tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.comments2023-10-20T08:53:57.790-07:00Ishmael's DogPhil Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04211181723127440566noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-70664257250507299462013-08-12T12:49:50.840-07:002013-08-12T12:49:50.840-07:00File baseSorted_file = new File(present_directory ...<br /> File baseSorted_file = new File(present_directory + "baseSorted.txt");<br /> baseSorted_file.createNewFile();<br /> System.out.println("Filepath is " + present_directory + "baseSorted.txt");<br /> baseSorted_fw = new FileWriter(baseSorted_file);<br /> baseSorted_bw = new BufferedWriter(baseSorted_fw);<br /><br /> File buildSorted_file = new File(present_directory + "buildSorted.txt");<br /> buildSorted_file.createNewFile();<br /> buildSorted_fw = new FileWriter(buildSorted_file.getAbsoluteFile());<br /> buildSorted_bw = new BufferedWriter(buildSorted_fw);<br /><br /><br /><br /> for (int myint=0;myint<20;myint++) {<br /><br /> baseSorted_bw.write("howdy");<br /> //System.out.println("Howdy yes");<br /> //baseSorted_bw.write(baseList.get(myint).toString() + "\n");<br /><br /> }<br />Phil Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211181723127440566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-90378047481491346822012-03-31T07:16:42.083-07:002012-03-31T07:16:42.083-07:00Ah, but what's the difference between lyrical ...Ah, but what's the difference between lyrical delusion and kitsch?Erin Keatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607714107888792102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-33550708869415181342012-03-12T06:23:35.478-07:002012-03-12T06:23:35.478-07:00Something to ponder, what if metaphor are a sort o...Something to ponder, what if metaphor are a sort of anchor? ... A rest stop along the journey to absorb and view the vista?<br /><br />http://bit.ly/yRcOHoK's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-17602616385929354452012-03-12T00:47:46.859-07:002012-03-12T00:47:46.859-07:00I left " novels" in there because I Am, ...I left " novels" in there because I Am, also it's a novel idea.K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-55039812665448401142012-03-11T18:19:25.916-07:002012-03-11T18:19:25.916-07:00Metaphor come in all shapes and sizes; more to the...Metaphor come in all shapes and sizes; more to the point, they have different charges, some loud, some soft, some linger and some bite..<br /><br />I'm not a novels, but I don't see why metaphors can't be made to fit.K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-14759491700424158852012-03-11T18:17:26.638-07:002012-03-11T18:17:26.638-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-12164832310759594782011-12-08T10:05:04.997-08:002011-12-08T10:05:04.997-08:00I love your defense of boldness in all its forms, ...I love your defense of boldness in all its forms, no matter how terrible!Erin Keatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607714107888792102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-81088353959583548922011-10-13T05:25:50.794-07:002011-10-13T05:25:50.794-07:00All artist struggle; even more so with fame.
True...All artist struggle; even more so with fame.<br /><br />True artists are prisoners much like Sisyphus ; pleasure, pain, beauty and it's evil twin, the rock is pushed forward, stagnates, and presses back on the impetuous .K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-9150676434022213032011-09-25T11:55:05.519-07:002011-09-25T11:55:05.519-07:00Hi Anna, I hope I get this right .
Talking about ...Hi Anna, I hope I get this right .<br /><br />Talking about the great plains , my great grand father had to abruptly leave German and come to America. I'm not Jewish and when you really think about it , there is no such thing as pure genes.<br /><br />Anyways, here you have the Germans settling on the great plains.<br /><br />The feel of it resonates in my mind most... It must have felt like being on another planet. The vastness, so much so it is known that it was like sea. You can travel for day and everything seems the same. And then you had these giant herds of buffalo and Wild indjuns,<br /><br />The great unknown baby. Head west yall!<br /><br />Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” <br />― PlatoK's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-91647716652589545742011-09-07T15:41:08.576-07:002011-09-07T15:41:08.576-07:00Cool! Can't wait to read it.Cool! Can't wait to read it.Erin Keatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607714107888792102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-15598005086549332682011-07-13T01:51:54.830-07:002011-07-13T01:51:54.830-07:00Great post! Am especially curious to read more abo...Great post! Am especially curious to read more about how Kate distinguishes a struggling artist from a successful one. Were those who are successful once struggling? Am also curious about if and how the character of NY is changing as it is increasingly gentrified. I wonder how her characters explore these issues. This interview really piqued my interest! Thank you.InHere Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731143554882951930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-8632252319171130892011-07-12T10:27:09.838-07:002011-07-12T10:27:09.838-07:00Kate is great.Kate is great.FINNABLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399185729793604770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-61660476125830224672011-07-11T17:21:55.716-07:002011-07-11T17:21:55.716-07:00"But one day -- I remember this so clearly --..."But one day -- I remember this so clearly -- I looked over the thing I was working on and felt a profound revulsion, an aesthetic nausea. I couldn't stand it another minute. That was the day I started writing "In the Drink," the day I realized that my own voice was not the one I'd been writing in all these years. I realized I'd been faking it; I had a flash of what my writing was going to be. It felt so good to switch to my real voice. It felt like taking off the training wheels and flying down a hill for the first time with no hands -- freeing, euphoric, subversive."<br /><br />I WONDER IF YOU CAN SHED YOUR OWN PAGES ?K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-76812295947111452122011-07-11T17:06:47.989-07:002011-07-11T17:06:47.989-07:00As the saying goes, a computer is only as good as ...As the saying goes, a computer is only as good as the information it gets. Unlike computers, our brain is much more of a gland . Think electrical activity "happening" through an non symmetrical vessel of gelatinous goo that shifts and changes in odd, gooy ways often at randomly .K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-42375476810112238722011-07-11T16:29:35.107-07:002011-07-11T16:29:35.107-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-2363274873068729192011-07-11T16:00:31.151-07:002011-07-11T16:00:31.151-07:00who ever wants music instead of noise, joy instead...who ever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours." <br />— Hermann Hesse<br /><br />Woody Allen Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.