Comments on: Technologically boring, trivially awesome

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:03:06 +0000

Ben, hmm, intrigued by (and skeptical of the deliciousness quotient of) that powder. I know you’ll find a way to incorporate it into a wonderful shake.

Antony, with your mad blogging skills, it is time to embrace video—if not for your country, for your active blog. I don’t fear for your theoretical children, but, you know, children are the future. Let’s teach them well (about video) and let them lead the way…

By: Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:11:56 +0000

As somebody who sees himself as pretty web savvy – yes, we Australians do enjoy the vices of the www – the thoughts above make me wonder if I need to get my shit together. Finding connections between the West and the rest is, for me at least, one of the key challenges of our age. Thus far, we ain’t doing too well, but blogging/translations are helping.
Oh, if/when I have kiddies, I suspect they’ll be filmed up the wazoo (aka too often to make them normal.)

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:36:32 +0000

Amanda: I’ll add only that the act of twittering, a kind of temporal suspension, is a way of savoring, of refusing to let the moment pass–both then and there but also for others who would otherwise, as Kristen points out, miss it or at least its exciting immediacy.

Kristen: That takes me back to the Serendipity iced hot chocolate–and to superfoods, and to the many nutritional fads to which I’ve hitched my sail. Btw, I forgot to show you my new Superfood powder complete with mushroom extracts. More soon.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:58:36 +0000

Thanks, Amanda and Ben; it’s fun to see two artists and scholars (and foodies!) thinking through this here.

Amanda, I was talking to someone in D.C. this weekend about a moment I had when she interrupted me to say, “oh, right, I remember that tweet.” So I understand the need to reserve and work through some things before sharing (and I know you draw on lived experiences in your improv work).

I am remembering, though, a little bit of video you included a few months back about a tree, I think, at a gallery? It added so much for me, and I’m glad you included it to enrich the blog post (which may have taken a while to post).

I hadn’t posted the brief video of my dinner with Ben on Saturday night before his comment above. There should be less me, more Ben, more pork belly–but it is what it is, and I was glad to share it.

I’ve tagged it so that we can remember how much fun it was to order the delicious kobe meatballs, the toro, the watermelon drink and sake—and who knows if someone else will find it and decide to eat at Ten? If we’ll look back, if, say, the restaurant closes in a few years (it happens) and be glad for this brief bit of video.

Ben, I’m all for surreptitiousness. And serendipity.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:20:35 +0000

Ben: I think they are, for me. I can see how sharing could be a form of ‘gestation’ for some people – how you could twitter a bunch of observations and then weave them into an essay, for example. But for me, instead of feeling an incremental buildup towards something bigger, I end up feeling spent. It’s like I need to conserve my expressive energy, if that makes any sense.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:43:16 +0000

Amanda: Are gestation and sharing mutually exclusive? I think I do both. And quite frequently I don’t share that I’m twittering with those around me. So, I end up savoring the surreptitiousness, not simply the content.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:08:45 +0000

I’ve heard several times recently the idea that limitations breed creativity. But I have to gently disagree that these ‘content shots’ are gold or awesome, unless maybe you know the people in them. Similarly, I lost interest in Twitter because there is a certain potency in savoring the moments I used to “tweet” and letting them gestate before sharing them in some sort of artistic form. When every private moment and impulse is shared they become less meaningful to me, somehow, not more. Maybe *that* is the limit that I prefer – the holding back, first, before sharing. Very thought-provoking post!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:12:03 +0000

Just made it public on Flickr here, Ben.

Always lovely to have dinner with you—particularly as we courted decadence with every order—

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:03:44 +0000

kthread caught me on cam consuming kobe meatballs, pork belly and watermelon martinis. our darkened haunt might have kept the feast from appearing here, but i assure her readers its extravagance was catching and worth catching.