Everything Else." And finally, "What's Left?"
>>> Thanks Tom, YOU ARE A CREATIVE PAL!
>>> d
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Dennis Hermanson
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>>> ReplyForward
>>> Dennis Hermanson < to mickey hackman 
>>> 4:55pm
>>>
>>> Would you like to write it too? That way, it would be bigger, like the
>>> whale. We can start already, with these emails.
>>> Or we can make them little feet, which is like footnotes. I think
>>> footnotes should only be music.
>>> We can do this!
>>> It is free to do, all it will take is time and a whaling trip to the
>>> icy waters off Greenland and down into the tropics. Maybe we should
>>> re-write that stuff from the book. Also, we could talk about
>>> skyscrapers instead of whales in terms of esotertic run-on stuff, or
>>> parking lots, or the room of the Filmore East, circa 68, that looked
>>> like a whale in the roomlight. Or the moonlight on the fireescape. It
>>> is all novel. That's the idea. Keep the ball rolling, like on the end
>>> of the nose of a trained seal. At sea. In way too deep to turn back.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Hermanson
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>>> mickey hackman  to dennis hermanson 
>>> 4:57pm
>>>
>>> I love 'War and More War'.
>>>
>>> Moby Dick, before you meet 'My name is Ishmael' there is a section called 'Extracts' and reads like a google search - about whales.
>>> Makes sense they would use Moby Dick in a search advertisement.
>>>
>>> And I read some funny bits.
>>>
>>> Oh, Starbuck is a character in Moby Dick. I didn't know that. I'll let you know if he is a coffee drinker.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for link to MoBA. One friend thought it the best 'share' yet - but then she has not been on the list very long. Woody has mixed feeling about it - Skidmore seems to be one of the ambivalent.
>>>
>>>
>>> t
>>>
>>>> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:51:12 -0500
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>>> Dennis Hermanson  to mickey hackman 
>>> 5:01pm
>>>
>>> Woops, I meant roof of the Fillmore East. Roof. Man, I don't know if I
>>> took a picture of it! But neither did Melville.
>>> I typed it Mody Dick, but hey, it comes up in google as the whale.
>>> Moody DIck sounds like a blues band.
>>> I typed in Moody Dick and got a painter of Trompe L'oeil
>>> http://dickmoody.com/
>>>
>>> The first Trompe L'oeil, the angels did say,
>>> was to
>>>
>>> OK, snowfall by dwindling light. I will stop and go home. If I were on
>>> the high seas, I would just shiver and freeze.
>>>
>>> d
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dennis Hermanson
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>>> mickey hackman  to dennis hermanson 
>>> 5:03pm
>>>
>>> I have been wondering if there is an 'email novel' - an 'e-novel'? - out there yet - between hard covers? Nicholson Baker has a book, 'Vox', that is nothing but one long phone-sex call from coast to coast. You know, if it is interesting, clever, has funny bits, it would not be a failure. Might even be a suckcess.
>>>
>>> Oh, I would like to sit and write but I'm afraid I have to make some fruit salad tonight and paint a wall plaid tomorrow.
>>>
>>> I am so tempted. Will it end badly?
>>>
>>> t
>>>
>>>> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:55:55 -0500
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>>> Dennis Hermanson to mickey hackman
>>> 5:06pm
>>>
>>> The more I think about it, the more I like it. The text is there to
>>> plunder, and stick harpoons of us into, just like days of youre when
>>> all you had to do was go out and find one. White paper is white,
>>> that's a similarity too. So plundering and searching the sea of
>>> letters for the white whale.... but seriously, what is our Ahab? Oil?
>>> Our burning hatred and desire to extinguish it, to run it amok and
>>> waste vast lands and rolling seas to kill for it? Yes, we are Ahab and
>>> oil is our burning need. We must kill ourselves to get it. Ultimate
>>> death, of one or all of us, that is the bargain. WE ARE AT SEA.
>>> d
>>>
>
>
>>> Don Q, wind energy, he was so green.
>>> Love it.
>>> OK, I will get it started. Then we can have fun with it. I project that we must end it at the end of 2011. Wouldn't that be cool?
>>> It's a New Year's Revelation.
>>> Glad you will come aboard.
>>> Hope Richard (Starstruck) will do the same.
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Dennis Hermanson
 wrote:
>>>>>>> Woops, I meant roof of the Fillmore East. Roof. Man, I don't know if I
>>>>>>> took a picture of it! But neither did Melville.
>>>>>>> I typed it Mody Dick, but hey, it comes up in google as the whale.
>>>>>>> Moody DIck sounds like a blues band.
>>>>>>> I typed in Moody Dick and got a painter of Trompe L'oeil
>>>>>>> http://dickmoody.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The first Trompe L'oeil, the angels did say,
>>>>>>> was to
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, snowfall by dwindling light. I will stop and go home. If I were on
>>>>>>> the high seas, I would just shiver and freeze.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> d
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dennis Hermanson
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>> Would you like to write it too? That way, it would be bigger, like the
>>>>>>>> whale. We can start already, with these emails.
>>>>>>>> Or we can make them little feet, which is like footnotes. I think
>>>>>>>> footnotes should only be music.
>>>>>>>> We can do this!
>>>>>>>> It is free to do, all it will take is time and a whaling trip to the
>>>>>>>> icy waters off Greenland and down into the tropics. Maybe we should
>>>>>>>> re-write that stuff from the book. Also, we could talk about
>>>>>>>> skyscrapers instead of whales in terms of esotertic run-on stuff, or
>>>>>>>> parking lots, or the room of the Filmore East, circa 68, that looked
>>>>>>>> like a whale in the roomlight. Or the moonlight on the fireescape. It
>>>>>>>> is all novel. That's the idea. Keep the ball rolling, like on the end
>>>>>>>> of the nose of a trained seal. At sea. In way too deep to turn back.
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> d

