31/03/2008
29/03/2008
"Check-out ma blog."
My Blog in bibliography, Harvard Style.
GRANGE, R B. 2007. "...and what Hamlet may say with irony, I say with conviction". March 5 2008. R B Grange - A very simple look into the art world as viewed by R B Grange. [Accessed March 29 2008]. < http://rbgrange.blogspot.com/2008/03/and-what-hamlet-may-say-with-irony-i.htlm >
R B Grange
GRANGE, R B. 2007. "...and what Hamlet may say with irony, I say with conviction". March 5 2008. R B Grange - A very simple look into the art world as viewed by R B Grange. [Accessed March 29 2008]. < http://rbgrange.blogspot.com/2008/03/and-what-hamlet-may-say-with-irony-i.htlm >
R B Grange
27/03/2008
"...don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs."
The title of this post comes from Backstabber, a song by The Dresden Dolls. I think this line one of the loveliest in the modern hymnal. It's up there with "I used to fly like Peter Pan", "...but gravity always wins." and of course "Walking like giant canes, ah! With my x-ray eyes I strip you naked."
I think it must have been on Call My Bluff, or some such programme where they said a word which meant a lyric referring to another song in the artist's canon. This use of self reference puts me in two minds. For one I approve of the humour involved in the artists self doubt or reaffirming of old ideals, but I can also see how this might prove an alienating force; where people with more knowledge claim to have a greater understanding of the piece.
My own work (some of which you may wish to see or hear at www.youtube.com/RBGrange20x8) is not a finite process and makes reference to all manner of oddments, but I do not wish people to engage with it in order to understand me, but to understand themselves and where they fit. I might repeat myself in my work but I would never assume that people are aware or unaware of it. At the same time I do want to know what people think of it, or how they think they fit into it, this presence is probably the most useful component of my work. Me being there and other people doing the same.
R B Grange
find out more at www.youtube.com/RBGrange20x8
I think it must have been on Call My Bluff, or some such programme where they said a word which meant a lyric referring to another song in the artist's canon. This use of self reference puts me in two minds. For one I approve of the humour involved in the artists self doubt or reaffirming of old ideals, but I can also see how this might prove an alienating force; where people with more knowledge claim to have a greater understanding of the piece.
My own work (some of which you may wish to see or hear at www.youtube.com/RBGrange20x8) is not a finite process and makes reference to all manner of oddments, but I do not wish people to engage with it in order to understand me, but to understand themselves and where they fit. I might repeat myself in my work but I would never assume that people are aware or unaware of it. At the same time I do want to know what people think of it, or how they think they fit into it, this presence is probably the most useful component of my work. Me being there and other people doing the same.
R B Grange
find out more at www.youtube.com/RBGrange20x8
20/03/2008
No dialogue.
The link to my YouTube Channel has changed; or more accurately, I have a new YouTube Channel. This is the presentational platform for the objects I find my self making. So far two videos are up but more are in the offing.
Out of all the websites I have ever affiliated myself with, my faith to YouTube remains the strongest. It has replaced television for me as I can delve at my leisure. Although leisure is an inaccurate word; YouTube is not a passive experience, you cannot kick back and let it wash over you, it is active and demands discourse.
TheRoyalChannel, the channel of the Royals (believe it or no), chooses not the part take in this discourse. Now I approve of Prince Charles's attitude towards the enviornment and have favourited one of this videos on my channel; but to disable the comments boxes and make it impossible to make video responces it not playing the game.
YouTube allows a free vote, a voice for people making videos and comments who have no money behind them. Discourse is the key part of the whole system. If you want your voice to be heard, without having to pay for it, you have to leave yourself open to being shot down in flames (and childish taunts)
R B Grange
Out of all the websites I have ever affiliated myself with, my faith to YouTube remains the strongest. It has replaced television for me as I can delve at my leisure. Although leisure is an inaccurate word; YouTube is not a passive experience, you cannot kick back and let it wash over you, it is active and demands discourse.
TheRoyalChannel, the channel of the Royals (believe it or no), chooses not the part take in this discourse. Now I approve of Prince Charles's attitude towards the enviornment and have favourited one of this videos on my channel; but to disable the comments boxes and make it impossible to make video responces it not playing the game.
YouTube allows a free vote, a voice for people making videos and comments who have no money behind them. Discourse is the key part of the whole system. If you want your voice to be heard, without having to pay for it, you have to leave yourself open to being shot down in flames (and childish taunts)
R B Grange
18/03/2008
"...you did. Ten years from now."
Giles asked me if I'd ever considered writing a manifesto. I wrote one last year but seem to have gone against it somewhat of late.
