Comments for Furious Ennui http://furiousennui.com fine art photography Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Apollo, Dionysus, Nietzsche, Bordieu and Bill Henson by Kelley http://furiousennui.com/2011/11/06/apollo-dionysus-nietzsche-bordieu-and-bill-henson/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Kelley Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:39:23 +0000 http://furiousennui.com/?p=1886#comment-67 The world-mind is seven thousand million cells, each cell a neural network of its own. These cells are held together by images; the hunger to communicate what you see lends me to consider the immense hunger for images we have, and a growing hunger it is and will likely remain. Some images will be simple mimetic transfer -- image of child with puppy transferred from one person to many is a "this is good and healthy situation", valuable for all it's reinforcement in common experience. It becomes more poignant - and thus more globally universal - when there is a strong emotion, or humour driving the image outward from the lens. At the more refined end, there is another class of thought -- dreams, the mind's right to meander and think, to reduce thoughts to their core, stripped of distractions. Dreams are the bank vaults of thought and purpose. They also glue us together, but the images must necessarily be of a more refined order, in order for the dream to remain pure enough to become part of the world mind. I will assert your abstraction of fine art photography as <i>must</i> being a more rareified form of the world-mind's thoughts than the middle- or low-brow art, because it serves an entirely different purpose. One must process a myriad of the latter form day-to-day, and because of these memetic hungers they will indeed persist, perhaps as long as we live as a species. But for a card to flip up from the deck and persist as a <i>home</i> for ideas - a nucleus of the global memory, you need a dream-quality image. I think this runs to the core of why I continue to bring up images in my visual imagination from the art showings of FuriousEnnui's.work. I don't merely experience his photgraphic imagary, I dream them. More, please, sir. The world-mind is seven thousand million cells, each cell a neural network of its own. These cells are held together by images; the hunger to communicate what you see lends me to consider the immense hunger for images we have, and a growing hunger it is and will likely remain.

Some images will be simple mimetic transfer — image of child with puppy transferred from one person to many is a “this is good and healthy situation”, valuable for all it’s reinforcement in common experience. It becomes more poignant – and thus more globally universal – when there is a strong emotion, or humour driving the image outward from the lens.

At the more refined end, there is another class of thought — dreams, the mind’s right to meander and think, to reduce thoughts to their core, stripped of distractions. Dreams are the bank vaults of thought and purpose. They also glue us together, but the images must necessarily be of a more refined order, in order for the dream to remain pure enough to become part of the world mind.

I will assert your abstraction of fine art photography as must being a more rareified form of the world-mind’s thoughts than the middle- or low-brow art, because it serves an entirely different purpose. One must process a myriad of the latter form day-to-day, and because of these memetic hungers they will indeed persist, perhaps as long as we live as a species.

But for a card to flip up from the deck and persist as a home for ideas – a nucleus of the global memory, you need a dream-quality image.

I think this runs to the core of why I continue to bring up images in my visual imagination from the art showings of FuriousEnnui’s.work. I don’t merely experience his photgraphic imagary, I dream them.

More, please, sir.

]]> Comment on A meta-blog by Kelley http://furiousennui.com/2011/09/28/a-meta-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Kelley Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:59:46 +0000 http://furiousennui.com/?p=1230#comment-13 One of the primary purposes in life (that is, those that give you the deepest sense of reward) is to gather insights. A way to do this is to present images abstracted from their original context into a new framework, one that focuses the attention on the idea unbound. Furiousennui, a close, long time and very dear friend, provides insights of a higher quality and higher frequency that most pro imagers. I have found his studies to be both insightful and deeply rewarding to view. Highly recommended. One of the primary purposes in life (that is, those that give you the deepest sense of reward) is to gather insights. A way to do this is to present images abstracted from their original context into a new framework, one that focuses the attention on the idea unbound. Furiousennui, a close, long time and very dear friend, provides insights of a higher quality and higher frequency that most pro imagers. I have found his studies to be both insightful and deeply rewarding to view. Highly recommended.

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