Subparvenu Main

Poets in the Garden

2009-05-31T20:46:01Z

All God’s Children

2009-03-13T02:00:00Z

Today, biking west on Washington Street, just past 4th Ave. where the police have set up a mobile precinct to deal with an increase in cocaine dealing at this intersection, a Toyota with Washington plates turns left in front of me. Its license plate holder bears the I’m-pretty-sure-unwitting label “Scion of Olympia”.

The Friday Report

2009-01-16T22:44:01Z

10th Avenue is not Especially Evocative

2009-01-08T21:30:00Z

Predictable Reactions to Unpredictable Weather

2008-12-24T07:06:01Z

I Left my Heart, an Empty Pie Plate, and a Pile of Lumber in San Francisco

2008-12-03T07:16:00Z

Fig. 2: Freshly made apple pie (2008), constructed and exhibited at Brenda's apartment.

Fig. 1: Maya Lin's 2 x 4 Landscape (2006), at the De Young Museum

Limited Agenda

2008-11-25T06:52:01Z

5:00 P.M.: Return to normal.

Swing Low

2008-11-21T06:09:00Z

This Just In

2008-11-18T21:17:00Z

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Lois is 40

2008-11-18T02:28:00Z

Lois and her Birthday Cake. from Chuck Barnes on Vimeo.
Cinematography: Leo Daedalus

The One Horseman of the Lunch Hour

2008-11-14T21:42:00Z

New Digs

2008-10-29T17:13:00Z

fter 9 months working downtown, I moved to a new office two weeks ago. It’s across the hall from the old one, and you can tell from the map below why I moved. The improved view includes the 1969 Union Bank of California building (the left side of the photo below), by Anshen & Allen, the service cores of which are dressed in slate reputed to be from the same area of Wales as the stones either carried by humans or deposited by glaciers to be used in Stonehenge. I have, however, never seen my druid neighbor (not kidding) near the building; maybe he’ll show up for solstice.

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Superbia

2008-09-13T08:00:00Z

Marc Acito at Hit Parade, PICA TBA, 12 Sept 08 from Chuck Barnes on Vimeo.

Palindrome

2008-09-08T21:14:01Z

I Still Think About It

2008-09-05T17:02:01Z

Figure 1: “What is a repetition? A repetition is the re-enactment or past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle. Last week, for example, I picked up a German-language weekly in the library. In it I noticed an advertisement for Nivea Creme, showing a woman with a grainy face turned up to the sun. Then I remembered that twenty years ago I saw the same advertisement in a magazine on my father’s desk, the same woman, the same grainy face, the same Nivea Creme. The events of the intervening twenty years were neutralized… Nothing of consequence could have happened because Nivea Creme was exactly like it was before. There remained only time itself, like a yard of smooth peanut brittle.”
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (1961)

Figure 2: “For the first time, scientists have recorded individual brain cells fetching a spontaneous memory.”

For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving (NYT)