Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Setting Up Camp


"Camp art is often decorative art, emphasizing texture, sensuous surface, and style at the expense of content. 
Camp sees everything in quotation marks...
it is the love of the off,  of things-being-what-they-are-not..."
Susan Sontag,
Notes on Camp















I believe the more abstract something is, the more reality it can provide. For how are we able to calculate anything, really, when even scientific fact faces mostly the unknown? Our reason is shaped not by what we know, but what we don’t and can’t ever know…that 95% of black matter that we float in, but have no means to give order or definition to. Thus 95% of the world is abstract. And that abstraction is our reality.









Lately rappers have been using phrases such as “I need commas after my commas” and “I wake up looking for commas”. For a minute I was under the impression that the expression meant that, like the function of a grammatical comma, these rappers take pauses upon pauses when they talk. They’re so chill they don’t need to finish their sentences right away- just add another comma. Assumedly they’re so important they can have as many commas as they want since the world will just wait on them. They just comma all day,


Today’s featured artists Gordon Terry and Keith Tyson







While doing research on playgrounds again I stumbled on another reason why American children struggle with obesity. It’s because we don’t have playgrounds like this, Woods of Net, in Japan:




It’s inside this thing:











We seriously need to step up our game.












One time my friend Franny accidentally took the wrong USB stick from her classroom. While we were snooping through the archive of her classmate’s saved work, an essay entitled “A Middle School Experience” grabbed our attention. Because it began with this sentence:

“It was a chilly February morning and the air stabbed at my face like a cool knife.”

As you can imagine, the rest of the essay couldn’t compare to that. But what a hook!


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