- went to Photographers’ Gallery (Soho archives, and Dryden Goodwin who remided me a lot of facial recognition graphs) and the Saatchi Exhibition (Revolution Continues - a very figurative selection of chinese artists - the piece in the “cellar” was the most exciting). Later in the day: went to the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition; saw (mainly and amongst other things) agrifashionista.tv and Urbania’s installation: a red room reporting on their various experiments about communal life and projects.
- went to the Friday’s DotDotDot lecture at Somerset House; link: DDD17 / talk.
- some quick notes:
- William James ‘Pragmatism’ published in 1907
- Naive Set of Theory DDD15 - “passing books with notes” (made me think about dogeared books; read below; I will probably add it later to the DBooks website)
- the notions of Rationalism (w), Empirism (w), Pragmatism (w)
- Gödel ‘On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia ’ published in 1931 in Vienna(google books)
- Einstein said that “one of the most interesting thing of working in the university of (Berkeley?) was the discussion with Gödel on the way back home” - or something like this.
- the notion of Naive, Intuition
- Paul R Halmos ‘Naive Set Theory’
- thought about making a website which like Dog Eared Books would list the films i like, quoting them; a sort of personnal memory. It comes from the fact that this year we have been increasingly watching more and more films every week (Amandine being back at university, we have access to the LCC’s library and their DVDs - just great!)
- watched (amongst other DVDs) ‘A Pervert Guide to Cinema’ - an interresting documentary on perversion trough a couple of selected movies; more specially: this documentary is a very nice Republishing piece along with commentaries: trying to organise the Tlktlk discussion on the topic of republishing and to set a list of guests.
- discovered about Edgser Dijkstra self re publication and Piet Schreuders’ Furore via Pierre.
- went yesterday to the Social Pasta: Maki, Kajsa, Alex (the rich one), Bearen and Momoko were cooking while we watched 2 films: one 20 minutes documentary by les Blanks ‘Werner Herzog eats his shoes’ (YouTube 1, 2) and Errol Morris’ film: Gates of Heaven. Amazing combination and the food as usual was incredible!. And they all had really nice shoes…
* the documentary is a beautiful support and encouragement at self initiated projects.
- Werner Herzog: “I am more and more convinced that the only alternative to film making is cooking. Maybe there’s another alternative which is walking”.
He also said “I don’t believe you have the guts (to make your film), but if you do it, I come to brooklyn eat my shoes when you show the film”.
