stuck + 30

Seems that this painting thing is becoming a fun unsticking diversion during writing blocks. Couldn't find the words, so I dragged a brush across a canvas for half an hour. Still didn't find the words or even a word after that, but fuck it, I thoroughly enjoyed myself dragging said brush.

Fun note on this one: without realizing it (read: looking up), I ended up being inspired - in color choice, if nothing else - by a print I had bought from one of my favorite creators, Liam Wong, that hangs above my desk in The Shed. I sent it along to him for his bemusement / horror.

New TSR: Liam Wong

THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE returns with my conversation with director, game designer, and photographer Liam Wong (TO:KY:OO and AFTER DARK): I’ve long been a fan of his work – and getting the chance to talk with him about art, work, games, and inspirations, was one of those “this is why I wanted to do this show in the first place” moments. You can check out the whole conversation here.

My next SOCIALIZED RECLUSE episode, a conversation with Liam Wong, is intro'ed, outro’ed, edited, time-stamped, and ready to go. Have to write up the post and all the associated podcast things, but will launch late tomorrow morning.

"second wind"

Putting the finishing touches on my latest Socialized Recluse episode, a conversation with Liam Wong, and it got me to thinking about this passage from Václav Havel’s December 1976 essay, “Second Wind,” a passage which got me through my own period of silence – and is jumping to the forefront yet again – not only in my conversation with Liam, but in my work:

PS: The whole of OPEN LETTERS is essential reading for anyone possessed of humanity.

fri/20221202

Fantastic chat with Liam: came away with a feeling of how photographs could be an extension of someone as essential to their being as their brain or heart. Letting the recording itself sit until first of next week then will turn into the episode: need a couple of days after a deep dive into the work of others to refocus on my writing (even though the current isn't speaking to me this morning – hence why I keep two WIPs going at once, two different tabs, the hopes that maybe one can unlock the other – or lead to utter fuckall). Full interview should be live sometime, Weds-> Fri.

Might be time to partake in a little side project, something totally different from the main WIPs. Hard and fast deadline – a week or a month or so. Asking self, What would be to me as photography is to Liam – maybe that's what sketchy me below is trying to figure out?

CGM switch day today, from the Libre to the Dexcom. First phase of my cyborg pancreas changeover. Bit of trepidation (at least part of aforementioned utter fuckall?), but the covering bandages arrived yesterday so if nothing else I don't have to worry about a boisterous German Shepherd tearing it off my arm; little victories.

thu/20221201

25ºF, clouds: Spent the morning, thus far, collating notes and prepping questions for this evening's TSR interview with TO:KY:OO and AFTER DARK author/photographer Liam Wong and remembering that the second part of the collation process is paring my questions down so they can be asked conversationally: I do a lot of prep to make things sound spur of the moment; when my questions seem long winded, I consider it a failure... Basic interview process: collect, collate, conversate (for lack of a better term), then probably throw it all out in the interview itself – but the cheat sheet's there, a useful roadmap through to socialization.

TSR interview research; DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION plays in the background.

Liam Wong – AFTER DARK

It has arrived: Liam Wong’s follow-up to his spectacular TO:KY:OO. First opening and salivating perusal demands a devouring in short order:

Magnificent: I love seeing the world through Liam’s eyes.