© 2009
“from gallop this Bogart‡”
occlusive eye
eyeball coercion
eyesore
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image heist/hoist haul
conditioning the perceptual highway highjack
highjacking the occipital cortex
a retinal holdup
a shootout
Cinema means pulling a uniform over our eyes, warned
Kafka,
wearing the threads of another man’s image –
shoplifting light
light baronial & baryonic
vermicular strike
light analyzed as supine
the consensual nature of image – [the imagistic survival system (to trace the perception of an image over time ... its endurings, its mutations)] – narratives adhering through syphilitic damns, the image intact, integral, swimmingly afloat –
Bogart Blooms
::: how would we decode an image? deformulate? if we stopped a frame during a screening, and wired the audience so that each person could recreate that frame as they imagined, how many differing frames/images would we receive? what would they look like? what would they tell us? :::
to rope the retinal renegades
with their unreeling revealings
reel real feel —> peel the reel
a reeling I will go – heigh ho!
wheeling color chromium nitrate cluster globule counterfeit straw syllogistic fresh pistil pilings schism maw
celluloid seal/sealant
spooling time’s stitchery
cognizance:
successions – image pile-up – integrated <—> the great lob of thickening —> accumulating correspondences —> identity emerges from integrations
—> integration a function of correspondence =|=
correspondence alightment allotment
to see past/through (Passin’ thru = Charles Lloyd, Gabor Szabo, Chico Hamilton)/over & around the construction
the film star as Star as luminosity polluting the night
dark extermination
seedlings <—> purse —> reed
remonstrance
illumination = vision
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Trance-Misting
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‡ Edward Muybridge – often called the Father of the motion picture – developed photographic techniques to show sequential movement in order to settle Leland Stanford’s $25,000 bet that at some point during a horse’s gallop all four hooves are off the ground at once.
2009 Wood Coin: You’ve Reely Scored a Movie Issue: Levinson, “from gallop this Bogart”