tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post3924045198987325808..comments2024-03-25T02:15:02.505-07:00Comments on Nancy's Blog: Sleepless in Central Parkadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442349453021015062noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-64766985249015430022008-05-16T13:04:00.000-07:002008-05-16T13:04:00.000-07:00Hi Nancy,we're trying to get hold of you for an in...Hi Nancy,<BR/><BR/>we're trying to get hold of you for an interview for the Nebula Awards Website. I don't know if you got our mails?<BR/><BR/>in any case, when you have time, please mail me at debeer dot david at gmail dot com, so I can give you the interviewer's addy.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, and enjoy the workshop.David de Beerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03191810429175260146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-61727388713990150662008-05-15T19:49:00.000-07:002008-05-15T19:49:00.000-07:0011.57 days?!?! O.OThat thought alone makes my skin...11.57 days?!?! O.O<BR/><BR/>That thought alone makes my skin crawl. I think the longest I've ever gone without sleep is probably in the range of 36-40 hours. That was probably when I was still in the Air Force and working 12-hr shifts. The odd thing for me, though, is that even after such long bouts without sleep, I still tend to sleep only about 6-7 hrs, something my ex didn't believe until she witnessed it after I had been up for more than 24 hrs. I went to bed, and, without setting the alarm clock, I woke up 6 hrs later.<BR/><BR/>These days, though, my need for sleep has increased. It's still in the range of 6-7 hrs, but is now closer to 7.g d townshendehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02273940169271398206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-23439323647790097122008-05-15T09:07:00.000-07:002008-05-15T09:07:00.000-07:00I share your view on what constitutes art, but in ...I share your view on what constitutes art, but in Blaine's defense, he, and Chris Angel, seem less concerned with art than with testing the limits of what their bodies and minds can accomplish.<BR/><BR/>I once went five days without sleep, though it wasn't by choice, and I did begin to hallucinate late in the fourth day, though it didn't become serious, meaning I was fully aware of what was and what wasn't a hallucination, until day five.<BR/><BR/>At first, the hallucinations all took the same form. I'd lok at a painting or a photo, and it would become animated, like watching a TV, rather than looking at a still.<BR/><BR/>Then I started seeing people and things that were there, and even though I still, somehow, usually knew it was a hallucination, enough was enough, and I was forced to sleep.<BR/><BR/>Sleep deprivation is an interesting experience, and it teaches you quite a bit about yourself.James A. Ritchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04707677041485722525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-9203727988174644792008-05-15T04:56:00.000-07:002008-05-15T04:56:00.000-07:00"Art" has more in common with "artisan" than with ..."Art" has more in common with "artisan" than with Romantic and Aesthete notions of the Artist as a lofty individual filled with fine sentiments delicately expressed. <BR/><BR/>Just as not every daub of paint on canvas is a "painting," not every public psychodrama is "performance." Art involves the application of skill to a medium -- words, music, performance, marble, etc. -- and lies in the intelligent (and intelligible!) choices made by the artist in the arrangement of parts. All this to convey something to the public. It is not the same thing as aesthete self-indulgence (although it may include that!) It is not the same thing as "making a political statement" (although it may do that, too: cf. Sibelius' <I>Finlandia</I> or Picasso's <I>Guernica</I>). It is not the same thing as driving home a moral lesson (although... but you're ahead of me.) <BR/><BR/>So what is the intelligent and intelligible arrangement involved in pulling the world's longest all-nighter? Such stunts may be perfectly OK for the Guinness Book of Records, but what do they say, ow do they illuminate, about the human condition? <BR/>+ + +<BR/>Is there (and should there be) a distinction between artists and performers? Is there a difference between what Mozart did and what Anton Stadler did? And what about Sharon Kam? <BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v<BR/>=xr3aB4v8hXITheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-19599058665620774872008-05-14T22:05:00.000-07:002008-05-14T22:05:00.000-07:00I'd rather have the sleep, says the insomniac who ...I'd rather have the sleep, says the insomniac who didn't used to be one. <BR/><BR/>Respects,<BR/>S. F. MurphySteven Francis Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02246600213078993467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-89539230970699615582008-05-14T20:19:00.000-07:002008-05-14T20:19:00.000-07:00Bravo on this post! I am an artist and writer and ...Bravo on this post! I am an artist and writer and don't don't understand what passes for art now. I suspect I should be as extinct as the dinosaur, because 'oh my gawd' I still paint. I believe that art should evoke a response a tad higher than a gag reflex and the word "idiot!"Eve Barbeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572913012911430623noreply@blogger.com