Weather Dream Sequence, 1986.

-wind as fashionable in 1980s
-wind's effect on hairstructures in 1980s and tools to promote, stabalize, stylize (hairspray, moose, gel)
-weather manipulated by media
-weather as intangible theatre
-the 'weatherman' as storyteller/false psychic reader/retailer
-weather-narration
-physical appearance of weatherman as bodily representation of the climate within fashion
-1980s textile/design in relation to 1980s weather
-weather be subsumed by fashion
-weather fashionable through t.v. production
-how does its representation effect the viewer's relation to it, how does the viewer interact with 'visual wind'? & what are the consequences, if any, when the viewer is actually inside it?
-fashion in attempt to cope with undesireable weather through temporal play of accessories
-weather as a desire through its representation and seductive accessories involved to make it tolerable.
-experience of 'the weather' through accessories, weather as accessory ('hair blowing in wind' aesthetic)
-the weather's growing religious insignificance and use for sport.
-materialism of weather through representation (fashion contained within it), accessories created by way of tolerating/interacting with it, as a backdrop to sell products useful or useless (hierarchy of necessity inclusive of design)
-"the_______of weather will be its design"

Son of a Preacher Man

Beautiful. A reappreciation of a song through someone's body.

Claude & Beyonce go for a walk in nature.

1. put on mute. play with Debussy's 'Arabesque'. Watch the tone move through the words. look back and forth between background footage of 'nature' and words.
2. sing the lyrics with arabesque in background.
3. watch content of lyrics, background footage, and piano move through the words.
4. try to let go of preconceived inflections of words.
5. let the musical tones of arabesque speak the words.
6. watch words begin to look like piano keys.
7. watch tone give character to words.
8. forget what the words mean.
9. then pay attention to shape of words, & then to each letter.
10.watch shapes of letters become tonal.
11.watch the words no longer mean what they mean because of tone.
12.watch movement of landscape, waterfall, monkey, iguana & jellyfish look so beautiful with arabesque.
13.notice the season change.
14.say someone's name out loud who reminds you of the song.
15.say someone's name silently who you love throughout the piece.
16.call someone to say their name and hang up.
17.email their name back to them.
18.take off mute and play Debussy & Beyonce together.
19.listen to the 150 year difference.
20.listen to Debussy's reaction to Beyonce wanting him to say her name.
21.listen to Debussy trying to say her name.
22.listen to Beyonce kick it with Debussy.
23.imagine how he would say her name, with what 3 notes?
24.close your eyes.
25.hear the notes.
26.open your eyes.
27.go to nature and say the person's name.

the vingle

Hair, like any other part of the body becomes an outlet for whatever pressures/events occur. Fixation of a body part is reactive in that it assists in (impulsively or extensively) coping with unresolved pressures. Style, as an outlet that owes itself to gratification driven by other causes, distracts the body from fixation; it avoides resolution and attaches onto anything that also contributes to the pressures in symmetrical momentum.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6255334.stm

'Overwhelming'
Anticipation has been running high ever since the design, which combines a phone with music player, camera and internet browser, all controlled by a touch screen, was unveiled in January.
Jessica Rodriguez, who was third in line having queued since Tuesday morning, was overjoyed to have the iPhone in her hands at last.
You like it from the first minute you touch it
Norbert Pauli
"It feels great, oh my God, overwhelming. I never thought this day would come - and now it finally has, it's mind-blowing," she said.
"We got no sleep with the rain and the dump trucks going back and forth. I'm going to go home and sleep and play with my phone a little bit."
She plans to give the second handset - Apple will let each customer buy only two - to her sister.
All those who buy the iPhone must activate it via iTunes, so no-one was able to call from their new handset as they left the Apple store.
But Norbert Pauli, a German working at the UN in New York, said he had been impressed by the phone's easy handling even from the little he had been able to do so far.
"The Mac community has waited for so many months and read so many reports. It does feel exactly how it should feel," he said.
"It's a masterpiece of craftsmanship, polished aluminium - the weight and size, it just feels great. You like it from the first minute you touch it."

Nag Kanta Para sa Dios.

What occurs in the karaoke-interior changes the quality of sound and experience all together. Karaoke (empty-orchestra) as cultural apparatus; to view what surrounds the machine, a center that collects an audience to reflect back on itself. How many voices have entered and left the moment through subjective relation to the song? By singing, one's job, occupation, etc. is projected into the means (karaoke) and released back into the environment which supplies and prolongs it. The kitschy background also contributes to temporal hope and execution of stress in that it has no cultural relevance to the environment whatsoever; it passively supports the exterior and stimulates the singer/viewer to sing out what hasn't been fulfilled or desires to. Its temporality can motivate the release of pressures or accumulate them; either way, its limitation doesn't exceed what it 'serves'--to 'gather people together' in the form of an 'empty orchestra' where no one is listening but those that equally participate in a neutral form which mirrors the environment through sound.

An ideal communist resort

Hotel offers 'East German chic'

East German authenticity does not extend to the bed linen
The Berlin Wall may be long gone but communist East Germany lives on in the form of lovingly maintained Trabant cars and now an old-fashioned hotel.
"Ostel" takes its guests back to some time before 1989 - an era of ugly brown and orange wallpaper, spartan furnishings and Politburo portraits.

The hotel, which opened in Berlin in May, offers guests a choice of rooms in the style of the old eastern bloc.

The "Stasi Suite" is more expensive than the budget "Pioneer Camp".

The hotel is a former East German Plattenbauwohnung - the kind of mass-produced concrete apartment building that came to symbolise life in the communist bloc.


The hotel's exterior is also a reminder of the Soviet bloc
In the reception four clocks are another throwback to the "socialist" camp, showing the time in Moscow, Berlin, Havana and Beijing.

The hotel was the brainchild of two former East German circus performers, Daniel Helbig and Guido Sand.

Their concept of retro chic continues a wave of "Ostalgie" - a sense of nostalgia for some aspects of life in former East Germany, expressed in the cult status of Trabant cars and the hit film Goodbye Lenin.

The hotel founders managed to rescue communist-era furnishings from private homes and the dusty store rooms of furniture dealers.

A display case in the hotel lobby contains East German souvenirs such as plastic egg cups, chocolate GDR-Mark coins and even a rare roll of GDR toilet paper, German media report.

Guests cannot escape the party's watchful gaze, as the hotel also boasts portraits of former Socialist Unity Party leaders, such as General Secretary Erich Honecker and Prime Minister Horst Sindermann.

Denise Levertov +Twins= Double Mint Gum poem

The Secret

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

-Denise Levertov