SCORE FOR MICROSPHAERIC HOWARD HUGHES HEAVEN MOVIE, COMMISSIONED FOR GENERATION: 25 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SCOTLAND AND STAGED AT NY ART BOOK FAIR, MoMA PS1, 2014

I have no idea what you're constructing, but that thing you're working on and your tools are so beautiful that I'll just go ahead and watch all the videos.
Innuya 1 year ago

were are you in kansas i live in kcmo and i have been flintknapping for a little over a year and looking for other knappers near by
MrROCKRobster in reply to phoenixofthewolf 1 year ago

I'd love to have just a few of the flakes you dropped.
ConnerPlainLiving 2 years ago

Percussion Biface 1
Uploaded by paleomanjim on Jun 22, 2007
Category:
Howto & Style
Duration 9.55

There is camera noise and intermittent birdsong. It­­­­­­­'s a locked-off shot. The camera is positioned above and to the right of a man's lap. We see only his arms - well built, middle aged, tanned with blond hairs - and his legs in blue trousers. We don't ever see his face. He is called Paleomanjim and his location is Laguna Niguel, Southern California. I know this because I looked up his username on another forum. He holds in his lap a large spall of shiny black rock. He tells us what kind of rock it is, it's dimensions, that it also gets called black butter, that it is pretty much flawless material and that it flakes with a high degree of predictability. For the next 117 minutes he diligently knocks flakes off the rock, pushing them off his lap onto the floor. He mentions these flakes are useful for forming smaller tools. Before each blow, he provides an explanation of what he hopes that blow to achieve. After each blow, he analyses whether it achieved its objective in the context of the entire mass. He talks in detail about creating 'platforms' on the rocks surface. The video is broken down into 13 parts because of bitrate. The rock gradually gets smaller and more defined, eventually becoming a biface. 

There's someone in Glasgow, a friend of a friend, called If, he's a dealer and he's kept an archive of each kind of e from 1990 onward. Just one or two of each pill, with their indented motifs standing in for their names. Some kinds have crumbled, the denser varieties have lasted on. 

We didn't begin in the brain, but in the feet. It was only when we stood up that the hands and mouth were freed from grasping. So language developed: another prosthesis. Erect posture determines a new system of relations. The freeing of the hand during locomotion is also that of the face from its grasping functions. The hand will necessarily call for tools, movable organs. The tools of the hand call necessarily for the language of the face. Tools for the hand, language of the face, these are twin poles of the same apparatus. [1]

Interviewer:  Do you think any…uh, hearing loss happens because of the noise level of the club?

Girl:  Temporarily. Like it happens to me all the time (takes gum out). I used to live on 145th street, Riverside Drive. And, I’d leave here… when I first started working here they were taping um volume two. And the music was so loud, and I hadn’t been used to it you know that…. I’d take the subway home and my ears would ring to like 110th street from like, 2nd street, you know. So. But, you know. You get get used to it after a while, it doesn’t bother you any more. Like, I can speak, I can hold, carry on a conversation with the other barmaid Maureen, you know, perfectly. But if I talk to someone else who’s not used to being in here they’re like what what what, you know they can’t hear you at all. But you know your ears become accustomed to it after a while, like i can speak with Maureen, perfectly you know.


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I'm in a plane. It's a night flight. The lights have just been dimmed but there must to be a fault because they suddenly come on again very bright, then dim, then bright, then dim. Each time it happens people tut and sigh. After a while it settles to dim. I put on my Beyerdynamic DT700 headphones, buckeye logo, love in harvard, logitech 1 x 700, lord of illusion, finger labrinths, reef snails, drum stacker, mamiya c, maori pictures, mechanical jacks, jester aceh, tsunami, pacush blues, homes floor plans, louis vuitton laptop case, joanie mitchell, goodyear wrangler ats, heart shaped bed, gt ford mustang, hand chain hoists, pictures of queen cleopatra, mikea britanie, neo sunglasses, milling cutters, kingfisher blue, picture of ford f650, picture of piano, alex gray art, pictures of evergreen trees, ohio state, ferret homes, microsphaeric, howard hughes, heaven movie, patio hauler, joseph massino, mouse pad design, pacush blues, mamiya c, maori pictures, mechanical jacks, how to do eye make up, monte carlo body kit, cretification, lifesaver candies, nibbler, natalie walker, negative attitude, marie antionette pictures, kenwood receiver, pierrette, metal can, mica capacitor, ntsc waveform, admiricon, kodak dcs620, marble tile flooring, mars photos, martinique art, load28, load22, load18, load24, load21, nescafe gold, manger, hollywoodforevercemetary, day 302, minimalsunday, jiji, winterinbruch, torontozombiewalk, torontozombiewalk 2012, ­heavenly bodies, globalnoise 


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In the final 50 seconds of Percussion Biface 13, the man says that the tape is getting low, that he will call it good enough and that he has spent near two hours on this. He rotates the biface slowly. He says he is trying to centre it in the viewfinder, and that he doesn't know whether he will edit it as it takes so darn long to edit and he's kind of new at this stuff but it's got a fair flaking pattern, be easy enough to finish up and make a pretty nice looking blade out of it. Again he says we'll call it good enough, then puts the biface down, twists round and quickly moves the camera up and outward, away from him. 

So I went with K and his friend to an old-school gay bar on market street down by the port. It was older men smoking on bar stools. The lights in there were bright, like when it’s last orders except it wasn’t. We went on to a gay club nearby. It felt good, but I wasn’t used to dancing to music which wasn’t seamless. I wasn’t used to each song being a separate unit. And we faced each other when we danced. 

Some minutes later, a stewardess comes and speaks to me, though I don't at first realise she is addressing me because of the music. I catch words - something about the sun. I remove my headphones and she repeats what she has just said but this time in French. Though I don't know French, I understand. Please close your blind. There will soon be sunshine. I turn to my right and close it. I put my headphones back on, and eyemask. 

Projectionist starts 16mm projector on the word ‘eyemask’. A film composed of alternating black and white frames projects onto a Sharp GF77 boombox on the stage. A figure in a black and white Nike hoodie walks in from the left, puts a tape in the boombox, presses play, then walks back to her seat in the audience. The tape says this:

in this video you can see my bf and me in the same kind of nike classics (sizes eur 45 and eur 42). can you read the messages?? :-P

A figure sits on a pine single bed. The figure is facing forward, top half severed and concealed by the top of the frame. Only the legs are visible; black tracksuit trousers with a black and white Adidas stripe down the side of each leg. On the feet are a pair of brand new white Nike trainers. The legs swing lightly in small circles. After 18 seconds a second figure walks into the frame from the right. This figure is wearing the same trainers, but with white tracksuit trousers elasticated at the ankles. White sits on the bed beside black. There is some subtle footplay between the two, continuing until 1.28 when black’s left trainer is removed using the feet of both figures. White presses down on the shoe with his foot then slides it, with its trainer on, into the empty trainer. Black presses his socked foot against White’s trainer before eventually sliding the trainer off with his foot. White now slides the extra trainer off his foot. There are now two empty trainers on the floor in front of them. Using their feet, they both slide the two trainers round so they face the same direction, press them with their feet, and then slide their feet back into the alternate trainers. Everything appears as it did at the start except that they are now wearing one of each others trainers. They both stand up side by side facing the camera, before turning to face each other. White slides his feet between Blacks feet. Black then presses his right trainer down onto White’s left trainer. They then both walk slowly backward, exiting either side of the frame. 

Tape ends. Film ends.

[1] Technics and Time,1: The Fault of Epimetheus by Bernard Stiegler, 1994