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Morning
The cognitive responsibility of tape
After some time, the VAX crashed. It was on a service contract, and Digital was called. Laura Creighton was not called although she was on the short list of people who were supposed to be called in case of problem. The Digital Field Service engineer came in, removed the disk from the drive, figured it was then okay to remove the tape and make the drive writeable, and proceeded to put a scratch disk into the drive and run diagnostics which wrote to that drive.
Well, diagnostics for disk drives are designed to shake up the equipment. But monkey brains are not designed to handle the electrical signals they received. You can imagine the convulsions that resulted. Two of the monkeys were stunned, and three died. The Digital engineer needed to be calmed down; he was going to call the Humane Society. This became known as the Great Dead Monkey Project, and it leads of course to the aphorism I use as my motto: You should not conduct tests while valuable monkeys are connected, so “Always mount a scratch monkey.”
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“Lots of westerners came out to Afghanistan to help the Afghans become a modern democracy. [T]here is an art expert who has come to teach them about Conceptual Art. [She] starts with a group of young Afghan artists watching film of an installation in a western gallery, then she shows them Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 urinal.
She is very keen to get them to say that if anyone did what Duchamp did in today’s Afghanistan then they would be put in prison. It is interesting that the Afghans in the room, though they are polite, seem to disagree.” – From Kabul: City Number One – Part 10 by Adam Curtis
Untitled 2.4
Forms of differentiation
Untitled I: Street Art in the Counter Culture; Untitled Vol.1; Untitled II. The Beautiful Renaissance: Street Art and Graffiti; Untitled Vol.2; Untitled II: The Beautiful Renaissance; Untitled Vol.3; Almost Famous Untitled: Boot Cut (W/CD) (Ws) [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]; Untitled/Unissued; Untitled Sookie 11: A True Blood Novel; Untitled (People & Dolphins), 1983 Keith Haring Art 60x80cm Art Print; Inferno Club Untitled 3; Untitled; Untitled 3; Untitled Vandal(Ism) # Finale – Graced The Beautiful Day [DVD]; Untitled Spenser Holiday Novel (Spenser Mystery); Untitled on Empathy Erosion; Korn: Untitled; Untitled #2 [Explicit]; Untitled Julia Quinn 2; “Untitled” Mixed Media Artwork by Gilmore; Untitled on Democracy and the Internet; Untitled Essays; Untitled: +DVD; Untitled; Untitled; Untitled Wiliam Brodrick; Untitled #23; Untitled Rankin 2 of 2; Untitled Composition 1 [DVD]; Untitled 2; Posters: Keith Haring – Untitled Art Print (50 x 120 cm); Untitled; Untitled Vampire Federation 2; Untitled Amanda Quick 2 (Arcane Society Series); Untitled 15; Untitled; Untitled; Iain Gale WWII Untitled 1; Bathory (2008) ( Untitled Juraj Jakubisko Project ); Untitled 5 Song Ep; Untitled Elizabeth Chadwick 2011; Photographic Print of Untitled 49.jpg from Mirror Photos; Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills.
Sync in progress
The sync, started 1 hour and 25 minutes earlier, finished at exactly 1am.
Mole man
William Lyttle, digger of a network of tunnels under his house, monikered the Mole Man of Hackney and recently found dead in the temporary accommodation he was forcibly relocated to by a structurally concerned council, remained elusive when questioned about his troglodytic behaviour. Often cloaking his reasoning in humour, he offered, amongst others, the following explanations for the 100 cubic meters of earth he displaced while tunnelling 20m in every direction from his house:
- To dig towards the local bank and rob it (only to find that when he arrived it had become a wine bar).
- To dig a wine cellar, which then doubled in size and then doubled again.
- To extend his basement to incorporate a leisure centre with sauna.
- To hit the water table – the lowest you can get.
- Home improvement.
Montage
Soundtrack: dark, ethereal goth male vocal over echoey guitar soundscape with heavy synth melody.
Busy city street, night. Blue filter. Male character wearing long dark overcoat, collar turned up, head bowed, crosses street and walks towards camera. Taxi breaks, horn beeps. Hand raised in acknowledgement, steps back to allow taxi to pass; quickens pace, continues across street. Fade out.
Fade in. Tracking. Walking along pavement. Vivid reflections in shop windows of other people on the street. Split screen. On left, a continuation of previous tracking shot. On right, a static one of the reflections of passers by over the display in a book shop window. Cut.
Walking up stairs to apartment. Camera remains at bottom of well, cut when out of shot.
Cut to inside of apartment: checks messages on answer machine, throws keys in bowl and jacket on floor. Panning, following to kitchen. Cut to three quarter view of refrigerator. Apart from condiments and a carton of orange juice the refrigerator is empty. The door is not shut properly and swings back open after character walks away. Linger on crack of light. Sound of toilet flushing. Fade out.