You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
There were no photos of them, but they were there in the pictures of trees behind their houses, the fields where they worked, the river they fished, the church where they testified, the joints where they drank. (TM)
LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector
Our idea is to develop a state-of-the-art and modular 16mm film projector using only open-source technologies and non-proprietary/commonly available spare parts. We believe that especially the central mechanical elements of the old projectors – claw mechanism, shutter wheel and film transport – are in most cases so well engineered that a new development here would be a waste of time and energy. Instead, we want to build the projector on the basis of an existing – and easily available – projector mechanism. The same applies to the optics: lenses that are compatible with projectors made by Eiki, Bauer, Bell & Howell and Hokushin are available worldwide in good condition. This projector should cater to the needs of contemporary film artists, archivists and projectionists alike.
1. Don’t connect your TV to the internet.
If you keep the Wi-Fi off, the TV can’t send data to manufacturers or advertisers. Use a laptop or trusted device for streaming instead. If the TV stays offline forever, the data it collects never leaves the device.
2. Turn off ACR settings.
Dig through the menus and disable everything related to viewing info, advertising, and personalization. Look for settings like “Live Plus” or “Viewing Information Services.” Be thorough. These options are often buried.
3. Use dumb displays.
It’s almost impossible to buy a non-smart TV today. The market is flooded with “smart” everything. But a few dumb projectors still exist. And some monitors are safer too, though they don’t go to TV sizes yet.
The merveilleux-scientifique genre (aeon.co)
The beauty of what we do is its secrecy, its smallness. (TM)
For my people walking blindly spreading joy, losing time
being lazy, sleeping when hungry, shouting when
burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied, and shackled
and tangled among ourselves by the unseen creatures
who tower over us omnisciently and laugh;
[…]
For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way
from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding,
trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people,
all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations;
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born.
Margaret Walker, “For My People”
The subjunctive is a lovely mood (Joshua Clover)
Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics. (Aaliyah Bilal’s Temple Folk. Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson)
space, too, is a temporal concept. Paul Klee, Creative Confession and Other Writings
