This one had me scratching my head. I think I understand that death is everyone’s A-lister (loose translation: we all work in its shadow), but what’s with the title?
At first I thought of the movie, but I can’t see the tie-in, unless it’s something like, “life is short, don’t live according to other people’s templates”.
At the risk of spoiling the art, the artist himself will attempt to explicate:
Jeneane, whom I love dearly and who meant only the best by her comment, said — at Shelley’s — something about how if I graduated to the A-list, I would be one of the good ones, a “doc”… hence “The Graduate.” Now remember, this is all simply structured imagery and there isn’t a one-to-one tie-in of intentionality for each symbol and each meaning that might attach. But…
Madame Levy, an artist of my acquaintance (who happens to own a scanner, but that’s another story) … Madame Levy, another person I love and trust, teased me with a post where she linked to Jeneane’s comment. I commented on that post, suggesting that I would love to graduate in full academic regalia carrying a staff, perhaps a caduceus. The whole Snakes on a plane thing was starting to emerge, but I quickly repressed those images, and in a second comment, suggested that perhaps I should carry a scythe.
On some levels seeking readership, and certainly link whoring is death, and I’ve been walking a fine line. If you look at my work over the last five years you will see that I always have been a huge outlinker, and in some ways this has paid off in terms of people who reciprocate and/or have become aware of my blog. But now that the concept of exchanging links to build traffic is emerging in the puke-iferous Arringtonian context, my own practices are starting to seem sort of cheap and link whorish, especially since I really would like to build traffic here and amuse more people and hear more applause and all.
So regarding your question about oblique references, Melinda… it’s really all about me. Isn’t it?
Very becoming academic regalia!
Is this what happens to people who start blogs — they evolve to link whoring, wanting more readers for attention and applause? Where does it all stop? Only the grim reaper knows. Is this sorta like selling your soul??
Re: whether your blogging style (lots of links) is now tainted by web 2.0 nonsense: just ignore it and keep doing what you’ve always done. (Unless you’re bored of it.)
I used the word “content” in a post the other day and realized it was starting to make my skin crawl. And it’s a perfectly good word. So I’m not going to hold it against Content.
(I think so). Here’s the filosofo plug-in. Pretty rudimentary, doesn’t support preview of marked up comments for examples…
It’s configurable, they say… so I’ll play around with it later. Meanwhile, I had to kick tires on a few others, but this seems to work best of the ones I tried for a quick and dirty solution.
(stupid me) I had a typo in the link to filosofo so I thought the plug-in wasn’t working.
Okay, so the presentation remains plug-ugly, but the functionality is there. I might nicely-up the style of the preview page later, but here’s your preview, Sour Duck!
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This one had me scratching my head. I think I understand that death is everyone’s A-lister (loose translation: we all work in its shadow), but what’s with the title?
At first I thought of the movie, but I can’t see the tie-in, unless it’s something like, “life is short, don’t live according to other people’s templates”.
Enlightenment…?
(Meant to add: ‘academic regalia’ also ties into the title. Is there a blogger you’re obliquely referring to here?)
At the risk of spoiling the art, the artist himself will attempt to explicate:
Jeneane, whom I love dearly and who meant only the best by her comment, said — at Shelley’s — something about how if I graduated to the A-list, I would be one of the good ones, a “doc”… hence “The Graduate.” Now remember, this is all simply structured imagery and there isn’t a one-to-one tie-in of intentionality for each symbol and each meaning that might attach. But…
Madame Levy, an artist of my acquaintance (who happens to own a scanner, but that’s another story) … Madame Levy, another person I love and trust, teased me with a post where she linked to Jeneane’s comment. I commented on that post, suggesting that I would love to graduate in full academic regalia carrying a staff, perhaps a caduceus. The whole Snakes on a plane thing was starting to emerge, but I quickly repressed those images, and in a second comment, suggested that perhaps I should carry a scythe.
On some levels seeking readership, and certainly link whoring is death, and I’ve been walking a fine line. If you look at my work over the last five years you will see that I always have been a huge outlinker, and in some ways this has paid off in terms of people who reciprocate and/or have become aware of my blog. But now that the concept of exchanging links to build traffic is emerging in the puke-iferous Arringtonian context, my own practices are starting to seem sort of cheap and link whorish, especially since I really would like to build traffic here and amuse more people and hear more applause and all.
So regarding your question about oblique references, Melinda… it’s really all about me. Isn’t it?
Very becoming academic regalia!
Is this what happens to people who start blogs — they evolve to link whoring, wanting more readers for attention and applause? Where does it all stop? Only the grim reaper knows. Is this sorta like selling your soul??
And the price is very low.
Ah. I see.
Re: whether your blogging style (lots of links) is now tainted by web 2.0 nonsense: just ignore it and keep doing what you’ve always done. (Unless you’re bored of it.)
I used the word “content” in a post the other day and realized it was starting to make my skin crawl. And it’s a perfectly good word. So I’m not going to hold it against Content.
(BTW can you include a preview option for comments…?)
(I think so). Here’s the filosofo plug-in. Pretty rudimentary, doesn’t support preview of marked up comments for examples…
It’s configurable, they say… so I’ll play around with it later. Meanwhile, I had to kick tires on a few others, but this seems to work best of the ones I tried for a quick and dirty solution.
(stupid me) I had a typo in the link to filosofo so I thought the plug-in wasn’t working.
Okay, so the presentation remains plug-ugly, but the functionality is there. I might nicely-up the style of the preview page later, but here’s your preview, Sour Duck!
Fantastic!