Hey kids! Grab your books and open them to page 437. We're looking at Douglas Davis this week. (Cheer, it's less than a page!)
Anyway, I'll admit that this article caught my eye because the style it's written in is so drastcially different from the rest of them (you know, since it isn't prose). After reading through the "Manifesto" a few times, I began to really enjoy how the lines in caps all work together seperately from the rest of the poem, reading: "TO FORGET VIDEO IS TO MAKE MIND AND BODY DISCARDING NAMES STOP THE NAMES." I'm not entirely sure where punctuation would fit in that or how that would effect the message, but feel free to experiment with it.
Looking at the rest of the poem, there were three lines that caught me.
1. against against art
2. burn the manuals
3. The Camera is a Pencil
What does it mean to be against against art? Is that "for art" or something different? How many of us would willingly burn all the manuals in our lives and move blindly? Which of us agree that the camera is a pencil?
(And to Prof. Pauls, I hope this meets what you're after. I haven't been able to read any of the previous blog posts about the articles.)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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