>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Dennis Hermanson
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> We are both Yin and Yang, and that is why we have the expression, "Up
>>>>>>>>>> the YinYang..." It's kinda the Chinese version of "Up the People," or
>>>>>>>>>> "Get Down with your Bad Self!" Remember to be all that you can be,
>>>>>>>>>> which is more than you think, and less than ... uh, I forget. Phil
>>>>>>>>>> Dick once said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
>>>>>>>>>> doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
>>>>>>>>>>
>

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Dennis Hermanson

>>>>>>>>>>> I'm working on developing as a fake/serious study, the indeterminate
>>>>>>>>>>> search proceduare, or isp, for analysis and development of ways to
>>>>>>>>>>> search for things that you don't know exist. That is, non-determinate
>>>>>>>>>>> linkage, or what used to be called stream of consciousness. That's a
>>>>>>>>>>> mis-leading phrase, since the idea of a stream is correct, but the
>>>>>>>>>>> idea of consciousness being conditional on lineality is not only not
>>>>>>>>>>> productive, but not correct, unless one goes to the chemical change
>>>>>>>>>>> level. Otherwise, the brain doesn't work in a linear fashion at all.
>>>>>>>>>>> Lineality is only a construct of time and place association, that is,
>>>>>>>>>>> time, as in the linear shift of sun and moon across the sky, and
>>>>>>>>>>> place, as in a tree seems to grow straight up to the sky, or the sea
>>>>>>>>>>> seems to be flat across the horizon, which can see flat and thus
>>>>>>>>>>> linear, in places.
>>>>>>>>>>> Links on the internet are a free-association of phrase and subject
>>>>>>>>>>> codifications, but their use, and association, may be used to create
>>>>>>>>>>> meaning where there is none, or correspondence where there was
>>>>>>>>>>> previously none, or none intended.
>>>>>>>>>>> Thus, a form of thought, image, meaning surrealism, where surreal is
>>>>>>>>>>> the imposition or overlay, overlap or duality of two or more things
>>>>>>>>>>> that ordinarily, or logically or in the real world of common
>>>>>>>>>>> experience, are not together.
>>>>>>>>>>> The odd couple. The lucky link.
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm feeling lucky. Are you? How many times together? What will happen?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> That's the ideas, since it's never one idea, and it's never either/or,
>>>>>>>>>>> it's always both/and...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> thinking based on more holistic healing logic such as fuzzy logic,
>>>>>>>>>>> both/and logic, non-identity (Korzybski’s non-Aristotelian logic),
>>>>>>>>>>> Yin-Yang thinking, Buddhist logic, and Jain logic that heal harmful
>>>>>>>>>>> antagonisms of our common Aristotelian either/or logic.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Wounds are created by the exclusive use of our common Aristotelian
>>>>>>>>>>> either/or logic. These wounds can be healed through both/and logic
>>>>>>>>>>> that can be illustrated by the Yin-Yang symbol. Buddhist logic
>>>>>>>>>>> includes not only "both/and" but also "neither/nor", which points
>>>>>>>>>>> beyond the namable. Jain logic is even more comprehensive than
>>>>>>>>>>> Buddhist logic.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Both/and Logic
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Like fuzziness, both/and is well illustrated by the Yin-Yang symbol
>>>>>>>>>>> and Yin-Yang thinking (see Figure 1 in Chapter 1). In contrast to our
>>>>>>>>>>> common Aristotelian thinking that divides everything into either black
>>>>>>>>>>> or white (metaphorically speaking), in the Yin-Yang symbol we find a
>>>>>>>>>>> white dot in the black and vice versa, which means we find the Yang in
>>>>>>>>>>> the Yin and vice versa. Hence, each half of the Yin-Yang symbol is
>>>>>>>>>>> both Yin and Yang, although one or the other predominates.
>>>>>>>>>>> Accordingly, in reality everything is both Yin and Yang. Although
>>>>>>>>>>> predominantly Yang, a man is also Yin; and although predominantly Yin,
>>>>>>>>>>> a woman is also Yang. Thus, both man and woman are connected.
>>>>>>>>>>> Likewise, everything else is connected. Recognizing this connection is
>>>>>>>>>>> healing the wounds that have been created by the division of either/or
>>>>>>>>>>> logic or it prevents them from occurring in the first place.
>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.beyondwilber.ca/healing-thinking/both-and-logic.html
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Yah, I am supposed to be working too. Back to SALE, ES111.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> d


