Transcript of Percussion Biface 1-13, multi-monitor installation, 2012

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:
How to & 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 Palaeomanjim 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 of 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 hands during locomotion is also that of the face from its grasping functions. The hand will necessarily called 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]

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To the right of the window, the column of 13 thumbnails is waiting to be clicked on. In Percussion Biface 2, a geometric pattern of sunlight appears on the patio floor in the top left of the frame: an inverted shadow-grid shot through with holes of light, from the structure above him. By Percussion Biface 4, the pattern has reached his hand and the biface. In real-time, its progression is too slow for my eyes. I see it from the clips laid out in plural, the total clip in parts. By Percussion Biface 10, the shadow grid has exited the frame.

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 in 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. . But, you know. You 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.

I'm in a plane. It's a night flight. The lights have just been dimmed but there must be a fault because they suddenly come on again very bright, then dim, then bright. Each time it happens people tut and sigh. After a while it settles to dim. I put on my Beyerdynamic DT700 )))) headphones and I'm split. Sound inside, seeing outside. The headphones are good; I'm sealed in.

So I went with K and his friends 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. It wasn't instrumental, they were words. And we faced each other when we danced.

Some minutes later, a stewardess comes in and speaks to me, though I don't 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.

Percussion Biface 1
Loaded by Paleomanjim on Jun 22, 2007
Category:
How to & Style
Duration 9.55

Percussion Biface 2
Uploaded by Paleomanjim on Jun 23, 2007
Category:
How to & Style
Duration 9.54
Description: Continuation of bifacing

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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 put the biface down, twists round and quickly move the camera up and outward, away from him. With this move, a loud buzzing becomes audible which sounds like crickets. Some feet away, a structure supported by two white pillars is visible, with the geometric shadow-pattern directly beneath. The position indicates it is near midday. Beyond is a manicured lawn with a path running through it, and beyond that a rockery with many types of flowering cacti. A tall black slatted fence runs along the edge of the lawn. Beyond that is an expansive desert landscape extending to the horizon. The man says this is the kind of day we've got today. He then says really nice, but the end of the tape cuts him off in the middle of the word nice.

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