2026.08.18
scanning VVV Number 2-3
Since a dozen of VVV's initial pages contain images of postage stamps, I took the time to search through my own stamp collection to see whether I owned any of the stamps depicted.
2025.08.18
451 Rhawn Gallery
2013.08.18
Why do you think you're creative?
I'm just starting to read a collection of critical essays on James Joyce, and so far it's interesting to see how Joyce's unique creativity seems to induce a creativity from the essayists that they might not normally have. I've sometimes noticed a similar effect when reading critical essays on Duchamp. Philippe Duboy's Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma is perhaps the apotheosis of this kind of critical effect creativity.
Is it then a fair hypothesis that one's critical deliberation of a unique creativity might well engender an as yet uncommon creativity from oneself?
2001.08.18
@ home @ 5233
1977.08.18
August 18, 1977. Thursday, Venice
Arrived in Venice at 8:30.
Breakfast on the sea front under Cinzano umbrella. Slept in the afternoon. Others went to the beach, said it was dirty. Ate dinner with John, Ron, Tom, Mohammad.
[Piazza] San Marco at night was empty because it was raining. However, the life was still there because the arcades became tunnels of excited circulation. The restaurants on the sides supply music, not Musak but a small orchestra. It was almost unreality being surrounded by architecture, food, people, and music at once. It was like walking through a movie or a dream. But isn't that what life is supposed to be all about? Isn't that what makes life worth living? Why does it have to cost so much? Never mind!
The piazza (back part) is bounded by continuous repeating facades on three sides, with the last side open to San Marco Cathedral. It is a continuous arcade that is under the facades. Restaurants, tables and chairs, it's great. The facades are just screens for the piazza and life happens beneath them. There is no indication of what happens behind the facades, which is good because it then does not take away some attention from the piazza. In fact, it strengthens the piazza by making it more united, coherent.
Italian Study Tour Journal
1957.08.18
1957. Sunday, New York City
"Your idea in German fills me with joy," Duchamp tells Serge Stauffer in Zurich who has started translating the notes from a copy of the Green Box [16.10.1934] lent to him by Meret Oppenheim. "Regarding the final presentation," advises Duchamp, "I think it is unnecessary to retain the fidelity of facsimile regarding the form and the texture of the paper. Most important," he considers, "is the arrangement on the page of the lines and the words evoking the original arrangement as faithfully as possible." Returning the completed texts which Stauffer had difficulty in deciphering, Duchamp also includes for him a copy of View magazine [15.3.1945].
Ephemerides
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