<br /><br />TRANSFORMERS, how many millions and numero uno at the box office, shall I say more, shit du jour!!!!!!K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-87315513863563552482011-07-11T14:38:39.121-07:002011-07-11T14:38:39.121-07:00TS Eliot: "Where is the knowledge lost in all...TS Eliot: "Where is the knowledge lost in all our information? Where is the wisdom lost in all our knowledge?"Phil Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211181723127440566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-35133359620132630822011-07-11T14:12:38.446-07:002011-07-11T14:12:38.446-07:00Winston Churchill said “
If you're not a liber...Winston Churchill said “<br />If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.<br /><br />Notice how cynical conservatives tend to be? <br /><br />Notice how cynical our data enriched world is today?<br /><br />Do we see any connection?<br /><br />In one way, we are growing up faster today, and in another way to slower. Faster about the things we shouldn’t know, and not fast enough about the things we should know. We know about sex and booze allot younger, but true responsibility, what?<br /><br />As one of my art teachers used to say, you’re all a little too smart.<br /><br />In many ways, the world has become too smart . <br /><br />How can you avoid walking backwards into the future these days? <br /><br />In art school , I can tell you how many times someone said, in essence, your work is not original it looks like X, Y, Z. …. No matter what you did, you couldn’t avoid being seen through a lens, filter or who knows what, a Psychic X Ray … <br /><br />This champion wasn’t digging it at all !<br /><br /> No matter where I went, green with yellow spots on red with white strips or red and white strips on jet black. Never seemed to get it right. Couldn’t shake my high waters!<br /><br />Anyways, back from detour .<br /><br /><br />Is smart “REALLY” about how much facts and figure you can hold in your head or is about being a babe in the enchanted forest and finding your way home?<br /><br />I think it’s about finding your way when there are no signs. But do we ever get the chance to find our way home without the confusing signs?<br /><br />Confused, or is this confusing or am I confusing?K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-1246451135499201912011-07-11T14:08:29.514-07:002011-07-11T14:08:29.514-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-62944549840058104552011-07-11T12:25:47.961-07:002011-07-11T12:25:47.961-07:00This is exactly it - I've read other interview...This is exactly it - I've read other interviews with Kate that betray her obsession with becoming/being and the quest of Quixote, the artist masquerading as knight errant, and vice versa. <br /><br />As one critic has said, What real person lives in our minds as vividly as Don Quixote? Who's more real?Phil Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211181723127440566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-26092693530240224122011-07-11T12:10:25.537-07:002011-07-11T12:10:25.537-07:00Some one asked Picasso about becoming an artist an...Some one asked Picasso about becoming an artist and he said, I don't become, I AM!K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-34728258582994380242011-07-11T11:44:10.787-07:002011-07-11T11:44:10.787-07:00I can remember walking the Hall at Art Center Coll...I can remember walking the Hall at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a split screen in my mind. To illustrate my idea:<br /><br />SCREEN A :<br /><br />http://bit.ly/pdOgwc<br /><br />EXTERIOR SHOT :<br /> The front of Art Center. Modern black box building . On it’s roof a suicidal fine art student dressed up as super chicken. Can of gas, match and bungie cord. He looks around. Is the camera rolling, yup. Puts on blue crash helmet, lights himself and jumps. <br /><br />The Oh and Ah begin, Fine art departments digs into a deep philosophical critiques .<br /><br />In essence, this sums up the fine art department .<br /><br /><br />SCREEN B:<br />In a studio room which could double as a sterile white lab. Students are going over a very life like drawing /photographic with a fine tooth comb. “ I see a loose stroke”. The other looks ,”no there isn’t”, back and forth for about an hour.<br /><br />Here, it’s all about being a technician mustarding as an artist.<br /><br />The first about rebellion, the latter about conformity, I say to myself this is not why I came here.<br /><br />We had what is called Studio Visits where in artist like Julian Schnabel and such would come into talk . Time and again I asked myself, aren’t we supposed to be talking about art?<br /><br /><br />There came a time when I looked at the Black Box on the Hill and my subconscious started humming that Talking Head song, this an’t my beautiful house, this an’t my beautiful wife, how did I get here?<br /><br />Some time down the road I realized I was trying to be an artist at an art school, how weird is that?K's Art & Patternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375570609464417610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-11403072614325292282011-07-11T08:54:38.284-07:002011-07-11T08:54:38.284-07:00Yea I like the ferocity Kate shows here; it comes ...Yea I like the ferocity Kate shows here; it comes through in her writing: stylistically, her observations, her unflinching portrayals.Phil Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211181723127440566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-7454157728455069992011-07-11T08:52:46.093-07:002011-07-11T08:52:46.093-07:00excellent reading... my favorite passage is
"...excellent reading... my favorite passage is<br />"but rather than making her sympathetic, I showed Luz as a controlling, cold, histrionic bitch. This was completely necessary to the novel..." <br /><br />Kate's not just smart... she's got teeth!Rauan Klassnikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02747804192744487009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866403080272758943.post-75511392932028899422011-07-11T08:52:02.440-07:002011-07-11T08:52:02.440-07:00Great question! I loved her response that she had ...Great question! I loved her response that she had an aesthetic revulsion. I've had that too!Lisa Chamberlainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610873746050950268noreply@blogger.com