Alarming it is and breathtaking as well. The desiccation of the Great Salt Lake doesn't affect drinking water or the cities directly; it's far too saline. But the wider ecosystem as a whole, of course, and hopefully fires and storms won't increase in ferocity in the N.American west in general -
Best, Alan On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:18 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Alan, I skimmed through the video, but the landscapes are completely > breathtaking - and at the same time, the dryness of the landscape looks > very harsh and alarming. > > Edward > > > On 28/10/2021 05:14, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > > > > Ontological Banding > > > > http://www.alansondheim.org/banding2.jpg > > https://youtu.be/oWgD6V8t_zA video > > http://www.alansondheim.org/banding1.jpg > > > > So this is referencing and returning to the great Salt Lake in > > Utah and we have traveled there to look at the extent of the > > damage done find E drought that is in so many parts of the > > United states at the moment . This is dictated which means there > > is a limitation to what I am saying in an expansion to what I am > > not saying. I stop and take a sip of coffee. All of these images > > and videos that you might or might not see or the result of a > > trip to the Saltair area great Salt Lake today . We have been > > there before. We have been there quite a few times period this > > time it was to look at to drive flats that's around the > > contracting lake . When interest me in all of this is that > > traces of animal and plant life. But also the horizontal. > > Horizontal is critical it lies in bands . I use the boatswain's > > whistle to create very high pitch tones very loud tones they > > were then reflected off the building and came back to me and > > perhaps to you . They echo and reverberate after palace of the > > Saltair . There were birds in the distance. We've identified > > them as a form of green. As a form of grief. As a form of grebe. > > You see the dictation itself references other things dash and > > expansion of language and a contraction of reference . The great > > Salt Lake itself contracts and expands. Its usual depth is 33 > > feet. It's current depth which was a record at the time back > > when is 23 feet. In less there is heavy rain and snow in the > > catchments we will again be going for a new record lower instead > > of just equaling the older one. When I say quote we quote will > > again be going for a new record and so forth I'm aligning myself > > with a false knowledge. I know every little about the geology, > > biology, and ecology of the Great Salt Lake. I am not from here. > > I have no history here. Given dad karma given that, I am really > > riding on echo- collocations of recognitions from other sides , > > other places and in fact other worlds . I stopped to take a > > drink of coffee . I look out where the capitals are here and > > realize I will have to return to return them to their proper > > grammar grammatical positioning. The light's boundaries expand > > and collapse of course in relation to the weather in the > > ecological conditions over a period of time . > > > > What I am most interested in, however, is the horizontal, bands > > and interruptions, contusions, ephemera. So many markers of > > history and traces of natural phenomena that may not be > > "natural" at all in the landscape, in the land. The land is now > > inconceivable without the construct of "civilizing" enterprise. > > You can tell at this point that auto-dictate has crashed, voice > > to text no longer exists, what you are hearing as you read this > > in fact is the result of physical labor, typing on the landscape > > of the keyboard, facing the horizon of the land. > > > > When I filmed and photographed today, I thought, this is the > > perfect landscape for me - this is where my thinking belongs. (I > > can't emphasize this enough.) I thought this and thought this > > absolutely, thought which is lateral, punctuated, interrupted by > > buildings and vectors of transportation, diacritical marks that > > form the basis for my thinking, perhaps for thinking itself, > > thinking without a body, thinking without a body (within a > > body). That is it, no ontology, or ontology on the run, a form > > of dromadology, the rush of thought. And so it is the rush of > > thought : ontology = movement, not the ontology of movement nor > > movement ontology, but movement as it would be said to itself. > > > > My thought (to which I lay no claim) is _ontology povera,_ not a > > poor ontology, but one compressed, the result of debris, global > > warming, striations, industrializations, remnants. The film - > > for I think of it as such - is just that - _a band of remnants._ > > > > It is not to be watched, or rather to be watched, in any order, > > time forward fast flow backwards, or the still image of the > > first or perhaps the last frame. It is the band cartoon musical > > of the world. My role was just the recorder. > > > > (Forgive my arrogance, O Beings of Sloppiness. I rush to > > complete the thought before it is over; I am mistressmaster > > of denouement. Should it end here? did the journey? Am I > > still alive? You, my fixation, matters; you, may fixation, > > matters at all.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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