For the moment I don't want to write one, but below is segment from Star Trek: First Contact. Cochran's lines are unattributed. I hope you enjoy it
Riker: Because at 11 o'clock an alien ship will start passing through this solar system
Alien, you mean Extra Terrestrials, more bad guys.
Troi: Good guys. They're on a survey mission, they have no interest in earth. Too primitive
Oh.
Riker: Doctor, tommorrow morning when they detect the warp signature from your ship and realize that humans have discovered how to travel faster than light, they decide to alter their course and make first contact with earth, right here
Here?
Geordie: Er, actually, over there
Riker: It is one of the pivotal moments in human history doctor. You get to make first contact with an alien race, and after you do, everything begins to change
Geordie: Your theories on warp drive allow fleets of star ships to be built and man kind starts to explore the galaxy
Troi: It unites humanity in a way no one thought possible when they realize they are not alone in the universe. Poverty, disease, war, they'll all be gone within the next fifty years
Riker: But unless you make that warp flight before 11 fifteen tomorrow morning, none of it will happen
And you people, you're all astronauts, on some kind of star trek?
R B Grange
For the moment I don't want to write one, but below is segment from Star Trek: First Contact. Cochran's lines are unattributed. I hope you enjoy it
Riker: Because at 11 o'clock an alien ship will start passing through this solar system
Alien, you mean Extra Terrestrials, more bad guys.
Troi: Good guys. They're on a survey mission, they have no interest in earth. Too primitive
Oh.
Riker: Doctor, tommorrow morning when they detect the warp signature from your ship and realize that humans have discovered how to travel faster than light, they decide to alter their course and make first contact with earth, right here
Here?
Geordie: Er, actually, over there
Riker: It is one of the pivotal moments in human history doctor. You get to make first contact with an alien race, and after you do, everything begins to change
Geordie: Your theories on warp drive allow fleets of star ships to be built and man kind starts to explore the galaxy
Troi: It unites humanity in a way no one thought possible when they realize they are not alone in the universe. Poverty, disease, war, they'll all be gone within the next fifty years
Riker: But unless you make that warp flight before 11 fifteen tomorrow morning, none of it will happen
And you people, you're all astronauts, on some kind of star trek?
R B Grange
07/03/2008
"...we'll have a coupon day or something."
JT thinks it's a good idea for me to recreate the meal scene in Jurassic Park (1993) and to use that as a basis for my work in quotation and reference. This comes from my intense love of said scene and the influence it has had on the way that I talk and adeal with subjects.
I plan to take two main vistas or approaches to this; one being the rewriting of the script in quotations, the other being to use the existing script as a set grammatical system into which other concepts and subjects might be placed.
At the same time as this I will also continue my work on the Picard/Withnail conundrum and also my translation of Walter Benjamin.
I would hope that I can maintain this work ethic for the rest of my practise. I was talking with Chris last night about our neo-modernity; he got himself quite het up about the constant cynicism that is common place within the everyday living and running of the country. He sighted politicians, comedians, journalists and the everyman as suffering from this. We established that doubt was necessary but not cynicism or sarcasm.
R B Grange
I plan to take two main vistas or approaches to this; one being the rewriting of the script in quotations, the other being to use the existing script as a set grammatical system into which other concepts and subjects might be placed.
At the same time as this I will also continue my work on the Picard/Withnail conundrum and also my translation of Walter Benjamin.
I would hope that I can maintain this work ethic for the rest of my practise. I was talking with Chris last night about our neo-modernity; he got himself quite het up about the constant cynicism that is common place within the everyday living and running of the country. He sighted politicians, comedians, journalists and the everyman as suffering from this. We established that doubt was necessary but not cynicism or sarcasm.
R B Grange
05/03/2008
"...and what Hamlet may say with irony, I say with conviction"
Can a quotation that has been originally said in jest or tongue in cheek, be then used in ernest? Or does the initial context of the utterance constantly govern its meaning?
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals."
This is something that Picard believes that man can become, where as Hamlet believes this all to be a myth, an idea that everyone has of the human race's self-importance. Maybe it is that Hamlet's tragic nature come about through a blindness of how good things could be in the future; which brings into question why he would want to kill his uncle, the new king. If Hamlet has lost all hope in humanity then killing his uncle accomplishes only one thing - revenge, and his drinking of the poisoned cup means nothing to him as he sees himself as (...quintessence of) dust.
Picard is not at all tragic, indeed he seems to taken on (as all the humans sometimes do in Star Trek) the role of Nietzsche's Ubermensch.
That's all for today.
R B Grange
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals."
