John Gilmore emailed us with a Breaking Bas-ass prediction. He has been rewetting all the old episodes and says the swimming pool in Walt’s back yard keeps popping up and will probably be the last shot of the final episode.
You know how sometimes you read something or hear someone express something that you is true but you have never heard it formulated so clearly. This Robert Irwin passage from the brilliant “Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees” has really stuck with me.
“As the questions go up, the performance level goes down — and that’s natural, because people don’t yet know how to act on those questions., they’re stumbling around in a fog — whereas when performance goes up the quality of the questions tends to go down. So while the objects that Kazimer Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin (Russian Constructivists) came up with may not have been particularly sophisticated as objects — they weren’t Stellas, or anything — they were absolutely loaded in other ways. Man, we’re still feeding off their questions. Those guys were soaring.”
I like the trade-off and it pretty much explains the attraction of punk rock or so-called primitive art.
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