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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Arts Watering Time

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM

Four years ago, I called blogging the art of writing on water.

I blog, I go away, I die: It is impossible to escape this structure in our post-newspaper, post-book age.

True, there’s more death in a blog than in a book, but it still has its beauty: Blogging is like writing on running water.

Something like this idea of blogging, writing on water, is captured by the installation at Osaka Station.

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Neat!

Posted by Gurldoggie

on September 15, 2011 at 10:54 AM

I don't know what's more amazing...that incredible contraption or the fact that you tried to prop up your prose by associating the two somehow.

Posted by MasMadness on September 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM

That is a very pretty video.

Posted by Lorran on September 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM

They have no war economy, they can afford these art things.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on September 15, 2011 at 11:40 AM

Beautiful.

Posted by LMcGuff

on September 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM

It's right outside a very nice bathroom so if you really have to go, don't look at it until you're done.

Posted by SPG on September 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM

I honestly hope you get fired very soon.

Posted by sonder on September 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM

That is goddamn amazing. water as dot matrix printer. wonderful!

Posted by NaFun

on September 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM

What I find fascinating is that the images could be held static—the water is just a scrim—but that would completely remove the magic. Even the time and the station name descend and vanish.

Posted by rob!

on September 15, 2011 at 1:37 PM

Hello. I'm Shelley Duvall.

Posted by g on September 15, 2011 at 3:42 PM

What you describe (writing on water) a lot like what Jodi Dean has said about the online world being caught up in the Drive of Capitalism of a particular form. She calls it Communicative Capitalism.

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/200…

enjoy

Posted by driventoblog on September 15, 2011 at 5:53 PM