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Sorry for this series of posts. This box only allows so many characters. Sorry to bombard you.
pastelshoal
7 years ago
I should be the one to apologise for bombarding you! I really like your site, it is organised very well and has an air of professionalism to it.
As to your beautiful language collage. I have some favourite quotes from books. I like this idea. I wouldn't even mind doing something similar for my website. Would you mind if I copied the idea? (They would be different quotes of course)
pastelshoal
7 years ago
Hey, thanks for stopping by! I totally recommend doing it, it was given to me as an assignment in the first place so I'd love if others adopt it. Do it however you want, everything on my site is Creative Commons so I it makes me extremely happy to see any of what I put out inspire others. Here's the original source for the assignment: "In his sophomore year—which turned out to be his last. At that or any other school
pastelshoal
7 years ago
Continued. "he was given an unusual term-paper assignment by his English teacher. She instructed the class to produce not a piece of original writing but a collage in which they were to reproduce as many examples of “beautiful language” as they could find. ... The thin sheets of typescript were coffee-stained and bum- marked, already starting to fox; they were penciled in my father’s hand, at places where he had
pastelshoal
7 years ago
screwed up the page numbers, with apologetic marginalia: “Prime goof: two 13’s”; “Skipped #15, sorry another goof”; “Another numerical muff." When I looked at it, I realized that my father had spoken to me about this paper once, in the car. l was about fourteen. He mentioned it with pride, as one of the best things he had ever written, which stuck out (he usually apologized for his newspaper articles, when he showed
pastelshoal
7 years ago
them to me, saying, “Remember, ’tis merely a squib”). Of course, he had not written the paper, not really. But what struck me, when | read it, was that almost all of the writers whose work my father was devoted to throughout his life— Faulkner, Bellow, Twain, Agee, Merton, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas—were there, and he had compiled it when he was twenty-one. Passages I had heard him rhapsodize about, such as the
pastelshoal
7 years ago
in Huckleberry Finn when Huck decides, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell," or the “Caddy smells like trees” scene from The Sound and the Fury, or the passage in The Adventures of Augie March where Augie says that he wants to lick the inside of his dead father’s ashtray—they were all represented. In its way, the collage—entitled simply “Beautiful Language”—is a little piece of brilliance: transcribed dialogue from
pastelshoal
7 years ago
On the Waterfront is juxtaposed with a verse from the Gospel According to St. Luke. A paragraph from André Schwarz—Bart’s The Last of the Just leads into some lines from Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”: So it must have been after the birth of the simple light In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
As to translations. I did a course during honours year. We usually read four or five different translations of the one work, and they were often very different, to the point that the meaning was often subtly changed, or even bits left out (or added?)
pastelshoal
7 years ago
That's an interesting approach. Reading multiple translations (although tedious) might lead to a better synthesis of the overall content. In an academic setting, this method makes a lot of sense.
readingproject
7 years ago
To be clearer, we often read different versions of a work. They all seemed to be translations. The Faustus legend, for example: Marlowe, Mann, Goethe, even Lord Byron's "Manfred". Also things like Antigone. A book I reviewed recently, Home Fire, is an Antigone story, for example
Just went through your whole website. I love the photography. Some of it is quite haunting. The ruined room with the noose is ominous. I did super8 in a film course at university. Ours had to be short documentaries with sound and were in colour. It's an interesting experience actually cutting film.
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pastelshoal
7 years ago
Thank you again for your kind words. That room also freaked me out at first, though the noose was much too close to the ground for it to have been used for its associated purpose. Maybe hazing? And yeah, the process of truly cutting up your film to edit is just something that cannot be properly replicated in the digital world.
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arkmsworld
7 years ago
I do appreciate getting to see art I probably wouldn't ordinarily come across. I also think I like Doig...a lot. :)
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nbodyproblem
7 years ago
Glad to hear that my nerdings are appreciated! Doig is great, especially if you can see his works in full scale. He bases his style on people like Max Beckmann and C D Friedrich, but a better contemporary equivalent might be David Hockney's landscapes from a few years ago. In case you like googling art ;-)
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arkmsworld
7 years ago
Oh, thanks for the Hockney suggestion. His work is so vibrant and full of motion. Would be a kick to be able to step into one of his paintings and be carried along to the end of the path... :)
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nbodyproblem
7 years ago
just with a normal scanner. There are some special techniques for vulnerable materials, but I just smash them on the glass and hope for the best.
Updated the Joe Gould entry, gushed about Lotte Reiniger and posted a previous attempt at replicating Christiane Lohr. That's one day's worth of work.
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Very much so :) If I had all the time in the world, I might try to do photography like he did. However as it stands, I don't have the patience to put as much work into my photos as he did! Still, he's definitely one of my biggest inspirations.
He's pretty rad. And your photos are already at a pretty high standard, too! I find the b/w ones stronger, but color photography is a whole different dimension. I couldn't do what you do with it.
Also, on the translated lit text: There are genuine efforts by some groups to acknowledge translators as authors themselves and credit them accordingly. Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, when translated to German, was 500 pages longer (that's probably owed to the German language; I don't believe the translator invented new parts) and took around 5 years in total because the translator was so thorough.
I'd be behind mentioning the translators as co-authors because it would establish that a novel changing languages also changes in style and content.
Yeah, there is definitely a totally different methodology behind colour and I have only really experimented with it. I took a look at your page, and I think your polaroids are excellent, most of my stuff is from me being in the right place at the right time but you're out there doing creative things with the medium and that's really cool. Not to mention your paintings and drawings, which are lovely.
And yeah, for sure we should start to acknowledge translators more than the often small acknowledgement on the first page of a novel.
Thank you! I'm an avid collector or old polaroid cameras and I just love the fragility of the photographs. It's like playing with a portable chemistry set. And well, my drawings - working on a bunch of new ones right now. Let's see where that goes.