Longfellow Gardens

Longfellow Gardens
Originally uploaded by Kurt Peters

Day at the Lakes

Day at the Lakes
Originally uploaded by Kurt Peters

Pain

We will always accept well intentioned pain much more readily than unintentional pain.

Washburn Park Water Tower

Washburn Park Water Tower
Originally uploaded by Kurt Peters

The Topology of Information

We are recognized through channels but we are known through streams.

A Sense of Place

We can't control what we remember or why. I'm not talking about traumatic or dramatic events but rather innocuous moments that we hardly gave a second thought to while they happened yet years later we are able to recall them with such vivid recollection. One could say this is just a function of aging but I believe these spaces whether we can physically return to them or not orientate our spiritual compass. It is a place our soul remembers, that we take with us.

Lately I've been returning to the Erb Park Pool in Appleton Wisconsin. There's one there now but the one I remember has long ago been torn down. Yet the memories are so real. I'm smelling the chlorine and feel it stinging my eyes. The feel of the slippery blue pool bottom under my feet contrasting the rough stone concrete that surrounds the pool. I can see the dappled sunlight through the trees beyond the pool and hear noise of the life guards whistle above the ambiance of yelling and splashing.

It's not remembering so much as it is a conscious dreaming.

The Saturation Point

I have to wonder if the current crisis in the America auto industry and slow down in the industry as a whole is due in some part market saturation. Given that cars are better built and lasting longer, sooner or later everyone that can afford one already has one. And the developing markets aren't there in this global recession.


Unless this is some major advance in technology I doubt that all the marketing and cup holders in the world will be enough to move the product.

Had Unexpected Company Today

Cause you can't have too many cat photos on the web.

We Haven't Begun to See Change.

We haven’t realized what is in store for us. All the current models, including Obama’s Alinsky model of governance really don’t take into account the epistemology enabled by the internet. I do believe in a free people’s ability to self organize and enact change. The internet has only begun to change politics.

We are still in the dark ages. The Enlightenment is yet to come.

Is Photography Art

The question should be put "Can any medium be Art." And of course it can but I believe there is much more freedom to be had if photography was not considered art but a craft.

This distinction is important because just as anyone can make a photograph so to anyone can anyone make a table. What makes one table worth more than another table is the same thing that makes one photograph more than another one. That a craft should somehow be beneath an art is why our modern world is so ugly, to say nothing of it's tables and photographs.

Photography in it's purest sense is a narrow medium. It is limited by so many constraints. I make the distinction of pure photography as opposed to say pictorial photography which might as well be oil painting. Nothing wrong with that but given the choice of looking at a nice oil painting and a highly manipulated photograph I'll go with the painting every time.

The Benefits of America

All Americans want to take part in America’s benefits but sooner than later everyone is going to feel what those benefits are going to cost. That the President of the United States of America is telling us to cover our mouths when we cough should give you a hint of what is coming.

America has never benefited from prescriptive authority.

Swearing

There are people you can swear around and there are people you can't. But don't say "What the Heck" around them or they'll be on to you.