>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If who's from whoville were real. This guy would be the ex-crack-head
>>>>>>>>>>>>> who who's been socially kicked out of whoville, and wants to go to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hear DJCody at the Who-Ville Bar and Grill, but doesn't have the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> money...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://whovillebarandgrill.com/
>>
>>

No not a crack-head, a creak-head. A thinking of thoughts, rushed by time and tied. 

QUOTE and BURST WARNING

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
  - George Bernard Shaw

MOBY BIC IS COMING.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

BAD ART IS GOOD! IT IS VERY POLYSOMETHING!


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Micky Hackman, a real artist sez:

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Isn't this oddly wonderful? - let us now celebrate bad art.  www.emilybalivet.com  (there is an amusing video about bad art in her links - I'm stuck in the city using a friend's laptop and this is all I've got for you today.)
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Dennis Hermanson

 to mickey
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OH, NICE! I too love bad art, tho I am not sure if we should call it
bad. After all, bad is as bad does, and bad art doesn't do anything
bad, except offend the senses. And that might be good upon occasion.
Think of stinky cheese. Some is highly revered. Perhaps bad art should
be put in caves to grow mold on as well. But then, we'd have to eat it
as well as smell it. So, I think we should just put art such as this
up in a nice, dark corner of our houses of art, and let it brood on in
quiet contentment. Like some of our friends we don't really want to
party with, but we don't have the nerve to utterly sever connection
with. Just send a Christmas card to your bad art, and call it a
continued relationship. Well framed helps elevate it, too. Think nice
thoughts of bad art. And enjoy!

Though I don't know if there is a single Bad Art Hall of Fame, I think
that google can make us one of nice images. (Drum Roll)
LADIES AND GENTS, THE GOOGLE BAD ART HALL OF FAME SEARCH.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1315&bih=983&q=bad+art+hall+of+fame&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
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Dennis Hermanson

 to mickey
 10:50 AM (1 minute ago)
And if you're on the road, and who of us who are living are not?
There's many places to enjoy art that might be considered... well, you know.
Here's a good place to start.
http://eccentricroadside.blogspot.com/
and a great compilation site of destinations. But don't stay there too long.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/

Here's one i went to. IT's WONDERFUL. The work of a lifetime, and
awesome, by any definition of the word. Like all good or great art,
must be
see in person. Real art is being there.
http://www.roadsideamericainc.com/
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Dennis Hermanson

 to mickey
 10:51 AM (0 minutes ago)
REMEMBER THE GOOGE IMAGE SEARCH? LET'S GO THERE!
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=roadside%20america%20shartlesville&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1315&bih=983

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