This is something that Picard believes that man can become, where as Hamlet believes this all to be a myth, an idea that everyone has of the human race's self-importance. Maybe it is that Hamlet's tragic nature come about through a blindness of how good things could be in the future; which brings into question why he would want to kill his uncle, the new king. If Hamlet has lost all hope in humanity then killing his uncle accomplishes only one thing - revenge, and his drinking of the poisoned cup means nothing to him as he sees himself as (...quintessence of) dust.
Picard is not at all tragic, indeed he seems to taken on (as all the humans sometimes do in Star Trek) the role of Nietzsche's Ubermensch.
That's all for today.
R B Grange
03/03/2008
April is the cruelest month.
It's March and that means a new direction for my blog.
Over the last few weeks my work has become more and more discursive; so much so that I have found a need to cement some aspects of it in the real and borrowed. I find comfort in quotations, they are vastly open to interpretation but grounded to something very set, a script, a play, a novel, the annotations of a speech. Through March I shall use my blog to make known some important quotations, or my ideas and thoughts on the process of quote and referencing.
I'm starting with something I have already mentioned on this site; the full scene from the Office, series one, in which Brent rips into Betjeman's 'Slough'
'er well this is somemat that's always wound me up. This is the poem Slough by Sir John Betjeman, now - he's probably never been there is in life. right. "Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough It isn't fit for humans now," right, i don't think you solve town planning problems with dropping bombs all over the place, so he's embarrassed himself there. Next, er "There isn't grass to graze a cow," good, we've got one of the biggest dairies in the south-east down the road so we don't need a cow "Come, bombs, and blow to smithereens Those air-conditioned, bright canteens," good, I like to see what I'm eating "Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans Tinned minds, tinned br" oh he's having a go at tinned fruit now, which... I think if we're being bombed, we'd be in the air raid shelter loving some tinned fruit, so, you know, laughing at him. "It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio, It's not their fault they often go To Maidenhead" there's nothing wrong with Maidenhead, no... Maidstone's a shithole, but Maidenhead's a lovely town, so, nah "And talk of sports and makes of cars In various bogus Tudor bars And daren't look up and see the stars But belch instead." y'know, what? He's never burped. erm, a "In labour-saving homes, with care Their wives frizz out peroxide hair And dry it in synthetic air And paint their nails." they wanna look nice, what's his problem, dunn he like girls? (I'm not) y'know. And and look, look at the index, oh; he's having a go at Croydon, Westgate-On-Sea, I've never been to there, er, Leamington - now I've been to a conference in Leamingtion, and it's a lovely spa town, especially compared to Coventry, down the road, which proves my point; you don't sort out a town by extensive bombing. So, y'know. And they made him a Knight of the Realm. Over rated.
R B Grange
Over the last few weeks my work has become more and more discursive; so much so that I have found a need to cement some aspects of it in the real and borrowed. I find comfort in quotations, they are vastly open to interpretation but grounded to something very set, a script, a play, a novel, the annotations of a speech. Through March I shall use my blog to make known some important quotations, or my ideas and thoughts on the process of quote and referencing.
I'm starting with something I have already mentioned on this site; the full scene from the Office, series one, in which Brent rips into Betjeman's 'Slough'
'er well this is somemat that's always wound me up. This is the poem Slough by Sir John Betjeman, now - he's probably never been there is in life. right. "Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough It isn't fit for humans now," right, i don't think you solve town planning problems with dropping bombs all over the place, so he's embarrassed himself there. Next, er "There isn't grass to graze a cow," good, we've got one of the biggest dairies in the south-east down the road so we don't need a cow "Come, bombs, and blow to smithereens Those air-conditioned, bright canteens," good, I like to see what I'm eating "Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans Tinned minds, tinned br" oh he's having a go at tinned fruit now, which... I think if we're being bombed, we'd be in the air raid shelter loving some tinned fruit, so, you know, laughing at him. "It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio, It's not their fault they often go To Maidenhead" there's nothing wrong with Maidenhead, no... Maidstone's a shithole, but Maidenhead's a lovely town, so, nah "And talk of sports and makes of cars In various bogus Tudor bars And daren't look up and see the stars But belch instead." y'know, what? He's never burped. erm, a "In labour-saving homes, with care Their wives frizz out peroxide hair And dry it in synthetic air And paint their nails." they wanna look nice, what's his problem, dunn he like girls? (I'm not) y'know. And and look, look at the index, oh; he's having a go at Croydon, Westgate-On-Sea, I've never been to there, er, Leamington - now I've been to a conference in Leamingtion, and it's a lovely spa town, especially compared to Coventry, down the road, which proves my point; you don't sort out a town by extensive bombing. So, y'know. And they made him a Knight of the Realm. Over rated.
R B Grange
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