all about mcluhan’s medium is the message

• wiki toynbee, spengler, wyndham lewis

• mashup media (content is the preceding) with kabbalah diagram thingie

les demoiselles d’avignon

subway today thoughts: is advertising the content of manufactured goods? people didn’t use to have words on their clothing (unless maybe they were a shaman). saw a woman today with pseudo-japanese-futurist writing on her jeans. saw a man the other day with that jacket covered with all the logos of all the NBA teams. if everything’s magical then nothing’s magical….? the more i study, the more things look jsut like Transmetropolitan.

how long does it take for butter to go bad? in a fridge.

• must read finnegan’s wake

• must write a new improv manifesto

• make tesselation of NES controller 4-cross (illustrator? or photoshop?)

• mcluhan’s writing is like what it’s about (cubist, poetic)

• how many times can you fold popular culture?

• painters shocked into a different mode by Pollack:

  • French gestural painters
  • Michaux
  • tachisme -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachisme
• critics: Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg

• the sublime is now by barnett newman

• HOMEWORK: watch nanook of the north (on library reserve). MAKE the medium Be the message. !! think big sentence sandwich. think folding.

• BRING in the blink of an eye for Anton