New Cities/New Soviets

August 16, 2005

NOT BORED ENOUGH!

some sour anarchists like to pronounce themselves not bored. so what then? you're in pain? you're mad? big deal. I say we're NOT BORED ENOUGH!

but maybe we're getting there...

NYC: the event

two thoughts at once...

...some people feel like Manhattan should just happen to them, like they don't have to work at it at all. I see this at the cart every night. "I'm here, I'm ready, I'm watching, I'm waiting....why isn't it happening for me/to me/for me to see." watchers and head nodders. chin strokers, shoe gazers, getting wasted night after night. dissatisfied but never bored. anguished but never letting the itch get down in the bone.


...it's been a while since 9-11. people are starting to come out from under the shock, skin itching ready to be scraped clean. a new body growing underneath the scab. healing does not return us to our old body.


Boredom is the rebirth, innocent desire for something new, the sputtering start of creation. what better for PB function?

what else are you looking for? why freight this feeling with your tired ideology, Mr?


DO NOT CONFUSE BOREDOM AND CAPTIVITY

if you cannot leave work, cannot do something else, are forced...


DO NOT CONFUSE BOREDOM AND RESENTMENT

quashed anger is not boredom. swallow your rage and it will poison you.


WE NEED TO BE BORED BETTER, FASTER, at a HIGHER FREQUENCY


think of the productivity!


EXPECT GOOD THINGS THIS AUTUMN. WHEN THE CITY COMES BACK TO LIFE, WE WILL BE BORED. WE WILL MAKE NEW THINGS BECAUSE NO-ONE ELSE IS MAKING THEM FOR US.

Posted by Sam on 06:19 AM | Comments (0)

August 11, 2005

surveillance

"For the Police Department operationally, it was a success by any measure," the commissioner says, sitting in the conference room turned command center on the top floor of One Police Plaza, where six wide-screen, high-definition TVs streamed live feeds from the Fuji blimp, from police copters, and from cameras mounted on buildings, including four atop the Garden itself.

Some people like to complain about surveillance.

I think that there are too few public eyes.


People reacted oddly when I asked to take photos of them.

They often refused, or got mad at me when I did it without asking.


This guy yelled at me.

Why do they care? I wondered.

But I guess I know why.

"What are you going to use the picture for?" I asked a guy who was taking pictures of me one night cleaning up the cart with my dad. We all want to be able to control the way we appear to others.

That's why the idea of surveillance is such a big creep-out.

But let's fight the over-seers, not their cardboard cut-outs.

Turn the cameras back, too. Police stations should be the most heavily surveilled places. "Nothing to fear unless you're guilty, boys!"

Now when I take pictures, I just hold the camera in my hand. People associate "taking a picture" with holding the camera up to your face. Don't do this, practice a little distraction, and a new technique is born. New technique=new product.

Posted by Sam on 02:28 AM | Comments (0)