Cool. I especialy like the pictures of all the people with their diaries all over the world. Interrestingly enough I only saw one guy, all the rest where girls ! So apparently keeping a diary stays a feminine attitude.. I wonder why… Especialy when you think that the vast majority of litterature at least until mid 20th century was male litterature ! Maybe men are writing stuff on their computers, who knows… Now i really wonder why diaries are so feminine. You guys like more the little things, personnal things in life ? Isn’t it a cliché ?
And it’s a man who confectionates the diaries ! Ha !
The problem with my handwritting is I can almost never read me afterwards… Whis is problematic unless I want to expose my scribellings as a graphic work of art… But I fear this would not work either ! But my typing skills on the other hand are… well no they’re neither great… That’s aproblem cause sometimes I feel my best lines or ideas are blazing fast… Or maybe I just think this because it bypasses even any intelligent analysis ! Once I tried a vocal typewriting stuff, you know like you speak and your computer writes. Montaigne wrote his “Essays” like this. I mean not with a computer, of course. I guess it was a cute neighbour he eyed on for quite a few weeks. Kidding. Anyway what was I saying ? Yeah, the computer vocal dictaphone. Well let me tell you this doesn’t really work. I mean I had high hopes that with this tool I would have an amazing efficiency concerning my great novel to come. But the thing is the only efficiency it had is it translated it directly into japonese… As I can’t read from right to left (or is it also vertically ?) because my religion and my stomach forbid me, I had to interrupt.
It made my first pages on my Woody Allen thesis look like some late Rimbaud work…
Anyway I’ll try again sometime ! Ho yeah I also have this great pen like you writes with it on a kind of tablet and then you usb connect it to a computer. Useless. Plus doesn’t work with Mac. Not you, Allison, I’m sure it would work with you, cause what would not ?!!

Ciao, take care

Hey btw, what does “rad” means ? The only thing I’ve find that does makes sense on the internet is “acronym for “Rapid Application Developpement”"… Wait a second here… (yeah i know there are two quotations marks side by side but that’s not it) Uh yeah : does it really makes sense ? Alternative : it’s his name ? Hmm… A cool abreviation for “random” ? I’m lost in conjectures… (or maybe in the translation !)

Hey I got it ! It’s Radical ! Thanks Wordrefference.com ! Makes so much more sense than “Rapid Application Developpement”… Improve your english vocabulary with Allisson Mack’s blog !

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how
valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly,
to keep the channel open.”
Great quote indeed. i had to read it a dozen times cause a lot of terms are problematic… So in a way we’re a medium for a life force (outside of us) but we’re translating this force to something absolutely unique because everyone of us is. I read it as actualising endless potentialities. But key word is “action” here, cause it’s through this action that you actualy enter in contact with this universal life force. maybe you could say that through action you escape from yourself, only to find it again as an action realised, be it art or maybe anything else realised – a good action ? – and this action realised is the expression of your uniqueness – that maybe you would never have found without action ?
Interresting also this idea of not judging what we do, that our only concern is to act and channelling this energy. I’ve read and practice a great book for all musicians called “Effortless mastery” by Kenny Werner where it was stated almost the same things. I highly recommend reading it for those interrested -it’s more for the musician though, and focus a lot on improvisation – but impro could also link to a lot of different activities like theater for example… Il also wonder if the fact Marta Graham was a choregrapher plays an important role in the ideas she express here. I guess it is, and it would also explain the focus on action and the idea of movement here. But there is no doubt it extends to art in general and even action and singularity in general.
Singularity in general… My God ! No no no, I must not judge anything, it’s just the life force, I must keep the channel open !!

Be well, Allison and All

OK since I know Allison is a fan of a capella singin’ here’s another one with bobby, Johann-Sebastian, Charles and the public – who sings amazingly well and in place I must say !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck&NR=1

of course you can also check the more wellknown “don’t worry be happy” if you feel like it… Anyway so that was my Bobby Mc Ferrin moment !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btmfUsYZeuU

Pina Bausch again. My God this show must have been absolutely amazing. I don’t know if there is any real captation of it, I do hope so. So vibrant, so poetic, such energy !