Soluble Fish :: digital poetics

‘Pataphysical

Signs of Light

In 'Pataphysical, cinema, Psychogeography on 21 May 2009 tagged abstract, art, cinema, city, experimental, light, PDX with 3 comments

click to play iPhone Images from a walk home after a Bruce Connor screening. The twilight blue played with the electric hum of street lights. The magic hour.

Steam, Light, Grid

In 'Pataphysical, Spatial Montage, Spirits on 13 January 2008 tagged grid with 7 comments

click to play An elaborate voodle. It took most of a Sunday, but great satisfaction moving panels around the grid. The “pixelate” effect generates a rich map on which to work and then it is a matter of intuitively putting on layers and rendering to see what happens. The audio is made up of tracks [...]

Animal Pile

In 'Pataphysical, Loop, Spatial Montage on 20 December 2007 with 3 comments

click to play My last video post of this year. A quickie loop. Videobloggers were ambitious in 2007 and the results are mixed. For me, the highlight of online video was Navlopomo. As Aaron Valdez put it so clearly: “In this show-saturated, promote-yourself-to-death state of videoblogging it was great to see the videos from all [...]

The Boring Everyday

In 'Pataphysical, Poetics, Spatial Montage on 31 October 2007 with no comments

Derik A. Badman’s great blog about comics, multipaneled storytelling and generative literaure…etc. He is here quoting Alison Bechdel on “incidental life.” “The comic strip is the definition of quotidian: it comes out everyday, you read it on the toilet, it just weaves itself into your everyday life. It’s about little details. It’s not about grand [...]

Professor VJ

In 'Pataphysical, Handmade, Poetics, Ritual, Termite on 10 August 2007 with no comments

In bed with a bad back and consuming the archives of Mark Amerika aka Professor VJ. He is making cinema and modeling a spontaneous, intuitive way of working through his blog. Mysterious, body-centered, "not-me" explorations with actors, landscapes, camera and editing tools – nutritious fodder for ambitious art vloggers. And not to mention an important [...]

The Woodcarver

In 'Pataphysical, Handmade on 21 June 2007 with 1 comment

Khing, the master carver, made a bell standOf precious wood. When it was finished,All who saw it were astounded. They said it must beThe work of spirits.The Prince of Lu said to the master carver:“What is your secret?” Khing replied: “I am only a workman:I have no secret. There is only this:When I began to [...]